New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-13
FIFTY YEARS OF WORK.
Urn CHURCH OF THE HOLY CON-
MUNYON'S sEMI-CENTENN1AL.
-.,sopv OF THE PARISH. WHOSE FIRST RECTOR
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VICES TO BE HELD TO-DAY.
THE Church of the Holy Communion. Twentieth.
rd sixth-ave.. will celebrate Its seml-centennial
- Special and elaborate services nave been
p0|.ngaa for the morning and the evening, and a
-. number Of prominent Episcopal clergymen
% ha present and take part. At Z o'clock holy
~.uun,on will be celebrated. The great Jubilee
oo ' ~ the day will take place at II o'clock in
70 ,orning when historical discourse will DO
Ia. by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Henry Mottet.
u,.non Potter will follow with an address OF well
80 and among the other clergymen who Will
:. nresent are the followng The Right Rev. DR..
X Iitteiohn the Venerable DR.. c. c. Tiffany.
~. Very Rev. DR.. E. A. HOFFMAN. the Rev. DR..
" rutch,ns. the Rev. DR.. c. S. Baker. the Rev.
~. n r Warren, the Rev. Dr.. Thomas Gallaudet.
-. Rev Dr. Josiah Kimber. the Rev DR.. William
" Watson the Rev. Dr. John p. Peters. the Rev.
u Baldwin, the Rev. N. o. Halsted the Rev.
= r. Ward the Rev. j. A. Montgomery. the Rev.
p,sscott Fvarts the Rev. Newton Perkins, the
pav Alexis W. Stein. the Rev. Charles H. Easton
,d the Row W. w. Moir
The music will be under the direction Of Charles
un,,nev Coombs. organist and choirmaster. There
"A, he a vested choir of ffty-fve members. The
,,h.m for the II o'clock service was written for
Az. occasion by Mr.. Coombs. and the words
.,a "How Lovely Upon the Mountains Are the
Fat
The o'clock service will be principally choral.
,,clud,ng Martyrs "Magnifcat" and "Nuno Dmit-
Etc.. IN B fat and anthems by Spohr and Wood
rord There will also be short addresses by cer-
uvmen formerly connected with this church. Tho
Earrings of the day will be devoted to the COM
rl.,,on of the first $4,000 Of endowment. A friend
NJ the parish, who is not parshioner has offered
~ rive $1,000 provided the whole amount is made
GOOD This announcement will be made on tho
canning Sunday morning and 1t Is confidently
honsd as a result that the whole amount will be
completed.
The Church of the Holy Communion was built
nv Mrs Mary A. C. Rogers a sister Of Dr. Will
fam A. Muhlenberg. the first rector Of the church.
sisterhood In the country. and in 1854 John H..
Swift built the Sisters House. where many poor
n vas impossible TO give them In their own homes.
To this little beginning st. Luke's Hospital owes its
origin Dr. Muhlenberg was responsible for the
church and the first 'fresh-air work in New
York was done by. him; The Home for Aged
the Sisters House. The church under DR.. Mullen
berg the first TO establish the weekly COM
munon.
the Rev Or. Francis E. Lawrence took his place
as rector. and IN his ministry the church attend
valescents and Shelter for Respectable Girls, and
the Edwin White Coal Fund also came into being
before the death Of DR.. LAWRENCE in ls7s ,o,
was choir boy In the church in 1852 then be-
came a teacher. in the Sunday school, where he
was subsequently superintendent. He was gradu-
ated in 1869 from the College of the City OF New
York, and in 1878 from the General Theological
Seminary. being at once ordained deacon and
attached to the Church Of the Holy Communion
as assistant TO DR.. Lawrence. whom he succeeded
in 1879. Since the beginning, of his rectorshp the
s snS mas as has Was BEEN one Of the
most truly helpful churches OF the city.