New-York tribune., 1909-02-06

The vear book Of historic Grace Church, just
issued publishes interesting pictures in refer
enoe to the Tooth anniversary OF the congregation
Just observed One shows the old structure, built
at Broadway and Rector street in 1903 and the
other new view the present familiar structure
showing the garden being laid out south Of
the building in oonmenloration Of the anniversary
It is predicted that by Easter the money for the
project Will ell be raised.
After referring feelingIy the death OF Theodore
Kane Gibbs a member OF Grace Church vestry
when DR.. Huntington became its rector, DR.. Hunt
ingtcn tells Of several bequests during the last
year. BY the will OF Mrs. Sands $51oo has come
10 the church, and by the will Of Mrs Joseph NJ
White $4,000 has been added 70 the endowment
fund OF the Choir House. foundation which Miss
White had already established and increased while
living. The House of Simeon CGrace Hospitap has
received full endowment Of $4,000 at the hands
OF parishioners, and by the gift OF another the
pension fund for retiring deaconesses has been
raised TO 12,50n Two drinking fountains patterned
after designs approved have been placed. Of
them in front OF No 100 Fourth and the
other in front Of Grace Chapel in East I4th
AS a result OF testamentGry provision of the
late Elizabeth du Fais special facilities will
be afforded in Grace Church for those suffering
from deafness, or whose sittings happen TO be so
placed that, owing TO acoustic defects IN the build
ing Itself, it is difficult for those whose
Of hearing is unimpaired 10 catch what Is said
By means Of invention akin 10 the telephone in
success from the pulpit Of a church 10 the pew.
1T is my firm belief that. a time not far dis
tant, wiring church for hearing purposes will
be as common a thing wiring IL for lighting
purposes thus making electricity as servceable 10
the ear it already is to the eye" says Dr. Hunt
ington.
BY the will of Martha Potter Grace Church is to
come into possession OF two funds of 100000 each
the income Of one os them to be used for general
maintenance and the other for industrial education
This is, with one exception. the largest gift ever
received by the church
In closing, DR.. Huntington says:
In matters social and civic Grace Church stands
TOT neLorlsm- WHAT is that? Well, il is of the
simsm but, in the judgment Of many, a more RteS
able thing than either the the other The
everything black: the meiorist is confident that he
paeI rms "a, a tle @ streak OF dawn and has faith TO
Dreee t tlaI gradually 1t VIII broaden and brighten
Inc institutional church" (the phrase is RAPIDLY
the one hand are the socialists With their cTI
tnat tne Gay has gone by for ''ecclesiasticaif'
charity, but justice; all efforts on the paTf Of nT
eanlzed Christianity to set things right being
hand rake that calls for the plough 6 WIZ Gn
me other hand are those who complain tRat for
OF any sort is mira dignitatem and that what Is
%ateo IN these relig4ously dead days is not the
me te socialists complaint we answer 60 ahead
legislation at the hands Of Imperfect men Ts o;, ~
can work your Utopia without the preln1insTT ~,
selves happy If by persuading few into What Vn,,
word that antedates ComteT we san eSeS prefer prefer
things In our lifetime just q little Bit
DR.. Huntington recently passed his seventietb
birthday. and at that time he offered his rss,ena
ton His congregation refused to accept II In
stead, some Of them sent him gift of soO OOo He "a
one Of the eblest and most highly respected man a.,
TIE Episcopal ministry