Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-15
CHRIST CHURCH
WILL CELEBRATE
DIAMOND JUBILEE
Weeks Exercises Will Be De-
voted to Observing PrOca=
thedral's Anniversary.

The sixteith anniversary of Christ's
Protestant Episcopal Church will be
celebrated with special services, COM
mencing Sunday, January 30 and clos
Ing on Friday, February 4. 1t is the
procathedral of the Newark Episco-
pal diocese, as Bishop Edwin S. Lines
has made it his resident church.
The Rev. Frank II. Hallock, rector
of the church, intends to make the cele-
bration one of the most memorable in
the history OF the parish, for In adj
dition to the services, he will invite
all Of the former members of the con-
gregation and make the affair some
thing of a home week. There will be a
daily celebration of the Holy Eucharist
svery morning at 1880 o'clock, and serv-
ices In the evenings at s o'clock and
at 1880 on Sunday night, when the
exercises will open.
A special musical program is to be
arranged by Miss Grace Corwin, organ
list and musical director of the church,
in which a number of prominent vocal
lists will assist. Among the ~clergymen
who will deliver special sermons during
the celebration are Bishop Edwin S.
Lines. the Rev. Louis Shreve Osborne,
of Trinity Church; the Rev.. Elliot
White, of Grace Church; the Rev. DR.. f.
Is. Reabor, OF West Orange; the Rev. A..
l.. Longley, of Bayonne, and the Rev.
Mr.. White, of Bloomfield. "a.
The Rev. l.. S. Osborne will officiate
ON Sunday night, the Rev. Elliot White
on Monday, the Rev. f. B. Reazor on
Tuesday, Bishop Lines on Wednesday.
the Rev. A. L. Longley on Thursday
and the Rev. Mr.. White, of Bloom
field, Friday. The Rev. Frank H. Hal
lock will oficiate at all of the morn
ing services.
Among the elergymen who OBLIGATED
as rectors of the church during the
last sixty years, were the Rev. Robert
T.. C. Lowell, brother of James Rus
ssll Lowell, who was the rector from
February l, 1850, to May 2, 1853; the
Very Rev. John M. S~tansbury, from
May II. 1869, to October is, 1891, who
became rector emeritus: the Rev. w.
III. C.. Lyeburn. from December 20, 1891,
TO September Is, 1898; the Rev. Dean
Richmond Rabbit, from November q,
1898, to October %. 1899; the Rev. John
O. Ferris, from January 6, 1900, to Sep
TENDER 10, 1903; the Rev. David M.
Kirkby, from February 20, 1904. to May
6, 1906: the Rev. Charles E. Jackson,
from September 10, 1906, to May l, 1907:
the Rev. Almon A. Jaynes, from July
II, 1907, to September l, 1903. n the
Rev. Frank Fl. Hallock, from November
Is, 1909 to the present time
All of those rectors are alive, except
Drs. Lowell, Stansbury and Babbitt.
None of the others, however, will be
able to assist at the celebration on ac-
count of their being so far removed
from this city. and then. too. they win
be busily engaged making preparations
for the Lenten season. which com
mences in the early part of February
this year.
1t was in Christ's Church parish thai,
st. Barnabas Hospital, was organized
and established in 1854. in McWhorter
street, and later on removed to 40
Wickliffe street, and then to High and
Montgomery streets. 1t was the second
hospital to be organized in Newark,
the first being st. Mlchael's.