Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-11

The interiors were plain and unadorned, ana
without any symbols or ecclesiastical de-
signs. The only cross in the New York
churches was small one In front of the pull
pit In St. Paul's chapel. There were no
stained glass windows, with but one or two
exceptions. The entire service and sermon
was rendered in the black gown and cas-
burgh was shocked when st. Marks was
opened for worship to fnd gilt emblazonsd
cross, thirty inches high, over the altar, and
that altar seven inches higher than the pull
pit and desk, instead of the three decker
pulpit then in common use in all the church
es. OF the seventeen of my classmates In
the General Theological Seminary In New
York who graduated with me in 1889 there
are now but four surviving me and but two
in active duty. Four congregations have
been formed out of st. Marks parish. The
four have had twenty-five rectors."
When DIR. Haskins took charge of st.
Marks he selected David Longworth as his
sexton. He still fills that Office in the church.
During the fifty years of his administration
of the Office of sexton there has never been
day when he has been In town that he has
not been inside the walls of st. Marks.
During the last twenty-five years the neigh
borhood around about the church has been
continually changing from resident to a
business community. This has made 1t dif-
uCQlC TO ODG6ln GU0 IEchub W 6upHOAe sAAS
church. The pew rentals have dwindled
down to small sum. DR.. Haskins is ex-
ceedingly anxious that during this jubilee,
which will continue for one week, the sum
of fifty thousand dollars be placed upon the
altar for the permanent endowment OF st.
Marks as free church. DR.. Haskins has
created nucleus or beginning of an endow-
ment by the gift of deed of his house, which
stands at the rear Of the church, and library
to the parish. During his fifty years pasto-
rate DR.. Haskins has married nine hundred
and seventy couples and baptized two thou
sand three hundred and ffty-one people in
his own parish.
No More Ether for Him.
From the Boston Advertiser.
Not long ago a young man who had a
touch of heart disease entered the Office of a
Boston dentist. The young man had bad
attack of toothache also, and in his anxiety
to get rid Of the offending tooth forgot to in
form the dentist that he wished to take the
Just as he was about to succumb to the in
fuences of the gas he remembered his omis-
sion and raised his hand to remove the tube
from his mouth. But the ether was little
quicker than he, and his arm fell powerless
at his side. He felt rushing in his brain
and roaring in his ears. He felt, or inaas-
insd he felt, quick and sudden movement
of his heart. Then he felt nothing more.
Bat he continued to think very violently.
His brain seemed conscious of existence,
but he could neither see, hear not feel. For
all he knew he might have been floating in
| lightless space. He was ignorant whether
he WAS dead or merely under the influence of
| the gas, but he would have given all he was
| worth to know where and what he was. For
| the space of what seemed to him to be seve-
| raj hours he strove in some way to prove
whether he was alive or dead. A million
thoughts of "Reminiscences, wonder, anticipa-
tion, horror and agony shot through his
brain, and then he rose suddenly up with q
gasp, to find that he was alive. The sweet
est sight that he had seen for years was that
dingy little dental Office, with the afternoons
sun pouring in the window. He will never
| take ether again.