New-York tribune., 1908-12-04
PROTEST BY ST. JOHNS
Chanel Members Resent abandon
ment by Trinity Parish.

Members Of ST Johns Chspel IN varick street,
who object TO the discontinuance OF worship iheIe
clarinE that Trinity Church vestry WAS tree'i"e
them unjustly will hold indignation meeuhs
next Saturday night. The petition asking Irl1l'y
corporation to change their decision against tie
old chapel already has nearly six hundred slsneiS
among the number OF those who attend serNlces
there and il is expected there will be more before
II is formally presented to the vestry IN ume ioi
the regular meeting on Monday December a.
Figures 10 prove the present growing mipoE-
tsnce Of th$ work at St Johns, compared &c the
other chapels in Trinity parish, were given OUT
yesterday by an officer of the chapel He oec ares
that St Luke's Chapel, 10 which it Is .plahned u
transfer the people and work of ST. John $, s M
much less hourishing condition and that there the
church building itself does not JUSTIFY any eH''' ~
maintain its existence.
There 452 communicates in good S'Shulhe %
at St. Johns" said this official, and eoo reCol lu
At St Inkes there are only 37s. St PauFs Chspe'
has an estimate of 900 communicates "hlle S''
C,hrvsostom's at S9th street and Seventh avenue
has 4s7 St. Augustine's Chapel and Mlssioh h'us7'
at Houston street and the Bowery, mas o-F IN
nunicants, and the estimated NUMBER At M
Chapel 25th street near Broadway is TO- All u
these chapeis except ST Johns and 81 Faui > are
in residential sections of the city, while THESE TWO
alone in the business quarter.
There have been forty baptisnls at st. Johh
and sxty-eight at ST Lukes fortS-eisi' =.
been confirmed at St Johns and only fory at o-
Iuke's and twenty-nine at ST. Chrysostoms $. 81
Johns has had fifteen marriages, ana lIini'S
Chapel twenty-three st. Johns has mao I'M. ~
seven burials, while at Trinity ChaPe' ''s'r
were tgenty-tvvo and at St. Psuls thirteen All
tba ether channels are far ahead in this one item'
showing that aIt1he people who are dying are not
St. Johns. iii
..cjr chapel has forty-one teachers and $50 puphs
in the Sunday school This compares very faVoIa-
bI,y with these figures: Augustnes, 81 teachers
go pupis; Trinity Chapel, II teachers Ae p'Pl.s'
St Luke's - teachers, go pupils; St ChrysoS'on
"a teachers s75 pupils and St Paufs, * teachels'
1sa pupils. It is evident that the Worh at 0' '
is not below the average, but above 49,,
cit has been said that DR.. Dix hao III iliiit =,
chasing of St Johns ten years ago, but mat rle
vestrv shrank from it for sentnehtdi 90
A letter from DR.. Dix, dated NoNeHioei 10 -
was read in st. Johns on November IL, III Nii'C.
he said that he hoped and prayed St Johh "ouu
long continue 10 be religious centre apo ld'o
mark of religion in New York br. D'A o'"aS ~
visited St Johns several times ouIi"s t"e
whereas the present rector has not nfTli s,t1
chanel since his rectorate began SIX h'oI'"N "e
~ Dix assured the people of the congregation
that the work here would not be oiseohliluVu ul
less we retrograded -rt-.+-
The petition which the corporation " - -,
,,L,,rch will receive next week VIII present 'ii7
-, - 6, Iahn'E reople regarding being tfans-
rerrsd to q rival chapel They say theS hio" '"o
work now going at st. Johns eshho' D s1o
oaxsfuv carried out at St Luke $ TOT 'te 'eoooi ~
t,a+ Inst chanel is not able for financial reasons
- - a. ss u has been begun at St Johh s.
MANY of the people at st John s. II Is s7,o' "Na
49,, canal street and will not be ape 70 pay
csrfare as far St. Lukes- In coisEqIe 4i1
in 20 tn church Of some other dehohllha' 'i'"
80 home and bs lost to the Protestant EPlsco-
nal church, or else they will go to no 'no''" at
oil. o., .ai5 ore of
As to Trinitys plan of economy saio ~ -
tbe stEners Of the petition yesLeIua!' -
His - ,rdinsry that it should be necessary
20 tear down St Johns in order to save money
In the same neighborhood there are hYe pieces "
vacant property being used only for tne -
ol =. building purposes would yield large
rstrrns Why does not Trinity erect some Inoues
.araroent houses there and run those instead IL
her present tenements which disgrace 'lie s
anu ~ t.sions s160 at Easter for foreign mis-
-,ons and last year raised more than theT annual
so11ortionroent of $500 for city missions