The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-11
LAYING THE CORNER STONE
INTERESTING CEREMONY AT THE
NEW CHRIST CHURCH.


The Procession to the Church-Tho Corner
Stone Laid by Bishop Coleman of Dc'a-
ware-Address by the Bishop h. In
vited GUESS Heception Given by Rev. q.
Brinley Morgan After tho Ceremony--A
Slight Accident at the Exercises and
Brief Excitement.
The ceremony attendant upon the lay
ing of, the foundation stone of the new
Christ church edifice, which is in the
process of building at the junction of
Whalley avenue and Elm street, was at
tended by large concourse of people,
yesterday afternoon, who gathered
about where the ceremony was to take
place. The clergy met at the Whalley
avenue rectory at a quarter of four and
headed by the vested choir marched to
the church. The wardens, vestrymen
and building committee were also in the
procession Last came the presiding
bishop of the day, the Rt. Rev. Leighton
Coleman, S. T. D., bishop of Delaware.
lie was attired in a violet cassock and
wore a red and purple hood of the de-
gree of Doctor of Sacred Theology. He
also wore pectoral cross and the Epis-
copal ring DR.. Coleman is graduate
of Oxford university, England. The
prescribed ceremony for the laying of
the foundation stone was then gone
through with.
Bishop Coleman in putting the mortar
1t ~ n al
with the following inscription:
"To the Rt. Rev. Leighton Coleman,
S. 7. D., LII. D., bishop of Delaware,
from the scholars, teachers and officers
of the Sunday school of st. Paurs
church, East Toledo, O., on the occasion
of the laying of the foundation stone
Of the new St. Paul's church, May 16,
1889"
The most interesting feature of the
afternoon was the address by Bishop
Coleman. He spoke in part as fol-
lows:
81 only wish to emphasize what
trust we already have done with our
| lips and hearts We came here to take
Of no ordinary building. Its purposes
are of "a kind very high, very hallowed
| | suppose that no one would be willing
| to live in even so fair city as your
own were it not for such buildings as
| we to-day lay the foundation stone Of
| We would not consider our property OF
! lives safe for single day were 1T not
| for the churches. Your coming in such
goodly numbers is confession on youi
| part of wholesome interest in this
| parish and in the event which we thinl
| proper to celebrate with a fitting cere
| mony to-day. I take great pleasure II
| congratulating you, Mr.. Morgan, Wh(
have labored so successfully as the rec
| tor of this people would also include
in my congratulations the former rec
| tors Of the church, who have done Sc
| much toward the building up OF this
/ parish. I say I am a stranger among
you, and have come here In the ap
| sence of your own beloved bishop, witt
| his permission and with the invitation
| of your rector. In building this church
| you are but carrying out the desires O.
| your ancestors of the mother country
| whose kings and queens in the cnarter
| granted to the colonists specially stip
| ulated that their object In so grantins
charters was the evangelization of tn
land. So we to-day lay the foundation
| stone as an offering of adoration ant
lloyaltw to our Saviour, Jesus Christ, ant
| this building will be emblematic ant
| symbolical of His glory and majesty
And in like manner, unless our faith b.
I founded upon Christ as a corner stone
| the sllperstructure will fade away"
| .lI- yl,n
ent at the ceremony were Rev. Fathe
C. F. Canedy of Trinity church, New
| Rochelle, N. T., Rev. Father Ballan
| tvne of st. Peters church, Springfield
Mass. Rev. G. w. Phillips Of st. James
| church Westville, Rev. Mr.. Smith o
Pine Meadow. Conn, Rev. Mr.. Gesne
| of Christ church, West Haven, Rev. r
Lines of st. Paul's church, Rev. VIII
liza m A. Beardsley of st. Thomas church
this city. Rev. Henry Macbeth, Rev. c
| O scoville. assistant ministers of Trim
inty P. E. church, this city, Rev Fath
er Prescott of St. Luke's church, thl
city, Rev. John Campbell, assistant min
lister of st. Paurs church. this city
Rev. Mr.. Andrews, rector OF Chris
church, Guilford.
1 ln6Te WAS ID ICSSptlOh w NNN<NS "
ean's residence, 324 York street, 1mme
diately after the close of the ceremony
at which large number of the parish
toner's and invited guests were given al
opportunity of meeting Bishop Coleman
lust as the ceremony was about t
begin a temporary staging which hat
been built for the workmen, but Whlcl
had been appropriated by eighteen O.
twenty people who wished to witnes
tbe ceremony, fell and tumbled then
all in heap three or four feet below
No one was very seriously injured On
lady. Mrs. Henry Duane of 143 Com
street. who is employed at Wright
restaurant on Broadway, was taken t
No. 3s engine house in an unconsclou
condition, where she remained for tw
hours before she fully recovered. He
instep was sprained by a stone falling
on it.