The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29
THE HISTORICAL PAPER
DELLYERED BY JOHN c. HOLLISTER
 ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 25,

fAt the Celebration by St, PauPs Parish,
 of This City, of the semi-Centennial An nivereary of the Organization of the
 Parish.
 y The ftftieth anniversary of the organ ization of St. Pauls parish was cele- brated at the parish house Thursday Isevening, April 18th, and was largely att &tended. The principal feature was a
 paper by the senior warden, John C.. < Hollister, the first portion of which was given a day or two ago. At general
 desire the whole paper is published en-
 tire this morning and will be found i below.
 After he had read the paper Rev. MT. & Lines made a few remarks in which he
 bread an extract from a New Haven pa-
 per of April 27, 1929, in which was pub
 lished the address of Rev. Henry Cros-
 well at the laying of the corner stone 4of the church April IS, 1929. His re- |marks were listened to with great inter-
 lest by the audience.
 MIR. HOLLISTER'S PAPER.
 St. Paurs church building was erect Ned by Trinity church as a chapel in E 1829-30.
 The population of New Haven ait this
 time was 1067S. Trinity parish, since
 he conservation of the church in 1916, & had more than doubled its number of z communicants, and a larger accommo- x &1ation became absolutely necessary.
 It was the first instance of erecting
 second Episcopal church in any city of
 Connecticut.
 "In contemplation and in furtherance
 pf the object of building a new Episco-
 pal church in New Haven" as they ex- < pressed It, Nathan Smith and twelve
 bther gentlemen on the 18th of Decem-
 ber, 1927, purchased for $2,500 the lot on
 the corner of Chapel and Olive streets,
 pn which St. Paul's church now stands E The lot purchased by them did not in-
 clude the land next south, belonging to %Dr. Charles Hooker, on which now
 stands the chancel of St. PauIs church,
 hs extended in 1873, and portion of
 their new parish house.
 Afterwards on the 5th of February,
 1928, in pursuance of a covenant made
 Nov them, Titus Street and Samuel Eaughes, from whom the lot was pur-
 Chased, conveyed the same to the Rev. *Harry Croswell, in trust at the explra- ation two years from December 15, 1927, .to convey the same "to the Society of sTrinity Church, in fee simple, forever" Eif said society should then pay to him
 the purchase money, interest and taxes,
 for the benefit of Nathan Smith and zthe other purchasers, to whom, In de- |Sfault of payment, the lot was to be con- SVeyed by said trustee.
 The wardens and vestry of Trinity #bhurch voted that measures ought to
 be taken to erect chapel in the new Township, to be forever united to Trini Nv church, so as to accommodate mem- 4bers of the church with pews, and with Ithe further view to settle the Rev.
 E'rancis l.. Hawks as assistant minis Ster of the church.
 The project of building a. chapel was no doubt hastened by an offer made by zMary Wooster Ogden on the 26th of EJuly, 1928.
 Miss Ogden proposed to convey to the Society of Trinity church an equal un- divided moiety of several lots of land Situated on Wooster and Chapel streets, \ valued at $3, 900, on condition that the 0society should secure to her an anrui-
 " of $180 per annum i'm quarterly pay
 nents, and that the society should take S immediate steps to erect a chapel in the <new township.
 z The society of Trinity church at a special meeting held August 4, 1928, vo- *ted to accept this offer, to give bonds for the annuity and to pledge as collat- eral for the sane, so much of the in *come from the Glebe lands as might be necessary.
 Steps were at once taken to raise Shnoney to build the chapel. This was ".1 Jox1 cto IalNt The corner stone of St. Paul's chapel .was laid April 19, 1929, and the building consecrated April 22, 1880.
 At this time Trinity was the only Episcopal parish within the limits of Hthe town of New Haven, and continued No be the only one for nearly fifteen years, the only exception being St. SJames, Westville, which was admitted Into union with the convention in 1885. The parish of St. James church, Fair Haven, was organized in 1843, and in H1844 about thirty families of colored people withdrew from Trinity church and formed a separate parish by the name of St. Luke's church. In addition to these changes, taking place in this ancient church-the moth- er of the churches in New Haven, the question of a further division of Trinity parish had for some time been agitated by the worshippers at St. Paups chap Sel, as well as by many others from Trin- fty church, who still intended to retain | their connection with Trinity. This desire of a separation and the 1 Formation of a new society may have been due in some measure to the state l |of feeling then existing among church ! people. It was a time of unrest and ! |party strife. It was soon after the OK lord movement in England, and the | publication of the Tracts for the l |Times." There was a disposition to call | |the people at Trinity church high | lchurchmen and those at St. Paul's 1 |church low churchmen. Rev. MT. | Lines, in a paper read to the ministers of New Haven last November, aptly | describes the state of feeling. He says: "There were a good many people in the church half century ago who were nearly as afraid of ritual as those out- |side and many of our congregations |were hardly more than companies of Congregationalists using a prayer book After fifty years have passed it is cu- k.ious and instructive to read a recent article written by Hon. William H. Gladstone, and published in an English