The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-04

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After all this munificent giving the
wealth Of Trinity corporation to-day Is
$4,000 900, representing an income oil
5000. 600 yearly.
1t is his great wealth of Trinity that
has enabled this corporation to main
tain lis large parishes in the places
where churches are most needed. 1t Is
a matter Of common observation now
Protestant churches Of various denom-
nations have been moving up town,
relinquishing the fields of usefulness in
which they began, and following the
tide of fashion NOrthward In the past
ID years, while 125, 600 increase OF pop
ulation has come into the region South
of Fourteenth street, 10 churches have
been removed from it. Trinity parish
has never sold a church or removed one
from it's original site. or even surren-
dered a church yard, save one that was
taken for public use under the power
Of eminent domain.
The way in which the business affairs
of Trinity parish hav been conducted
from the first has been a marvel OF
good management and probity. No in
diViduals or families or syndicates nave
been enriched by it. No d~efalcation or
m-alfeasance has occurred in its two
centuries of history. All income from
the parish has been scrupulously and
consistently employDd for those moral
and religious purposes TO which org
inally the wild land first given to this
corporation was dedicated. 1t is a great
business that this corporation has to
manage. Its louise occupy $50 city lots;
there are the cemeteries to be cared for.
and numerous pensions TO be paid TO
retired clergy and widows and orphans
of deceased ministers; The taxes on the
property are S63, 900. A controller, clerk.
counsel and eight bookkeepers are re-
quired in the office of the corporation.
In the management Of it's tenement
property Trinity is a liberal landlord,
but unfortunately all Of the houses up
on it's lots are not for the present under
it's control. Much of the land is leased
for long periods of time, and the build
ings do not belong to the parish. As
the land comes gradually back into the
possession of the corporation, model
tenements are built, n money has
even been borrowed to meet the ex-
pense Of such construction. With re-
gard TO older which cannot
be Immediately replaced, they are put
in the best order possible under the cir
cumstances.
There has been one strange misap-
prehension about Trinity church
among many well meaning and ordi-
narily intelligent people-the belief that
it is the most fashionable church in
New York ana that the poo are not
welcomed within it's doors. 1t is, on
the contrary, the most democratic of
churches. Not anywhere are the poor
more cordially welcomed; nor any,
where are they more regarded, more
thOughtfully considered. In its very
beginning Trinity's work was among
the least and lowliest i'm the cOmmu-
nifty. The Indians and Africans, the
slave. the captive and the Outcast she
helped, and gave them religious in
Struction. Everywhere the parish
churches have been available To all
corners without money and without
price. While other churches and phil
anthropic organizations have fitted up
town, the churches of Trinity parish
nave remained i'm their place n most
of its work among the poor Is done
on the East side below Bond street. In
the center of the most crowded city dis
trict in the world 81. Augustine and
its great parish buildings in Houston
street stands, the blazing cross of its
stecple shining a beacon light 10 the
wayfarers that throng the BOWery. II
ministers to the social and spiritual
needs of a tenement population by eV-
cry method that a be used to at
tract or arouse or inspire.
The Rev. Morgan Dix, rector Of Trim
ity. is the ninth rector of the parlsf
since it's establishment in 1897, not in,
Guiding the first rector, the Bishop OF
London. During the 81 years in whicl
Ut. IlN mas Dttl ICflDI q tllt Idi lHl
there have been built three chapels
! Trinity school house, st. Paul's build
ing, St. Augustine's parish building
81. Chrysostom's parish house, a Schoo
parish house and clergy house for st
Agnes chapel. Trinity hospital haI
been established in the old rectory il
Narick street, and St. Luke's and st
Cornelius nave become chapels o.
Trinity. Besides duties of his Owl
parish, he has rendered invaluable ser
vice to churches at large as p]residen
of the house of deputies, to which h
was elected in general convention il
1886. He is accounted the best presid
ing officer ever placed over any eccles
i~astical body in the United States.
in the words of its rector the pur
pose and mission of Trinity are eN
pressed: We wish that Trinity ma.
ever stand out as the peoples churci
and the peoples friend; identified wit
whatsoever things are honest, pure
true: one with all who stood for right
eousness and goodness in the state
helpful to the nation and the church
wide, earnest, comprehensive"
CLARENCE PULLEN.