New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21

and DIR John Snowden Francis Many Worth
ington Romano Alonzo r. Cushman- DR.. c. d.
VarIey John Brandger James Blackhurst and
Henry Onderdonk vestrymen- The church re-
ceived the name which it now bears, and the
Rev Foster Thayer was called to the rector
shin In April 1915 Robert Ray gave to the
vestry four lots at Ninth-ave. and Twenty
eighth-st as a site for a church building. In
July of the same year plans were drawn for an
edifice which shall have side galleries" The
cost was to be $4,000 without and S22,OOO with
a spire. These plans were rejected but another
plan for building to cost more than Si1OOO
was adopted. The cornerstone was laid on March
81 1916, by Bishop McCoskry, of Michigan. Mr..
Thayer resigned in May 1S47, and he was sue
ceeded by the Rev. DR.. Robert Shaw Rowland
The new church opened for divine service
On February 81 1913, and the conservation ser
vices, conducted by Bishop De Lacey, took place
on Nav s. The church prospered, the services
were we'll attended and the Rev. William Ever
EFT was called to assist the recto-. The church
had to be enlarged in 1854 to accommodate the
growing congregation The enlarged church was
opened for services in October, 1874, and rev
years later the leasehold of building in TWEEN
ty-ninth-st. secured, where mission chapel
was opened under the name of the Church of
the Free Gospel The church was again en-
larged in 1853. All the money needed for this
Rev. DR. Rowland. About this time the Rev.
Dr. George j. Geer was called the post of
sociate rector. The Rev. John p. Lundy was
called to assist Dr. Rowland in 1869. When DR..
Rowland resigned to become the rector OF the
the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Dr. Lundy
succeeded him as rector of the Church of the
HOLY Apostles and when he resigned, in 1915, he
was succeeded by the Rev. DR.. Brady E. Backus,
the predecessor of the present incumbent. De
spite the efforts of DR.. Backus and his fellow
workers, the church ran down. Many of the
stanch supporters moved out of the district, and
with the change in the character of the neigh
borhood new methods had to be employed to
keen up the interest in it. The district from
which it draws is bounded by Twenty-third and
Thirty fourth SITS, Seventh ave. and the river.
There few house owners, and the church
population and the people to be reached belong
to the working classes.
ITO do the most good" said Mr.. Paddock, ''the
social side as well the spiritual must be
taken Of. The children and young people
must be interested and the educational and in
dustrial sides must not be neglected The people
have no sitting rooms where they receive
their friends and because of these limitations
public halls, which are usually over saloons, must
be used The church does not want its young
people to be old. 1t wants clubs, with enter
tainments, music, dancing and instructive lect-
ures and debates, and these hope to provide
as we did on the East Side There many
of these already in existence and hope to
stimulate interest in them. For the girls
have the Junior Girls Guild, Of which girls of
fourteen to sixteen years members. Older
girls have the Girls Friendly Society, and the
senior society is called the Young Women's
Guild. Two other societies, known respectively
as the Parish Guild and the Rector's Aid are
made I'D of all the women in the parish There
is a Boys Club for little fellows under fifteen
years. and Junior Brotherhood, in which the
members are all over fifteen and under twenty