Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-24
ST. PAUL'S.

81. PAUL7S.
a NOTABLE EVENT IN RELIGION
CIRCLES IN THIS CITY.
A Church with . Dover Of Years and
Honors-Twenty- Five Years In the Vine
yard-Anniversary Exercises Extraord-
insry-Historical and Congratulstory
Addresses and soul-stirriug Music.
There was sound of superadded 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, a fact that contained
magic and power for every soul within the
parish. Twenty-Five separate times had the
nounced by chimes from that strong 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
honor of the day were attended by an enormous
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
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 ThurstoD, Miss Eva KEEL
logg and Mrs Fred Wright, sopranos; Mrs.
Suudbeck. Mrs. Harry Open and
Miss PiersoD, altos; Prof. Wood and Mr. Geo.
Draper, Mr.. S. II. Dyer, and Messrs. Knight
and Cook, tenors; Messrs. Feste, Smons,
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; it was
the special feature Of the list, and every voice
did especially well. The "Te Deum" which
followed was perhaps the climax to some of
the harder hearts. Next came the .Jubilate''
by quartet and choir. Very pleasing were
the Hymn SO, "Kyri EIeison" and Hymn 4S5
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
man was from Deuteronomy ii, 80. 1t read:
"Ask now OF the days that are passed"
Under this head was delivered 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. Pauls 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 IL will be due to fhia faot, a.d .e<, L~~
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 it.
self through the life of its first rector with
the earliest church work of the city.
DR.. 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 q. direction OF providence
that / 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 could work there under more
favorable circumstances than usually attend
church work on the frontier.
At this tune st. Paul had only four or five
hundred inhabitants. With the view of tax
ing up his residence here, Mr.. Paterson made q
large purchase of land now known as the
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 a
young man OF birth and fortune desperate
western venture.
The following year (lS50), IN the summer,
there arrived in st. Paul the Rev. ]. Lloyd
Brock and his associates, the Rev. Timothy
Wilcoxon and the Rev. j. Austin Merrick.
In the month of September OF this year, Christ
church was organized, and in the spring Of
the following year april 26, 1851, by vote
OF the yestry the chu rch was placed IN the
hands of the associate mission. Under its
care the first Episcopal church OF the city was
built, and censecrated by Bishop Kemper July
20, 1851.
The little church (twenty by forty, exclu.
sive of the chancel), situated upon Cedar street,
cost 81 ,275, OF which amount fully One-half
was contributed by Rev. Andrew Bell Pater-
son, who, az we have seen, had visited the city
two years before, and had through DR.. Breck
become greatly interested in the work OF the
associate mission.
Between the years 1851, when Christ.church
was built, and 1856, when st. Paul's church
was organized, village OF ], 200 had grown
to be a town of 10000 inhabitants.
Christ church, under the rectorship OF DIR.
Van Ingen, had been enlarged and was enter
ing upon career of remarkable prosperity.
At this juucture certain persons in lower
town conceived the time had come for the
formation of a new parish. The request for
consent to organize the parish was made to
the rector of Christ church on Dec. Sth, 1856,
and signed by N. .. T. Dana, Norman W..
Kittson (then both of them wardens and active
friends OF Christ church,, Chas. w. Wooley,
j. r. Livingstone, Henry A. Lambert, Ed
mund Rice and w. E. Hunt.
The requisite consent was promptly given.
At the meeting of the vestry of this date the
following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted;
WHEREAS. 1t was stipulated by the Rev.
J.V. Van Ingen, D. D., in accepting the rec
torship of this parish in 1854, that the vestry
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