The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-11
ST. JOHNS IS CONSECRATED,
Interesting Services Held at
that Episcopal Church.
Rev. Father Hickey breaches at
st. Vincent's.
Rev. j. 3. Thomson mt the Unity Church
Rev. smiihers mt tho Tempio-strest
Christian Church-The Y. M.
q. A. Gospel Meeting.

The conservation of st. Johns Epis-
copal church, corner Of Adams and Fig
ueroa streets, which has been looked
forward to for some time by the mem
bers of that popular Episcopal parish,
took place yesterday morning at 10
o'clock. Long before the hour APP
pointed for the service the church was
filed to the doors, and many were
turned away unable to gain admission.
The white robed procession, consist
ing OF choir and clergy. was preceded by
the wardens and vestrymen OF the
church as they marched up the aisle,
the Very Rev. DR.. Restarick, and the
Right Rev. DR.. Nichols bringing up the
rear. On arriving at the altar. the
senior warden, DR.. ]. E. Cowles, read
the instrument OF donation and handed
the deed OF the property to the bishop.
who then placed it on the altar. The
sentence OF conservation WAS read by the
Rev. B. w. 4. Tayler, the rector of the
church. and the prayers of consecration
esid by the bishop. Morning prayer
was sung by the Rev. John Gray and
Holy Scriptures read by Revs. A. y.
Clark and D. F. Mackenzie. The choir,
under the dictatorship of Frederick
Stevenson. gave exquisite music, the
ohfertory being beautifully rendered by
Miss Sergeant, assisted by the full chorus
Of SO voices. The choir OF this church
10 one of the best in Southern California,
and every voice is individually trained.
In the Credo and in the Agnus Del the
effect was grand. The holy communion
was administered by the bishop, as
sisted by Rev. DR.. Restarick aud Rev.
DIR. Judd.
The bishop took for his text part OF
the eighteenth chapter of the twenty
frst verse OF the Book of Revelations:
Building OF the wall of it was OF jasper"
Jerusalem" ssid the bishop. sis a
type OF a city at unity with itself. Rev.
Citations, in that chapter we have just
read, flashes for moment the full light
upon it. AS we walk about that heav-
emily Zion, we see something of the arch
itecture of that city. AS the lights
flashed on its streets Of gold is reflected
from the gates of pearl and foundations
of many precious stones, and as we gaze
entranced upon it, we may learn from it
something of the church, and in COM
pairing it with this solemn dedication,
We may learn something to carry away
with US this morning.
"'Buiding with jasper: There are
many suggestions in the mystical teach
ing before us, of which some will come
to us with force and directness for prac-
tical use in our earthly course. II
We study that plan of God which
is given us in that specification
of detail, we see there 10 emphasized the
idea OF building. Now, any hint in the
New Testament about Gods purposes
and God's contamination from these hui
- ." lives of nurs 10 nast --i--hi~ fvt
US TO take, especially if we bring before
our minds those figures of speech of
the New Testament. in which we are
taught of their relation as individuals
to the whole church of God, or as we
take them in their bearing upon the
church of God as itself composed of
many members. There are three fig
ures of speech which stand out conspic-
uously in the New Testament, to carry
to our minds in mystical form the light
which that church of God has thrown
upon it.
There is the figure OF the vine and
the branches, II am the vine, ye are
the branches" There is the figure of
the body and its members, "Ye are the
body OF Christ, and members in partic-
ular" and then there is that figure
brought out by st. Paul and elaborated,
in which he makes each one of us
building of God. Now, each of these
seems to me the plan for the revelation
to US OF the great principles of Gods
church. That figure of the vine and
branches seems to stand out and bring
to us the revelation of that power which
came down in the fiery tongues OF Pen
tecost, which filed all the place where
thew were sitting in that upper room
that power which came in fulfillment of