St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-17
DEDICATED TO COD.
The Corner Stone Of st. Gle
ment's Church to Be
Laid With
MUCH POMP AND CEREMONY
Bishop Potter, Of New York,
to Preach Dedieatory
Sermon.
BISHOP GILBERT OFFiCIATES
The Church Eu 1t by Donation
From the Widow Of DR..
Eaton.
BISHOP GILBERT OFFiCIATES

This afternoon at O'Clock the
corner stone of ST. Clements Epis-
copal church, corner of Milton and
Portland avenues, will be laid with
appropriate ceremonies conducted
by Bishop Gilbert, assisted by
number of clergymer from different
parts of the state. There will be
present at the exercises five or six
vested choirs from the different
churches of the same denomination
in the city and also a great gather
ing of the laity.
The ceremonies will begin with a
professional hymn by the vested
choirs, and then will be read by the
bishop the established ritual of the
church, with responses by those
present. Appropriate programmes
containing the responses have been
printed and Will be distributed
among the congregation previous to
the ceremonies. Following this will
be addresses by Bishop Gilbert and
other clergymen and the exercises
will close with a hymn, offertory
and a occasional. 1t is expected
that the occasion will be one of note
SNnd it is thought that upwards of
thousand persons will be present.
The new parish of st. Clement
will be created from the present
Emmanuel Mission, whose little
chapel is located at the corner of
Victoria and Laurel avenue. This
mission had its origin in a meeting
held in a store building on North
Victoria street on February IS, 1893,
under the auspices of the Episcopal
Church Missionary society of this
Iity. The work was placed under
she temporary charge of Rev. C. E.
haupt, rector Of the Church of the
Messiah.
LAY SERVICES
were conducted until July 1, 1893.
when Rev. Ernest Dray, a graduate
of the Seabury Divinity school, of
Faribault, was placed in charge of
the mission. A month after the
present chapel building was opened
for service. There was no eXpecta-
ton at that time, however, that this
small mission would soon become a
parish of large proportions. This
agreeable possibility presented itself
in this wise:
Last summer Bishop Gilbert re-
ceived from the widow of DR.. Theo-
dore Eaton, of New York city, the
sum of $4,000 to be expended in the
erection of a church in memory of
her husband. The latter had been,
for forty-three years, rector of st.
Clements church in New York city.
Wisely apreciating the great posi-
Utilities of the Emanuel Mission and
unusual talent of the clergy in
charge, he decided to build a memo
rial church at the location named
above. 1t is expected that the new
church will be completed by the
LIST of September next.
The dedicatory sermon will be
preached by Bishop Potter, of New
York, SO long the spiritual chief of
the venerable rector in whose honor
the church is being constructed.
One of the appropriate features
of the new edifice will be a large
chancel window, now being made
by Tiffany, of New York. This
window reproduces a picture which
long hung over the altar at st.
Clements in New York. The widow
presented this money for use in st.
Paul by reason of the long friend
ship existing between herself and
husband and Bishop Gilbert.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CHURCH.
St Clements Memorial church will
be picturesque type of the small
English parish churches. It's style is
simple and pure, being early English
Gothic of the thirteenth century.
No church building in St Paul viii
present the same striking effects in
external coloring. The walls will be of
light yellow limestone; the broad ex-
panse of roof will consist of light green
tiles. The only relief to these predomi-
nant tints will be found in the dark
and stained glass windows. In after
years, when the sun and the rain have
mellowed the yellow walls, and when