The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-22
|hEsSlAHa'NS A1'ggsAh IA Y
FULLER STREET EPISCOPAL CON-
IRRIGATION MARKS IT'S TENTH
ANNIVERSARY
NEW RECTOR IS IN CHARGE

Rev. Henry Dixon Jones Takes Up
the Work Recently Laid Down
by Rev. G. e. Haupt, Who VIII
Serve the Church as Diocesan
Missionnry-The Decade Has Been
Prosperous.
Churches like men and women have
| birthdays and yesterday the Episcopal
| Church of the Messiah celebrated Its
Tenth anniversary under conditions
which portend well for the future. The
| services were conducted by the rector,
| Rev. Henry Dixon Jones, who preached
a sermon specially in keeping with the
nature of the occasion. Rev. c. r.
| 1aupt, the former pastor, now mission
AIRY of the diocese, reviewed, in an ad-
dress full of good cheer, the work that
had been accomplished and the field OF
the future.
Mr.. Haupt told of the history of the
church from its early, small beginning
| as missionary society, and its later use
fitness as a fully organized church. The
church was organized during the spring
| of 1881
Feb 20, application was made to the
bishop and standing committee of the
diocese for the privilege of organizing
the parish, which was granted May Z.
1891. A parish meeting was called for
June so, and the Church of the Messiah
was organized by the election Of wardens
and vestry. The church was Incorporated
July %, 1891. July s. 1892 the Rev. c. e.
Haupt was formally called to the rector
ship of the parish, and accepted.
The number of communicates now Is
1 1884,
| MIR. Jones in his sermon said:
When 1 met with the vestry of this par
ish Tor the first time and heard the re-
port of the treasurer L confess | was
! staggered. The meagernesS OF the income
of the parish came 10 me like blow be
tween the eyes, and l was knocked down
| In gloom and sadness, with falterlng
steps, l walked away from that meeting
| of the VeStry.
Since that night have learned much of
| the history of the parish in the past and
this morning, hopefully, .ano with large
faith in this parish for the future, joy
fully record my glad conviction, that new
er before in it's history has this parish
been fitted to do so successful and SO
! lasting work as it is today. And yet this
morning | tell you that our church, to
continue her work successfully, needs a
! ask you this morning to raise the re-
quired amount. have to beseech YOU
to raise Immediately an amount sufficient
Yet 1Sa de dear friends, in spite of this burden
pressing upon US, as 1 read the records
of your work in the past and have learn
ed from your own lips Of the many d IAN,
have come; when see how the Lord has
been with you in six troubles-yea, In six
times six troubles-my faith in our future
| lifts itself up and enlargeS Itself wonder
fully. AS l read these records OF the
past ten years, abundantly is revealed
Gods active care for you in all his va
parish is not yet nearly fulfilled. All that
| has been done in the past is but sketch
| and prelude of what we can do in the
purposes concerning our parish which He
| has not yet unfelded. In the light of the
past, I look this morning forth into the
| future with a growing expectation, with
| conviction that our entire future is rich
| err, fuller of the Lord, fuller of success
full work than has been our past And
when 1 recall your activities, the abun.
dant work and the abundant blessings of
| the past year, see how largely you were
dominated by the vitality Of Jesus. Christ.
how alive with His, spirit you We're, !
! again look into the unopened history OF
the future with a kindling faith. with a
| growing confidence. God will come near
| US I know. He will visit US with bless
to meet the future. Let US go forth
| bravely. Let us go forth with firm, Sc
rious steps; full Of faith, full of hope.
a Tchfr 1 her comn e
! And now come to my text. I have not
| forgotten 1t. My pleadings have all been
Intended to OIL lead up to it. Nov Concern
| for my appeal this morning, not only for
their own sake but the place where they
stand. They get an amazing force from
often unwelcome thing, the collection, a
| begging for money, coming to us as a
message from heaven; they are full of
! the powers and glories of the world to
| the 18th chapter of the First Corinthians.
This is the chapter which seizes and
grasps the denial of the resurrection of
that denial asunder and scatters it to the
winds, and utterly forgets it, as it were,
in the explanation and revelation Of the
%hah th g0 SPIRIT of eHs has oe aRet
the body which is sown in corruption,
weakness, dishonor. in animality, to be
es ~ In b fTe and gptn
which the believer goes down to the
grave and yet trtumphed over 1t is as If
he were e., already sitting with the Redeem
| with which the mourner looks face to
face on death. and reads him his own
| warrant Of arrest In what looks like his
the grave lies open on the hillside. when
| the coffin Is ready for the grave, when
| taken, there is nothing but a close-fast-
| ened chest ready to be carried out and
| put six feet below the surface-just then
comes the church with the Bible, and
| with this chapter reads the sentence Of
! death upon the throne: 1.-THE last enemy
! Is destroyed by death. o death. where Is
| thy sting? Thanks be to God, who Civ
eth US the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ. This mortal must put on immor-
| tality."
Mr.. Jones, the new pastor was for sew
eral years a professor in Harvard COL
lege. and later occupied a chair at the
Theological Seminary Of Virginia. He re-
| Gently resigned a successful pastorate
with the Church of the Intercession, New