The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-11
ST. P H NEW HOME.
T7RAESFIG URATTON CHAPEL CON-
GRBGATION TO GET OUT At ONCE.

V0hUAAAON III VAA VOA NJ ONOD.
worhnsn win No Pat en- at Once 70 Make the
Necessary Alterations. AlthonEh the Con-
sents or the NeishborinG Ministers Have Net
Been Obtained and Probably Cannot ne.
Tho congregation OF the TRANSPORTATION
Chapel in West Sixty-ninth street will probably
hold its services on Sunday in one Of the public
halls In tho neighborhood. and then commence
an effort to get q permanent homo in the region
In which the congregation dwels. The vestry
Of st. stephen's Church, which has lately &C
ouired the ownership Of the building, will soon
put the carpenters to work on the necessary al
t~erations and changes which are to be made in
the chapel building. and they arc evidently not
afraid of the result which has been predicted.
1t is said that this parish will not be allowed to
occupy the church because tho necessary con-
sent from the Episcopal churches nearest to the
chapel will not be forthcoming.
when the vestry OF st. Stephens made an
application to the Standing Committee said
yesterday a prominent layman who is familiar
with the struggle OF the two parishes. cit was
found that the regulations of the canons had
not been complied with. Bishop Potter's per-
mission had not been secured, nor had the
three near parishes been asked for their consent.
So the vestry was told to attend to those neo-
essary preliminaries before coming before the
Standing Committee Of the diocese. Ono Of the
clergymen in the neighborhood is also O member
Of the Standing Committee, and It is known that
he will object to the presence Of st. Stephens
parish in West Sixty-ninth street. He is a low
churchman, and no doesn't want another low
| church in the neighborhood. Two other clergy
men have expressed their intention of refusing
their consents, and 1t certainly looks as though
st. Stephens Church would not be able to occupy
vestry might get around the difficulty by having
a chapel there for several years, and then getting
P pp tbsrs' d sf mak the the sop eSnssi tSs had sSu al eG ans
give up the downtown building In Forty-sixth
street. That is probably the course the vestrX
that tho clergy about the old TRANSPORTATION
Chapel will not give their consent. Nobody be-
ton to the congregation of the TRANSPORTATION
Chapel remaining there, fol. that is q high
The suggestion that St. stephens and the
uptown congregation should unite was evil
a fFy tS R Fss per ns 8 Setp to 70 o sse ~ the 1SseRSS ailai Ess.
1t was evidently thought that II they combined
the permission gould be obtained more readily.
But such a combination was out of the question,
even in view of the astonishing advice to the
congregation to worship with st. Stephens par
the members Of the congregation led good lives.
From a prominent leader Of the Catholic move
startling atterance. But the chapel could not
take such advice, even from the mother church.
two Congregations Of such dtfierent views.
When Father Lawson Carter Rich took
charge of the chapel about one and a half years
ago he WINS put there by DR.. HouEhton with the
idea Of building up the work. and under his
direction the number of the congregation in
creased to more than 800. The number of ser
vices was increased, the music was made more
elaborate. and the chapel had become very pros
porous. Father Rich is an old family friend of
DIR. Houghton. and the Church OF the Transig-
uration parish in West Twenty-ninth street was
Not only was the chapel founded twenty
years ago with the idea Of ultimately establish
ing a church. but as late as a year and n half
ago Father Rich was put in here by DIR. Hough-
ton because he was a young man willing to put
all his strength into an effort to build up the
parish. The change OF this opinion was 30 sud
den that before the congregation had learned
anything of II the negotiations for the sale of
the property were well advanced. When the
congregation learned Of the fact It was only in
well described by Bishop Potter, who said. when
Father Rich called on him first In regard to the
case, Well. 1t looks to me as though your chapel
congregation had simply been dispossessed.'"