The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-06-19

| IL IS COnUucLeu Will Iue SIeaIeSI ca
ecutive ability. 1t is wide-reaching
philanthropic center. Historically il
is not less interesting, though the tales
Of it are less grim, than any Of the old
Congregations churches of New Eng
land, where "the shortest way with
disenters" and with witches was once
a topic of great religious Importance.
TRINITY, MOTHER OF CHURCHES.
1t is the mother of churches. Up
and down New York and throughout
the State steeples rise and bells ring
that would have had no existence but
for the early munifcence of this old
foundation. From the days when
cage, pillory, and whipping-post stood
before the City Hall, and the first
square little church edifice was planned,
the days when the Bishop of London,
Dr.. Henry Compton, was made its
nominal rector by King William III,
through the line of bewigged and pow
dered cIergymen, Tories and Wings,
down to the Rev. Dr.. Morgan Dix,
Trinity has been not only the richest
church of it's denomination in the
American metropolis, but the most
generous.
Its early gifts read quantity enough
now. 1t began its career as giver in
l745 by presenting the church at Rye
with cloth for altar, pulpit, and desk.
In 1897, when Paine's cage of Reason"
was popular, the vestry of Trinity dis
tributed two hundred copies of the
"Antidote to Deism." In It'll it con-
tributed five hundred dollars toward q
public market. In l765 it gave two
lots to the city for ferry to Paulus
Hook, now Jersey City. To Kings
College, later Columbia University, it
made grant of land between Murray
and Barclay streets, extending from
Church street to the North River, a
grant valued at four hundred thousand
dollars. In 1898 it gave money and
lots to St. Marks; between 1904 and
1911 it put Grace Church upon its
feet with gift of twenty-five lots. In
1912 it presented thirty-three lots to
St. Georges. Both of these famous
New York churches began their careers
as chapels of Trinity.
The parish now contains nine
churches-Trinity itself, the digni6ed
building set in seeming incongruity at
the head of the busiest, the most ma
terial and worldly street on earth; St.
Pauls, little farther up Broadway;
St. Johns, on Varick street, surround
ed by warehouses and tenements;
Trinity Chapel, on Twenty-6fth street
near Broadway; St. Chrysostom's
Chapel, at Seventh avenue and Thirty
ninth street, in the midst of colored
district; St. Augustine's Chapel, on
Houston street between the Bowery
and Second avenue, commanding the
work OF the densely crowded lower
East Side; St. Cornelius Chapel, on
Governors Island, the most ideally
situated of all The churches; the i'm
posing St. Agnes, on Ninety second
street, near Columbus avenue; and St.
Luke's Chapel, on Hudson street.
THE WORK OF THE GREAT PARISH.
The activities of these chapels are
varied. All of them have the regula-
tion pursuits, the mothers meetings,
the district visitors, the kindergartens,
the sewing classes, and the like. In
addition, each of them has its own par
ticular work in the world. St. Paul's
devotes good deal of attention to
seamen, in spite of the fact that Trinity
Parish is one OF the large donors to
the Seamen's Mission. The old chapel
is also the official place of worship for
the New York Chapter of the Sons of
the Revolution, an appropriate choice
when one RENDERS that here Washing
ton often came for services, that here
a pew was reserved for him, and that
here his coat of arms is still displayed.
In connection with St. Johns, in
Varick street, Trinity Hospital is run,
although it is an activity Of the parish
in general and not of the chapel itself
Last year it treated two hundred and
twenty-eight patients. At St. Johns
there is also cooking school, one Of
those established under the Eggleston
Trust This bequest, by the way,
made to Trinity two years ago, has
greatly increased its practical philan-
thropies. The house of Professor
Thomas Eggleston, on the west side OF
Washington Square, included in the
Inheritance, has been fitted up for the
work for which he designed the fund.
Here are a manual training school in
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