New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-19
RAISE NEARLY 100000.
Announcement Regarding Holy
Comnunion'S Endo1Cment Fund.

That people in his parish and outside Of 1t
had responded so readily to his appeals for an
increase Of the endowment fund of the parish
that it's future was assured in its present loca-
ton. in the heart of the retail shopping district,
was the gist of an announcement which the
Rev. DR.. Henry Mottet. rector of the Episcopal
Church OF the Holy Communion, SiXth-ave. and
Twentieth-sa.. made TO his congregation at the
morning service yesterday. Dr.. Mottet told his
parishioners that of the 100000 asked in
crease of endowment a few months ago. all but
q relatively small sum said to be less than
$1,000. was in hand. AS a special Christmas
duty Dr. Mottet asked the people of Holy Com
n2@rioa to try to complete the sum by that day.
or at New Years. by the latest. 1t was said
after the service that il was expected the amount
needed to round out the sum would be obtained.
In its neighborhood Holy Communion has done
a work OF lines SO broad that wide attention to
its efforts has been attracted. DR., Mottct set out
a few months ago on his endowment campaign.
He sent letters to some of his friends outside
the parish. and money began to pour in. II
came from members of nearly every religious
body in New York Christian Scientists excepted.
The rabbi of one of the synagogues in Ftftk-av..
sent in a check on which at least four figures
We're written. A prominent Roman Catholic lay
man sent a good sum to swell the fund. and a
few days afterward checks equally generous were
received from Baptist and a Methodist, with
words of praise and encouragement not less
hearty than those the Roman Catholic sent with
his contribution. Felix Adler, of the Ethical
Culture Society made an Offering to the fund.
mo one can overestmate the immense value of
the work of social uplift done by the parish OF
the Holy Communion for the district il which
it is" was the way one letter read
People of the parish were equally earnest in
their effort5 n few of them are rich. some
Well to do. many are poor. But they ali set
TO wOriz with a will One member of the Sun
day school, q dininutive colOred boy. was one
Of the most earnest OF all the workers.
With the completion of its latest effort Holy
Communion will have a total endowment of
about 100000. Sums which have been given 10
support other work maintained by it, including
that of the Sisterhood Of the Holy Communion
and Holy Communion Home amount TO about
100000 DR.. Mott feels that the parish will
and other churches have had to dc.
AT the morning service yesterday DR.. Mottet
unveiled window Of stained glass. given in
memory of the Rev. William Wilmerding Moir
for ten years, until 1901, member of the clergy
staff OF the parish. The window is in two
panels. ono given by the friends of Mr.
Mor. It is heroic representation of the
Apostle Peter. The other panel contains a fig
ure OF st. Paul and was given by A. y. Moir a
brother. The Rev. Mr.. Mor. who was a man
Of independent means founded the parish OF St
by he erected a great camp and to It each sum-
ner, at his own expense. he sent nearly half
hundred of the boys OF the parish Of the Holy
Communion.