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 RBY. SAMUEL M. HASKIHS, D. D, 
 
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 ^SERVICES^ 
 
 Sundays OctolDer IStli atid 20tli. 
 
 EARLY COMMUNION, at 7 .o'clock. 
 
 MORNING PRAYER AND HOLY COMMUNION, 10:30. 
 
 HISTORICAL SERMON BY THE RECTOR. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE BISHOP OF LCJNG ISLAND. 
 
 ^er^\ae-S) enuring tfte ©Y^eeiC. 
 
 EARLY COMMUNION DAILY. 
 
 SERVICES AND ADDRESSES EVERY EVENING, 
 BY Bishops and Clergy. 
 
 CHILDREN'S SERVICE ON SATURDAY, AT 3 O'CLOCK. 
 
 RefresliraerLts Every Evening 
 
 In the Sunday School Room. 
 
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 gA eeMMITTEE of tbe bodies of ^t. 
 
 
 iHarl^ s Parisb, Brooklyn, send fortl} 
 
 
 4 J ubile^ s Gre^ bir)6^ .f 
 
 
 to all its members and friends of o den time, 
 
 
 and present time, witlj i[ie invitation for a 
 
 
 \&-LIN ON and intep-communioh on i\)e com- 
 
 
 pletion of tbe JUBILEE VEAR, or tbe 
 
 
 ^EMI-gENTENNIAL 0NNIV.ERSARY of 
 
 
 ;§t i^'?avlv'i5 C^urcl), 
 
 
 REeT0R 
 
 
 AND 
 
 
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C^Eocious tPfinc)!? are spoken of tlx-c 
 l§ou £\tv of oiu' <&o&. 
 
 The Church's one foundation 
 
 Is Jesus Christ her Lord; 
 She is his new creation 
 
 By water and the word : 
 From heaven he came and sought her 
 
 To be his holy bride ; 
 With his own blood he bought her 
 
 And for her life he died. 
 
 Elect from every nation, 
 
 Yet one o'er all the earth, 
 Her charter of salvation 
 
 One Lord, one faith, one birfh ; 
 One holy name she blesses, 
 
 Partakes one holy food. 
 And to one hope she presses, 
 
 \Yith every grace endued. 
 
 ■V'et she on earth hath union 
 
 With God the Three in One, 
 And mystic sweet communion 
 
 With those whose rest is won: 
 O happy ones and holy ! 
 
 Lord, give us grace that we 
 Like them, the meek and lo«3y. 
 
 On high may dwell with thee. 
 
Q}/\)\s event, unparalleled irf i\)e [)islory of 
 tpe felmencan oljurcb, will occuV, t^od willin9, 
 on \\)e second ©undoy in yc+ober, 1 889. 
 
 clt IS nneet and proper to comnnemorate 
 sucb a remarkable event for its own sake, as 
 well OS for tl^e encouraciennent of pastors and 
 people tprougpout trje oburcr). 
 
 xyn tpot occasion tpe ladies and all trje 
 members of i\)e pans!?, past and present, 
 desire to l^onor tl^e aged and lo.ved l\ector of 
 Bt. irtarl? s, and tl^e r arislj O'burcl} w^icb be 
 built, and over wbicb be b^s presided for balf a 
 century to tbe glory of t^od and to tbe bonoi? 
 of obrist and His obuncb, by |5lacinp upon tbe 
 
We copy from The Brooklyn Easrle the following : — 
 "At the southeast corner of Bedford avenue and South Fifth 
 street, opposite the Wall House, stands an iv,y-covered, trim, low- 
 sized, but substantial stone church of the pronounced Episcopal 
 build of the past, and the early part of the present century especially. 
 This temple, which is ornamented on two sides by a neatly kept grass 
 plot, is St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church. It may be classed 
 among the old landmarks of that section of the .city, for it has with- 
 stood the storms of fifty winters and to-day looks as fresh as when it 
 was erected. Adjoining the edifice on South Fifth street is the 
 three-story frame rectory, which is nearly as old as the church. 
 There is an air of quaintness about the temple which seems the more 
 striking as it is situated on a busy thoroughfare where all is life and 
 bustle, and the faithful sexton, who, like the pastor, is contempora- 
 neous with the building, rings the bell as vigorously and as frequently 
 as when the parish extended ovei a very large territory and watches 
 were not so plentiful as now. Sexton LongWorth believes in old 
 customs, the parishioners evidently sympathize with him, and the 
 rector, the Rev. Dr. S. M. Haskins, who is vene/able only in years, 
 for his step is vigorous and elastic and his constitution robust, he is 
 profound and orthodox, rather than showy. 
 
 " It is pleasant to have something which is at least beginning to 
 be old. May St. Mark's stay just where and as it is to-day until its 
 stones crumble upon their foundations, though traffic should try to 
 drown its service with a constant outcry, and shops and warehouses 
 and factories should crowd upon and overshadow it. It is by no 
 means an Episcopalian only who rejoices in Trinity, New York, as it 
 tranquilly and unaffected by commercial pressure stands at the head 
 of Wall street. It is doubtful that any man passes it — churchman or 
 dissenter, Roman Catholic or Protestant, Presbyterian or Baptist, or 
 Unitarian or Methodist — without a sense of gratjifude to the authority 
 which has resisted the uptown tendency. It would be easy to argue 
 that the situation has changed since Trinity was built : that the 
 parishioners have scattered ; that the spire is no longer the solitary 
 skyward point it once was ; that business has largely hidden the place 
 of worship and its graveyard ; that tall builcjings are rivaling its 
 lofty reach. Still the old church refuses to go. It is to be hoped • 
 that its steadfastness may be imitated in this cil'y. 
 
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Oitap Fifty ^hqusand BeuuARS, 
 
 for its PE.RMANBNT E.ND0.WMENT AS 
 A PREE CHURCH PQR ALL TIME TO 
 
 C0IVlE. Caipis sum, or suet) portion of it as 
 s\)a\\ be obtained, to be safely invested ; tl^e 
 income of wpicp spall be yearly appropriated 
 for f\)e maintenance of 3^t. rriarl? s oburcl?, 
 tpat it may stand wljere it is .as a missionary 
 
 cburcb, and not be crowded out by f\)e pressure 
 of surroundina business. 
 
 (^o obtain tl^is endowment, and to afford 
 an opportunity to all pansQioner^, old and new, 
 and to all friends of olden timg, or of present 
 time, scattered up and down on tl^e face of 
 \\)e eartp, to contribute to tpis fund tpis appeal 
 
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 Old St. (Harm's ^l?urel?. 
 
 A PROPOSAL FOR ITS ENDOWMENT FROM THE 
 PACIFIC SLOPE. 
 
 To the Editor of the Brooklyn F.agle. 
 
 The Eagle bearing" an account of St, Mark's Church jubilee has 
 reached the Pacific coast. It finds here old Brooklyn boys into 
 whose souls it sends a thrill of pleasure to know there is something 
 unchangeable in that changeful, growing city. To be assured of 
 one place that will' stay and greet us as the home of childhood, 
 is a tie that will ever make Brooklyn loved. That two men, the 
 pastor and sexton, should have built that hutnble church, stone by 
 stone, and stayed by it through all the rush and whirl, the tempta- 
 tions and changes of a growing, mighty city for fifty years is probably 
 unparalleled in this country and may never be'paralleled again. It 
 cannot be in Brooklyn. The Eagle's editorial suggestion: " May St. 
 Mark's stay just where and as it is to-day untlj its stones crumble 
 upon their foundations, though traffic should try to drown its service 
 with a constant outcry, and shops and warehouses and factories 
 should crowd upon and overshadow it," meets with a devout and 
 earnest "amen" out here. It surely will in Brooklyn. It is a 
 witness of Brooklyn's power which the people of that city should 
 preserve forever. Those magnificent monuments of her material 
 wealth and power — grand buildings and beaii.tiful churches, miles 
 upon miles of well-paved streets and avenues, and that giant bridge 
 which joins her to the world's metropolis, could "ever have been but 
 
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is sent fortl). We desire all friends of t^e 
 pansr) to brina, or to send offerings, as Cfod 
 Qives ability, as arateful remembrances for 
 blessings received tpenein, or a'S memorials of 
 dear ones departed, once connected witr) ^t. 
 
 art? s. 
 
 THIS 
 
 j^ riple (joldei) ^y (>clclir)6 
 
 OF 
 
 (^be, oburcb, tr)e l\ector ond tr)e ^exton 
 
 Of St. Mark's, 
 
 will be celebrated by religious *s,ervices and by 
 social gat[}erings for EIGHT DAYS, from tl^e 
 IStb to tbe 21st day of October, 1889. 
 
for the moral and spiritual power flowing from her churches and 
 schools and homes to make these material ivorks possible. St. 
 Mark's, as the typical representative of faithful endurance, of 
 patient fortitude and humble reliance upon Gocj in the performance 
 of daily duty to God and man, ought to be preserved just as it is. 
 It ought to be the interest of every Christian iti Brooklyn so to pre- 
 serve it. Not because it is an Episcopal church, nor simply because 
 those two men happened to be the ones who haye cau.sed it, but for 
 the sake of the truth and the principles which providentially have 
 been preserved in that spot. It is a living spring of pure water, 
 flowing out of the living Rock, and should flow on forever. Amid 
 the changing modes and methods of a fickle people it will be a 
 pattern and type of unchangeable qualities and virtues. As time 
 goes on in that mighty city, like a work of art of the old masters, it 
 will tell of devotion to duty, and keep on telling for all time, an 
 inspiration for every Brooklyn boy who wishes tp imitate the deeds of 
 his fathers. Destroy that church, move it, change it, and you have 
 destroyed that lesson forever. This is sentiment, one may say; well, 
 what would the world be without sentiment ? But it is more than 
 sentiment. Sin and sorrow must increase in that section of the city, 
 and it needs just such a church, worked on the same principles, on 
 that very spot. It is there now ; keep it thefe. Those two men 
 cannot, in the nature of things, stand there many years more. 
 What is done must be done now. To mkke my suggestions 
 practical, let me say I will be one of a thousand who have very little 
 of this world's goods to give ^50 — a dollar a year for each year of 
 St. Mark's existence — ^ toward an endowment for St. Mark's to 
 have it "stay just where and as it is to-day until its stones crumble 
 upon their foundations," to be presented at the end of the jubilee 
 year. This will make $50,000, which will go a good way toward the 
 desired end, when I am sure wealthier citizens 6,1 Brooklyn will make 
 it up to any needed amount. No money that was ever given will be 
 given with more gladness or satisfaction by an old — 
 
 Brooklyn Bov. 
 Los Angeles, November 12, 188S. 
 
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 Mil to wl^om tpis invitation is addressed 
 ore respectfully invited to be present, or to 
 respond by letter in season to [)ave tbeir names 
 read on tl^at occasion dunna sonne of \\)e 
 services. Qvery donation wiil be acbnowledqed 
 in a book containing tije ^jistory of ^t. rHark s 
 and tl^e sernnons and addresses 6n tl^e occasion, 
 to be issued after tl^e Anniversary, and a copy 
 of tl^e boob sent to eacr) contributor. 
 
 yf tl}ere are any pleasant associations 
 connectma yourself, or any mejmbers of your 
 family witlj tl^e Q\)urc\), \\)e Font, tl^e 0ltar, 
 tpe l\ector or tpe pansQ of ^t. fr tarb s, it 
 will be pleasant to l^ave it manifested on tl^at 
 
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 IN DEAR ST, MARKS. 
 
 By a Parishioner of Former Days. 
 
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 As here to-day we gather, 
 
 Like wandering sheep which corae 
 To find their own dear Shepherd, 
 
 And hear his "Welcome Home !" 
 
 How leaps the heart with gladness, 
 How fills the eye with tears, 
 
 As memory's crowding visions 
 Rush from departed years ! 
 
 At this same Font, so precious, 
 
 Our little ones we gave 
 To be the lambs of Jesus, 
 
 Who died their souls to save. 
 
 And some were gathered early. 
 Called by the Saviour dear. 
 
 While yet the Cross baptismal 
 Shone on their foreheads clear. 
 
 And others grew in wisdom 
 Within the Church's Fold, 
 
 As day by day their Pastor 
 Its treasures rich unrolled. 
 
 Here, in LJfe's happy morning, 
 They gaVe themselves anew. 
 
 To follow Christ forever, 
 His soldiers, faithful, true. 
 
 And at this Holy Altar— 
 Oh, can we e'er forget? 
 
 They came to feed on Jesus, 
 Where we with angels met. 
 
 And some went forth to battle. 
 Trained for the holy fight ; 
 
 And wilt not stars in glory 
 Adorn their crowns of light? 
 
 When Hope becomes fruition. 
 And faijh is lost in sight. 
 
 Shall this dear fold and shepherd 
 Still glQw in memory's light. 
 
 Yes, in that blessed country 
 What e'er of joy we know. 
 
 We'll trace it to the Fountain 
 In these dear courts below. 
 
 Then let us sing with gladness. 
 And wreathe the Font with flowers ; 
 
 Praise now, and praise forever, 
 'I'hat dear St. Marks was ours. 
 
occasion by your presence, or 
 
 by etter, or 
 
 offerings. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Executive Com^iittee. 
 
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 = 
 
 
 Mrs. R. Creczbaur. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 J. Bennett. 
 
 " O. H. Stearns. 
 
 i, 
 
 J. MUNDY, 
 
 " J. "Wandel, 
 
 " 
 
 H. M. Gluck. 
 
 A. S. Kennedy, 
 
 •• 
 
 M. Stewart, 
 
 " Augusta CIaeesos, 
 
 11 
 
 M. L. HiGGINS. 
 
 " M. J. HOWEY, 
 
 Miss 
 
 Esther Church. 
 
 " H. Winter. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 •H. King, 
 
 " J. H. Ward, 
 
 
 H. F. Roberts. 
 
 " O. J. Mauger. 
 
 
 A. J. Kix(;. 
 
 " A. Place, 
 
 
 C. F. Lamy, 
 
 J. Keener. 
 
 
 John Roberts. 
 
 ■ J, D. Dayton. 
 
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 C. M. Church. 
 
 Miss L. Teale. 
 
 13 
 
 Miss 
 
 L. t; A. Bishop. 
 
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 W. Tapscott, 
 Mary (J(joke, 
 Julia Wateebury, 
 Lawrkn(!b Wateebury, 
 
 WaRUAEET ScjHUyLEE, 
 
 Maria G. Paret, 
 Zekobia Hanfibld. 
 E. W. C. Hall, 
 J. M. Matthews, 
 
 OCTAVIUS APPLEGATE, 
 
 Margaret Hewixs, 
 Margaret Tweed, 
 Margaret S. Havens, 
 Clarissa S. Sammis, 
 Ann S. Young, 
 Catherine A. Eqan, 
 Oliver Hutchinson, 
 Fanny Fleemax Drisler, 
 
 J. C. H. TUPPER, 
 
 Thos. W. Haskins, 
 D. B. Knickerbacker, 
 W. H. Chamberlain, 
 L. R. Dickinson, 
 
 W. A. NiCLKiLSON, 
 
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 Mrs, 
 
 ALt^HKi) Barber, 
 Deborah JJillspaugh, 
 Regina FjA Mont, 
 Sara'ii E. Willett, 
 
 Lut'.Y JURSMAN, 
 8ARAH W, SiLLMAN, 
 
 jAcb'E Backus, 
 Minok Keith, 
 Anna 31. Griswold, 
 Sarah E. Laro.m, 
 Tnoe K. Rowland, 
 Glovina M. Seward^ 
 Martiia a. .Stickney, 
 F. VV. Durham, 
 Maijy Da7IS, 
 Mrs, Mary Groser, 
 Emm.v Denton, 
 A. Marschalk, 
 Maria E. Heoe.man, 
 Elvira V. Peebles, 
 Kate Latham, 
 
 C. (,. TWING, 
 
 LuciLLA S. Wilcox. 
 Ann .Bartiin. 
 Eliza Jane Sewall. 
 
 The fifty names of this General Committee have been 
 copied from the Parish Register one for eacli of tlie fifty yeary. 
 Duplicates of this invitation are encloweil. that the jiersoiis 
 receiving them may mail them to othef- nn'mbers of their 
 family or to any othrr friends of .St. iMark's. 
 
 It is Hiif^gpstcil that members of thetsanu' family might 
 unite in their offerings and make one f:\nuly donation. 
 
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Rev. Samuel M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
THE TRIPLE 
 
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF 
 
 ST. MARK'S CHURCH 
 
 BEDFORD AVENUE, BROOKLYN 
 
 REV. SAMUEL M. HASKINS, D. D. 
 
 RECTOR 
 
 DAVID LONGWORTH 
 
 SEXTON 
 
 18^9-1889 
 
 Commemorated October lo^th to October 21st, 1889 
 
 BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
 
 PRINTED BY REQUEST 
 
 1890 
 
TO HIM WHO ONLY GIVETH THE INCREASE, 
 
 THIS RECOUNT OF THE SHEAVES OF THE FIFTY YEARS OF SOWING, 
 
 AS A THANK OFFERING, 
 
 Jfs |)rcsenteb ; " 
 
 AND 
 
 TO THOSE AMONG WHOM THE SEED HAS BEEN SOWN. 
 
 WITH PRAYERS FOR ITS BRINGING FORTH GOOD FRUIT, 
 
 RIPE FOR THE HEAVENLY GARNER, 
 
 THIS MY SHEAF OF JOY 
 
 Is SUebicateb; 
 
 IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, 
 AND OF THE HOLY GHOST, 
 
 AMEN. 
 
At a meeting of some of the former Members of St. 
 Mark's Parish, Brooklyn, E. D., held in the Rectory on 
 Wednesday evening, November 7, 1889, in conference with 
 the present Vestry as to the needs of the parish, and the 
 continuance of its work, Mr. W. H. Fleeman, of Brooklyn, 
 was called to the Chair, and Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins, 
 of New York, was appointed Secretary. 
 
 The following resolutions were passed as embodying 
 the sentiments which were brought out in the recent Serai- 
 Centennial of the Rectorship and existence of the parish : 
 
 Resolved, That first, before all things else, we render unfeigned 
 thanks to our Heavenly Father for His preservation of this parish, 
 and His continued blessings for half a century in so marked and 
 gracious a manner as will render it illustrious for all time to come 
 in the annals of the American Church. Our thanks are due also to 
 all these brethren of St. Mark's of former years, who in great num- 
 bers, some from remote sections of the country, have come to 
 express their love and gratitude at this joyful reunion for the influ- 
 ences and teachings which have thus been inculcated in these sacred 
 courts. And we wish particularly to record our appreciation of 
 the gracious and generous hospitality with which the Rector and 
 the present congregation of St. Mark's, through the committee of 
 ladies, have received the members of former days. We are re- 
 freshed and strengthened by these renewed evidences of love for 
 the Gospel of Christ, and its blessed ministrations which this parish 
 has so signally and continuously set forth for half a century. 
 
 Resolved, That though the robust physical condition, and the 
 unfailing mental powers, of the revered Rector seem to promise a 
 longer continuance of active work, unassisted as heretofore, yet 
 
God's limit of years of labor being nearly reached, our love and 
 veneration for him as a father to his children, and our knowledge of 
 the ever-increasing labor of this important parish in this commu- 
 nity, constrains us to ask him to begin to lay his precious burden 
 of the care of souls, in this his loved parish, upon other shoulders, 
 that he may, now in the prime of his strength and maturity of his 
 powers, impart to another, who shall be with him, the secret of his 
 great pastoral gifts, and perpetuate on this spot the spirit which 
 has abided with him all these years. 
 
 Resolved, That we adopt the suggestion which was originally 
 made by a prominent daily journal, and embodied in the invitation ex- 
 tended to us to come to this reunion, of creating a fund for the con- 
 tinuance of this Church on the spot where it now stands for all time 
 to come, and for securing the necessary assistance to the Rector. 
 
 Resolved, That, in our judgment, the funds thus far received in 
 these jubilee services from former members of the parish, and others 
 outside the parish, should be made the nucleus of an " Endowment 
 Fund," to be increased, as speedily as God gives the ability and 
 willingness to do so, to at least fifty thousand dollars. That these 
 funds, already in hand or to be received, be securely invested by 
 the corporation of St. Mark's Church, for the furtherance of the 
 objects named in these resolutions. 
 
 Resolved, That the Chairman and Secretary of this meeting be 
 authorized to send a copy of these resolutions, together with an 
 accompanying circular letter, giving some account of the Semi- 
 centennial Services, and such addresses as they think best to all 
 former members of St. Mark's ; and, also, that a copy be trans- 
 mitted to the Bishop of the Diocese, and to the Rector and Vestry 
 of St. Mark's Church. 
 
 Resolved, That for its historic value, and for the encouragement 
 of the pastorate of the Church throughout the country, the Rev. Dr. 
 Haskins be requested to publish his historic discourse and to com- 
 pile all the records of this remarkable anniversary, and publish the 
 same in a memorial volume, including extracts from the many letters 
 which have been received from those not able to be present in person. 
 
Resolved, That the Treasurer of St. Mark's Vestry be requested 
 to issue yearly statements of the subscriptions received to the fund, 
 and of the condition of the property in which it is invested with 
 profits accruing, and transmit the same to all old members of St. 
 Mark's, and to all subscribers to the fund. 
 
 Note. One hundred and twenty-five copies of the " Historic Discourse and 
 Addresses " were subscribed for by the members of that meeting. 
 
 To the former Members or Friends of St. Mark's Church, and to all 
 
 others who may be interested in this illustrious type of parochial 
 
 service : 
 
 The events of the eight days commemorating the completion of 
 the half century of St. Mark's Parish have been in keeping with all 
 its previous history. The fervent spontaneity of the services and 
 addresses, the glad reunion of old friends and associates, the will- 
 ing sacrifices made to come lotig distances, and after many years 
 of separation ; the generous offerings contributed to the perpetuity 
 of the parish and carrying on the work, and the lavish hospitality 
 of the present congregation in receiving their guests, have made 
 many hearts glad, and bless the day that brought them within the 
 holy influence of this remarkable parish. We trust, also, that the 
 rejoicing has been found acceptable with Him from whom this gift 
 of thanksgiving and all good things do come. 
 
 All the events which have now culminated in this anniversary 
 tell, as with audible voice, that God has created our opportunity. 
 Never before in this country has there been so signal an occasion 
 for children of the Chuich, so abundantly blessed in their parish 
 home, to exhibit their gratitude to God, upon the spot, and in a com- 
 munity where it will be most needful. It will be a priceless boon to 
 the declining years of the aged Rector of St. Mark's to know, in his 
 lifetime in St. Mark's, that his children of faith are thankful for his 
 sake, and it will be an. added boon to go to the grave assured by us 
 that " his works do follow him, for others sake." It will be also of 
 incalculable worth as an object lesson of Christian love, to him 
 
who takes up the work which he lays down. We can, therefore, 
 but communicate these sentiments to others, knowing that where 
 God's spirit of gratitude is, thence will come the responses for this 
 good work of Christ and the Church in dear old St. Mark's. 
 
 We find here in church building and congregation no signs of de- 
 cay or deadness. The church building and all its accompaniments 
 are in perfect order ; the congregation and Sunday-school fill the 
 Church, and all parish work is vigorously prosecuted, while the sur- 
 rounding neighborhood keeps up its character, and the population 
 is still increasing. But the time has come when, in the life of the 
 Rector, to insure healthful and successful continuance, all this needs 
 the returning nourishment from every root of the growing tree. We 
 see this need and express it in the accompanying resolutions, which 
 we communicate to all former members and friends of St. Mark's. 
 
 We also inclose the address of greeting from the former mem- 
 bers of the parish to the Rector and present congregation, and also 
 extracts from the address of the Bishop of the Diocese, and from a 
 letter of a gentleman whose only association is through his wife, 
 now deceased, a long-time member of St. Mark's. These extracts 
 of the proceedings embody the sentiments which we now think 
 ought to be made real. 
 
 We have given it a business character which will command the 
 confidence of all. The corporate Vestry, which is the legally con- 
 stituted body, and responsible to the Church, is the proper custo- 
 dian to receive and invest the funds. Its treasurer will make stated 
 reports of the same. We inclose herewith a blank form, which 
 can be adapted to the wishes and means of all. We think it better 
 that the minimum amount should be fifty dollars, which will require 
 one thousand subscribers. One former member — a lady — has 
 already made use of one hundred of them, or one tenth of the 
 whole amount. Mr. David Longworth, the treasurer of the parish, 
 reports that there are fourteen others, leaving eight hundred and 
 eighty-six to be received. 
 
 William H. Fleeman, Chairman. 
 Charles Waldo Haskins, Secretary. 
 
PROGRAMME OF SERVICES 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 TRIPLE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 
 
 OF 
 
 ST. MARK'S CHURCH. 
 
 THE RECTOR'S PASTORATE; AND THE SEXTON'S OFFICE; 
 IN ONE PERSON. 
 
 From October \2,th to October 21st, 1889. 
 
 SUBJECTS : 
 
 History of the Parish. By the Rector. 
 Remarks by Bishop Littlejohn. 
 
 The Church of the Living God. 1 Tim., iii, 15. 
 Addresses. 
 
 The Ministry. St. Matthew, xxviii, 19. 
 
 Twenty-two have gone into the Ministry from 
 the Parish of St. Mark's. Two of whom are 
 in the House of Bishops. 
 Addresses. 
 
 Baptism. St. John, iii, 5. 
 
 Twenty-three hundred and fifty-one have been 
 
 Baptized in the Parish. 
 Addresses. 
 
 The Congregation of St. Mark's are especially invited 
 on this evening. 
 
 Wednesday Evening. Confirmation. Acts, viii, 17. 
 
 Twelve hundred and twelve have been Confirmed. 
 Addresses, 
 
 Sunday, a. m. 
 Sunday Evening. 
 Monday Evening. 
 
 Tuesday Evening. 
 
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 Thursday Evening. 
 
 Friday Evening. 
 
 Saturday, p. m. 
 
 Sunday, a. m., 20th. 
 
 Holy Communion. St. John, vi, 53. 
 
 Fifteen hundred and 6fty-seven have been added 
 
 as new Communicants. 
 Addresses. 
 
 Marriage, St. Mark, x, 7 and 8. 
 
 Nine hundred and seventy couples have been 
 
 Married. 
 Addresses. 
 
 Children's Service. 
 
 xxi, 15. 
 
 Addresses. 
 
 At three o'clock. St. John, 
 
 History of the Church. 
 
 Addresses. 
 
 Sunday Evening, 20th. Worship. Psalm xcvi, 8 and g. 
 Addresses. 
 
 The Bishops and Clergy, with their Wives, are especially invited for Monday Evening, 
 the 14th. If not convenient then, they are welcome at any other Service. 
 
HISTORY OF THE PARISH. 
 
 Psalm cxxvi, 7. 
 " He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall 
 doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him." — Prayer-Book 
 lersion. 
 
 These words were uttered by the prophet to cheer Israel in 
 her captivity. To understand their full import and significance, 
 we must consider the poverty of the sower, the value of the seed, 
 and the preciousness of the harvest. Israel was in captivity and 
 oppressed by their captors. They suffered from poverty. Their 
 food was given to them in stinted measure. It is spring, the time for 
 sowing. The husbandman has prepared his ground. He turns 
 to his scanty granary for the seed. And then commences a strug- 
 gle between present necessity and his faith in the promises of God. 
 His seed is hardly sufficient, with the utmost providence and care, 
 to sustain his family. Shall he take of that present food and cast 
 it into the ground } Shall he take the bread from his children's 
 mouths and sow it, in the venture of faith upon the promised 
 blessings of the seed-time and harvest, and of the early and the 
 latter rain ? A struggle ensues. Faith prevails. And in the sight 
 of that needy family, and perhaps while even then they are in 
 want of bread, he gathers up his seed, and, with tears for their 
 present necessity, he bears forth that precious seed, in the faith 
 that it is the germ of their future subsistence. The family are the 
 witnesses and participants of the sacrifice. They partake of the 
 present sorrow and deprivation. Their tears are joined with those 
 of the husbandman ; and the hardest trial of his faith is the ear- 
 nest entreaties of those little ones, who feel only the present toant, 
 and know not the mystery of the seed and the harvest. The 
 precious seed, thus watered with the tears of the husbandman and 
 
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 his family, is sown and dies. But soon the blade appears, and 
 then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear. Then cometh 
 the rich harvest ; the sickle is thrust in, and he who was the weep- 
 ing sower now comes to his household bearing his golden sheaves, 
 and rejoicing as he comes. The promised blessing has been given. 
 The early and the latter rain has descended. He that feedeth the 
 ravens has provided for the family; and now that glad family join 
 their voices of praise with the husbandman in his joyous harvest- 
 song as he gathers the wheat into his garner. 
 
 By this parable of every husbandman of Israel, during the 
 seventy years of their captivity, does the prophet encourage his 
 brethren to look forward to that happy time when the days of their 
 captivity and weeping should be ended, and when they should 
 aU be gathered into their own blessed land of promise, and wor- 
 ship again in the holy city of Jerusalem. As our text had a two- 
 fold meaning and application when originally uttered, so may we 
 now, by accommodation, interpret it in a spiritual sense and regard 
 it as prophetical of the pastoral office. And in this we have the 
 countenance of our blessed Lord, who regarded God as the great 
 Husbandman, Himself as the sower, and the word as the seed 
 sown. And when he ascended up on high, He sent forth His 
 commissioned ones as the sowers of the same seed until the great 
 harvest-day. Every such sower makes the venture of faith. He 
 foregoes the present for the future. He sacrifices the temporal 
 for the eternal. The food, the joys, the gains of earth are spread 
 before him. All may be enjoyed by him for this life. Every 
 avenue to wealth and distinction that men of the world desire is 
 open to his view. Family and friends, perhaps, persuade to pre- 
 sent gratification and worldly comfort. But on the other hand 
 there is the Lord's field and the Lord's granary. There is 
 a world lying in wickedness, and there is the precious seed of 
 God's Word. To the laborers in that field and to the sower of 
 that seed belong eternal promises and richer rewards than earth can 
 give. But theirs is a work harder than that of the earthly hus- 
 bandman ; the self-denials and self-sacrifices of a Master whom 
 
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 the world has ever hated and despised ; the unceasing toil of body 
 and mind; the daily abnegation of self; the constant warfare 
 against an ungodly world ; the daily endurance of a fault-finding pub- 
 lic ; the continual discouragements of pleading with a gainsaying 
 and disobedient people ; the perpetual disappointment in behold- 
 ing little or no fruits of his labor. The seed sown falls tipon the 
 rock, or on the stony ground, or by the way-side, or amid thorns 
 and briers, or upon the thin and shallow earth, and brings forth no 
 fruit unto perfection. But, most of all, there exists as the greatest 
 trial of faith for the sower the fearful responsibilities that rest upon 
 him as one that must give an account of his stewardship ; as one 
 that must answer at the judgment-day not only for his own soul, 
 but for the souls of those that have been committed to his charge. 
 He must answer for the manner in which he has sown the precious 
 seed of God's Word ; for the purity of the seed sown, and for the 
 fidelity of his labors ; fpr upon these depend in a great measure 
 the proper growth and culture of the seed, that it may bring forth 
 first the blade, then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear, ripe 
 for the garner of the Lord. 
 
 Never for a moment through all the years of his sowing are 
 these trials and self-denials absent from the life of a faithful sower 
 of God's seed ; never for a moment do these awful responsibilities 
 cease to weigh upon him. His is a work not so much of reaping 
 as sowing, not so much of rejoicing as weeping ; not so much of 
 praise as of prayer. Like his blessed Master, his sowing is his life- 
 work here, his reaping is for eternity. Not here, but Jureafter, he 
 shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied. 
 
 The Sower. — Brethren, beloved, it is fifty years since I came 
 to you, commissioned by the Great Husbandman to sow His seed 
 in His vineyard. My commission to sow and to labor come not 
 from man, but from the Lord of the vineyard. My title and my 
 authority run back clear and undisputed to Him that declares, 
 " As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." There is not 
 a missing link in all that consecrated chain of apostolic order that 
 begins at that hour, and reaches even unto him who is with us this 
 
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 day, as our Right Rev. Father in God. And every commission 
 received from that order is as clear and unmistakable as his prom- 
 ise, " Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." 
 There never has been a shadow of doubt in my mind on that point. 
 By virtue of that commission I came to sow. By virtue of that 
 authority I have been over you in the Lord. It is the only rock 
 on which I can stand for a moment to dispense unto you the sacred 
 mysteries of God's Word. 
 
 The Seed Sown. — The sower thus commissioned must bear 
 forth the good seed. That seed is none other than the Gospel of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ. Brethren, I take you to record this day 
 that I have preached none other Gospel unto you than that which 
 Jesus Christ and his apostles have declared unto us. With one 
 of those apostles, I can say with a good conscience that " when I 
 came unto you, I came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, 
 declaring unto you the testimony of God ; . for I determined not to 
 know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 
 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trem- 
 bling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing 
 words of man's wisdom, that your faith should not stand in the 
 wisdom of men, but in the power of God. For we have received, 
 not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we 
 might know the things which are freely given to us of God ; which 
 things also we speak, not in the words which matfs wisdom teach- 
 eth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things 
 with spiritual." 
 
 The seed sown has been the pure word of God, as the Church 
 from the beginning hath received the same. The Prayer-Book 
 has ever been held as the interpreter and exponent of that word. 
 
 History. — After I graduated from the General Theological 
 Seminary in New York on the last of June, 1839, I spent two 
 months' vacation in Boston, where I supplied the pulpit of St. 
 James's Church, Roxbury, for Rev. Dr. Howe, since Bishop of Cen- 
 tral Pennsylvania, for the month of July ; also the pulpit of Grace 
 Church, Boston, for Dr. Clark, since Bishop of Rhode Island, for 
 
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 the month of August. I returned to New York and was invited to 
 supply the pulpit of the Chapel of St. Mark's, Williamsburgh ; and 
 after so doing for three Sundays, I accepted the unanimous call of 
 the wardens and vestrymen to the charge of the congregation, on a 
 salary of three hundred dollars, and entered upon my duties on 
 the second Sunday in October. The little whitewashed chapel 
 that then was, stood in the midst of a corn-field, surrounded by a 
 stone wall of huge bowlders. The surroundings were very rural. 
 Orchards were filling the space between the chapel and the river. 
 Vegetable gardens were stretching out on every side, and the 
 open spaces filled up with a tan-yard and rope-walks and frog- 
 ponds. But few streets were opened and paved. Cows, goats, 
 and swine wandered at large through fields and streets. The vil- 
 lage, though a borough, had much the appearance of an ill-gov- 
 erned country village, and on Sundays was largely overrun with 
 the herds of New York roughs and ball-players. 
 
 There was but one church building in the place except the little 
 chapel of St. Mark's, and that was the Dutch Reformed Church, 
 on the corner of Fourth and South Second Streets. When I came 
 to this parish there were but fourteen families and eighteen com- 
 municants connected with St. Mark's, and these were scattered 
 over a space of four square miles. But, under all these discourag- 
 ing circumstances, the Vestry, though very poor, resolved to build 
 a stone church ; and accordingly on Thanksgiving-day, a few 
 weeks after I had taken charge of the parish, the foundations of 
 the present church were commenced. The bowlders of the wall 
 that surrounded two sides of the chapel, and extended the length 
 of the farm, furnished the building material. But it was not built 
 without great efforts of begging and borrowing, and struggles of 
 various kinds. I called on over twelve hundred churchmen within 
 a radius of fifteen riiiles, and, notwithstanding, when the church 
 was finished we were cumbered with a debt of six thousand dollars. 
 
 Perhaps it is no more than justice to myself, and it may be an 
 encouragement to young ministers, to say that, while these struggles 
 in building were going on, I received two very tempting invitations 
 
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 to different parishes with thrice the salary I was leceiving here. 
 My bishop, and the Rev. Dr. Haight, advised my accepting ; but I 
 could not bear to leave a church which I had commenced to build 
 half finished, and a small but attached congregation. It seemed 
 like turning back after putting the hand to the plow, and deserting 
 a kind people who had just begun to lean upon me for the up- 
 building of the church and the parish. I have never regretted my 
 decision to sta^. 
 
 The church was completed and consecrated in April, 1841. 
 It was at that time the only Episcopal stone church on Long Island, 
 and was in beauty of finish the best, as well as the first, one either 
 in New York or Brooklyn that could claim any approach to the 
 Gothic style of architecture. It was also the first departure in its 
 interior appointments from the old three-decker arrangement of 
 altar, desk, and pulpit, or the universal style that then prevailed of 
 having stairs to a high pulpit overlooking desk and altar. The 
 altar in this church was seven inches higher than pulpit or desk, 
 thus elevating the sacramental service above the preaching. It 
 was also the first church, I believe, in New York or Brooklyn that 
 displayed the cross. All this, with the corresponding teaching of 
 the doctrines involved, could not pass observation without exciting 
 bitter prejudice both from those within and those without the fold. 
 Within one year after the church was consecrated came the storm 
 of the Oxford Tracts across the water. That controversy shook 
 the Church in this country to its very foundations. Not a congre- 
 gation that was not agitated. Among the most violent opposers to 
 the teaching were those who had been bom and bred in the Church 
 and nursed their doctrines, as it were, from their mothers' breasts. 
 They could not believe that they had not held the truth, and the 
 whole truth, from their infancy. They felt that they had nothing 
 to learn. So violent was the opposition to the teachings that the 
 bishops and clergy who taught the higher life, the more devout 
 worship, and the more frequent communions, were personally held 
 up to suspicion as Romanizers. Hence followed accusations and 
 trials of bishops and clergy to the great scandal of the Church. 
 
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 St. Mark's Rector and congregation could not, of course, pass 
 through these troublous waters and not be disturbed. It was in 
 the midst of this disturbance that seven families seceded from St. 
 Mark's and organized Christ Church. But better so than to have 
 remained and created strife and discontent. 
 
 In the year 1846 I commenced services in the eastern part of 
 the village, and also at Maspeth. I obtained from Trinity Church, 
 New York, two hundred dollars per annum for the support of these 
 services. This sum, with two hundred dollars from Maspeth, en- 
 abled me to invite the Rev. William Walsh to take charge of those 
 services. I gave him in charge of about twenty families in both 
 places. Through the laudable exertions of the Maspeth people a 
 church, named St. Saviour's, was soon built, and the entire service? 
 of Mr. Walsh were required to take charge of the parish. 
 
 Parochial School. — In the year 1847, at Easter, with the con- 
 sent of my Vestry, I opened a Parochial School for Boys. I invited 
 the Rev. George W. Fash to take charge of it, in connection with the 
 mission in the Eastern District. The mission was soon organized 
 into a parish by the name of St. Paul's Church, and a building erected 
 at the corner of South Second Street and Union Avenue. The 
 services of Mr. Fash were soon needed for the work in that new par- 
 ish. I then invited the Rev. Caleb Clapp, Rector of the Church of 
 the Nativity, New York, to assist me in my parochial school. This 
 school was in successful operation for ten years, when, by the en- 
 largement of the church, it was obliged to be given up, but not 
 until it had yielded much fruit for the Church and the ministry. 
 Many were so well taught in Church principles that they became 
 communicants of the Church ; and no less than seven connected 
 with it entered the ministry of the Church. 
 
 In the year 1847 I organized St. James's parish for colored 
 people, and aided it both by occasional services and frequent con- 
 tributions. In the same year Ascension Church, Greenpoint, was 
 organized. In 1848 I laid the corner-stone of Calvary Church, in 
 North Fifth Street, and obtained from Trinity Church, New York, 
 five hundred dollars toward building it on condition that it should 
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 be a free church. Though all these six churches were so nearly 
 simultaneous in their formation, and though every one of them 
 drew largely from the members of St. Mark's, the mother church, 
 yet she held on her course and, though in poverty, nourished her 
 remaining children, and encouraged the young households that 
 went out from her. 
 
 In 1854, through the generous aid of Trinity Church and by 
 personal application to churchmen, means were obtained to remove 
 the heavy embarrassments under which she had groaned from her 
 infancy, and a sufficient amount borrowed to enlarge the church 
 by the addition of a proper chancel and choir and an increase to 
 the nave of about two hundred sittings. The church was also 
 beautified by the addition of several memorial windows, the first 
 in New York or Brooklyn ; now all are memorials. Instead of 
 mural tablets upon the walls to record the names and convey the 
 teaching that — 
 
 " Angels and living saints and dead 
 But one communion make " — 
 
 we thus add beauty to utility, and convert God's daily light to pen- 
 cil out in subdued and rainbow hues the sweet memories of the de- 
 parted and the promises to the living and dying Christian in every 
 age and condition of life. So not only do we beautify the sanc- 
 tuary, but make the very light of heaven, by which we worship, 
 bear to us the teachings of Him who is the light of the world, the 
 promises to the faithful, the sweet remembrances of the just, and 
 the Scriptural declarations of the fellowship and communion of 
 saints. Wherever we lift our eyes in this sanctuary we behold some 
 precious precepts or cheering promises of God's holy Word beam- 
 ing in upon us, as it were, with celestial light, illuminating every 
 step of our pathway, from the font to the grave — something profit- 
 able for doctrine ; something inciting to a holy life ; something 
 encouraging to worship ; something animating to faith ; something 
 reminding us of the hour of death, of the day of judgment, and of 
 the blessed rewards of the righteous. 
 
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 What the ten-iple of old was to the spiritually minded Jew the 
 sanctuary of God now is to the devout Christian, and demands of 
 all earnest prayers for peace within its walls ; continual self-sacri- 
 fice for its prosperity; unwearied devotion to its interests ; unceas- 
 ing labors for its welfare ; and a perpetual joy of heart in all that 
 contributes to the order and beauty of her worship and to her pros- 
 perity. The increase of the Church militant below is in reality 
 the increase of the heavenly Jerusalem, of which she is but the 
 type, and to which she is joined by indissoluble ties. " For our 
 brethren and companions' sake we will say peace be within her, 
 because of the house of the Lord our God we will seek her good." 
 
 It is to make the place of the Lord's feet glorious that we adorn 
 and beautify the habitations of our God. His dwellings are only 
 amiable because of His presence therein. Our souls long after the 
 courts of the Lord ; our hearts and our flesh cry out for the living 
 God, because we need His blessings for our bodies and our souls ; 
 and we rejoice that He deigns to have His habitations among the 
 children of men ; that He hath appointed a place in the which it 
 pleaseth Him to dwell, and where He has promised to meet those 
 that call upon His name. 
 
 I rejoice that this sanctuary, though small and unpretentious, is 
 neat, commodious, and reverential in appearance. No one can for 
 a moment fail to see that it is written all over with the emblems 
 and teachings of the Church and the Scriptures. Nothing is for 
 show, but all for reverence, worship, and devotion to Him whose 
 sanctuary it is. No worshiper fails to recognize it as the house of 
 God ; no one fails to feel at home therein as in a father's house, 
 where a father's blessing may be expected and received — a sanc- 
 tuary where every one has been welcomed, where rich and poor 
 have been treated alike as one family and household of God. 
 
 In 1869 I celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of St. Mark's. 
 At that time there was a debt of seven thousand dollars on the 
 Church and five hundred dollars on the Sunday-school room. I 
 issued a short printed circular to the then present and former 
 members of the congregation, in which I invited them to be present 
 
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 for a reunion and intercommunion, or, if not able to be present in 
 person, to send us greetings and offerings for the payment of a 
 debt which we were not able to cancel ourselves. 
 
 I was quite agreeably surprised and gratified to lay upon the 
 altar at that time seven thousand five hundred dollars and a little 
 more. Since then there has been no incumbrance on the Church, 
 though we have a floating debt of two thousand dollars. 
 
 Ever since the doors of this church were opened the same 
 faithful and gentlemanly sexton has stood in its vestibule to wel- 
 come every stranger into a pew. When the church was built, well 
 knowing that much depended upon the sexton as to its being filled, 
 I chose a Christian gentleman affable in manners and inviting in 
 appearance, whose genial face itself was a welcome to all strangers, 
 and whose courteous words would attract rather than repel all who 
 entered the vestibule. For many years he has filled simultaneously 
 the triple offices of warden, sexton, and treasurer. But the sexton- 
 ship I have considered the most honorable, because that office 
 brings him in closer relations to the Rector, to the altar, to the ser- 
 vices of the Church, and to the sanctuary, than any other oflSce. No 
 person in the congregation is brought into such intimate and con- 
 stant companionship with the Rector. No other has the right of 
 entering the most holy place and guarding its gates. He bears 
 also the keys of the outer sanctuary, and opens and shuts only 
 under the direction of the Rector. Scarcely a day has passed that 
 he has not visited this sanctuary of his love to see that all was well. 
 To his watchful care we are largely indebted for the soundness and 
 good preservation of the church within and without. All this labor 
 of love for half a century has been done without any adequate com- 
 pensation. Is it not meet and right, therefore, that this Semi- 
 centennial should pay all due honor and credit to David Long- 
 worth, the lover of God's house and worship .? So fully identified 
 is he with the church and the congregation that St. Mark's would 
 not seem the same without him. Surely, to me personally, his 
 help has been invaluable. Never has there been an unpleasant 
 word between us for half a century. 
 
David Longworth. 
 
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 The Services of the Church.— The services of the church 
 have continued uniformly from the first in perfect adherence and 
 compliance with the Prayer-Book. 
 
 There has been no desire on the part of the Rector or the peo- 
 ple for shortened services. Morning Prayer, Litany, Ante-Com- 
 munion, Sermon, and Prayer for the whole state of Christ's Church 
 militant have been offered here without a change or omission of 
 one jot or tittle for half a century, with the addition of the Holy 
 Communion on the first Sunday of every month, and on all the 
 great Festivals of the Church. The evening prayer also as the 
 Prayer-Book prescribes. 
 
 Saints' days have always been observed. Daily services in Lent, 
 and in Holy Week twice daily. 
 
 For the last quarter of a century it has been my custom to hold 
 a Children's Service in the church at 3 o'clock every Sunday 
 afternoon, in which teachers and scholars unite in the evening ser- 
 vice up to the I St Lesson, or, instead of that, the portion of Holy 
 Scripture which forms their lesson, or else the Gospel for the day 
 is read. A hymn is sung and the offerings received. The children, 
 after reciting their lessons to the teachers, are catechised by the 
 Rector and receive from him a short sermon on the subject of their 
 lesson, sending home the practical and doctrinal teachings of those 
 Scriptures to their understanding ! so that the children of this par- 
 ish have had their sermon from the Rector every Sunday. They 
 enter the church with a processional from the Sunday-school room, 
 and are taught how to behave themselves in the House of God and 
 how to find their places in the Prayer-Book, and how to respond 
 in the Psalter and elsewhere. Go where they may in the wide world, 
 they will feel only at home in that worship to which they have been 
 accustomed from their childhood. Thus St. Mark's has sent forth 
 many thousands of children instructed in her schools and at her 
 chancel in the ways of God's commandments. And those that are 
 now living are scattered throughout the world. Shall we doubt 
 that the knowledge here acquired, and the truths here implanted 
 in their young and tender years, before they went out into the 
 
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 world, have borne fruit in their hearts and lives ? The seed was 
 sown in the spring-time of their lives by pastor and teachers every 
 Lord's day, and it will not return unto the Great Husbandman 
 fruitless, but will accomplish that whereunto He has sent it. They 
 in turn have been sowing the same seed by precept and example 
 upon the hearts and minds of children and children's children until 
 the little seed has produced trees of righteousness, plantings of the 
 Lord through every portion of the land. 
 
 There have gone out from this parish, through teachings here 
 received, twenty-two into the ministry of the Church, two of whom 
 are now in the House of Bishops. Now, who shall gather up the 
 sheaves of the sowing of these priests and bishops ? Who shall 
 recount the numbers in the ministry through their teachings ! 
 None but the angels in the great harvest-day can gather up those 
 sheaves. The Lord knoweth them, and calleth them all by their 
 names. This we may be sure of, that the seed of regeneration 
 implanted at this font by the Holy Ghost, and the teachings upon 
 that spiritual life has disseminated itself already through this half- 
 century, and through other ministrations unto the third and fourth 
 generations upon many thousands of souls. And that same " seed 
 which is in itself after its kind" will go on propagating itself in widen- 
 ing and extending circles until the great Husbandman gathers up 
 the sheaves into His garner. 
 
 We can ever dwell with encouragement upon the blessed prom- 
 ise we have received from Him whose commission we bear : " I 
 have ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that 
 your fruit should remain." The fruit of such a ministry is a fruit 
 of righteousness and holiness, and its end everlasting life. As we 
 are ambassadors of Christ, the fruit of our ministry or embassy 
 must be repentance, obedience, and reconciliation. As we are 
 heralds to proclaim glad tidings to sinners, liberty to the captives, 
 the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound, and the 
 acceptable year of the Lord, the fruit of our mission must be 
 "joy and peace in believing." As we are husbandmen going forth 
 bearing precious seed beside all waters, and in all hearts, young 
 
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 and old, good and bad, we have the assurance of the Master Hus- 
 bandman that it shall take root and bring forth the " fruits of 
 righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory of God." 
 These are the precious promises to the ambassadors. These are 
 the precious hopes that cheer us in the patient sowing of the seed. 
 The promise that it shall not return unto Him void, but shall 
 ■accomplish that whereunto the Lord hath sent it, is enough to 
 strengthen the arm of the sower and cheer him as from year to 
 year he traverses the same ground and scatters his precious seed, 
 well knowing that some must necessarily fall upon the hardened 
 wayside, or hearts dead in trespasses and sins, some on the stony 
 ground where it shall soon be withered without fruit, some among 
 the thorns to be choked by the cares, riches, and pleasures of life ; 
 but yet much upon good and well-disposed hearts, to bring forth abun- 
 dantly in due time, some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred- 
 fold. Though he reaps not with his own sickle that blessed and 
 rich fruitage, yet he has faith to believe the promise that the Great 
 Husbandman will gather it in His own good time into the heavenly 
 garner. Ours is the sowing ; His is the reaping. 
 
 The Congregation. — The congregation here worshiping is 
 not a common assembly of occasional worshipers, not a mere 
 human society, but a congregation of faithful men and women, 
 members of the household of God, knit together by one faith, 
 quickened by one spirit, endowed with heavenly inheritances, sus- 
 tained by the Bread of Life, and by the personal presence and in- 
 dwelling of Him who is the life of them that believe. The sweet 
 fellowship that has bound us together as one household of faith 
 has been nurtured by the intercommunication of the one spirit of 
 unity and truth which cements the whole body of the Church. It 
 has been continually strengthened by the one common worship 
 and communion that makes brethren of one mind in the household 
 of faith. This worship has ever made this sanctuary vocal with 
 His praise to whom it is consecrated ; and in return the faithful 
 worshipers have ever been enlivened and gladdened with spiritual 
 life. 
 
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 We have ever endeavored to move along in quietness and 
 peace, without courting the publicity of newspaper notoriety. 
 We have preferred rather to live in privacy, and avoid the 
 praise of men or the gossip which the press is wont to stir up and 
 engender. 
 
 There is not now, with the exception of the Longworth family, 
 one member of this congregation that was with us when I became' 
 the pastor. Yet there are a number of families that have been 
 with us for more than a quarter of a century. A city congregation 
 like this, located in the immediate neighborhood of business streets, 
 must necessarily change almost entirely in every decade. The 
 fluctuations of trade, labor, and rent ; the change of dwellings into 
 stores ; the monthly instead of the yearly rental of a large portion 
 of our residences ; the change of business localities ; the calls of 
 labor and operatives to other places — all these, added to sickness, 
 poverty, and death, keep a continual drain upon any city congre- 
 gation where that congregation is a floating tenantry instead of 
 householders. 
 
 Still, we are glad to say that there has always been enough of 
 the abiding element to keep up the continuity of the congregation, 
 and to preserve its essential identity and its social brotherly fellow- 
 ship. It has ever been a harmonious congregation — ever at peace 
 among themselves and their neighbors. As the teaching has been 
 ever one and the same from the beginning, without change or fluc- 
 tuation, without reserves or hesitations, without fear or compro- 
 mise of the truth, so there has been no dissensions, no controver- 
 sies, but a oneness of belief and doctrine, preserving an unbroken 
 chain of faith and practice from first to last, and holding in unity, 
 faith, and works the whole body in the bond of peace and in right- 
 eousness of life. Those that have come to us from the various 
 religious bodies around us have very often been so convinced that 
 Christ was with us that they have been content to remain and ex- 
 perience the beauty of our worship and the soundness of our faith. 
 So harmonious has been our entire history and concord, so without 
 any root of bitterness springing up to disturb our peace for half a 
 
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 century, that I think I can safely challenge the community to bring 
 a like history for a like period. 
 
 Changes. — From the little village of Williamsburgh, with its 
 few opened streets and its broad acres covered with orchards and 
 vegetable gardens for the New York market, we have grown from a 
 borough to the city of Williamsburgh, and from that to the city of 
 Brooklyn. We have increased from a population of 4,500 to one 
 of 350,000 on the same ground. There were then but four Epis- 
 copal churches in the then city of Brooklyn : St. Ann's, near Ful- 
 ton Ferry, organized in 1787 ; St. John's, near the City Hall, organ- 
 ized in 1827 ; Christ Church, in Clinton Street, organized in 1836 ; 
 and St. Mary's, in Classon Avenue, organized in the same year as 
 St. Mark's — 1837. Occasional services were held for some months 
 in the Police Court-room, in South Second Street, by the Rev. Dr. 
 Morris, Rector of Trinity School, New York. In 1838 the Rev. 
 Samuel C. Davis was ca,lled to the rectorship of St. Mark's, and 
 under him the chapel in the corn-field was built. After about 
 twelve months of service he was obliged to resign his charge on 
 account of ill health. He went South, and died soon after. 
 
 For some time we had but one public or district school-house, 
 and that was north of Grand Street. There was but one brick row 
 of five houses in the village, and that was in South Second Street, 
 and called " The Brick Block." The houses were few and far 
 between, and many of our now best streets were encumbered with 
 rope-walks. Our houses had no water save from street pumps and 
 cisterns, and the same was true of New York at that time. There 
 was no gas for street or house ; no cars, stages,/or 'busses ; and for a 
 while but two ferries to convey us to the metropolis. In New York 
 city there were but seventeen Episcopal churches, and all but one 
 of them below Twentieth Street. St. George's was in Beekman 
 Street, Christ Church in Anthony Street, Zion Church in Vande- 
 water Street, Grace Church, corner of Broadway and Rector Street, 
 next corner to Trinity, where I had the pleasure of preaching once 
 by exchange with Dr. Taylor. 
 
 The Brooklyn Bridge, and the multitude of changes in build- 
 
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 ings ; the marvels of gas and electricity, of telegraph and tele- 
 phone ; of reservoirs and ducts ; of cars flying through the air — 
 would have seemed to that generation as idle tales of romance, or 
 as wild vagaries and fancies of a diseased brain. And, indeed, 
 those who remember New York and Brooklyn as they then existed, 
 and then contrast them with what they now are, may well be amazed 
 and bewildered by the changes. They are such as had not been 
 accomplished by the skill and ingenuity of all the nations of the 
 earth for ages past, yet here all has been done in a half-century. 
 Not unto us be the praise ; not by our own might, or power, or 
 wisdom has all this been achieved, but by Him who giveth to man 
 wisdom and skill through the Holy Spirit, and who is thereby 
 working out His own designs to bring to the knowledge of the 
 truth, and to knit into one brotherhood, all the nations of the earth. 
 
 The Church. — Notwithstanding all the changes of the world 
 around us, the Church of God is unchangeable, and so are its doc- 
 trines, its ministry, and its sacraments. The world may change, as 
 it does ; arts and science and knowledge may increase and vanish 
 away, as they do incessantly, but the Church of God, and the Word 
 of God, and the faith once delivered never change, any more than 
 - the unchangeable Author of them. Generations come and go ; the 
 messengers of the Word — the commissioned ambassadors of Christ 
 — the dispensers of the Word and Sacraments, hold their commis- 
 sion, and exercise their ministry but a few years and pass on to 
 their account, leaving the same blessed work to be taken up and 
 carried forward by other hands ; but no change occurs in the 
 work, in the offices, in the commission, or in the administration. 
 
 Since I received my commission to preach the everlasting Gos- 
 pel, and to exercise that ministry among you that I received from 
 the Lord, nearly two generations of people have passed from the 
 earth, and nearly two generations of the ambassadors of God have 
 gone to their account ; but the Church of God, with the sacred 
 ministry and sacraments which He established, will remain un- 
 changed in this dear sanctuary. I desire that it may stand for a 
 long time to come to aid in the promulgation of the truth for which 
 
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 it was built. I desire that it may ever be, as it ever has been from 
 the first, for a household of God's family built upon the foundation 
 of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief 
 corner-stone. These doctrines of the Church never die. The 
 Holy Spirit permeates, animates, and invigorates the whole body 
 of Christ. His incarnation is the root of her teaching; His cross 
 unites earth and heaven, and His glory must fill the earth even as 
 the waters cover the sea. 
 
 It is a great thing to have planted and watered and labored for 
 even such a small portion of the Lord's vineyard as this househbld 
 of faith. This is the joy of my life-work. It is a great thing, and 
 a cause of rejoicing to all those who have put their hands and 
 hearts into this work as helpers and upbuilders of the Church of 
 Christ, and co-workers with Him in the salvation of immortal souls. 
 
 And here let me make my thankful acknowledgment, and ex- 
 press my hearty thanks for all the faithful helpers that I have had 
 in this parish from the beginning of my ministry to the present 
 day. How feeble would have been my labors without such help- 
 ers. Their co-operation and their prayers have held up my hands 
 and cheered my heart, and stimulated me in my work. From first 
 to last I have been sustained by a kind and forbearing people. 
 There has been a uniform and cheerful acquiescence in all that has 
 been suggested, and a helping hand in all tha thas been undertaken. 
 There have been no dissensions, no fault-finding, no hindrances. 
 This long pastorate speaks volumes of praise for the congregation 
 of St. Mark's through all these fifty years. Had they not been a 
 loving, helping, and peaceful people, how could the pastor have 
 been prospered in his work ? 
 
 To have borne with the infirmities of one man for half a cent- 
 ury without stirring up discontent and opposition ; to have listened 
 to the same teachings from one mind ; to have submitted to the 
 same ruling of one Rector without a ripple of disaffection for fifty 
 years, in these days of constant change — is indeed enough to make 
 this congregation an example worthy of imitation throughout the 
 land. This bond of love, of oneness, and peace is a sure proof 
 
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 that the Spirit of God has been among us, for it is God that mak- 
 eth men, and women too, to be of one mind in a house. As our 
 Lord so often repeats the blessing of '''■peace" upon His disciples, 
 so I shall never cease to account that as one of the highest bless- 
 ings that pertains to us, and one of the greatest rewards of my 
 ministry. 
 
 From the Wardens and Vestrymen of the parish I have ever 
 received nothing but kindness and co-operation in all that has been 
 undertaken. In that body of officers there have been no more 
 changes than could be avoided by change of residence, removals 
 from the parish, inability to attend the meetings, or by death. And 
 what is very remarkable, and perhaps without precedent, there has 
 never been a harsh, or unkind, or angry word spoken in the Vestry 
 meetings through all these fifty years. This may be largely due to 
 the fact that, with but one exception, there has never been a Warden 
 or a Vestryman who has not been a communicant. 
 
 Though this church has been a little one among the tribes of 
 the Lord ; though it has had no notoriety in the world ; no Mat of 
 popular favor ; no applause from newspaper fame ; no credit or 
 merit for popular preaching ; no rank among the strong and 
 wealthy parishes of the city — yet, from the soundness of its teach- 
 ing, from the beauty of its worship, from the principles of holy 
 living and virtue here inculcated, from the example of a congre- 
 gation at peace among themselves, and exemplars of devout 
 worship, there has been a love and affection deeply rooted in the 
 hearts of the thousands of children here instructed at its altar, and 
 the thousands of adults here fed with the Bread of Life, which 
 they have carried with them to abide while life lasts, and which will 
 ever doubtless draw down heaven's blessings, in answer to their 
 prayers, upon this little fold. 
 
 The very church building itself is associated with many that 
 have gone out from us in all that is pleasant to the memory of 
 childhood, youth, manhood, and womanhood. In this sanctuary 
 they have been taught the first principles of the Gospel of Christ. 
 They have been taught the fear of God, which is the beginning of 
 
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 wisdom. They have been taught the rule of life, and had their 
 feet planted upon the road that leads to eternal mansions. 
 
 Here, too, at this chancel they have renewed their baptismal 
 vows. At this altar they have received their first communion. 
 Here they have rejoiced in holy worship with those near and dear 
 to them, but many of whom have now exchanged the worship of 
 this temple made with hands to the upper courts of the Lord. 
 Here the sorrowing and bereaved have brought their stricken 
 hearts to spread out their griefs before the Lord, and have found a 
 consolation nowhere else to be found. Here they have held sweet 
 converse with the Lord. Here they have found a peace which the 
 world can not give. Here they have found that this sanctuary has 
 been to them none other than the House of God and the gate of 
 heaven. Here year after year they have followed their blessed 
 Lord from His advent to His ascension and to the coming of 
 His Holy Spirit, and have learned, by sweet experience from the 
 Church's teaching, how sweet it is to follow in the footsteps of 
 their blessed Master, and to sympathize in all that He did and suf- 
 fered for us. How many that have gone from us will rejoice to 
 look back with tender sentiments of love and sweet retrospections 
 to those days in which they walked to the House of God as friends 
 and took sweet counsels with those that are now in Paradise ? As 
 my eye and my memory fills in imagination these pews, once 
 filled with the now departed, I feel, and many of you doubtless 
 feel, that we are encompassed with a great cloud of witnesses. 
 They have been dear to us here. They have been here once 
 partakers of our joys and our sorrows. They have been helpers 
 in our pilgrimage. They have been co-workers with us in this 
 church of our love. 
 
 Now, such associations and such ties are wholly linked in 
 memory to this sanctuary, and here, more than in any other place 
 on earth, we seem to hold sweet converse with their spirits, and to 
 sympathize in their present joy. Go where we may on earth, 
 worship as we may in gorgeous and spacious temples, or in lofty 
 cathedrals, yet no other place will so bring those dear ones to our 
 
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 hearts, our memories, and our affections as this little humble 
 sanctuary so dear to them and to us. 
 
 I need not say how dear to me for these reasons is this House 
 of God. None of you can appreciate it as I do. In the building, 
 from the foundation to the top tower stone, it was watched by me, 
 and ever has been through the half-century of its existence. It is 
 vocal within and without of all my sorrows and my joys — of sorrow 
 because of the blank of a deserted household, of joy because the 
 dear ones once mine are now in bliss. Its memorial windows tell 
 me of both. 
 
 But far beyond the material and natural are the spiritual ties 
 that bind my heart to this temple of God. Those precious souls 
 of hundreds of parishioners, long since or lately gone before to 
 other mansions — what they were when here and what they are 
 now concerns me much. What they learned from me; what they 
 gained from worship here, what they patterned from my example 
 — must all be answered for by me at the last great day of account. 
 Fearful are the responsibilities of the shepherds of Christ's flocks. 
 This thought is too awful to dwell upon. Nothing but the un- 
 bounded mercy of God can make it endurable. Nothing but the 
 blood of Christ can wash away the guilt of an unworthy and an 
 unfaithful stewardship. 
 
 Between the day that I entered upon this pastorate and .this 
 anniversary, what a history lies hidden, never to be unfolded till 
 the Recording Angel shall open the Book of Life ! I look back 
 upon those fifty years, and oh, what a deep, dark cavern opens to 
 the vision ! Again I look back, and that past has its monuments of 
 mercy planted all along the pathway, reflecting the beams of the 
 Son of Righteousness. Every year there has been some fruitage. 
 Every year there has been some good seed gathered into the 
 heavenly garner. Every year there have been some causes for joy 
 to cheer the heart and strengthen the hands of the sower. 
 
 Every year of the past is eloquent with the teachings of the 
 changes and chances of this mortal life. Trace back what path 
 we may, and at almost every step we read of the mutability of all 
 
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 things earthly. At almost every turn we behold the tombstones of 
 the departed, remindmg us that all flesh is grass, and all the good- 
 liness thereof as the flower of the field. 
 
 As I retrace my own personal history since my ministry, I find 
 those tombstones recording the names of almost every relative 
 that a man can send before him to the other world. 
 
 As I compare the duration of my rectorship with that of those 
 around me, I find myself wholly alone. Of all those then Rectors 
 in the State of New York — now five Dioceses — not one is found 
 in his place. Of the Bishops then living, not one survives in all the 
 Dioceses of the United States. 
 
 Sevens. — It has been my custom to commemorate every seventh 
 anniversary of my rectorship. There is a great mystery connected 
 with the numeral 7 in Holy Scripture. Under the old dispensa- 
 tion every seventh day was set apart as holy time unto the Lord for 
 worship. Every seven times seven was a year of jubilee — when 
 the land of Israel had rest, when the captives went free, when 
 the servants were released from their bondage, when debts were 
 canceled, and when homesteads were released from their incum- 
 brances. 
 
 Under the Gospel dispensation we learn that there are seven 
 burning spirits before the throne of God, or the seven lamps of 
 fire. There are seven seals to be opened. The seven angels shall 
 sound the seven last words and the seven last woes. The glorious 
 Son of Man holds in His right hand seven stars in the midst of 
 the seven golden candlesticks. The same sign is on the human 
 life of man, whose years are threescore and ten — or ten sevens — to 
 sum up his days on earth. 
 
 There are seven petitions in the Lord's prayer, and seven gifts 
 of the Holy Ghost to aid against the seven deadly sins, as portrayed 
 in the seven penitential Psalms. And there are seven words from 
 the cross. 
 
 To-day we finish the seven times seven — or jubilee year of the 
 Church, the Rector, and the Sexton of St. Mark's. And this 
 year is also the eleventh time seven years of the Rector's life. We 
 
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 can, therefore, look for no more sevens in our personal lives, or in 
 our connection with this parish in the work of the ministry. 
 
 Though our years are nearly numbered and our work nearly 
 finished, and our commission soon to pass into other hands, yet the 
 thought is a pleasant and a comforting one that the blessed work 
 of the ministry will here be continued, the sacraments here be 
 administered, and the worship here be offered to bless the genera- 
 tions that come after, and that the church will still stand a beacon 
 light to guide to the haven of rest and peace children yet unborn. 
 
 The Church Building'. — It is not strange that such a sanctu- 
 ary for God's worship — such an altar for the commemoration of 
 the One Sacrifice for the sins of the world ; that such a pulpit, that 
 has been true in its utterances of the faith once delivered for the 
 long period of half a century, should attract to itself strong and 
 enduring ties of affection in all those who have been connected 
 with it ; and such evidences the daily mail is continually bringing to 
 me. And my prayer to God is that it tnay continue on this spot, 
 to be a blessing for generations to come. It is largely for this rea- 
 son that this anniversary is celebrated, that we may, through friends 
 far and near, gather means for its future support. Hitherto the 
 current expenses of the church and all its repairs have been pro- 
 vided for by the pew rents and the voluntary offerings laid upon 
 the altar. Not one dollar, from the foundation stones to the pres- 
 ent day, has been raised by any of the two customary methods of 
 chances or lotteries in church fairs. Fairs have never been re- 
 sorted to, nor has the name of " Fair " ever marred or tarnished 
 the efforts to support the worship or the sanctuary of God. It is 
 to this, I think, that we owe much of our financial prosperity. 
 God will take care of His own if we trust in Him. The envelope 
 system and the free-will offerings of the worshipers, with the help 
 of personal friends and former parishioners, who have long since 
 removed from the parish, have thus far sustained us ; but the re- 
 movals of the more able parishioners to more desirable residences 
 in other parts of the city make this portion more and more a 
 missionary field. Hence the need of an endowment to assist in 
 
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 the support of the church, in order that the laborers and their 
 children shall not be deprived of the influences, the privileges, and 
 the sacraments of the Church of God. 
 
 No human calculation can estimate the blessing that the wealth 
 and work of Trinity Church, New York, accomplishes every year 
 in her occupation of those populous but poor portions of the city 
 which have long since been deserted by the removal of churches 
 because they could not be supported. It is these sanctuaries of 
 our God, and the sacred and benign influences flowing out from 
 them, that keep the seething masses of the children from the cor- 
 ruption that surrounds them and elevates in a large degree their 
 worldly or ungodly parents. Can those to whom God has given 
 the means do better with their Master's stewardship than to estab- 
 lish the sanctuaries and altars of God among the multitude of 
 perishing souls ? Can there be a more lasting blessing provided 
 for future generations ? Can there be a more acceptable offering 
 to God ? Can there be richer treasures laid up in heaven as a good 
 store against the time to come ? 
 
 Growth of the Church. — At the time of ray ordination there 
 were but seventeen Bishops in the American Church. There are 
 now seventy. One hundred and thirty-three have been conse- 
 crated since my ordination. There were then but one thousand 
 clergymen in the United States. There are now about four thou- 
 sand. There were then but sixteen Dioceses ; there are now fifty, 
 besides sixteen Missionary Jurisdictions. 
 
 In those early days the Church was everywhere spoken against, 
 and considered among the smallest and weakest of the " sects " of 
 the day. How marvelous is the change ! She is now the leader 
 among all the tribes of Israel. She is first and foremost in all good 
 works, for the healing of the nations, and for evangeliz;jng the world. 
 Her name is now known as a power throughout the earth for break- 
 ing down the strongholds of sin and Satan. And she will go on 
 from conquering to conquer until all nations do her homage and 
 acknowledge that the Lord of Hosts is with her. Although sta- 
 tistics show that in wealth, in numbers, in influence, and in good 
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 works she is far outstripping all that come after her, yet she is now 
 far behind her ability and her responsibility. She must arise and 
 shine, and shake off her lethargy and consecrate more of her wealth 
 and her sons, if she would continue to be blessed and honored of 
 God. If we look at what she has accomplished in this land during 
 the last half-century, in her days of paucity of numbers and poverty 
 of wealth, and then contemplate what she is able to accomplish 
 during the next half-century, no man can estimate what the king- 
 dom of Christ on earth will be like unto in the generations to come. 
 If she keeps abreast with the advancement of the arts and sciences, 
 the knowledge of the Lord will soon cover the face of the earth 
 even as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 Growth in the Parish. — I thank God that there has been 
 something done toward the advancement of this kingdom of our 
 Lord in this little fold. 
 
 Baptisms. — There have been 2,351 precious souls added to 
 it here through the regeneration of water and the Holy Ghost. 
 They have been taken from the kingdom of sin and made heirs of 
 the kingdom of heaven and inheritors of everlasting life. 
 
 Confirtnations. — Here at this chancel 1,212 have renewed 
 and ratified their baptismal vows, and most of these have here re- 
 ceived for the first time, and continued to receive, the Body and 
 Blood of Christ. Who shall estimate the blessing of the faith and 
 practice that they have carried out into the world as good soldiers 
 of the cross of Christ ? Many others, elsewhere confirmed, have 
 here first entered upon their precious privilege in obedience to the 
 Saviour's dying command. 
 
 New Communicants. — Over 1,557 ^^^ye been added as new 
 communicants. And it has been the great joy of my heart that 
 such a large portion of the congregation are participants at this altar 
 of the Bread of Heaven. 
 
 Marriages. — Nearly a thousand couples have in this parish 
 been joined together in the holy bonds of matrimony with the 
 priestly blessing which does much to cement the happiness of do- 
 mestic life. 
 
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 Burials. — Fourteen hundred have been committed to their 
 mother earth with the sacred rites of the Church. 
 
 These statistics — how soon are they told, and yet what an amount 
 of work, what anxieties, what teachings, what prayers, what self- 
 denials have accompanied them ! 
 
 W^orship. — In the half-century past, seven years and one sev- 
 enth of a year of holy time and more has been spent in this sanc- 
 tuary of God. What a multitude of prayers have gone up on high, 
 in the consecrated language of the saints of all ages ! What sweet 
 communings of the saints on earth with the saints at rest in the 
 blessed Eucharistic Sacrament ! What praises in unison with 
 those around the throne to the Lamb that was slain and to the 
 ever blessed Trinity ! 
 
 For many years past the praises of the congregation have been 
 led by a vested choir of boys and men under the leadership of Mr. 
 E. H. Ducharme, and the organist, Mr. T. K. Durham, both of 
 whom, with a large portion of the choir, are communicants of the 
 Church. 
 
 The mention of the organist carries back our grateful remem- 
 brances to Mr. William Coard, who for twenty-seven years, from 
 the beginning of his services with us to the day of his death, with 
 the omission of only one Sunday during all those years, led the 
 choirs of this congregation. A tablet upon the wall ever keeps be- 
 fore us the remembrance of one who was so faithful unto death, 
 and who did so much to attune our hearts and voices in the spirit 
 and letter of devout praise. 
 
 How many fens of thousands have here heard the Word of God 
 read and preached from my mouth ! Much may have been done 
 imperfectly. But nevertheless it has been done. The Word has 
 been sown, and the responsibility is equally with those who hear as 
 with those who preach. 
 
 I can call you to record that I have not preached the words of 
 man's wisdom, but Jesus Christ the Lord. I have never prostituted 
 the pulpit to utter the oracles of human wisdom, or to discuss the 
 popular topics of the day, or to spread the news of the press, or to 
 
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 cater to the itching ears of worldly minds, or to meddle with the 
 politics of the nation, or with the theories and philosophies of the 
 age, or with secular matters of any kind. Nor have I made use of 
 it to decry or denounce those who worship not with us, nor hold 
 the doctrines of the Gospel as we have received the same. 
 
 My commission from my Master reads not thus ; but " Go ye and 
 preach my Gospel." This I have endeavored to do in all simphcity 
 and truth ; therefore, I know that the Word has accomplished, and 
 shall accomplish, that whereunto it is sent. It has been, and shall 
 be, a savor of life to them that believe, as well as a savor of death 
 to those that have rejected it. 
 
 The Seed Sown. — The seed has fallen on the good ground 
 as well as on the wayside, on the rocks, or among the thorns. It 
 has sprung up and is bringing forth its good fruits not only in this 
 parish, and in this city, but in all parts of our country and in for- 
 eign lands. Where are the thousands of those young and tender 
 hearts that have at some time through all these Sundays of half a 
 century received the Word of the Lord from my mouth ? That 
 was the good ground of young and innocent hearts — hearts fresh 
 from the hand of the Lord ; hearts and lives uncorrupted by the 
 evils of the world ; hearts in which Satan had sown but few tares ; 
 minds free from the lusts of the world, the flesh, and the devil ; 
 minds open to receive and believe the teachings of God's word 
 without cavil or doubtings. Those souls, where are they now ? 
 Thousands of them have gone to their account — many more thou- 
 sands are now scattered up and down upon the face of the earth. 
 To doubt that the good seed sown upon their young hearts has 
 been largely fruitful in good works would be to doubt God's word. 
 It is not in him that soweth or in him that planteth, but God wJio 
 giveth the increase. He maketh the Word fruitful and to accom- 
 plish that whereto He sent it. It matters not whether the sower 
 shall see and know the results, or reap the good fruits; God know- 
 eth them that are His, and He sendeth forth His angels continually 
 to guard them from the evil of the world, and then to gather them 
 into His garner. They have all been consecrated to Him in holy 
 
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 baptism ; they have been trained in the way of His command- 
 ments ; they have largely renewed and ratified their baptismal 
 vows, and received the Holy Ghost by the laying on of apostolic 
 hands. With such a consecration, with such a training, with such 
 a gift of the Spirit, there is an education begun, and a foundation of a 
 Christian life laid such as can never be obliterated. It may lie dor- 
 mant for a season, like the seed in the ground, but in due time it 
 will spring up and bear fruit. Some reaper will rejoice to gather 
 in that fruit of another's sowing. 
 
 Training^ the Young. — This work of training the young, of 
 preaching to them the Word in its simplicity, and adapted to their 
 understandings, has been one of the principal joys of my ministry. 
 I know that this sowing of the good seed in the spring-time of life 
 must as certainly bring forth a rich harvest as the seed of the 
 earthly husbandman when he sows upon the well-prepared ground 
 in the spring season. 
 
 A Later Sowing. — But there is a later sowing that is not 
 lost. There is much good ground in mature lives and minds in 
 which the pure Word finds a lodgment and brings forth fruit. But 
 here also is a pastor's discouragement, because of constant remov- 
 als. Herein is the saying true, " One soweth, and another reap- 
 eth." A parish church that has become surrounded by business, 
 as this has, must continually suffer by loss of its members. There 
 are frequent transfers from this to other parishes of members that 
 have for a longer or a shorter period been communicants here, and 
 many of whom have here been confirmed and received their first 
 communion at this altar. It is trying to a pastor's heart to part with 
 such. Many such have gone out from us and are bringing forth 
 the good fruit of righteousness in the parishes not only in Brooklyn 
 and New York, but in all parts of the country, to the joy of their 
 pastors' hearts. So true is it that " one soweth and another reap- 
 eth." 
 
 Our Lord says : '' He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gather- 
 eth fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that 
 reapeth may rejoice together.'' Now, as a general rule in these 
 
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 days, the sowers in the Lord's vineyards — the ministers of His 
 word — do not abide in one field of labor long enough to reap the 
 fruits of their sowing. They sow but a few years arid then leave 
 the field, and others reap the fruit of their sowing. It is sad that 
 it is so. By it the sower loses much encouragement in his work. 
 He sows, but he waits not for the reward and return of his sowing. 
 This reward is far more valuable to him, far more cheering and 
 encouraging, than any pecuniary reward. This frequent change of 
 vineyards seems utterly at variance with a pastor's work, and a 
 hindrance to the growth and culture of the seed sown. - It is not 
 in accordance with the earthly husbandman. He leaves not his 
 vineyard or his farm every few years, but patiently labors to im- 
 prove it, and then rejoices over his own fields; and in Xh.t fruits of 
 his fields finds his greatest rewards. He is content to abide where 
 the providence of God has cast his lot. Nor is it in accordance with 
 the office and work of a Shepherd — that endearing name and 
 office which our blessed Lord seemed so pleased to appropriate to 
 Himself. What confusion would be made in the flock of the 
 lambs and the sheep if no sooner had they learned the guidance 
 and the tender care of the shepherd than he should leave them to 
 a new guide and a different shepherding ! 
 
 A Sower and a Reaper. — Having sown in this field a half- 
 century, I rejoice to-day both as a sower and a reaper. I rejoice 
 as a sower because the Lord hath appointed me to this blessed 
 work to sow here His seed for the salvation of immortal souls. I 
 rejoice as a reaper because He hath rewarded the works of my 
 hands, and permitted me to gather fruit unto life eternal. Besides 
 the fruit that we can enumerate of that which has been gathered 
 into the Lord's garner, and that which is bringing forth the fruits 
 of righteousness in His Church on earth, there is a vast amount of 
 fruit unknown to us here, brought forth by the operation of God's 
 spirit upon souls whom He has disciplined and whose hearts He 
 has touched through the word of His ministry. There is much 
 that will not be revealed until the great day of account. 
 
 But in all this there is no ground for boasting, for the work is 
 
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 the Lord's. It is not in the sower or the planter to make this or 
 that to prosper; it is God alone that giveth the increase, and to 
 Him alone be the praise for all that has been done. When the 
 sowers and the reapers are called to an account for their steward- 
 ship they will all have to acknowledge that they have been unprofit- 
 able servants. 
 
 Long Pastorates. — I believe, from my own happy experience, 
 and from the concurrence of my brethren who have been long in 
 their parishes, that long pastorates yield the greatest happiness to 
 the pastors and the greatest good to their congregations. How 
 can it be otherwise, if there be a right appreciation of the mutual 
 duties and responsibilities of pastor and people ? I therefore 
 deprecate the constant changes of the clergy of the Church. They 
 have become so largely an itinerant ministry that it is found con- 
 venient, if not necessary, to issue an almanac with a clergy list 
 quarterly to designate their residences. It is well that our Bishops 
 are not transferable. I am glad to say that there is still a large 
 proportion of the clergy that are more stable. This has been nota- 
 bly the case with my own classmates of 1839. Of the sixteen of 
 us who were then ordained, ten have had long pastorates. Notably 
 among these was, first of all, my life-long friend and more than 
 brother, the Rev. Caleb Clapp, and for forty-five years my insepa- 
 rable companion. He had but one parish through his whole min- 
 istry of thirty-nine years — the Church of the Nativity, New York. 
 The Rev, Dr. Tuttle, the honored Rector of St. Luke's, has had 
 but three parishes during his half-century of noble and successful 
 work. He is now in the fortieth year of his rectorship. 
 
 This church has never been closed but two Sundays in the 
 fifty years of its existence, and then for causes sufficient. God has 
 so blessed me with good health that but few Sundays have I ever 
 been absent from St. Mark's when in town. Nor have I ever had 
 or needed an assistant. 
 
 Now, beloved, how can we best celebrate and memorialize this 
 unprecedented anniversary ? For myself I desire, first of all, to 
 give thanks and glory to our Heavenly Father, and to say with the 
 
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 Psalmist, " O how plentiful is Thy goodness which Thou hast laid 
 up for them that fear Thee, and that Thou hast prepared for them 
 that put their trust in Thee, even before the sons of men." So 
 likewise in the review of His goodness and mercy to this congre- 
 gation we have cause to render " thanks to the Lord for all His 
 benefits ; He hath shswed us marvelous great kindness in a strong 
 city." We bless His holy name for all the good seed sown ; for all 
 the fruitage of righteousness it hath brought forth ; for all the in- 
 crease of His kingdom upon earth ; and we bless His holy name 
 for all those who have departed this life in Plis faith and fear. 
 
 Endowment. — It would rejoice me, before I go hence and be 
 no more seen, to know that an Endowment Fund was provided 
 sufficient to preserve this sanctuary of my love to be a blessing to 
 generations yet to come. To this end I have, as in all other 
 things and all other offerings,- set an example by the gift of my 
 house and library and certain lots of land. I thank God for the 
 ability to do this. If it is for His glory and the good of His 
 Church and the salvation of souls that will be gathered around this 
 neighborhood, he will provide the residue. My only desire is 
 that this- House of God may yet stand to gather into the fold of 
 Christ still new trophies of His love to train up for His heavenly 
 garner. His will, not ours, be done. 
 
 Now, my beloved parishioners, past and present, at the close of 
 this semi-centennial year of my pastorate, I greet you with joy for 
 all the good that God has wrought in this parish by minister and 
 people ; for all the peace with which He has blessed us ; for all the 
 grace He has given us ; for all the good -seed sown ; and for all that 
 has borne and is now bearing fruit in our hearts and lives, and in 
 the hearts and lives of those that have gone to their reward. 
 
 Now, beloved brethren, let me in conclusion remind you of the 
 Great Harvest Day, when the Lord shall gather into His garner 
 the ripening and the ripened sheaves. Remember that in that day 
 the sower is not the only one responsible. Notwithstanding the 
 imperfection of the sower, the seed that has been sown is not his, 
 but the Great Husbandman's. You must then be held responsible 
 
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 for the soil in which it has been sown, for the culture you have 
 given it, and for the fruit it has brought forth. May you all, in 
 that great day of ingathering, be found as good wheat and as 
 good sheaves, ripe for the garner of your Lord. 
 
 God bless the shepherd, bless the sheep, » 
 
 That guide and guided both be one — 
 
 One in the faithful watch they keep, 
 Until this hurrying life be gone. 
 
 If thus, good Lord, thy grace be given 
 
 Our glory meets us ere we die ; 
 Before we upward pass to heaven 
 
 We taste our immortality. 
 
TO DEAR ST. MARK'S, 
 
 On this Fiftieth Happy Anniversary of the Rectorship of Him who 
 Ministers at Her Altar. October ly, i8Sg. 
 
 BY A FORMER MEMBER OF THE PARISH. 
 
 Our precious Church has temples fair 
 
 In many a pleasant land, 
 Where crowds of joyful worshipers 
 
 Within her portals stand. 
 But dear St. Mark's ! thou art more loved. 
 
 More beautiful than all ; 
 How soon where thy petitions rise. 
 
 The gracious answers fall ! 
 Whoe'er came here in faith to pray. 
 And turned uncomforted away ? 
 
 O temple ! blessed beyond compare ! 
 
 We come with one accord — 
 Thy children true, from far and near — 
 
 With offerings to the Lord. 
 We come with precious memories. 
 
 This anniversary day. 
 Our grateful songs of joy to raise. 
 
 And on thine altar lay 
 The thankful tribute which we owe. 
 That God through thee hath blessed us so. 
 
 Where stands thy font, our children dear, 
 
 Members of Christ became ; 
 And later, on thine altar steps, 
 
 Did they confess His name. 
 And when the guests invited were, 
 
 To meet at Jesus' feast. 
 Our happy household gathered there. 
 
 From greatest to the least. 
 
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 What other altar blesses so 
 
 The whole, nor lets the feeblest go ? 
 
 O temple of our Father's love ! 
 
 We'll ever bless His name 
 For him who in thy courts is placed. 
 
 Salvation to proclaim. 
 For him who, like a shepherd dear, 
 
 Most kindly cares for all. 
 And who, for fifty trying years, 
 
 Has answered every call. 
 Nor winter's cold, nor summer's heat. 
 Could stay his willing hands and feet. 
 
 'Twas his, the bridal pair to bless. 
 
 And cheer them on their way ; 
 'Twas his, the little ones to train 
 
 From their baptismal day ; 
 To lead them in the pleasant paths 
 
 The Church would have them tread. 
 And when they knew their Saviour's love. 
 
 For them the feast to spread. 
 And ever his, to watch and pray. 
 Lest one of his dear flock should stray. 
 
 To cheer the stranger poor and lone. 
 
 And by the bed of pain, 
 Commit the sufferer to Him 
 
 Who raiseth up again ; 
 To give the body, dust to dust. 
 
 And by the grave to stand. 
 And point the mourner to the loved. 
 
 Safe in the better land. 
 His ministries in love were given. 
 The blessed reward awaits in heaven. 
 
ADDRESSES. 
 
 Sunday Morning, October ij, i88g. 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP KNICKERBACKER. 
 
 I SHARE with your disappointments, beloved, in the absence of 
 your own spiritual father this morning, my Right Rev. Brother, the 
 Bishop of Long Island, and your Rector has asked me, as a son of 
 St. Mark's, to say a word in his place. 
 
 I do thank God that it has been my privilege to be with you 
 and with so many of the old members of St. Mark's to join in this 
 blessed service this morning and to hear the record of a faithful 
 pastor — the record of a half-century. This is indeed a wonderful 
 service in which we have been permitted to unite — one the like of 
 which, perhaps, has never been seen in our country, perhaps may 
 never be seen again — the commemoration of the Semi-Centennial 
 of the erection of this House of God, the service of its faithful sex- 
 ton and of a devoted pastor. 
 
 I remember to-day as you remember (and I am sure there has 
 been a rush upon our thoughts this morning of memories of the 
 past) the delight it was to' worship in this congregation, and the 
 heartiness and reverence which ever here prevails. An influence 
 has gone out from this House of God and from the faithful service 
 of its pastor which shall never be known until all are gathered in 
 that great day when our dear Lord shall make up his jewels. I 
 think every Christian minister, every Bishop, I am sure, will thank 
 God for the record of this faithful servant, and would have it placed 
 in the hands of every clergyman of his flock as an example and 
 stimulus. But the communion of saints is brought to our hearts 
 and minds to-day, that invisible number of the faithful who have 
 
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 gone out from this House of God to the blessed rest of Paradise, 
 and who gather with us in the communion of saints to-day as we 
 kneel at this altar. Let us, as we draw near, beloved, one and all, 
 consecrate ourselves anew to that blessed Master's service, and let 
 us thank God for those who have gone before, and thank God for 
 the record of faithful service which we have heard to-day. Thank 
 God that the eye of this faithful servant of God is not yet dimmed. 
 Let us pray that he may have many years more to preach this 
 blessed Word; to labor in season and out of season for the Master. 
 Let his presence be with you, bringing comfort and joy to the 
 hearts and renewing associations which are full of sweetness and 
 fruitfulness. 
 
 Again I say, God bless St. Mark's. 
 
 Sunday' Afternoon, October ij, i88g. 
 
 Children's Service. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP KNICKERBACKER. 
 
 You have had talking enough this afternoon, I am sure, but 
 this 'anniversary only comes once in fifty years, and you may never 
 have a chance to have so much talking again. I want to say a few 
 words, to tell you the joy that has .filled my heart all this day 
 while here at old St. Mark's, especially this afternoon with this 
 Sunday-school ; to see my old superintendent, Mr. Fleeman, here ; 
 Mr. Bennett, with whom I have had very pleasant relations in vis- 
 iting this school ; to have some of the old scholars come to say to 
 me to-day : " I was in your Bible-class." Three or four of the 
 old scholars came and spoke to me. 
 
 I want to say a little about the ministers who have gone forth 
 from this church. I want to say a little about the royal priest- 
 hood who have gone forth from this parish, those who were bap- 
 tized into Christ, who have the mark of the cross upon their brows 
 
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 and bear the royal priesthood to fight under Christ's banner as 
 good soldiers. Now, a great many of that kind of priests have 
 gone forth faithful laymen and faithful laywomen, and in their 
 positions throughout the Church have been faithful to the instruc- 
 tions received here in St. Mark's, and have witnessed for their 
 blessed Master by exerting in their parishes and in their homes the 
 influence of the holy truths received in this parish and Sunday- 
 school of Christian instruction. Now I am going to tell you about 
 one of these folks and then about a little baby. One of this priest- 
 hood, when I was here thirty-five years ago, was a warden of this 
 parish. He is a brother of this faithful, noble sexton, who has 
 been fifty years in this church, and he set out to make a new home 
 in the wilderness away up in the northern part of Minnesota ; he 
 lived in a log house, and there was no minister near, no priest 
 to minister to the family or to the people there, and when the 
 Lord's day came round he recognized his obligation of the royal 
 priesthood to witness for his Master ; so he called his family to- 
 gether in the old log house and he read the service of the Church 
 every Sunday, and he read a sermon, and so in spirit and in 
 heart he was with this congregation in worshiping the God of his 
 fathers. 
 
 Well I remember coming on to your thirty-fifth anniversary and 
 telling you that the old log house was getting a little decayed, and 
 God put it into the hearts of the pastor and this congregation to 
 devise liberal things in behalf of the frontier settlement, and the 
 result was that a baby of St. Mark's was born up there in the big 
 woods in Minnesota, and the little chapel of St. Mark's was built, 
 and so every Sunday, for the fifteen years after, that faithful priest — 
 lay priest — celebrated the services of the Church in that house of 
 God, and gathered his family and his neighbors, and once or twice 
 a year I was permitted as a Rector to go there and celebrate the 
 holy communion and to baptize the children in the neighborhood, 
 whose parents had been brought to be interested in the services in 
 that little House of God. Well, within the past year that good 
 man's work was finished, his course was run ; he laid aside his 
 
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 earthly duty to enter upon the priesthood work of the Church tri- 
 umphant, the son of St. Mark's of this city. Beside the chancel of 
 that pretty little church his grave is made, beside the church he left 
 where the ministrations and services of God were for many years 
 carried on. It was my privilege to spend six weeks in that beauti- 
 ful spot this summer, and every Sunday to see that little church 
 thronged beyond its capacity with people coming from miles and 
 miles around in buggies or wagons, and many on foot ; and every 
 Sunday the Lord's supper was celebrated, and from twenty-five to 
 thirty-five every Sunday at the Lord's table. And six dear little chil- 
 dren were baptized, brought'from a distance of sixteen miles ; also 
 five adults were baptized. And, by permission of good Bishop Whip- 
 ple, I was permitted to hold confirmation during those six weeks, 
 and confirmed eight persons in the little chapel of St. Mark's up 
 there in Minnesota. I thought you would like to hear it, and you 
 might remember of my telling you of the starting of this little chapel 
 with the money received from you in the Sunday-school, and I would 
 like to tell you of the kind of fruit that has been brought forth by 
 your contributions to build this chapel. I want you to know 
 something about it, and to learn that the good work which you 
 began there is going on. This summer we began the foundation 
 for a Rectory for the missionary to be located beside it. There 
 were three acres of ground around this church, and we determined 
 to clear it up this summer, when twenty-four of the people from 
 around came together and cut down many of the trees and cut out 
 the underbrush. So I tell you this story to show that we do not 
 know what good fruit will come from sowing. ''Blessed is he that 
 soweth beside all waters." St. Mark's has been sowing for fifty 
 years — fifty long years — and how much fruit can be gathered in 
 the great harvest no man can tell. But we know what thankfulness 
 and joy will follow the pastor there as with his children he gathers 
 around the great white throne and hears from the Master those 
 blessed words, " Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou 
 into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
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 ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT REV. BENJAMIN H. PADDOCK, D. D., 
 BISHOP OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 I CAN not tel] you with what joy I heard that the fiftieth anni- 
 versary was going to be celebrated in this church at this time. I 
 looked forward with great pleasure to seeing these children here. 
 My dear children, you never saw before such a celebration as this, 
 and naany of you never will happen to see it again, which cele- 
 brates the fifty years of a pastor coming to take care of a people. 
 A man going in and out from this altar .here for fifty years, through 
 heat and cold, doing the same blessed work as well as he could do 
 it ; so the dear Master did when he was here on earth doing good. 
 Fifty years ! Why, not one in ten of this congregation have yet 
 seen fifty years. It is a very long chapter in a man's life, and I do 
 not see how this would have been a complete celebration — a whole 
 jubilee week — without the children's part. It would have been 
 something very unfprtunate had it left out the children. Why, the 
 parish here now is what it is because so many children were here 
 and have now become the leading strong men and women in this 
 church, and the missions which you started have now become ro- 
 bust and strong ; and I had the honor and pleasure of preaching 
 at Christ Church in the Eastern District, and I think it is a pretty 
 well grown up child, and still I am told that that was one. Now, 
 the children can not fail to remember, and I trust they have not 
 failed to get good from this anniversary. They will see that a life 
 spent patiently, constantly, steadily, and steadfastly in one good 
 work and in one place is a life which accomplishes a vast deal. It 
 takes a man a good while to understand the parish ; it takes him 
 a good while to understand the children ; but when he comes to 
 understand them, he often thinks it his duty to go to some other 
 parish. He loses what we call the grip on the parish. And the 
 new man can not get any such hold upon the children, because 
 they have got out of that lovirig childhood ; they have grown up, 
 and the new man does not have the chance which the former man 
 had. 
 
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 I am reminded iflost especially by this of the power of accu- 
 mulating little things. If anybody should ask my brother, Dr. 
 Haskins, what great things he had done during these fifty years, 
 what great thing he has done which has had the effect to bring so 
 much good into this church, I do believe he could not tell, unless 
 he went to his study and thought it over. I do not believe he has 
 ever done many great things. But I believe true lives do a great 
 many good things right along, and by and by those little things pile 
 up in a great mass of good things. Why, I do not remember just at 
 this moment any great, heroic, wonderful things which are recorded 
 of those apostles- and those holy men who went with Christ ; and 
 still, when those eleven men went out to confront a whole world of 
 wickedness, they had a mighty power in them and behind them to 
 do good things all the time. 
 
 Suppose we say here is a boy or a girl who has just started in 
 to build a good character ; now, then, you are going to build up 
 your character ; what great thing are you going to do ? I do not 
 know, I do not care ; I do not believe there are many great things 
 for you to do. If you are going to begin with little things, what 
 little things are you going to do. And by doing these little things 
 you will be noble men and noble women, and learn very many 
 things, and by and by do great service through the power of your 
 little things before you die. 
 
 Now just consider. Here, we say, is a boy who sometimes 
 gets very mad. • Well, it is an evil he has ; he knows it, everybody 
 knows it — it is very disagreeable. He asks God to make him more 
 patient, more generous. He brings it into his prayer every day. 
 He asks God to make him more patient. By and by he becomes 
 a self-controlled young man, because he did little things every day. 
 And so with the girls ; they have this fault or that,- and they try to 
 correct it, and the little things make them at last noble, Christian 
 girls, Christian young women, and Christian mothers, and cheery, 
 strong characters, who are powerful in the interest of the Church 
 of God. 
 
 If you do not spend your lives looking about for big things, 
 
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 you will see the little things right about you which God has given 
 you to do to-day, to-morrow, any time ; and this will build up your 
 characters. Go right about it, in trying to do good to your friends. 
 Take right hold in trying to do good in your church, and perform 
 the first duty you see. It pleases God to move this world by the 
 power of little things piled up in that way. The great things ac- 
 complished in the aggregate through this faithful ministry for fifty 
 years ought to be a lesson, I am sure, to every child in this congre- 
 gation. 
 
 I have but one more word to say : Where are the ministers going 
 to come from ? Who are to take the places of some of us who can 
 not possibly be here very much longer ? Do any of you know that 
 they are to come out of Sunday-schools just like this .'' that a great 
 many have come out of this Sunday-school.? I see one Bishop 
 behind me, and there is another I remember, who have both come 
 out of this Sunday-school or this church. We need more minis- 
 ters. Where are they going to come from ? I do not know which 
 one of you it is — whether John or Henry or Charles. Who knows? 
 I do not know who it is who is to come out of this church to be a 
 minister of the Lord Jesus. I want some boy whom God has given 
 a good home, a good father and mother, to be a good boy by the 
 help of God's grace, to take care of the little things in his character 
 and to be a good man and a servant of the Lord. I want some of 
 the girls whose names I do not know to be among the consecrated 
 women who are going to do good when your mothers and sisters 
 are gone and can not work any longer among us. Do not forget 
 that this grand week's festival would not have been perfect if it 
 had not been a festival for the lambs of the flock as well as the 
 older ones ; and unless you take care of the little things, you who 
 are here, you will never reach the great things. If there were not 
 small things to do, there would be no great things for anybody to 
 do. May God bless you all, and bless your dear pastor, and, not- 
 withstanding he has done so much in his ministry, may God grant 
 him yet many more years of this work which his soul loves beyond 
 anything else in this world. 
 
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 ADDRESS BY THE REV. M. VAN RENSSELAER, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 Dr. Haskins, my beloved friend and brother, you say, very 
 truly, that our friendship has extended over a period of more than 
 fifty years. More than fifty years Dr. Haskins and I have known 
 each other, and I can say more than that ; we have not only known 
 each other, but have loved each other, because there is a singular 
 attachment to one another which we underwent when we first be- 
 came acquainted, and I believe that I am indebted to that fact 
 that I am here to-day to address you as a priest of God. 
 
 Nobody can tell what influence he is going to exert on another 
 one, and I believe that my beloved friend and brother did not in his 
 mind have any idea of what the effect of his peaceful, sincere, 
 earnest, and loving character would have upon the boy that he 
 kindly looked down upon when he was the senior and I the boy 
 who was the sophomore ; but I can say this of your Rector, that 
 what he is now and what you have known him to be for fifty years 
 past that he was in college when he kindly took me in hand, and 
 never kept his eye off of me ; because when he went to the semi- 
 nary, as he did the next year, I could not help but follow him in 
 due course of time, and found that he was keeping his eye on me 
 all the time. Even though we were separated from one another, 
 you see what a token that was of what he was to be to you, to 
 your fathers and mothers, and your grandfathers and grandmoth- 
 ers, and perhaps, I may say, your great-grandfathers and great- 
 grandmothers, because I presume there are children here who 
 have had those relations to whom Dr. Haskins has administered 
 in St. Mark's long, long ago. Yet so fresh to us and so full of 
 holy recollections of blessed reminiscences, and I may say, too, of 
 sorrow and disappointments, because life is not all bright when 
 one looks over the course of fifty years, as he very touchingly said 
 this morning that there were shadows upon it and things that 
 brought up very serious thoughts. We who have looked upon his 
 life and career could not but wonder what there might be in his 
 
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 career when we know full well what they are now, because we see 
 in him that which the Bishop of Massachusetts has so strikingly 
 said — the effect of a consistent, loving, faithful, devoted minister, 
 not seeking great things, but content with that which God in his 
 merciful providence has given him to do from day to day, and so 
 building up a great and precious influence of which this church 
 was the rule, but of which now it is the very smallest part. There- 
 fore, what I have to say to you is, take him as your guide and 
 counsel and example, and yet look through him up to the God 
 who has given him the grace to minister to you ; I say to each one 
 of you, dear children, "Go thou and do likewise." 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. THOMAS W. HASKINS. 
 
 Well, boys and girls, how do you do ? Don't you know me ? 
 Why, I am your brother Tom. I have come home again. I have 
 been away, I think it is now about three years, since I have looked 
 upon my brothers and sisters. Well, some of you say, possibly, 
 " I don't know you." But I am nevertheless your brother Tom, 
 for this church is my old home, and it has been the only home 
 that I have had for a good many years, and I hope it will be my 
 home for a good many years yet to come. 
 
 Now, don't be afraid, boys and girls ; your Rector said a moment 
 ago that I was going to preach five sermons for him; but I am 
 not going to preach them all this afternoon. As he told you, I 
 have traveled a good ways. You will find that it is about thirty- 
 two hundred miles to Los Angeles, California. 
 
 I was here fifteen years ago ; some of you possibly remember 
 that fifteen years ago we had an anniversary, and I stood here and 
 told you about who were to make the ministers in the future, and 
 asked that you remember it for years to come. It was, " Freely ye 
 have received, freely give," and that this Sunday-school give more 
 ministers in the future than it had in the past. 
 
 Well, children, I am not going to keep you long to-day. I may 
 say, and say it with pride, that it has cost me two hundred dollars 
 
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 to make this visit home and get back again for a stay of two or 
 three weeks ; and I state this, because I want you boys to remember 
 and go home and tell your mothers that you saw a minister who 
 came three thousand miles and more, and it cost him two hundred 
 dollars to just come : and that is the way I love my home. I see 
 lots of boys- here who have not been confirmed yet, and when I 
 come back here again I hope to see them all at this altar. I met 
 a man who came to me when I was a boy ; it was through that 
 good man that I was confirmed, and I have had the pleasure a 
 good many times when I have been in a place of this kind of return- 
 ing my gratitude to that man for what he did for me. Boys, you 
 have been told sometimes that all these ministers were good boys. 
 Now, I am not one of that kind. I may say to you boys that I 
 recall the time when I was a child here, when I was in this Sun- 
 day-school, too, that one Sunday — I was very fond of fishing ; I 
 used to get up early in the morning, and I went down to the foot 
 of South Sixth Street, and there was a little dock out in the river, 
 and I remember catching a big eel. 
 
 But, children, I was a child of the Church. I was a child of 
 the heavenly Father. I had been baptized in the Church, and had 
 an angel appointed to look after me. 
 
 I was led to come back here in this Sunday-school in this 
 church, and I remember that that man who sits over there was then 
 superintendent of this Sunday-school, and I was afterward ordained 
 here, and I went out of here as one of the ministers of this parish ; 
 and I am saying these things to you, that you may remember them, 
 and that you may, boys, go out to .minister from this parish, not 
 because you are good boys, but because God is your Father, and 
 Jesus is your brother, and the holy angels are with you. 
 
 Now, if one is to be a sheep, he must be a lamb first, and then 
 grow up to be a sheep. Do not think that you can not be minis- 
 ters because you are not good. You are all born lambs. You 
 will be sheep and will be faithful sheep of the heavenly Father 
 if you stay where you are. I sent my boy to college a few weeks 
 ago, and I hope he will be a minister of the Gospel some day. 
 
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 Remember what your name is ; remember who your Father is ; 
 remember what your duty is ; stay where you are. Stick to it, 
 that is the point ; it is not great things that bring success, but stay 
 where you are. 
 
 And I hope to see and make your acquaintance, so that, when I 
 come back again, I will know you all ; so I hope to see you Sat- 
 urday, hope to see you next Sunday, and, if Providence permits, 
 to tell all your friends and parents that we are going to have a 
 nice time this week. 
 
 ADDRESS BY MR. WILLIAM H. FLEEMAN. 
 
 I CAN hardly express my feelings to-day. Though I have been 
 here very seldom during the past twenty-seven years of my absence, 
 I am glad that to very many of you whom I have had the pleasure 
 to meet and to greet to-day I am known, and I am very glad on these 
 sacred occasions, at least, to come around here and join in these 
 festivities. 1 wish I were capable of better and more fitting words 
 for the occasion, but I can bear testimony to what has been done 
 in this parish for a great many years. It is no less than thirty- 
 seven years that I have felt myself to be a son and brother of your 
 most worthy Rector. I felt that I was working with him all the time ; 
 in fact, I have been working with him in some church work in the 
 Diocese, working with him all the time, shoulder to shoulder, for 
 Christ's sake and the Church. You over whom I was once super- 
 intendent I specially greet. Unfortunately, many of those children 
 who were under me then are gone, but I am happy to meet so 
 many that were here then, that were my teachers then, and some 
 scholars, and some of them who have grown up to be grand- 
 fathers and grandmothers ; but God has watched over us all the 
 time and has opened our way ; and many times, in the vicissitudes 
 of life, many of you have been almost hedged up, but God has 
 made a way of escape and so we got along in this world thus far. 
 And it is a great happiness that God has protected our old Rector 
 and enabled him to be so vigorous, and has blest him with so large 
 
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 a following here* in this Zion which he has been over. This jubi- 
 lee year, if I understand aright, St. Mark's is in much better con- 
 dition than it was twenty-five years ago — less in debt, less embar- 
 rassment, a Rector in better health and vigor for his work ; and for 
 all this we have to congratulate him and ourselves, and not only all ■ 
 of my old teachers and scholars, but these ministers, who used to 
 work with me when I was in the Sunday-school, and my young 
 brother Rev. Thomas Haskins, now of Los Angeles ; and then my 
 friend the Rev. Mr. Twing, who succeeded me as Superintendent 
 very much to your advantage and very much to your happiness, 
 and whom you recollect so pleasantly, and to whom you have so 
 gladly listened to-day. I am so very much delighted to see my 
 friend Mr. Bennett, with whom I was associated in the Sunday- 
 school. 
 
 The Bishop of Massachusetts very naturally and very properly 
 intimates the fact that the world is all made up of little things rather 
 than large ones. He said he supposed that the good pastor could 
 hardly point to any great thing after all in this fifty years that he 
 has done. Well, now, I think there has been illustrated here in 
 this chancel to-day that some great things have been done by him. 
 Here is a reverend clergyman whom we all admire, whom we all 
 know is filled with the spirit of the Holy Ghost, that confesses to 
 have been brought from worldly ways into the right path and into 
 the office which he now holds through the instrumentality of this 
 good pastor. Is that a little thing ? I am inclined to think that 
 this Right Rev. Bishop will admit that no small influence, no small 
 portion of the influence which has brought him into the ministry, 
 was through this good pastor. And here is the Rev. Thomas Has- 
 kins, of Los Angeles, who will confess to some great good through 
 such a godly pastor and guide. And here is the Rev. Dr. Van 
 Rensselaer, which also adds to my joy in meeting to-day, for he led 
 me forty-seven years ago to the confirmation rail. If I understood 
 right, he acknowledged and confessed that by the Rev. Dr. Haskins 
 he was brought into the way of righteousness and the office of the 
 ministry. Here too, are the Rev. Dr. Hall, of the Seminary, Rev. 
 
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 Mr. Dickinson, Rev. Mr. Mulford, with a dozen \<rho are absent — 
 all St. Mark's sons in the ministry, with their varied influences for 
 good. It seems to me that these are no little things. 
 
 If I could possibly contain my feelings I could relate a great 
 thing that he did for me. When I came by the corner four or five 
 blocks away this morning I had to almost groan aloud when I 
 looked on the house where my affliction — my great affliction — had 
 come to me. Within the space of thirty months in that place, that 
 house, I lost my father, my mother, my sister, and my precious 
 daughter. I felt that that was the wilderness of Edom, and I 
 could not bear it. But as the Israelites of old rebelled against 
 entering Edom's wilderness of afflictions, danger, and blood, yet it, 
 was a command of the Lord, and so my good pastor. Dr. Haskins, 
 came to me and told me that it was the Lord that was visiting me ; 
 that if His hand was upon me He must be near me. He told me 
 further when I was carrying my precious child to the grave and 
 saw I was very much moved, he said : " My friend Fleeman, re- 
 member that the Lord has done it ; you would not dare to change 
 it ; you would not dare to intervene against the ordinances of 
 God." It was a comfort to me ; it was a quiet to my soul, which I 
 call one of the great things. It has followed me through life, and 
 has helped me in other afflictions. 
 
 Now, I am sorry to interrupt the joy and festivity of this occa- 
 sion by reminding you, through this illustration, these stories, of 
 those shadows that are likely to come upon you some time ; but that 
 was such a great thing in my life for me that I could not avoid 
 telling you of it, and it may be of some comfort to you all. I trust 
 it will. But the great and little things that our good pastor has 
 done in the aggregate have been equal to those of any pastor in all 
 my acquaintance. I do not know any other that has borne more 
 or better fruit, and I trust that he, as my good friend Rev. Mr. 
 Twing so touchingly said, " will at the last day be full of joy un- 
 speakable for the sheaves which he will bring to the Lord of the 
 Harvest." 
 
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 Sunday Evening, October ij, i88g. 
 atl)e ari)urcl) of tl)c Cifling ®ob. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP PARET. 
 
 I WAS with you, dear friends, or those of you who were gathered 
 a week ago anticipating somewhat the sentiments and words that I 
 wish to put forth this evening. 
 
 To-day begins the jubilee week of thanksgiving for the long- 
 loved Rector of this parish, and you will see by the order of services 
 that has been printed that he has named a subject to be the key- 
 note of this day. He giyes it in the words "The Church of the 
 Living God," and I think a grand thought it is to introduce the 
 thoughts of the week. 
 
 A moment ago in the anthem we prayed, if we did not use our 
 voices, yet our hearty followed the voices of those who did, as we- 
 uttered the exhortation or prayed for, the peace of Jerusalem, and 
 when there followed again and again the repeated " Peace, peace, 
 peace be within thy walls," I am sure it was not of this one parish 
 church that we were thinking as we said " Jerusalem," nor was it 
 of these walls now visible to us when we said " Peace be within 
 thy walls,'' but from this place, from this building, and these walls 
 our thoughts and our prayers and our wishes of love spread out to 
 take in what God meant as He inspired those words to be used as 
 Christian song. The Jerusalem which David knew was but a sin- 
 gle city; the walls of which David spoke were but the walls of a 
 single temple ; but that city was the type of the whole Church of 
 God, and those walls were the emblem and the type of all that was 
 to be known from Christ's birth to the last days of the world as 
 Christ's temple on earth, the Church of the Living God. 
 
 I know it is hard for us to catch the idea that I am trying to 
 express of the greatness of that larger idea of the Church. Every 
 mind, every soul has to grow to it. The thought that comes 
 to any little child as it begins to attend the services of the 
 
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 Church, and begins to use and hear the word Church in its 
 first use, as he is to understand it, is limited to the one parish 
 church in which he is continually worshiping, and through it alone 
 he begins to know what " Church " means. It is long before he 
 gets beyond that thought ; but by and by, as in association with 
 others, he begins to learn of other churches and other ministers 
 and other Sunday-schools, the word "Church" grows into a larger 
 meaning for him. And by and by, with more intelligent acquaint- 
 ance, comes the thought of what we call the church in the Diocese, 
 the gathering not by chance, but in organized ejcistence, a sus- 
 tained community for combined life and combined work of all the 
 churches which in a Divine ordering are placed in the care of a 
 single Bishop, as chief minister and overseer of God's great flock ; 
 and so the word Church comes to me, not the parish church only, 
 but the Diocese, as including within it all its parish churches. And 
 by and by there comes to the knowledge of the still expanding 
 ■mind and soul some such time as this present one, when in the city 
 of New York are gathered the Bishops, nearly seventy in number, 
 from every State and Territory in the United States and its farthest 
 limits, and the representatives — some four hundred in number — of 
 clergy, of chosen laymen from every Diocese, that combines to 
 make up the Church in that land ; and then comes before us the 
 idea. And so we have the yet larger idea of the national Church, 
 the combination of dioceses, not by chance, not merely by sym- 
 pathy, not merely by impulse, but under a grand rule of organized 
 and united life. The Church as a parish church has its own pecul- 
 iar existence and life. Its channels of life as a parish run within 
 a somewhat narrow limit ; that life passes into the current of the 
 church stream, and helps to make up the church brook, or, if you 
 choose, the diocesan life ; and the brooks unite together and make 
 the grander river of the still continuing life of the national Church; 
 the combination of the dioceses, and the General Convention, as I 
 said, for which to-night we prayed, may well help us to realize 
 that thought. But a year ago in Canterbury, in England, were 
 gathered not only sixty Bishops, but, including many that were 
 
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 from this land as representatives of the Church here, enough to 
 swell the number to one hundred and forty-five, drawn from the 
 United States, from Canada at its extreme northern points, from 
 the South, from England, from Scotland, from Ireland, from Asia, 
 from Japan, from China, from Africa, from Australia, from the 
 islands of the seas, from every part of the world represented in 
 the grand gathering of the ministers of the Church, not merely to 
 proclaim their faith in God, not merely to testify it or to boast of 
 it, but by the power of that unity as a reality to do the united 
 work, to take coiinsel together for the Church's peace and welfare ; 
 each recognizing the full authority of all the rest, and realizing, as 
 I think they never realized before, the grandness of the unity of 
 the Church throughout the world. 
 
 Dear friends, I have been trying thus step by step to lead you 
 up to the idea of the Catholic Church, and to have you understand 
 what is said of it in Holy Scripture, whether in the text which has 
 been already quoted, " The Church of the Living God," spoken 
 through inspiration, through apostolic lips, or in our Lord's own 
 words, when He said : " Upon this rock I will build my Church, 
 and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." There was in 
 the Divine mind that conception that I have been trying to put 
 before you of the world-wide Church ; not a mere gathering in by 
 affinity or by sympathy, or a common impulse, but a grand organ- 
 ism, a grand institution, a great erection, an establishment with 
 God's own wisdom in it and God's own authority and God's own 
 power. In other woids, that when the Lord said : " On this rock I 
 will build my Church," he was speaking of that foundation of 
 faith in Him as the Divine Son of God, the Messiah that was to 
 come into the world. He was to erect that grand spiritual tem- 
 ple which, as He organized it with the sacraments, the worship 
 which He committed to it was to be be His instrument and agency 
 for perpetuating the Gospel in the world, and for conveying it to 
 all parts of the world, and for ministering as His steward and serv- 
 ant the blessed means of grace which He placed in his hand. 
 He did not leave it — that great work of evangelizing the world — 
 
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 to men's own notions. He did not leave men to invent the minis- 
 try that they were to speak of, to prepare a faith after their own 
 idea ; He did not leave it to men to set up such a ministry as they 
 chose to invent ; He did not leave it to men to provide and invent 
 holy and impressive services ; He did not leave it to men to ordain 
 the principles and character of His service. He Himself, in those 
 wonderful forty days, gave them the great Christian work. The 
 kingdom of heaven is the title by which He named again and 
 again the Church on earth — not a chance gathering of men, but the 
 divinely organized body with its ministry, sacraments, and privi- 
 leges just as He appointed in the Church to be united unto the 
 end of the world. 
 
 And to-night, in this simple service, dear friends, we have had 
 one of the grandest instances of the unity of that Church and of 
 its fidelity in exercising the truths which God gave it. We have 
 just repeated the creed ; and do you know that that creed was the 
 utterance in the very earliest ages, though in another language, of 
 the statement of truth which the apostles, not in those very words, 
 but in those very thoughts, taught to their pupils or disciples, and 
 which they in turn handed on to the generation that followed them, 
 and they in turn to the next ? It was not the one generation which 
 said : This is the faith that approves itself to us or suits our 
 fancies or is accepted by our wisdom or judgment, and which we 
 have found out for ourselves from the Bible ; but this is the faith 
 once delivered to the saints by the apostles. I believe the world 
 has never known so grand an instance of the power and fidelity of 
 testimony as we may see in the Apostles' Creed. 
 
 I said that the generation that followed the apostles would not 
 alter it, and they handed it on to the next generation, thought for 
 thought and word for word, as given to them. This is the faith 
 once delivered to the saints which was intrusted to us, not to im- 
 prove it, not to alter it, not to fit it to the temper and tone of 
 this generation or these times, but to hand it on uncorrupt as the 
 Church's testimony to what was taught in the beginning. And age 
 followed age, and century followed century — eighteen of them are 
 
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 gone — and still here in this land, uncorrupt, from million voices of 
 thousands of churches, that same grand witness to the unchanged 
 creed, to the uncorrupted faith, once delivered to the saints, is 
 handed on. And that is one of the grandest instances of the 
 authority and power of fidelity of the Church in doing the work 
 that God committed to it. 
 
 Dear friends, it is not one parish that has done that, nor one 
 diocese that has done that, nor one national church that has done 
 that ; the Church within these United States, with its seventy Bishops, 
 dare not lay its hand upon one single word or truth of that creed ; 
 for it would be bearing false witness. It would be proclaiming 
 not the faith which we received, but something which we had in- 
 vented out of it or altered to suit our notion; it would be want of 
 fidelity — it would be treachery and falseness to all the living 
 Church and to all the history of the past. 
 
 Now, if I have at all helped you to take hold of the thought, 
 too grand, I think, for human expression, and too grand, I confess, 
 for any human conception (I can not receive it fully myself, with 
 all my study and with all my thought, and I do not believe any 
 human mind save our Lord's ever rose to the grandest instance of 
 what He meant by the Church, and what that Church is now and 
 what it is to be hereafter), yet if I have helped you at all to ap- 
 proach it, I want to add another thought. 
 
 Do you get any idea of the world-wide institution in unity with 
 itself, with some one organic law of life binding its several parts 
 together.? Then, perhaps, you will tell me as you look at many 
 Christians you find that idea of the Church's grand unity sadly 
 marred ; not in God's purpose ; marred not in the ideal to which 
 in fidelity to God's purpose we hold fast, but marred by man's 
 fickleness and sinfulness, man's inability to grasp the great thought, 
 and man's departure from God's intention. 
 
 The unity of the Church has been broken. We can look back 
 in the Church's history, to the first, second, or third centuries, when 
 it was maintained throughout the whole world ; and though men 
 differed much in opinion, they did not differ in faith ; though they 
 
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 differed in tongue and nationality, they did not differ in the order of 
 the ministry, in the number or the character of the sacraments, or in 
 the way in which they were used. And over all the then known 
 world for more than three centuries there prevailed everywhere 
 that grand ideal and practice of common prayer, common worship 
 by the Church, of which our prayer-book as it has been used to- 
 night is a grand and beautiful instance. We have followed the 
 language of those grand early services, and in many things are 
 using their very words. But by and by — I speak it in love and in 
 deepest, truest love to all those who differ from me or from the 
 faith or the discipline of the worship which we maintain in the 
 Church — by and by errors crept in, souls were seduced into faulty 
 worship, into defective ministries, into erroneous teachings ; and 
 on the one hand we see that great division between the Eastern 
 Church now known as the Greek and the Western, which was then 
 for a while known as led by the Roman, which has made a division 
 that it seems to me almost impossible to heal. And then the over- 
 shadowing power of the Church of Rome, with the growth of cor- 
 rupt doctrines (may they forbear with me if any be present for 
 speaking such words of them, for I speak them in love !), with the 
 growth or departure from the old standard of doctrine and addi- 
 tions to the faith and the assertion of new thoughts as necessary 
 to the salvation ; a change in the worship of the Church ; a change 
 in the ministrations of the sacraments ; a change, too, in its minis- 
 try and forms of government. And then, too, came those sad 
 divisions in the time of the Reformation, on which some of our 
 Christian people, wishing to break loose from the erroneous teach- 
 ings of the Church of Rome and the dangers and wrongs that 
 were in it, and not being able as they thought to regain the Church 
 as it was in its purity, longing, as such men as Luther and Calvin 
 confessed they did, that they might have for themselves the order 
 of Bishops as well as the order of Presbyters. But they failed to 
 hold them ; they lost them, and so they branched off into separa- 
 tions from the Church— denominations, sects, parties, whose differ- 
 ence from us we deplore. 
 
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 Dear friends, one of the saddest things to the Christian soul 
 is this evidence of division and disunity among Christians. One of 
 the warmest prayers that comes to every Christian soul, and which 
 was upon our Lord's lips, is that all may be one ; and I know that 
 as much as we differ from them or they differ from us, I believe in 
 the heart of Churchmen, in the heart of Romanists, in the heart of 
 Christians of any and every denomination, there exists at this mo- 
 ment the desire that all divisions may be overcome, and that the 
 Christian Church in God's good time may come back united and 
 brought again into one. 
 
 The declaration that was put forth three years ago by the 
 Bishops of this Church was a noble expression of that desire of 
 unity ; and I stand here as one of the Bishops who met in Chicago, 
 and are now meeting again for consultation, to bear witness that 
 in many instances there have come the loving expressions from 
 ministers of all denominations of their sympathy and reverence, of 
 their thankfulness to us, of the deep consideration they were giving 
 it, and of the feeling that possessed them, that its prayer may be 
 fulfilled, and that all may become one. 
 
 And so I ask you, dear friends, to let this instance, this service, 
 this jubilee, your gathering together, not only those who are now 
 of this parish, but those who were of it years ago, and some who 
 had gone to far distant parts of the land, coming back here, testify 
 to the unity of this parish. And in thought of this unity of spirit, 
 I pray you to take home the larger idea of Christian oneness, and 
 pray that God will help us in life to hold fast to the truth, to be 
 firm in truth as we receive it, and to hold it in love and gentleness 
 however it may be brought into the fullness of God's truth and 
 . peace. 
 
 But what a time it is to emphasize such thought of love, when 
 after these fifty years of ministration in one place, so many hearts 
 are gathered in love about one whose ministrations have made him 
 very dear to them ! My own memory goes back some forty years, 
 for forty years ago I knelt at the font of this church, and those 
 hands poured the baptismal water on my head and spoke the sacra- 
 
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 mental words, and I gained my admission and my birthright into 
 the Church of God. 
 
 Dear brethren, not only those present, but others from many 
 parts of the land, hundreds of them, would say the same ; and I 
 know that not only the members of this parish and members of 
 this church who have gone to other parts, but other Christian 
 people who in this neighborhood have been witnesses to the stead- 
 fastness in apostolical work which has held this congregation to- 
 gether for that length of time, are thanking God in our gladness. 
 
 I kr.ow that there are among you those of other names, those 
 who came forgetting differences of faith, forgetting differences of 
 w^orship, and thanking God for the blessing that He has given to 
 this church and to this His ministering servant, for fifty years a 
 patient, fruitful worker for Him. 
 
 Address of Greeting from the Former Parishioners of St. 
 Mark's Church to the Rector, Sexton, and Congregation ; 
 delivered by Rev. Thomas W. Haskins, Rector of Christ 
 Church, Los Angeles, California, Sunday Evening, October 
 ijth, i88g. 
 
 Revered Rector, Sexton, and Present Members of the 
 Parish : I esteem it a peculiar — I may say a blessed — privilege to 
 speak in behalf of all those who have gone out from these walls ; 
 and as a part of what I shall say — which will be merely the mu- 
 tual throbbings of sympathy between the older and newer mem- 
 bers — I would ask the congregation, led by this choir — and I wish 
 I could tell them how they have touched my heart in the services 
 to-day — would stand and sing three verses of the 315 th hymn : 
 
 " Blest be the tie that binds 
 Our hearts in Christian love." 
 
 [Congregation all united in singing ; after which Mr. Haskins 
 continued :] 
 
 It is impossible, my dear friends, to express the heart's deepest 
 
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 emotions. I can only say for myself — and I think I am expressing 
 the feelings of the older members of this loved Church home, when 
 I merely say — "It is good to be here." I stood here fifteen years 
 ago, speaking, if I remember correctly, after him who has just now 
 addressed you — now a Bishop, but not then a Bishop — when I said, 
 " It is good to be here " ; and I am sure that all those whom these 
 walls have ever blessed will respond from their hearts, " It is good 
 to be here ! " 
 
 How the words that these choir-boys took upon their lips a few 
 moments ago must have thrilled every heart : " Peace, Peace, 
 Peace" — repeated over and over again — "Peace be within thy 
 walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces." It filled me with so 
 many memories that I could hardly restrain myself when I thought 
 of the associations, the sorrows, and the joys of the multitudes who 
 have been in and out of these walls ; and so I repeat, " It is good 
 to be here." My dear friends, may the time never come when one 
 shall say, " It is not good to be here ! " 
 
 I have come thousands of miles on purpose to be here on this 
 occasion, and no words of mine, or of any man, can adequately ex- 
 press its importance in the Church — the old Apostolic Church, 
 whose lineage and principles have just been outlined to you by the 
 Bishop who preceded me. I have traveled thousands of miles, 
 and have waited three years without taking a Sunday off, antici- 
 pating this event, and praying that these two men might be here 
 on this anniversary. I have come " to rejoice with those that re- 
 joice " on this occasion for all the hallowed associations and mem- 
 ories connected with this sacred pile and this remarkable event. 
 
 St. Mark's has been a Mount of Transfiguration where the Lord 
 Jesus has taken His chosen ones, and they have beheld Him glori- 
 fied. There are some things more precious than gold, more en- 
 during than fhe everlasting hills, more satisfying than anything 
 that ministers to the life that now is ; it is to have earthly things 
 transfigured by the glory that comes down from heaven — the glory 
 of Divine love, of tender mercy, of brotherly kindness, of charity, 
 of forgiveness of injuries, of solemn vows ; of sanctified hopes dipped 
 
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 in the blood of suffering and affliction, to be crowned at last with the 
 crown of everlasting joy at the coming and presence of Christ. 
 All this, revered Rector and Sexton, this consecrated spot has been 
 to me — to us all, and to many a one besides — more so than we can 
 tell, and to more than we can number. 
 
 This little spot, this simple structure, these two meek and mod- 
 est men — Samuel the priest and prophet in spiritual things, and 
 David the king over temporal things — and these worshipers who 
 have come and gone from this altar of sacrifice, how these things 
 of earth and sense have been transfigured by the Divine Presence 
 which descended here half a century ago, and which, to the eye of 
 faith, abides here still ! 
 
 For fifty years the ebb and flow of the tide of human affairs has 
 daily surged to and fro past this corner — a tide of passion, of lust, 
 of greed ; a tide growing more hurried and impatient as its limits 
 are confined by the necessary restraints erected in a great and 
 growing city, but it has made no impression upon this edifice. 
 This building and the ground upon which it stands, with all their 
 sacred accompaniments, are more firmly established in the hearts 
 of all those who have ever had their home here than they ever were, 
 and they will continue to grow dearer as the seeds of Divine truth 
 sown here take root and spring up in the hearts of God's people 
 wherever they are scattered up and down the earth. Many a one 
 connected with this church has cried in after years, " God was in 
 this place and I knew it not," and many a one will do so in the few 
 remaining years of this age of patient waiting for Christ. 
 
 As one who has come, perhaps, a longer distance than any 
 other child of St. Mark's to this glad reunion, and whose associa- 
 tions run back fully four fifths of the period of its existence, I am 
 privileged to tender to these two men — and I do from my heart, 
 and frorri the heart of all those who have ever had their home here 
 — our grateful words of love and fealty, for all that they have been 
 to the Church and to us. 
 
 God's providential preservation of your lives, beloved Rector 
 and Sexton, has made this blessed reunion possible. It is a con- 
 
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 , summation for which you have longed and prayed, and God has 
 granted your prayer. It is an event for which the whole Church 
 may be grateful, and for which St. Mark's people more especially 
 will evince their gratitude by greater devotion to their calling 
 wherever their lot may be cast. It is not merely lapse of years 
 which signalizes and dignifies this event. Daily duty, patient en- 
 durance, resistance of temptation, unfaltering trust in God, broth- 
 erly regard, and a life of daily sacrifice for others — these are ele- 
 ments in human character which can not be bought with money ; 
 these are born of God, and these are the causes which make this 
 jubilee not a fictitious one of mere lapse of years, but one in- 
 breathed by the Spirit of God, and uttering its own voice of praise. 
 
 Your invitation, reverend sir, has reached us all, bidding us 
 regather at the family altar, and to bring our tributes of love to 
 preserve the altar on the spot of its origin. But we have not come 
 to endow this parish, for it is already endowed. You have endowed 
 this church with an endowment more sure and lasting than money 
 — an endowment of holy love in the hearts of the children of St. 
 Mark's. If money is needed it will come, for her future welfare is 
 in the love and keeping of those who prize things of God more 
 than all the treasures of this world. 
 
 We bring, indeed, to this jubilee our votive offerings as God 
 has prospered us — an earnest and pledge of our hearts' devotions ; 
 and, be it little or much, it will be what God has prompted and 
 given us the opportunity of bringing, and so will be enough for 
 present needs ; and when our mother-parish needs more God will 
 send it. 
 
 In the nature of things you two can not remain many years 
 more at the posts you have so faithfully served in this house of 
 prayer. Many anxious days you must have had in past years as to 
 how these ministrations of the Gospel were to be maintained in a 
 community growing poorer, and in a generation, perhaps, growing 
 more indifferent to the Word of God. But St. Mark's, like the 
 just, has lived by faith, and by faith it will live in the future as it 
 has in the past. Like Simeon, you have been granted this vision 
 
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 of salvation, and you may take up Simeon's song : " Lord, now let- 
 test Thou Thy servant depart in peace." 
 
 But much as we, children of St. Mark's, honor and revere you, 
 and award you these grateful words of just praise, we honor God 
 more. It is His providence which has kept you here in this hum- 
 ble parish of the American Church, and which, when you are gone, 
 will be manifested in ways we know not now. It is not to be sup- 
 posed that this church was planted here, and by Divine providence 
 has reached this happy consummation, merely for the honor of any 
 one or two men. 
 
 Here in the heart of a great city, in a material age, upon the 
 threshold of greater changes in human development, both material 
 and religious, political and missionary, than has ever before taken 
 place within a like period in the history of mankind, is planted this 
 historic witness of apostolic deeds and apostolic faith. Here is 
 one sacred spot where Jacob's ladder touches the earth, and where 
 for fifty years the angels of God have been ascending and descend- 
 ing in their ministry for those who are tht heirs of salvation. 
 Here for fifty years Jesus Himself has met His disciples, as in the 
 upper room in Jerusalem, and discoursed to them of heavenly 
 things, and imparted to them, through the Bread and Wine, His 
 own flesh and blood. Here for fifty years the Holy Ghost, the 
 Comforter, has filled with His gracious Spirit this house and sanc- 
 tified the sorrows of His people. Here for fifty years the harpies 
 of greed and covetousness have not been permitted to lay their foul 
 hands on this sacred place, for never a dollar has been raised, as we 
 learned this morning, by unhallowed means to maintain the minis- 
 trations of the Gospel in St. Mark's Church. Here for fifty years 
 the children of St. Mark's have been privileged to look with joy to 
 one unchanging home — to many of us it is our only home — and to 
 return thither as occasion offers to renew vows on the very spot of 
 their origin, and through the ministrations of the same pastor and 
 keeper. 
 
 Certainly, friends — I am speaking now to these new members of 
 St. Mark's and of the responsibility which will rest upon you in a 
 
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 very short time — certainly animated by these sentiments of holy love 
 and association, do we ever want the time to come when we shall 
 say " It is not good to be here " ? Can we look with anything short 
 of dismay at any suggestion of desecrating this home ? Shall the 
 time ever come when the present guardians of this sanctuary are 
 at rest, and we return to find on this once hallowed spot, in the 
 place of this Table of the Lord the tables of the money-changer, 
 or perchance the cup of the wine-bibber or the bed of the harlot ? 
 Heaven forbid it ! Let that hand be palsied that ever takes pen 
 to sign away this house of the Lord — this home of the children of 
 St. Mark's ! May that tongue be withered away at the roots which 
 ever advocates removal so long as any of God's children, prodigal 
 or otherwise, rich or poor, live within sound of this bell of prayer ! 
 May that heart be smitten of God which presumes to think that all 
 these holy associations have a money value, or that anything that 
 commerce can give in future years, no matter how great, can do the 
 good elsewhere that this home of the faithful, sanctified by the 
 prayers and the joys and sorrows of half a century, can do here ! 
 If these words meet the approval of the present members of St. 
 Mark's, seal that approval now before this altar and at this jubilee, 
 that, God helping us, this house of His shall stay here until the 
 Lord Himself in His own way and time shall remove it. Should St. 
 Mark's ever leave her first love, and God sees fit to remove her can- 
 dlestick, let Him do so as He did Jerusalem, and not leave in her 
 one stone upon another. But see to it that it is His work, not ours. 
 
 The contest as old as the ages between capital and labor, 
 wealth and poverty — which is only another expression for the con- 
 test between the gods of lust and ease and their victims — is gather- 
 ing its dark clouds to-day over this our favored land, presaging 
 the coming storm, and those clouds portend more sin and sorrow 
 in our great and rich cities than elsewhere. 
 
 It is said that Christianity — I use the word in the broader term 
 — is losing its hold upon the masses, that the Church's counsels of 
 love and peace and of patient waiting for Christ are having a con- 
 stantly diminishing influence in restraining the passions of men ; 
 
that she can no longer reach the heart of the masses ; that the time 
 will come when the masses, as in the French revolution, will no 
 longer listen to the voice of the Church, and become the instru- 
 ments of God's retributive justice for the failure of the Church to 
 do her duty. I do not myself entirely sympathize with this, but if 
 I read history aright I know that the solution of this contest lies in 
 the Church of Christ — in preaching and ministering the glorious 
 Gospel of peace which she bears. I know that if there be derelic- 
 tion of duty to any extent — to any greater extent in the future — 
 that the Church herself is the one to blame, that if she, like Balaam, 
 be found greedily running after the wages of unrighteousness, even 
 while the Word of God is in her mouth, then she must come to 
 Balaam's end in her generation. I am not yet an old man, but I 
 have had some experience of the signs of the times in knocking 
 about in this rough world, and I see the hand of God in preserv- 
 ing these two men in this church, in this age, on this spot. 
 
 This church was planted here in a corn-field. God has sent 
 the masses about it, and with the masses this apostolic witness of 
 Divine revelation. Divine order, and Divine promise has grown up. 
 Ye present members of St. Mark's, wardens, vestrymen, and young 
 men growing up to become such, let her stay where God's provi- 
 dence has placed her until God's providence removes her. If for 
 her sins His sword of punitive justice must be unsheathed, it will 
 come in His own time and in a way which no man can gainsay or 
 resist. I feel that I have a right to speak as a son of the Church 
 and as a child of St. Marks. Until that time comes let her stay ; 
 let her do her work ; let her be a child of faith, loving the Lord 
 and feeding His sheep and lambs, as He loves and feeds and guides 
 her ; let her be a house of prayer for the heart-sick, a place where 
 angels will come, and where the spirits of the departed will mingle 
 with those in the flesh ; where her children may return to renew 
 their vows until that time comes, as come it will, as predicted in 
 the lesson read to-night, when the tabernacle of God shall be with 
 man, when there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor tears, 
 when old things shall pass away, and all things shall become new. 
 
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 Monday Evening, October i^, i88g. 
 9Cl)c ([ri)ristinn iUinistra, ilmentg-tmo from tlje ||)arisl). 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. WILLIAM PARET, D. D., 
 BISHOP OF MARYLAND. 
 
 The blessed apostle St. Paul was, next to our Saviour, the great 
 pattern of tHe Christian ministry, and we, who in these latter days 
 have inherited oar part in that blessed ministry, have looked to 
 him next to our Lord for our instructions and for some lessons of 
 comfort. I speak not for myself alone, but for my brothers in the 
 ministry who are present with me, and I know that their hearts 
 answer to mine as I say again and again we find occasion to study 
 the records of his sorrows, his sufferings, his trials, his burdens, 
 and sometimes we turn from them to study the glory of his glad- 
 ness. For he had them ; and among the occasions for thankful- 
 ness that he found, and of which he spake, I think chief of all was 
 the gladness that God had given him part in the blessed work 
 of His ministry, saying, " I thank God that placed me into the 
 the ministry," and " Unto me who am less than the least of all 
 saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles 
 the unsearchable riches of Christ." And again and again in varied 
 form there rings out the expression, almost of exultation, of a 
 holy pride, of a holy peacefalness and gladness that God has so 
 honored him and so blessed him as to give him part in the blessed 
 work. I know that my brethren are again and again comforted 
 as they behold his example of the blessedness and honor that come 
 from having part in that wondrous work of salvation begun by 
 the Lord. 
 
 And to-night we come to express with hearts fresh from their 
 own experiences, full of deepest sympathy, our thankfulness and 
 our congratulations to our dear brother, because the Lord has per- 
 mitted him not only to know that joy in its beginning but to have 
 this honor prolonged for fifty years. 
 
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 Sbc i|olB iHinistrs. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL S. TUTTLE, D. D., 
 BISHOP OF MISSOURI. 
 
 I HAVE not the full honor of being a child of St. Mark's, but I 
 have the partial honor of being a sort of adopted connection of St. 
 Mark's. As an adopted son, I have been helped by your rector in 
 many ways, and he sent forth two that I can recall now — a clergy- 
 man and a teacher — to help me in the missionary work in Salt Lake 
 City that went on for years. The clergyman went forth a kinsman 
 of your rector, reaching Salt Lake City before I did, and did mis- 
 sionary work months before I was on the spot to do it, and we 
 call the mission that we started in Salt Lake City, the school we 
 started there, the stone church, we call it St. Mark's, a daughter of 
 this. Therefore, I can claim perhaps, or ask of you to accord 
 me, the honor to be called a sort of second cousin and a distant 
 connection as you come to-night for the congratulation and the 
 honor and reverence and affection due to those servants of God 
 who for fifty years have stood in this consecrated place of God to 
 tell the blessed glad tidings of the Gospel of Christ to the listening 
 ears of the sons of men. For in his own way he has been work- 
 ing in the house of the Lord, and the one who is helping take care 
 of the consecrated structure of the Lord is in his own way helping 
 also to preach the glad tidings to the sons of men. 
 
 (The bishop then gave a brief description of the missions of the 
 Episcopal Church in the Western States and of the church which 
 had been founded by one of the former parishioners in the far 
 West — St. Mark's Church at Clearwater, Minn.) 
 
 ADDRESS- BY THE REV. DR. WELLS. 
 
 Although I am little accustomed to a service as elaborate as 
 that in which I have gladly shared here this evening, yet I am 
 perfectly at home in .the presence of my brethren the Bishops and 
 the clergy, and especially in the presence of my dear brother Dr. 
 
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 Haskins, andi might add also, in the presence of my dear friend the 
 sexton of this church, whom I do not see just now, and whom I 
 have been accustomed to greet as we have walked the streets 
 together, and we have never yet collided or differed with each other, 
 or had occasion to do so. I remember very well when he went 
 away from our town, disappearing from our streets, and how gladly 
 we welcomed him back again when he came back, and I have been 
 very glad to learn to-night that he was never succeeded by any 
 other sexton, and I pay my respects to him, and remember, and 
 wish always to remember, and which all of us know, that there is 
 no position in relation to the church, apart from the ministry, 
 that is more difficult to fill satisfactorily than just that which our 
 dear friend has filled for half a century. Now, Dr. Haskins and 
 myself have been neighbors for forty years ; he is my father in 
 some sense in the ministry, and yet he is my brother. The Bishop 
 that spoke a little while ago (Bishop Tuttle) tried to claim an 
 intimate relationship with St. Mark's, while I claim a closer relation- 
 ship. As I am the brother of the Rector, I must come very near to 
 those who are under the ministry of the Rector. 
 
 I expected, dear friends, to listen here to-night to the Rev. Dr. 
 Storrs and Father Malone, and I deliberately made up my mind 
 that if St. Mark's and Dr. Haskins and Mr. Longworth determined 
 that they would celebrate a second semi-centennial, that is, a 
 hundredth anniversary, I should insist upon reversing the order of 
 the speakers and letting the youngest man speak first and Dr. 
 Storrs and Father Malone come last ; but, behold, I am here alone, 
 and now, as these moments are precious, I wish to say with all my 
 heart that we have been, though each in his own sphere, in his 
 own pulpit, and with his own beloved church, the church served 
 by us and the dearer church with which we are connected, dear 
 to our hearts, differing in some respects, yet I believe we have 
 never failed to be in accord with each other, both as to the great 
 vital truths that we have loved and preached and as to the methods 
 of work. Methods of work mean a great deal in these latter 
 days when so much seems to depend upon sensationalism and 
 
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 trumpeting service through the papers. Now, I think very much 
 of the paper, think it does a grand, good service, but I think the 
 last thing for a Rector or a Presbyterian Minister to do is to care 
 very much what is said in the secular or religious press about 
 them individually or about their services. Dear friends, we have a 
 common Master ; I have felt it here to night — one Lord, one faith, 
 one baptism, one God the Father of all, who is above all, and 
 through all, and in us all ; and as we are now getting well on in 
 years, but I am the junior of your Rector, not having fifty more years, 
 I suppose, to serve our respective churches, I trust that instead of 
 relaxing any of the zeal and ' energy connected with our respected 
 ministries we shall remember that we have a Master whose glory we 
 have only just fairly begun to recognize ; He is an endless study, 
 and an endless study when I think that God is manifest in the flesh, 
 justified in spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, be- 
 lieved on in the world and received up into glory, and that it is my 
 privilege to name His Name before my people, to administer the 
 holy sacraments of the Church, to receive precious children into the 
 communion, the children that I have baptized, and to receive their 
 children, children of those that I have baptized into the communion, 
 having married those whom I baptized and married the children 
 of those whom I baptized, I feel that it is a great joy to stand side 
 by side with one with whom I am in such thorough accord. 
 
 Now, a great many things might be said that Brother Haskins 
 would recognize as pertinent, but not at this late hour. I remem- 
 ber fifteen years ago, on the 4th of January coming, that I sat 
 behind Dr. Haskins and Dr. Haskins spoke in my pulpit, while I 
 was going through the ordeal he is passing through now of cele- 
 brating my twenty-fifth anniversary, and I know how it is myself. 
 I know perfectly well that a man who is in Dr. Haskins's position at 
 the end of fifty years needs to be, if you will pardon the illustration, 
 for this thought came to my mind when I was telling a brother 
 minister about the effect upon myself of having others stand up 
 and speak of my ministry in my hearing, and this was the illustra- 
 tion : I said I felt just as I supposed the duck felt when the drench- 
 
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 ing rain pours on it, and yet it does not get wet at all, and I tell 
 you, my dear brother, that the thought that controlled me as I sat 
 silently and with bowed head before such men as these are, that I 
 was subject to another judgment than that of my brethren. It was 
 the perfect judgment of my God and Saviour that I was thinking 
 of, and I believe that at the end of half a century, ten years more, 
 when I look- back over the fifty years, I shall wish no one to say 
 one word to me as if I had accumulated anything of which I would 
 boast of before the Lord. I am thankful to have been permitted 
 to be in the ministry forty years, and I hope that at the end of ten 
 years, if I may live, Dr. Haskins will be straighter than he is now ; 
 and I must protest against those strong round shoulders of his 
 bowing over ; he is bending too much ; there is no necessity for 
 such a physique as he has to be broken before his time, and I hope 
 that then I may have the joy of being in as fine fellowship with 
 him as I am now, and, my dear brother, three of the men that 
 occupied the pulpit with me fifteen years ago are now with Christ, 
 and you and I will hear the call after a little, and then, going to 
 our common Master, we shall have fellowship such as we have not 
 known here. 
 
 (The Rev. Dr. Darlington and many other clergy were present 
 in the congregation.) _ 
 
 Tiiesday Evening, October 75, i88g. 
 ffl;l)ristian Baptism, 2,351 Bapti^cb. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP PARET. 
 
 I WONDER, dear friends, whether you do at all appreciate the 
 greatness of the work of Christ which has been accomplished in 
 this parish church, from, the statement which seemed to me very 
 remarkable as the Rector gave it the other day, that there have 
 been baptized here, and almost all of them by his own hands, 2,351 
 persons. I was following it a little further, and it gets to be re- 
 
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 inarkable. It grows out in a sort of geometrical progression. Of 
 these 2,351 let me follow out, as far as I may, the fruits and results 
 of one baptism only. 
 
 It pleased God that I should be one of the number. On the 
 twenty-third day of March, in the year 1846 (I said the other day 
 forty years ago, it was forty-three years ago), his hands baptized 
 me here in this church. Follow that one baptism. Admitted into 
 the same holy ministry, it has pleased God that my hands should 
 administer that same sacrament of baptism to almost 2,000 people. 
 Among those 2,000 let me go a step further; eight to my knowl- 
 edge — and perhaps more — eight to my knowledge have also been 
 admitted into the ranks of the ministry of the Church, and each 
 one of those could take up the same story and tell how his baptism 
 had borne fruit in hundreds and perhaps thousands of baptisms. 
 Besides, I can trace in one instance to the third and fourth genera- 
 tion in holy ministry the fruit t'hat came from that^baptism here in 
 this place, so that instead of 2,351, if we gather in all the numbers, I 
 think that not less than 10,000 baptisms have been the result of the 
 ministrations of these fifty years here. 
 
 But that is only one way of estimating the greatness of the work, 
 by its numbers, by its apparent and visible magnitude ; there is 
 another way still. I wonder if you have ever tried to figure out the 
 vastness of the spiritual result and the power of the work of Christ 
 that is wrought by the baptism of a single soul ? I know that as 
 Churchmen, dear friends, you are trained and taught to recognize 
 the great truth that the sacraments are not mere signs or empty 
 ceremonies, but that God fulfills His word and promises in them, 
 and makes them rich in the promises and in the realities of His 
 grace. I know, too, that from some unbelieving hearts, and from 
 some unbelieving lips, the questions sometimes come : If it be 
 true that baptism works such wonderful results and accomplishes 
 such results as you say, as the Bible seems to be clear, why is it 
 that we see so many failures ? Why are there so many who are 
 baptized in whom it produces no effect.? And my answer is, dear 
 friends, Who has ever gone beyond that eternal boundary and en- 
 
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 tered into the secrets of God and been able to say who are saved 
 and who are lost ? Who can dare to say, in one solitary instance, 
 God's promise has been broken ? " He that believeth and is bap- 
 tized shall be saved." But as we trace instances of feeble and 
 wayward men, in life as it is borne to our eyes, and presume to 
 frame our judgment of their sins and souls stained with sin, we 
 should remember, while we see only the outward acts, only the 
 darkness of their wickedness and their sinfulness, there is another 
 side which the merciful eyes of the Lord see more clearly, and 
 accepts and blesses souls that we would have cast out, perhaps, if 
 left to our judgment, as utterly worthless and only to be rejected. 
 I believe in the loving judgment of Him who sits upon the throne, 
 I believe that in them He will find in many cases a grain, and 
 many a grain, of the true seed for which He will count what we 
 rejected worthy of being gathered into His heavenly garner. We 
 see sometimes marked instances of what we think failure of bap- 
 tismal grace, but, dear friends, I would rather trust God's Word 
 than my own poor judgment. I want to hope largely. I think 
 Christ never deserts His own, and I find it hard to think that one 
 over whom these blessed words have been spoken, and who has 
 been thus claimed by Him, shall be deserted at the last ; I would 
 rather believe that, against what seems to us almost an impossi- 
 bility, God finds the way, even though it may be at the last hour, 
 to bring those that once belonged to Him to repentance and full 
 forgiveness. But, whether this be so or not, I can take only God's 
 great promises for it and Christ's unrestricted words, and try to 
 hope in them grandly, and not judge these blessings of baptism 
 only by their evident results. Now, think of another thing. There 
 are instances in which we see some marked conversion, where 
 some one who has gone forth in sin and seems to be arrested in it, as 
 St. Paul was in his course by a sudden and strange conversion ; 
 and there we own the power of God's grace. We call it miraculous, 
 but for one such case, which seems a miracle, and by the wonder 
 and the triumph of God's grace there are a thousand, there are ten 
 thousand in which God's grace is shown not by the reclaiming but 
 
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 by the restraining power, and I want you, the parents who have 
 brought your children here for baptism to ask of yourselves, as 
 you have seen them under the sweet influences of His spirit, grow 
 up with loving tempers, chilfllike thoughts, and growing little by 
 little in Christ's life any of the elements of a Christian, I want you 
 to ask yourselves how much you have to thank God for the re- 
 straining power of the grace that was given in their baptism. I be- 
 lieve it is that restraining power of baptismal grace which holds mul- 
 titudes back from the violence and excesses of evil, and restrains 
 them within the bounds of ordinary decency. I believe that if 
 that baptismal grace, so bounteously administered in this land, 
 were withdrawn, and our nation and our land left without it, we 
 would find ourselves in the heathenism of those that lived before 
 Christ's time. We can not tell, dear friends, how much we have to 
 thank God for it. It seems a wonderful miracle that one should 
 be suddenly converted in some marked instance of grace ; but 
 think whether it may not be a wonderful miracle that God in the 
 silent, untroubled influences and workings of His blessed spirit 
 should be continually in ways unseen holding the soul back from 
 the brink of evil, and keeping it in the ways of peace. Thank God, 
 then, you who have children baptized here, for the blessing that 
 has been given them ; thank God for the help He has given you, 
 and pray to Him, and pray with them and for them in faith in the 
 reality of that blessed gift. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. DR. GEORGE W. PORTER, OF THE 
 DIOCESE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 I STAND here to-night with unfeigned interest, pleasure, and sat- 
 isfaction, and congratulate you, the congregation of St. Mark's 
 Church, on the peculiar feature of your history which has arrived, 
 and to which you, I know, in connec'-ion with your Rector, have 
 been looking forward to for months, I may say years, and which 
 now, in the due providence of God, has arrived, and we are here 
 to-night. We are on these successive days and nights of the jubi- 
 
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 lee week, meeting to express our congratulations and to express 
 our sentiments of profound and quickened interest in the event 
 which is now pending. 
 
 Some weeks ago, when your beloved Rector was my guest for a 
 few days, I told him with great positiveness, in answer to his ap- 
 peal that I should be one of the number here on this jubilee week 
 to mingle with you and with him in the expressions of interest and 
 in sentiments of gratitude, that I could not see my way clear. I 
 would be here in spirit, most certainly, but I could not be in bodily 
 presence. I afterward told him by letter as much when there 
 came to me a repetition of his invitation, and at length there came 
 to me a letter so tender, so emphatic, reminding me of the long 
 friendship that had existed between us, that I submitted to his 
 wishes and am here. I am happy to be here, to stand before you, 
 and to enjoy with you the occasion which brings us together. 
 There doubtless exists, and has always existed in human life, many 
 instances of friendship that were true, lasting, and influential in their 
 character outside the limits of the Christion Church, but it seems 
 to me that human friendship, like everything else in life when it is 
 found within the limits of the Christian Church, which limit at the 
 outset is always marked by Christian baptism, whereby we are 
 brought together in close unity as one, all in Christ ; it seems to 
 me then our relations to one another, whether they be the ordi- 
 nary relations of business, whether the relations and attachments 
 of domestic life, or whether they be the sacred ties of friendship, 
 become sanctified and hallowed. Now, it has been my experience 
 and my pleasure to be united with your beloved Rector for more 
 than thirty years in the closest ties of friendship, of Christian 
 friendship, and, if I may be permitted, I will briefly run over for 
 you the history of this friendship. 
 
 I was the Rector of a parish twenty miles distant from Brook- 
 lyn, a rectorship beginning the year 1857, when one day, when I 
 was taking my usual ride on horseback in my parish in the morn- 
 ing. I saw approaching me a horse and carriage. Seated in the 
 carriage were a gentleman and lady of very benignant appearance. 
 
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 and, as we drew nearer, the gentleman's face became expressive 
 and his lips gave utterance to the inquiry : " Can you tell me, sir, 
 where I can find the parsonage of Christ Church ? " I told them 
 that I would return to that parsonage, as I was the Rector of that 
 parish. But previous to this affair, back in the past, when your 
 Rector had just entered upon his career as a minister of the Gos- 
 pel, he happened to be in Boston, my home; and in the temporary 
 absence of the Rector, Mr. Clarke, subsequently Bishop Clarke, of 
 Rhode Island, he was asked to take charge of the parish during the 
 month of August. I, seated in the congregation, there first beheld 
 your Rector — a youth just emerged from the seminary — with his 
 first manuscript sermon at hand, and standing in the pulpit of 
 Grace Church, delivering it there to an interested and pleased con- 
 gregation. I then decided to make the sacred ministry my calling 
 in life. I listened for four Sundays, and I never forgot his appear- 
 ance as he stood there before the congregation. I next met him 
 in connection with the incident to which I have just referred. The 
 lady seated by his side as we approached the parsonage at Man- 
 hassett has passed away. Her sanctified and chastened spirit is 
 now in paradise with the blest ; her mortal remains lie just outside 
 the walls of this sacred building. Many very tender memories, of 
 course, must arise as we think of her departure, but we must re- 
 member that in the death of every sainted soul our loss is unspeak- 
 able gain to the one taken from us, and therefore, mingled with our 
 sorrow is that deeper sense of joy and of thankfulness that the 
 struggle of life ended, the rest and peace of paradise are enjoyed. 
 
 From that event an acquaintance began, followed by occasional 
 meetings, growing into a closer acquaintance, and gradually into a 
 closer friendship between myself and my family and your Rector 
 and his family, and during the years that have intervened it has 
 been our pleasure, wherever we may have been dwelling, to welcome, 
 sometimes very unexpectedly, your Rector during those periods of 
 rest in the summer when he left you for a brief space, and went 
 forth into the country. 
 
 I am sincerely grateful that I yielded to his invitation and am 
 
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 here to-night to congratulate him in your presence, as I sincerely 
 do on the distinction that he has gained of being your Rector, or 
 the Rector of St. Mark's for fifty continuous years, and to congratu- 
 late not only with him, but also alongside of him, that excellent 
 and esteemed gentleman your sexton, whom I have known for 
 many years, who has shown me many courteous attentions, and for 
 whom I have sincerest and profoundest respect, on the event which 
 we now so happily celebrate. And to you, boys and girls of the 
 congregation, let me say in conclusion, that I trust, and I can not 
 for one moment doubt, that you will carry with you while life lasts 
 the recollection of this week in the history of St Mark's, and when 
 we of the clergy and the laity who may be now classed among the 
 older members of the community shall have passed ^way, you will 
 remember these pleasant days. And you, the boys of the choir of 
 St. Mark's, I am sure, will recollect it as among the most interest- 
 ing, memorable, and sacred associations that you were able to con- 
 tribute by your voices of sweet sacred songs in the services that 
 have made the occasion so beautiful to us all. 
 
 On Wednesday morning, the i6th, a special service with the 
 holy communion was appointed for those who have entered the 
 sacred ministry from the teaching and influences in St. Mark's. 
 There are twenty-two of these ; sixteen are now at work in parishes. 
 Of these, eight were present in the chancel, and six of them made 
 interesting addresses, referring to the varied incidents, teachings, 
 and influences brought to bear upon their young minds to turn 
 their thoughts to the ministry. 
 
 At a meeting among themselves a resolution was passed, pledg- 
 ing themselves to return to their mother church on every anniver- 
 sary of the jubilee while the present Rector lives, provided it be in 
 their power so to do. 
 
 The services of that communion and reunion formed one of 
 the most pleasant and gratifying incidents of the week. 
 
 By the kindness of the committee of ladies a feast was pre- 
 pared for them after the service. 
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 Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, A. M., October i6th. 
 To the Rev. Samuel Moody Haskins, D. D., Rector St. Mark's 
 Church : 
 
 By a pleasing and providential coincidence, which so often sig- 
 nalizes the Scriptures appointed to be read in due course in the 
 Christian year, the first lesson which opened this glad reunion of 
 St. Mark's Parish, and which has brought us all here together, was 
 the twelfth chapter of the First Book of Samuel. 
 
 We, your sons in- the Gospel of Christ, endeared to you and 
 this holy place, not merely by the ties of parochial relation, but 
 through your instrumentality sharing the same holy priesthood, are 
 here with you before the Lord, and desire to record in a formal 
 way, to which each of us can subscribe his hand, our testimony to 
 the illustrious purity and fidelity with which you have fulfilled your 
 pastoral office here for half a century. 
 
 All the cumulative evidence — of which this our testimony of 
 love and gratitude is but a small part — which have come pouring 
 in to you during this glad week, tell us now, and will keep on tell- 
 ing to all who read of this happy event in the American Church, 
 the story of your long service of unblemished record as a priest 
 and pastor in the Church of Christ. 
 
 We need not, therefore, reiterate the many and varied expres- 
 sions which have come to you in letters from all over the country 
 and from foreign lands, or been spoken here this week by your 
 children in the faith. 
 
 We can divine how your own heart throbs with gratitude to 
 God that he has granted to you and your faithful helper and 
 brother that for which you have prayed and waited, this vision of 
 half a century's completed work, and that you ascribe to the Giver 
 of all good all the praise. We can recall the names of many hon- 
 ored ones now at rest who have been willing helpers in the work 
 of the Lord, Maurice, Meiggs, Waterbury, Octavius Longworth, 
 Coard, Ford, Church, Tuttle, Gearing, Roberts, Hall, and others ; 
 and of those now living— Fleem an, Hegeman, Mailler, Bennett, 
 Tupper, and many others — whose works do follow them, former 
 
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 members of the parish, and we are reminded, by their presence, of 
 those still here full of faith and good works at your right hand, 
 David Longworth, Jonathan Janes, and others; and these hosts 
 of younger ones in the vestry, the choir, the Sunday-school, who 
 are inheriting your gift of faithful and devoted service to the work 
 of the Lord, and as clergy, who look to this parish more or less as 
 a home, we are comforted and provoked to diligence in our 
 calling. 
 
 If there can come any tinge of pain to the joy which must be 
 yours in the contemplation of this service and these fellow-helpers 
 in your now almost completed course, it is to fear that the purity 
 of one's motives or record may ever be questioned in time to come, 
 or that this labor of a life-time should not be appreciated and pre- 
 served by those who come after us. 
 
 It is to assure our own hearts and yours, and those who may 
 inherit this sacred trust, that we recall these names of former years, 
 and desire to record our firm belief that all this result of your and 
 their labor is the gift and grace of God for a special purpose. This 
 work of faith is glorified by the life of God, and clad in the beau- 
 tiful raiment of His touch of love. 
 
 You and we have inherited this grace, and when you and we 
 are gone, God will manifest it still in ways we know not now. It 
 can not be supposed that it was an accident which led to planting 
 this church in a corn-field, or chance which has kept it here, and 
 preserved so faithful and pure a steward of the Gospel ministry at 
 his post until the corn-field has become the heart of a great and 
 mighty city. It can not be supposed that this unbroken record of 
 service in this era of the world's history, on the threshold of this 
 marvelous age, is merely for the honor of one or two men, or this 
 particular parish. No, there is a Providence in it. God has been 
 laying, all these years, through your faithful ministrations, wherever 
 the people of St. Mark's have been scattered, the spiritual stones 
 of His holy Church. More than we can tell, the living principles 
 of pure, apostolic faith, uncorrupted by the world, which have 
 been so strikingly taught and exemplified here, have permeated the 
 
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 Church ; they lie as treasures of righteousness laid up in the hearts 
 of thousands, which God will use when the occasion demands. 
 
 And this house of prayer, like the Temple at Jerusalem of old, 
 will be the rallying place not only for the people who live round 
 about its walls, but for those who are scattered abroad in all lands. 
 
 Many sons in the ministry have gone out from this house, and 
 many more will follow, and it is to strengthen these bonds of broth- 
 erhood in the Gospel, and of fealty to this our parish home, that 
 we have resolved this morning to return hither every year — so 
 many of us as may be permitted — to seek your patriarchal blessing 
 in the remaining years of your sojourn here, and to ask to unite 
 with us all the former members of St. Mark's that these cords of 
 love, which bind us to you and to our parish home, maybe braided 
 together by mutual intercourse, and impart to the children who 
 shall be fed and nourished here something of the depth and sacred- 
 ness of our ties. 
 
 It is not a pleasing thought to us that the time draws near 
 when the Master will say to you " Come up higher," but we shall 
 rejoice with you at the thought of " labor ended," and of the wel- 
 come that awaits you there — a joy unutterable in the contempla- 
 tion of loved ones gone before, and a Saviour's glorious welcome 
 borne on angel's wings — but we shall pray that the prophet's man- 
 tle will fall on the Lord's anointed. 
 
 We enter your study within the sanctuary's walls — a room so 
 endeared to us, and so renowned to the hundreds of clergy in the 
 American Church who have been privileged to enter it — and find 
 on its window these lines of Herbert, which you have adapted to 
 the place and circumstances : 
 
 TO MY SUCCESSOR. 
 
 If thou chance for to find 
 
 A Rectory to thy mind, 
 And built without thy cost, 
 
 Be good to the poor. 
 As God gives thee store, 
 
 And then my labor's not lost. 
 
8s 
 
 If thou chance for to find 
 
 A library to thy mind. 
 And bought without thy cost. 
 
 Be diligent in its use, 
 As God gives thee grace. 
 
 And then my money's not lost. 
 
 The grace of the poet and pastor, which came from God and 
 has descended upon you, will be given in turn to whom He will. 
 " It can not be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." 
 
 We crave your blessing ; we return with it, strengthened and 
 blessed in the work God has given us to do, nerved to greater love 
 and more willing trust for having renewed in this holy place the 
 vows of our sacred calling, and moved to tell the story to others 
 also, that they may share with us and you the joys of faith and 
 service. 
 
 I. D. B. Knickerbocker, 
 
 Bishop of Indiana. 
 
 II. William Paret, 
 
 £isfiop of Maryland. 
 
 III. Legh. Richmond Dickinson. 
 
 IV. Cornelius L. Twing. 
 V. Randall C. Hall. 
 
 VI. Thomas W. Haskins, 
 
 Rector Christ Churchy Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 VII. Daniel C. Roberts, 
 
 Vice-Rector St. PauTs Church, Concord, N. H. 
 
 VIII. Octavius Applegate, 
 
 Rector St. George's Church, Newburgh, N. Y. 
 IX. William R. Mulford, 
 
 Rector Christ Church {Memorial), Pennsylvania. 
 X. J. William Gill, 
 
 In charge St. Paul's Church, Keeseville, N. Y. 
 Daniel V. M. Johnson, ^ 
 
 ' Rector St. Mary's, Brooklyn. [ . . 
 G. W. Porter, \ ^'^"°^^ P^"^"'" 
 
 Lexington, Mass. 
 
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 Wednesday Evening, October i6, i88p. 
 
 An interesting address on confirmation was made by the Right 
 Rev. Charles T. Quintard, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Tennessee. It 
 is omitted here because published in full in our parish paper, " St. 
 Mark's Gleanings." 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. J. CARPENTER SMITH, D. D. 
 
 We have heard to-night that at this chancel-rail 1,212 persons 
 have knelt for the laying on of apostolical hands — 1,212 ! They 
 are not here to-night. Where are they? Ah, brethren, while 
 sitting here to-night, the thought struck me of dear old St. Mark's, 
 Williamsburgh, St. Mark's, Brooklyn, E. D. — why what a stream has 
 been going out from this parish ! We are not a very staying people. 
 We are not a people that settle as a people, and particularly in our 
 cities. We are very migratory. Why, what a constant stream has 
 gone out from this parish ! My^.beloved brother knows not the 
 good he has done ; he knows not the immense building, the build- 
 ing of the spiritual existence in God's temple ; he knows not the 
 building that has been reared by his prayers, his faithfulness, and 
 his efforts. 
 
 I congratulate you, my reverend brother, to-night. I can only 
 say to you that you little know the influence of your persistently 
 remaining here in this one parish year after year. I will not say 
 what, in the celebration of my fortieth anniversary, held at St. 
 George's, Flushing, was said to me : " That it must have been a 
 great deal of a forbearance on the part of the people for a pastor to 
 stay so long in one parish." I know it has been no forbearance in 
 this case. I quite feel, right reverend father, the force of your 
 eulogy of our reverend brother for his faithfulness to the Church. 
 With him baptism means something ; with him confirmation has 
 ever meant something; with him the holy communion has ever 
 meant something ; in other words, they were realities. He knows. 
 
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 perhaps, better than any, just what I mean. But years and years 
 ago I happened to get hold of a little book of his ; it was a book 
 in reference to early confirmation and communion. I read that 
 book, and I found that I had been mistaken. I confess it here to- 
 night before you ; and I have an object in that confession, and it 
 is simply to enforce what I know has been far better enforced by 
 him eloquently and earnestly and with prayer, too, from this place ; 
 and that is just to believe in the reality of what you profess to do, 
 . to believe at the font and at the laying on of hands and at the holy 
 table — believe them to be realities. 
 
 Whose heart did not feel to-night as our right reverend father 
 told us of that eternity ? Oh ! how precious and how sweet the 
 eternity of the great P'atherhood of God. Do we believe it ? We 
 may believe it as a mere article of faith, but we do not half believe 
 it in our heart. God is our Father, and you bring your children 
 to the font there to be baptized into the name of the Father and 
 the Son and the Holy Ghost. God's Fatherhood is there recog- 
 nized, recognized by the Church on earth, recognized— if there be 
 any truth in God's word — recognized by God. For what is done 
 here on earth, the blessed Lord assures us, shall be done in heaven. 
 Bring the children to the font and dedicate them to God, and what 
 then .'' Why remove them away teaching them to love the world 
 and its pleasures "i No ; bring up those children as Christians, 
 teach them as Christians, take them from the font believing that 
 God now is their Father, and there can be no possible mistake 
 about it, for the great truth has been revealed. Very well, I say 
 then that I learned that lesson from my reverend brother, and let 
 me say, moreover, I put it into practice. The Church's idea and 
 the scriptural idea is the child is made a brother of Christ, a 
 child of God, the inheritor of the kingdom of heaven henceforth. 
 So far, then, the child is reconciled to God, the Father. We are 
 to stand here to preach not that you seek to be reconciled to God. 
 Let me say emphatically — I can say it from what our right reverend 
 father told us to-night — not to be reconciled to God. No ; it is 
 our blessed peace made at baptism, and my brother has even felt 
 
it, no doubt to his heart's joy, when he has gone to the poor wan- 
 derer that is abandoned and said to him : My dear brother, God 
 is reconciled to you ; God's face has never been turned away from 
 you from the time that you were removed from the baptismal font ; 
 Godr's face has always been turned toward you, but you should not 
 have turned your back to Him. Now the apostle tells us : " Ye 
 are in God reconciled, unto the Lord and to Himself." There- 
 fore He said to us : " Ye are embassadors of Christ, embassadors 
 of God, persuading men in Christ's stead as if the Lord Jesus 
 Christ stood with us, be ye reconciled to God." Very well, we 
 take that great and glorious truth, and it is a very simple one, 
 bringing the whole system down in its simplicity, and we take it 
 in its connection with that font and the laying on of hands, and 
 with the Lord's supper, and we find it to be one constant teaching 
 of the fatherhood of God. 
 
 I could not, as I stopped here to-night to enter this church, I 
 could not but think that whenever I have passed this building it 
 has been with a feeling that there is dear old St. Mark's, peace and 
 plenteousness and God's blessing ever be with her ! Here you are 
 in the midst of a dense population, and I trust, my dear brother 
 that many years may be spared to you yet in the world, years of 
 usefulness here. I can not express any better wish than that those 
 years may be as happy as the last fifty years you have spent here 
 in St. Mark's ; and I can but feel that you can say now, this week, 
 this jubilee week, is the crowning week of your life. But we can 
 not spare you yet, this congregation can not spare you, and I 
 believe, my dear friends, the prayer of every heart here to-night, 
 young and old, is that long may the reverend Rector of St. Mark's 
 Church, the only Rector it has ever known, long may his life be 
 spared to minister before you, and our prayer may be that the 
 grace which has enabled him thus far to minister in all these last 
 fifty years may be with him, to labor with the same constant faith- 
 fulness and earnestness with which he has spent the last fifty years 
 here. 
 
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 Thursday Evening, October if, i88g. 
 §oig ®oinmumon. 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP LITTLEJOHN, 
 D. D., LL. D. 
 
 My dearly beloved brother has already spoken and interpreted 
 the thought of the occasion uppermost in every mind. I have my- 
 self very great pleasure in uniting with you to-night in this one of 
 the series of commemorative services which are being held during 
 the present week. Each one of these services, I am sure, has had 
 its own peculiar features of interest, and all of them taken together 
 can not fail to produce an abiding influence. I take it that the 
 object of these services has been twofold ; first, to set forth the 
 honor and dignity and fruitfulness of a priesthood which has been 
 exercised amid the same surroundings and under the same associa- 
 tions for half a century ; and next to gather up, as one would 
 gather the fruit in the harvest field into sheaves, the results that 
 have been accomplished here by the co-operative labors of the 
 priesthood and the people of St. Mark's. 
 
 Beloved, fifty years is not a very long time in the history of a 
 parish. It is in this country, where everything grows so fast and 
 decays so fast, and where we see the spirit of change working itself 
 out in all things about us ; but to one who is familiar with parish 
 institutions and with parish life and activities in the Mother Church, 
 fifty years is but a short time. You go there and you find those 
 old parishes rooted and grounded like the oaks in the fields, with 
 the prestige and the vicissitudes of a thousand years, and yet to- 
 day flourishing in undecaying strength and bringing forth fruits 
 richly unto the praise and glory of God. But fifty years is a good 
 while in one man's life. It includes, on the whole, ordinarily, the 
 full period of his activities, and yet it does not seem to have done 
 so in the case of my dear brother. He is a kind of a surprise and 
 wonder to us all. I have sometimes thought of asking him what 
 
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 spring of health he visits. I can not understand how he manages 
 to keep so fresh and so full of life as he does. It would seem as 
 though, while he has reached the period at which the average man's 
 energy and power to labor begin to decay in most of us, it does not 
 seem to be the case with him. 
 
 I heard a very excellent lady remark the other day when walk- 
 ing in the street, that he had been for fifty years the active pastor 
 of a congregation, and yet that he moved along with a free and 
 full step in elastic vigor and in excellent spirits. I said to this 
 lady who made the remark, " It is true ; that is my dear brother. 
 We call him venerable, but we do it out of courtesy ; there is cer- 
 tainly nothing in his appearance or in his way of doing things that 
 would naturally secure for him a title that usually belongs to ad- 
 vanced age." And yet, my dear brethren, the time must come 
 when these words will be words of memory. Institutions live 
 while individuals pass away, and we must, to-night, while paying 
 due honor to this pastorate of fifty years, turn away from that for a 
 time and think not only of the fifty years that have been counted 
 off in the history of this parish, but if we may do so, the fifty 
 years that lie ahead of it. Things have changed about us in this 
 neighborhood. Amid these changes and with the results before us 
 that have been secured in this field, the question naturally comes 
 up, What is to be the future of this parish .' I have often asked 
 this question as I have visited St. Mark's within the past ten years. 
 Well, now, it seems to me that the one thing to be looked at most 
 seriously, most considerately, most earnestly, is the provision of 
 the means necessary to perpetuate the life of St. Mark's, to supply 
 it with the resources and the means that shall enable it to continue 
 these blessed labors far ahead into the future. Souls will be here — 
 there is no doubt about that — and yet those who may wish to 
 come within these walls may be made up largely of those who may 
 be unable to contribute largely to the maintenance of the parish 
 church. Therefore, it is well for us to forecast the future in this 
 locality and to see to it, as far as we are able, that a suitable en- 
 dowment be obtained to maintain St. Mark's and to give it such a 
 
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 hold upon the future as will secure to it the ability to continue the 
 work that has been so nobly carried on during the half-century 
 that is behind us. Yet, as I have said, fifty years is a great while 
 in the life of an individual, but it is apparently a short period in 
 the life of a Christian parish. Now, when we think of the parish, 
 we, of course, can not help but recollect what goes with it and 
 what it implies ; first, the Church catholic, then the national 
 Church or the provincial church, then the diocesan church, then 
 the church in the parish. Well, as you know, the Church catholic 
 and the diocesan church are alone of divine institution. All other 
 aspects of the Church may be developed under the law of expedi- 
 ency and with a view to the more effective administration of its 
 affairs. These are matters of human arrangement and of human 
 contrivance. The parish is one of them. Let us not suppose for 
 a moment that it is in the sense of the Church catholic itself or of 
 the church of the diocese, which is the ecclesiastical unit of the 
 Church's growth and life ; let us not suppose that the parish stands 
 upon that ground. The parish in its own particular locality helps 
 the diocese. It is a local fellowship of Christians who are united 
 together for the purposes of Christian worship. Christian instruc- 
 tion, and Christian work ; it is a school of Christian training and 
 of Christian culture ; it is a brotherhood in which it is supposed 
 that in fulfillment of the law of Christ, those who believe in it, will 
 bear one another's burdens and so fulfill that law. All these things 
 are implied in the very existence of the parish which in these 
 respects reflects the life and mission of the Church catholic. 
 Now, it is sometimes asked, What is a live church, a live parish ? 
 Well, that is a live parish, I take it, which is blessed of God with 
 an intelligent, with a scholarly, if you please, but certainly with 
 an earnest and a faithful pastorate; that is the first condition. 
 Like priest like people. The second condition is that every 
 member of it shall be alive unto his duty to God and to his 
 neighbor, and shall show that he is alive by seeking to minis- 
 ter to other souls upon the troublesome waves of this present 
 world the precious gift of redemption in Christ Jesus as he has 
 
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 received it. These are the essential conditions of a living body 
 in Christ. 
 
 " Now, beloved, it is the one precious satisfaction to me to- 
 night when I speak in this way that I simply say what has been 
 amply illustrated in the history of St. Mark's. On the whole, you 
 have had such a pastorate. I am not here to utter empty words 
 of eulogy. I am not here to praise my dear brother, though he 
 deserves it. He will be the first to say, "Not unto me, but unto 
 thee O God be the praise for what has been wrought." And so, 
 my beloved brother, in regard to yourself, whatever has been done 
 here, you will be the last to take praise to yourself. You will feel 
 that you have been simply God's servant and have been bound to do 
 His work, and that whatever the work accomplished here it has no 
 power, no significance, no real virtue, except as Christ has been in 
 it. Brethren, God grant that as we are led on, step by step, more 
 and more into a devout comprehension of the meaning of the 
 Saviour's life and ministry as reproduced in the life and ministry 
 of His ordained servants, and go more and more into an apprecia- 
 tion and realization of His presence within the Church catholic 
 here on earth, so we may be led to a higher and higher sense of 
 our personal obligation to do what we can to build up Christ's 
 kingdom here on earth, and to spread it abroad among men. In 
 virtue of our baptism, and of the laying on of hands, and of our 
 participation in the blessed sacrament of the body and blood of 
 Christ, each one of us has written on our very soul, in letters of 
 inextinguishable light as with a diamond's point, the great com- 
 mission given, first, to the apostles, and through them to those 
 who were to be their successors unto the end of the world, and 
 through these to the living priesthood of to-day and to all the 
 faithful in Christ Jesus, viz., "Go ye into all the world and preach 
 the Gospel to every creature, baptizing them in the name of the 
 Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. I say in virtue of that 
 commission, we of the clergy and you of the laity are to go into 
 this neighborhood, into these very streets, and so, beginning at 
 Jerusalem, are to go forth unto the ends of the earth, carrying the 
 
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 message that we know in whom we have believed, and that this is 
 eternal life to know God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent to 
 bear witness to Himself. 
 
 In closing, I beg to refer again to one thing that I intended to 
 make most prominent in the remarks which I should offer. See to 
 it, beloved, that the old ship here that bears the honored name of 
 St. Mark shall be duly equipped for her voyage — that she shall 
 keep her canvas taut and fresh, that no bilge-water get into the 
 hold, and that the flag at the mast-head shall bear the name of the 
 eternal Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Now to keep St. 
 Mark's in good sailing condition in all waters and under all skies, 
 every member, every friend, and, as far as may be, every one who 
 in by-gone years has been blessed with her nurturing care must 
 unite in the common effort to provide a suitable endowment. It is 
 the hope that this will be done that gives the greatest interest to 
 this series of services. 
 
 God grant that such may be the result of these united efforts 
 and of these social reunions, and of these gatherings around this 
 venerable altar ! 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. CLARENCE BUEL. 
 
 Reverend father and brethren and friends, if I were to ask 
 myself the question why I am here to-night with you, the answer 
 that would come most readily to my mind and my lips would be 
 this : Because of the deep and life-long love which I have borne 
 to your beloved Rector, the Rector of this church, and which dates 
 back to a very early period in my life. I might almost claim the 
 privilege of being numbered among his spiritual children. I might 
 almost feel jealous that I was not permitted myself (through no 
 fault of my brother's) to be of the number of those who gathered 
 with him in the sweet service of yesterday (Wednesday, October 
 1 6th), for I can certainly, in looking back to my own life and prep- 
 aration for the holy ministry, go back to the time when his hospi- 
 table home afforded me a shelter, when I had not to look beyond 
 
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 the bounds of the house in which I found a home for an example 
 of all that was true and good and inspiring in the priestly life, for 
 that first preparatory discipline which I was permitted to receive 
 as associated with him in the Sunday-school work of this church, 
 and for many words of earnest friendly counsel and suggestions 
 and advice, but not only then, but from time to time have come to 
 me from his loving and friendly lips. These reasons alone would 
 have sufi&ced to bring me here and to place me with you as one of 
 the congregation joining with heart and soul in the services of this 
 evening. 
 
 But why am I here to speak to you ? I can hardly give an an- 
 swer to that. I had not the slightest idea that anything of the kind 
 was expected of me until I received the word of command from the 
 lips of my brother, just before we came into the chancel, and that 
 perhaps will permit me to say to you, that having had the experi- 
 ence in life which was not solely confined to the Church, to services 
 in the Church militant on earth, but also to other military service, 
 the words of command come to me with very great power. 
 
 I read to you from the lesson this evening the directions which 
 were given to the children of Israel in preparation for the depart- 
 ure from the land of bondage, the command which was given by 
 God their Master to His people^ By and by, if we had read a 
 little further on in the history of the Israelites of their departure 
 from Egypt, we should have found that they came confronted 
 with a great fright — after them the pursuing foe, in front were 
 the waters of the Red Sea. Apparently there was no escape, and 
 their hearts began to tremble with fear, and then there came from 
 the same Divine source, from the great Master in whom they had 
 gone forth from their Egypt, another word of command, and that 
 was "Go forward"; and because that word, too, has been rung 
 in the ears and responded to by the heart of my brother, there 
 has been such a great share of success given to him in this work 
 by the blessing of God to whom his life and service have been 
 given. And yet there is one other text which, I thought, on this oc- 
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 comes with a solemn and sacred interest, " Go work in my vine- 
 yard." Ah, beloved friends, it is given to very few of us when 
 working for Christ as ministers and stewards of His Gospel, to see 
 here on earth such abundant fruits of our sowing as have been per- 
 mitted to him. Many are called upon to sow, as it were, in the 
 dark, scarcely seeing where the seeds fall, feeling, it may be, the 
 hand of the Divine source guiding them, knowing that no seed 
 which is sown in obedience to His will can fail to be otherwise 
 than blessings in His sight, and yet, after all, going, as it were, 
 blindly, not permitted to see what the fruits of their sowing are. It 
 is another case then of devout and deep thankfulness, and adding 
 greatly to the joy of this occasion, that he has been permitted to 
 see as the result of so many years of faithful ministry so much of 
 the fruits of this faithful sowing. 
 
 The Bishop spoke, and with memories of the seas still lingering 
 in his mind and heart, most earnestly of the duty which is resting 
 upon you to preserve this church, to keep its sail taut and exposed 
 to catch every breath of the wind — of the favoring wind — and to 
 see that the work which has been so inaugurated and prospered and 
 brought to such a high degree of success, shall go on, shall be con- 
 tinued to be kept up until the end. And he has spoken of the 
 flag which should be nailed to the mast. I knew of one with 
 whom I was for a time associated in that other warfare of which 
 I have spoken, the chaplain of our own church, a very eccentric 
 man — a faithful minister and steward in the Church of Christ, but a 
 very eccentric man — who, besides the regular flag which was car- 
 ried by the regiment, had a flag of his own. It had the three 
 colors — the red, the white, and the blue — and yet in the center of 
 that flag was very conspicuously a bright-red cross, and as he 
 said, acting as chaplain, for he was chaplain in the regiment. 
 " There," said he, " is the red, white, and blue and the cross of 
 Jesus Christ, and if we can't conquer under that flag, then we 
 had better lay down our arms." The flag that is nailed to the 
 mast-head of this church is the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 It has been prospered under that banner, and so long as it is 
 
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 maintained, so long as it is kept at the mast-head, the work 
 which has been begun and carried on so faithfully and success- 
 fully here, will be prospered by the great Master, under whom we 
 all serve. 
 
 Friday Evening, October i8, i88(). 
 ittorriagc— Nine funbrcb anb Setentjj ffionples tnorrieb. 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP PARET. 
 
 Dear friends, I am glad that I have been at so many of these 
 pleasant evening services, and I ftar that my repeated addresses 
 to you may perhaps grow stale, and that some newer face might in- 
 terest you more, and yet there are ties, more than one, that bring 
 me here to make it pleasant for you — at least pleasant for me ; and 
 yet, much as I have enjoyed the service, I was wondering to-day 
 whether they might not perhaps have been even more happily ar- 
 ranged. I thought of the number that had been named as baptized 
 here by these hands. Suppose Monday had been made the day for 
 gathering only those who had been baptized here or by this rector, 
 and there are enough of them yet left to fill this church four times 
 over ; suppose the next day had been taken not only to speak 
 about confirmation, but specially to invite here those who have 
 been confirmed in this church, and again the number would have 
 filled this church three times over ; and suppose to-night that it 
 had been able in any way to gather (though I fear they are too far 
 scattered — we could not gather them all) most all of those who have 
 here been united in marriage, and again, as we have heard the 
 numbers to-night, we see that there would have been enough to fill 
 this building twice over. Yet I fear it would have been impossi- 
 ble to say what interest those associations would have added into 
 the service. For myself, there is special interest to-night. On the 
 evening when baptism gave the key-note of our thoughts and 
 words, I said to you that forty-three years ago I was baptized in 
 
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 this church by your beloved Rector. And, although it was not in 
 this church (for custom makes it not always possible for the bride- 
 groom to command the place where he should be married) though 
 not in this church, yet by the same loving hands and voice was 
 the marriage service said in my own case, and from baptism to 
 marriage we were bound together. I might have named other 
 relations (for he stood at my side when I was consecrated to be 
 Bishop), but that thought, that remembrance, makes it especially 
 pleasant for me to be here to-night. 
 
 Only one thought more, in which your Rector has anticipated 
 me. I want to say something about that touching lesson, the 
 first lesson that was read, with its wonderful simplicity and majesty 
 in telling of the arrangements for and the completion of the mar- 
 riage of Isaac and Rebecca, but as I heard it read this evening, my 
 mind went back to those words in the marriage service once 
 spoken to me and often spoken by me to others, "not unadvisedly 
 or lightly, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the 
 fear of God," and I thought what a wondrous power there was in 
 them and what a wondrous explanation of them we find in that 
 chapter. 
 
 Your Rector has during these long years been with you in many 
 a scene of sorrow, trial, and suffering ; and it is well for him and 
 well for you, and well for us all, that this has not been the only 
 side of your life in which he has part ; that while he has wept with 
 those that wept, he has been permitted also to " rejoice with them 
 that did rejoice," and that even your happinesses, your gladnesses, 
 your pleasures, and the sweet associations of your old homes and 
 families have something in them to associate you with him and to 
 keep him in your memory and to make him one of the instruments 
 or means through which you thank God not only for passing pleas- 
 ures, but for those lasting comforts of happiness which brighten the 
 home and hallow it and make it sacred in all its relations to the 
 life and service of God. 
 
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 ADDRESS BY THE REV. S. M. HASKINS. 
 
 We began the services of this great jubilee week on Sunday- 
 last with the subject " The Church of the Living God " ; on 
 Monday, " the Sacred Ministry of the Church " ; on Tuesday night, 
 " The Holy Baptism " ; on Wednesday night, " Confirmation " ; on 
 Thursday night, " The Holy Communion " ; at which times I men- 
 tioned the number of those who had thus been especially brought 
 under my ministry. To-night, we come to that other subject of 
 blessed " Matrimony." 
 
 There have been about nine hundred and ninety couples mar- 
 ried in this parish during the half-century, nearly two thousand 
 souls. Now, who can estimate the happiness or who can enumer- 
 ate the fruit of those marriages ? If we count, as they usually do 
 in taking a census, five to a family, there would be more than oc- 
 cupied the whole village of Williamsburgh when this church was 
 built ; there would be over forty-five hundred, and who shall esti- 
 mate the happiness that has gone out to those married couples ! 
 I am sure that it has been my privilege so far as I know to have 
 been the instrument of uniting those together that have been happy, 
 those that have sanctified the relations, those that have been 
 blessed in this holy estate in which God joined our first parents in 
 the very first institution that He established on earth. So far as I 
 know, I have heard of but very few unhappy marriages. 
 
 We have heard just now the chapter of that beautiful courtship 
 and marriage of Isaac and Rebecca. Faithful Abraham has been 
 held up to us through all the Scriptures, as the father of faith, not 
 only under the old dispensation, but we are to look to Abraham 
 as the father of the faithful and follow his example through all the 
 ages. Now, I wish our young men and maidens would take Abra- 
 ham for an example. I wish they would be as Abraham ; I wish 
 their parents would do as Abraham did ; and I wish that they 
 themselves would do as Abraham's servant did when he came into 
 that land. He committed the whole thing unto God, knowing well 
 
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 that if he prayed earnestly God would answer his prayers, and he 
 made the very words known unto God, and if those words were 
 answered according to his prayer, then he knew that there could 
 be no difficulty in the choice, there could be no mistake ; and so 
 it was ; and how blessed they were made you all know. Never do 
 we marry a couple in the Church, and have not for generations — for 
 ages, I may say — without putting those two faithful ones, Isaac 
 and Rebecca, as a pattern and example to follow. 
 
 Now, I say to you, imitate this faith. I wish the young men 
 and maidens would look more on high for guidance and directions 
 in this important step so important to all ; and if they would only 
 commit the keeping of their bodies and their souls to God and pray 
 for His direction and grace they will find the answer to their 
 prayers. Then we would not have these miserable divorces that 
 are occurring everywhere. The law, I am sorry to say, the law of 
 the land has made it very easy to separate those whom God has 
 joined together. The law has put its finger upon the will of God, 
 and therefore has marred the happiness of the human race wonder- 
 fully, and it becomes every Christian person, every member of the 
 Church of God to hold strictly up to the law given by our blessed ■ 
 Lord and Saviour and to love each other and to learn from Him, 
 the Divine pattern of love, charity, forbearance, kindness, and obedi- 
 ence ; and if this, I say, is done, much more happiness will prevail 
 throughout the world. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. ELLIS C. STEVENS, Ph. D. 
 
 Dear People of St. Mark's Parish : 
 
 I CAME here to-night desiring to testify, in so far as being with 
 you can testify at such a time, of an extremely real interest in this 
 occasion so far as you are concerned and so far as my reverend 
 father is concerned. 
 
 I did not expect to say anything to you, and yet I am very glad 
 that an opportunity is given for me to say just a word as to what I 
 feel to-night. And when I was asked to speak to you about this 
 
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 subject of matrimony, several thoughts occurred to me at once, and 
 one thought was this. You have heard — it is about us in the 
 papers, in the press, we hear it mentioned lightly sometimes — that 
 marriage is a failure ? Is it ? No ; you and I do not think that 
 here to-night. 
 
 One hundred years ago the philosopher of the French, Rous- 
 seau, endeavored to establish the principle that civil government 
 was based upon what he called social contract, and by that he 
 meant that it was an imaginary position ; that, sometimes at some 
 imaginary period, men had got together and by general consent 
 had established civil government. But the schools of the centuries 
 since have gone to the bottom of this matter of the sources of 
 government, and have found not what the philosopher had reached. 
 They found that government rests in fact upon the family, that 
 first of all there is the family and then from that the nation. You 
 and I are of one blood because we are of one race and come from 
 one Anglo-Saxon stock, centuries old now, but after all that one 
 same blood still. 
 
 But looking over that record of the Old Testament, how we 
 find the development of this very thin'g, of that promise to Abra- 
 ham and his family, to that chosen people, still the same family, 
 and then to that house of David, still a branch of the same family, 
 and at last to the Holy Mother and to the cradle, the manger in 
 Bethlehem — it is of the family, through God's promise a family. 
 Then when that saint of the highest tells us of His Church, which 
 is the bride of Christ, and I read in this announcement of these 
 services that it is the golden wedding of the Church, rector and 
 sexton of St. Mark's, it seems to me that though singular, it is well 
 chosen. If it be true, if the relations be as God meant them to be, 
 these relations of the family are the same. How apt then that 
 there should be this thought at this time for these same relations 
 of pastor and people, through these long years that have passed 
 this present festival in all its sacred ties ? 
 
 You have doubtless read that beautiful poem of Longfellow's, 
 "The Hanging of the Crane," and you know how that young 
 
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 couple, just freshly married — how they began to keep their house- 
 hold, the hanging of the crane, with all thoughts attaching to that 
 beautiful old poem. Then, finally, as they themselves reach man- 
 hood the new ties emanate once again, and then the little grand- 
 children, and at last you have the old couple, gray hairs, that 
 beautiful poem, the Anglo-Saxon poem of Longfellow. It seems 
 to me, dear beloved, to-night that here we have such a golden 
 wedding in sacred thought, for here is the mother of many churches 
 — St. Mark's. There was only one in that early day, but you 
 have seen households branch out from this, and you have had other 
 children parishes hereabout, that have greatly grown up since St. 
 Mark's began its life, and here at last this golden wedding and the 
 honored and aged, and God knows here are the kindly memories 
 of many children and many sacred ties. Yes, do you know, I 
 think that this commemoration to-night touches the heart very 
 closely, every one of us. That twofold relation of manhood and 
 motherhood ! What ties of sacredness that blessed name mother- 
 hood brings up ? and the fatherhood, what better name for ideal 
 manhood is there than the name of fatherhood ? all the families 
 you know of earth and the great Our Father above us all ; and then 
 childhood, its depending growth and its fresh vigor. Ah ! how 
 many ties to-night do these thoughts bring to me and to your 
 rector ! 
 
 It is a great privilege to me to be allowed to be here. When 
 this church began and this blessed pastorate began, I was not in 
 this world. There are many children here who have risen up to 
 call him blessed. God spare him that there may be many more, 
 and I can not let such an occasion as this go by without saying to 
 you that next to the Bishop in matters of honor and of veneration, 
 and not merely you here, but we outside and inclusive of this 
 congregation in the city, in the diocese, have a most keen in- 
 terest in this rector whom we call ours, as well as you call him 
 yours, in many senses. Most of my ministry has been passed here 
 in this city, and I may, if you allow me, just to say one word of 
 truth on this occasion, that during these years, God knows it is the 
 
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 simple truth, that his faithful ministry here has been at least to me, 
 speaking for myself, a great inducement, a great example of what 
 the ministry ought to be in faithfulness to the holy Catholic Church, 
 and in faithfulness to the ministrations of God's people, in all these 
 things that make that character, which we love, and which I may 
 say I love. God bless him, God bless him, dear father in Christ ! 
 God spare him to us, the larger family, this parish and those out- 
 side the parish! God bless and spare you for many years yet to 
 come, with many blessings ! 
 
 Saturday, October igth, i88g. 
 
 To the Children of the Parish : 
 
 My dear Children — Your day has been placed the last but 
 one of these anniversary days, not because you are the last in my 
 thoughts, my love, my prayers, or my labors. By no means ! My 
 love for the lambs of my flock has been so great and so abiding 
 that through all the fifty years past I have never been absent from 
 my children's service Sunday afternoons when I have been in town. 
 And through all these years, every Sunday, besides the instruction 
 from me in the catechism, you have also had a short sermon in 
 explanation of your Sunday lesson adapted to your understanding, 
 and sending home to your minds, hearts, and consciences the doc- 
 trinal and practical teachings of your lessons. Thus have I ever 
 endeavored to fulfill the command of the Good Shepherd, " Feed 
 my Lambs." This teaching has brought forth such good fruit in 
 after life that the rich rewards are more precious to me than would 
 be the gold of Ophir. 
 
 I have baptized not only many of you, but many of your pa- 
 rents, and some of your grandparents. And it has always been a 
 great joy of heart to me to have parents bringing their children to 
 me for baptism — coming, perhaps, from other parts of the city or 
 from New York, because I baptized the father or the mother, or 
 
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 united both in holy matrimony. Such are some of the pleasant 
 associations that this anniversary awakens in those that have gone 
 out from us. I trust, dear children, that you or many of you, will 
 continue your membership with St. Mark's until you attain to 
 manhood or womanhood, and prove the strength and support of 
 this parish of your childhood. But if not, I know you will never 
 forget the teaching you have here received. You will never desert 
 the Church in which you were baptized. You will never stray into 
 other folds of diverse worship. But wherever God's providence 
 shall direct your lot, you will be helpers and upbuilders of the 
 Church of Christ. May your lives be happy and useful, strong 
 and virtuous, and may your happiness increase year by year until 
 it becomes a perpetual crown of joy and rejoicing in your old age 
 by looking back upon a life spent in doing good to others and glori- 
 fying God in your bodies and your sculs which are His. 
 
 I know, children, you will never forget the teachings, the 
 teachers, and the pastor of dear old St. Mark's, nor the many pleas- 
 ant occasions you. have had within her walls, her Sunday-school 
 rooms, and around her Christmas trees. 
 
 Now, children, the teachers are waiting for you in the Sunday- 
 school room with their tables spread with good things for you. 
 
 Sunday Morning, October 20, i88g. 
 ADDRESS BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP HOWE. 
 
 I COULD not resist the opportunity and the temptation to come 
 this morning and congratulate my brother and the present mem- 
 bers of the congregation who have known him these many years 
 upon their happy union and upon this long-continued ministry. 
 
 Dear friends, it is a very unusual thing that a clergyman is set- 
 tled for fifty years nowadays. The clergy are restless, and changes 
 very frequently occur. I think, as a Bishop, that it has been rather 
 
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 my experience that the average time of settlement in a parish, even 
 in our own Church, is about as long as the longest that is allowed in 
 the Methodist denomination, or three years — and here is a reverend 
 and venerable brother who has been with his people for fifty years. 
 He alludes to the fact tl]at he was in my church in Roxbury, Mass , 
 in 1839. His brother, who was then the warden and the superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday-school, was, I have reason to believe, in- 
 strumental in bringing him into the Episcopal Church, in which he 
 was not born, and directing his thoughts to the sacred ministry, 
 but his decision to enter the ministry was brought about by Bishop 
 Alonzo Potter, who was then Rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston. 
 As he has told you, it was my fortune, my duty, to baptize the 
 Rev. Thomas Wilson Haskins, who has taken part in the services 
 this morning, when he was a little infant. When he was taken to 
 his home, his father took him up in his arms and said : " Who 
 knows that this may not be a Bishop in the Church ? " He is not 
 a Bishop in the Church, but he has been a faithful and laborious 
 Presbyter through many years. 
 
 And here this dear brother has ministered through all these 
 years in Williamsburgh, and has seen the many changes throughout 
 this portion of the city, and is brought into intercourse with multi- 
 tudes of minds and various conditions of men ; and this younger 
 brother, who was brought into the ministry through the influence 
 of your Rector — brought up, 1 may say, almost in his house, spend- 
 ing many years under his supervision, he is now ministering over 
 on the Pacific coast, carrying the Gospel of the blessed God to the 
 people in that region ; and so influences go forth, here and there, 
 and we know not where they will terminate. 
 
 What influences have gone forth from this church, how many 
 people have been brought into the fold of the kingdom of God 
 through this ministry ! How many sad hearts have been com- 
 forted in times of tribulation ! How many, just on the verge of 
 the grave, have had the veil lifted and the light of eternity brought 
 in upon their souls, to their comfort and the blessed prospects of 
 that life, illuminating even the dark chamber of death ! 
 
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 And so, dear friends, by the preaching of the Gospel, by the 
 influence of one Christian upon another, one Christian minister 
 upon a congregation, influences go forth and extend themselves on 
 every side, from generation to generation, and they will not termi- 
 nate until the great and final day when we shall all come to stand 
 before God. 
 
 You are now celebrating the influence of your pastor, and his 
 influence has wrought upon some of you, and you are exercising 
 influences from day to day. You are teaching your children, you 
 have taught children that have gone forth and are now the parents 
 of other children ; and so, from generation to generation, the truth 
 which is received and exemplified by one Christian's influence upon 
 another. Are you sufficiently conscious of this ? Do you realize 
 the responsibilities of your part, and are you endeavoring, day by 
 day, so to impress this upon those who are around you that they 
 win rise up and call you blessed in the future ? Ah ! how long 
 we live ! It seems but a short period from childhood to the grave, 
 but after we are gone and are no longer among men, we leave our 
 influence upon those whom we leave behind. 
 
 God help us, all of us, so to fulfill our office and lot in life that 
 at last we may meet our Father in heaven with joy and not with 
 grief ! 
 
 May God bless you and your pastor with still remaining years, 
 and make the shadow of the evening to come down in sweetness 
 quietness, and peace upon him and his ministry ! 
 
 Sunday Evening, October 20, i88g. 
 ADDRESS OF THE REV. THOMAS W. HASKINS. 
 
 I TRUST, my dear friends of St. Mark's, that I may be privi- 
 leged to be with you again before I return to my home, so far 
 distant on the Pacific coast, and to say my farewell words next 
 
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 Sunday, as I was privileged to give my greetings last Sunday, but 
 as you may be well aware, the emotions which have filled my heart 
 and mind in the blessed services of the past week, the associations 
 and memories that have been revived, are very precious, and I 
 trust I may be able to communicate those feelings and emotions 
 to the praise of this parish to the people I am privileged to serve 
 elsewhere. 
 
 But I am glad again to-night to have the opportunity of ex- 
 pressing here, without previous thought, some of those emotions 
 that have come to me from time to time as I have taken part in 
 these services. One is the double nature of all these things of 
 earth, at least of these things of earth that relate to the blessed 
 Gospel and the ministrations that we have received here, antici- 
 patory of the greater joys that are to come by and by. 
 
 It is true that all things are double, one against another. There 
 is the visible and the invisible ; there is the material and the 
 spiritual ; there is the type and the antitype; there is the male and 
 the female. We do not comprehend the perfection of these things 
 until the two are brought together and make one perfect, true 
 v/hole. It is a fortunate thing — rather providential than fortu- 
 nate — one that is pre-ordained in the Scriptures, that this jubi- 
 lee occurs on the fiftieth year, five times ten, which symbolizes 
 perfection half attained ; for the number in the Scriptures for 
 perfection is ten, or ten times ten, one hundred, the multiple of 
 ten. 
 
 And I am sure, my friends, if we should go away — those of us 
 who really feel the privileges that we have had here — if we should 
 go away from these jubilee services, thinking only of the past, only 
 of a retrospective joy, we should be, as was said by one of our 
 brethren here this afternoon to the children in the Sunday-school, 
 like Ephraim, " a cake not turned " ; for there is to this jubilee 
 service a prospective as well as a retrospective view. 
 
 I have been thinking of the joy that must have come to the 
 Jews, when, on the fiftieth year of jubilee, they were gathered 
 together and all the imperfections, the irregularities, and the sins 
 
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 of half a century were blotted out and forgiven, when the order 
 of life was so readjusted, that they began over new again. And 
 so I thought when on Friday night the subject was " matrimony " 
 that it was a fortunate thing that that subject was put in as the last 
 of those to be treated here ; for the consummation of all the joys 
 and the glories, and the reward that is to come to the Christian is 
 not in the joys of married life here — those are only a parable and 
 figure of the joys that are to come at the marriage of the Lamb. 
 I wanted to get up that night and speak concerning Christ and the 
 Church, for that beautiful story of Eliezer, the servant of Abraham, 
 seeking a wife for Isaac, has a double meaning. It is a true history, 
 but it is not merely history, it is also a prophecy, for the history 
 and the prophecy are two things, one against the other. Abraham 
 is a type of the Father, Isaac of the Son, and Eliezer of the prophets 
 and servants of all ages who are calling the Church, the "willing 
 and obedient " ones who respond to the call of God, while Re- 
 becca is the type of the Church, and her meeting with Isaac and 
 the marriage and dwelling in Sarah's tent is the type of the second 
 coming of Christ, the prophecy of the time coming when we shall 
 have the great jubilee, " the rest that remaineth for the people of 
 God " at the marriage of the Son of God with His Church. How 
 can the heart picture the joys of that time when He comes to take 
 His Bride unto His home and brings forth thousands and tens 
 of thousands of families unto God the Father ! Eliezer means 
 " My God is my help," and now the message of Christ goes forth, 
 " Gather in the souls for that great day," and he goes as this pas- 
 tor has gone with the words, " My God is my help," as it has 
 gone through all these years ; and Isaac means " laughter," and 
 that, too, has a double meaning ; it means first the joy of the an- 
 gels over one sinner that rej^enteth ; and it also means "ridicule," 
 the derision of the Lord at Calvary, when they did not know that 
 He was the Son of God, purchasing His Bride at the cost of His 
 blood ; and Rebecca means "enmity done away," that is, the at- 
 tainment of holy peace at last, when the Church comes to be united 
 to Christ, when all enmity between the Father and His children 
 
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 on earth will be done away and that great day of joy will come. 
 These are the emotions, my Christian friends, that animate me, in 
 times like the present, not merely the retrospective but the pros- 
 pective view, when that time shall come when the number of the 
 elect is made up, when the Gospel shall have been preached to the 
 whole world, when the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled, and as 
 the Scriptures say, "the end shall come," when the Bride has 
 made herself ready, St. Paul says — in the same epistle where he 
 speaks concerning Christ and the Church — of the Bride, that the 
 Lord has done seven things for her ; first, He loved her, and then 
 He gave Himself for her — and what more could He do ? — and then 
 He sanctified her, and then He nourished her, and then He cher- 
 ished her, and then He corrected and cleansed her by the Spirit 
 and the Word, as He has been doing all these years, and finally 
 what is He to do .' He is to present her to Himself the glorious 
 Church, not having spot (of sin) or wrinkle (of age) in that great 
 day of joy when the marriage of the Lamb shall come. 
 
 This has been called a triple golden wedding of the rector, 
 the parish, and sexton. May it be thrice blessed to those who 
 look forward to that other great day ! It is coming, my dear 
 friends, before long ; the prophecies are almost fulfilled ; the Gos- 
 pel which, for the past fifty years, since this church was founded, 
 has been speeding at such a constantly accelerating rate that it 
 will not be fifty years more before that word is fulfilled. The Jews 
 are having the shackles removed from their limbs, the yoke is 
 being taken from their neck, and they are going back into that 
 land promised to Abraham and to his seed forever. 
 
 The time is rapidly coming when this great jubilee which is 
 promised for the world shall be at hand, and all these things will 
 be fulfilled. I am firmly of this faith, and I may say to you, to 
 whom God has promised to give not only the reward of the life 
 that now is, but also that which is to come — I am also firmly of the 
 faith that He who by His Providence has kept this church here, 
 and its faithful pastor here, and the flock of Christians here, on 
 the very spot I believe now blessed with the spirits of the faith- 
 
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 ful departed, will keep this church here until that time be fulfilled. 
 God grant it ! 
 
 It is not probable that those who have been privileged to meet 
 here — the rector, the brethren of the clergy, and these people 
 — will ever meet again here in this life, and in this world ; but if 
 we take away with us this double meaning of Scripture, realizing 
 that all these temporal things and temporal joys are but the para- 
 ble of spiritual things ; that, as has been said, " the whole material 
 universe is but the drapery in which God clothes His invisible 
 Presence," then I do believe that all, though we meet not here 
 again, will be privileged to meet in that great jubilee when the time 
 shall come when Jesus Christ shall make Himself known here in 
 the world to take His Bride to Himself, and we shall realize those 
 joys unspeakable which have not entered into the heart of man to 
 conceive which God has prepared for them that love Him. 
 
 , May God's grace, through all these touching jubilee services, 
 turn the thought of all who have engaged in them from earthly to 
 spiritual joys ; and, finding their strength here at the altar, may 
 they be of the number of that " living body," washed, cleansed, and 
 sanctified, to be presented unto the Bridegroom, and receive His 
 word of welcome, " Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. DR. S. M. HASKINS. 
 
 This is the last full service of this great week, the last week of 
 jubilee, and my mind naturally runs back to the early days of this 
 church. When I came here this was a corn-field, and I set about 
 immediately building the church. I am glad to say that I had no 
 church committee ; I was my own committee for building, and so I 
 had it all my own way, and very much the same all along, because 
 my Vestry have always had confidence in me, and we have never 
 had any quarrels, nor have the Wardens or Vestry made any com- 
 plaints that we know of. We have always had peace and quiet- 
 ness. Well, I arranged for the church, the building, and also the 
 furniture of the church. At that time I could not find a church 
 
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 anywhere but what had its three-decker. The little shelf attached 
 to the desk which was quite wide enough to hold three persons 
 where the prayers and lessons were read, all facing the congrega- 
 tion ; then the stairs went from that to the pulpit, which was about 
 midway between the floor and the ceiling ; and that was the kind 
 everywhere. There was not one of my Wardens or Vestrymen or 
 congregation knew what was to be here until the altar, pulpit, and 
 desk were brought into this church, and it was a very great sur- 
 prise to them. Because the altar was higher than the pulpit and 
 desk, even higher than it is now — it was cut down to accommo- 
 date the chancel-window when we enlarged. Then the services 
 were not much different from what they were in other churches, 
 but, still, it was a curiosity, this church ; the chancel and the ar- 
 rangements brought many here to see these new things. 
 
 When the church was enlarged in 1854 I had only one wealthy 
 man in my church as Vestryman. When I showed him the plans 
 of putting on a cross on the apex of the chancel, he said no ; he 
 did not like it ; that if that cross was put there he would not give 
 one cent for the enlargement, neither would he put his foot inside 
 the church. Reasoning was of no use. Notwithstanding, the cross 
 was put up, and he left and went down to Christ Church, in the 
 fields ; and he remained in that congregation until the new church 
 had five stone crosses. He afterward removed to New York, where 
 he attended Trinity Chapel. The crosses did not trouble him then 
 the same as while he was here, and there he attended services 
 which were more ornate than they have ever been in this church. 
 And I buried him from that chapel. 
 
 Then as to the vestments, the clergy always wore the black 
 gown, cassock, and bands; and many of the congregations had 
 nothing else — no surplice ; afterward the surplice was introduced 
 in all the churches. It was then changed for the black gown for 
 preaching. That is still the custom in some places. 
 
 That pulpit and desk that I put in then I recently gave away — 
 one to St. Thomas's Church and one to Grace Church — because 
 there was the offer made of this brass lectern and brass pulpit. I 
 
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 must tell the story of these : The first child I baptized in this par- 
 ish was Mary Backus, in the little chapel, in 1839. She died in 
 South America, and her husband, with her two children, on their 
 way back to England stopped and wanted to give some memorial 
 to this church, so I accepted the brass pulpit, and gave away the 
 other. Th^en a lady of the parish now, in memoriam of her father 
 and mother, who had been for thirty odd years members of this 
 parish, gave this lectern, so that removed both pulpit and lectern. 
 
 Now, during all these years, as I was looking over the other 
 day, I find there has never been a person in this parish that has 
 contributed over one hundred dollars at any one time for the build- 
 ing of this church or for the endowment of it ; and I have no 
 money myself, so you will see that it has largely been done by my 
 personal applications. It has always been a congregation not 
 wealthy, but they have always had their heart in the work, and 
 done what they could, and done it cheerfully. Now, if I go back 
 and speak of the departed my feelings will not allow me to say 
 much on that, but the first person that I buried in Greenwood 
 Cemetery was in October, 1839. At that time there were not fifty 
 burials in that cemetery, and now there are three hundred thou- 
 sand, or thereabouts. So there has been a wonderful change, as 
 you have seen, all around you — everything in the world around as 
 well as in the church. The services of the church are so different 
 now from what they were then. We would not any of us like to go 
 back to the old services that we had in those years gone by. 
 
 Memory calls up the names of many individuals whom I might 
 continue to talk about for a long while. In this banner overhead 
 you see the figure fifty. Of course, you know that this is fifty years. 
 It was made by the hands of a lady, mother of the Rev. Dr. Hall, 
 who has taken part in the service this evening, and is composed of 
 rosemary, which she collected herself from the seashore, which 
 means " sweet remembrances." It is on a red foundation, which 
 means "perfect love"; and it is surrounded by a circle, which 
 means "the eternal Trinity," and the banner of square, which 
 means "The Church." She has wrought many, many beautiful 
 
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 things during the years gone by since she left this parish.. She 
 has visited us often, and her heart is warmly interested in all of St. 
 Mark's doings. 
 
 The daughter of that one that I baptized first, sent me last 
 week a letter from England — a beautiful little letter (she is only 
 twelve years old) — with ten dollars inclosed for this anniversary ; 
 and that shows how the love and interest in this parish descends 
 from mother to daughter, from mother to grand-daughter, and so 
 on ; and will continue, I believe, from generation to generation. 
 That gives us hope that the endowment fund, for which we are 
 striving, will continue to increase and go on during the years to 
 come until it reaches a suitable amount to preserve this old church 
 where it now stands. That is our desire, but if God sees it is not 
 best that it should be so. He will sweep it away from the earth > 
 His will, not ours, will be done. But, beloved, I hope all of you 
 who are connected with the parish will ever pray for the peace of 
 Jerusalem and its prosperity, for God will bless you so long as you 
 labor for His Church. So long as you pray for its peace and its 
 blessing upon you, He will answer those prayers ; He has answered 
 them, I have no doubt, in that divine grace which has thus far sus- 
 tained it so well ; and the church and congregation is now, I am 
 glad to say, more prosperous and better attended than it has ever 
 been before, and I trust it will go on increasing in strength, in 
 numbers, and in the grace of God year by year, so long as this 
 church stands. 
 
LETTERS. 
 
 Among the numerous kind letters which have been received 
 from friends it has only been possible to select a few entire and 
 extracts from others as our space is limited, but a list of the names 
 of others who have favored us are given below, also of all con- 
 tributors whose names are known. 
 
 House of Bishops, October i^th. 
 Rev. and dear Dr. Haskins : Permit me even after the day to con- 
 gratulate you on your long rectorship. In my soul I honor the man of God 
 who dwells among his own people. Your continuance in your parish is a 
 solemn rebuke to the spirit of change that is in the air. In looking back to 
 my own ministry, nearly as long as yours, it is a comfort to think that I 
 have had only four parishes. May God give you peace and gladness in 
 your remaining years. Yours sincerely, 
 
 George D. Gillespie. 
 
 House of Bishops, October itth. 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : God has greatly tlessed you and your labors 
 in St. Mark's. It is a wonderful commemoration, the semi-centennial of 
 the building of the church, the service of the sexton, and the pastorate of 
 the rector. My remembrance of sweet services in St. Mark's thirty-four 
 and thirty-five years ago are very vivid and pleasant. You were then in 
 the full strength and vigor of manhood, with heart and soul wholly given, 
 as it ever has been, to diligent care of souls and to the preaching of the 
 Word, Your heart must be overflowing with thanks to God for His good- 
 ness in prolonging your life and granting you the privilege of working so 
 long, for the dear Master. 
 
 Very affectionately your friend and brother, 
 
 D. B. Knickerbacker. 
 
 House of Bishops, New York, October i6, 1889. 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : I beg to offer you my most hearty congratu- 
 lations on the event which is this week attracting such large attention 
 
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 throughout the Church. A half-century of labor in one field is a most rare 
 occurrence in this age of unrest. The fact speaks well both for rector and 
 people. I trust you will be spared for many years yet to do good work for 
 the Master. 
 
 I am sorry my duties here will prevent me from attending any of your 
 anniversary services this week. 
 
 Hoping and praying that the wish of your heart may be filled and that 
 your long ministry may be crowned with material as it already has been by 
 spiritual blessing. Your friend sincerely, 
 
 John Scarborough, Bishop of New Jersey. 
 
 The Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 " Wre-ta-moe," Bristol, R. I.., November 13, i88g. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 My dear Dr. H. : I know not when I have passed so pleasant and 
 memorable a day as that on which I helped you to celebrate the fiftieth an- 
 niversary of your settlement at St. Mark's. Altogether it was a phenom- 
 enal occasion. A church of fifty years' existence that has had one pastor 
 all through that period ! The pastor who has served it so long still in full 
 vigor for further duty in the same field ! And a sexton who has held his 
 post and faithfully discharged his duty as a doorkeeper in the house of 
 God in close association with both the church and its rector through the 
 entire period of their happy union! This threefold cord, so well and 
 smoothly woven, let it not be rudely or soon broken. 
 
 The occasion was specially interesting to me because I was providen- 
 tially linked with the beginnings of these issues half a century ago, and be- 
 cause this occasion brought me into the presence of some of your kindred, 
 to whom I had ministered in the earliest years of my long clerical life. It 
 was a joy to meet them once more and to interchange fond memories of 
 other days. 
 
 I thank you for the happy opportunity and for the kind care which you 
 took of me in your hospitable dwelling. 
 
 Mrs. Howe joins me in kind regards to the ladies of your household. 
 Faithfully your friend and fellow-servant in Christ, 
 
 M. A. De Wolfe Howe. 
 
 Nashotah, Wis., September 23, 1889. 
 To Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 My dear Haskins : An old friend of yours takes the liberty of con- 
 gratulating you upon the fiftieth anniversary of your rectorship of St. Mark's 
 
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 Church. As one who knew you in the seminary and ever since that time 
 in the Church, I thank God for the work you have done. Your good works 
 toward God and man, the rich and the poor, the young and the old, and 
 knowing they were done in the spirit of a loving faith and a true-hearted 
 life, I thank God for them and send this poetry to you in God's name from 
 Nashotah in the heart. 
 
 Your old friend and brother in Christ and the Church, 
 
 William Adams. 
 " The seed still sow 
 Which God hath given. 
 Seek not reward below. 
 The glorious flower shall blow 
 Where endless summers glow. 
 The harvest is in heaven." — English Writer, 1336. 
 
 Church of the Atonement. 
 
 My dear Dr. H. : Happily for the many concerned, the " threefold 
 cord " of pastor, parish, and sexton has not been quickly broken. May its 
 strands not part till many another has been drawn by it, as very many in 
 the past have been, " with cords of a man, with bands of love," into the 
 Church and to the heart of the Master. 
 
 All your brethren are the happier and should be the better for your long 
 continuance with us. Faithfully yours, A. C. BUNN. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Joseph Carey writes : In these days of unrest and frequent 
 pastoral change your example is one worthy of the attention and commen- 
 dation of the whole Church. I pray that you may be spared yet for many 
 years to reap the full labors of your hands and to be still a blessing to your 
 flock. 
 
 Extract front Rev. Mr. Chapin. 
 
 It is a lesson which both clergy and laity should learn that long rector- 
 ships are blessed. Yours has been in my mind a model parish with a 
 model rector. O si sic omnes. D. D. Chapin. 
 
 Flatbush, N. Y., October 14, 1889. 
 My dear Brother : Allow me to add a humble but earnest note to 
 the great volume of jubilee gratulations — the chorus as of many voices — 
 commemorating your half-century of faithful services in St. Mark's Church, 
 and thanking the Giver of all good gifts for the blessings which have at- 
 tended both rector and people during all these changing and eventful 
 years. 
 
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 Yours is the only instance, as far as I can learn, in this city or diocese of 
 the unbroken relation of pastor and congregation for so long a time ; and 
 this is due not to the policy of the Vicar of Bray by adapting your religious 
 views to the varying winds of public opinion like a weather-vane, but by 
 maintaining a sound, fixed, and consistent belief, whether popular or not, 
 strong in the conscientious conviction that you were right and faithful to 
 the great Head of the Church as the magnet to the pole and therefore a 
 safe guide for others, indicating the way to the sure haven over seas how- 
 ever rough or dark. 
 
 Your jubilee coincides almost to a day with the centennial of the 
 Church's organization in our land, comprising the most active and fruitful 
 half-century of Christian work ever known ; and you have had not only the 
 blessed privilege of seeing it, but the hapjy opportunity of taking a noble 
 and influential part in it. 
 
 Long may your life be spared to your beloved parishioners and continue 
 to bring forth the precious fruits of a ripe experience, matured wisdom, and 
 an affectionate pastorate ! 
 
 With warmest affection and best wishes I am 
 
 Yours sincerely, T. S. Drowne. 
 
 The Rev. Samuel M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 Seneca Falls, October Sth. 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : My connection with your parish was about in the 
 middle of your rectorship. I have often thought that my experience is a 
 strong witness, one of many doubtless, to the importance of that habit of 
 early confirmation which you have done so much to impress upon the 
 Church. I look back to my brief tarrying under your charge as a decisive 
 turning point in my life, and shall cherish always most grateful memories of 
 the wise counsels that determined me in my adherence to the holy ways of 
 the Church. I am affectionately one of your sons in the Church, 
 
 Herbert M. Denslow. 
 
 Naushon, October 13M. 
 My dear Cousin ; This season of rejoicing of you and your people 
 over your happy and long relation, your prosperous past, and future bright 
 as far as it can be foreseen, must not pass without recognition from all the 
 members of your family. 
 
 Your kindred here and in Concord express through me their affectionate 
 regard for you and joy in your happy service and lot with your people. 
 Sincerely yours, Edward W. Emerson. 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Fleming, of St. Barnabas, regrets not being able to attend 
 upon the historic services of St. Mark's— historic for its associations with 
 the past, historic for its gracious memories to come through all the future 
 of our American Church. Thaniiing you for the inspiration of your life- 
 work, and praying for a long continuance among us of the strong and 
 benign personality that wrought it all through the Blessed Spirit, the Life 
 Giver, permit me to subscribe myself with great respect, 
 
 D. L. Fleming. 
 
 St. Paul's Rectory, Burlington, Vt., September 23, 1889. 
 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : I thank you very much for your beautiful invita- 
 tion — beautiful in spirit and beautiful in form — to be present at the Semi- 
 centennial Anniversary of St. Mark's Church, Brooklyn. I see that you 
 keep the festival for the old scriptural eight days, and that the days are all 
 more or less " high " days. 
 
 I shall hope to be present with you on one or more of them. But let 
 me now tender you my reverent and affectionate congratulations on what 
 you aptly term this " unparalleled event in the history of the American 
 Church." Well may your brethren throughout the land offer you such 
 congratulations ! 
 
 Few indeed in the Church in all time have been privileged as you have 
 been. Fifty years of blessed service in the same church, built by yourself, 
 and ministered to during that long period by the same Christian friend, a 
 " door-keeper ! " How great the mercy ! 
 
 And these years stand for no mere accumulation of figures, but they 
 have all been years full of noble, well-directed, effective labors — labors re- 
 warded with " all manner of pleasant " holy " fruits." 
 
 Profoundly thankful have you reason to be that you were guided to 
 those wise and churchly principles and methods on which from the begin- 
 ning you have continued to act. 
 
 I have often had occasion to point out your parish as an example of 
 what may be accomplished in the way of the highest enduring spiritual 
 results by laying down the foundations at the start on the few great dis- 
 tinctive lines marked out by the Church, and steadfastly adhering to them. 
 All honor to you as a pioneer who took this course when it was not so easy 
 to recognize its holy wisdom, or to follow it, as it has since become. 
 
 Most gladly shall I add my feeble voice to the chorus of thankful con- 
 gratulations that will salute you from a host of spiritual beneficiaries, 
 friends, and well-wishers of St. Mark's during the celebration of its " Triple 
 Golden Wedding." Faithfully your brother in Christ, 
 
 J. ISHAM Bliss. 
 
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 The Deanery, October 15, i88g. 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : It is a great disappointment to me that I can 
 not participate in the celebration of the semi-centennial of your rectorship ; 
 but pressing duties here and in the General Convention are more than oc- 
 cupying all my time. Few men have been permitted to attain such a long 
 rectorship as yours, and taken in connection with your warden and sexton, 
 it is certainly without a parallel case. Doubtless you will have a large 
 number of your brethren of the clergy to rejoice with you, but I should 
 have been glad to have borne my testimony to the universal respect which 
 your faithful ministry has won through all these years. That you may still 
 be-spared for many days to go in and out among your devoted flock is the 
 earnest hope of, Your friend and brother in Christ, 
 
 E. A. Hoffman, Dean. 
 
 The Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn., September 19, 1889. 
 
 Rev. and dear Sir : Accept my most hearty congratulations on the 
 celebration of your fifty years' rectorship of St. Mark's Church. 
 
 I feel that such a noble example of pastor and people remaining together 
 for so long a time will have a good effect upon other parishes less fortu- 
 nate. 
 
 The prosperity of St. Mark's Church through all these years is sufficient 
 evidence of the great benefits resulting to a parish from a continuous pas- 
 torate, and I hope most earnestly you may be spared to labor with your 
 good people for many years to come. 
 
 I send you an offering for your endowment fund ; I wish it was many 
 times larger than it is. With my best wishes for the completion of the 
 fund, I am, very sincerely yours, 
 
 William B. Guion. 
 
 For Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall writes from Canterbury, England : 
 Fifty years of faithful service in one place, honored and contented, 
 acceptable and unchanged, is a prelude to the changeless life of the blessed 
 when the reaping will be in much the same virtues and graces changed 
 only as the cloud dark or obscure to us is lightened and glorified on the 
 other side. Gold bless you, and make your sunset peaceful and cheerful, 
 with thoughts of blessings past, and unsearchable riches to come ! 
 
 Cambridge, September 16, 1889. 
 Venerable, reverend, and beloved Cousin : I have received 
 and read with the greatest interest your half-century record. It is a record 
 
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 to thank God for on its heavenward side, and to be proud of on its earthly 
 side. Silver and gold wherewith to honor the anniversary, I have not. I 
 am sure, however, you will not leave me out in the cold on this account, but 
 wnll rather say in the comforting words addressed to a greater David, " Thou 
 didst well that it was in thine heart " to do so. I congratulate you on the 
 remarkable work you have done. It confers the highest credit upon your 
 name, and all who bear that name have reason to thank you for the luster 
 you have given to it, and to be encouraged by your example as a faithful 
 ambassador of Christ. Your earthly reward is the respect and honor of 
 the whole Church in your day and generation, and is the earnest of the un- 
 speakable recompense which a life of faith and devotion like yours has the 
 promise of in the resurrection world. Still, " Serus redeas in ccelum " ! 
 And may the dear Lord ever keep you in his love ! 
 
 Ever faithfully. Your affectionate cousin , 
 
 David Greene Haskins. 
 The Rev. Samuel Moody Haskins, 
 
 BuHJlt and fifty years Rector of St. Mark's Church, Brooklyn, L. I. Laus Deo ! 
 
 St. Mary's Rectory, 230 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. , 
 
 September 28, 1889. 
 
 My dear Brother Sauuel : I have received and read with pleasure 
 and great interest your programme of ser\'ices for your centennial celebra- 
 tion. It is admirable — it is beautiful — it is just like you ! But what shall I 
 say, in sending you these lines, with my heartfelt congratulations, a little in 
 advance of that great and unparalleled event, when you will, if God so 
 please — with reverend brethren from far and near, with your parishioners 
 and friends, and a great host of the living and departed — commemorate the 
 fiftieth anniversary of the building of St. Mark's under your supervision, 
 your faithful and successful Rectorship of the same, and the same number 
 of years of Mr. Longworth's sendee, the model sexton, so true to the Church, 
 and the fast friend and cheerful helper of the Rector ! What shall I say to 
 all this ? I can find no words, my dear brother, to express my sentiments 
 — my feelings of joy with you, and my thankfulness to the good Father 
 above, that He has spared you all these years, and now so graciously and 
 sweetly rewards you — j'our unwearied and efficient ministry, amid discour- 
 agements and trials not a few, by permitting you to celebrate this triple Semi- 
 centennial, which has never fallen to the lot of any one of our brethren in 
 the American Church. Yours, my dear brother, is, therefore, an exceptional 
 occasion ; and you have my sincere and hearty congratulations on such a 
 joyful event, to which your heart, my heart, and many other hearts turn 
 
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 with an interest and a pleasure which are far better felt than strongest 
 words can express. ' You may well call it a jubilee, with its joy and glad- 
 ness greatly enhanced by its triple celebration ! With all these years of 
 work — of hard and trying work — both in supervising and raising at the out- 
 set the means to build the material edifice and to carry on the work of the 
 parish ; with your ministrations of the offices of the Church, and a pastorate 
 such as you know how to exercise and to which you devoted yourself in St. 
 Mark's — after all these years of such weary, faithful work, " your eye is not 
 dim with age, neither your natural force abated." And, so far as human 
 judgment can go, there are many years still in store for you to see and to 
 enjoy the fruit of all this work ; and the privileges there stored for you, in 
 preaching the Word, serving at the holy altar and in holy worship, where 
 your ministry and pastorate began, has continued for fifty consecutive years, 
 and where, please God, it may close in peace and joy and full of faith. 
 And, my dear brother, let me add, what seems to me above praise, I mean 
 your solicitude, thoughtfulness, and care for the future welfare, if not the con- 
 tinuance of St. Mark's Church just where it stands, amid its surroundings 
 and with the encroachments of business now pressing hard, by the endow- 
 ment you propose and wish to secure during this semi-centennial celebra- 
 tion, so that after your work is done, and you can no longer watch over and 
 do as you have so long and lovingly and nobly done, St. Mark's may be 
 preserved and sustained, as an old landmark, amid the changes which are 
 everywhere taking place for business and pleasure, and as a witness for 
 God, with the tolling of her bell calling the masses which crowd the streets 
 to the house of prayer. 
 
 I hope, with all my heart, you will succeed with this great desire of your 
 heart as successfully as you have done with all things in the past which 
 you have attempted ; and, finally, when " the end shall come and the fever 
 of life is over and your work is done," you may hear from the lips of the 
 Master himself ; " Well done good and faithful servant : thou hast been 
 faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things ; enter 
 thou into the joy of thy Lord." D. V. M. Johnson. 
 
 October igtA. 
 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : I wish to add my mite to the generous sums 
 which I /lope have flowed in upon you during this memorable week exceed- 
 ing your expectations. God bless you in your good work, and may your 
 church continue to prosper. With all good wishes. 
 
 Sincerely yours, Geo. A. Jarvis. 
 
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 Sts. Peter and Paul's Church, Brooklyn, October 14, 1889. 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : There is no one in this community more willing 
 to honor you than I am. With sincere respect and confidence I send you, 
 on this your golden jubilee, my very best wishes. We have been close 
 neighbors in the same district for nearly half a century, and I fail to call to 
 memory any occurrence that ever broke friendship between us. We have 
 learned from our own Christian teachings, and from the character of the 
 common principles underlying our civil life in the great republic, that live 
 and let live, that charity to all is a Divine virtue, and the most permanent 
 in bringing out good among all men. It is such thoughts and feelings we 
 both can look back to with great pleasure. They call forth from me a 
 most cordial greeting, on this your semi-centennial jubilee, which you and 
 your hosts of devoted friends are celebrating at St. Mark's Church. Ac- 
 cept then, in conclusion, a full and sincere expression of affection from a 
 brother and fellow-citizen. Truly yours, Sylvester Malone. 
 
 Macomb, III., October 9, i88g. 
 
 Reverend and dear Doctor and Father in God : Would I might 
 add my hearty congratulations to the many tendered you in person, and offer 
 my earnest thanks for the blessings I have received, and am sure shall con- 
 tinue to feel for many a year. Would, also, I might join in the eucharistic 
 praise to God that He has suffered one of His priests to live to carry on 
 such a work as has been done at St. Mark's. Blessed be God for the good 
 of the Church there, for the spread of the Gospel therefrom, and for exam- 
 ple and encouragement to us younger ones in the yoke, and, indeed, to all 
 in the service of our Master. 
 
 You will have next week at St. Mark's, D. V., the earnest prayers of one 
 who owes you much. _ W. F. Mayo. 
 
 P. S. I am thankful for the privilege of making this little offering, but 
 hope I may add to it in the future. — W. F. M. 
 
 9 Reynolds Avenvue, Cortland, N. Y., October % 1S89. 
 Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D., Rector of St. Mark's Church. Brooklyn, 
 N. v.: 
 You and your church have, for mote than thirty years, been associated 
 in my mind with the most pleasant and grateful memories of the past and 
 the warmest feelings of affection and interest. Through all those years 
 my mind has constantly reverted to my brief association with yourself and 
 your church as your humble assistant, with a feeling of devout thankfulness 
 
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 to the Divine Providence which led me into that association. It was to me 
 a blessed and profitable providence. . . . 
 
 Yet I do hope and trust that the full amount of the endowment fund 
 asked for will be quickly raised, and that St. Mark's Church will ever stand 
 where it is, a monument to its first Rector's fifty years of faithful, devout, 
 and self-sacrificing labors and the embodiment of his spirit of Christian 
 charity and benevolence. And I am sure that there are those who have 
 received from St. Mark's and its Rector not only spiritual blessings but 
 guidance and help which has led them to present temporal prosperity and 
 riches which will enable . them to give, and should make them ready to 
 give largely and cheerfully, for that noble purpose as a token of gratitude 
 for what they have received as well as for the good of others and coming 
 generations. I am yours, with highest esteem and affection, 
 
 James A. Robinson. 
 
 187 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn, October 12, 1889. 
 Dear Sir : Allow me to bid you a God-speed and wish you many years 
 of active service in the same church where you have ministered so accept- 
 ably for half a century. Truly, your parish life and work is a bright beacon 
 of encouragement to all who believe in long rectorships. It shows to a 
 people who desire novelty and change that good can come from perma- 
 nency. It shows to the clergy that the vineyard of the Lord can be better 
 attended to by the servants remaining at their tasks than by their flitting 
 about from place to place. I hope to be able on Monday evening to ex- 
 press personally the sincere congratulations which you so richly deserve, 
 and which will be uttered by letter and word of mouth by the thousands to 
 whom you have ministered in St. Mark's. 
 
 Yours truly, Henry T. Scudder. 
 
 To the Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 80 Pierrepont Street, October 14, 1889. 
 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : I am extremely sorry to find, at this late 
 hour, that it will be impossible for me to join in the pleasant service pro- 
 posed to be held at St. Mark's Church this evening. I am suffering from a 
 severe cold, which of itself would almost forbid my going so far in the 
 rainy evening; but I am also suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, compelled 
 to give the remaining hours of the day to cares and work which can not be 
 postponed, and the claim of which upon me is imperative. 
 
 I am most sincerely sorry not to be able to congratulate you personally 
 on the fifty years of your ministry now finished, and to express the hope 
 
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 that many others, as faithful and useful, may be added to them. You have 
 more reason than almost any one whom I know to look back with grateful 
 joy on your life-work as thus far completed. What a blessing to look for- 
 ward, also, beyond the horizon of the years, to that illustrious immortality 
 where vision shall be perfect, and work changed to rest. 
 
 With most hearty and affectionate sympathy in all your glad reminis- 
 cences and glad expectations, I am ever, with warmest regard, 
 
 Faithfully yours, R. S. Storrs. 
 
 Grace Church Rectory, Orange. 
 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : I have taken great interest in the jubilee of your 
 church, your sexton, and yourself. Golden weddings, whether to churches 
 or to wives, are rare. I have no doubt the combination in your case is 
 without precedent in the Church. It is worthy not of commemoration only, 
 but of imitation. We, whose ministry is drawing toward its close with 
 changes that have not marked your own, are left to imagine to what a depth 
 of root a parish can grow, and what tentacles it can put forth, with a fifty 
 years' pastorate ; but what / am thinking of is the power that the man 
 hitnsdf may grow to be in the community, with fifty years of exemplary 
 life and loving service, known and read of two successive generations grown 
 and growing up around him. Yours is an experience as happy as it is rare, 
 and you are to be envied by your brethren, of so many of whom it may be 
 said they never " continue in one stay." The Psalmist's words belong to 
 you, that "such a& zxt. planted \r\ the house of the Lord shall flourish in the 
 courts of the house of our God ; they also shall bring forth more fruit in 
 their age" I expect to see clustering round this golden crown of years 
 many loving tributes to the great "endowment." They will only be the 
 proper fruit upward of a tree which has taken a half-century's root down- 
 ward. 
 
 I am, with hearty congratulations and best wishes, your friend and 
 brother, A. Schuyler. 
 
 St. Luke's Day. 
 Rev. and dear Brother Haskins : I am full of sorrow at the pros- 
 pect of not being with you, having been forbidden by my physician. What 
 a noble work and pattern have you to present of what a steady and uniform 
 course may effect for the Saviour ! How swiftly have flown the fifty years 
 since we left together the halls of our alma mater ! How can I allow you 
 to stand alone in your church without a single classmate to clasp your 
 hand ? I can not bear it. 
 
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 I shall recall many times that day your wonderful life, your power to 
 retain friends, and the aid your friends never forget to extend to you. I 
 pray the good Lord will abundantly bless and say to you when you stand 
 before the great white throne, " Well done, good and faithful servant, enter 
 in," etc. Affectionately yours, I. H. Tuttle. 
 
 443 Van Buren Street, October 12, 1889. 
 To the Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D., Rector of St. Mark's Church, E. D. 
 
 My dear Doctor : Would that we each and all could " take a day 
 off " from our own duties to rejoice with you in that grand " jubilee." 
 
 I can not let the occasion pass without adding my little voice or (if I 
 may turn to advantage the frequent allusions to its sonorous tones) my full 
 "open diapason " to the chorus of congratulation and " wish you good luck 
 in the name of the Lord ! " 
 
 Fittingly is your parish named " St. Mark's." " Profitable," indeed, has 
 it been " for the ministry." 
 
 Being myself a graduate of a " St. Mark's College,'' so named from the 
 allusion in the text from which I have quoted, I have only to vary a little 
 the wording of our old college cry to enable me to say, as I do with all my 
 heart, " Floreat sancti marci ecclesia ! " 
 
 With all reverence and regard, sincerely yours, 
 
 Charles William Turner, 
 
 Rector of St. Matthew's Church. 
 
 1418 Corcoran Street, Washington, D. C, September 20, 1889. 
 
 My dear Doctor : I take great pleasure in inclosing you the within 
 
 trifle, five dollars, toward an endowment fund for St. Mark's Church as a 
 
 free church forever. I remember St. Mark's almost from its foundation. 
 
 The memories that crowd upon me in connection with it are very tender 
 
 and it would make a long letter to mention even a small portion of them. 
 
 I commend the spirit which prompts you and your people to stand up 
 
 against that unchurchly and migratory spirit which would force you to 
 
 abandon the old site and go elsewhere. I hope you may raise the $50,000, 
 
 and wish I could send you more than one ten thousandth part of it. . . . God 
 
 bless St. Mark's, its rector, and its sexton. Truly yours, 
 
 L L. TOWNSEND. 
 The Rev. Dr. S. M. Haskins. 
 
 Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, N. Y., September 21, 1889. 
 My dear Doctor : I write to return many thanks for your letter 01 
 the 17th inviting me to the services to be held at old St. Mark's, the 
 
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 church where I was ordained thirty-one years last March and where Mrs, 
 Whiting was confirmed by Bishop Horatio Potter. Amid all " the chances 
 and changes of life " I have regarded the old place as our church, and shall 
 always do so. But I am sorry to say that owing to my present state of 
 health and that of Mrs. Whiting, whom I should fear to leave here during 
 my absence, I shall not be able to come. . . . However, I shall be there in 
 spirit if not in body and remember you and yours at that time. 
 
 Will you allow me to send a small offering, which I inclose .' It is but 
 a " mite," and I only wish I could increase it " an hundred fold." ... In 
 sending it I can say with Burns, " The gift is sma', but love is a'," and I 
 hope it will be blessed to whichever object you devote it. 
 
 I shall look for and read with great interest, in papers and pamphlets, 
 etc., any account of the " golden wedding " of the Rector and sexton to old 
 St. Mark's. 
 
 Accept our congratulations and wishes for all health and prosperity, 
 and believe me, as ever. Faithfully yours, 
 
 Nathan F. Whiting. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Haskins. 
 
 P. S. — I have inclosed P. O. order for $4. 
 
 Parsonage, 155 South Third Street, Brooklyn, October 3, i88g. 
 Rev. S. M. Haskins, D. D. 
 
 My dear Brother : . . . For almost forty years we have been close to 
 each other as brethren and companions " in tribulation and in the kingdom 
 and patience of Jesus Christ." You were here ten years before me. I pre- 
 sume, therefore, that you called first to welcome me as a fellow-worker in 
 this part of the (then) village of Williamsburgh. My earliest distinct recol- 
 lection of you is when we stood together beside the casket of your lovely 
 boy soon to be buried. Then I heard you speak in the spirit of sweet sub- 
 mission and sacred joy words that remain with me to this day. Since then 
 we have both known many sorrows and have learned " to comfort them 
 which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are com- 
 forted of God." But we have also known many years of almost uninter- 
 rupted and blessed labor in the service of the Master whom we love and of 
 the people committed to our care. 
 
 We have been of one mind regarding the proprieties of ministerial and 
 pastoral work. Loyal to our respective churches, while honestly differing 
 in minor articles of belief and in church polity, we have still had fellowship 
 in faith and work and brotherly love. Surely this fellowship will continue 
 till we enter into rest. 
 
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 I have often had occasion to speak with admiration of your steadfast 
 devotion to the people whom you have senxd so long and so faithfully. It 
 has been a great joy and help to me to know how far you have stood aloof 
 from all secularization of your pulpit and sanctuary. 
 
 You do not seem to me to be an old man, partly perhaps because I do 
 not seem to be such to myself, but the rather because you are so young in 
 heart and vigorous in work. I hope it may please God to prolong your life 
 and your efficiency in the ministry and as rector of St. Mark's for many 
 years. 
 
 I congratulate you and your people and Mr. Longworth, your most 
 worthy sexton, on what you truly describe as " an event unparalleled in the 
 history of the American Church." Certainly I know nothing like it. 
 
 I trust that the services to be held may be used by the Living and ex- 
 alted Head of the Church to minister to you and the Church and all in at- 
 tendance grace and mercy and peace. 
 
 It will be a graceful and worthy issue of all your labors and prayers if 
 in answer to the timely proposal from the Pacific ample provision shall be 
 made for the permanent maintenance of St. Mark's as a free church in the 
 place where for so many years have stood its vine-clad and beautiful sanct- 
 uary. 
 
 I am, my dear Dr. Haskins, most sincerely your brother in Christ Jesus 
 our Lord, JOHN D. WELLS. 
 
 Great Neck, September 27, 1889. 
 
 My dear and venerable Doctor : I have great pleasure in rejoic- 
 ing with you in the very pleasant Semi-Centennial which with your people 
 you are in a few days to celebrate. 
 
 May it indeed be a jubilee to you and to them and to your steadfast 
 sexton, and may your church prosper in the future as it has in the past, and 
 may you and your sexton be spared to minister to the flock — the one to lead 
 and feed them after the other has called them to the folding by the belfry's 
 warning chimes. Very truly yours, JOHN A. KING. 
 
 New Bedford, Mass., Sunday, October 6, i88g. 
 
 " With what measure of devotion will you not thank God for the cir- 
 cumstances of your extraordinary life ! " 
 
 My dear OLD Pastor : I use the adjective in reference to pastor as I 
 am not now a parishioner. 
 
 " The lightning lags not with decrepitude." You seem to have discov- 
 
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 ered the fount of centennial youth in the service of God and his Christ, 
 though "change and decay in all around I see." 
 
 If the kingdom of God — His Church — is to be glorious over all the earth, 
 if hostile nations and repugnant races of men are to be brought into the one 
 fold, surely such facts in church, life and history as St. Mark's Rector and 
 sexton this year celebrate are prophetic and encouraging. 
 
 You once said to me that your constant aim had been to conduct the 
 services so as stimulate and not startle the flow of devotional feeling. Con- 
 sequently the men and women from St. Mark's teaching, scattered over 
 • this wide land as Bishops, priests, and laymen, are everywhere noted for 
 church stability, piety, and earnest Christian work. 
 
 I might give statistics that would be interesting to some, but will close 
 this slight tribute from one who loves his old church and much regrets that 
 he was not there to begin the jubilee year with his old pastor and the few 
 hoary heads that continue to pray and sing in this house builded to His 
 name by a line from Horace Mann, 
 
 " Faithful work is'holiest worship." 
 
 Samuel E. Miller. 
 
 Dear Friend : For the Church you have served so long " The eternal, 
 years of God are hers " ; for your life-work. May she outlast a thousand 
 generations ! for yourself, " The celestial light that bursts upon your up- 
 turned countenance from the opened and welcoming gates of paradise shall 
 shed its radiance into the paths of all surviving men." 
 
 Samuel E. Miller. 
 
 Princeton, N. J., October 14, 1889. 
 My dear Doctor : Please accept my congratulations on the semi- 
 centennial anniversary of your pastorate and of the founding of your church. 
 An event of the kind always impresses me with the importance and magni- 
 tude of long-continued and steady effort in a good cause, and I can not help 
 feeling that a work like yours is of far more benefit to the world and the 
 people in it than volumes of printed words and miles of built railroads. 
 And I hope that your church, with you guiding it, may continue and pros- 
 per. Yours very truly, Herbert S. S. Smith. 
 To Rev. Dr. S. M. Haskins. 
 
 loS West Fortieth Street, New York City, October 13, 1889. 
 My dear Uncle : Golden weddings are unique events. They come 
 but once in a life-time, and as such they should be times of rejoicing and 
 congratulation among friends. 
 
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 We congratulate you on the abundant blessings which a kind Providence 
 has shown you and your family, during these many years, and we rejoice 
 with you that God has made you the instrument of so much good in fitting 
 souls for His service here and hereafter, and ministering so unselfishly to 
 the poor and the sick. 
 
 Words are too feeble to express any appreciation of your services for the 
 Master. 
 
 The statistics of fifty years which your programme exhibits may well 
 cause you to thank God and take courage, but the history of your faithful, 
 self-sacrificing ministry is and must be, from the nature of your work, an 
 unwritten record. Heaven alone can disclose how many have sought the 
 Saviour through your preaching, how many have been comforted by your 
 counsels, how many have gone forth in the various walks of life to proclaim 
 the good news to others, who first accepted the new life through your in- 
 strumentality. 
 
 I pray that our kind Heavenly Father's blessing may attend your future 
 ministry, and that this may be a golden era upon which you are this day 
 entering, first spiritually, that it may be a feast of ingathering of souls, 
 second, financially, that the $50,000 you desire as a fund may be realized. 
 For you personally, we ask God's richest blessings and comforts, and that 
 when God shall call you you may say with St. Paul, " I have fought a good 
 fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." 
 
 Affectionately your nephew, R. B. PoOLE. 
 
 Librarian of the Y. M. C. A., Xew York. 
 
 Birkenhead, September ■&th. 
 Dear Doctor Haskins : I thank you very much for your invitation 
 to the jubilee services which it would have given me much pleasure to 
 attend, but separated as I am by the broad Atlantic, my presence will be 
 impossible. The Semi-Centennial you are about to commemorate is quite 
 unique in its character and an interesting episode in the history of the 
 Episcopal Church in America. I can not doubt that all who have been 
 connected with St. Mark's will give you their hearty concurrence and fervent 
 wishes for its complete success. The endeavor to raise a fund which will 
 secure the future independence of the church and its Rectory, will meet with 
 the zealous support of all the friends of the Church, and the community at 
 large. To perpetuate it as a lamp of Christian light, in the midst of a 
 commercial community, which has sprung up around it during the last half- 
 century and to preserve so venerable a fane from the desecration of com- 
 
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 mercial encroachment, is a desideratum which all Christian people will 
 concede. The religious and poetic sentiment which it implies will find an 
 echo in every heart. That St. Mark's may long stand in its integrity as an 
 ark of God, for the comfort and salvation of thousands of weary pilgrims, 
 shall be my fervent prayer. For Mr. Longworth, your friend, and his 
 daughter. Miss M. E. Longworth, one of my late wife's earliest and most 
 steadfast friends, I shall invoke God's richest blessings. I inclose my check 
 for two guineas as my humble contribution, and invoking God's blessing 
 on your efforts, I am always your sincere and attached friend, 
 
 Charles Watson. 
 
 From Miss Douglass, daughter of the Congregational minister of Water- 
 ford, Me. : 
 
 The union which you commemorate is surely without a parallel, in this 
 land or any other. May the good Father grant you still many years of 
 united work ; and when the Rector and the sexton shall have received the 
 reward of faithful service— the crown of glory that fadeth never — may the 
 good influence of the church still continue to radiate more and more widely 
 through every succeeding semi-centennial period, until time shall be no 
 longer ! 
 
 With kindest regards to yourself and family, very sincerely your friend, 
 
 Harriet E. Douglass. 
 
 180 RuTLEDGE Street, October 3, 1889. 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : Your invitation to the Semi-Centennial celebra- 
 tion at St. Mark's has just been received. I thank you so much for remem- 
 bering me. If you had not done so, I should have sent my donation just 
 the same, for I want to have a share in this great work. 
 
 Inclosed you will find my check for twenty-five dollars. I am ashamed to 
 send so little, but it is all that I can do at present. I wish it could be a 
 thousand times as much. 
 
 Although you seldom see me, I am never unmindful of the measureless 
 depth of my debt to St. Mark's, to its Rector, and to that woman of blessed 
 memory, Mary C. Backus, my loved and honored teacher for eight long 
 years, and whose memory ai!d picture are a constant inspiration to me. 
 
 No other church has ever replaced St. Mark's in my affections — in fact, 
 I have never had a strong attachment to any other church. I do not know 
 how much this feeling is due to my lost youth, but I can say, with Ten- 
 nyson : 
 
 " O life in death ! 
 The days that are no more.'' 
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 Words can not express the heartiness of my wishes for you in this time 
 of sacred joy. May many more years of usefulness be added to your lot ! 
 " Honor and reverence and the good repute 
 That follows faithful service as its fruit " 
 be unto you ! May God's love and peace ever surround and support you 
 until the evening twilight fades away, and you enter triumphantly into the 
 fuller glories of the upper day ! 
 
 Sincerely and reverently and affectionately, 
 
 Mary Davenport. 
 
 Mrs. Kinnahan writes from London, England : 
 
 I have received your kind invitation to attend the Semi-Centennial of St. 
 Mark's, and until a few days ago had hoped to be with you in person on 
 that joyous occasion ; but my plans are changed, and I can only be with 
 you in spirit. Inclosed are fifty dollars for the endowment fund. Believe 
 me, yours affectionately, SARAH WOOD Kinnahan. 
 
 Mount Winans, Md. 
 My early and kind Pastor : It is with a sense of deep satisfac- 
 tion that I am spared to rejoice with you at this jubilee. It recalls to my 
 mind some of my earliest efforts in church work, but more especially that 
 of my sainted parents, who were among the first to second your work for 
 Christ, in building up St. Mark's parish. With highest esteem for your 
 labors and for "auld lang syne," please accept my warmest congratula- 
 tions, with the inclosed offering, from your sincere friend, 
 
 Louisa Griffin Loop. 
 
 Clearwater, October 14/A. 
 Rev. Dr. Haskins : 
 
 Very dear Friend : We all take the deepest interest in all that is 
 going on at dear St. Mark's, which we hope will remain where it is as long 
 as the walls stand. If it were in our power we would most gladly send you a 
 thousand dollars, but all we can possibly do will be to contribute the wid- 
 ow's and the orphan's mite. Though absent in body we shall be with you 
 in spirit, and anxiously await the results. 
 
 Faithfully, your friend, Phebe D. Longworth. 
 
 Baltimore, October. 
 My dear Brother : I rejoice with you in your joy, as I have sor- 
 rowed with you in sorrow. How much you have passed through in your 
 eventful life ! Fifty years given to God, to the Church, and to hundreds of 
 
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 souls ! What a blessed life, and what a glorious rest to look forward to, 
 with all those in paradise, whose earthly lives you so blessed — whose steps 
 heavenward you so patiently and lovingly led. That many years may yet 
 be added to this noble life, prays your loving sister, M. G. Paret. 
 
 I wish we could have doubled our offering for St. Mark's. 
 
 Olustee, Fla. 
 Dear Dr. Haskins : Let us congratulate you on your glorious anni- 
 versary. May it all prove a perfect success, and not a cloud to mar the 
 sunshine of those golden days ! I send you a check, and wish it were much 
 more. With truest affection, JULIA C. RtJSSELL. 
 
 Tarmtown-on-Hudson, September 28, 1889. 
 
 My dear Friend and Father in Christ : Many thanks for the 
 jubilee inxitation. It is the most beautiful thing of the kind I have ever 
 seen. Mr. Janes has shown exquisite taste. As it lies before me I have 
 raised my eyes and heart to our Father in an earnest petition, asking for 
 you a full and perfect answer to all your desires in regard to the coming 
 most remarkable event of parish life. A pastor calling together his scat- 
 tered flock to celebrate a jubilee feast unto the Lord ! And how gladly we 
 all answer the call ! The passage of time and absence does not in the least 
 affect the cliaracter of our love for beautiful old St. Mark's or the Pastor. 
 It seems so natural for the words of St, Paul to the Corinthians to come 
 into our minds in connection with thoughts of you, " For though ye have 
 ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers." You 
 have, indeed, begotten us through the Gospel, and the gospd of your life 
 has held our love. 
 
 From a child St. Mark's has been my ideal of a fold of the Good Shep- 
 herd. And it was you, dear friend, who taught me the beauty and precious- 
 ness of our most holy Church. At her altar you presented me for holy 
 confirmation ; there you married me to him who has gone home before me. 
 There you baptized two of my three children, being yourself their chief 
 sponsor to God. There you have laid all my sorest trials and sorrows, and 
 there returned thanks for my blessing and J03S. So that, although for many 
 years my home has been far away from dear St, Mark's and my heart and 
 time engaged in another parish life, yet I am true to the old ties, and glad 
 over all the joys of your service in your beloved church. / do not have a 
 doubt about the endowment fund. It will come in our rich, good Father's 
 own good time. Do not let a thought of it disturb your mind. Give your- 
 
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 self up to the gladness of the present. May the jubilee bring to Pastor and 
 flock a full deliverance from every earthly bondage and a full restoration of 
 our heavenly inheritance. 
 
 Most cordially and affectionately your daughter in the faith, 
 
 Harriet E. Rosenquest, 
 
 " Cross-on-the-Rock." 
 
 Flatbush, October 9, 1889. 
 
 My dear Dr. Haskins : I was very much gratified to receive the 
 invitation to your Semi-Centennial, and find that I am still numbered among 
 the friends of St. Mark's. I regret that my feeble health will prevent me 
 from attending the jubilee services. I send -whh my heartfelt congratulations 
 and warmest wishes for the success of yout endeavor to make St. Mark's 
 a free church for all time, my mite, only regretting that I am not able to 
 give more or aid in the work of collecting. Remember me to your faithful 
 sexton, Mr. Longworth. Yours, sincerely, 
 
 (Dictated,) M. H. SCHUYLER. 
 
 SiASCONSET, September 21, 1889. 
 
 Rev. S. M. Haskins. 
 
 Dear friend : This day I enter my eightieth year, and I celebrate my 
 seventy-ninth birthday by sending a small gift to my kind friend for his 
 golden wedding. It is not that I love old St. Mark's less, but its Rector 
 more, that I present my widow's mite to him rather than to the church with 
 which I have many pleasant associations. I trust his wishes will be fully 
 carried out in relation to its permanent endowment. St. Mark's should 
 stand as a memorial of the past, as an example of what can be accom- 
 plished by faithful perseverance and by a holy faith in right doing. " A 
 good man out of the good treasures of his heart bringing forth good 
 things." 
 
 May the " jubilee week " be entirely satisfactory to thee, my dear friend, 
 and in the long years uncalendered may many happy days be thine ! 
 
 Sincerely thy old friend, S. B. Willets. 
 
 Brooklyn, October 11th. 
 My dear Pastor of old : Though long years have rolled since it 
 was my privilege to be numbered with your flock, the remembrances of St. 
 Mark's are among my pleasantest recollections. I was a member of both 
 church and Sunday-school till by you united in marriage to one who has 
 since been called to the rest of paradise. Though called to bear many 
 
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 sorrows, few have been as much blessed as you. Fifty years of successful 
 sowing ! " O what will the harvest be ? " Though we would ask that you 
 may be spared for many years, we know that for you will be the Master's 
 welcome, " Well done, good and faithful servant." Accept the widow's mite 
 from one to whom St. Mark's is very dear. 
 
 Grangefield, Wood-church Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, October 3, 1889. 
 
 My dearest Dr. HaskINS; As the time draws near when your jubilee 
 festival is to be celebrated, I write to wish you the best success and joy. 
 
 Now, dear Dr. Haskins, I feel as if I and my little brother Frankie 
 ought to associate ourselves in the endeavor to raise a fund for the future 
 preservation of the church in which our dearest mother was baptized and 
 wfth which she was so long connected, and I have asked father to allow us 
 to subscribe a guinea each for that purpose, and I have now the pleasure to 
 inclose you a check for two guineas, and, with best congratulations upon 
 your jubilee, and hoping it will come off very siiccessfully, 
 
 I remain, dear Dr. Haskins, ever your very loving little friend. 
 
 Amy G. Watson. 
 
TO ST. MARK'S 
 On her Fiftieth Anniversary, October ij, iSSg. 
 
 Dear Church ! fling wide thy portals now 
 
 And bid thy children conne 
 From North and South, from East and West, 
 
 To this their heart's true home. 
 No mother's voice more sweet could be 
 To those who've strayed o'er land and sea. 
 
 Firm and unchanged thy granite walls 
 
 A shelter safe and sure 
 In conflict, trial, or distress. 
 
 Which Christians must endure. 
 The gate of heaven indeed thou art. 
 With peace for every troubled heart. 
 
 The same confession that we made 
 
 - Full fifty years agone. 
 The same "Our Father" which we breathed. 
 
 The same " Venite " song. 
 Rise from these hallowed courts to-day 
 As in the years long passed away. 
 
 The same good sexton welcomes us 
 
 With greeting kind and glad 
 As when the temple we approached 
 
 Lone strangers weak and sad. 
 God bless him for his deeds untold 
 And virtues uncorrupt as gold ! 
 
 How can we speak of him who's stood 
 
 As shepherd night and day, 
 With ceaseless watch o'er all his flock 
 
 Lest one should fall or stray, 
 For half a hundred golden years 
 The sharer of their hopes and fears ? 
 
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 The throbbing heart can keenly feel 
 
 What words will never tell. 
 The love, the patience, and the prayers, 
 
 For those he served so well. 
 What numbers saved from gloom of night 
 Will welcome him in realms of light ! 
 
 Stand, dear St. Mark's ! a blessing still 
 
 For many a coming year. 
 And gather all, both old and young, 
 Whose souls to Christ are dear. 
 Where poor and rich alike may meet 
 As children at their Saviour's feet. 
 
 Spoil and destruction all around. 
 
 Oh may they come not near 
 To touch or mar thy loveliness 
 
 So stainless and so dear ! 
 But ever on this sacred spot 
 
 Guard thou a shrine that changes not. 
 
 Thank Him from whom such blessings flow 
 
 Ye children of our King ! 
 And to His altar bring with joy 
 
 Your hearts' glad offering. 
 With saints and all the host of heaven 
 Praise to the Triune God be given. 
 
 ST. MARK'S CHURCH. 
 
 BROOKLYN. E. D. 
 
 For fifty years this vine-clad church 
 
 Has welcomed those who sought for peace ; 
 
 Has answered those who came in search 
 Of rest and life that never cease. 
 
 For fifty years this reverend priest 
 
 Has preached to man the living Word ; 
 
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 Has offered man the heavenly feast 
 In memory of the risen Lord. 
 
 For fifty years, his one compeer 
 
 Steadfast and true, stood by his side 
 
 And rang a welcome far and near 
 To all for whom the Saviour died. 
 
 For fifty years, its choirs have sung 
 Their songs of praise and worship here, 
 
 That came from heart and soul and tongue 
 In. strains that love of Go'd made dear. 
 
 Through Advent seasons, Christmas feast. 
 Through Lenten fasts, and Easter Days, 
 
 For fifty years have never ceased 
 Within these walls, the songs of praise. 
 
 Baptisms, marriages, and deaths. 
 How many each the records show — 
 
 Of life's beginnings, fleeting breaths — 
 Of those that come and those that go. 
 
 How many a holy bishop stood 
 Within this chancel, laying hands 
 
 On those who knelt and vowed they would 
 Live as the Lord their God commands. 
 
 How many a soul its weakness felt 
 And for the strength of heaven craved 
 
 Then at this altar humbly knelt 
 And through the precious Christ were saved, 
 
 How many mourners, bent with grief. 
 
 Within these walls have brought their dead. 
 
 And heard Christ's words fraught with relief — 
 Such tears as theirs, the Saviour shed. 
 
 Though all around it has been changed — 
 And buildings rose where buildings fell ; 
 
 It steadfast stood, in naught estranged, 
 And did its work — God's worship — well. 
 
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 The climbing vines here seem to seek 
 
 To cover o'er each time-worn wall. 
 As Christ, the true Vine, g-entle, meek. 
 
 Would throw his loving arms round all. 
 
 This is God's house in very truth. 
 
 To Him long years ago 'twas given ; 
 Old men have worshiped here in youth — 
 
 It breathes the atmosphere of heaven. 
 
 Then, shall th' unsparing hand of time. 
 
 Remove this landmark from our sight ? 
 Why, it would seem almost a crime. 
 
 To even have a fear it might. 
 
 Each church that grew within these walls. 
 And went to found a home elsewhere — 
 
 It would disgrace them, if this falls ; 
 The parent asks the children's care. 
 
 That it in all good be increased, 
 
 God bless the paths in which have trod 
 The white-haired sexton, reverend priest. 
 
 Of this vine-covered house of God ! 
 
 G. A. Lawrence, p6 Wilson Street. 
 
This jubilee festival, which was celebrated for eight days with 
 increasing interest, drawing old friends and former parishioners 
 from far and near to a participation in its joyous services, awaken- 
 ing and renewing sweet communion and fellowship, will long be re- 
 membered by all who were favored to participate in its joys. All 
 felt that it was good to be there. The addresses were instructive 
 in doctrine ; the services were elevating in devotion. The inter- 
 change of congratulations, the blessings of peace and good-will 
 pronounced and reciprocated on every hand, the renewal of old 
 friendships and acquaintances, the sweet communings at the altar 
 — all tended to renew and cement the bond of Christian love and 
 fellowship and to make us of one heart and mind in the Church of 
 the living God and of His Christ. 
 
 " Elect from every nation, 
 V Yet one o'er all the earth, 
 Her charter of salvation, 
 
 One Lord, one faith, one birth ; 
 One holy name she blesses. 
 
 Partakes one holy food, 
 And to one hope she presses, 
 
 With every grace endued. 
 
 " Yet she on earth hath union 
 
 With God the Three in One, 
 And mystic sweet communion 
 
 With those whose rest is won. 
 O happy ones and holy ! 
 
 Lord gives us grace that we. 
 Like them, the meek and lowly, 
 
 On high may dwell with Thee. 
 
 Note.— The financial result of the jubilee in cash thus far amo\ints to $7,000 
 for the Endowment Fund, besides personals to the Rector and the Sexton, and 
 real estate to the Church worth more than the amount of the endowment money. 
 
NAMES OF THOSE PERSONS FROM WHOM LETTERS HAVE 
 BEEN RECEIVED BUT NOT PRINTED. 
 
 Right Rev. Bishops Coxe, Gillespie, Littlejohn, Paret, Tuttle, and Whipple. 
 
 Rev. Drs. Applegate, Bradley, Fales, Fairbairn, Gallaudet, Graves, Hall, 
 Hopson, Hoflfman, Hughes, Huntington, Malcom, Plumley, Porter, Smith, Tut- 
 tle, Terhune, Tatlock, Vandewater, Van Rensselaer, Walbridge, Whiting. 
 
 Rev, Applegate, Buel, Dickinson, Falkner, Guion, Grint, Gill, Hooper, 
 Johnson, Jones, Larom, Lancaster, Milnor, Mulford, Mottett, Peck, Spooner, 
 Sayres, Silliman, G. and E.Stone, Twing, and Unsworlh. 
 
 Mr. J. G. Bennett, W. H. Fleeman, Thomas Hegeman, J. W. Hunter, G. A. 
 Jarvis, Dr. R. M. Lawrence, E. A. Marschalk, William Morgan, Howard Potter, 
 H. T. Stoddard, John Tupper, C. H. Wandel, Mrs. Edwin Coan, Miss R. Car- 
 lock, Mrs. Dono\'an, Mrs. Denslow, Dnbuison, Degroot, Drisler, Fassett, Miss 
 Fursman, Mrs Gay, -■V. Hyde, Kellog, Miss Klapp, Mrs. Larom, Mack, Pelatier, 
 Poole, Miss Peck, Mrs. J. G. Russell, A. M. Russell, Robinson, Mrs. Singleton, 
 Sherman, and Brush, Miss M. Shepard, Mis. Tweed, Waterbur)', Young. 
 
 NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS SO FAR AS KNOWN. 
 
 Miss Julia Waterbury ($5,000), Hon. John A. King, Hermon Winter, F. S. 
 Wildman, Rev. J. D. Kennedy, Rev. T. W. Haskins, C. W. Haskins, James Stu- 
 .irt, C. Wandel, J. H. Tupper, Howard Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Beers, 
 Mrs. Tohn and Miss Linda Roberts, Mrs. Kinnahan, Mrs. Gluick and Mis. Ives, 
 Mrs. Z. Hanfield, Mrs. W. G. Howey, Mrs. S. G. Herkner, Mis. L. Waterbury, 
 Mrs. C. Colburn, Mrs. J. Wandel, Bishop and Mrs. Paret, Rev. J. A. Spooner, 
 Mrs. C. L. Bennett, Mrs. .\. S. Young, Mr. John Tupper, Mrs. J. G. Russell, 
 Mrs. A. M. Russell, Mrs. Daniel Gateson, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Place, T. K. Dur- 
 ham, Mr. .ind Mrs. G. H. Irving, Mrs. and Miss Waldo, Mrs. J. Way, Mrs. 
 M. S. Wilcox, Mrs. F. C. Hall, Mrs. S. McKinley, Mrs. T. Thompson, Mrs. 
 .\. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Riggs, Mr. and Mrs. F. Riffle, Mrs. W. E. .\llen. 
 Mis. M. R. .\Ulworth, Rev. Dr. Wells, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Darlington, Rev. L. 
 .ind Mrs. Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. Beames, Mrs. C. A. Egan, Mr. W. H. Flee- 
 miin, Mrs. V. Brady, Mr. G. S. Haskins and family, Mr. Henn- Kelsons and 
 family, Mr. Samuel E. Miller and family, Mr. William Mills and family. Misses 
 .\. and H. Isiicson, Mrs. and Miss Zowe, Miss M. Schuyler, Mrs. F. Berr)-, Mrs. R. 
 A. Bat«field, Mr. J. G. Mundy, Mrs. A. S. Roclie, Misses M. and L. Coleman 
 Mrs. Dale and Mrs. Reardon, Miss C. Sturtevelt, Mrs. S. Holmes, Mis. East 
 
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 Mrs. F. J. Nichols, Miss K. B. Latham, Miss M. M. Finkle, Miss Mary Beeston, 
 Misses Burbank, Rev. W. F. Mayo,' Rev. George B. Stone, Rev. Edward S. Stone, 
 Rev. H. M. Denslow, Rev. Dr. D. V. M. Johnson, Mr. C. B. Wilson, Mr. Thomas 
 Brown, Mr. B. S. Rogers, Mr. M. A. Agnew, Mrs. J. Philpitt, Mrs. Emma Crocker, 
 Mrs. G. A. Lawrence, Mrs. Ottalenger, Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Hanford, Miss C. 
 King, Miss E. G. Barber, Mrs. S. Gracie, Mrs. A. Townsend, Mrs. Myers and 
 Miss Delan, Rev. G. A. Hopson, Rev. H. L. Jones, Rev. Dr. J. L. Townsend, 
 Mr. George W. Bennett, Mr. S. T. Maddox, Jr., Mrs. E. Coan, Mrs. I. and Miss 
 E. Peck, Mr. J. G. Bennett", Mrs. Eldridge, Mr. C. H. Watson, Miss Amy G. 
 Watson and brother. Miss E. J. Bishop, Mrs. C. M. Roberts, Mrs. Forsyth, Mrs. 
 
 C. Consylea, Mrs. Anne M. Aguero, Mrs. Alvan Hyde, Rev. H. B. Walbridge, 
 
 D. D., Rev. H. B. Cornwell, D. D., Rev. C. Ellis Stevens, Ph. D., Rev. O. Apple- 
 gate, D. D., Rev. E. A. Bradley, D. D., Rev. R. B. Fairbairn, D. D., Rev. I. H. 
 Tuttle, D. D., Rev. William R. Mulford, Prof. H. S. S. Smith, G. A. Jarvis, Mr. 
 and Mrs. G. S. Roberts, Mr. J. Davidson, Mis? S. H. Wilkins, Mrs. A. W. Gay, 
 Mrs. B. C. Rogers, Mrs. A. Dubuison, Mr. and Mrs. Bradbury, Mr. E. B. Tuttle, 
 Mrs. M. L. Higgins, Miss Speck, Miss Mack, Misses J. and A. Leitch, Miss Isa- 
 bella Kartell, Mr. Benjamin S. Rogers, Mr. Keener, Mr. W. H. Thompson, 
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 and family, Mrs. O. H. Stearns, Mrs. Lee Ottelinger, Mrs. M. E. Roselle, Mrs. S. 
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 per, Mrs. M. Haven, Miss M. G. Shephard, Mrs. H. A. Davis, Mrs. E. A. Ballou, 
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