Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-24
ST. PAUL'S.
4 NOTABLE EVENT IN RELIGIOUS
CIRCLES IN THIS CITY.

CIRCLES IN THIS CITF.
A Church With q Dover OF Years aud
Honors-Twenty-F Five Years In tho Vine
yard-Anniversary Exercises Extraord-
inary-Historical and CoDgratulatory
Addresses and Soul-Stirring Music.
There was sound of superaaded Joyous.
ness in the rich metallic voice that issued
from the spire of st. Paul's yesterday morn.
ing and called the communicates to worship
Doubtless the lusty arm at the end of the bell.
rope felt an unusual impulse from the mo.
Nervousness of the occasion, for the church
on that morning had turned its first quarter
of a century, fact that contained
magic and power for every soul within the
parish. twenty-five separate times had the
dawn of Easter and Of Christmas been an
nounced by chimes from that strsng little
tower, which had been re-echoed twenty. five
times within those massive walls by the glad
voices of two generations Of children in sweet
carols of praise and thankfulness for loving
Savior, ascending up to an ineffable God.
The long to be remembered services in
concourse of Episcopalians from all the city
parishes. Chairs had to be placed in
the aisles, Notwithstanding which many had
to stand. The reading desk was decorated
with smilax and white roses, and a beautiful
cross made of pansies, geraniums, roses and
honeysuckles rested on the font. while at the
base nestled the brass baptismal vase in fam
tastic mass of vines and lilies. Dean Knicker-
hacker, Of Minneapolis, assisted the rector in
the liturgy. Mr.. r. Gordon, director, had ar.
ranged special choir of select voices, as fol.
lowe: Miss May Thurston, Miss Eva KEEL
logg and Mrs Fred Wright, sopranos; Mrs
sandbeck, Mrs. Harry Open and
Draper, Mr.. s. II. Dyer, and Messrs. knight
and Cook, tenors; Messrs. Feste, Simons,
Chatfield and Buckelew, bassos. Miss Katie
Gordon played the organ-and she did it
grandly. The musical numbers-for his good
Judgment and taste in the selection of which
Mr.. Gordon merits compliment here-came
in the following order. "venite," rendered
with sweetness by the whole choir. Also
"Glorias," executed with brilliancy and CON-
pass. The Hallelujah chorus from Handel's
messiah was given in superb style; 1t was
the special feature of the list, and every voice
did especially well. The s'Te Deum" which
followed was perhaps the climax to some of
the harder hearts. Next came the "Jubilate"
by a quartet and choir. Very pleasing were
OF the Hymnal. The Ofertory was sung by
Miss Kellogg, who sang the part in tender
pathetic manner, that made it an appropri.
ate finale of the musical portion of the divine
feast.
THE DISCOURSE.
The text selected by the reverand gentle
msn was from Deuteronomy ii, 50. It read
"Ask now of the days that are passed. {"
Under this head was delivered q most inter-
esting discourse which is given in full. The
rector said:
We meet together this morning to celebrate
the 25th anniversary Of st. Paul's church.
We come Ito ask of the days that are passed. -
Unfortunately the records of st. Paul's parish
prior to 1874 have been lost. For the facts,
therefore, which we shall incorporate in this
discourse we have been obliged to depend very
largely upon the fading memories OF those
few survivors who took part in the organiza-
tion of the parish and the building up of
the temple in which we are gathered this day
for holy worship; should serious mistakes be
made 1t will be due to this fact, and not II am
sure, to any want of fidelity to the truth or OF
proper care in collecting what may be saved
from the wreck of human memory.
The history of st. Paul's parish connects 1t.
self through the life of its first rector with
the earliest church work Of the city.
DIR. Paterson first came to st. Paul in July,
1S49.
In speaking of this visit he himself says:
"Early in the spring of this year various
newspaper notices called my attention to St.
Paul. 1t seemed direction OF providence
that l should at last visit the place with
reference to ministerial work. With some
means of my own, and with the assurance OF
obtaining considerable sums from friends, it
seemed that 1 could work there under more
favorable circumstances than usually attend
church work on the frontier.
At this time st. Paul had only four or five
hundred inhabitants. With the view of tax
ing up his residence here, Mr.. Paterson made {
large purchase of land now known as TIT
Schumacher and the Paterson additions to st
Paul.
After his return, upon laying his plans be-
fore his bishop, he was advised to remain in
Salem, New Jersey, where he was greatly be
loved. and give up what then seemed for {
young man Of birth and fortune a desperate
western venture.
The following year QS50), In The summer
there arrived in st. Paul the Rev. j. Lloy(
Brock and his associates, the Rev. Timothy
Wilcoxon and the Rev. j. Austin Merrick
In the month of September of this year, Chris
church was organized, and in the spring o.
the following year april 90, 1851 by vot,
of the vestry the chu rch was placed in tht
hands of the associate mission. Under iii
care the first Episcopal church of the city wal
built, and consecrated by Bishop Kemper July
20, 1851.
The little church (tweniy by forty, exclu
siye of the chancel), situated upon Cedar street
cost 81 ,275, of which amount fully One-hal
was contributed by Rev. Andrew Bell Pater
son, who, as we have seen, had visited the city
two years before, and had through DR.. BrecE
become greatly interested in the work of TIT
! associate mission.
Between the years 1851, when Christ church
was built, and 1856, when st. Paul's church
was organized, village OF 1,2OO had grown
| to be town OF 10, 600 Inhabitants.
| Christ church, under the rectOrship OF DIR
| Van Ingen, had been enlarged and was enter
| ing upon a career of remarkable prosperity.
| At this juncture certain persons In lowel
| town conceived the time had come for thu
| formation of new parish. The request To-
| consent to organize the parish was made K
| the rector of Christ church on Dec. Sth, 1856
and signed by N. j. T. Dana, Norman w
| Kittson (then both Of them wardens and active
friends OF Christ church,, Chas. w. WooleY
j. K. Livingstone, Henry A. Lambert, Ed
| mund Rice and w. E. Hunt.
The requisite consent was promptly given
At the meeting Of the vestry Of thus date tn
following preamble and resolutions wer
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, It was stipulated by The Rev
j. V. Van hagen, D. D., in accepting the rec
torship of this parish in 1854, that the vestr
would adopt the policy for church extension
! then recommended by him, by which the earl
foundation of second parish, with vley
| to caring for the poor in the remote parts o
the city and to conciliating the interests o
the residents and owners OF the property t
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