The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

ures of this party strife, there have come to the church a broader tolera- tion, truer and freer recognition of a common Christianity, the conscious ness of substantial agreement and the conviction that the church is a large place, where differences of opinion can be recognized"
 While this feeling of controversy among church people may have in- l f1uenced some to demand separate or ganization, the real reason was no doubt the strong belief that the time had come for a new parish and that the whole church would be benefited thereby.
 The result of such 8 belief was strong ly shown eight or ten years later, when the aggressive work originated at St. Pauls church during the rectorship of Dr. Littlejohn resulted in the formation of St. Johns church and the mission of St. Paul's chapel, organized at a. later date as the Church of the Ascension; and chiefly by the liberality of a single family in Trinity church chapel was erected on land at the corner of Efnl and Park streets, and consecrated in Jan uary, 1854 by the name of Christ church. St. Thomas church was also organized in 1848.
 How early this movement for a. sep aration from Trinity church began l cannot say. The first recorded action was at the Easter meeting in 1S43, when a committee of ten was appointed to consider and report upon the expedien- cy of such a division.
 This committee of ten at the Easter meeting in 1S44 made the following re- port:
 The committee appointed on Easter Monday, 1843, to consider the eXpedien- cy of dividing said parish respectfully report:
 That they have had several meetings in reference to the subject; that at their first meeting a portion of the commit tee were in some doubt in regard to the expediency of a division of the parish until some future time, and there also prevailed an impression in the minds of nearly all their number that there might be an insuperable legal obstacle to a division at any time; but on full examination of the whole subject, in all the bearings the committee (with the exception of one gentleman who declin- ed acting with them from the time of his appointment) were able to adopt unanimously the subjoined resolution at their last meeting, when there were present Messrs. Charles A. Ingersofl, William w. Boardman, Charles Hooker, William A. Reynolds, Elias Pierpont, Sidney A. Thomas and James Babcock. Messrs. Stephen D. Pardee and Eleazer K. Foster, who were absent, subsequent ly saw and approved the resolution, which is in the words following:
 Resolved, That in the. opinion of the committee, if there should be great unanimity among the members of the society in favor of division, 1t would be expedient that such division take place, if In such event there would be no insuperable legal difficulty to such division.
 Two weeks later. at an adjourned meeting of the society, the following vote, offered by Nathan Smith, was passed by a vote of thirty-seven in the affirmative and thirty-two in the nega- tive, viz:
 Resolved, That the future prosper ity of the parish of Trinity church would be promoted by dissolution Of the connection which at present exists between Trinity church and St. Paul's chapel, provided that the dissolution can be legally effected"
 The legal question hinted at in the above resolution was this; Could the society of Trinity church legally trans fer St. Pauls chapel to another parish, formed or to be formed, under the terms of the sixth section of the articles of subscription to the stock for building St. Paul's chapel? That article provides that
 Tt shall never be in the power of Trinity church to appropriate said chap ell to a society distinct from the society of said Trinity church."
 Governor Roger S. Baldwin's advice upon this legal question having been sought by the vestry of Trinity church. he gave his opinion to this effect, that as the land on which the building was erected was not originally subject to the restrictions of the said sixth article, and the deed from Rev. Harry Cros- well, the trustee of the original purchas- CTS, conveyed an absolute title to Trin- ! ity church "in fee simple, forever" and | the sixth article was intended to be | merely an additional security to the | subscribers of the stock, for the pay ment of their shares, whenever such payment should be made to the satis- faction of the shareholders, the parish l