The Newtown bee., 1907-05-10

RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW
 TOWN, ON PERMANENT FRUIT, ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS RECTORSHIP, MAY 3, 1907.
 dained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain" I have thought it we'll on the com pletfon of five years of my rectorShip to review the work which has been done. As a matter of history the pc riod is inSigntfcant; but it is valuable in this that we have worked together long enough to understand each others capabilities and needs, how we can work together, and what parts of our In giving such review it is in no spirit of vainglory. While much has been done, more has failed of being done. If we may escape censure for the shortcomings, we may we'll dis pense with the praise.
 The work done has not been alone my work, but our work. What can a Rector accomplish without the help of willing people? Nor is it our work alone, but that of those who have gone before us. An old parish like this has it's roots deep in the soil. We inherit the labors of many generations of loyal Churchmen and faithful parish priests Herein is this saying true, one sow eth and another reapeth." We reap what they have Sown. May our work be so real that the generations to come shall reap the harvest.
 Nor is this alone our work and the work of the fathers; it is the work of the Holy Spirit of God. "Paul may plant and Apollos may water but it is God alone that giveth the increase"
 In giving an account of what has been Accomplished I will note first the material improvements in the Church's property. And first, we have had good care of the Church build ing. This beautiful structure, the Chief architectural ornament of our Village street, has come to us as a lega cy of the past. While it is beyond our needs and great expense, yet we have received from the past a fund with which we are able to maintain it. The Dulldlng has been kept in thorough re- pair, the wood work and the memorial enclosure painted. and the stone work repo1nted. A beautiful memorial win dow in menpry of MT Joseph Ferris has been plaAd on the south side of the church. Ae Guild room has been thoroughly regsvated and painted. The lawn to the narth of the church has suitable setting
 The rectory propertA has been we'll cared for. The house vas renovated within at my coming end has since been painted, a beautiful veranda has been added, and the house has been plCUO1y SdolppCo Wloh Ll0OOTn 1m- provements since the water Was intro duced into the village A new ,arn | has been built, and the rector has ben generously presented with horse snd carriage.
 The parish has received in this tine from invested funds an income O | 9,874.16; from offerings and othel sources, SS, ,846.76. IL has given in Communion aims s4s9 91. The Sunday school has given s225. 5.65, and the l Woman's Auxiliary, S5OS. AT.
 We have expended for current ex- penses S11, ,OO4.2 .21; for relief of the poor S338. 55; and for the Sunday school S434.16. For repairs and improve, ments we have spent $2, 475. AZ, and fol other objects in the parish, $1, l47.
 For diocesan purposes we have con
 tributed: For the Bishops fund S95.2 .27; Convention fund, S79 97; Di- ocesan missions, S436.87 Church Schol- arship society, S13.74; Intirm Clergy fund, S6O.71; Clergymen'S Retiring fund, S57.25; and for other diocesan objects, S16.70.
 l For general purposes the parish has contributed for Domestic missions in cash, S854 39; and in boxes for mission aries, hospitals and schools, $2SS.9 ir all S1, ,143.21. For Foreign missions
 we have given $627. 94; for the Church Building fund, $14. 96; and for other | general objects, S46. 94.
 | There has been paid in all:
 For Parochial Objects, SIS, ,39o 3. l Diocesan '' 760. + | Objecus without the Dio-
 cese, 1885 4