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THE RECORDS 
 
 Trinity Church, Princeton 
 
 DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY 
 
 1833-1908 
 
 THE REV. ALFRED B. BAKER, D.D. 
 
 Rector of the Parish 
 
 Princeton, New Jersey 
 
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 The Wardens, Vestrymen and Parishioners 
 
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 TRINITY CHURCH 
 
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PREFATORY NOTE. 
 
 The chief sources from which the facts in this brief history were 
 obtained are the documents stored up in the archives of the Parish, 
 the notices of parochial events in the newspapers of the Borough, the 
 references to the same in the Journals of the Convention of the Diocese, 
 and the records of the proceedings of the Vestry as contained in three 
 Books of Minutes. One other source is the memory of the writer, and 
 that of some of the older members of the Congregation. The object of 
 this publication is to preserve the records and remembrances from the 
 oblivion into which, otherwise, they might soon be swept by the flow of 
 time. Together they will form the annals of an household : and some 
 things will be narrated which to an outside reader may seem to be 
 trifling, but to those within the family circle may have valued association. 
 
 Doubtless the narrative will show that it was too hastily prepared, 
 amid the pressing duties of a busy pastorate ; and for any errors which 
 may have crept into it, the writer alone must be held responsible. 
 
THE RECORDS OF TRINITY CHURCH 
 
 Chapter I 
 
 Organization and Early History of the Parish 
 
 The early records of the Parish are fragmentary and incomplete : 
 and it is not easy to weave the material they furnish into an orderly 
 and continuous narrative worthy of the name of history. Still the 
 founders of the Parish were careful to record, in the order of their 
 occurrence, some of the more important events belonging to the first 
 stage of our parochial existence. Fortunately, there is preserved to us 
 an authentic account of several successive meetings which were prelimi- 
 nary to the formation of the Parish. The first of these accounts is 
 found in the New Jersey Patriot of August 18, 1827, as follows : 
 
 An Ajourned meeting of those persons who are friendly to 
 the erection of an Episcopal Church in the borough of Prince- 
 ton, took place this day, at 5 o'clock, P. M. at the house of Mr. 
 John Joline, when after reading several letters on the subject, 
 which had been received since the last meeting, the following 
 resolutions were unanimously adopted. 
 
 Resolved, That this meeting considers it expedient to pro- 
 ceed without delay, to raise funds for the purpose of building 
 a Protestant Episcopal Church, in the borough of Princeton. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee, consisting of John Potter, 
 Esq. Captain James Renshaw, John R. Thomson, Samuel J. 
 Bayard, and Robert F. Stockton, be appointed to open a sub- 
 scription book, and to solicit and receive donations for the pur- 
 pose of purchasing a lot, and building an Episcopal church. 
 
 Resolved, That the above named committee be authorized 
 to select and purchase a Lot of Ground, within the limits of the 
 borough of Princeton, suitable for the erection of a Protestant 
 Episcopal Church. 
 
 Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed 
 by the Chairman and Secretary and published in the New 
 Jersey Patriot. 
 
 R. F. Stockton, Chr'n. 
 John R. Thomson, Secr'y. 
 Princeton, August, 16, 1827. 
 
 This meeting is not referred to in the official records of the Parish 
 and it was probably without more definite result than the collection of 
 the subscriptions, which are entered in a book still preserved in the 
 Parish archives. 
 
The first meeting which led to decided action was convened, by 
 public advertisement, at Joline's Hotel — now the Nassau Inn — on the 
 first day of January, in the year 1833, and it was numerously attended 
 by the citizens of the Borough. At this meeting, which was called to 
 order by the appointment of Robert F. Stockton as Chairman, and 
 John R. Thompson as Secretary, the question of the expediency of 
 establishing a Parish in Princeton was fully discussed. The opinion 
 of some of the Bishops of the Church had been obtained beforehand : 
 and it is said that one of the most eminent of them had opposed the 
 movement to place a church in Princeton, on the ground that it never 
 could succeed. But the fathers of the Parish had a more hopeful spirit : 
 and after considering all objections, it was the unanimous opinion of 
 those present at the meeting, "that if practicable, a Protestant Episcopal 
 Church should be established in the Borough, and that a committee 
 should be appointed to take in charge the further examination of the 
 question, and report at an early day." The committee designated for 
 this work consisted of 
 
 Robert F. Stockton, Charles Steadman, 
 
 John Potter, Doctor J. I. Dunn, and 
 
 John R. Thompson, C. H. Vancleve. 
 
 These gentlemen were the more disposed to a favorable determination 
 of the question with which they had to deal, because of the friendly 
 interest and encouragement of Mrs. Harriet Maria Stockton (a daugh- 
 ter of Mr. John Potter and wife of Com. R. F. Stockton), who had 
 ardently desired the formation of a Parish in this place, and had put 
 forth her best endeavors to secure the accomplishment of her wish. 
 Mrs. Stockton was a devout churchwoman, and was faithful in the 
 support of church principles, and the practice of church duties : but at 
 the same time she was most considerate of the feelings of the Christian 
 people of the town who did not sympathize with her views or share 
 her desire for the establishment of the church in Princeton. In dealing 
 with their prejudices she showed much gentleness, kindness and Chris- 
 tian charity ; others exhibited the same spirit, and soon all active 
 opposition ceased, and there was a general willingness on the part of 
 the people to cooperate in the good work. The committee determined 
 to proceed with it, but, guided by a true churchly instinct, they made 
 it their first duty to communicate with the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of the 
 Diocese, and to ascertain whether, in case a church was erected, he 
 would take it under his pastoral care. At a meeting of the committee, 
 on February sixteenth, Mr. John Potter stated that the Bishop had 
 responded satisfactorily to their communication, and had appointed a 
 day on which he would visit Princeton to confer with the committee 
 respecting their plans and methods of procedure. It was determined 
 
at this meeting to purchase a vacant lot, belonging to Mr. S. W. Stock- 
 ton, then absent from the United States, for the sum of twelve hundred 
 dollars : and, at a meeting of citizens held a few days after, the wish 
 was unanimously expressed that a church should be built on the lot 
 provided by the committee, it being deemed an eligible situation and in 
 every way suitable for the purpose. At a further meeting called on the 
 twenty-third of March at the house of Com. Stockton, an election was 
 held for five Vestrymen and two Church Wardens, to continue in office 
 till Easter Monday, 1834. The following gentlemen were elected : Mr. 
 Charles Steadman and Dr. J. I. Dunn, as Church Wardens ; and Messrs. 
 John Potter, R. F. Stockton, C. W. Taylor, John R. Thomson and C. H. 
 Vancleve, as Vestrymen. At this meeting it was resolved, on the 
 motion of Mr. John Potter, that a subscription book be opened in aid 
 of the erection of the church, and that plans and estimates for a suitable 
 structure be immediately received. The subscription book, which is still 
 in existence, shows that the sum of five thousand seven hundred and 
 eighty-one dollars and seventy-five cents was soon pledged to the 
 building fund. It also shows that, while the erection of the church 
 was chiefly owing to the liberality of a few the effort was yet wisely 
 made to interest the many, and to give the whole community an 
 opportunity to help on the work. It is interesting to see the names of 
 the Rev. Drs. Hodge and Miller on the subscription list. Bishop Clark, 
 in his Reminiscenses, says that Dr. Miller had a strong prejudice 
 against the Episcopal Church, and, when he was asked what induced 
 him to contribute to the erection of the edifice which was being built 
 near his own home, he replied that he protested as a clergyman, but 
 subscribed the money as a citizen. The good Doctor's controversy with 
 Bishop Hobart on the subject of "Episcopacy" is known to all readers 
 on Church Government. It was a happy sequel of the controversy that 
 Dr. Miller's son should soon have been betrothed to Bishop Hobart's 
 granddaughter ; and may we not see in this a betokening of a union 
 which shall some time be effected of the friendly Christian bodies to 
 which the controversialists belonged. 
 
 On the first of May, 1833, the date when Bishop Doane wade his 
 promised visit to Princeton, the following notice was given by public 
 advertisement : 
 
 Notice. 
 
 "The Wardens and Vestry who were elected on the twenty- 
 third day of March last, and all those who are friendly to the 
 erection of a Protestant Episcopal Church in the Borough of 
 Princeton, will meet at the Town Hall on Saturday, the 
 eleventh day of May next, at five o'clock in the afternoon, for 
 the purpose of forming themselves into a corporate body, 
 according to the statute in such cases made and provided, and 
 
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 to designate the name and title by which the intended church 
 shall be known. 
 
 (Signed) "Charles Stedman, 
 "J. I. Dunn, 
 
 "Church Wardens." 
 
 On the date indicated in this notice a meeting was held, and the steps 
 necessary to effect the incorporation of the Parish were duly taken. 
 It was also then decided that the corporate name and title of the Parish 
 should be "The Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, 
 in the Borough of Princeton." The title "Trinity" was selected because 
 of the favor with which at that time the erroneous views of Unitarians 
 were received by educated people in the Eastern and Middle States. 
 Two deputies to the Diocesan Convention were elected at this meeting. 
 The gentlemen who first represented the Parish in this capacity were 
 Mr. John Potter and Mr. Richard S. Field. A Building Committee 
 (consisting of Mr. John Potter, Mr. Chas. Steadman and Dr. J. I. 
 Dunn) was also appointed, and to it all the proposals for the building 
 of the church were referred for final action. The proceedings of this 
 meeting were recorded in the book of minutes by Mr. John R. Thom- 
 son, Secretary : but as Mr. Thomson declined reelection to the Vestry 
 on the next Easter Monday, Mr. Richard S. Field was chosen in his 
 place. At a meeting on April 5, 1834, Mr. R. S. Field was made Secre- 
 tary of the Vestry, and he fulfilled the duties of this office for several 
 years. 
 
 The Building Committee prosecuted their work with fidelity and 
 dispatch, and were ready on the 4th day of July for the laying of the 
 corner-stone of the church. Bishop Doane, in his address to the 
 Convention of the next year, makes the following reference to the 
 interesting occasion : 
 
 "On Thursday, July 4, I laid the corner-stone of Trinity 
 Church, in the Borough of Princeton, several of the clergy 
 of the Diocese being present and assisting, and with them 
 my much esteemed friend, the Rev. Mr. Bayard, Rector of St. 
 Clement's Church, New York. The day was most auspicious. 
 A large and respectable company of persons paid the strictest 
 attention to the devotional services and to the address. Nor 
 should the courtesy of the military company on parade that 
 day be unnoticed, whose part in the procession with appropriate 
 music of their excellent band added not a little to the interest 
 of the occasion. I am most happy in being able to say that 
 the progress of this noble enterprise has thus far been accord- 
 ing to this beginning. The church, a beautiful stone edifice, 
 is in rapid progress toward completion, and will be prepared 
 for consecration, if God permit, in a little more than a year 
 from the laying of the corner-stone. The good will of the whole 
 community towards the undertaking continues still to be mani- 
 fested in unequivocal expressions, and the prospect is as full of 
 
encouragement as our hearts could desire. That the church in 
 this instance is largely indebted to individual energy and benefi- 
 cence takes nothing from our obligations of acknowledgement to 
 God, of whose only gift it cometh that His faithful people do 
 unto Him true and laudable service." 
 
 Laid up in the archives of the Parish is the original MS. address 
 delivered by Bishop Doane at the laying of the corner-stone. As this 
 will be of general interest it is elsewhere printed in full. (See 
 Appendix). 
 
 Consecration of the Old Church. 
 
 In the fall of the following year (1834) the building was finished 
 and set apart, in solemn service, to the worship of Almighty God. 
 The consecration was performed by Bishop Doane on Tuesday, Septem- 
 ber 23, in the presence of the Bishops of Pennsylvania and North 
 Carolina and a number of the clergy of New Jersey. Morning prayers 
 were read by the Rev. Dr. Abercrombie of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. 
 Dr. Dulachet, then of Virginia. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ives, Bishop of North 
 Carolina, the Rev. Dr. Mead of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. Mr. Bayard 
 of New York assisted in the Communion Services. 
 
 It is interesting to recollect that the venerable preacher on the 
 occasion was Bishop White, who was then in the eighty-seventh year 
 of his age, and who died a little more than a year after. No record 
 of the theme of this consecration sermon can anywhere be found. The 
 organist at the consecration service was Thomas March Clark, who was 
 then a student in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, but who 
 took orders in the Episcopal Church and became the Presiding Bishop 
 late in life. In his Reminiscences Bishop Clark says : "The Episcopal 
 Church was built during my time, and no one being found to play the 
 organ at the consecration, I volunteered my services, and all that I have 
 to say about it is that I was never asked to repeat the operation." 
 
 In the Journal of Bishop Doane I find the following references to 
 the occasion : "Trinity Church, admired by all for its architectural 
 beauty, is most interesting to churchmen as a rare instance of enterprise 
 and munificence on the part of a few individuals, and as a station of 
 distinguished importance to the best interests of Christianity. Desired, 
 rather than hoped for, through a period of many years, its accomplish- 
 ment is hailed as an expressive instance of God's favor toward His 
 Church, inviting us to livelier emotions of gratitude, and encouraging 
 us to loftier aims and efforts more devoted in His cause." 
 
 The following is a copy of the Certificate of Consecration : 
 
 The Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, 
 Princeton, having requested me to consecrate the house of 
 worship lately erected in and for the said parish, — 
 
Be it known, that on this 23d day of September, in the 
 year of our Lord 1834, with the rites and solemnities pre- 
 scribed I have consecrated and set apart the said house of 
 worship; separating it henceforth from all unhallowed, ordi- 
 nary and common uses, and dedicating it to the service of 
 Almighty God for reading His holy Word, for celebrating 
 His holy Sacraments, for offering to His glorious Majesty 
 the sacrifices of prayer and thanksgiving, for blessing the people 
 in His name, and for the performance of all other holy offices ; 
 through Jesus Christ our Blessed Lord and Saviour ; and 
 according to the rites and worship of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, in the United States of America. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
 seal, at Princeton, this 23d day of September, in the year of 
 our Lord 1834, an( J in the second year of my consecration, 
 
 G. W. Doane, 
 Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey. 
 
 The old Church was an oblong stone building, rough cast, and 
 standing with gable ends toward the streets which bounded the church 
 lot. It occupied part of the site of the present church and its front 
 was toward Mercer Street. Its architecture was of Grecian type, 
 and it had a prostyle portico with a row of six fluted columns made 
 of wood supporting the roof and resting on the porch floor. Up to 
 this floor led a flight of seven steps, there being a basement in the 
 building mostly above ground, which was used for Sunday School, 
 and other purposes. The front door opened into a vestibule from 
 which stairs ascended to the organ loft and to each of the galleries 
 of the edifice. The woodwork of the interior was painted white, and 
 there were inside blinds in the window openings throughout the build- 
 ing. There were two floor-aisles giving entrance to the pews on 
 either side ; and the two front pews next to the church wall were 
 double, like those in some of the Colonial churches of" the Diocese. 
 When the present Rectorship began, these pews were assigned to 
 Com. R. F. Stockton, Mrs. Thomas Potter, the Hon. John R. Thom- 
 son and the Hon. Richard S. Field. The pulpit and communion table 
 were of white marble, and the lectern was a marble cross with a Bible 
 rest securely fastened on its transverse arms. This marble cross, the 
 gift of Mrs. Thomson, is now in our village cemetery, and marks the 
 resting place of a former Vestryman, Captain Edward Veyer. 
 
 It cannot be learned what clergy officiated in Princeton between the 
 laying of the corner-stone of the church and the settlement of its first 
 Rector. One of the oldest residents of Princeton says that among the 
 number was a Rev. Mr. Eastman, secured by the Vestry to minister 
 occasionally to the little flock. The services were probably held in 
 the parlours of Prospect and Morven. On December 17, following the 
 consecration, Bishop Doane again visited Princeton, and preached, and 
 
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 confirmed three persons. The names of those who first knelt in this 
 Parish to receive the laying on of hands were Charles Steadman, 
 Thomas Young, and John Manning Runyon. 
 
 On the day after, the Bishop instituted as the first Rector of the 
 Parish 
 
 The Rev. George Emlen Hare, 
 
 who had recently been invited to assume its pastoral care' and had 
 removed to Princeton, and was living with his family in the house which 
 is now the Presbyterian Parsonage, on Library Place. Bishop Clark in 
 his Reminiscences makes the following reference to Dr. Hare's early 
 ministry: "The late Rev. Professor Hare, the father of Bishop Hare, 
 was the first pastor of the church, and as there was no afternoon ser- 
 vice in the Seminary Chapel, some of us formed the habit of attending 
 the new church, where the simplicity of the service, and the liberal 
 fervor of the preacher combined to impress us very favorably." 
 
 Soon after the completion of the building, the Presbyterian 
 Church of the Borough was destroyed by fire. This was the occasion 
 of the following courteous action on the part of the Vestry : 
 
 At a meeting held on July 7 1835 it was Resolved, That 
 the Rev. Mr. Hare, Messrs John Potter and Richard S. Field 
 be a committee to express on behalf of the Rector, Wardens 
 and Vestrymen of Trinity Church their deep condolence with 
 the Presbyterian Church of this place for the calamity which 
 has so recently befallen them, in the destruction of their church 
 by fire, and to tender to them the use of Trinity Church for the 
 purpose of public worship. 
 
 R. S. Field, Secy. 
 
 The records show that the ministry of Dr. Hare, lasting for the 
 space of eight years and a half, was most judicious and efficient, and 
 resulted in the ingathering of a goodly number of people, whom the 
 Lord added to the church, among them who should be saved. Finding 
 a little band of eleven communicants at the beginning of his ministry, 
 he closed his work with this number swelled to fifty-one. The names 
 of the original communicants, as registered by Dr. Hare, are as follows : 
 Mr. John Potter, Mrs. Catharine Potter, Mrs. Harriet Maria Stock- 
 ton, Mr. Charles Steadman, Mr. John Manning Runyon, Mr. C. W. 
 Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Henrietta Smith, Mr. John Barnwell Camp- 
 bell, Mr. Thomas Milette, Mrs. Milette. In an address made on the 50th 
 anniversary of the founding of the Parish, the Rector said : 
 
 "I have been unable to learn that any of this number still 
 survive. Two, however, who were added to it a few years 
 after, are still with us and kneel with us from time to time at 
 the Table of the Lord. Leading the list of our communicants 
 
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 and linking us to the original band, are the names of Mrs. 
 Sarah Perrine and Mr. Benjamin F. Thomas. 
 
 "Among the parochial agencies set in operation by Dr. Hare 
 was the Parish School, which was first held in the basement 
 of the old church and afterwards supplied with a building 
 suited to its needs. 
 
 " 'The little children from it,' says the Bishop, that were brought 
 up to the catechizing, some of whom could scarcely lisp the 
 Lord's Prayer, were most attractive to my eye and heart. 
 Surely, upon such a work of love the Saviour smiles. Vain 
 is the hope to propagate the Gospel that begins not thus. 
 'Whom shall He teach knowledge?' says Isaiah, 'And whom 
 shall He make to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned 
 from the milk and drawn from the breasts.' And it will not do 
 to trust to Sunday teaching. For 'precept must be upon precept, 
 line upon line, here a little and there a little.' Let every Parish 
 do what this is doing; let all the week-day influences, instead 
 of running counter to the spirit of the Holy Day, tend to 
 confirm its lessons and deepen its impressions. It will then be 
 seen and felt that the gospel is for practice, not for pro- 
 fession. It will then be seen and felt that Christianity is a life 
 to live, and not a lesson to be learned. It is when all our chil- 
 dren shall be taught of the Lord that great shall be the peace 
 of our beloved land. A Christian nation can only be made by 
 Christian education.' 
 
 In addition to his parochial labors, Dr. Hare occasionally 
 visited Rocky Hill, held service and preached and thus began 
 the missionary effort which in after years resulted in the for- 
 mation of a Parish in that interesting village." 
 
 In the year 1840 the Parish met with a great loss in the death of 
 Mr. Samuel Smith Olden, an earnest Christian and a loyal and de- 
 voted churchman. The provisions of his will attest the sincerity of 
 his devotion to the church. His charitable bequests were as follows : — 
 To Trinity Church, Princeton, towards the erection of a parsonage, five 
 hundred dollars ; for the Parochial School of the same Parish four 
 hundred dollars ; for the Sunday School, one hundred dollars ; to the 
 Missions under the superintendance of Bishops Kemper and Polk, six 
 thousand dollars ; to the Convention of this Diocese, for the support 
 of a traveling missionary, eight thousand dollars, the interest alone to 
 be appropriated — amounting altogether to about fifteen thousand 
 dollars. The Olden Legacy is still preserved to the Diocese, and its 
 income is appropriated to the maintenance of missionary work in "the 
 Pines," a region in which the excellent donor had become much inter- 
 ested before his death. 
 
 During Dr. Hare's rectorship some changes were made in the 
 arrangements of the chancel of the church, to which Bishop Doane 
 made the following allusion : "On Saturday, St. Mark's Day, in Trinity 
 Church, Princeton, after morning prayers, I preached the sermon before 
 the Southern Convocation, and administered the Holy Communion, 
 
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 assisted by the Rector, the Rev. Mr. Hare. In the afternoon the Rev. 
 Mr. Stubbs read prayers, and the children were catechised by the 
 Rector and examined by me. ... I must presume to express my 
 approbation of the changes which have been made since my last visit, 
 in this beautiful church. Heretofore in this, as in too many of our 
 churches, the solemnity of our most solemn services has been greatly 
 hindered by the narrowness of the chancel. The removal of the desk 
 has obviated this entirely. The sacrifice of prayer is appropriately 
 offered from the altar. A beautiful reading stand commodiously sup- 
 ports the Bible for the lessons. A new railing for the chancel, and 
 hangings of the richest and most costly texture, attest the conviction of 
 some, whom God has made His stewards, that it is an honorable thing 
 to honor God. The effect of this change has led me to think that it 
 might be carried still further to advantage. For what does the pulpit 
 in most of our churches serve, but to set the preacher at the greatest 
 disadvantage with the people over whose heads he is thus elevated? 
 For what is a pulpit needed more than a desk? Why not remove the 
 holy table back, and set it up a step or two on a broad platform, with 
 the chancel space before it? Then as the prayers are offered from the 
 Altar, why not let the sermon be delivered from the reading stand at 
 which the lessons are read? Why should human exposition be elevated 
 above the word of God? Certainly in our smaller churches, where 
 room for the chancel is with so much difficulty obtained, the plan may 
 be adopted to the very best advantage." 
 
 Later on, this suggestion of Bishop Doane was complied with, but 
 when, still later, a costly marble pulpit was presented, the corporation 
 determined that "the Pulpit and Communion Table should be restored 
 to their old position, viz., the Pulpit in the centre of the chancel — in the 
 rear — , and the Communion Table directly in front," the smallness of 
 the chancel not admitting of a more churchly arrangement. 
 
 The Parish, however, was among the first to restore the ancient use 
 of the Surplice in the Pulpit, instead of the academic gown. In the last 
 reference to the parish in Bishop Doane's journal during the rectorship 
 of Dr. Hare, occurs the following statement : 
 
 "The Rector of this Parish has discontinued the use of the gown, 
 and uses the surplice in preaching as well as in all the services. He has 
 done this with my full approbation, and I shall be glad to see the prac- 
 tice adopted throughout the diocese." 
 
 In November of 1843 the Parish became vacant by the resignation 
 of Dr. Hare. The services during the following winter were supplied 
 in succession, at the request of the Bishop, by some of the most distin- 
 guished clergy of the church, and "their clear, full, manly, and work- 
 manlike presentation of the Gospel in the Church won for Catholic truth 
 a fervent acceptation." Among these clergy were the Reverend Drs. 
 
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 Forbes, Higbee, Seabury, Haight, Wainwright and Odenheimer. Dr. 
 Wainwright afterwards became Bishop of New York, and Dr. Oden- 
 heimer Bishop of New Jersey. 
 
 At a meeting of the Vestry in 1843, Mr. John Potter was appointed 
 as a committee of one to secure the erection of a parsonage, and was 
 authorized by resolution to borrow for the purpose any sum not exceed- 
 ing five thousand dollars, and to secure the payment of the same by 
 mortgage on the premises. Mr. Potter proceeded at once with the 
 building of the rectory, 'but borrowed only from his own purse, and not 
 hoping to receive again. Says the Bishop's Journal : 
 
 "The generous heart, whose promptings from the Lord led 
 to the planting of this church, is more devoted now than ever 
 to its interests ; and within the year has erected a parsonage 
 house inferior to none that I have seen in all the land. This is 
 a wise and skillful liberality. Princeton is no ordinary place. 
 There is no point in the whole country where the just influence 
 of the church will tell with such effect ; as there is no point at 
 which, to tell it all, it is more needful that the system stand out 
 clear and full in its integrity and beauty." 
 
 The gift of the Rectory was soon followed by the liberal benefac- 
 tion by which the church was endowed. At the Vestry meeting in 
 September, 1844, a communication was received from Mr. John Potter, 
 stating that he, James Potter, Robert Field Stockton and Thomas 
 Fuller Potter had subscribed the sum of ten thousand dollars as a 
 permanent fund toward the maintenance of Trinity Parish, Princeton, 
 so long as it continues a Protestant Episcopal Church and no other : 
 the capital sum to be left entire and the interest to be applied to the 
 support of the church. 
 
 With respect to this endowment, Bishop Doane uses the following 
 words : 
 
 "John Potter, Esq., besides other liberal gifts to this parish, 
 has recently presented it with a noble parsonage house and 
 grounds, and endowed it in the sum of ten thousand dollars. 
 Why are there not more of our rich men who thus fulfil their 
 stewardship for Christ ? Surely they do not remember the 
 words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, 'It is more blessed to 
 give than to receive.' Surely it is better to see the Lord's work 
 spread with living gifts, twice blessed, than merely to leave that 
 to the church which we can use no more. I cannot refrain 
 from adding in this connection the apt words of Lord Bacon : 
 'Defer not charities until death, for certainly, if a man weigh 
 it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's 
 than his own.' " 
 
 The minutes of the Vestry contain the following communication 
 relating to this endowment : 
 
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 "Communication from Mr. John Potter read by Capt. 
 Stockton, 
 
 "The Subscribers under the blessings of Almighty God and 
 His Divine Providence (viz: John Potter, James Potter, Rob- 
 ert Field Stockton, and Thomas Fuller Potter) have been de- 
 sirous to promote the fiscal concerns of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church at Princeton, New Jersey, incorporated under the 
 name and title of Trinity Church and as it seemed necessary 
 to raise a permanent fund towards the maintenance of said 
 Church whilst it continues as a Protestant Episcopal Church 
 and no other ; we have subscribed to said permanent fund, Ten 
 thousand dollars the interest on which as received half yearly 
 to go for this purpose, but the capital sum of Ten thousand 
 dollars to be left entire, to be invested and reinvested in some 
 secure stock forever under the direction of the Vestry and War- 
 dens, and their successors in office duly appointed thereafter 
 according to the tenure of this endowment. 
 
 "But should in after time, this Church become sectarian in 
 doctrine, and separate and different from the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church of the United States, as now established, then in 
 that case this subscribed fund of Ten thousand dollars so en- 
 dowed as a permanent fund shall be forfeited and given up 
 forever after and the capital sum thus subscribed, shall wholly 
 and altogether revert back to the subscribers in equal portions 
 their heirs, executors or assigns forever after. 
 
 "The fund now subscribed, is placed in Ten bonds of One- 
 thousand dollars each of the joint capital of Delaware and 
 Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Trans- 
 portation Companies, payable in the year of our Lord One 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, interest at six per 
 cent per annum half yearly viz : Half on the first of March 
 and half on the first of September in each year by half yearly 
 Coupons attached thereto." 
 
 Also the following Preamble and Resolutions of the Vestry : 
 
 "Whereas John Potter, James Potter, Robert F. Stockton 
 and Thomas F. Potter, did by an instrument in writing under 
 their hands, bearing date the second day of September in the 
 year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four 
 subscribe the sum of Ten thousand dollars as a Permanent 
 Fund, the interest of which is to be applied half yearly to the 
 maintenance and support of Trinity Church in the Borough of 
 Princeton in the State of New Jersey, as long as the same shall 
 continue to be a Protestant Episcopal Church now therefore: 
 
 "Resolved that the Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church 
 Princeton, do hereby gratefully accept the liberal endowment 
 which has been thus generously made, and that in consideration 
 thereof the said John Potter, James Potter, Robert F. Stock- 
 ton and Thomas F. Potter be and they are hereby exempted 
 and discharged from all contributions and assessments that 
 may at any time hereafter be levied or made for the support 
 and maintenance of said Church and that the Pews now occu- 
 pied by the said donors respectively, to wit — Pew Xo. I. occu- 
 pied by John Potter, Petes No. 2 and 3 occupied by Robert F. 
 Stockton, Pew No. 24, occupied by James Potter and Pezv No. 
 
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 27, occupied by Thomas Potter, be and the same are hereby- 
 appropriated exclusively to the use and enjoyment of the said 
 donors respectively their heirs and assigns forever, free and 
 discharged from the payment of all rents or assessments what- 
 ever." 
 
Chapter II 
 From 1844 to 1866 
 
 At a Vestry meeting held in August, 1844, it was unanimously- 
 resolved : 
 
 "That the Rev. Gordon Winslow of Tompkinsville New 
 York be invited to the vacant Rectorship of this Church with 
 a yearly salary of One Thousand Dollars, and the use of the 
 Parsonage House." 
 
 A copy of this resolution, together with a letter of invitation, was 
 sent to Mr. Winslow : but after careful consideration he courteously 
 "declined the proposals which the kind favor of the Vestry had pre- 
 ferred." A similar invitation was then given to the Rev. Mr. Yarnall 
 of Philadelphia, but he also felt obliged to remain at the post of duty 
 where he had been placed, and so to decline the call of the Vestry. He 
 says in his letter : "I am fully aware of the many personal advantages 
 which a residence in Princeton would afford — but I do not see how I 
 could with honor leave my present parish, after so short a settlement 
 in it." 
 
 Soon after, the Vestry called 
 
 The Rev. Andrew Bell Paterson, D.D., 
 
 to the Rectorship of the Parish, and he made known to them his wil- 
 lingness to accept the office, and was soon settled in the discharge of its 
 duties. He was instituted by Bishop Doane on December 2 in the 
 year 1844. 
 
 To the fulfillment of his office Dr. Paterson brought many excel- 
 lent gifts, and the Parish work in all its branches prospered in his 
 hands. He was persona grata to the people generally, and easily won 
 the confidence of the young. During his rectorship, special mention 
 was made in the Convention Journals of the attendance of the students 
 upon the services of the Church. "I was glad," says the Bishop of the 
 Diocese, "to see at the service here several of my young sons in the 
 church who are students of Princeton College. The neighborhood of 
 this flourishing institution gives a peculiar interest to the pastoral care 
 of Trinity Church, and I am glad to know that the parsonage is made 
 a pleasant home to the young churchmen of the college." 
 
 Some years ago, Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island, while sitting in 
 the study of the Rector, pointed out the shelf from which Dr. Paterson 
 took the book which first turned his attention to the claims of the 
 
Episcopal Church ; and he made grateful acknowledgment of the influ- 
 ence which Dr. Paterson had exerted on his character, and course 
 of life. 
 
 The recollection of the efficient work done by Dr. Paterson and his 
 most amiable and cultured wife still lingers in the Parish, and, though 
 "they rest from their labours, their works do follow them." A consid- 
 erable impetus was given to the work of the Parish School during the 
 incumbency of Dr. Paterson. The basement of the church became too 
 strait for it, and a movement was set on foot to erect a suitable building 
 for the school. Mr. Richard Stockton offered an eligible lot for the 
 building, and soon after, by the munificence of four gentlemen, and 
 chiefly by that of Mr. James Potter, the school house was- erected, at 
 the cost of thirty-five hundred dollars. In the tower of the building 
 the congregation placed a bell of twelve hundred weight. The school 
 was supported by a fund of five hundred dollars, subscribed mostly by 
 the congregation. A free Parish school for colored children was also 
 opened, and a teacher supported at a salary of one hundred dollars. 
 
 It was during Dr. Paterson's incumbency that Mr. John Potter pre- 
 sented to the Parish a plot of ground of considerable size, adjoining the 
 church, to be used as a public cemetery. Mr. Potter had greatly desired 
 that the Parish should have its own burial ground, and that the privi- 
 lege of its use should not be restricted to the families on the Parish list. 
 At a meeting on July 6th, 1846, Mr. Potter sent a lengthy communica- 
 tion on the subject to the Vestry of the church, and on motion of 
 Richard S. Field, Esq., it was resolved: "That the lot adjoining the 
 church offered by John Potter Esqr be very gratefully accepted." A 
 year later, at another meeting, the following communication from the 
 Borough Council of Princeton was laid before the Vestry : 
 
 "Rev. A. B. Paterson 
 "Dear Sir 
 
 "I am directed by the Borough Council to notify the 
 Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church through you their 
 Rector, that a complaint from Daniel Bowne has been laid 
 before them, detailing the injury he has received from an ap- 
 propriation of a part of the church lot as a burial ground, and 
 praying relief that it may not in future be used as such. The 
 Council, in answer to the petition have adjourned to meet on 
 Monday 23d inst at 3 o'clock p. m. to hear the petitioner, at 
 which time and place the Wardens and Vestry will also be 
 heard if it is their pleasure to appear. 
 
 "Abm. Stryker 
 
 "Clerk of Council." 
 
 Accompanying this notice was a letter from John F. Hageman, attorney 
 for Daniel Boone, which was also read to the Vestry: Whereupon 
 
 "On motion of R. S. Field Esq. it was resolved That the Vestry 
 reconvey to John Potter Esq. the lot of land presented by him 
 
for a cemetery, and that a committee of three be appointed with 
 full powers to treat with the Common Council concerning the 
 same. Mess R. S. Field, Charles Olden and L. P. Smith were 
 appointed said committee." 
 
 In consequence of this action, Mr. Potter abandoned the project 
 of a public burying ground connected with the church, and contented 
 himself with reserving a portion of the lot intended for this purpose 
 for the interment of his own family. This adjoins the chancel of the 
 present church, and in it Mr. Potter and a number of his descendants 
 and kindred have been laid to rest. 
 
 Another action of the Vestry during the Rectorship of Dr. Pater- 
 son was the sale and conveyance to R. S. Field, Esq., of the triangular 
 lot on which the stone building on Mercer Street, at the head of Alex- 
 ander Street, now stands. This building was erected by R. S. Field, 
 Esq., for the accommodation of the professors of the Law Department 
 of Princeton College : and after the discontinuance of the Law School 
 in 1855, it was used for the offices of the Camden and Amboy Joint 
 Companies. Later on it was the seat of the first of. the University 
 clubs — Ivy Hall — and from it the whole club system of the University 
 took its rise. It is now the seat of a library maintained by the ladies 
 of Princeton. The lot and building have recently come into the 
 possession of the Parish. 
 
 In his Convention Report for the year 1849 Dr. Paterson mentions 
 an event which he deeply mourns. "In the past year" (1849), he says, 
 "John Potter has been gathered to his fathers. To him, humanly speak- 
 ing, the Church in this place owes its existence. His offerings to God 
 for its benefit and prosperity were large and numerous. His last gift 
 was a new organ, which he ordered a few weeks before his death, but 
 whose sweet sounds he was not permitted to hear. His wife, Mrs. 
 Catherine Potter, had been called to her rest a little less than a year 
 before." One other death during Dr. Paterson's rectorship must be 
 mentioned, viz., that of Mrs. Sarah Jones Potter, wife of Mr. James 
 Potter, who fell on sleep June 4th, 1847. She left an inheritance of 
 righteousness to her children, and they arise and call her blessed. 
 
 Dr. Paterson resigned the rectorship of the Parish on the 6th of 
 October, 1851. On May 3 of the following year it was given into 
 the hands of 
 
 The Rev. Joshua Peterkin, 
 
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 of the Diocese of Virginia. After his acceptance of the call the Vestry 
 appropriated $500 to defray the expenses of his removal to the Parish. 
 His ministry in Princeton was brief, lasting less than three years. Few 
 records are left us of the parochial events of this period, but the re- 
 membrance of Dr. Peterkin's gentle Christian character and faithful 
 
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 Christian work will not easily be effaced from the memory of some 
 who are here to-day. The most excellent Bishop of West Virginia, 
 the Rev. George W. Peterkin, D.D., is his son, and it is interesting to 
 know that he was once an inmate of the present Rectory. At the resig- 
 nation of the father the Vestry passed the following resolutions : 
 
 "Resolved — That it is with the deepest regret that we have 
 received the communication of the Reverend Joshua Peterkin 
 tendering his resignation of the Rectorship of this Parish. 
 
 "Resolved — That reluctant as we are to part with our 
 beloved Rector, yet the reasons which he assigns in his letter 
 of resignation are of such a nature that we do not feel at 
 liberty to decline the acceptance of it. 
 
 "Resolved — That we desire to express in the strongest 
 terms our deep sense of the zeal and faithfulness with which 
 he has discharged his ministerial duties during "his connection 
 with this Parish— of the success with which his labours have 
 been attended — of the purity and truth of the doctrines which 
 he has uniformly taught — and of the beautiful consistency of 
 his life and conduct." 
 
 At the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Parish the 
 Rector stated that he had received a letter from the Rev. Dr. Peterkin 
 regretting his inability to be with us, and conveying the assurance of 
 his continued interest in our welfare. He says : "I retain the most 
 sincere affection for the members of Trinity Church, Princeton. Many, 
 indeed, whom I loved, are no longer there; but I pray that God's richest 
 blessing may rest upon those that remain, and upon you, my dear 
 brother, their pastor and guide." 
 
 May we not suppose that among those "no longer here," whom 
 this true shepherd had in his mind, are the esteemed parishioners who 
 died while he was tending the flock, and whose mortal bodies he com- 
 mitted to the ground? 
 
 Among these we find the names of Mrs. Mary Field, the wife of 
 the Hon. Richard S. Field, who died September 6, 1852. Mrs. Field 
 was confirmed in the first years of the rectorship of Dr. Hare, and was 
 devotedly attached to the church throughout her life. The following 
 notice of her, from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Charles Hodge, appeared in 
 the Princeton paper, along with the announcement of her death: 
 
 "In recording the death of this lovely and excellent woman 
 words fail to express the feelings of grief with which our whole 
 community are overwhelmed by this distressing bereavement. 
 As wife, mother, friend, in every relation of life, her virtues 
 and devotion were of the most exemplary character. Possessed 
 of a vigorous mind, a warm and affectionate heart, and of the 
 most elevated principles and sentiments of Christianity, she was 
 always doing good to her fellow-beings, and exhibited in all 
 her relations to society that charity, disinterestedness and sense 
 of future accountability which rendered the close of her exist- 
 ence one of triumph in the doctrines and principles she had 
 
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 professed and acted on through life. To the large circle of her 
 relatives and friends, her loss is irreparable. The poor and 
 afflicted in our borough (in the alleviation of whose wants and 
 sufferings she was always so prompt and efficient) will indeed 
 lose in her a friend and benefactor. But their loss is her gain, 
 for she has gone to reap the rich reward of those, who have in 
 their life fought the good fight, who have kept the faith, and 
 for whom the rich promises of the gospel will assuredly be 
 fulfilled in another and a better world." 
 
 Another death in Dr. Peterkin's time was that of Mr. Thomas 
 Fuller Potter, the youngest son of Mr. John Potter, and like his 
 father, a steadfast friend and generous benefactor of the Parish. He 
 died at Prospect, the princely family seat, on September 27, 1853. 
 
 At the same Vestry meeting which acted on the resignation of 
 Doctor Peterkin, 
 
 The Rev. Wm. D. Hanson, 
 
 of the Diocese of Virginia, was elected Rector of the Parish and Mr. 
 Richard Stockton was authorized to write to the gentleman, and 
 request his acceptance of the office. 
 
 Mr. Stockton received the following reply : 
 
 "University of Va 
 "Feb 14th 1855 
 "Richard Stockton Esqr 
 "My dear Sir 
 
 "The design of Providence seems plain that Princeton 
 shall be the field of my future labors. With some trepidation 
 on several accounts, I shall enter upon my work there ; but I 
 look for indulgence, sympathy and cooperation from those who 
 are to be my people, and for the guidance and blessing of 
 heaven. There are many pleasant associations now connecting 
 me with Princeton, which I trust will in time become greatly 
 strengthened and multiplied. It will be a relief to me to know, 
 that by your transient supplies from Philadelphia and else- 
 where you will not suffer from my unavoidable lack of service. 
 Please lay this letter before your Vestry, and believe me, 
 
 "Your friend & servant, 
 
 "W. D. Hanson." 
 
 Mr. Hanson did not reach Princeton till late in March ; and at a Vestry 
 meeting on the 24th of that month, it was resolved "that two of the 
 Vestrymen be appointed to act at the ceremony of his institution. 
 Messrs. Charles Stedman and Richard Stockton were designated for 
 this duty. The parochial reports during Mr. Hanson's rectorship add 
 little of interest to the Parish annals. They are simply a record of 
 quiet, faithful work and of steady, solid growth. It often happens that 
 events which are of the greatest importance to the writer of Church 
 History are, in reality, of the least importance to the progress of the 
 Kingdom. The occurrences which strike his eye may indeed be of the 
 
nature of impediments to progress, which is carried on in spite of, 
 rather than in consequence of the events which fill his page. And so the 
 record which a Pastor may most desire for his work may be that the 
 Kingdom in his day "came not with observation." — "The seed sprang 
 up secretly, and grew day and night, he knows not how." 
 
 Among the deaths occurring during Mr. Hanson's rectorship was 
 that of Mrs. Caroline Bayard Stockton, the wife of Mr. Richard 
 Stockton, whose name was added to our Parish diptychs March 25, 
 1859, and that of Mrs. Caroline Craig, whose Christian character, 
 moulded by the influence of the Church, is still spoken of by those who 
 knew her. 
 
 Mr. Hanson resigned the Rectorship on September 7, 1859. His 
 letter of resignation is as follows : 
 
 "To the Vestry of Trinity Church. 
 "Gentlemen 
 
 "Following as I trust the leading of Providence, I 
 hereby tender my resignation of this Parish to take effect the 
 first of October next. With many thanks for your uniform 
 kindness to me and mine ; and with the prayer that God will 
 • soon send you, for your Minister, a man after his own heart, I 
 remain Faithfully yours, 
 
 "Wm. D. Hanson. 
 
 The Vestry held a meeting on the same day and appointed Messrs. 
 R. S. Field and James Potter to express in resolutions the feelings of 
 the Vestry in parting with the Rector. Mr. Field reported the follow- 
 ing, which were unanimously adopted : 
 
 "Resolved — That we cannot regard without emotion the 
 severance of the ties which have for some years bound us to 
 our beloved Rector. 
 
 "Resolved — That the Rev. Mr. Hanson, by the ability, zeal 
 and fidelity with which he has during the whole period of his 
 connexion with the Parish, discharged his sacred functions — by 
 his pure and blameless life — by his modest and unobtrusive 
 character — by his prudence — by his piety — by his devotion to 
 duty, and by the frank but inoffensive manner in which he has 
 always given utterance to his sentiments — has won in the 
 highest degree, our confidence and love, and has furnished an 
 example worthy the imitation of all Christian Pastors. 
 
 "Resolved — That to the new and more extensive field of 
 labor, to which in the Providence of God, he is ab6ut to be 
 transferred, our warmest wishes for the health and happiness 
 of himself and family attend him ; and our earnest prayer is, 
 that his usefulness may be commensurate with his desire to do 
 
 The rectorship of the Parish was next committed into the hands of 
 The Rev. Wm. Armstrong Dod, D.D., 
 who was called by the Vestry on November 29, 1859, and instituted 
 
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 by Bishop Odenheimer on the ioth of May, 1861. Dr. Dod was some- 
 time Lecturer on Architecture in Princeton College, and for several 
 years was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of the Borough. 
 He determined to seek the ministry of the Episcopal Church, and after 
 receiving orders, gave the Parish the benefit of his services till failing 
 health obliged him to resign his rectorship. His wife was the oldest 
 daughter of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and he lived, while 
 Rector, in the house built by the Commodore for his daughter, and 
 now owned and occupied by the Hon. Grover Cleveland. 
 
 Dr. Dod brought to his work a wide and thorough culture, a ripe 
 Christian experience, and an ardent love for the church at whose 
 altars, in middle life, he began to serve. During his rectorship paro- 
 chial activity in various directions was considerably stimulated, and the 
 records show a steady increase in the offerings of the Parish, and in the 
 number of the communicants. With the efficient aid of the Rev. Wil- 
 liam J. Andrews, sometime an assistant in the Parish, a Sunday School 
 and Sunday night service were sustained at Princeton Basin, which 
 was then the seat of a much more numerous population than at present. 
 A week-day school was also started, but was afterwards abandoned, 
 owing to the decline of the neighborhood, in consequence of the 
 removal of the depot and the cessation of the traffic which this 
 occasioned. 
 
 Trinity Church, Rocky Hill, with one hundred sittings, all free, 
 was also built and consecrated during this rectorship, and after the 
 first of August, 1864, the whole time of the Rev. Mr. Andrews was 
 devoted to its care. This Church was built by Mr. Henry A. Stone, 
 who died in France, May 14, 1873. The tablets on its chancel walls 
 are from old St. John's Church, Clifton, Staten Island. The marble 
 font is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Birdsall Cornell, of Xew York, and 
 commemorates a loved daughter buried with her Lord in Baptism, and 
 awaiting in the grave the likeness of His resurrection. 
 
 The time of Dr. Dod's ministry was coincident with that of our 
 Civil War, and he had to contend not only with the general unsettle- 
 ment and distraction of the times, but also with serious diminution in 
 the working force of the congregation occasioned by detention in their 
 Southern homes of some of the most active and influential of his parish- 
 ioners. It was during this period of non-intercourse between the 
 Xorth and the South that the Parish lost one of its truest friends and 
 most liberal supporters in the death of Mr. James Potter, who departed 
 this life on January 25, 1862. His name is commemorated on a tablet 
 in the Church. May the good Lord "remember him concerning all his 
 generous work, and wipe not out the good deeds which he has done for 
 the House of God and for the offices thereof." 
 Soon after his decease the children of Mr. Potter, meeting at the Xorth, 
 
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 expressed their desire, in his behalf, to pay over to the church the sum 
 of $5,000 to be held in trust for its use. The Vestry in response to this 
 offer resolved "That we will thankfully receive the sum, and ever main- 
 tain a grateful remembrance of the memory of Mr. Potter, who, most 
 liberal in life, has in death been equally generous." As Mr. Potter had 
 always been deeply interested in the Parish School, it also resolved 
 "That $150 of the interest accruing from this fund be appropriated 
 yearly to the income of the Parish School teacher." And it was further 
 resolved "That the $5,000 above mentioned, shall be considered an offset 
 to any claim of like amount which may be left this Church by the will 
 of Mr. Potter, or to any claim held against his estate by the treasurer." 
 
 During his rectorship Dr. Dod also sustained the loss of Mrs. 
 Harriet Maria Stockton, of whose helpful influence in the first years 
 of the Parish we have before spoken. Faithful to the end, she died in 
 the spring of the year 1862. A little later the Parish household was 
 again stricken by the removal of the Hon. John R. Thomson, who had 
 been associated with the Parish from its foundation, and who had 
 always shown much interest in its welfare. During his intervals of rest 
 from the duties of the Senate Chamber he regularly attended the 
 services of the Church, and he died with the solace of its ministrations 
 on the twelfth of September, 1862. The words upon his tomb describe 
 his character : "A sound statesman, a pure patriot, an ardent upholder 
 of the constitution of his country, a faithful friend and an humble 
 Christian." 
 
 In the year 1859 a combined effort was made in the Diocese to 
 
 raise a fund the income of which should be applied to the support of 
 
 its Bishop. To this "Episcopal Fund" our Parish contributed the 
 
 tf amount of $^,600: a sum sufficient to relieve the Parish from all 
 
 Convention assessments for the Bishop's maintenance. 
 
 At the division of the Diocese which occurred in the year 1874 the 
 Episcopal Fund was divided between the two jurisdictions formed 
 within the limits of the State. Three Bishops have held office in the 
 Diocese of New Jersey within the period covered by these Records. 
 Bishop Doane was consecrated on October 31, 1832 — less than a year 
 before the formation of this Parish — and he died on April 27, 1859. 
 He was succeeded by the Rev. Wm. Henry Odenheimer, D.D., who 
 was consecrated on October 13, 1859, and died on August 14, 1879. 
 When the Diocese was divided Bishop Odenheimer elected as his 
 jurisdiction the new Diocese, afterwards named the Diocese of Newark, 
 which he served faithfully for about five years. On his resignation of 
 the charge of the old Diocese in 1874, the Rev. John Scarborough, D.D., 
 was elected as his successor, and was consecrated Bishop in St. Mary's 
 Church, -Burlington, N. J., on February 2, 1875. For thirty-three 
 years Bishop Scarborough has devoted himself with untiring energy 
 
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 to the interests of the Diocese, and we sincerely hope it may have the 
 benefit of his abundant labors many years more. 
 
 Owing to failing health, Dr. Dod felt obliged to resign the rector- 
 ship of the Parish in Lent 1866. He continued to reside in Princeton 
 until the last step in his decline and until his darkness was lightened 
 and he was exalted to the regions of eternal day. Many will recall the 
 solemn service with which we bore him to his grave ; and many, I am 
 sure, often visit the hallowed spot where all that is mortal of their 
 beloved Pastor sleeps in peace till life's eventide be passed. 
 
Chapter III 
 From 1866 to 1883 
 
 The present Rectorship, that of the Rev. Alfred B. Baker, D.D., 
 began on Easter Day, 1866. On coming to Princeton, almost the first 
 thing that struck the Rector's eye was the blackened ruin of the 
 Rectory, which had just been destroyed by an accidental fire. Through 
 the generosity of Mrs. Sarah J. Potter this waste was at once repaired. 
 The Rectory was rebuilt, and made in all respects as good as new. 
 Soon after his settlement in the Parish the Rector was called upon to 
 bury its Senior Warden, Mr. William L. Rodgers, who died peacefully 
 in his residence in Princeton and was interred in the churchyard in 
 Bordentown, N. J. Mr. Rodgers had been identified for many years 
 with the interests of the Parish, and had been a most faithful attendant 
 at its services. His venerable form was much missed by the congrega- 
 tion long after his entrance into rest. The following minute was 
 adopted by the Vestry at his death : 
 
 "Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to give to 
 our late associate, William L. Rodgers, rest from his labors; 
 therefore 
 
 "Resolved, That, while we bow in submission to the will of 
 God, we must still mourn that we have lost one who had been 
 for so many years a member of this body ; and that the Church 
 has been deprived of a friend who has always taken a deep 
 interest in its welfare, and whose Christian duties have always 
 been performed with such fidelity and zeal. 
 
 "Resolved, That while we tender to his bereaved wife and 
 family our warmest sympathies, we cannot but feel that he has 
 been gathered to his rest at a good old age, in the comfort of a 
 reasonable, religious and holy hope, and in perfect charity with 
 the world." 
 
 Another honored name was soon added to the death roll of the 
 Parish. In the fall of 1866 Commodore R. F. Stockton was gathered 
 to his fathers and was buried in the family plot in the Princeton Ceme- 
 tery. He died in Morven, the old family mansion, surrounded by his 
 stricken children and the sorrowing dependents of his ancient home. 
 Widely known and respected throughout the land, his death was not 
 more a private grief than a public loss. Many distinguished personages 
 from this and other States were gathered at his bier, and attested thus 
 the sincerity of the public mourning. But it was in Princeton that his 
 death was most deeply felt. When alluding to it on the following 
 Sunday I well remember how the emotion of the congregation evinced 
 the general feeling of bereavement. There was mourning here, not 
 
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 only for the honored citizen, but also for the generous and open-hearted 
 friend. When the husband, or the houseband, goes, the house itself 
 will often drop apart ; and the removal of the numerous children of 
 this family left a vacancy in the Parish and the Borough which never 
 can be filled. One of the sons, Mr. Richard Stockton, continued to 
 reside in Princeton until his death, and one of his grandsons, Bayard 
 Stockton, the present Junior Warden of the Parish, now resides in 
 Morven, the old family seat. 
 
 On Tuesday in Easter week Mr. James Dundas Lippincott, of 
 Philadelphia, was married to Miss Alice Potter, youngest daughter of 
 Thomas Fuller Potter, of Princeton, N. J. The marriage was per- 
 formed at "Prospect" by Bishop Wm. Henry Odenheimer, assisted by 
 the Rector. The nuptial ceremony and feast will be remembered by 
 some of the older members of the Parish, and it is here referred to 
 because it was an occasion which began a new chapter in the history 
 of the Parish. The bride on her wedding day started the building fund 
 of a new church by a gift of ten thousand dollars. This was formally 
 presented to the Vestry a few weeks later. 
 
 It was cheering to the heart of the young Rector that in a Con- 
 firmation held in the first year of his settlement, there should have been 
 one whose friendly spirit and strength of character marked him out for 
 a support on which the Minister in his inexperience might securely lean. 
 Mr. Joseph H. Bruere and his wife Mary Russell Bruere were among 
 the first to be confirmed. Mr. Bruere soon became a Vestryman, and 
 for long years has been the honored Senior Warden of the Parish; and 
 even though he enter protest, the writer must be allowed to say that 
 he has more than fulfilled the promise of that early day. For more than 
 forty years both Rector and people have relied upon his sound judg- 
 ment, his wisdom in council, his readiness to help in times of need, and 
 have never known the support to fail. Five years later his home at 
 Stony Brook was darkened by the shadow of a great domestic sorrow. 
 Mrs. Bruere, after a lingering illness, was taken from the family circle 
 and added to the fellowship of "the happy land of perfect rest above." 
 She died at the age of thirty-five, leaving a daughter who bore her 
 name to cheer the darkened dwelling and comfort the bereaved and 
 lonely heart. Many will recall Mrs. Bruere's brightness of spirit, 
 sweetness of manner, and withal her simple and unaffected piety. 
 Among the Rector's pleasing memories is the recollection of the interest 
 she took in furnishing the Rectory before his marriage, and of the 
 cordial and oft-repeated hospitality extended to his family afterwards. 
 But Heaven had early marked her for its own, and soon she "was not, 
 for God took her." Her daughter was married in the year 1884 to 
 Professor Frederick N. Willson, of the University, and in 1893 sne 
 joined her mother in the better land. 
 
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 The New Church 
 
 In our narrative, we are now brought to the events of the time 
 in which even some of the younger among us have lived and moved. 
 Fidelity to history will oblige me to make mention of the names of 
 some who possibly may shrink from public mention. But the chron- 
 icler of the City of God must be true to facts and for the edification 
 of the coming generations must make record of good deeds, over 
 which the humility of the doer would have drawn the veil of silence. 
 Time, which changes everything it touches, had now begun to make 
 its mark upon the building in which our fathers worshipped. It was 
 in need of alteration and repair, and the congregation had to meet the 
 question whether it were better to restore the old structure, or to replace 
 it by another more fully suited to its needs. The opinion that the 
 latter was the wiser course was generally entertained. Some, indeed, 
 to whom the old building was endeared by long association, found it 
 difficult to support this view. But they generously made a sacrifice 
 of their private feeling for the common good, and soon there were none 
 to hinder and many to help on the "making all things new." None so 
 warmly espoused the project of a new church as the descendants of 
 those who had been mainly instrumental in the rearing of the old. 
 A plan for the desired structure was soon prepared by Mr. R. M. 
 Upjohn, the gifted church architect, of New York, who was aided in 
 his work by the suggestions of the Rev. Dr. John Henry Hopkins. At 
 a meeting on June 19, 1867, the plan was submitted to the Vestry, with 
 the accompanying letter : 
 
 To the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church, 
 
 Princeton : 
 
 Gentlemen — I send you the plan of the new church build- 
 ing proposed to be erected in> the place of the present one. If 
 the plan is satisfactory to you, and you deem it advisable to 
 make the change in accordance with it, I will subscribe for 
 this purpose ten bonds of the Camden and Amboy R. R. Co. 
 of one thousand dollars each. Yours truly. 
 
 (Signed) Alice Potter. 
 
 To this most generous proposition the Vestry, in resolutions 
 offered by Mr. Richard Stockton, made the following response : 
 
 Resolved, That the officers of Trinity Church, Princeton, 
 New Jersey, hereby gratefully accept the trust in manner and 
 form offered in the above letter from Miss Alice Potter, with 
 the reservation that the Rector, Wardens and Vestry may 
 modify the plan of the building if the persons contributing 
 two-thirds of the fund shall agree to such modification. 
 
 Resolved, That Richard Stockton and Francis Stevens 
 Conover be and are hereby appointed trustees of said fund, 
 with full power to receive, invest and re-invest all funds 
 
which may be contributed for the purpose of erecting the new 
 church building in the place of the present building; and that 
 the said trustees report to the Rector, Wardens and Vestry 
 whenever the fund is sufficiently increased to authorize contract 
 for the new building to be made; and be it further 
 
 "Resolved, That it is especially satisfactory to this cor- 
 poration to record that this donation, together with other 
 large donations which it has received, are free-will unsolicited 
 offerings from those who love the Lord Jesus Christ and 
 seek to adorn the place where He has promised to be present 
 to direct and bless His Church, and we trust the new walls 
 may be erected for His honor and filled with His glory." 
 
 This building fund thus started was soon increased by another 
 subscription of five thousand dollars by Mrs. Richard S. Conover ; 
 and with this solid basis of encouragement, the hope was entertained 
 that the good work would not be very long delayed. In an address 
 to the congregation the Rector endeavored to enlist the interest of all, 
 and proposed a plan by which both the young and the old might have 
 the satisfaction of contributing something to the building fund. His 
 suggestions were adopted by a number of the congregation, and 
 generous subscriptions were made by Mr. Joseph Olden, Mr. Joseph 
 H. Bruere, Mr. Richard S. Conover, Mr. F. S. Conover, Mrs. Sarah J. 
 Potter, Mrs. G. F. Emmons and others. But as the pledged amount 
 was not yet sufficient for the need, the Rector and Mr. R. S. Conover 
 were designated by the Vestry as a committee to devise some plan by 
 which the lack might be supplied. The committee determined to 
 invite the congregation to make pledges for the purpose, extending 
 through the space of five years, and payable in annual installments. A 
 circular, explanatory of the plan and containing the proposed pledge 
 was generally distributed, and the committee soon had the happiness 
 of reporting to the Vestry that the members of the congregation had 
 quite generally responded to their appeal. The circular was as follows : 
 
 The Rector, Wardens and Vestry 
 
 of Trinity Church, Princeton : 
 
 To All The Members Thereof : 
 Greeting! 
 
 It is doubtless known to you that a project has been set 
 on foot to provide a more comfortable and commodious House 
 of Worship than we now possess. 
 
 We are equally unwilling to annoy you, by application for 
 subscription to the Building Fund, or to deprive you who may 
 deem it a privilege to contribute, from the opportunity of help- 
 ing on the work, which, by the will of God, may prove a 
 blessing to ourselves, and our posterity. We have determined, 
 therefore, in order that every one may "do according as he is 
 disposed in his heart," to send every member of the congre- 
 gation the enclosed Pledge which is to be filled up with the 
 name of the person who contributes and the amount he desires 
 to give. 
 
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 Inasmuch as it is supposed that many would prefer giving 
 a small sum annually, to a larger one at once, it has been 
 deemed advisable to extend the time to five years. 
 
 If the sum of ten dollars per annum were pledged by every 
 adult member of the Parish, for five years, then this amount, 
 added to what has been already given, would justify the 
 Vestry in an early undertaking of the work. 
 
 While it is not expected that all will give so much, it is 
 hoped that many will give more. 
 
 The amount pledged by each person will be known only 
 to the Committee. 
 
 If any person should prefer to give the whole amount of 
 his subscription at any time during the five years, the Pledge 
 will be returned to him. 
 
 Knowing that ''except the Lord build the house, their labor 
 is but lost that build it," we ask the prayers of all the members 
 of the Parish, that we may be prospered in the work. 
 
 I Rev. A. B. Baker Rector 
 By order of the Vestry, -j R. S. Conover 
 
 I Committee. 
 
 We also enclose a note, which, when filled up and signed, 
 please send by mail to Rev. A. B. Baker, Princeton, or leave 
 it at the Rectory. 
 
 Please return answer by February 15th, if possible. 
 Princeton, February 1st, 1868. 
 
 At a meeting of the Vestry, on October 21, 1867, a building com- 
 mittee, consisting cf Mr. R. S. Conover, Mr. Henry Leard and Mr. 
 Joseph Olden, was appointed and endowed with all the powers neces- 
 sary to carry out the plans proposed. During the ensuing winter 
 preparations for building were pushed on with vigor. Early in the 
 spring the work was actually begun. At a Vestry meeting on March 
 30, 1868, it was resolved "That in the opinion of the Rector, Church 
 Wardens and Vestrymen the funds now in the hands of the trustees 
 are sufficient to warrant the commencement of the work ; 
 and that they consider the Building Committee justified 
 in proceeding with it. At this meeting Mr. James Olden asked to be 
 relieved from serving on the Building Committee and Mr. Joseph 
 H. Bruere was appointed in his place. The old church was de- 
 molished and removed, the foundations of the new structure were 
 securely laid and by the Fourth of July 1868, were sufficiently ad- 
 vanced for the laying of the corner-stone. In the selection of this date 
 respect was had to ancient associations. It was on the same national 
 holiday, thirty-five years before, that the corner-stone of the first 
 edifice had been laid; and now, as then, the ceremony was performed 
 in the presence of a numerous concourse of citizens. Bishop Oden- 
 heimer presided over the occasion. At 1 o'clock p. m. the Wardens and 
 the Vestrymen, the Rector, the Bishop and a number of attending clergy 
 formed in procession at the Rectory and moved to the ground where 
 
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 the congregation was waiting. After prayers by the Bishop, the 
 Rector gave a brief account of the history of the Parish, and stated 
 that there had been prepared for deposit in the corner-stone a Bible 
 and Book of Common Prayer ; a Parchment Roll containing ex- 
 tracts from the Records of the Parish from its foundation to the 
 present date; a paper on which the names of the Wardens and 
 Vestrymen, the Architect and the Building Committee were en- 
 grossed ; the Roll of Communicants and a list of contributors to 
 the New Church fund. The deposit of the box containing these 
 documents was made by Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, a ceremony the 
 recollection of which will not easily be effaced from the memory of 
 those who witnessed it. After the stone was placed in position on 
 the northeast corner of the building, the Bishop made a short but 
 eloquent address, the choir sang the "Gloria in Excelsis," the Bishop 
 pronounced the Benediction, and the congregation dispersed. 
 
 In alluding to the occasion in his Convention address, the Bishop 
 used the following words : "It was with peculiar satisfaction that on 
 the Fourth of July, 1868, I laid the corner-stone of the new Trinity 
 Church, Princeton. The old building was taken down by the descend- 
 ants of those who had erected it, and who, emulating the liberality of 
 their fathers, had contributed generously of their means for the erec- 
 tion of the present building. It is designed to be in all respects worthy 
 of the holy purposes to which it is to be consecrated, and worthy of the 
 venerable place in which it is to be erected. I cannot withhold the 
 grateful record that two daughters of the Church started the subscrip- 
 tion to the new Church — one with the sum of ten thousand dollars, 
 the other with five thousand. God bless those noble-hearted disciples 
 of Jesus, and all who by their gifts and prayers have aided in the 
 good work of erecting a House of God." 
 
 The rearing of "the House''steadily proceeded from this date. It 
 took nearly two years to build it, during which time the parochial 
 services were held in the school-room. That the Church was finished 
 and ready for consecration in the spring of 1870 was largely due to 
 the energy and perseverance of Mr. Richard S. Conover, the chairman 
 of the Building Committee, who gave the work his untiring attention 
 and his unstinted aid. It was ordered by Providence that two of those 
 who participated in the laying of the corner-stone should not survive 
 the interval between that occasion and the consecration. The first to 
 depart this life was Captain Edmund Veyer, who died in August, 1869. 
 After his remains were committed to the ground, the Vestry, of 
 which he died a member, passed appropriate resolutions, in which they 
 expressed their own feeling of bereavement and tendered their sympathy 
 to his afflicted family. The next to disappear from our midst was 
 the Hon. Richard Stockton Field, who was one of the most dis- 
 
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 tinguished of our citizens and the last of the group of illustrious men 
 who were interested in the foundation of the Parish. From its incep- 
 tion Judge Field had heartily favored the new church project; and 
 when it was undertaken he enlarged the church yard by the gift of a 
 strip of land in order that the proportions of the new Building might 
 be more advantageously displayed. He was not permitted however to 
 see the completion of the church. A little before the time set apart for 
 its consecration, he followed the generation of his fathers, and was 
 carried in solemn service to the city of the dead. Eminent in juris- 
 prudence, renowned in letters, admired in the social circles which his 
 talents and culture had so conspicuously adorned, the death of Judge 
 Field was a loss which was felt far beyond the limits of Princeton, 
 or the bounds of his native State. 
 
 Consecration of New Church. 
 
 The new church completed to the base of the tower was conse- 
 crated on Tuesday in Whitsun Week, June 7, 1870. The Vestry had 
 previously sent to the Bishop the following preamble and resolutions : 
 
 At a meeting of the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry- 
 men of Trinity Parish, Princeton, held on May 16th, 1870, the 
 following Preamble and Resolutions being offered by the Senior 
 Warden and seconded by the Junior Warden, were unani- 
 mously adopted : 
 
 Whereas the Church Building recently erected by the Con- 
 gregation of the Parish, is so far finished as to be ready for 
 the due Celebration of Divine Service, and is free from pecu- 
 niary embarrassment, therefore : 
 
 Resolved, that we, the Rector, Church Wardens and 
 Vestrymen, respectfully request the Bishop to consecrate the 
 same at an early day. 
 
 Resolved that the Rector be requested to communicate with 
 the Bishop, respecting the time of holding the Consecration 
 Service. 
 
 Resolved, that the secretary of the Corporation be re- 
 quested to send a Copy of these resolutions to the Bishop. 
 
 Invitations had also been sent to the Clergy of the Diocese, and 
 the absent friends of the Parish, many of whom were present and 
 united with the congregation in giving thanks for the blessings of the 
 day. 
 
 The procession formed in the Parish School Room, and moved- 
 up the aisle of the church in the following order : The united choirs 
 of Christ Church, New York City, Christ Church, South Amboy, 
 and Trinity Church, Princeton, under the leadership of Dr. Henry 
 Stephen Cutler, of New York, the visiting Clergy from this and other 
 dioceses, the Wardens and Vestrymen of the Parish, the Rector, and 
 the Bishop of the Diocese! On reaching their proper positions in the 
 
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 church which had been tastefully decorated by the ladies of the Parish 
 with the flowers of the season, the Bishop read the opening part of the 
 service, and called upon Mr. F. S. Conover to read the instrument of 
 donation by which the church was formally offered and presented to 
 Almighty God. This being done the consecration service was pro- 
 ceeded with — the Bishop preaching the sermon and administering the 
 Holy Communion, with the assistance of the Rector, to a large 
 number of the faithful. May we not say that on that memorable day 
 there was another fulfilling of the prophecy, "The glory of the latter 
 house shall be greater than of the former," and "In this place will I 
 give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts." 
 
 The church which consists of nave, transepts, central tower, 
 choir and apsidal chancel, is built of Princeton stone in the pointed 
 Gothic style, and is much admired for its dignity, solidity and beauty. 
 
 The Certificate of Consecration is as follows : 
 
 IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. 
 
 Whereas, The Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen 
 of Trinity Church, Princeton and State of New Jersey have 
 by an instrument this day presented to me, appointed and 
 devoted a house of Public Worship erected by them in said 
 Place to the worship and service of ALMIGHTY GOD, the 
 FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY GHOST, according to 
 to provisions of the Protestant Episcopal CHURCH in the 
 United States of America, in its Ministry, Doctrines, Liturgy, 
 Rites and Usages ; and by a Congregation in Communion with 
 said CHURCH, and in the union with the Convention thereof 
 in the Diocese of 
 
 New Jersey 
 
 And, Whereas, The same Rector, Church-Wardens, and 
 Vestrymen have, by the same Instrument, requested me to 
 take their said house of worship under my spiritual jurisdic- 
 tion as Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, and that of my 
 Successors in Office, and to Consecrate it by the name of 
 Trinity Church, Princeton and thereby Separate it from all 
 unhallowed, worldly, and common uses, and solemnly Dedicate 
 it to the holy purposes above mentioned. 
 
 Now Therefore, Know All Men by These Presents, 
 that I, William H. Odenheimer by Divine permission Bishop 
 of the Diocese of New Jersey, acting under the protection of 
 Almighty God, have on this seventh day of June being in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy taken 
 the above mentioned house of worship under my spiritual juris- 
 diction as Bishop aforesaid, and that of my Successors in 
 Office ; and in presence of divers of the Clergy, and a Public 
 Congregation therein assembled, and according to the form 
 prescribed by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
 States of America, have Consecrated the same by the name of 
 Trinity Church, Princeton, New Jersey. 
 
 And I do Hereby Pronounce and Declare, that the said 
 
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 Trinity Church is Consecrated accordingly, and thereby 
 Separated henceforth from all unhallowed, worldly, and com- 
 mon uses, and Dedicated to the Worship and Service of 
 Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, for 
 reading and preaching His Holy Word, for celebrating His holy 
 Sacraments, for offering to His glorious Majesty the Sacri- 
 fices of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving, for blessing His 
 people in His Name, and for the performance of all other 
 Holy Offices, agreeably to the terms of the Covenant of Grace 
 and Salvation in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and 
 according to the provisions of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church in the United States of America, in its Ministry, Doc- 
 trines, Liturgy, Rites, and Usages. 
 
 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my 
 Seal and Signature in the city of Princeton, on the day and 
 in the year above written, and in the Eleventh year of my 
 Consecration. 
 
 W. H. Odenheimer, D.D., 
 
 Bishop of New Jersey. 
 
 Beside contributing the money necessary for the erection of the 
 Church, the congregation by special gifts provided all things necessary 
 for the interior furnishings and for the orderly performance of 
 divine service. The chancel furniture was the gift of Mrs. Edwin 
 Stevens of Hoboken, N. J. Mrs. Sarah J. Potter presented the lectern 
 and Mrs. Richard Conover the tiles for the chancel floor. At her 
 own expense, Mrs. Sarah J. Potter also procured the carving of the 
 capitals of the piers which support the tower, in the beautiful emblem- 
 atic forms which are so much admired. To the unremitting efforts 
 of a society of ladies we are indebted for the stone steps of the choir 
 and the Sacrarium. Our sweet-toned organ was principally the gift 
 of Mr. Richard S. Conover and Mrs. John R. Thomson. The massive 
 font was presented by Mrs. Telfair Hodgson, and commemorates a 
 little daughter who died in Oxford, England, and is buried in the 
 graveyard near the chancel of the Church. "Just touched with Jesus' 
 light, then lost in joys above." One of the chancel windows was 
 given by Mrs. Sarah J. Potter, another by Miss Maria Stockton, and 
 a third by Mrs. Richard S. Conover. These exquisite specimens of the 
 art of staining glass were executed by Wailes and Son of Newcastle- 
 on-Tyne. The stained window in the nave, in memory of Mrs. Caspar 
 Wistar Hodge, was a tribute of parental affection and was given by Mr. 
 Richard B. Post. Surplice, stole and altar service books were pre- 
 sented by Mrs. Joseph Olden and her daughter, Mrs. Frederick W. 
 Stevens. A silver alms-basin, in memory of a loved daughter "not 
 lost but gone before," was given by Dr. and Mrs. Dod. The upholstery 
 of the pews was done without recompense by Mr. Henry C. Haddoway 
 and Mr. Augustus Case. Mrs. Richard S. Cuyler gave an altar cross 
 "to the glory of God," and in memory of as generous and noble a spirit 
 as ever tenanted a mortal shrine — John Hamilton Potter, who died at 
 
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 Atlanta, Ga., July 26th, 1864. The altar hangings were the gift of one 
 '"cunning to work in gold and purple and crimson and blue" — Miss 
 Susan Hall of Muncy, Pa. For several years the children of the Parish 
 devoted their earnings and savings to a window fund, and the beautiful 
 window in the north transept is the result of their long and patient 
 effort. This was made by Cox and Sons of London, England. For 
 the carpet, which before the tiling of the Church covered the nave and 
 transept aisles, we were mainly indebted to Miss Annis T. Field and 
 Miss Caroline Salomon. Altar linen was provided by Miss M. A. 
 Graham, and was afterwards renewed by Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott. 
 Still later a complete set of coverings for the sacred vessels, beautifully 
 embroidered, was given by the three children of Mrs. R. S. Cuyler of 
 Baltimore, Md. The laying out of ^he Church grounds was done by Mr. 
 Edward Xoice. There were yet other gifts of which I make no 
 record, but which are yet written in the Book of God's Remembrance. 
 Thus through the liberality of the friends of the Church, everything 
 which could promote the convenience or contribute to the beauty of 
 public worship was freely given, and nothing was left for heart to 
 desire. 
 
 Soon after the consecration of the Church week-day services and 
 weekly communion were established, and after a short period of proba- 
 tion the choir of boys and men were properly vested in accordance with 
 the desire of a large majority of the Parishioners. In the matter of the 
 conduct of Divine Service, the congregation had learned to distinguish 
 between restoration and innovation and had been governed by the 
 wisdom which prompted Lord Bacon to say, "time so maketh round 
 that a forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an inno- 
 vation." This is a lesson which the unthinking are slow to learn. In 
 remarking upon this observation of Lord Bacon Archbishop Whately 
 says, "To reject the religious practices and doctrines that have crept 
 in, little by little, since the days of the Apostles, and thus to restore 
 Christianity to what it was under them appears to the unthinking to be 
 forsaking the old religion and bringing in a new. It is in truth, how- 
 ever, only a restoration of things to their original state." The 
 Christian world would be much benefitted, if this principle were 
 generally recognized ; if all, would "stand in the way and see and ask 
 for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein." 
 
 As already said it was in the minds of the founders of our Church 
 to provide a burial place for the use of the congregation and a parcel 
 of ground adjoining the church lot was offered to the Vestry for this 
 purpose, by Mr. John Potter, before the Rectory was built. Although 
 this ground was never devoted to the purpose for which it was intended 
 we must sympathize with the noble Christian sentiment which prompted 
 the gift. 
 
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 "I never can see a churchyard old 
 
 With its mossy stones and mounds 
 
 And green trees weeping the unforgot 
 
 That rest in its hallowed bounds : 
 
 I never can see the old churchyard 
 
 But I breathe to God a prayer 
 That, sleep as I may in this fevered life, 
 
 I may rest, when I slumber there." 
 
 The necessity of having some ground where the poorer members 
 of the congregation might be buried was met in later years by Mr. 
 Joseph Bruere, who gave a suitable lot in the Princeton Cemetery and 
 in this a number already rest in peace until the Resurrection. This 
 Church burial plot was afterwards enlarged by Mrs. Swann. 
 
 There have always been a few young men connected with the 
 College, who have been willing to add to the pursuit of learning a 
 little active work in the Parish in which during their student life their 
 lot was cast. For the encouragement of such work, a number of stu- 
 dents in the early part of the present Rectorship banded themselves 
 together in an organization known as the Rector's Aid Sqciety and this 
 society soon became responsible for a weekly Service and Sunday School 
 at Princeton Basin. To afford the society a secvire basis for its 
 operations, Mr. Richard S. Conover bought the Chapel at the Basin, 
 which previously had been rented, and made it over to the corporation 
 of the Parish. 
 
 The St. Paul's Society now existing in the University is an 
 immediate descendant of this earlier association. Services have been 
 held in the Basin Chapel with little interruption ever since, by Lay 
 Readers of this society, assisted by an indefatigable missionary — Miss 
 Stevens — who is always present to play the organ and lead the congre- 
 gation in their responses. In the year 187 1 Missionary work was 
 begun at Sand Hills — ■ a much neglected region equidistant from 
 Princeton and New Brunswick. Valuable assistance was rendered in 
 this work by several ladies of this Parish, chiefly Mrs. Richard Conover, 
 Miss Maria Stevens," and Miss Mary Hope, who visited the people 
 in their homes, taught the children, and relieved the destitute and 
 suffering. Although there was no building fund on which the mission 
 might rely, the corner-stone of a church building was laid on St. 
 Barnabas Day, 1872. The work begun in faith was blessed of God, 
 and when the building was completed, there were sufficient funds in 
 the Rector's hands to meet the cost. Several unsolicited offerings came 
 from unexpected quarters. One was from Mr. Frederick Schuchardt 
 of New York, and another was from St. Peter's Parish, London, sent 
 as a token of the good-will of the Church of England. It is interesting 
 to record that the first Confirmation held by Bishop Scarborough was 
 
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 in this building. The Rev. William B. Bolmer assumed charge of this 
 mission in November 1873, and during the years which have since 
 elapsed services have been there maintained continuously by the Lay 
 Readers of the St. Paul's Society. Several improvements have been 
 made to the building, the yard has been fenced, a cemetery opened, 
 and enlarged by the gift of adjoining land, and a steadily increasing 
 interest maintained throughout the community. It is surely a cause 
 for thankfulness that in the immediate neighborhood of the Parish 
 three missions have been established, and that they are the means of 
 ministering to a goodly number "the doctrine, sacraments and disci- 
 pline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded, and as this church hath 
 received the same." The St. Paul's Society to which these results are 
 chiefly due is composed of those of the undergraduates of the University 
 who are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; and its chief 
 object was to make such special provision for their needs, as could not 
 be afforded by the more general provisions of the University itself. 
 Since its formation, a course of sermons under its auspices has been 
 delivered annually in the Parish Church, and among the preachers 
 have been some of our most distinguished Bishops and clergy. Bible 
 classes have been held for the society and an attractive room has been 
 provided for its use in the Potter Memorial House. In this a small 
 but well selected library, presented by Mrs. George Allison Armour, has 
 been placed. The society, by its licensed lay readers has not only 
 conducted services every Sunday in three Mission Chapels in the 
 neighborhood of Princeton, but has also occasionally supplied them, 
 in more distant places. It has proved a very useful organization 
 in the past, and "esto perpetua" must be our wish for it as friends of the 
 University and of the church in Princeton. 
 
 In May 1875, Caroline Conover, second daughter of Commodore 
 Thomas Anderson, and Juliana Conover was added to the list of the 
 blessed dead. Her character was one of great saintliness, and her last 
 sickness was marked by a patience and resignation which are seldom 
 equalled. She was sustained throughout by a "reasonable religious 
 and holy hope"; and just befpre her departure she said to her pastor, 
 "I am glad to go where there is no contradiction of the will of God." 
 The sins of the weary world were a burden on her gentle spirit, but 
 the load soon dropped away, her spirit went back to God, and its 
 earthly tenement was laid in the family vault in the crypt of the 
 church at South Amboy. 
 
 In July 1877 the Vestry having learned that a perpetual insurance 
 had been effected on the church building passed the following resolu- 
 tion : 
 
 Resolved, That the thanks of the Vestry be presented to 
 Mr. J. D. Lippincott for his generous gift of a perpetual in- 
 
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 surance policy upon the church building, and that the same be 
 entered on its records. 
 
 In April 1876 Mr. Richard Stockton died at Springdale, his Prince- 
 ton residence, and was buried in the Princeton Cemetery. Mr. Stock- 
 ton had been long identified with the Parish, had served it many years 
 as Vestryman, and had taken great interest in everything relating to its 
 welfare. An inheritor of the knightly traits of his ancestors he was 
 generous, loyal and courteous, and he died lamented by our whole 
 community. His brother, Robert Field Stockton, a sharer of the same 
 ancestral traits, removed to Trenton soon after his father's death and 
 resided there till his death which occurred in 1898. One of his daugh- 
 ters, Mrs. Margaretta Pyne, wife of Mr. M. Taylor Pyne, resides in 
 Princeton, the greater portion of the year, and with her husband, puts 
 the Parish, the University and the whole community under continual 
 obligation by munificent liberality and readiness to help in every 
 good work. 
 
 For several years the Parish church was without its tower. But 
 the Christian liberality which conceived the plan of the "latter house" 
 was equal to its full completion. In the year 1875 the tower was 
 erected by Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, at a cost of about $14,000. Long 
 may it rest upon its massive piers and uplift its golden cross above the 
 green trees of these academic groves. 
 
 Soon after the finishing of this undertaking one who took a lively 
 interest in its progress was taken to her rest. On May 1st, 1877, Mrs. 
 Sarah J. Potter fell asleep, and was laid in "the chamber of peace which 
 opens toward the sunrising" near the chancel of this church. The wide- 
 spread mourning which her death occasioned is not yet ended. Long 
 will her loss be felt by the Parish in which she felt so deep an interest, 
 the social circles which she elevated and so eminently adorned, the poor 
 whom she befriended, and the many to whom she was endeared by the 
 graces of her heart and life. The Vestry gave expression to their sor- 
 row in the following minute : 
 
 Resolved, That in the death of this most estimable lady, so 
 long and intimately connected with the church and its chari- 
 ties we have not only lost one of our most valued members, but 
 one whose beautiful life and example are endeared to us all ; 
 and we desire to place on record this feeble expression of re- 
 spect and regard which we, in common with every member 
 of the church, entertain for our departed friend. 
 
 The Vestry also deemed it a privilege to erect the tablet to her 
 memory which is one of the piers which support the lantern and 
 the tower. One other memorial of her we also have, and when on 
 festal days we come to the altar of the Lord to receive the cup of 
 salvation, we are reminded of her by the chalice, which, like the wall 
 of the Heavenly City, is garnished with all manner of precious stones. 
 
TRIXfTY CHURCH TOWER FROM THE NORTHWEST 
 
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 Then when the Lord Jesus comes to meet and bless us in the sacra- 
 ment, "those that sleep in Jesus does God bring with Him," and we 
 realize the truth of the words, "Angels and living saints and dead, but 
 one communion make." The following description of the chalice and 
 paten appeared in the Churchman of November 1878: 
 
 "On All Saints' day an exquisite chalice and paten were offered in 
 this church (the Rev. A. B. Baker, Rector) inscribed (on the under 
 side of the paten), 'In loving memory of Sarah Jane, wife of Thomas 
 Fuller Potter.' During her whole married life and widowhood Mrs. 
 Potter was a communicant in the Parish, and one of its steadiest 
 supporters and most liberal benefactors, leaving it a bequest of $5,000 
 in her will, besides all she had done for it in her lifetime. The portion 
 of her personal jewels which had descended to her younger daughter, 
 Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, was by the latter devoted to this chalice and 
 paten; and the result is the richest specimen of jeweled church plate that 
 has as yet been made in this country ; there being nearly 900 several 
 stones embodied in the work. The general shape is the correct mediae- 
 val form of the paten, the latter fitting the top of the former like a 
 cover, with wide projecting margin. The bowl of the chalice is plain 
 gilt within (all the gilding is heavy fire gilding, and all the jewels are 
 in settings of gold) and also plain gilt on the outside for nearly an 
 inch. There is then an outer silver cup in which the bowl is placed, 
 and on which are three large amethysts, at equal distances apart. Be- 
 tween these are, near the upper edge of the silver in each of the three 
 spaces, a row of six small red coral balls ; immediately below and be- 
 tween them a row of five large pearls ; and below these again three 
 rosettes of numerous diamond sparks. Then the lower portion of the 
 outside of the bowl is again girded with a circle of twelve small ame- 
 thysts. The stem, above and below the knob, is circular, as is the entire 
 foot likewise. 
 
 "Where the stem is attached to the bowl there is a cable moulding, 
 which adds no little richness, and each half of the stem is studded 
 with twelve small red coral balls. The knob is in six swelling lobes, 
 each terminated by a different stone, all cut en caboclwn. At the angles 
 where the lobes meet, twelve large pearls are set, six above and six 
 below. The foot, at the upper part, has a bevel, on which are set one 
 very large pearl and five amethysts, all separated by six upright bands 
 of five small pearls each. The bevel projects markedly over the upper 
 neck of the foot. The circular sweep of the foot (a little wider than the 
 bowl) is divided into eighteen portions by twelve narrow bands of gold, 
 each set with a single string of turquoises. They are all ogees in form, 
 crossed over one another, so as to make six larger arches below, with 
 wide ends downward, six smaller arches just over them, with wide ends 
 upward, and six lozenge shaped spaces in the middle between the 
 arches. In each of the smaller arches are one large pendant gray 
 pearl and two smaller round pearls. In the six lozenges are six oval 
 amethysts, with a small red coral above and below each. In the lower 
 and larger arches there is a variety. One contains a cross of sixteen 
 diamonds set in black enamel, with a small but fiery opal in the centre, 
 and small diamond trefoils in the four angles of the cross, besides two 
 rosettes of seven diamonds each (set in black enamel) in the lower 
 corners of the arch. In the arch, just opposite to this is a very large 
 pendant gray pearl, with two other round pearls of great size, and 
 several smaller stones. The lower bevelled edge of the foot is garnished 
 
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 with a continuous row of small red coral balls, broken by six hemi- 
 spheres of lapis lazuli, one at each end of the band of turquoise. 
 
 "The paten is perfectly plain on the top, heavily gilded. The lower 
 side is silver. Toward the centre a circle of of six red coral balls marks 
 the size of the inside of the chalice bowl. Around that, beginning and 
 ending at a red coral cross, runs the memorial inscription in good old 
 English letter, engraved, with background shaded on the diagonal line. 
 Outside of that runs a complete circle of amethysts, jaspers, moss 
 agates, and other stones, cut in various shapes. The work was designed 
 by the Rev. Dr. J. H. Hopkins, and done by P. Ford, of New York." 
 
 By the last will and testament of Mrs. Potter the sum of five 
 thousand dollars was bequeathed to the Vestry for the purpose of 
 erecting a pulpit, decorating the walls and tiling the floors of the 
 church. The action of the Vestry relative to this bequest is as 
 follows : 
 
 At a meeting held on January 6th, 1878, Mr. F. S. Conover read a 
 letter received from Mr. J. D. Lippincott, executor of the estate of Mrs. 
 Sarah J. Potter, stating that Mrs. Potter had bequeathed to the Rector, 
 Wardens and Vestrymen the sum of $5000 for the purpose of complet- 
 ing the church and that the sum had been deposited to the credit of Mr. 
 F. S. Conover, the Treasurer of the church in the Fidelity Trust and 
 Safe Deposit Co. of Philadelphia. He also read a letter from Mrs. 
 Alice Lippincott stating the views and wishes of her mother respecting 
 the use of the bequest. Whereupon, on the motion of Mr. Joseph H. 
 Bruere it was 
 
 Resolved, That the Rector, Junior Warden and Mr. F. S. 
 Conover be appointed a committee to carry out the wishes of 
 Mrs. Sarah J. Potter, as conveyed to us by her executors, 
 and as provided for by her noble bequest to the church. 
 
 Resolved also that this committee be instructed, if it be 
 agreeable to her children, to erect in the church for the Vestry, 
 a Tablet in sacred memory of the deceased. 
 
 The Tablet bears this inscription : 
 
 Erected By The Vestry 
 
 To Commemorate 
 
 The Christian Life 
 
 And Example of 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Jane Potter. 
 
 Anno Domino 1878. 
 
 The committee appointed to carry out the wishes of the testator 
 consisted of Mr. F. S. Conover, Mr. J. D. Lippincott and the Rector. 
 They at once began the designated improvements, and while the work 
 was carrying on, the congregation once more "tabernacled" in the 
 Parish school room. The improvements were finished in the fall of 
 1878. The church was made ready for the re-entrance of the congre- 
 gation, and the presence of the Bishop was secured for the opening 
 service. But on the Thursday before the Sunday appointed for the 
 opening, the nave of the church was partially destroyed by fire, 
 
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 occasioned by the overheating of a flue by an overdriven furnace. Great 
 was the consternation of the congregation, on waking in the early 
 morning, to find that their beautiful church was in flames ; but owing 
 to the exertions of our firemen, and our citizens generally, the fire 
 was confined to the nave. This was much injured, but the chancel and 
 transepts escaped unharmed. While the firemen were at work, some of 
 the ladies of the Parish made coffee at the Rectory for their refresh- 
 ment and this contributed not a little to the success which crowned 
 their exhausting labors. At a meeting of the Vestry the Rector was 
 asked to tender their thanks to the firemen and citizens of the 
 Borough for their prompt and efficient services at the fire and accord- 
 ingly he sent a letter expressing the gratitude of the Vestry to the 
 Princeton Press, the Chief Engineer of the fire department, and the 
 Foreman of each of the fire companies. A building committee consist- 
 ing of Mr. Joseph H. Bruere, Mr. J. D. Lippincott and the Rector was 
 at once appointed by the Vestry to restore the church, and the 
 company in which the building was insured advanced the funds for 
 its restoration. While the work was in progress divine service was 
 celebrated in the transepts of the church, these having been shut off 
 from the nave by a temporary screen. On the day appointed for the 
 opening service the Bishop was with us to counsel and to cheer us in 
 our misfortune. The work of rebuilding proceeded without hindrance, 
 and on the first Sunday of the new year the nave, completely restored, 
 was thrown open to the congregation. There was sadness mingled with 
 the joy in the services of the day, for it was known that one who had 
 been deeply interested in the new church would never again be per- 
 mitted to worship within its walls. A month later she departed, and 
 went to join the blessed ones who had gone before her to the paradise 
 of God. "One thing she had desired of the Lord, even that she might 
 dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of her life, to behold the 
 fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit His temple." Her heart's desire 
 was granted, and after a life of beautiful and devoted service to the 
 earthly temple she was taken to the temple of God on high, and she 
 "shall go no more out." The west window in the nave, erected by Mrs. 
 Cuyler, of Baltimore, commemorates her life and character. It bears 
 the inscription, "To the glory of God and in memory of Sarah Jones 
 Conover." It is a fitting commemoration of a character of rarest 
 beauty and most telling influence. Her's was "the meek and gentle 
 spirit which in the sight of God is of great price. She was diligent in 
 business, fervent in spirit, and she served the Lord. She rejoiced in 
 hope, was patient in tribulations, continued instant in prayer. She 
 distributed to the necessity of saints, was given to hospitality," and all 
 she did from the constraining love of Him to whom her whole being 
 was surrendered, and whom she loved to serve in the person of His 
 
members. She entered into the rest of her Lord on February 4th, 1879. 
 "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." Although 
 not a resident of Princeton at the time of her death, the Vestry of this 
 Parish gave expression to their feeling of loss in an appropriate minute, 
 which is spread upon the records of the Parish. The minute is as 
 follows : 
 
 Whereas in the ordering of an allwise providence we have 
 been called upon to mourn the death of the beloved wife of our 
 friend and fellow Vestryman Mr. R. S. Conover, Therefore, 
 
 Resolved, that we declare our deep sense of the loss which 
 we as a Parish and the Church at large have sustained in the 
 decease of one so full of faith and charity and good works. The 
 remembrance of her saintly character will long remain with us 
 as an illustration of the power of our religion and as an incen- 
 tive to follow in the steps of that most "Holy Life" which she 
 tried so faithfully to imitate. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender our sincere and heartfelt sym- 
 pathy to her bereaved husband and family, together with the 
 assurance of our prayers, that the God of all consolation 
 would grant them comfort according to their need. 
 
 In a yearly anniversary sermon soon after, the Rector said: Few 
 are the Parishes which have suffered so much from the ravages of 
 death, from removal and from change as our own during the past 
 decade. The departures by death we most deplore, and yet there is a 
 sense in which they are an enrichment of our Parochial existence. 
 They are but the storing of our jewels in the treasure house on high. 
 How rich are we in the memory of the sainted ones who have gone to 
 swell "the multitude unnumbered — who no more by care encumbered— 
 dwell with Christ within the veil" ! How out of the storehouse of our 
 recollections there come to us the names of Mrs. Catharine E. Dod, the 
 cheerful, cultured Christian woman, who is embalmed in the fragrant 
 spices of her good deeds ; Mr. Richard B. Post, the reverent church- 
 man, and the genial, generous friend; Mrs, Harriet W. Post, the godly 
 matron who survived her companion in life's journey six brave years. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, helpful so long in the work of teaching and 
 of praise ; Mrs. Charlotte J. Leard, always so interested in any good 
 work in which she could engage ; Charles Stedman, the first Senior 
 Warden of the Parish, the builder of its first church, and assisting 
 through many years in the rearing of the temple of which "the saints 
 build up its fabric, and whose corner-stone is Chrjst" ; Mr. and Mrs. 
 James Haughton, the cultured, unaffected Christians who ripened 
 together for the heavenly world in the peaceful home of their loving 
 daughter, and who lie together in the sweet churchyard of the Parish 
 served by their son at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Louisa C. Tut- 
 hill, who to wide literary culture united that culture of the heart which 
 is only gained when the "Spirit" is the teacher ; Mrs. Cornelia L. 
 
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 Pierson, who early acknowledged her baptismal obligations, and by 
 a course of deep sacrificing love through no ordinary trials and 
 vicissitudes showed the sincerity of her consecration; Mrs Julia Stevens 
 made meet in middle life for the inheritance of the saints on high ; 
 Miss Elizabeth B. Stevens, taken with the dew of youth upon her, 
 to dwell forever in the opening morning light ; Mrs. Lydia McGregor, 
 the aged widow, who departed not from the temple, but served her 
 Lord with fastings and prayers day and night ; Elias C. Baker, for 
 many years a Vestryman and serving during several, as Secretary of 
 the Parish. Many are the other names which come to memory and 
 which, although they cannot now be mentioned, are registered in the 
 most sacred of our Parish lists, and their record is with God. 
 
 "O soothe us, haunt us, night and day, 
 
 Ye gentle spirits far away, 
 With whom we shared the cup of grace, 
 
 Then parted : ye to Christ's embrace. 
 We to the lonesome world again, 
 
 Yet mindful of the unearthly strain, 
 Practiced with you at Eden's door 
 
 To be sung on, where angels soar 
 With blended voices evermore." 
 
 On Whitesunday, June 9th, 1878, an interesting ordination service 
 was held in the church when Robert Stockton Dod, Arthur B. Conger 
 and Howard Earnest Thompson were admitted by Bishop Scarborough to 
 the sacred order of Deacons. The Rev. Nathaniel Pettit and the Rector 
 presented the candidates. Mr. Dod was the oldest son of the former 
 Rector of the Parish, and it was an hour of grateful recollections 
 when the son received his commission to serve at the same altar, and 
 preach the same Gospel in the ministration of which the father had 
 "fulfilled his course." After ordination the Rev. Mr. Dod engaged in 
 very laborious duty in the city of New York, but his health could not 
 endure the strain and he was obliged to suspend the active discharge 
 of the ministerial office. The Rev. Mr. Conger, after a settlement of 
 a few years in St. John's Church, Woodside, in the Diocese of Newark, 
 became Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Radnor, in the Dio- 
 cese of Pennsylvania. He is well read in theology and philosophy, and 
 adds to his learning a most zealous and devoted spirit. A long Rec- 
 torship attests the acceptableness of his ministrations to the people of 
 his Parish and a beautiful stone church, built during his incumbency,, 
 is a monument to his untiring zeal. He was married in Princeton, in 
 the year 1880 to Miss Mary Stockton, whose strength and charm of 
 character are treasured in the memory of many in the congregation. 
 She fell asleep on November 10th, 1896, leaving behind her a noble 
 band of sons and daughters to cherish her memory, and emulate her 
 virtues. She was buried in the Conger family plot in Greenwood, Long, 
 
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 Island. Her sister, Caroline Bayard Stockton, also a woman of 
 saintly character and fragrant memory, died on June 26, 1895 and was 
 laid to rest in the cemetery at Princeton. The Rev. Howard E. Thomp- 
 son, one of our most faithful clergy, after several settlements became 
 Rector of the Parish at Freehold. A considerable number of candi- 
 dates for holy orders have been ordained in this Parish during the 
 present Rectorship. Among these may be mentioned Joseph Colton, 
 son of the Rev. Asa D. Colton, George H. Hooper, Arthur Rutherford 
 Morris of Trinity Divinity School, Tokyo, Japan, Robert Livingston 
 Stevens, now of Warwick, Pa., Richard D. Hatch, Willmantic, Ct., and 
 the Rev. Latta Griswold, of Newport, R. I. Names of other ordi- 
 nees are mentioned elsewhere. Owing to its situation in a University 
 town, the Parish has influenced many outside of its own pale to seek 
 the ministry of our beloved church. Many a church student, resident in 
 other Parishes, has had his mind turned to the ministry while attending 
 service in Trinity in his college days, and has determined to devote 
 himself to this, the noblest of the professions. Many not counting 
 themselves churchmen have also decided, while here, to follow the same 
 course. I have been unable to ascertain the number of Princeton Uni- 
 versity men who are, or have been on our Clergy list, but they are 
 probably counted by hundreds. The catalogue of the Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary shows that this institution alone has given us one 
 hundred clergy, a showing which puts us under great obligation to 
 this venerable seat of sacred learning. Among the large number of 
 the lay readers of the Parish who have become clergymen are the 
 Reverends Wynant Vanderpool, Arthur Rutherford Morris, George H. 
 Hooper, Henry Martyn Torbert, Joseph S. Colton, James P. Conover, 
 Emelius W. Smith, Arthur C. Powell, Harrold Miller, Robert A. Mayo, 
 Charles Gray, Robert S. Dod, Arthur B. Conger, Franklin Spalding, 
 Alden Welling, Arthur Mason Sherman, Richard Daniel Hatch, George 
 Greenville Merrill, George B. Kinkead, Ralph Ernest Urban, Law- 
 rence F. Bower, William Osborn Baker, Thomas Anderson Conover, 
 John Talbot Ward, Henry Augustus McNulty, Henry K. B. Ogle, 
 Latta Griswold, Charles Townsend, Jr., Morgan Ashley. Among the 
 Bishops who received their academic or theologic training here are the 
 names of Johns of Virginia, Clagget of Maryland, Mcllvaine of Ohio, 
 Pinkney of Maryland, Clark of Rhode Island and Presiding Bishop of 
 the Church, Littlejohn of Long Island, Spalding of Utah and Darlington 
 of Harrisburg. Bishops Hare and Peterkin were residents of the 
 Parish in their boyhood and Bishop Boone of China was also here in 
 the early days of the present Rectorship, and aided in the missionary 
 work of the Parish. These statistics furnish a striking comment on the 
 importance of presenting the church, in its symmetry and completeness 
 in this "city set upon a hill." 
 
Chapter IV 
 From 1879 to 1883 
 
 In 1879 a most estimable woman, admitted to the communion of the 
 church two years after the formation of the Parish, was added to "the 
 list of the departed." A memorial tablet placed by loving hands in 
 the north transept of the church bears the following inscription : 
 
 In Memory 
 
 of 
 
 Susan A. Dunn, 
 
 Born Nov. 29, a. a, 1805 
 
 Entered Into Rest 
 
 Feb. 11, 1879. 
 
 Mrs. Dunn was the wife of Dr. Jared I. Dunn, a member of the 
 first Vestry of the Parish, and one of the principal physicians of Prince- 
 ton. She left two daughters ; the older, Virginia, became the wife of 
 Prof. Karl Langlotz, the younger, Georgiana, was married to the 
 Rev. Leonidas E. Coyle, of Bridgeton, N. J. Mrs. Langlotz, who was a 
 woman of much strength of character, died a few years since, and was 
 buried in the Princeton cemetery. 
 
 In the north transept of the church is another tablet which reads : 
 
 "In Memory of 
 
 Charles Henry Higginson 
 
 Born January 4, 1830 — Died April 7, 1869. 
 
 And of His Son, 
 
 Henry Theophilus Higginson, 
 
 Born December 18, 1867 — Died April 14, 1890." 
 
 Charles H. Higginson was the husband of Maria S. Potter, a 
 daughter of James Potter, and resided with his wife in Trenton during 
 most of their married life. His son, Henry Theophilus, was a young 
 man of great worth, and much promise, and although his early death 
 seemed untimely, his friends cannot desire that 
 
 "He should wander back to life, 
 And lean on their frail love once more." 
 
 Father, mother, son all lie in the burial plot near the chancel oi 
 the church. 
 
 At a Vestry meeting on April 5, 1880, the Rector stated that he 
 
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 had recently received a communication from two ladies of the Parish 
 expressing their desire that he should have the benefit of six months 
 of foreign travel, and that they had sent him a very liberal amount of 
 money to defray the necessary expenses. Whereupon the Vestry 
 resolved that an absence of six months be granted to the Rector, with 
 the sincere wish that such a respite from work might prove agreeable, 
 and in every sense beneficial to him. And it was further resolved that 
 the Rector be hereby authorized to make such arrangements for sup- 
 plying the church services in his absence as may in his judgment appear 
 suitable, and that a committee consisting of the Senior Warden, Messrs. 
 Bruere, Stockton and Conover cooperate with the Rector in securing a 
 supply. 
 
 At the suggestion of the Rector, the Rev. Win. G. Andrews was 
 invited to fill the place, and the Rector and his family sailed for Europe 
 in June, and returned with new health and vigor, in December . 
 
 The Rev. Asa S. Colton, who for many years resided in Princeton, 
 and often assisted in the services of the church, died on August 21, 1881. 
 
 At a meeting of the Vestry held immediately after his funeral on 
 August 24, the Secretary was directed to send a copy of the following 
 minute to his family: 
 
 The Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church 
 desire to put on record an expression of their sorrow at the 
 loss sustained by his family and church in the death of their 
 late respected friend, the Rev. Asa S. Colton. Going about 
 among us for so long a time, and doing good as he had the 
 opportunity, always kind, always cheerful under his many and 
 varied trials, he lived and died at a good old age, a consistent 
 and true-hearted Christian. A priest of the church laboring 
 contentedly for so many years in the vineyard of his Master, 
 he goes to rest at last to hear the joyful words "Well done, 
 good and faithful servant, Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 To his afflicted family and friends we offer our sincere and 
 heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 At the burial of the Rev. Mr. Colton from the Parish Church, 
 Bishop Scarborough was present, and the Rector made an address, 
 which at the request of the family was afterwards published. 
 
 Mr. Colton's wife, Margaret E. Colton, survived him thirteen years, 
 and died in May, 1893. She was a woman of rare excellence, and in 
 her late years, when she was seldom able to leave her room, she 
 exhibited a cheerful faith and patience in tribulation, which greatly 
 impressed her relatives and friends. Many in the Parish treasure her 
 memory, and feel the influence of her example. 
 
 On July 2 in the year 1881, the country was convulsed with grief 
 by the appalling intelligence of the attempted assassination of President 
 Garfield by the fanatic Guiteau. On the Sunday after the event, the 
 Rector preached a sermon from the text "Be still and know that I am 
 
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 God" ; and on the day of the burial of the martyred President, a 
 memorial service was held in the Church, at which the Rector made a 
 short address in words of the following import : 
 
 Bretheren : It is no time for words. In obedience to the 
 civil and church authority, prompted by our most deep and 
 saddened feeling, we have come together to weep, we have 
 come to pray. Yesterday, we tried to think of some of the 
 lessons, which God in his Providence is teaching us ; to-day, 
 "we commune with our own hearts, and are still." 
 
 Time and distance are annihilated, and we stand with the 
 mourning millions, who have met, at this hour, at the grave of 
 the honored dead. Him we are helping, as we can, to bury. 
 He is the Nation's dead, and the nation commits him to the 
 tomb. He was the servant of the Lord, and the Church 
 refuses not to do him honor. We have no words wherewith 
 to pronounce his eulogy. His record we leave to history, his 
 fame to time, his memory to the hearts of his countrymen. 
 His body we commit to the ground ; His Spirit we give back 
 to the God in whom all Spirits live. 
 
 His bereaved family we commend to the pitying Jesus, 
 who once wept with the weeping households of the world, 
 invoking Him to be as a Father to the fatherless, and the 
 lonely widow's God. Ourselves we commend to the helping 
 of the heavenly grace ; our smitten land to the God whose 
 Kingdom ruleth over all. 
 
 The present we desire to redeem. The future we leave 
 to Him who has guided and protected us in the past, and in 
 whose Hands are the destinies of the world. 
 
 We look through "the mist and weeping rain" that fill 
 the air to the spot where the gloom is deepest, and where 
 the tears are shed upon the bosom of the lifeless form. 
 The last leave is taken, the coffin lid shuts down, and slowly 
 to the tomb moves on the long procession of the dead. The 
 dust is given back to dust, the grave is closed, and we turn 
 away, with the mourning train to ponder on the sad event, to 
 shed the secret tear, and to put up our broken hearted sighs 
 to God. O God be pitiful ! God be merciful ! Turn away 
 thine anger from us, and fill our hearts with peace ! Be with 
 us as thou has been with our fathers, and bless our Native 
 land. 
 
 For a few minutes after the service I beg you to remain 
 in the Church, and engage in silent but united prayer that 
 God would sanctify His fatherly correction to us ; that out 
 of this bitterness He would bring some sweet and lasting 
 fruit, that he would turn our most heavy chastisement into 
 public and private good. 
 
 The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Parish. 
 The time drew near when the Parish would reach the fiftieth 
 year of its age, and it was deemed fitting that the date should be 
 marked by a suitable observance. It was felt that fifty years of con- 
 tinuous parochial existence, fifty years of work for God and of service 
 
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 to His people, fifty years of blessings poured forth, in copious shower, 
 on the church which had been planted by the fathers in uncertain soil, 
 was an evidence of favor and forbearance on the part of God which 
 called for thankful recognition. Accordingly it was determined that 
 on Trinity Sunday in the year 1883 a semi-centenary of the Parish 
 should be kept : — this Sunday having been for some years observed as 
 a Parish anniversary, inasmuch as its name recalled the dedication 
 name of the church, and as its date often nearly coincided with that of 
 the Parish founding. Two services were held on Trinity Sunday, and 
 on the day following there was a Parish reception at the Rectory. 
 Bishop Scarborough honored us with his presence, and many absent 
 members of the Parish returned and united with the resident parish- 
 ioners in the services and social gatherings of the time. Many letters 
 were received from friends of the Parish unavoidably kept away, and 
 among them was one from the Rev. Wm. G. Andrews, D.D., containing 
 the following lines "In Memoriam" : 
 
 Forth from their houses the elders came of old, 
 And in the city gate sat down to bless 
 Their people with the law of righteousness. 
 
 To-day shall faith lack vision to behold 
 
 A gate here opening on the streets of gold? 
 To-day shall memory to love confess 
 A presence, mid the supplicants who press 
 
 The threshold, as of one who only told 
 
 The Father's will to men in byegone years? 
 
 Nay, if indeed we find that city's gate 
 
 To bless us there its deathless priesthood wait 
 Beneath its arch their home of light appears, 
 Their voices sweet the listening Spirit hears 
 
 And with their smiles our tears are consecrate. 
 
 The Rector gave two historical addresses, one in the morning, the 
 other in the evening of Trinity Sunday. They were entitled, respectively, 
 "The Old Church" and "The New Church." In closing the first address 
 he said we are often charged in the Scriptures "to remember the days of 
 old, to consider the years of former generations." It is made our duty 
 to cherish that memory of the past which shall serve as an encourage- 
 ment to present trust and a stimulant to present thankfulness. Out of 
 our past let there come an incentive to gratitude and praise. We are 
 now to join in the offering of the Holy Eucharist — the great act of 
 thanksgiving which the church renders unto God for the blessings of 
 redemption. Our Eucharist to-day should go up on the strong wings 
 of grateful feeling. We ought to offer in union with the great Sacrifice 
 which we present and plead our sacrifice of thanks and praise that it 
 was in the heart of the fathers to plant in this place that branch of the 
 ancient vine of Christ's Church under whose shadow we are gathered. 
 
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 We ought to laud and magnify God's Holy Name for all the blessings 
 which have come to this community and to ourselves from the planting 
 and tilling of that vine. The fathers all have passed away; God grant 
 that for their reward there may still be abundant fruits of the vine 
 which they tended with such loving care. 
 
 The second address contained a few statistics of offerings made and 
 work accomplished during the fifty years of our parochial existence. 
 Also statistics of baptisms, confirmations and other ministerial func- 
 tions. "There are registered on the Parish Book — these statistics are in 
 1883 — the names of 922 individuals incorporated into Christ's Holy 
 Church by baptism; 532 have been confirmed; 129 have been joined 
 together in holy matrimony. There have been 335 burials. The num- 
 ber of living communicants is 220. The Parochial agencies at this time, 
 are the Parish School, the Sunday School, the Woman's Missionary 
 Society, the Parochial Aid Society, the Bible Class, the District Visiting, 
 the Sewing School, the Young Men's Guild, and the Choir. The 
 Wardens of the Parish are Admiral George F. Emmons and Mr. J. 
 Dundas Lippincott. Its Vestrymen are Messrs. Joseph Olden, Joseph 
 H. Bruere, Charles Lynde, Bayard Stockton, Charles McMillan, and 
 Joseph Priest. The Treasurer of the Vestry is Mr. F. S. Conover. Its 
 Secretary is Mr. Joseph Priest. The leader of the choir is Professor 
 Charles McMillan, who succeeded Mr. Horace H. Emmons. The 
 organist is Mr. Charles I. Young. Preceding Mr. Young as organist 
 were Miss Maria F. Stevens, Mr. James P. Dod and Mr. Louis C. 
 Baker, each of whom devoted much painstaking labor to the improve- 
 ment of the chuch music. The Superintendent of the Sunday School 
 is Mr. Frank S. Conover. The teachers of the Parish School are Miss 
 Maria Torbert and Miss Rachel Stevens. The Sexton is Mr. Frank 
 McCarty." 
 
 In closing the address the Rector used these words : 
 
 "The work of the past we leave in the hands of God. To 
 Him we offer and present it, with confessions of shortcoming 
 and acknowledgement that we are unworthy to offer to Him 
 any sacrifice, yet beseeching Him to accept the offering we 
 bring through the merits of the sacrifice of His beloved Son. 
 And now, my brethren, what shall our future be? That we 
 must also leave in the hands of God. In vain should we try 
 to draw the curtains of the half century on whose threshold we 
 are standing, and foresee the events which they veil from view. 
 Our only concern is with the duty of to-day. We must be 
 faithful and wise stewards of the present trust. Into our hands 
 is committed the result of fifty years of effort and prayer and 
 we have a pure Church of Christ with all its privileges and 
 blessings as the priceless heritage which we are to preserve, 
 and leave to those who follow after. We are 'to hold fast that 
 which we have that no man take our crown' and hand it on to 
 others. We are not to be content simply with holding our own, 
 
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 but must try to win new victories for Christ and His Holy 
 Church — must try to lengthen the cords and strengthen the 
 stakes which mark the boundary of our progress. It may not 
 be our mission to grow into a very large and locally important 
 Parish. This scarcely seems probable in view of the fact that 
 there are fewer people in the borough to-day than three years 
 ago. And it is to be remembered that our congregation must al- 
 ways be partially made up of those whose residence in Prince- 
 ton is brief, and who never become very thoroughly identified 
 with our Parish interests. But surely it is our mission to try 
 to influence and mould the generations as they come and go. 
 If the Parish cannot grow into a tree with massive trunk and 
 wide extended bough, it at least may yield the seed, which shall 
 be scattered by the winds of God, and 'shall take root down- 
 ward and bear fruit upward,' wherever it may lodge. Like the 
 waves of the ocean, continually advancing and receding, is the 
 flow of our Parish life. But the receding waves always take 
 with them something gained from their short contact with our 
 shore and they are carrying some faint tinge of the Christian 
 and Catholic principles of the Church into the broad currents 
 of our national religious life. It is our mission to bear clear, 
 unequivocal testimony to evangelical truth and apostolic order, 
 in a place, in which in God's own way, such testimony will 
 bring forth its fruit. T have set thee for a witness,' are the 
 words of our ascended Jesus to us. Let us be wise, faithful, 
 loving witnesses for Christ. We are a city set on a hill whose 
 light may not be hid ; let us see that the light which is in us 
 does not become darkness ; else, the Lord of the Churches will 
 surely remove our candlestick from its place and require the 
 failure at our hands. Let us pray for grace to be faithful. 
 Let us ask that we may be girded by God's spirit for the work 
 that is before us. Few of us will live to celebrate the centennial 
 of the Parish. Some of us mav do so, and out of the fading 
 memory of age recall the recollections of this day. Some of 
 us may then tell to others the story of the fifty years which we 
 now begin to write. God grant that it may be a record of 
 faithful work, of growing prosperity, of many souls ingathered 
 into their Father's house. Let us do what we can to make it 
 such a record. Baptized, confirmed, communicant members of 
 this Parish, remember the day of final reckoning! Let us not 
 grow weary in well doing. Let us bathe ourselves anew in the 
 invigorating streams of the precious Blood and begin with new 
 energy and zeal the work which is set before us. The past we 
 commit to the 'Ancient of Days.' With heartfelt thankfulness 
 for all its favors and its blessings, with an earnest prayer for 
 the forgiveness of its shortcomings, we take our leave of it 
 and look forward to the hopeful future. We take our first 
 steps into the second half of the century with confidence, with 
 courage and faith. May He who is the Alpha and Omega, the 
 Beginning and the Ending, preside over all the changes of the 
 coming years, and make them all contribute to the glory of His 
 name. May He bind together the old church and the new 
 church in the timeless unity of His own Spirit, and make them 
 one illuminated leaf in the history of the Triumphs of the 
 Cross." 
 
Chapter V 
 From 1883 to 1897 
 
 In the first few years after the semi-centenary of the Parish, the 
 currents of its life flowed smoothly on, and "the church had rest and 
 was edified." At Vestry meetings held in 1884 the thanks of the cor- 
 poration were extended to Mrs. Alice Lippincott for an addition of 
 eleven shares of the Princeton Bank stock to the endowment of the 
 Parish; to Mrs. Ellen Slidell for the gift of an ornate Kalendar and 
 Hymn Board; and to Mrs. J. A. Swann, (formerly Mrs. John R. Thom- 
 son,) for an Epiphany Star hung in the chancel. 
 
 Mr. Charles Young, our gifted organist, resigned his position, and 
 H. C. Meserole, a student in the University, was appointed in his place. 
 
 In the middle of the year the congregation was called to mourn 
 the death of the Senior Warden, Rear Admiral George F. Emmons, 
 who, after a lingering illness, passed peacefully away on July 2.$, 1884. 
 On July 25th the Admiral was buried from the church, whence his body 
 was borne to its resting place in a family vault in Green Mount, 
 Baltimore. 
 
 The Vestry gave expression to its sense of loss at a meeting held 
 soon after, in the following minute : 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove by death 
 our Senior Warden, Rear Admiral George F. Emmons, 
 
 Resolved, That while we humbly bow to the Almighty Will, 
 we cannot contemplate without sincere sorrow, the great loss 
 which this Church has sustained in his removal : We bear will- 
 ing testimony to the fidelity, zeal and patience with which he 
 discharged the duties of the Warden's office, and of the various 
 other responsible positions entrusted to him. He adorned the 
 Christian profession by many graces of character displayed 
 throughout a long and honorable career, and he won the esteem 
 of all by the sincerity, sympathy and courteous bearing which 
 he uniformly exhibited in the intercourse of private life. 
 
 Resolved, That we extend our tenderest sympathy to his 
 bereaved family, and assure them of our prayers that they may 
 be sustained in their affliction by comforts from above. 
 
 Commemorative of this gallant officer and good man is a brass tablet 
 placed in the church by his family and bearing this inscription : 
 
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 In Loving Memory of 
 
 George F. Emmons 
 
 Rear Admiral U. S. Navy 
 
 Born August 23D, 1812 
 
 Died July 23D, 1884 
 
 A Faithful Friend of this Parish 
 
 And its Senior Warden from 1879 to 1884 
 
 "Blessed are the Pure in Heart 
 
 For They shall See God" 
 
 On the occasion of its unveiling, on All Saints D.ay, 1884, a memorial 
 address was made by the Rector, selected parts of which are elsewhere 
 presented. (See Appendix.) 
 
 The vacancy made in the office of Senior Warden by the Rear 
 Admiral's death was temporarily filled by Mr. Charles R. Lynde, who 
 was elected for the unexpired term of the deceased at a congregational 
 meeting held on September 29th. Mr. Lynde soon left Princeton, and 
 at the annual Parish meeting, on Monday in Easter Week of the fol- 
 lowing year, Mr. Joseph H. Bruere was chosen for the office, and he 
 has- continued in it ever since. 
 
 In the same year occurred the death of Henry Leard, a Vestryman, 
 and the contractor and builder of the new church ; and also the death 
 of William L. Clayton, the progenitor of a numerous family, long 
 resident in the Parish, one of whom, Henry P. Clayton, is now an 
 esteemed member of the Vestry. The father, Wm. L. Clayton, was 
 survived by his wife nineteen years, during many of which she was in 
 feeble health and illustrated "the Kingdom and its patience" by cheer- 
 fulness in the sick room. She was released from her suffering in 
 January, 1903, and laid to rest by the side of her husband in the 
 Princeton Cemetery. 
 
 Among the contributions in 1885 was one of $500 from Mr. F. S. 
 Conover, given as a thank offering for recovery from sickness : a good 
 example for the many who are healed, but who forget "to return and 
 give God thanks." 
 
 Early in 1886 the Parish met with another great loss in the death 
 of Joseph Olden, a descendant of William Olden, who came from 
 Piscataway to Stony Brook in 1696. He had served the Parish for 
 many years as Vestryman, some time as its Senior Warden, and had 
 frequently represented it, as one of its deputies, in the Convention of 
 the Diocese. In the first years of the present Rectorship he was super- 
 intendent of the Sunday School. When the new church was erected 
 he was trustee of the building fund. And he was often placed on 
 committees, in the work of which his good judgment and practical 
 sense gave his services a peculiar value. He faithfully discharged his 
 varied responsibilities, and in his departure the Parish lost a most 
 
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 loyal and devoted friend. "He rests from his labors and his works do 
 follow him." Mr. Olden's death was the occasion of the adoption by 
 the Vestry of the following preamble and resolutions : 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His wise Provi- 
 dence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased 
 brother, Joseph Olden. Therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That we place on record the sense of loss we 
 have sustained in the death of one who for many years was a 
 member of this Vestry and a friend and supporter of this 
 Parish. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to his afflicted family our sincere 
 sympathy in their- bereavement, and assure them of our fervent 
 prayers that the God of all comfort would lift up his counte- 
 nance upon them and give them peace. 
 
 Mr. Olden was of Quaker lineage, but was baptized in 1858, and con- 
 firmed the same year by Bishop Doane. One of his daughters, Mary 
 Worth, was married in 1880 to Frederick W. Stevens, Esq., who after- 
 wards became Vice-Chancellor of the State. She was a woman of fine 
 culture and artistic taste, and often employed her skill in the "work 
 of the embroiderer," in making additions to the wardrobe of the clergy. 
 She passed away on November 1st, 1898. Another daughter, Maria, 
 in her early life devoted herself to good works in the Parish, but after- 
 ward left Princeton to engage in work connected with the Sisterhood 
 of St. John the Baptist. Fulfilling her mission there, she undertook 
 church work in other places. She ceased from her labors on February 
 15th, 1907. Still another daughter, Sophia Dore, gave promise of great 
 usefulness, but was removed to a higher sphere of service in the bloom 
 of opening womanhood. When a child a small amount of money was 
 given her, the income of which is devoted yearly to the work of the 
 Altar Guild of the Parish. 
 
 In 1887, the death of Mrs. Sarah A. Perrine removed one of our 
 oldest communicants, and severed another of the few remaining links 
 which bound the Parish to the past. She was the wife of Major John 
 A. Perrine, a well-known citizen of Princeton, who for some years 
 was a Vestryman of the Parish, and at one time Captain of the 
 celebrated military company named "the Princeton Blues." She was 
 a woman of gentle disposition and amiable traits, and was faithful 
 in the discharge of all religious duty through the long years of her 
 association with the Parish. She died at the age of 83. One of her 
 two surviving daughters, Mrs. Joseph Priest, resides in Princeton, and 
 her husband has been a member of the Vestry for many years, and he 
 long served the Parish as its Secretary. Another daughter, Mrs. 
 Scotten, resides in Detroit, Michigan. 
 
 In 1887 a generous parishioner, Mrs. J. A. Swann, erected, at con- 
 siderable cost, a mortuary chapel in the Princeton Cemetery, and this 
 
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 was set apart for its sacred use by an appropriate opening service con- 
 ducted by the Rector. 
 
 In the same year the Parish met with a great loss in the death of 
 Miss Esther B. Stevens, a member of the well-known family whose 
 ancestral seat is Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J. She and her sister, Miss 
 Sophia, had lived in Princeton many years, their first residence having 
 been on the site of the building now used as a Graduate School of the 
 University. They took great interest in the improvement of their 
 spacious grounds and with their own hands planted most of the trees 
 which now adorn the shaded lawns of Merwick Hall and Stanwix Hall, 
 the residence of Professor Sloane. Both sisters were patterns of 
 charity and good works, and both were generous contributors to all 
 benevolent objects in the Parish and the town. At the outbreak of the 
 Civil War they each gave, as their first contribution, one thousand 
 dollars to the fund which the Governor of the State at once collected 
 for the nation's defence. Both sisters were much interested in the 
 Aged and Infirm Clergy Fund of the Diocese, and gave a liberal sum 
 every year for its enlargement. On one occasion Miss Esther put 
 $8000 in the Rector's hands for this fund, and she and her sister both 
 remembered it generously in their wills. On a lot adjoining the Rectory 
 Miss Sophia built the parsonage of the Second Presbyterian Church, 
 and endowed it with a sum to be used in repairs. She survived her 
 sister several years, and was buried by her side, in a family vault in 
 the crypt of Christ Church, South Amboy. Another sister of the 
 family long identified with the Parish was Mrs. Juliana Conover, wife 
 of Commodore Thomas Anderson Conover, U. S. N., and mother of 
 several children, two of whom are yet resident in the Parish. She was 
 a woman of unusual strength of character, good judgment, and practical 
 ability in managing the affairs of life. Withal she was possessed of 
 those amiable traits which greatly endeared her to all her friends. She 
 lived some years in a family mansion at South Amboy, and while there 
 gave fostering care to the Parish, and the Girls' School which her 
 family had recently established. She spent the last years of her life 
 in Princeton, and fell on sleep in a good old age in November, 1881, 
 and was also laid to rest in the crypt of the church at South Amboy. 
 In her last will and testament she bequeathed six thousand five hundred 
 dollars to the Trust Fund of the Bishop of New Jersey. In a Conven- 
 tion address Bishop Scarborough thus speaks of the benefactions of 
 these excellent women : "Miss Sophia Stevens, the last of a noble 
 generation, has enriched the Aged and Infirm Clergy Fund with more 
 than $8000. Her sister, Miss Esther Stevens, gave twice that sum to 
 the same fund, and another sister, Mrs. Juliana Conover, left by will 
 almost as much to the Bishop's Trust Fund. Thus have these three 
 
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 good women laid Bishop and clergy under a debt of obligation for all 
 time to come." 
 
 In 1890 Miss Maria K. Torbert resigned the position of Principal 
 of the Parish School, and accepted the charge of St. Mary's Institute, 
 a school for girls, in Dallas, Texas. For the seventeen years of her 
 residence in Princeton this estimable woman and accomplished teacher 
 devoted herself to our Parish school and spared no effort to make it 
 successful. Many of the younger men and women of Princeton still 
 speak of her thoroughness in teaching, and of her happy influence 
 in the developing solid Christian character. She remained fourteen 
 years in charge of St. Mary's, Dallas, and during this term our Parish 
 School was taught by Miss Mary Frances Kallam and Miss Katherine 
 Stockton. 
 
 Easter Day, 1891, was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the settle- 
 ment of the Rector. At the church service on Monday in Easter week 
 the Rector made an address, and in the afternoon of the same day there 
 was a reception at the Rectory, which many of the congregation and 
 people of the Borough attended, bringing hearty congratulations with 
 them. 
 
 Among the burials of the year was that of Mr. John Murphy, who 
 died at the age of 84, and was laid to rest on April 20th, 1891. Although 
 not a member of our church, he was drawn to it by ties of kindred, 
 personal preference, and long association with some of its most im- 
 portant families. He was a man of strong and Stirling character, a 
 most useful citizen, and always ready to lend a helping hand to public 
 enterprise or private need. But one member of his large family, Mrs. 
 Albert S. Leigh, is left in Princeton. The rest who survive are filling 
 useful and honorable positions in the places where they live. 
 
 In 1893 the publication of a Parish paper was begun. In its first 
 issue it gave the following reasons for its appearance : 
 
 It will be the aim of the modest sheet, of which this is the 
 first issue, to record the most interesting events occurring in our 
 Parochial history, and to be a medium of communication be- 
 tween the Rector, the various Parish organizations, and the 
 congregation. It will try to give wider publicity to important 
 notices than is reached by a single announcement from the 
 Chancel, and will it often remark upon matters which cannot 
 with propriety be dwelt upon in that Sacred Place. 
 
 The Trinity Record is published by the Trinity Guild, 
 whose members have assumed the financial responsibility of the 
 undertaking. It will appear from time to time as circumstances 
 demand, — perhaps quarterly, perhaps monthly, — and the young 
 men of the Guild will distribute copies of it, free of charge, to 
 all the members of the Parish. The aim of the editors will be 
 to make the paper, as its name indicates, a Record of the doings 
 of the Parish as well as a medium of communication between 
 the Rector and the congregation. The several Parish organi- 
 
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 zations are therefore urged to cooperate with the Editors in 
 keeping the congregation informed of their aims and achieve- 
 ments, and all items of news concerning them will be gladly 
 received for publication. It is hoped that in this way the 
 Guilds and Societies may become better known to one another, 
 and that the work of the Parish may thus be made more effi- 
 cient ; for though it is not always well that "thy left hand know 
 what thy right hand doeth," there are many occasions when the 
 united efforts of both hands are clearly called for, and the work 
 of the Parish is best promoted by mutual knowledge and under- 
 standing among its several organizations. 
 
 The paper, which still survives, has been found a most useful in- 
 strument for accomplishing the ends for which it was started. 
 
 In 1894 the Parish suffered the loss of another Vestryman, Pro- 
 fessor E. O. W. Mildner, who for several years had been a member of 
 the body, and had discharged his duties with a very faithful and con- 
 scientious spirit. Professor Mildner was a man of high scholarly 
 attainment and taught classes in the Modern Language Department of 
 our University. He was also possessed of fine musical culture, and 
 did much to develop a correct musical taste among the students of the 
 University and the people of the town. He was a very general favorite 
 in Princeton, and the esteem with which he was held in the University 
 was made evident on the day of his burial, by the attendance of the 
 President, many of the faculty, and a large body of the students at the 
 service. He was buried from the Church on May 29, 1894. 
 
 The need of better accommodation for various Parochial Societies 
 had long been felt in the Parish, and in the year 1891 Mrs. Alice 
 Lippincott generously determined to meet the need by the erection of 
 a suitable 
 
 Parish Building, 
 
 in which school, choir, guild, and working organization should have 
 ample room. Before proceeding, she communicated with the Vestry 
 and obtained their consent to the execution of her plan. The Vestry 
 resolved "That hearty consent be given to the request contained in 
 Mrs. Lippincott's communication relative to the erection of a Parish 
 Building, and that we put upon record our very grateful appreciation 
 of the generosity which has prompted an undertaking which promises 
 to add so much to our facilities for Parish work; and that we also 
 express to Mrs. Lippincott our unfeigned thanks for the intention 
 expressed in her letter to make the building and the lot on which it is 
 to be placed, a permanent gift to the Parish." In the year 1891 she 
 purchased a property adjacent to the church lot which was deemed an 
 eligible site for the proposed building. There was a dwelling house 
 on the premises, which had the historic interest of having once afforded 
 
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 room to the Rev. Dr. Alexander for lectures to his classes, and this 
 was temporarily used for Parochial purposes. Three years later the 
 dwelling was removed and the building of the Parish House was begun. 
 Bishop Scarborough laid the corner stone on All Saints Day, 1894, 
 giving it the name of the Potter Memorial House, and making it thus 
 a monument to the family of the donor. The rearing of the structure 
 went steadily on, after plans furnished by Baker & Dallett, architects, 
 of Philadelphia, and on All Saints Day, 1895, it was finished and ready 
 for its Benediction. The cost of lot and building was about $16,000, and 
 the title of both was properly transferred to the corporation of the 
 Parish. 
 
 A committee of the Vestry at its next meeting presented a resolu- 
 tion acknowledging the gift in the following form : 
 
 Resolved, That the thanks of the Vestry be conveyed to 
 Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott for the munificent gift of the Lot 
 and Parish Building the deed of which has been made over to 
 the Parish : And the Vestry desire for themselves and the 
 whole congregation to assure Mrs. Lippincott of their very 
 grateful appreciation of her liberality, and to express the hope 
 that the Building may long contribute to the usefulness of our 
 Parish in this community. 
 
 As the Bishop was unable to attend the opening service on All 
 Saints Day, this was conducted by the Rector. The choir of St. James' 
 Church, New York, was present on the occasion and assisted greatly 
 in the musical part of the service. It also sang a choral service and 
 portions of an oratorio on All Hallow Eve as an introduction to the 
 sacred function of the following day. But the brightness of the day 
 was clouded by the absence of one who was in almost every mind, but 
 who was not permitted to participate in the services. Alice Lippincott, 
 the donor of the building, was not allowed to see its completion, but 
 had died the summer before, from a sudden illness, contracted during 
 her summer rest at Bar Harbor, Me. The Vestry placed a Memorial 
 Tablet in the Building which bears the following inscription : 
 
 This Tablet was placed here by the Vestry 
 
 In grateful Remembrance 
 
 of 
 
 Mrs. Alice Lippincott 
 
 Who Erected This Building 
 
 She was born April 23, 1846 
 
 She died July 21, 1894 
 
 "By Works was Faith made Perfect" 
 
 In the year 1898 a few friends placed a memorial window in the 
 south transept of the church, on which the following legend is in- 
 scribed : 
 
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 "In honor of the glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, and in loving memory of Alice Lippincott who entered 
 into rest July 21st, 1894, her friends and relatives who loved 
 her in life, and mourned her in death, dedicate this window." 
 
 The window was designed and executed by Mr. Kemp of London, and 
 is much admired for its drawing and delicacy of color. It was unveiled 
 with a service and address on the second Sunday after Easter. 
 
 Elsewhere is the substance of a sermon delivered by the Rector 
 on the Sunday after the burial of Mrs. Lippincott. (See Appendix.) 
 By her last will and testament Mrs. Lippincott bequeathed ten thousand 
 dollars to the Parish, and directed that half of the income of the 
 bequest should be used in making necessary repairs to the church 
 property, and the other half in increasing the Rector's salary. 
 
 In 1896 the endowment of the Parish was increased by a legacy 
 of $10,000 bequeathed to it by Mr. Charles R. Lynde, a former Vestry- 
 man, and sometime Warden of the Parish. By the terms of his will, 
 the income from the legacy was devoted to the increase of the Rector's 
 salary. When resident in Princeton Mr. Lynde became much interested 
 in the Parish, and after leaving it he gratefully cherished the remem- 
 brance of his association with it, and made in this bequest a memorial 
 of his grateful feeling. While here, he also conferred a lasting benefit 
 on the University by founding the Lynde Debate. His two sons, 
 Charles Wesley and Rollin Harper Lynde, have since been gathered 
 to their fathers. 
 
 On St. Barnabas Day of the same year an ordination service was 
 held in the church. Three graduates of the General Theological Semi- 
 nary- — Charles Fiske, Franz M. W. Schneeneiss, and William Osborn 
 Baker, son of the Rector — were then ordained Deacons by Bishop 
 Scarborough. The candidates were presented by the Rev. Alfred B. 
 Baker, D.D., and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Philander K. 
 Cady, D.D., of the General Seminary, New York. The choir of St. 
 James Church, New York City, assisted the Parish choir in singing 
 the choral parts of the Eucharist and an anthem composed for the 
 occasion inscribed as follows : "To my Brother — William Osborn Baker, 
 M.A. — specially composed for Use at the Service for his admission 
 to Holy Orders — and to his classmates of the General Theological 
 Seminary, N. Y. : by Alfred S. Baker, M.A." 
 
 In October, 1896, the shadow of a great sorrow fell upon the 
 Rectory, which drew forth so much genuine sympathy from the con- 
 gregation and Vestry, that it would seem ungrateful not to record the 
 Resolutions of the latter respecting the event. At a special meeting 
 held on Thursday, October 15th, 1896, it was resolved that the following 
 minute relative to the death of Alfred S. Baker be spread upon the 
 
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 minutes of the Vestry, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to 
 the family of the deceased : 
 
 "The Vestry of Trinity Church, Princeton, desire to ex- 
 press their deep regret at the early and untimely death of their 
 late organist and choir master, Alfred S. Baker. His services 
 to the church in the development and training of the choir have 
 been most valuable, and did not cease when his official connec- 
 tion with the music of the Parish terminated, but his zeal and 
 interest in this part of God's worship continued unabated. His 
 remarkable talent for teaching and composition he loved to 
 exercise for the benefit of the church of his childhood and 
 youth, and there never was an occasion of musical importance 
 in the Parish from which he was absent. 
 
 The Vestry will always gratefully feel that it was owing to 
 his effort and ability that the musical interest in the Parish was 
 first awakened. The fruit of his labor in this direction will 
 long survive, and serve to recall his personality many years 
 hence. 
 
 It was also resolved that the Vestry extend their sympathy 
 to the bereaved family, and that they attend the funeral in a 
 body. 
 
 Joseph Priest, 
 Secretary of the Vestry. 
 
 A music fund, memorial of the deceased, was soon started in the 
 Parish, and it is receiving additions from time to time by interested 
 members of the congregation. The last composition of the deceased 
 was an Academic Festival Overture for use at the Sesqui-Centennial 
 Celebration of Princeton University. A fatal sickness interfered with 
 its performance, and just before the academic celebration he dropped 
 his lyre to take it up again in a better world. 
 
Chapter VI 
 From 1897 to 1908 
 
 For many years the number of church students attending our 
 University had steadily increased, and about this period in the Parish 
 history it had reached such large proportions that the Rector felt the 
 need of having some one to assist him in his pastoral ministrations to 
 them. In an anniversary sermon on Trinity Sunday, 1897, he spoke 
 to the congregation of a dream he had sometimes indulged of having 
 a curate : and shortly after, the dream came true. A most generous 
 lady, Mrs. Alberta T. Pyne, made a liberal provision for the salary 
 of a curate, and the Rev. Charles S. Fackenthall, of Pacific Grove, 
 California, was invited to fill the office. Mr. Fackenthall accepted the 
 call, and soon entered on his duties : continuing in the faithful dis- 
 charge of them for nearly four years, and then returning with his 
 family to California. His letter of resignation is as follows : 
 
 To the Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Parish, 
 Princeton, N. J. 
 Gentlemen 
 
 I would most respectfully request that my official con- 
 nection with your Parish be terminated on Saturday the nth 
 day of May 1901. In thus making known officially my desire to 
 return to California, and to private life, I wish also to place on 
 record my keen appreciation of and gratitude for the unvarying 
 courtesy and kindness which I have ever received from the 
 first day I came to Princeton until now from the Rector and 
 the officers and the members of Trinity Parish. 
 
 Begging your favorable consideration of my request, and 
 with earnest prayers for the prosperity of your Parish 
 
 I am, 
 
 Respectfully yours 
 
 C. S. Fackenthall. 
 
 The Vestry accepted his resignation, and expressed their regret in 
 parting with him in resolutions which were handsomely engrossed, and 
 delivered to him. Before his resignation, Mrs. Pyne was called away 
 from earth and admitted into the calm of Paradise the blest. She had 
 just finished a beautiful home near the residence of her daughter, Mrs. 
 Russell, but this she was not permitted long to indwell, God having 
 provided something better for her in "the house not made with hands, 
 eternal in the heavens." She used her large wealth as a faithful 
 steward, aiding many a public institution and private charity, and 
 always hiding her good deeds under the cloak of a sweet humility. 
 
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 After her departure, several gentlemen, chiefly Messrs. M. Taylor 
 Pyne, Archibald D. Russell, George A. Armour, Junius S. Morgan and 
 Stephen Palmer, became responsible for the Curate's salary; and the 
 Rev. Harvey Officer, Jr., was soon called to succeed Mr. Fackenthall 
 as "yoke fellow" of the Rector "in the Gospel." Mr. Officer rendered 
 most acceptable service to the students and the general congregation 
 for a term of four years. He succeeded in interesting many of the 
 students in Bible study through the classes which he held, and by 
 frequent service and instruction helped to deepen and enrich the 
 spiritual life of many in the Parish. He resigned his Curacy in order 
 that he might follow what he esteemed his vocation in the Order of the 
 Holy Cross, of which he is now a professed member. 
 
 Mr. Officer's successor was the Rev. Ralph B. Pomeroy, who began 
 his work in the autumn of 1906 and is still rendering most acceptable 
 service, both to the academic and town folk of the Parish. Besides his 
 large work among the students of the University, he has the care of a 
 town club of boys and men, with various attractive features intended 
 to counteract the allurements of the street and the saloon. He has 
 given much attention to the institutional work of the Parish, and is 
 unwearied in his endeavor to apply Christianity to the needs of our 
 modern social life. 
 
 In the year 1S98 the Rector and his wife were again sent abroad 
 by generous friends' in the congregation, and they were absent from 
 the Parish for a term of three months, during which the Rev. Mr. 
 Fackenthall supplied the Rector's place. They returned in time for 
 the meeting of the General Convention in Washington, D. C, in 
 October. 
 
 In the same year the Rev. Charles Woodruff Shields, D.D., Pro- 
 fessor of the Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion in Princeton 
 University, applied for Orders in our church, and the certificate re- 
 quired by Canon was signed by the Rector and Vestry of this Parish. 
 The distinguished Professor was ordered Deacon in the Chapel of the 
 General Theological Seminary, New York, and was ordained Priest 
 a year later, in the Cathedral Church of the Incarnation, at Garden 
 City, Long Island : the Rector presenting the candidate, and preaching 
 the sermon on both occasions. After ordination Dr. Shields continued 
 in the discharge of his duties as Professor in the University, but his 
 eloquent voice was often heard in the pulpit of this church and else- 
 where. 
 
 He died suddenly at Newport, R. I., on August 26, 1904, and 
 his burial was from Trinity Church, Princeton, on August 29th. The 
 officiants were the Rt. Rev. John Scarborough, D.D., the Rev. A. B. 
 Baker, D.D., Rector of the Parish, the Rev. Harvey Officer, Curate, and 
 the Rev. Wilmer P. Bird of the Diocese of New York. The funeral 
 
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 procession, led by the choir of Trinity Church, started from the old 
 Stockton homestead, in which Dr. Shields resided, and it was met by 
 the clergy at the door of the church. A considerable number of the 
 faculty of Princeton University were present at the service, among 
 them being the Rev. Francis L. Patton, D.D., the late president of the 
 University. The faculty evinced their respect for their distinguished 
 associate by wearing academic dress. On the casket, as it was borne 
 in the procession, were the hood of the Doctor and the stole of the 
 priest, now laid aside for the heavenly rewards of consecrated learning 
 and service. The interment was in the old cemetery which holds the 
 remains of all the presidents and many of the professors of the Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 At a meeting of the Convocation of New Brunswick held shortly 
 after the following minute was adopted : 
 
 Since the last meeting of our Convocation it has pleased 
 God to remove from the scene of his earthly labors, our highly 
 esteemed friend and brother, the Rev. Charles Woodruff 
 Shields, D.D., LL.D., and we desire on our first assembling 
 after his departure to express and put on record our deep 
 sense of the loss we have sustained in his death, our sympathy 
 with his bereaved family and friends, and our thankfulness to 
 God for the sweet and sacred fellowship we were permitted to 
 have with him in the Communion of Christ's Holy Church. He 
 conscientiously attended the meetings of our Convocation and 
 he was greatly endeared to us by his cordiality, courtesy, gen- 
 tleness, and the many other graces of his mind and heart. He 
 frequently addressed the Convocation on s.ome important sub- 
 ject, and we shall greatly miss his inspiring voice and presence, 
 and can never forget with what elevation of thought and charm 
 of style, his theme was always presented to our minds. He was 
 widely known and greatly honored in the Church and learned 
 world ; and we are deeply grateful for the eminent service, 
 which, throughout his long life, he was permitted to render to 
 both learning and religion. For thirty-eight years he was Pro- 
 fessor in the University of Princeton, and occupied the chair of 
 the Harmony of Science and Revealed Religion. His lectures 
 were attended chiefly by the senior students, and it was his 
 aim, in his entire course, to show them that there was no cause 
 for hostility between exact knowledge — which is science — and 
 revealed truth in religion : that both are logically related, and 
 when brought together and properly adjusted, will prove to be 
 but "opposite halves of the same rounded whole of truth, sup- 
 porting segments of the same rising arch of knowledge, har- 
 monious interests, wedded 
 
 " 'Like perfect music unto noble words.' " 
 
 None can estimate the value of his labors in the academic 
 chair, or tell how much they contributed to the reconciliation 
 of the alienated friends, and helped to preserve the faith of 
 thoughtful young men from overthrow, in the troublous con- 
 flicts of these modern days. 
 
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 Throughout his ministerial life Dr. Shields was deeply inter- 
 ested in the cause of Church Unity, and we shall long remem- 
 ber his addresses on this, his favorite theme, and the ardor of 
 his longing that the time might soon be brought to birth when 
 separated brethren shall come together on the basis of the 
 Lambeth Articles, and be organically connected in "the United 
 Church of the United States." Our departed brother was also 
 an accomplished liturgical scholar, and long before his ordina- 
 tion in the Church, he had made a thorough study of the origin 
 and principles of the Book of Common Prayer. He was versed 
 in many branches of learning, and his scholarship was always 
 cultured as well as broad and accurate. His mind was pol- 
 ished, his tastes and feelings were refined, and he ever exhib- 
 ited the temper and traits of the truly cultivated man. He was 
 the polite scholar, and was not only a genuine but an amiable 
 Christian. He has left many literary monuments by which his 
 name and memory will be preserved, but his best monument is 
 his life and example, the personal service which he rendered to 
 the Church and the world, and the indestructible affections 
 which he has awakened in the hearts of his brethren. 
 
 For all that he was and still is to us who are left behind ; 
 for all that he did for God and his fellow men ; that he was 
 raised up to be "a choice vessel of God's grace and a light of 
 the world in his generation," we yield most high praise and 
 most hearty thanks to God ; and we pray that we with him, and 
 all the faithful departed, may at last have "our perfect consum- 
 mation and bliss, both in body and soul, in God's eternal and 
 everlasting glory." 
 
 Alfred B. Baker, 
 Wm. Strother Jones, 
 Committee. 
 
 A service in memory of the Rev. Dr. Shields was held in the 
 church on Friday evening, December gth. Bishop Potter of New 
 York was the preacher, and his sermon was a most appropriate and 
 beautiful tribute to the character and life-work of the distinguished 
 Professor and Priest. It was marked by many skillful and delicate 
 touches which revealed a master hand. The choir was in' full sympathy 
 with the occasion and rendered canticle, anthem and hymn in a very 
 effective way. With the permission of Bishop Potter, extracts from 
 this sermon are printed in the Appendix. 
 
 In 1895 occurred the death of Mrs. Catherine M. Johnson, an aged 
 communicant, confirmed late in life, but devotedly attached to the 
 church she learned to love in her closing years. Her son, Henry 
 P. Johnson, had passed away three years before. 
 
 Among the deaths in 1899 was that of Dr. William J. Lytle, one 
 of the most skillful and successful physicians of the Borough, and 
 widely known through all the surrounding country. His practice was 
 large, yet he never declined a call to visit the poor, and he often 
 attended them without recompense. He was not often able to attend 
 
church, but in his last illness he received the Christian's viaticum and 
 passed away supported by the Christian's faith. 
 
 In May, 1899, the Convention of the Diocese was held for the 
 first time in Princeton. We print a few extracts from the Churchman's 
 notice of the meeting : 
 
 The annual convention, which assembled in Trinity Church, 
 on Tuesday morning, May 9, called together the largest gath- 
 ering of the clergy and laity yet reported at an annual meeting. 
 The convention opened with a celebration of the Holy Euchar- 
 ist, Bishop Scarborough being the celebrant, assisted by the 
 Rev. Professor Charles W. Shields, who read the Epistle, and 
 the Rev. C. M. Perkins, who read the Gospel. The sermon was 
 by the Rev. R. A. Rodrick, and was an eloquent summary of 
 the truths established by the ascension of Christ ; the certainty 
 of the heavenly life, the fact that man is to enjoy that life in 
 his whole nature, body, soul and spirit, and the unbroken 
 carrying on of earthly relations, the whole life here and beyond 
 being continuous. 
 
 At the conclusion of the service the convention was called 
 to order by the bishop. The usual committees were appointed, 
 and the Rev. E. K. Smith was re-elected secretary, and the 
 Rev. H. K. Smith appointed assistant. 
 
 At three o'clock the bishop read his annual address. He 
 said that in the past year the map of the world had changed. It 
 was but a year since the victory of Admiral Dewey at Manila, 
 which came just at the last meeting of the convention, and now 
 we seemed certainly at the close of the operations growing out 
 of the war. There were yet difficulties to overcome, but those 
 who are still in opposition would, in due time, the bishop felt, 
 put gratitude in place of contest and accept the hand stretched 
 out to uplift and save. He felt that the great results of the 
 war had been the opening of new lands to the highest Christian 
 civilization and the drawing together in closer bonds of the two 
 great English-speaking nations in a union that will make for 
 peace the world over. 
 
 In ecclestiastical affairs also the past year had made history. 
 The address referred to the ritual controversy in England, 
 and pointed out that the establishment was the main cause of 
 the trouble, and that if the connection between Church and State 
 could be broken without loss of endowments dis-establishment 
 would be an unmixed blessing. The bishop, after summariz- 
 ing the work of the late General Convention, expressed regret 
 that on the burning: question of the remarriage of divorced 
 persons no conclusion had been reached. The evils of divorce 
 nave grown, he said, to such an extent that unless it is 
 checked the very foundations of society will be weakened 
 and marriage will become but a temporary bargain. Recent 
 scandalous events in what is called higher society lead us to 
 pray for that happy day when the Church shall make its stand 
 more firm and determine to close the doors to the remarriage 
 . of all divorced persons, innocent or guilty, under any and every 
 circumstance. Separation may sometimes be necessary, but the 
 remarriage of divorced persons is a thing abhorrent. Even now 
 
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 no power can compel a clergyman to perform such a marriage, 
 though the canon in one special case gives the permission. 
 
 The address, after referring to the death of Bishop Wil- 
 liams and others in the Church at large, recorded the decease 
 of four diocesan clergy, the Rev. Gustavus M. Murray, Benj. 
 Franklin, D. D., Wm. B. Otis and John R. Matthews. Only 
 twelve clergy remain who were in the diocese when his 
 episcopate began, and of these but half a dozen are in active 
 work. The bishop spoke of the fact that on the Feast of the 
 Purification next year he would complete the 25th year of his 
 episcopate, though he asked there be no public celebration of the 
 event. In these years the growth of the Church has far ex- 
 ceeded relatively the increase in the population of the State. 
 
 At the close of the afternoon session the convention ad- 
 journed to accept the invitation of President Patton, of Prince- 
 ton University, to visit the college buildings. At the university 
 they were received by Dr. Shields, on behalf of the president 
 and in a graceful address made welcome to the college pre- 
 cincts. Dr. Shields spoke of the connection of the Church of 
 England in the formation of the college, in the days when 
 both the Westminster Confession and the Thirty-Nine Articles 
 (in Latin) formed a oart of the collegiate course, and laugh- 
 ingly said that one might trace the beginning of the present 
 elective system to the freedom that was then given the students 
 to choose which theological summary they would study. More 
 seriously, the professor pointed out the active part taken by 
 churchmen in the work of the University from that day to 
 the present, when the latest gift the splendid new library 
 building, came from communicants of the Church. The 
 bishop and the Rev. Dr. Baker responded, and the delegates 
 were then taken about the buildings on an interesting tour of 
 inspection. 
 
 In the evening a missionary service was held. Reports were 
 read of the work of the Christian Knowledge Society, and the 
 Woman's Auxiliary. Dean Perkins, of the convocation of 
 Burlington, presented his report, and Dean Baker also presented 
 a report for the convocation of New Brunswiek. Missionary 
 addresses were given by the Rev. Messrs. E. J. Knight and 
 James Stoddard. 
 
 On Wednesday morning, the convention having re- 
 assembled, the Bishop of Pennsylvania spoke on the subject 
 of missions. His address received a hearty vote of thanks. 
 
 On motion of Dr. Glazebrook, resolutions were passed 
 congratulating Bishop Scarborough on his quarter of a century 
 of service, expressing the love of the clergy and laity for their 
 diocesan, urging him to permit a public service to be held in 
 honor of the occasion, and asking for the appointment of a 
 committee to complete, if possible, the endowment fund of 
 the diocese to mark the anniversary. 
 
 The following officers were elected : Standing Committee : 
 The Rev. Messrs. Alfred B. Baker, D .D., Charles M. Perkins, 
 H. H. Oberly and R. G. Moses ; and Messrs. R. S. Conover, 
 J. B. Woodward, E. R. ^hubrick and Howard Richards. 
 Treasurer, C. E. Merritt. 
 
 Trustees of the Missionary Fund : Dr. J. H. Pugh. Trus- 
 
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 tee of Church Property, Dr. Pugh. Committee on Episcopal 
 Residence : Samuel K. Wilson, J. B. Woodward, J. H. Bruere. 
 Missionary Council : The Rev. E. J. Knight and James Parker. 
 
 The greater part of the day was occupied in the discussion 
 of the report of the committee oh legislation. This committee, 
 with a similar one from the diocese of Newark, was appointed 
 to codify the legislative acts affecting the Church and ar- 
 range new legislation. Upon investigation, the committee 
 found that the various sections of the Religious Societies Act, 
 together with the different amendments thereto made from time 
 to time, which more or less directly affect the Church, are now 
 nearly one hundred in number, some of them so conflicting 
 with each other in their provisions as to render their clear and 
 certain interpretation extremely difficult, in consequence of 
 which, it was found that while one interpretation thereof pre- 
 vailed in one diocese, another, and directly opposite one, pre- 
 vailed in the other. The committee therefore drew up an 
 entirely new act, which with slight changes, after prolonged 
 discussion, was adopted by the convention. It not only sys- 
 tematizes the old law, but makes important new provisions, 
 which, if adopted by the Newark diocese, the Legislature will 
 be asked to enact. 
 
 The remainder of the session of the convention was spent 
 in the passing of certain amendments to the constitution and 
 canons, and in listening to the report of a committee em- 
 powered to arrange a plan for mutual fire insurance com- 
 mittee for the parishes. 
 
 In the Trinity Record of May 1899 occurs this paragraph : 
 
 Mrs. Telfair Hodgson has presented to the Church a Litany 
 Fald Stool, in memory of Mrs. Emily Charlotte Cuyler. Mrs. 
 Cuyler's children have also presented a window, in memory of 
 their mother, which is now being put in place in the north 
 transept of the Church. This window was designed and exe- 
 cuted by C. E. Kemp of London, England, the artist who 
 designed the window in the south transept, in memory of Mrs. 
 Alice Lippincott. In the upper tracery is a picture representing 
 the angels appearing to the shepherds. The subject in the 
 lower left-hand panel is the Annunciation and that in the 
 right the Nativity. 
 
 Mrs. Cuyler was a daughter of Mr. James Potter, and al- 
 though not resident in Princeton since her marriage, she was 
 always interested in the Parish in which her early life was 
 spent. Her memorial is not only in the window, but in the 
 hearts of her many friends who cherish the remembrance 
 of her amiable disposition and gentle traits, combined with 
 much strength of character. Two daughters have since joined 
 her in the better land. A daughter and son survive her, the 
 latter Mr. John Potter Cuyler now residing in Princeton. He 
 was married on Oct. 19, 1898, to Juniana Stevens Baker, 
 daughter of the Rev. Lewis Carter and Mary Rachel Baker. 
 
 The Trinity Record of November 1900 contained the following 
 notice of the resignation of the Treasurer of the Parish : 
 
It is a matter of very general regret that Mr. F. S. Conover 
 has felt it his duty, because of continued ill health, to resign 
 the Treasurership of the Parish. Bayard Stockton, Esq., was 
 elected, at the last vestry meeting, to fill Mr. Conover's place. 
 At this meeting the following resolution was adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That the Vestry of Trinity Church, Princeton, 
 accept with much regret the resignation of Francis S. Conover 
 as Treasurer of the Parish, and they deem it proper to express 
 upon the minutes of their proceedings their appreciation of the 
 long and faithful service which he has rendered to the Parish. 
 
 Mr. Conover was appointed Treasurer in the year 1866, 
 and has served in that office continuously ever since. When 
 he first assumed the duties of the financial management of the 
 Church's affairs he found the accounts in a most unsatisfactory 
 condition, and the income for some time past insufficient for 
 the proper support of the Parish. By careful, economical and 
 business-like management he reduced the affairs of the Parish 
 to a system, and by prudent and painstaking oversight of all 
 expenditures, as well as strict attention to all collections of 
 income he has enabled the Vestry to keep out of debt, and to 
 largely improve the material condition of the Church property. 
 As the transactions of his office have enlarged and increased, 
 he has always been equal to their management, and has not 
 relaxed in the least his watchful care to guard against waste 
 or extravagance. 
 
 His books have always been models of neatness and ac- 
 curacy, and there was never a time during the period of his 
 long service when he could not tell the Vestry in a moment 
 the exact financial condition of the Parish. 
 
 Such service as his has been, the Vestry recognize as an 
 offering of love to his Master, and, arduous as its labors have 
 often proved, they have carried with them their own reward. 
 
 Mr. Conover's burial was on April II, 1901. On the Sun- 
 day after, the Rector referred to his life and character in a 
 sermon the substance of which is printed among "the mem- 
 orials." By his last will and testament he left $500 to the 
 Parish. 
 
 Among the losses of the year 1900 was that of the Hon. John 
 Potter Stockton who died at the age of 74 on January 21st, and was 
 buried from the Parish Church on January 24th. Mr. Stockton was 
 the second son of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and he in- 
 herited the best traits of his distinguished ancestors. He was cour- 
 teous, generous, gentle in demeanor, taste and feeling and had a mind 
 "tempered to finest issues" by Heaven's favoring touch. He resided 
 after his marriage in the mansion now known as Allison House, and 
 which is owned and occupied by Mr. George Allison Armour. In the 
 year 1857 he was appointed United States Minister to Rome by Presi- 
 dent Buchanan and he left Princeton in fulfillment of that mission. 
 Returning to the States on the expiration of his term of office he 
 practiced law, chiefly in his native state, and his eminent legal abilities 
 caused many who had important "causes" to seek the benefit of his 
 
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 services. In the year 1865 he was made United States Senator from 
 his native state, and of that distinguished body he was a member till 
 1866, and afterwards, from 1869 to 1875. In 1877 he was appointed the 
 Attorney General of the state, and in that office he continued till his 
 death. He resided at different periods of his life in Trenton, Washing- 
 ton, Philadelphia and New York, but his heart often fondly turned 
 to Princeton, and he came back to it when he could, to spend his 
 closing years amid the scenes and friends of early days. On his return 
 he was made a member of the Vestry, and he attended its meetings 
 whenever this was possible. He was devoutly disposed to worship, 
 and always wanted the services of the church conducted in a reverential 
 way. He once remarked to the Rector that he did so much feel the 
 need of further religious instruction as of the the ability to prostrate 
 himself in adoration before his Maker. His daughter, Julia Romana, 
 was married in the church on January 29, 1889, to Mr. Richard Collier 
 St. John; and on November 12, 1905, she was borne from the same 
 church to her grave. Father and daughter together lie in the family 
 plot in the Princeton Cemetery where so many of their distinguished 
 progenitors sleep in peace. 
 
 In June 1901 the College Class of which the Rector is a member had 
 a "reunion" on the fortieth anniversary of its graduation. There 
 were seventeen members of the Class present on the occasion, among 
 whom were its President, Vice Chancellor John R. Emery, and its 
 Secretary, Leroy Anderson, since deceased. 
 
 On the afternoon of Baccalaureate Sunday, the Class in a body 
 attended the evensong at Trinity Church, and listened to an address 
 of which the following is the substance : It is not my intention to pro- 
 long our evensong by adding sermons or addresses to the worship of 
 this quiet hour, but I must be allowed this afternoon to say a timely 
 word. The closing of our University with which our Parish is becom- 
 ing more and more closely associated every year will carry out of 
 Princeton a considerable part of our congregation, and on those 
 who stay behind the responsibility will fall of maintaining the Parish 
 work, throughout the heated term. Permit me to remind those who go 
 away that the activities of the Parish, although necessarily lessened, 
 are not altogether intermitted in the summer months, and that funds 
 will be needed to carry on our continued charitable, missionary, and 
 Sunday-school work. It would lighten the burden of those who re- 
 main at the post of duty, if the departing ones would leave behind them 
 a sum equal at least to what they are accustomed to contribute to Parish 
 purposes while here, and this will be applied to such necessities as 
 the time will surely bring to birth. I trust the vacation may be a time 
 of real rest and refreshment to those who go away, and surely they 
 will not forget that there is no true rest or recreation for a human 
 
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 spirit, apart from the God who framed it, and who alone can re- 
 habilitate it, and recruit its exhausted energy and strength. In a well 
 spent vacation there will be no interruption of the commune of the tired 
 spirit with the Author of its life. There may indeed be a turning to 
 those things which most entirely divert the mind and get it out of the 
 ruts in which it has been moving, but this will not mean an abandon- 
 ment of religious habit or of the practice of devotion. It will not lead 
 to laxity in Church-going or inattention to secret Christian duty; 
 neither will it suggest the casting away of the Sacred Book for the 
 novel or magazine, nor the substitution of a mountain breeze for 
 the breath of Pentecost. That vacation is always most truly refreshing 
 in which we look continually for the inspirations of the Divine Spirit, 
 and profoundly feel the truth of the Psalmist's words, 'All my fresh 
 springs are in Thee.' 
 
 "I must add another word. As I look down upon the faces which 
 are upturned to mine in this evening sunlight, I am reminded that this is 
 a time for reunions as well as separations, and that for some of us who 
 are gathered in this Church there will now be a renewing of the very 
 hallowed bond which was formed in the days of college life. Perhaps 
 there are no ties more- lasting, no friendships more sacred than those 
 which are formed in those happy days. The members of a graduating 
 class are soon scattered — in these days when seas and continents are so 
 easily traversed they may be found in almost every land — but wherever 
 they go, they carry the faces of their classmates stamped indelibly upon 
 the tablets of the heart, and guarded as sacredly as the ancient exiles 
 kept the household gods within their mantle's secret folds. Forty years 
 of vicissitude have widely dispersed the members of our Class, but tell 
 me, brothers of Sixty-One, need we do anything but look within to find 
 each other's image in the sacred treasure-house of memory, undimmed 
 by the lapse of years, preserved in all the distinctness of the fresh im- 
 print made in life's early day ! 
 
 "It has been my lot to abide in Princeton almost ever since the 
 graduation of the Class, and may I not, as a brother who has always 
 staid at home, extend a welcome to those who, after forty years of 
 wandering, are coming back to the old roof and altar fire? Most 
 welcome are you, dear brothers, to the hospitalities of the old home, 
 and your return will cause a far greater joy to the old Mother's heart 
 than can come from the abiding of those who have never gone away. 
 I do not doubt that those who have come back to Princeton, after a 
 lengthened absence, are greatly impressed by the changes which have 
 come over the well-remembered scenes. Nothing looks quite as it 
 used to in our college days. Most of the old buildings in the campus 
 have disappeared. Many of the landmarks in the town have been 
 swept away. But one of the professors who were in the faculty when 
 
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 we were here is still alive. Our own ranks have been greatly thinned 
 by the darts of death. We come together a broken and shattered band, 
 and we sadly count over the names of those who have fallen in life's 
 battle, and yet have died with honor in the service laid upon them by 
 their God. But, surely, we may remind ourselves in this sacred place 
 that there is a sense in which the band is still unbroken ; that the 
 living and the dead are still united in the bonds of a spiritual fellowship 
 which can never be destroyed. True friendship never dies ; the affec- 
 tions of the heart are indestructible, and 'he that doeth the will of God 
 abideth forever.' Life is prophetic. The happiness of the early fleeting 
 days is anticipative of a more abiding joy in the days to come; the loves 
 and friendships of the earthly life are a pledge of the blessed unions 
 and reunions of the eternal state. 
 
 "And so with the prevision of immortality distinct in heart and 
 mind, we greet each other; not with the words of the old Roman sol- 
 dier, Morituri Salutamus, but with the words of the Christian con- 
 querors: Ressurrecturi Salve! Viventes in Sceculorum Ave! 
 
 "Our brotherhood in Christ will last forevermore. 
 "Dear comrades, scattered far and wide, 
 Send from their homes their kindly word, 
 And dearer ones, unseen, unheard, 
 Smile on us from some heavenly star. 
 For life and death with God are one ; 
 Unchanged by seeming change, His care 
 And love are round us here and there ; 
 He breaks no thread His hand has spun, 
 Soul touches soul — the muster roll 
 Of life eternal has no gaps ; 
 And after all the long term's laose 
 Our college ranks are closed and whole. 
 Hail and farewell ! We go our way 
 Where shadows end, we trust in light. 
 The Star that ushers in the night 
 Is herald also of the day. 
 
 "Our college life was a preparation for coming work. May not this 
 reunion also help prepare us for the part of life's work which still re- 
 mains, and out of it may we not get a little strength and courage for 
 the unfinished toil and task? "God grant that it may indeed be so, and 
 that when the work is done, no one of us may fail of the faithful 
 laborer's reward." 
 
 At the conclusion of the service, the members of the Class, with 
 their wives present, came to the Rectory for a quiet tea. 
 
 In the year of 1901 a wave of great sorrow crept over the land 
 when it was learned that the hand of the assassin had been raised 
 against another of our chief magistrates, William McKinley. There 
 had been nothing in the character or career of the noble President to 
 
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 provoke this parricidal crime, and it was everywhere felt that the 
 murderous shot had been aimed not only at him, but at the whole 
 nation which he represented. Every citizen felt as if he had been 
 struck. But there were no signs of panic within our borders. The 
 national heart was strong in faith; and had confidence that the 
 stability of our institutions was in no way imperilled by this dreadful 
 deed of a fanatic and frenzied man. The Rector on the Sunday 
 following dwelt on some of the lessons of the hour, and presented 
 reasons why the congregation should share in this general trustful 
 feeling, and fall back on Him who 
 
 "Had been our strength and stay 
 In many a dark and dreary day 
 Of sorrows and reverses." 
 
 In the year 1902 a committee on church enlargement was appointed 
 by the Vestry and the committee was afterwards enlarged, and clothed 
 with a full power of action. Its members are now Messrs. Bayard 
 Stockton, M. Taylor Pyne, Archibald D. Russell, George A. Armour, 
 Junius S. Morgan, and the Rector. Various difficulties have been en- 
 countered in their consideration of the subject, but they still have it 
 under advisement, and the hope is generally entertained that a practi- 
 cable plan may soon be found, and carried into effect. 
 
 On March 6, 1905, James Dundas Lippincott, a devoted friend 
 of the Parish and for many years its Junior Warden, was released 
 from the pains of a sudden fatal sickness, and called to enter on the 
 eternal rest. Although resident in Philadelphia during the greater por- 
 tion of the year, he was often in Princeton, and he used to say his 
 heart was always here. He was seldom absent from our church ser- 
 vices on Easter Day, All Saints Day and other great festivals of the 
 church's year. His death was greatly mourned by our congregation 
 and the community at large, and the Vestry gave suitable expression 
 of their feeling at their own and the common loss by a minute spread 
 upon the records and published in the church papers. This is as 
 follows : 
 
 Whereas, It has pleased God to remove from these earthly 
 scenes our esteemed friend and fellow Vestryman, James 
 Dundas Lippincott, we desire at this our first meeting after his 
 departure to record our deep sense of loss and to express our 
 sincere appreciation of his gentle, kindly and Christian qualities 
 which endeared him to us all during the whole period of our 
 association in this Vestry. For thirty-four years he filled the 
 office of Junior Warden, giving careful and valuable attention 
 to his duties, and always working for the best interests of the 
 Parish. During his lifetime he was its constant benefactor, and 
 at his death he left behind him such generous provisions as to 
 enable it to continue the work he had sustained while living. 
 
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 Although the parting with him fills our hearts with sorrow, 
 we are yet thankful that it was our privilege to pass so many 
 years of joint service with him, and that he has left us an 
 example of modest and unaffected Christian character and 
 fidelity to duty. We offer to his bereaved wife and to his 
 relatives and friends the assurance of our sincere sympathy, 
 and of our prayers that heavenly consolation may be ministered 
 to them in their affliction. 
 
 The Rector's reference to the deceased, on the Sunday after his 
 burial was printed in the Trinity Record and the Princeton Press. In 
 his last will and testament Mr. Lippincott bequeathed to the Parish 
 the sum of $21,000. The terms of the bequest are as follows : I give 
 and bequeath to the Rector and Vestry of Trinity Church, Princeton, 
 the sum of $21,000, now held for me in the hands of Mr. Hugh H. 
 Hamill of Trenton, N. J., said amount to be handed over to the Rector 
 and Vestry of Trinity Church, to be invested and held in trust, and the 
 income to be used, as they, the Vestry deem advisable for the said 
 Trinity Church or Parish, and to be called the Memorial Fund of the 
 Thomas Potter family." 
 
 Some years before Mr. Lippincott gave the Parish the sum of 
 twelve thousand dollars for the support of a church school bearing the 
 name of his deceased wife, Alive Lippincott ; but he provided that if at 
 any time the congregation deemed it wise to discontinue the school, 
 the income should be used by the Vestry for any other parochial purpose 
 to which they might see fit to apply it. 
 
 Two other bequests were made to the Parish in wills admitted 
 to probate respectively in the years 1904 and 1905. One was from 
 Mrs. Hanna Haley, a devout communicant, trained in the Church of 
 England, in her early days, but transferring to the American Church 
 the loyalty and love she had felt for her spiritual mother across the 
 seas. The Trinity Record for December 1904 contained the following 
 notice of bequest : By the" will of Mrs. Hanna Haley recently deceased, 
 the sum of $500 was left to the Parish for the increase of the fund for 
 the purchase of a chime of bells. Mrs. Haley was an English woman, 
 and her early associations were with the chimes of her motherland that 
 
 "Peal from tower and Gothic pile 
 Where hymn and swelling anthems fill 
 The dear Cathedral aisle." 
 
 She was in full sympathy with the sentiment of Bishop Coxe, 
 expressed in his "Christian Ballads." 
 
 "The chimes, the chimes of motherland, 
 Of England green and old, 
 That out from fane and ivied tower 
 A thousand years have tolled ; 
 
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 How glorious must their music be 
 As breaks the hallowed day, 
 And calleth with a seraph's voice 
 A nation up to pray ; 
 
 Those chimes that tell a thousand tales — 
 Sweet tales of olden time, 
 And ring a thousand memories 
 At vesper and at prime ! 
 
 At bridal and at burial 
 
 For cottager and king, 
 
 Those chimes— those glorious Christian chimes, 
 
 How blessedly they ring ! " 
 
 It is much to be wished that a chime should sometime be put in our 
 church tower — so admirably adapted to the purpose — and after the 
 enlarging of the church, which is an immediate necessity, we ought to 
 direct our efforts to this most desirable end. 
 
 The Trinity Record of September 1905 contained the following 
 notice of the other bequest : 
 
 "By the will of Mrs. Anna Amelia Benham who died on 
 April 25th, 1905, $500 were bequeathed to the music fund of 
 the Parish and $500 to the general endowment fund. The 
 legacy to the music fund is a memorial to her son, William 
 LeRoy Benham, who died in 1891, and who, during his boy- 
 hood was a member of our choir. It is a matter of regret that 
 the executors have been unable to pay this legacy, yet if nothing 
 is realized from it, the good intention of the pious woman may 
 still be accepted, and the treasure be laid up for her on high." 
 
 A very dignified and beautiful bishop's chair has been presented 
 to the church by Mr. and Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne. It was made by Geis- 
 sler of New York City, and below the seat is the inscription, "In loving 
 memory of Robert Stockton Pyne." The inscribed name is that of the 
 second son of Mr. and Mrs. Pyne, who died on February the 25th, 1903, 
 in Pomfret School, Connecticut. He was a youth of gentle disposition 
 and guileless spirit and his amiable traits won the love of all who 
 knew him. He was born in New York City May 27, 1883, baptised at 
 Christ Church, Riverdale, New York City, in August of that year, was 
 confirmed at Christ Church, Pomfret, in April, 1900. He was preparing 
 at Pomfret for Princeton University, and when called away was almost 
 ready to enter on his academic career ; but unerring wisdom had some- 
 thing better for him, and ordered that the bright promise of his youth 
 should be fulfilled in ways far greater than we know. He was buried 
 from Drumthwacket on February 28th and was laid in the family plot 
 in the Princeton Cemetery. 
 
 In the same year Rear Admiral Edwin White died suddenly while 
 on a visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the despatch which brought 
 
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 the sad news sent a shock through the Parish and the whole community. 
 He had left his home in Princeton but a few days before and his 
 death coming quickly and without warning, caused a great transition in 
 feeling among all his friends. He died while walking toward the 
 office of the Commandant of the yard ; but the stroke of "the swift 
 angel" did not find him unprepared. For many years he had tried to 
 obey the bidding "be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, 
 the Son of Man cometh." He was always a regular attendant of 
 church, when off duty, and when retired from active service ; and in 
 his private life he fulfilled the duties and exemplified the virtue of the 
 consistent Christian. His death was a strange interruption of a plan he 
 had formed, and was just about to carry out, of sailing with his 
 daughter for Europe, and spending some time in foreign travel. But 
 the Providence which disposes our affairs had arranged that he 
 should reach by a single step "the soft blue shore of the calm land 
 beyond the sea," and there await his loved ones when their voyage of 
 life was over. Three years later, his son George Emmons White, who 
 had been baptized, catechised and confirmed in the Parish, joined 
 him on the eternal shore. Life was full of interest and flattering 
 prospect for the son, but when he realized that it soon must fulfill its 
 course, he resigned himself without a murmur to the will of God, and 
 submissively and even cheerfully met his end. 
 
 In June 1005, a request was received by the Vestry from the Rev. 
 John Hendrik de Vries, D. D., that they sign a certificate recommending 
 him to the Standing Committee of the Diocese, as a candidate for 
 Holy Orders ; whereupon the certificate required by canon was on 
 motion duly signed, and transmitted to the Committee. Dr. de Vries, 
 who had been the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Prince- 
 ton, was soon ordained deacon and priest, and after temporary work in 
 New York and Philadelphia became Rector of a church in Saybrook, 
 Connecticut. 
 
 In 1906 the Parish sustained a great loss in the death of Mrs. 
 Josephine Antoinette Swann, whose decease occurred on Friday, 
 March 2d, in Washington, D. C, where, for many years, she had lived 
 during the winter. Her body was brought to Princeton for burial 
 os Monday of the following week. On its arrival, the body was taken 
 directly to Belgrade, her Princeton home, and there with attending 
 relatives and gathered friends, a short service was held by the Rector 
 of the Parish. The body was then borne to the Church, and there, 
 with vested choir, and appropriate Psalms and Hymns, the Burial Office 
 was said by the Rector and Curate. The Commital was in her lot in 
 the Princeton Cemetery, and by the side of her first husband, the Hon. 
 John R. Thomson. Mrs. Swann was one of the oldest of our com- 
 municants, and she will be greatly missed in the services and activities 
 
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 of the Parish, and in the private sanctuary of many a heart where 
 her departure has left a vacant seat. She was also interested in many 
 things without the Parish, and was always ready to lend a helping hand 
 to any public project which had in view the improvement of the Bor- 
 ough or the welfare of its citizens. She evinced her interest in the 
 Borough by bequeathing to it her beautiful residence and grounds, 
 and by making liberal provision for the maintenance of both. She also 
 showed her attachment to the Parish by a bequest of $13,000, the income 
 of which is to be devoted to the support of Rector, choir, and the relief 
 of the poor. The bulk of her estate she left to the University for the 
 building and endowment of "The John R. Thomson Graduate College, 
 designed as a permanent memorial of the interest felt by him in the 
 higher literary and scientific education of his countrymen." 
 
 Mrs. Swann was a woman of decided character, amiable accom- 
 plishment, broad sympathy and practical ability ; but that she also 
 possessed unaffected piety is the chief cause of our thankful remem- 
 brance of her, and it is her memorial with God. 
 
 One of Mrs. Swann's most intimate friends soon followed her to 
 the unseen world. On July 21, 1906, Mrs. Annis Thomson McMillan, 
 wife of Professor Charles McMillan, was borne to the grave by the 
 church's solemn "order for the burial of the dead." Mrs. McMillan was 
 the daughter of the Hon. Richard S. Field ; and not only had an 
 ancestral interest in the Parish but an acquired attachment for it, 
 resting on the hearty acceptance of the principles it upheld, and her 
 personal experience of the spiritual benefits it had been the channel of 
 conveyance from its Lord and Head. Her whole heart was given to the 
 church. Just before her marriage to Professor Charles McMillan the 
 present church edifice had been partly destroyed by fire. Many would 
 have thought the building unfit for a nuptial service. But she would not 
 be married elsewhere. There her family and friends were asked to meet. 
 Fortunately, the pews and tile floor of the aisle had not been much in- 
 jured by the fire, and although the roof was mostly gone, the gathered 
 company felt little inconvenience from the free admission of the bland 
 June air. In the same church she worshipped through the whole re- 
 mainder of her life, and from it she was borne to her resting place when 
 life's work was done. Of several branches of our charitable work, she 
 was for many years the interested head ; and there is no department of 
 Parochial endeavor to which she was not always ready to lend a helping 
 hand. On the Sunday after her burial the Rector made reference to the 
 virtues of her character in a sermon of which selected portions may 
 elsewhere be found. Her last illness was a tedious one, but through- 
 out it all she was patient and uncomplaining, and after weeks of weary 
 waiting, she went away leaning on "the everlasting arms." 
 
 Beside those whose departure has been noticed in these records, there 
 
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 are many others "who have died in faith" and whom we would gladly 
 mention did the limits of our brief narrative permit. Among them are 
 "holy and humble men of heart", "saintly maidens, godly matrons, 
 widows who have watched to prayer," all having their names on the 
 Parish diptychs, and all devoutly called to mind by surviving 
 friends in the church service at Easter and All Saints Day. Sweet is 
 their remembrance on earth, and hallowed their memorial in heaven ; 
 and the example many of them have left behind ought to be a continual 
 inspiration to those of us who still remain. Side by side, in our village 
 cemetery many of them sleep in peace ; and they will thence arise in 
 radiant form and fadeless strength "tho sown in weakness, raised in 
 power and glory" "at the resurrection of the just." 
 
 On Easter day 1906 the Rectoj completed forty years of service 
 in the Parish and the congregation did not allow the anniversary to go 
 unnoticed. On the evening of Tuesday in Easter Week there was a 
 gathering of the congregation at the Rectory, at which kindly greetings 
 and loving remembrances of the past were exchanged between pastor 
 and people. At the close of the reception the Rector took occasion to 
 thank the people for the way in which they had marked the fortieth 
 anniversary of his Rectorship, and especially for their coming together 
 in such numbers to give him their congratulations and to afford him the 
 opportunity of reciprocating their good wishes. He also stated that 
 on Easter Day the Treasurer of the Parish had brought him a 
 bag filled with newly minted pieces of our noblest coin, stating 
 that the congregation had bidden him present the same as a testimonial 
 of their affectionate regard. The Rector was deeply touched by the 
 gift, and the love which it evinced, and in a few heartfelt words ex- 
 pressed his gratitude to all who had contributed to it. He went on to 
 say that the feeling which was uppermost in his heart, on this his 
 fortieth anniversary was one of profound thankfulness that he had been 
 permitted to serve in the sacred ministry of the church for so many 
 years and that his lot had been cast among a people who had always 
 been so kind, forbearing with his weakness, and so ready to co- 
 operate with him in any plans suggested or works undertaken for the 
 good of the Parish. He added that in two years more we shall reach 
 the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of our Parish, and that 
 he hoped then to have ready for publication a history of the Parish, the 
 material for which he had been trying to accumulate for some time past. 
 
 The Rector was followed by the Rev. S. W. Beach, Pastor of the 
 First Presbyterian Church, who made a short address, which was full 
 of kindly Christian feeling. 
 
 In the Trinity Record of September 1905 appeared the following 
 communication from the Rector relative to a proposed Men's Thank 
 Offering: 
 
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 At the general convention of 1904 a plan was set on foot 
 to secure from the men of the church at large, a missionary 
 thank offering in grateful recognition of the blessings which 
 have followed the establishing of English Christianity in our 
 land by the colony which founded Jamestown, Virginia, in the 
 year 1607. The offering is to be presented at the next meeting 
 of the convention at Richmond, Va., in October, 1907 — three 
 hundred years after the landing at Jamestown, and the holding 
 of the first service of the English church on the eastern shores 
 of the new world. — Some of the details of the plan have been 
 made known to us by an admirable circular letter sent by our 
 Parochial committee to all the men on our Parish list, and it 
 is hoped that the appeal of the letter will receive kindly con- 
 sideration and generous response from those into whose 
 hands it may fall. A similar effort is being made in all the 
 Parishes of our diocese and our whole land, and there is 
 ground to hope that the tercentenary offering will be large, 
 and will help the church more fully to grasp its opportunities for 
 the extension of the Redeemer's Kingdom at home and abroad. 
 At the same time we are urged not to allow our offerings to 
 infringe upon stated and necessary beneficence — and to give 
 only what we can over and above our usual contributions to 
 missionary and other purposes. Our gifts are designed to be a 
 thank offering, and this, of course, ought to be an 
 expression of real gratitude to God for blessings 
 which we try to number and value at their worth. 
 English Christianity is both Catholic and Reformed — and among 
 its characteristics are the union which it has preserved between 
 Evangelic truth and apostolic order ; the tenacity with which 
 it holds to the es^ntial things in the Christianity of the past, and 
 the freedom with which it adopts the best results of the 
 religious renaissance of the reformation age. Its belief is 
 summed up in the ancient creeds of Christendom which contain 
 "the faith that was once delivered to the Saints," and it gives 
 a pure gospel, an open Bible, and unmutilated sacraments to 
 the people. It also fosters a spirit of reverence in public wor- 
 ship and preserves a dignity, decency and propriety in all its 
 public offices. 
 
 The tyoe of piety it favors is sober, solid, practical and 
 free from cant ; and it attaches great importance to christian 
 education, and the preservation of the sanctity and the purity 
 of the christian home. One of its most distinctive marks is 
 respect for constituted authority in state, as well as church, and 
 this has had its influence in safeguarding the institutions of our 
 country, and preserving its unity and peace. No one can con- 
 sider the happy effects it has had upon our religious, social and 
 political life, without finding abundant cause for thanksgiving, 
 and without desiring to enroll himself sometime in the trien- 
 nium among those who wish to make a thank offering to God 
 for its planting on the Chesapeake shores three centuries ago. 
 The parochial committee in charge of the men's thank offer- 
 ing are the Rev. Harvey Officer, Treasurer, Gen. A. A. Wood- 
 hull, Secretary, Professor Alex. H. Phillips and Mr. J. D.. 
 Lawrence. 
 
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 The committee issued the following circular : 
 
 Trinity Parish, Princeton ; 
 24TH June, 1905. 
 To 
 
 Mr 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 The General Convention of 1904 pressed 
 upon the men of our Church the desirability of presenting to 
 the Board of Missions, at the General Convention of 1907, a 
 Thank Offering for the spread of Christianity from English 
 sources upon this continent durine the three hundred years 
 that have passed since the settlement of Jamestown in 
 Virginia. Every parish is expected to respond to the appeal, 
 and the Committee of Trinity asks your earnest consideration 
 of this subject. To be a worthy offering, it is more important 
 that it should be general than that it should be large : a con- 
 tribution of a certain sum from two hundred subscribers 
 would be more creditable to the Parish and would react more 
 favorably upon the Parishioners themselves, than would twice 
 the amount from half the number. 
 
 The offering should represent our gratitude that God's 
 work and the ordinances of religion accompanied the pioneer 
 immigrants. As the colonists multiplied, the spread of Chris- 
 tianity in the new country was essentially missionary work, and 
 it is for the direct and indirect results of such work that it is 
 becoming in us to be thankful. Our gratitude would be most 
 practically expressed by such action as shall enable the con- 
 stituted agencies to carry on similar work at home and abroad, 
 for the benefits of our fellow men and the glory of God. If we 
 properly aporeciate the influence of Christianity, it is rignt that 
 we should seek its extension ; and such grateful recognition 
 ought not to be confined to the communicants. Every man 
 who attends public worship or whose family is represented in 
 our congregation, every one of us who is conscious of the 
 benefits of living in a Christian land, is asked to contribute. 
 There is no wish to make the offering relatively prodigious, 
 and especially would it be undesirable to encroach upon cus- 
 tomary and necessary beneficence. We ask for a thank offering 
 in addition to, and not in place of, your ordinary dutiful alms 
 and common benefactions. Your fellow-Parishoners, a duly 
 appointed Committee, therefore confidently lay before you this 
 appeal for a special recognition of the ter-centenary of a mem- 
 orable occasion and of the religious privileges that, beginning 
 then have continued for three hundred years in the Colonies 
 and in these States. It is hoped that every one whom this 
 may reach will determine, after carefully weighing the matter, 
 to give to tnis special object something, in accordance with his 
 means and his other obligations. 
 
 Generally speaking it is more convenient particularly for 
 persons of narrow or fixed incomes, to contribute a moderate 
 
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 amount at regular intervals, than by a great effort to make a 
 considerable offering at one time. Nor can there be any 
 doubt that the donor is more benefited when he is frequently 
 reminded of the subject, than when it is dismissed after a 
 single donation, however large that may be. Your Committee, 
 disclaiming any dictation, therefore suggests that a monthly, 
 bi-monthly, quarterly, or even semi-annual contribution, espec- 
 ially recommending the monthly payment, be made to 4his 
 object. Some may find that to set apart a small sum every 
 week, and to transfer it to the Committee once a month, still 
 more convenient. You are therefore asked, first, seriously to 
 consider the subject; then, to determine what you can properly 
 give and how it may best be given ; and, then, to return to the 
 Secretary the accompanying form properly filled out. The 
 promised amount should be regularly sent to the Treasurer, in 
 an envelope that will be furnished, so that it may be received 
 within five days of the stipulated date. But some will find it 
 more convenient to make one full and complete payment. Those 
 are urged to do so promptly, on account of the contingencies 
 of life and that the District Treasurer may place his deposits 
 on interest. 
 
 The Treasurer at stated intervals sends his collections to 
 the District Treasurer, who represents the Diocese. It will be 
 necessary for the Secretary, as the Executive Officer, to know 
 what the Treasurer's collections should be and what they are, 
 and it is important for the Treasurer to be advised what to 
 expect. These records will be confidential between the two 
 officers as to the individual contributions. The promise is 
 revocable, for it is recognized that an obligation extending 
 over a long term may, through change of conditions, become 
 unreasonably onerous. On the other hand, should it be possible 
 at a later period to increase the offering, it is hoped that a new 
 and larger promise may be substituted. 
 
 Finally .although welcoming large gifts, the Committee lays 
 special stress upon the great value to giver and recipient alike 
 of small ones regularly contributed. It especially hopes that 
 no one will hesitate because his offering must be small. A 
 few cents from those who can give no more will accomplish 
 much in the Master's hands. It is earnestly desired that this 
 may become in the truest sense a congregational Thank 
 Offering, from a Parish conscious of its own blessings and 
 of those of the community. 
 
 A very early response is particularly requested. 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 Alfred A. Woodhull, Secretary. 
 Harvey Officer, Jr., Treasurer. 
 Alexander H. Phillips, 
 John D. Lawrence, 
 
 Committee. 
 
(Date) 1905- 
 
 To the Secretary of the Committee of Trinity Parish. Princeton 
 in charge of the Missionary Thank Offering. 
 
 I will make an immediate offering of 
 
 n^l Inrc ( Erase the preceding\ 
 
 .Dollars. ^ if not used ) 
 
 I promise to send to the Treasurer of the Trinity- 
 Parish Committee on the first of every month, two months, 
 quarter, half year ( ^T^u^ed. ) commencing July I, 1905, 
 and continuing to include October 1, 1907, the sum of 
 
 (Erase this sentence if the first promise is used.) 
 
 This is to be in addition to my other Parish offerings. 
 
 This promise is revocable should circumstances require; or 
 the amount may be reduced after formal notice if, in my 
 judgment, it becomes necessary. I also sincerely promise to 
 increase the sum pledged, should I find myself able to do so. 
 
 (Name) 
 
 (Address) 
 
 After Mr, Officer left the Parish the work of making the offering 
 known and of securing subscriptions to it devolved upon the remaining 
 members of the committee. They prosecuted the work with commend- 
 able zeal, and the treasurer, Prof. A. A. Phillips, at the end of the 
 triennium reported that the offerings of the Parish for the fund had 
 been one thousand dollars. 
 
 In 1905 occurred the death of Capt. Wm. V. Scudder, grandson of 
 Col. Wm. Scudder, whose patriotic services during the Revolution 
 caused the British to burn his mills, situated at what is now known as 
 the Acqueduct, not far from Princeton. At the outbreak of the Civil 
 War, Wm. V. Scudder enlisted as captain of a company in the Second 
 N. J. Cavalry and suffered many privations in the arduous Southwest 
 Campaign. He returned to Princeton at the close of the war, and 
 engaged in business, to which he gave faithful attention through the 
 remainder of his life. He was upright, conscientious and possessed of 
 great kindness of heart : and he was greatly esteemed by our whole 
 community. Two daughters and a son are still on our communicant 
 list. 
 
 At a congregational meeting on Monday in Easter week of the same 
 year, a communication was read from Professor Henry D. Cornwall 
 expressing his desire to retire from the office of Vestryman : and the 
 following resolution was thereupon unanimously passed : "Resolved, 
 That the congregation of Trinity Parish here represented have heard 
 with deep regret the desire of Professor Cornwall to retire from the 
 
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 Vestry, and that they wish to express their deep sense of obligation to 
 him for his many years of service as Vestryman, and that he may be 
 able some time in the future to resume the duties of the office." Mr. 
 Archibald D. Russell was elected Vestryman at this meeting in Prof. 
 Cornwall's place. 
 
 From the prominence given in these annals to the record of deaths, 
 and the obituaries with which the departed were embalmed, it may seem 
 that the Parish History, from its beginning, has been little else than a 
 story of losses, and that its movement has been continually through a 
 cloud of gloom. But the course of Parish life was not always through 
 the shadow ; it often lay in sunshine and it passed through no cloud 
 which was not silvered with "the light that shone when Hope was born." 
 History, as one says, occurs simultaneously in all its parts and elements. 
 Like Wordsworth's cloud, "it moveth all together if it move at all." 
 And so in our Parish History the sad event and joyous happening 
 were going on at once. The same page which contains the record of 
 losses and bereavements is also illuminated with pleasing pictures of 
 tranquil and prosperous Parish life. There were bright services on 
 festal days — births and baptisms, confirmations, the ringing of marriage 
 bells, glad Eucharists, the commune of brethren with each other in the 
 "fellowship divine" ; Parish activities were carried on, its life powers 
 were exerted in charitable and missionary endeavors, the losses by 
 which it was weakened were more than made up by the gains which 
 strengthened it in numbers and in power for useful service. At various 
 times in its history the Parish has had the help of individuals or 
 families whose residence in Princeton has been transient, but who 
 while remaining here have shown great interest in various branches of 
 Parochial work. Among this number were Mrs. Ann E. Biddle, who 
 gave a new start to our missionary work ; Prof, and Mrs. Henry 
 Fairfield Osborn, who by their enthusiastic interest put fresh life into 
 various kinds of Parochial endeavor ; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Conant, 
 the former a Vestryman, and the latter devoted to all good works ; Mr. 
 and Mrs. Arthur Sandys ; Mrs. Howard Crosby, the Misses Crosby, the 
 Misses Woodward, Mrs. and the Misses Lord, all of whom rendered 
 much service to the Parish by working in the Sunday School, Parochial 
 Society, and by visiting the homes of the sick and poor. In recent 
 years a considerable number of more permanent families have been 
 joined to the congregation, and many have been added, through God's 
 blessing, by confirmation. Some have contributed liberally of their 
 substance to the support of the Parish, and the enlargement of its 
 property, and through their beneficience its endowment and revenue 
 have been much increased. Among those are men of large vision as 
 well as of great generosity, and they have plans for the future develop- 
 ment of the church in Princeton which kindle the imagination and 
 
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 inspire the heart. May God grant them the wisdom and strength 
 needed for their task. 
 
 Through their assistance the Parish has recently bought the lot 
 with dwelling house adjoining the church lot on the south, formerly 
 owned by the Hon. Richard S. Field, and in later years by the Rev. Dr. 
 Wm. Henry. Green. The cost of the property was $37,000. The stone 
 building on one of its corners, known as Ivy Hall, was not included in 
 the original purchase, but has since been bought at a cost of $4000. 
 This large increase of our church lot provides room for whatever 
 structural additions may be undertaken in the future and it yields a 
 present income which is being used for Parish purposes. Through 
 the same liberality the Rectory has been much improved and furnished 
 with conveniences of which for many years it was destitute ; our 
 admirable choir has had better support, and supplied with means for 
 an annual summer outing at the sea side ; our offerings for all purposes 
 have been increased, and our Parish treasurer has been relieved from 
 the anxiety which his predecessors often felt about the payment of the 
 Parish bills. 
 
 The increase of our congregation of late has been partly made up 
 of professors and others connected with our far-famed University : 
 and it is a pleasing reflection that members of the Vestry and the 
 Parish have had much to do with the wonderful development which 
 has been going on in recent years in the institution of which we are all 
 so justly proud. 
 
 It will be of future as well as present interest to place in these 
 Records the names of the Clergy, the Vestry, and of the officers of the 
 chief working societies of the Parish. The Clergy are : 
 
 The Rev. Alfred B. Baker, D.D., and 
 The Rev. Ralph B. Pomeroy, B.A. 
 
 Wardens. 
 Joseph H. Bruere, Bayard Stockton. 
 
 Vestrymen. 
 
 Junius S. Morgan, Archibald D. Russell, 
 
 George A. Armour, M. Taylor Pyne, 
 
 Joseph Priest, V. Lansing Collins, 
 
 Henry P. Clayton, Thornton Conover. 
 
 Parish Treasurer. 
 Bayard Stockton. 
 
 Secretary. 
 V. Lansing Collins. 
 
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 Organist and Choirmaster. 
 George B. Rodgers. 
 
 Usher. 
 Henry P. Clayton. 
 
 Sexton. 
 Ridgway D. Chafey. 
 
 The Sunday School. 
 
 Rev. R. B. Pomeroy, Superintendent. 
 
 Miss Juliana Conover, Secretary. 
 
 C. E. Haulenbeek, Librarian. 
 
 Teachers — Mrs. Baker, Miss Olden, Miss Caroline Conover, Miss 
 Juliana Conover, Miss Lane, Miss McMillan. 
 
 Primary Department — Miss Rachel Stevens, Miss Ruth Hall, Mrs. 
 E. O. Lovett, Mrs. Sheldon, Mr. Berghaus, Miss Katharine Stockton. 
 
 Substitutes — Mr. Kerr, Mr. Stuckey, Miss Douglass, Mrs. Nisbet. 
 
 The Altar Guild. 
 
 Miss Adelia Leigh, Vice-President. 
 Mrs. John McD. Carnochan, Secretary. 
 Miss Adelia Leigh, Treasurer. 
 
 The St. Paul's Society. 
 
 Maurice B. Clark, President. 
 Edward R. Stoever, Vice-President. 
 Matthew Gault, Jr., Secretary. 
 Earle P. Holsapple, Treasurer. 
 
 The Society assists in maintaining services at Rocky Hill, Sand 
 Hills, Princeton Basin and Hightstown. The following members of 
 the Society are licensed Lay Readers : C. Penrose, C. E. Berghaus, 
 J. T. Kerr, E. T. Holsapple, H. Reynolds, D. Roberts, H. N. Vermilye, 
 C. Van Winkle, W. Schroeder, H. S. Stuckey, L. L. H. Lowe. 
 
 The Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. 
 
 Mrs. F. S. Conover, Parochial Vice-President and Treasurer. 
 Miss Sarah Olden, Parochial Secretary. 
 
 The Parochial Aid Society. 
 
 Directresses — Mrs. W. N. Scudder, Miss Ann E. Clayton, Mrs. 
 Harmour, Mrs. Huckin, Miss Sarah Olden, Treasurer. 
 
The Woman's Guild. 
 Mrs. Frederick Feuring, Treasurer. 
 
 Society for the Care of the Sick. 
 Mrs. Charles Smith, Treasurer. 
 
 The Girls' Friendly Society. 
 
 Working Associates — Miss Caroline Conover, Branch Secretary; 
 Mrs. William Hall, Mrs. John P. Cuyler, Miss Sarah Olden, Miss A. B. 
 Lane. 
 
 Honorary Associates — Mrs. A. B. Baker, Mrs. A. B. Paterson, Mrs. 
 W. N. Scudder, Miss Amelia Lytle, Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, Mrs. 
 Caroline Briner, Miss Rachel Stevens, Miss Augusta McMillan, Mrs. 
 George A. Armour, Miss Coddington. 
 
 Members, 25; Probationers, 9; Candidates, 46. In charge of 
 candidates, Mrs. Trowbridge and Mrs. Pahlow. 
 
 The Galahad Club of Trinity Parish. 
 Rev. R. B. Pomeroy, Director. 
 Mr. Geo. B. Rodgers, Vice-Director. 
 Edward Frohling, President. 
 Frank Warren, Vice-President. 
 John W. Leigh, Secretary-Treasurer. 
 Councillors — Edward Lloyd, Clifford McDermott. 
 
 St. Andrew's Guild. 
 Rev. R. B. Pomeroy, Director. 
 James Renwick, President. 
 C. Burt Meyrick, Secretary. 
 Members — August Bamman, William Davis, William Frost, Henry 
 Haulenbeek, Albert Yates, David Lloyd, C. Burt Meyrick, James Ren- 
 wick, James Robinson. 
 
 The Trinity Guild. 
 Officers. 
 The Rector (cx-officio), President. 
 Rev. R. B. Pomeroy, Vice-President. 
 C. A. Bowld, Secretary. 
 W. C. Durner, Treasurer. 
 C. Harmour, Librarian. 
 
 Governing Board. 
 The Officers, J. D. Lawrence, Philip Bennett. 
 
Trinity Church Choir. 
 
 Crucifer. 
 
 Paul Peabody. 
 
 Edwin Kopp, 
 Charles Huckin, 
 Stanton Garfield, 
 Edward Bamman, 
 Willard Hall, 
 Raymond Mack, 
 David Winans, 
 Leonard Kraus, 
 William Caldwell, 
 Harold Fielder, 
 James Robinson, 
 
 Thaddeus Gorecki, 
 
 V. L. Collins, 
 F. A. Bamman, 
 
 Augustus Dohm, 
 K. Hickman, 
 Alfred Bowld, 
 James Warren, 
 
 Soprano. 
 
 Ardsley Flood, 
 Donald Whyte, 
 Roy Huckin, 
 Asahel Bloomer, 
 Alfred Haulenbeek, 
 Albert Yates, 
 Robert Benham, 
 Stevenson McLaren, 
 Vernon Farr, 
 McKay Sturges, 
 Robert Cundy. 
 
 Alto. 
 
 Burt Meyrick. 
 
 Edward Lloyd. 
 
 Tenor. 
 
 Bass. 
 
 VanBuren Leigh. 
 
 Clifford McDermott, 
 Maurice Clark. 
 
 Wm. Schroeder, 
 J. T. Kerr, 
 John Leigh, 
 Charles Clayton, 
 
 Organist and Choirmaster. 
 George B. Rodgers. 
 
 The present number of communicants, including non-residents, is 
 400; the number baptized since the founding of the Parish, 1627; the 
 number confirmed since the founding of the Parish, 1010; the number 
 of marriages since the founding of the Parish, 258; the number of 
 burials since the founding of the Parish, 775 ; the amount of offerings, 
 income and bequests approximate $675,475.17; the present amount of 
 endowment is $99,622.27. 
 
 Of the communicants found in the Parish when the present Rector- 
 ship began, only 16 are now on the Parish list. They are Helen F. 
 Conover, Susan Stockton, Mary Rachel Baker, Richard S. Conover, 
 Antonia T. White, Mary C. Olden, Mary Tuthill, barah Leigh, Adeliza 
 Petty, Anna Ruth Dey (nee Kingdom), Mary Snooks, Elizabeth Leigh 
 
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 (nee Murphy), Catharine Lytle (nee Hendrickson), Catherine Mundy. 
 Eliza Lucretia Watts, Mary E. Kaltschmidt. Harriet Maria Dod, and 
 Jane Ogilvie — registered here are living in New York. 
 
 A broken and shattered band indeed! But the thinned ranks have 
 been filled, the congregation has grown, the number of communicants 
 has increased — the strength, the financial ability, the working machinery 
 of the Parish has been much augmented. How shall the larger equip- 
 ment and capacity for usefulness be employed? On the answer to this 
 question by pastors and people must depend the future condition of 
 the Parish. Animated by one spirit of faith and love, all should strive 
 together for the faith of the Gospel and the upbuilding of the church. 
 All should aim to make the Parish more fruitful in good works in the 
 coming years than in those we now leave behind. Every eye should 
 now be fixed upon the future. Every face should be turned toward the 
 tasks which God will surely have in store for us, and like the expectant 
 faces of the prophets in Sargent's frescoes, be radiant with hopefulness 
 and catch a foreglow of a coming glory. The tasks of the future begin 
 in the work of to-day, and to this we should address ourselves with 
 faith and whole-hearted zeal. We shall now begin to fill up the records 
 of the last quarter of the century, and on the unwritten page inscribe 
 a history which, when we reach the hundredth year of our existence, 
 others will be here to read. The centenary of the Parish the writer 
 will not live to see : others, if God please, will then be living and will 
 join in such appropriate observances as shall then be held. God grant 
 that when from that standpoint they look back upon the years beginning 
 now to run their course, they may find them full of signs of prosperity 
 and growth, suited to excite their humble gratitude and lively praise. 
 With girded loins and burning lamps, and hearts that glow with joyful 
 faith, let us address ourselves to the present and future work : and may 
 each one's part in the common task be written in the Book of the 
 Divine Remembrance, and stored among the unfading archives of the 
 eternal world. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 I. Obituary Notices chifly from the Trinity Record. 
 II. Bishop Doane's Address at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the 
 Old Church. 
 
 III. Notices of the Members of the First Vestry. 
 
 IV. Memorial Sermons Preached in Trinity Church. 
 V. History of Trinity Choir. 
 
 VI. History of the St. Paul's Society. 
 
 Obituary Notices chiefly from the Trinity Record 
 
 paul m. tulane. 
 Mr. Paul M. Tulane, who was buried on August 31st, 1901, was 
 living in Trenton at the time of his death, but for many years had been 
 a resident of Princeton. He died in faith, and after having put on the 
 armor of the Christian through baptism by the Rector and confirmation 
 by the Bishop. Mrs. Tulane had been previously baptized and con- 
 firmed. 
 
 The following notice of him appeared in the Princeton Press: 
 From Trinity Church this afternoon, the remains of Paul M. 
 Tulane will be borne to their final resting place in Princeton Cemetery. 
 Mr. Tulane died in Trenton after a lingering illness. For the larger 
 part of his life he was a commission merchant in New York City. 
 After the death of his uncle, Paul Tulane, he was one of the executors 
 of his estate and one of the legatees, with his residence in Princeton in 
 the house bought by him from his uncle's estate, and now in the occu- 
 pancy of Mr. Armour. He returned to Trenton a few years ago, and 
 ^bought a handsome residence on Clinton Avenue, where he died, in the 
 *8oth year of his age. Mr. Tulane was twice married. His widow and 
 one son by the first wife survive him. 
 
 JOSEPH S. COLTON. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph S. Colton, son of the Rev. Asa S. Colton, died in 
 St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, on April 7th, and was buried 
 from our Church on April 10th, 1902. In his early life, Mr. Colton was 
 a resident of Princeton, and a communicant of our Parish. He gradu- 
 ated from Princeton, in the Class of 1865, and from the Philadelphia 
 Divinity School in 1868. Soon after, he was admitted to orders by 
 
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 Bishop Stevens of Pennsylvania. Much of Mr. Colton's ministerial life 
 was spent in the West, where he did pioneer missionary work, erecting 
 churches and starting missions which have since become flourishing 
 parishes. In 1887 he returned to the East, and was Rector at Dexter 
 and at Biddeford, Me. At the time of his death he was in charge of 
 work at Pentwater, Mich. He was one of the most faithful and 
 laborious of our clergy; and now "rests from his labors, and his works 
 do follow him." 
 
 MRS. MARY S. ROSS. 
 
 Mrs. Mary S. Ross died of pneumonia, at her home on Mercer 
 Street, on March 5th, 1901, and was buried March 9th from Trinity 
 Church at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Her illness was brief, and the 
 best medical skill and nursing could not stop the course of the disease, 
 which hastened rapidly to its end. 
 
 Mrs. Ross was born in Princeton fifty years ago, and here her 
 whole life, running through the half century, was spent. She was the 
 daughter of William Longstreet and Anna Elizabeth Clayton ; and in 
 the family circle which survive her are the aged mother, two sisters 
 and six brothers. It was most fitting that the brothers should be the 
 bearers at the funeral. She was married on March 19, 1874, to Samuel 
 M. Ross, and thus was permitted to see twenty-seven years of happy 
 wedded life. Her death is greatly mourned by a large circle of kindred 
 and acquaintances and by many friends in the church, of which, for 
 many years, she had been a conscientious and consistent member. She 
 was confirmed by Bishop Odenheimer in 1867, and has ever since been 
 faithful in the discharge of every Christian duty. She had the ornament 
 of a meek and quiet spirit, and has left an example of unassuming piety 
 which will not soon be forgotten in the home, the church, or the wider 
 circle of social life. 
 
 WILLARD C. HUMPHREYS. 
 
 The death of Professor Willard Humphreys occurred after a brief 
 sickness, on Friday, Sept. 27th, 1902, at his residence in Princeton. It 
 was feared when Dr. Humphreys was first stricken down that death 
 had marked him for its own and in spite of all that medical aid and 
 assiduous nursing could do, his illness steadily pursued its way to a 
 fatal end. He was buried from Trinity Church on Monday, September 
 29th, St. Michael and All Angels Day, at two p. m. ; the Rev. Doctors 
 Shields and Baker being the officiating clergymen. Thirty of his as- 
 sociates in the University acted as Pall Bearers. His death cuts short 
 a most useful and promising career, and is deeply mourned by the 
 Parish, the University and the whole community. 
 
 For eight years Dr. Humphreys had filled the position of Vice- 
 
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 President of Trinity Guild, and during that period he frequently favored 
 it with instructive and entertaining lectures. He had charge also of the 
 printing of the Parish paper, and often contributed interesting articles 
 for its columns. It was his wish that the time of the present issue 
 should coincide very nearly with the opening of the University, and 
 he had arranged to carry it through the press on the same week in 
 which his death occurred. He left to another hand the work he had 
 planned to do, and the labor has seemed like the last office of love for 
 a departed friend eliciting at its every step the poet's sigh, 
 
 "O for the touch of the vanished hand 
 And the sound of the voice that is still." 
 
 At a meeting of the Trinity Guild on Tuesday, Sept. 30th, the 
 following minute was adopted and ordered to be sent to Mrs. Hum- 
 phreys and printed in the Trinity Record, Princeton Press, and Signal- 
 Enterprise: 
 
 "It having pleased Almighty God in his mysterious Provi- 
 dence to take out of this world our associate and co-laborer, 
 Dr. Willard Humphreys, we, the members of Trinity Guild, 
 desire to express in this manner our deep sense of the loss w6 
 have sustained in the departure of one who was so thoroughly 
 interested in the welfare of the Guild, and who so wisely 
 guided its action as its presiding officer. Dr. Humphreys' death 
 is a great public loss, but to us it is also a personal bereave- 
 ment ; and sharing the sorrow of those who sorrow most that 
 they shall see his face no more, we extend our deep and heart- 
 felt sympathy to them, and assure them of our earnest prayers 
 that they may be sustained and comforted in their affliction by 
 the Grace which is sufficient for our every need. 
 
 C. A. Bowld, Sec. 
 
 We cannot refrain from printing an extract from a letter written 
 to the Secretary of the Guild by Samuel M. Hoodley, who rescued Mr. 
 Humphreys from drowning in the sad accident on Lake George on 
 Aug. 2nd, 1897. It is a testimony to the heroism of our departed 
 friend which we greatly prize. "I wish," says Mr. Hoodley, "to empha- 
 size the bravery and self sacrifice displayed by Mr. Humphreys in his 
 efforts to save the life of his mother, and in his request to me not to 
 assist them unless I was sure of my own safety." 
 
 THOMAS EGGLESFIFLD. 
 
 One more death is that of Thomas Egglesfield, son of Henry and 
 Fannie Egglesfield, who died at the age of twenty, in Mercer Hospital 
 on February 20, 1906. Throughout his boyhood he was a member of 
 the Sunday School and choir, and before leaving home he was con- 
 firmed and admitted to the communion. He was a young man of ster- 
 ling character, and he was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. His 
 
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 early death elicited a great deal of sympathy in our community, but we 
 "sorrow not as others who have no hope." His bright prospects are 
 fulfilled in a better world, in a way that passes understanding. 
 
 MISS MARGARETTA B. DOUGHTY. 
 
 By the death of Miss Margaretta B. Doughty, who entered into 
 rest on May 25th, 1905, the Parish has suffered the loss of one of its 
 most faithful communicants, and ''companions in the Kingdom and 
 patience" of the Lord. She was retiring in disposition, and was unable 
 to throw herself very fully into the more active life of the Parish, but 
 in the quiet sphere in which providentially her lot was cast, she adorned 
 the Christian profession by the many graces of life and character which 
 she continually displayed and which elicited the admiration of all her 
 friends. She was buried in the Princeton cemetery on April 28. 
 
 MRS. JOHN H. WESTCOTT. 
 
 We are deeply pained to record the death of Mrs. Edith S. West- 
 cott, wife of Professor John H. Westcott, whose departure occurred 
 at Saranac Lake, New York, on September 6th, 1905. Mrs. Westcott 
 was a woman of beautiful culture, and lovely Christian character, and 
 was greatly beloved, not only in the home, but in the Parish, the 
 University and the town. Her death is widely mourned and sympathy 
 for those especially bereaved is universal and profound. She was 
 buried in Princeton on September 9th. 
 
 '"Tis sweet as year by year we lose 
 Friends out of sight, in faith to muse, 
 How grows in Paradise our store. 
 Then pass, ye mourners, cheerly on, 
 Through prayer unto the tomb. 
 Still as ye watch life's falling leaf 
 Gathering from every loss and grief 
 Hope of new spring, and endless home." 
 
 MRS. WOODS BAKER. 
 
 Among the deaths which have occurred since the last issue of the 
 Record is that of Mrs. Woods Baker, who "fell asleep" in Djursholm, 
 Sweeden, early in January, 1906. Although Mrs. Baker had not lived in 
 Princeton for thirty years, she never lost interest in the town, and 
 never severed the bonds which united her to the Parish. Her name 
 was on our communicant list at the time of her decease. Early in life 
 she developed decided literary talent, and wrote a number of books, 
 chiefly for the young, which were published under the nom de plume 
 "Aunt Friendly." Later on she wrote books for the maturer mind, 
 always using her talent as an instrument in that service of God and 
 man to which her life was wholly devoted. She was a woman of 
 
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 unusual intellectual gifts, but at the same time of unfeigned humility, 
 and unquestioning faith. She had quick perceptions, and her judgments 
 were swiftly formed, but the judgments, if unfavorable, were either 
 unspoken, or expressed in guarded and gracious speech. Her character 
 was adorned by many Christ-like traits, and some, whom the writer 
 knows, trace back what is good in them to the influence of her teaching 
 and example. Through all the years of her life in Sweden she corre- 
 sponded with friends in Princeton, and often in her letters she would 
 speak of the frequency with which her mind turned in fond recollection 
 to her former home, and in earnest longing to the friends of early 
 days. She will not soon be forgotten in Princeton. 
 
 MRS. EMILY JACKMAN. 
 
 Another death is that of Mrs. Emily Jackman, which also occurred 
 early in January, 1906, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Mrs. Jackson was 
 the oldest daughter of Mrs. Susan Stockton, wife of Richard Stockton, 
 Esq., and she was married to Mr. Edgar Ross Jackman, a graduate of 
 the University, on June 9, 1885. The loveliness of her childhood and 
 early womanhood is well remembered by her many friends in Princeton. 
 She had a great natural charm of person and manner, and to this was 
 added the higher spiritual beauty which resides in character and heart. 
 She practised the domestic virtues in the home and made it the abode 
 of "the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things," 
 and a place of "more hearts' repose than all the world beside." She 
 carried the social graces into the larger circles in which she moved, and 
 imparted to them an elevating and refining influence ; she gave her 
 best powers to the church, wherever she made her abode, and never 
 grew weary of the works which spring from faith and love. The death 
 of Mrs. Jackman is deeply mourned in Princeton, and the influence of 
 her life and example will not soon pass away. May we not say she 
 has gone 
 
 "to join the choir invisible 
 Of those immortal dead who live again 
 In minds made better by their presence" ? 
 
 Mrs. Jackman was buried from Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, on 
 Wednesday, January 11, the Rector of this Parish officiating, and the 
 Rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, assisting in the service. She 
 is survived by her husband and two sons. 
 
 MRS. CHARLES MCMILLAN. 
 
 Among the deaths since the last issue of the Record is that of Mrs. 
 Annis T. McMillan, wife of Professor McMillan, and daughter of the 
 Hon. Richard Stockton Field, former proprietor of Guernsey Hall. 
 Mrs. McMillan died on July 19th, and was buried from the Church on 
 
July 21 st, 1906. From a sermon preached by the Rector on the follow- 
 ing Sunday we make the following extracts : "What shall I say of one 
 so tenderly remembered, so universally esteemed, so long and closely 
 interlinked with the lives of many in the Parish that her departure 
 makes a rent in the texture of their existence, and turns us all into a 
 company of mourners? I shall not attempt to pronounce her eulogy. 
 Nothing could be further from her wish than that I should adopt a 
 strain of panegeric, or indulge in laudation of her character and work. 
 Could she speak to us from the silence she would rebuke us rather than 
 commend us for such a wounding of her humility, such an anticipation 
 of the time when "the counsels of the hearts shall be made manifest, 
 and every man shall have praise of God." But still something is due to 
 truth, something to justice, something to the common sentiment of this 
 congregation ; and I cannot refrain from saying that the departed one 
 was more than an ordinary woman, an ordinary Christian, an ordinary 
 example of what should be shunned, and what should be followed. Her 
 nature was of finer mold than is found in the composition of average, 
 commonplace humanity, and this was the basis of certain lofty qualities 
 which betokened a lineage of which she was not proud, but for which 
 she could not but be thankful. She was high-minded, yet humble, self- 
 respecting, yet generous and unselfish in her treatment of others. She 
 moved in a higher level of thought and feeling than ordinary folk, 
 but readily adapted herself to those whose views and feelings were 
 lower than her own. She was fitted to be a leader in social life, but 
 she loved not pre-eminence, but found her happiness chiefly in the 
 domestic circle, and the calm contentment of the home, and she en- 
 nobled the humblest duty of home life by the high and graceful purpose 
 with which she performed them. And so we may fittingly apply to 
 her Lowell's sketch of a noble woman, and say : 
 
 "Great feelings had she of her own 
 Which lesser souls may never know ; 
 God giveth them to her alone. 
 And sweet they are as any tone 
 Wherewith the wind may choose to blow. 
 
 "Yet in herself she dwelleth not 
 Although no home were half so fair : 
 No simplest duty is forgot. 
 Life hath no dear and lonely spot 
 That does not in her sunshine share." 
 
 Yet again the departed one was more than an ordinary Christian. 
 She had a, high ideal of the Christian life, and this she tried to make 
 actual in her daily walk and conversation. Her character was adorned 
 by many graces, and she had especially the ornament of a meek and 
 quiet spirit which in the sight of God is of great price. She was 
 
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 diligent in good works, and would often persevere in them in times of 
 weariness and weakness when she might have let them cease without 
 the possibility of blame. ... It cannot but do us good to think of 
 such a character. Bishop Doane, the elder, wrote long ago, "Never is 
 Christian character so lovely, and never is Christian influence so 
 powerful for good as when it wins its gentle way, pervading like the 
 light, distilling like the dew, in all the nameless graces, the unconscious 
 charms, the irresistible attractions of a modest, gentle, faithful, loving, 
 holy, Christian woman." Such a character was that of the subject of 
 these remarks, and her example of faith and patience let us follow. 
 
 REAR ADMIRAL EDWIN WHITE, U. S. A. 
 
 (From the Nezu York Tribune.) 
 
 The admiral was born in Ohio in 1843, and was the son of Lyman 
 White. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 
 1864 as a midshipman, and his first duty in the navy was performed 
 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1866 he was promoted to ensign and 
 later in the same year he became master. Two years later he was 
 promoted to lieutenant, and in the following year to lieutenant com- 
 mander. He became commander in 1886, and from that time till his 
 retirement saw much active work. 
 
 In the summer of 1886 he served at the torpedo station at Newport, 
 R. I. From December, 1886, to October, 1888, he commanded the 
 training ship Portsmouth. In November, 1888, he was ordered as 
 equipment officer to the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. In April, 
 1892, he was ordered to the command of the United States steamship 
 Concord, and ascended the Mississippi River to Memphis, Tenn., to 
 participate in the celebration of the opening of the bridge across the 
 river at that point. Later he went to Cairo, 111., and anchored in the 
 Ohio River. Considerable interest was excited throughout the country 
 by this novel cruise for a vessel of sixteen feet draught, and on the 
 return of the ship to sea she stopped at the important river towns, 
 where there was lively enthusiasm over the visit. 
 
 The admiral cruised with the North Atlantic squadron in the 
 summer of 1892; proceeded under telegraphic orders to Venezuela in 
 September, 1892, to protect American interests during a prolonged 
 revolution, and where United States mail steamers had been interfered' 
 with. On the arrival of Admiral Walker he was ordered to Colon to. 
 restore the traffic on the isthmus, which had been interrupted by 
 local authorities. He was attached to the fleet of Admiral Gherardi 
 in March, 1893, and participated in the naval review at Hampton 
 Roads and New York. In July, 1893, he became equipment officer 
 of the New York Navy Yard. In June, 1895, he was ordered to the 
 Naval War College, Newport, R. I., and in November, same year, 
 
he was ordered as commandment of cadets, and continued on this duty 
 until September, 1898, when he was ordered to command the Terror. 
 
 In October following he was ordered to command the Philadelphia, 
 flagship on the Pacific station. He was at Alpa, Samoa, in March and 
 April, 1899, when several British and American officers were slain in 
 action with the natives. On his return from Samoa he suffered from 
 illness contracted in the line of duty, which resulted in his retirement 
 in December, 1899. Under the provisions of the Personnel act, Presi- 
 dent McKinley directed that he be retired with the grade of rear 
 admiral. 
 
 Admiral White married in Princeton, X. J., in 1870, Miss Antonia 
 Thornton, the daughter of Admiral George F. Emmons. He was the 
 first cousin of William Allen White, the author. Their fathers were 
 brothers, but Mr. White and the admiral never met until four years ago. 
 
 EMMA S. ROSE. 
 
 Confirmed and admitted to the communion in the year 1888 she 
 remained steadfast in her loyalty to the church, and in the dis- 
 charge of every known duty till she fell asleep in the beginning of the 
 present year. ' She was well known in the community and the in- 
 fluences of her life and example will long remain as an inspiration 
 to her many friends. She is greatly missed in the home, the church 
 and the circles in which she moved, but we think not so much of our 
 loss to-day, as of the fuller life into which she has entered and which 
 to her, is gain unspeakable. 
 
 MARIA CLEMSON OLDEX. 
 
 Baptised in infancy and received into the communion of the 
 church by confirmation in the year 1868, her early life was spent 
 in Princeton, the home of her family since the settlement of the town, 
 and many can remember the earnestness and loving zeal with which, 
 in her younger days, she entered into the work of the Sunday school, 
 and charitable societies. She carried the same devoted spirit into the 
 wider fields of usefulness for which she afterwards felt she had voca- 
 tion, and her life was fruitful in good works till the evening came "and 
 the busy world was hushed, and the fever of life was over, and her work 
 was done." She rests from her labors, and her words do follow her. 
 
 ROLLIN HARPER LYNDE. 
 
 He was confirmed in the year 1872, and although soon removing 
 from the Parish he was enrolled as one of its communicants till he fell 
 asleep. He was glad when he could, to attend the services of our 
 church, and to kneel with us in the Holy Sacrament to receive the 
 
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 Bread of Life. He was upright, kind, conscientious in the discharge of 
 duty, and his loss is deeply mourned by a large circle of friends by 
 whom he was beloved. 
 
 GUSTAV SCHIRMER. 
 
 For the few years of his residence in the Parish, he was faithful 
 in attendance on its services, and much interested in everything that 
 concerned its welfare. He was much respected for his benevolence, 
 probity and strength of true character and had wide influence for good 
 in the business and social circles in which he moved. That influence 
 will last for years beyond our ken. He went away enveloped in a 
 radiant atmosphere of affection and hope, and through that atmosphere 
 those who are left behind still behold him. 
 
 HATTIE LEIGH EELYEA. 
 
 Of a family well known and greatly respected in our com- 
 munity, faithful in all the duties of the home of which she was the 
 inspiring presence, and of the church to which she was ardently at- 
 tached ; careful to maintain good works, and to "follow the holiness 
 without which no man shall see the Lord", possessed in an eminent 
 degree of the chrismal gifts of wisdom, counsel and true godliness ; 
 adding to the graces which adorned her beautiful character "the orna- 
 ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great 
 price ; she suddenly fell asleep but a few weeks ago, and was buried 
 with her fathers in their resting place at Hopewell. 
 
 "Soon, soon to faithful warriors cometh rest 
 Sweet is the calm of Paradise the blest" 
 
 The large numbers who came to her burial from the Parish in 
 which she formerly was resident, gave evidence of the esteem and love 
 in which she there was held both for her work's sake, and for her 
 amiable traits of character. 
 
 The Altar Guild, of which she was a devoted member, will make a 
 fitting memorial of her, but her best memorial is in "the Book of Re- 
 membrance kept on high for those who fear the Lord and call upon His 
 name." 
 
 GEORGE EMMONS WHITE. 
 
 A scion of ancestors, who, in high military rank, rendered con- 
 spicious service to the state; reared in the Parish from his infancy, 
 and enrolled in due time on the communicant list ; prepared for his 
 life work in our University and removing soon after his academic 
 course to the city where his vocation lay — died in the strength and 
 
prime of manhood — but a fortnight ago, and was added to the list of 
 the dear departed ones who look on us to-day with eyes of love from the 
 darkness and speak to us from the silence. He often returned to his 
 Princeton home and joined with us in the services which in early life 
 he had learned to love. He carried the fresh warm heart of youth into 
 the experience of maturer life, and was blessed with a large circle of 
 friends who were drawn to him by his generous disposition and affec- 
 tionate nature. As the end approached, he evinced a spirit of sub- 
 mission and cheerful acquiesience in will of God that showed the 
 strength of his faith and the reality of his hold upon the cross. The 
 tears with which he was followed to the grave are scarcely dried upon 
 the cheek and as they start again to-day, through the dimness, breaks 
 the song 
 
 "For all thy saints, who from their labors rest 
 Who Thee, by faith before the world, confessed 
 Thy name oh Jesus, be forever blest, Allelulia ! 
 
 MRS. LOUISA C. TUTHILL. 
 
 (From a New Haven paper, June, 1879. Rev. W. G. Andrews, D.D.) 
 The death of Mrs. Louisa C. Tuthill of Princeton ought not to be 
 passed over without some other mention than the bare record of the 
 fact. It is impossible now to give an adequate account of her life and 
 work, but enough may be said within a brief compass to remind those 
 who knew her of her many claims to honorable remembrance, and to 
 remind hundreds more of their obligations to her for lessons at once 
 valuable and delightful. Mrs. Tuthill was born in New Haven very 
 near the close of the last century. She was the daughter of Mr. 
 Ebenezer Huggins, a well known merchant of that period, and she 
 was married in 1817 to Mr. Cornelius Tuthill, a graduate of Yale, of 
 the class of 1814, and a man of rare promise. Her husband died in 
 1825, and Mrs. Tuthill soon began the career of actual activity which 
 may fairly be said to have closed only with her life. A list of the 
 books which she wrote or edited will be found in Allibone's Dictionary 
 of English literature. The list is not quite complete, but it contains 
 the titles of twenty-nine distinct works from her own pen. The earliest, 
 "Ancient Architecture," was published in 1830; the latest, "The Young 
 Lady at Home and in Society," in 1869, when Mrs. Tuthill had reached 
 the age of seventy. But she could not be idle even them, and her last 
 literary labor was performed when she was nearly or quite four score, 
 in the compilation of her third volume of selections from the writings 
 of John Ruskin, noticed in these columns a few months ago. Not the 
 least of her services was the wider circulation which she gave in this 
 country to the thoughts of an author who, with whatever faults of 
 judgment and temper, has that highest gift of a teacher, the power of 
 
kindling enthusiasm, and whose own delight in what is good and beau- 
 tiful makes him in the most important sense a safe teacher. Mrs. 
 Tuthill's most marked successes in authorship were achieved as a 
 writer of stories for the young. Some of these have been reprinted in 
 England, a number passed through from four to six editions, of four 
 more from twenty to twenty-two editions were published, while in two, 
 "I will be a Lady" (1845) and "I will be a Gentleman" (1846), there 
 have been not less than forty editions. Of these last named books those 
 who read them long ago in childhood still speak with eager pleasure. 
 It can hardly be doubted that the second has done more than any 
 book, save the Bible, to show American boys what are the qualities 
 which they must, and which they all may, cultivate in order to bear 
 
 "... without abuse. 
 The grand old name of gentleman." 
 
 The teaching on this subject of a woman, combining the utmost 
 refinement with sound sense and wide sympathies, could not fail to 
 make it clear to a lad who read and re-read the story, that if he would 
 "be a gentleman" he must possess and then habitually use a delicate 
 respect for both the rights and the feelings of his neighbors, and that 
 true politeness does not consist only, or chiefly, in polished manners, 
 but is an element of character. 
 
 Mrs. Tuthill had long lived out of New England, and she had 
 formed many of the warmest friendships of her life in the town where 
 her later years were spent, Princeton, New Jersey. But her heart clung 
 to her early home; she rejoiced intensely in whatever brought honor to 
 Connecticut; and to be a New Englander, especially to have associations 
 with her life here, was to have a claim upon her regard which it would 
 hace required many proofs of unworthiness to destroy. And she is 
 herself entitled to a place among the pleasant memories of all who 
 admire New Haven for this reason, if no other, that she is said to have 
 first bestowed on our city the appellation, now so familiar, of "The 
 City of Elms." 
 
 Mrs. Tuthill had been for very many years a member of the 
 Protestant Episcopal church and was warmly attached to it. But her 
 Christian sympathy included Christians of every name, and was as 
 little alienated by the conscientious acceptance of the Breviary as by 
 the conscientious refusal to accept the Book of Common Prayer. Of 
 her religious character it is enough to say here, that it was of the sort 
 developed so often in her church, exhibiting itself prominently in the 
 effort to do and bear the will of God, and steadily growing, under the 
 discipline of life, in the Christian graces of humility and filial confidence 
 and joy. She died, somewhat suddenly, on Sunday, June I, and is, as 
 is fit, brought here to be laid among her kindred. Our older cemetery 
 contains the graves of many illustrious dead, but of not many who 
 
have a fairer title to the praise which is earned by long continued and 
 successful efforts to make life from its beginnings pure and noble. 
 
 .MRS. PERCY RIVINGTON PYNE. 
 
 Albertina Shelton Taylor was born in New York City October n, 
 1833. She was the daughter of the late Moses Taylor and Catherine A. 
 Wilson. She married on March 15, 1855, at St. George's Church, 
 Stuyvesant Square, New York City, Percy Rivington Pyne, son of 
 Thomas Pyne and Anna Rivington. Mrs. Pyne was brought up in the 
 Dutch Reformed Church, but when she was a young girl, her parents, 
 becoming interested in the preaching of the Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, 
 Senior, took a pew in St. George's Church. The services and teachings 
 of the Protestant Episcopal Church appealed to Mrs. Pyne and she was 
 confirmed in St. George's Church, where she attended service for many 
 years. Mr. Pyne took a prominent part in the church and served as 
 Vestryman for a long period. 
 
 Later, Mrs. Pyne took a pew in Calvary Church, while the Rev. 
 Edward L. Washburn, D. D., was the Rector. After Dr. Washburn's 
 death the Rev. Dr. Satterlee was called to Calvary, and he at once was 
 able to discern Mrs. Pyne's power and influence. Always gentle and 
 retiring, she had the rare' gift of drawing people to her and bringing 
 out their best qualities. When Dr. Satterlee wished to start what is 
 called the Archdeaconry Committee he asked Mrs. Pyne to take the 
 chairmanship and to organize the work. From this little committee a 
 work of vast dimensions grew. Work in the hospitals and among those 
 discharged from the hospitals, visits to the poor and a great among the 
 prisoners and in the prisons. Mrs. Foster, later known as the "Tombs 
 Angel," was on Mrs. Pyne's committee, and later, when Mrs. Pyne 
 found the work outgrowing her strength, she employed Mrs. Foster as 
 her agent to do this special work. Mrs. Foster reported each month 
 to Mrs. Pyne and at intervals between these monthly reports when help 
 was needed for those in distress. 
 
 Through visiting the Essex Street Prison and finding the streets 
 crowded with unruly children, Mrs. Pyne conceived the idea of a 
 Sunday School, so that the children might be taught as well as kept off 
 the street during the hour when services were being held for the 
 prisoners. The Sunday School being a success, Mrs. Pyne instituted 
 a sewing school, which was equally successful. Later the Jewish 
 Rabbis, finding that our church hymns and the New Testament stories 
 were used, boycotted the school. Finally the schools moved to Broome 
 Street, where Mrs. Pyne erected for them a magnificent building, which 
 she called God's Providence Home and gave to the City Missions of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 For many years Mrs. Pyne was a manager and a constant visitor 
 at the Woman's Hospital in New York. Many of the women who were 
 
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 patients there remember her visits and the help she gave them while 
 there, and in many instances she followed the patients to their homes 
 and helped them through long convalescences. One young woman 
 whose case was brought to her notice, after a serious operation, was 
 cared for until she regained her health as far as possible, and has been 
 helped each month since then, now a period of over twenty-five years. 
 
 Wherever Mrs. Pyne was, she found work to do, and whenever 
 she came in contact with people her influence was uplifting. Every one 
 seemed instinctively to feel her goodness and a certain hallowedness 
 seemed to surround her. 
 
 Mrs. Pyne's interest in Princeton University was clearly shown 
 when, in 1896, she built the University Library. 
 
 Her own house on the grounds of Edgerstoune was completed in 
 1900, and she passed three weeks there, expecting to return early in the 
 following spring. However, this was not to be, as she was called to 
 her rest after a few days' illness on December 27, 1900. 
 
 MRS. FRANCES ANT0NIA THORNTON EMMONS. 
 
 Mrs. Frances Antonia Thornton Emmons, wife of Rear Admiral 
 George F. Emmons, U. S. N., was born in Baltimore, Md., on Sep- 
 tember 26, 1825. Her early life was spent in her native city, and she 
 was there married, and there admitted into the Communion of the 
 Church by Confirmation. She came to Princeton with her family in 
 the year 1865 ; and after living for a few years in the mansion formerly 
 owned by Mr. James Potter, she removed to Edge Hill, where she 
 resided through the remainder of her life. She died at Edge Hill on 
 March 20, 1908, and was buried from Trinity Church, Princeton, on 
 March 22d, her remains being laid by the side of her husband, in a 
 family vault in Greenmount, Baltimore. On her removal to Princeton 
 Mrs. Emmons was canonically transferred to the Parish, and her name 
 was on the communicant list when the present Rectorship began. She 
 was a faithful and devout communicant of the Parish, and was never 
 absent from church on the Lord's Day unless prevented by sickness or 
 other hindering cause. As far as she was able, she engaged in Parochial 
 activities, and she was always ready to aid with her substance and 
 prayers those whom she could not assist by her personal endeavors. She 
 was a woman of simple and unaffected piety, and always aimed at that 
 sincerity which, as Longfellow says, makes us "to be what we are, and 
 speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, 
 and the sacred professions of friendship." She had simple taste, simple 
 needs, was satisfied with simple pleasures, and greatly longed for a 
 return of old-fashioned simplicity in social life. In her Christian char- 
 acter the domestic virtues had a prominent place, and she ever aimed 
 by habits of affection and self-sacrificing devotion, to make her home 
 
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 happy for all its inmates, and to create in it a moral atmosphere by 
 which all should be braced and bound together in the unity of love. 
 
 "Happy he with such a mother ! Faith in womankind beats 
 with his blood, and trust in all things high comes easy to him." 
 
 Mrs. Emmons' influence extended far beyond the circle of the 
 home ; and its helpfulness will be gratefully remembered by many in the 
 Parish and the community at large. 
 
 MISS CAROLINE SALOMONS. 
 
 Miss Caroline Salomons, probably the oldest resident of the Parish, 
 and certainly the member longest connected with the congregation, 
 departed this life in the ninety-fifth year of her age at her home on 
 Tuesday evening, April 14, 190S. Her mother, a daughter of the late 
 President Smith of the College, was born in Princeton and returned 
 hither from the island of St. Eustatius, West Indies, the home of her 
 husband, Dr. Dirck G. Salomons, after his early death. Miss Salomons, 
 the younger of her daughters, consequently resided here nearly the 
 whole of her long life, closely connected with the town and the church. 
 She attended Trinity Church from its organization and has been a 
 communicant in it since 1849. In the early days of the present Rector- 
 ship she took great interest in the establishment of a vested choir of 
 boys, and was of much assistance in procuring the interior furnishings 
 of the new church. Although living to so great an age, she retained 
 in a reasonable degree the freshness of thought and feeling which 
 belong to early life. There was something in her which refused to 
 grow old, and which, in times of waning of life powers, insisted on 
 resuming the vitality and strength which she apparently had resigned. 
 She had in her that principle of renovation, that power of rejuvanes- 
 cence, which belongs to our religion, and is a sure prophecy of the new 
 life in the eternal state. Christ dwelt within her in His perpetual 
 freshness, and gave her the power of recovery through which her 
 waning strength was oftentimes renewed, and she was enabled to say, 
 "I shall not die, but live, and declare the words of the Lord." At last 
 she resigned her life to Him who gave it, in the good hope of the life 
 more abundant in the better world. 
 
 , Older alumni (although her direct contemporaries have long since 
 left the stage) will learn with regret of the death, in her ninety-fifth 
 year, of Miss Caroline Salomons of Princeton — better known to them 
 as Miss Tiny — which occurred on April 14th at the home of her 
 nephew, Gen. Alfred A. Woodhull '56. Her whole life, excepting the 
 years of her very earliest childhood, was spent in Princeton, and by 
 descent as well as by environment she was sympathetically concerned 
 in everything which pertained to the college of which her grandfather, 
 Dr. Smith, and her great-grandfather. Dr. Witherspoon, were presi- 
 dents. Many graduates were her connections, successive faculties her 
 
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 friends, and, it is not extravagant to say, generations of students her 
 admirers. Necessarily, for many years she had not been in direct 
 touch with the University, but until her strength began to fail rapidly, 
 which was only recently, she was deeply interested in everything befall- 
 ing it. That interest involved places as well as persons and policies. 
 For example, she was constantly pleased to explain that her mother 
 had been born and married (to a former student) in the house now 
 known as the Dean's, but which then was the President's, and that 
 among the names of a still earlier generation yet inscribed on the 
 window-panes there is that of the aunt for whom she was named. 
 During the period of her activity, which began early and endured long, 
 her vivacity and her personal attractiveness embellished a nature of 
 great sympathy and a mind whose natural powers were more than 
 ordinary. She had for very many years a wide acquaintance with 
 public men who had been educated here, and when, as she sometimes 
 felt impelled, she wrote them in the interest of other persons or of 
 affairs, her letters were models of tact and of clear expression. She 
 represented a generation that has entirely lapsed ; and it is no longer 
 possible to keep in touch with the manifold activities and the personnel 
 of the University, as she did with those of the small but distinguished 
 College, which she invariably thought of and spoke of, under its 
 designation of her youth, as Nassau Hall. — Princeton Alumni Weekly. 
 
APPENDIX II 
 
 Address of Bishop Doane 
 
 at the Laying of the Corner-Stone 
 
 Trinity Church, Princeton. 
 
 This is an auspicious day. We are about to rear another temple, 
 to commemorate that glorious "liberty, with which Christ has made 
 us free." The stone which we now lay, will stand, we trust, long 
 ages yet to come, in attestation of that transcendent victory, by which, 
 "He who loved us, and washed us from our Sins," has made us 
 "Conquerors, and more than Conquerors," of death and hell. Let 
 others celebrate the birthday of the Nation's independence. Let 
 other bosoms burn in the recital of the wonderful events, which in this 
 favored land, have made the day on which we meet, an universal 
 jubilee, and set it up upon the track of time, a bright and shining mark, 
 — an epoch in the history of nations, and their starting-point for an 
 illustrious career of freedom, happiness, and glory. They well deserve 
 commemoration. It is fit, that in their annual rehearsal, hearts should 
 swell, and tongues should glow with an unwonted fervor. 
 
 It becomes us, that to God we should ascribe the praise ; and that 
 to man, live wheresoever on the earth's broad face he may, in darkness 
 and in bondage, we should endeavor to extend the light of knowledge, 
 and the liberty of virtue. But while as patriots we shut not up our sym- 
 pathies, but freely pour them out, to mingle with the tide that swells 
 around us, we have this day, as Christians, our peculiar triumph. We 
 are assembled, in His name, who was annointed "to preach deliverance 
 to the captive, to set at liberty them, that are bound, and to proclaim 
 the acceptable, the year of the Lord." Our object is, the com- 
 memoration of his glory, and the extension of his influence, whose 
 name was called Jesus, the Deliverer, because he was to "Save his 
 people from their sins." It is the Son, who has made us free, and 
 therefore we are "free indeed." It is in the strength of the Divine 
 Spirit, that our present purpose is undertaken, and "where the Spirit 
 of the Lord is, there is liberty." Be with us, gracious Comforter, gift 
 of the Father, purchase of the Son, to guide us in our present work,, 
 and bless it, to thy glory and our comfort ; that begun, continued and 
 ended in thee, it may be accepted graciously, and crowned with precious, 
 spiritual, immortal increase ! 
 
 For the occasion which assembles us together, so interesting to us, 
 as Christians, and as Churchmen, our thanks and praises are first due to 
 Him "from whom all good things come," that he has put it into the 
 hearts of his servants to erect a temple, for the pure and spiritual 
 worship of His holy name. The zeal with which in view of the great 
 discouragements, the work has been resolved on, the wisdom, diligence 
 and perseverance, with which thus far, it has been prosecuted, the 
 munificent patronage which, at some hands it has received, and the 
 favor and good will, which from every side have risen up, as if by 
 acclamation, to give it welcome, — these, though the acts of men, and 
 as such claiming and receiving from us grateful acknowledgements, 
 
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 are yet, taught as we are of that divine philosophy by which all good 
 things are, are referred to God, new arguments to win from us new 
 tributes of affection to the Maker and Moulder of men's hearts. May 
 the heavenly blessing thus vouchsafed, continue and increase ! May 
 the Christian love, thus manifested be ever more and more diffusive, till 
 uniting in one holy bond, the hearts of all on earth, it reach at last its 
 final consummation, in the heaven of heavens ! 
 
 Having laid the corner-stone of a Church, "to be devoted to the 
 Service of Almighty God, agreeably to the doctrines, ministry, liturgy, 
 rites and usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
 States of America," it will be expected of us, that we enumerate some 
 of the considerations which have engaged us, to such an enterprise, and 
 set forth briefly and explicitly, with Christian candour, and in Chris- 
 tian love, the leading characteristics, the reasonable, and as we think, 
 powerful claims of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 
 I. And, first, it is a characteristic, of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, that She is Scriptural in her doctrine. The Trinity in Unity, 
 the Incarnation of the Eternal Son, — the atonement for all sin made 
 with His blood, the lost and ruined state of man, incapable of himself, 
 to - do anything pleasing unto _ God, and much less to attain eternal 
 salvation, — the absolute necessity of an entire change of heart and 
 affections in all who would see God, known in Scripture as "the new 
 creation," — the agency of the Holy Spirit in affecting this new change 
 thence called "the renewing of the Holy Ghost," — justification by faith, 
 which is in Christ Jesus, — faith to be operative by love, producing good 
 works, which for Christ's sake are pleasing and acceptable to God, — 
 holiness indispensable to salvation, though in no man adequate to its 
 attainment, — the resurrection from the dead, both of the just and the 
 unjust, — a final judgment both of the quick and the dead, according to 
 the deeds done in the body, — eternal death, "the Wages of Sin," — 
 Life everlasting, the free gift of God, through Jesus Christ, these in the 
 outline, are the doctrines of the Church. That they are hers, we know, 
 not merely because her ministers proclaim them, — they being mortal, 
 and so frail, might err, or might mislead, — but because they are in- 
 corporated and ingrained in her whole system, — proclaimed in creeds, 
 and articles, chanted in hymns, acknowledged in thanksgivings, the 
 burthen and the theme of praise and of prayers. The precious truths 
 not to be searched for, like the pure gold, in its native bed, but cir- 
 culating constantly from hand to hand, and heart to heart, and making 
 all men rich, not hid in masses that profound search and patient toil 
 alone can oenetrate, but like the running water, "or the casing air," 
 common and free to all, — the ailment of life, the solace and refreshment 
 of the Soul. Nor is she merely Scriptural herself, but keeps her 
 members so, if they continue honestly in her communion. The minister 
 beside her altars never can forsake "the truth as it is in Jesus," and 
 continue in her service ; since his life would every day pass sentence 
 on his perjured heart. And every worshipper within her courts has in 
 her daily service daily admonition of the truths ; and if he stray or 
 stumble, it must be in the broad, clear light of noon. 
 
 2. It is claimed as a second characteristic of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church, that she is apostolic in her ministry, — and this as to its 
 form, and as to its authority. In form, she claims to be apostolic; — 
 deeming it "evident," as in the preface to her Ordinal, she states, "to 
 .all men reading holy Scripture and ancient authors, that from the 
 apostles' times there have been three orders of ministers in Christ's 
 
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 Church, Bishops, Priests and Deacons." In authority she claims to be 
 Apostolic ; — since in the first, and highest, of the three, she traces 
 straight to Christ, the fountain-head, a never interrupted stream, — the 
 rich fulfilment of the promise to the eleven, "Go ye into all the world, 
 and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them," and "Lo, I am with 
 you always, even unto the end of the world," and the explicit illustra- 
 tion of the Saviour's meaning, when he said to the Apostles, "as my 
 Father hath sent me, even so send I you." Some, we are awara, do 
 not regard these things essential to the authority of the ministry. But 
 not to say, that for the first fifteen hundred years from Christ, they 
 neither failed, nor even were called in question as to their importance, 
 it never has been, and never can be "alleged, that the possession of 
 them, is injurious. The ministry that has them, is at least as likely to 
 be valid, as that which has them not. To be on the safe side of so 
 great a question, becomes us, as prudent men. The validity of the 
 commission through the bishops, from the apostles, and from Christ, 
 the Supporters of all other Systems, how discordant soever among 
 themselves, are ready to concede. Until they agree as fully in pointing 
 out some better substitute, we are content with that, which, through 
 God's gracious providence, has so come down to us. 
 
 3. It is a farther characteristic of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 that she is spiritual in her worship. Her Liturgy is, as it were, con- 
 ceived and born of Scripture. The most intelligent Christians of all 
 denominations have united in regarding it, as only not inspired. Fol- 
 lowing her Saviour, and the Apostles whom he chose, in her adoption 
 of a liturgical worship it is her inestimable advantage that the spiritual 
 strains which have burst, burning, from the hearts of prophets, and 
 apostles, and martyrs, and old saints, still echo through her courts, 
 stirring the souls of men as with the sound of a trumpet, and kindling 
 them with that true fire from heaven, which makes the sacrifice accept- 
 able, for Christ's Sake, before God. 
 
 4. Possessing these great advantages, a scriptural doctrine, an 
 apostolic ministry, and a spiritual worship, the church, of which it is 
 our privilege that we are members, is eminent for Unity and order. 
 "One Lord, one faith, one baptism," one hope of her high calling, and 
 one ancient path, — the path in which Apostles walked, and holy men 
 of old, in which that glorious hope, is to be sought, and won, make 
 her, emphatically, "a city that is compact together." Of every thing in 
 her the tendency is to Unity. Daily rehearsing the same Scripturs' 
 creed, her sincere members are daily brought, by the divine Spirit, 
 more and more into the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of 
 God. The ministry, ranged in subordinate degrees, and every where 
 united with, and in subjection to the highest in authority, are thus 
 beautifully connected, in due graduation with Him, who is "Head over 
 all things to the Church which is His Body," and are preserved so far 
 as system, with God's blessing, can affect it in "the bond of peace." 
 While the whole company of her children, uniting every where in the 
 same solemn worship, like the Christians of the first and purest days, 
 with "one mind and one mouth" glorify God. "Order," therefore, as it 
 "is heaven's first law," so it is her constant characteristic ; — order in 
 government promotive of strength ; order in discipline, promotive of 
 peace ; order in worship, promotive of piety and love, — the "Com- 
 munion of Saints," on earth, trained and prepared by the due discipline 
 of time, for the eternal and unbroken harmony of heaven. 
 
 5. Still further, the Church, of which in duty and affection we are 
 
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 children, is illustrious for moderation and charity. While the Christian 
 world around us has been continually agitated and convulsed, she has 
 kept on with little interruption the even tenour of her way. Always 
 prudent, always sober, always dignified, the Scripture her rule of faith, 
 and the Saviour her model in practice, she has, by God's gracious 
 goodness, resisted innovations, and been rescued from corruptions. 
 While some have fallen into a coldness and deadness, that was only 
 not downright infidelity, and others have been heated, and almost 
 consumed by the fierce fires of extravagance and fanaticism, she has 
 gone cheerfully on, "fervent in spirit, serving the Lord," with a quiet 
 dignity becoming the spouse of Christ, the mother of Apostles and 
 Saints ; she has been less careful to appear outwardly religious, before 
 men, than to train up many sons and daughters for their inheritance 
 of glory. . . . Nor is she less conspicuous for charity. She rejects 
 no infant from the privileges of baptism, for the unworthiness of its 
 parents, but prefers rather to emulate His example, who said, "Suffer 
 little children to come unto me, and forbid them not," who took them 
 up in His arms, laid His Hands upon them, and blessed them. She 
 undertakes no scrutiny of heart in them, who present themselves at the 
 table of the Lord, but inviting all to come, and rejecting none that 
 do not by their outward deeds disgrace their high vocation, leaves the 
 heart and conscience to God that made and can alone discern them. 
 She strives ever, like her divine Saviour, to support the bruised reed. 
 Ever to enkindle and enliven the smoking flax, ever to bind up and 
 heal the broken heart. And, she rejoices, even as the angels of God 
 rejoice, over "one Sinner that repenteth." If men stray from her, she 
 strives to woo them back. If they oppose and persecute her, she 
 blesses them. She has fervent supplications for Jews, Turks, infidels 
 and heretics. And for her worst enemies, she has ever on her lips the 
 Saviour's prayer, "Father forgive them, for they know not what 
 they do." 
 
 6. Finally, the Church in which we worship, and on whose folds 
 we this day especially invoke the heavenly blessing, is a faithful Church. 
 She is faithful as a "Witness and Keeper of holy writ," guarding it 
 with zealous watchfulness, and making it in all things her standard and 
 her law. She is faithful in dispensing the bread of life freely to the 
 family of her Lord. She is faithful in the proyision she has made in 
 baptism, in religious instruction, and in the Apostolic rite of Confirma- 
 tion, for bringing up all her children in his nurture and holy admonition. 
 She is faithful in admitting to a participation in her counsels, and to a 
 full share with the clergy in the administration of her affairs, their 
 brethren of the Laity, — exhibiting in this respect, an impartiality to 
 which no other of the families which bear the name of Christ at all 
 approaches. And finally, she is most faithful in her efforts to spread 
 the knowledge of the Gospel, that "God's way may be known in all the 
 earth, His saving health to all nations." 
 
 Such, Christian brethren, are some of the distinctive traits, the 
 reasonable, and, as we think, powerful claims of that Apostolic Church 
 under whose shadow we are now assembled. Are not her palaces 
 glorious? Are not her lofty battlements radiant with heaven's own 
 light? Have not her bulwarks, strong in the Lord, supported well the 
 shock of oppositions, and the waste of time? Fixed on the Rock of 
 ages, they shall stand forever. Guarded by the arm of the Almighty, 
 the gates of hell shall not prevail against them. Ye that are tempest- 
 tossed upon the world's wide waste, seek there a refuge, and ye shall 
 
find rest for your Souls. Ye that abide within its sacred walls, remem- 
 ber well, — at the last day, they shall be the shelter only of the faithful, 
 in Christ Jesus, the home of the holy alone: 
 
 "Thy promise, Lord, is ever sure, 
 
 "And they that in thy house would dwell. 
 
 "That happy station to secure, 
 "Must still in holiness excel." 
 
APPENDIX III 
 
 Members of the First Vestry. 
 
 Charles Stedman, the first Senior Warden of the Parish, was 
 confirmed by Bishop Doane in the year 1834, and he remained a faithful 
 communicant till the day of his death. His wife was a sister of the 
 Rev. Noah Schenck, D.D., Rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, who 
 often visited Princeton, and preached from the pulpit of the old church. 
 Mr. Stedman was a substantial citizen of the Borough, and did much 
 in its early days to promote its development and growth. His business 
 was chiefly that of the erection of buildings, public and private, after 
 plans of his own making. The street now called Library Place was 
 first named Stedman Street in public recognition of his worth. Mr. 
 Hageman, in his history of Princeton, says of him : 
 
 "There was no architect and builder in Princeton who gave so 
 many years and so much capital to the erection of buildings as Charles 
 Stedman. He gave half a century to this business in this place. He 
 owned more houses than any other man in Princeton. He built every 
 house on Stockton Street, except the barracks, Mr. Tulane's, and the 
 original part of Morven ; every one on Stedman Street, many on Mercer, 
 Canal, and other streets. He built the Seminary Chapel, the Society 
 Halls of the college, the Mansion House, the old Bank, the James 
 Potter House west of the Bank, the first Episcopal Church, the Epis- 
 copal Rectory, and many others. He was a careful builder, and while 
 his style of architecture has been succeeded by a more tasteful one, 
 some of his largest and best structures are numbered among the first- 
 class houses which adorn Princeton at the present time. Henry W. 
 Leard was the most prominent builder next to Mr. Stedman, and has 
 erected some of the most imposing and beautiful structures in the 
 town." Mr. Leard, who for many years was Vestryman, built the new 
 Church and rebuilt the Rectory after its destruction by fire. 
 
 "Like enow 
 They are building still, seeing the city is built 
 To music — therefore never built at all 
 And therefore built forever." 
 
 Dr. Tared Irwin Dunn, the first Junior Warden of the Parish, 
 was one of the principal physicians of Princeton, and is said to have 
 been very skilful and successful in the practice of his profession. He 
 came from Washington, D. C, and married a daughter of Robert 
 Bayles of Kingston, who is commemorated by a tablet in the north 
 
transept of the church. One of his daughters, Virginia, married Pro- 
 fessor Langlotz, and, although removing to Trenton soon after, re- 
 tained great interest in the Parish until the time of her death. An- 
 other — Georgiana — was married to the Rev. Leonidas Coyle, who was 
 for many years a Pastor in Bridgeton, New "Jersey. She also has kept 
 alive her interest in the Parish in which her early days were spent. 
 For what follows we are indebted to Mr. Hageman's History of 
 Princeton : "Dr. Dunn had a large practice and the implicit confidence 
 of his patients. He took much interest in public affairs, and served 
 as a member of the Borough Council, and also as its Mayor. He had 
 many warm friends, and he rendered a large amount of professional 
 service to the poor for which he never received recompense. In 
 January, 1851, the community was not a little shocked to hear of his 
 death. He had attended the inauguration of Governor Fort at Trenton : 
 and in the evening of that day, about nine o'clock, he started from the 
 Trenton House, in his sulky, to go home — a distance of ten miles. His 
 horse was one of high mettle, but was supposed to be safe and manage- 
 able : but when about half way home, started and ran away, dragging 
 the doctor for some distance and leaving him dead on the road. He 
 was found and brought to his home, and was buried in the Princeton 
 Cemetery, amidst a sympathizing and sorrowing community. His 
 memory is still cherished by some of our older citizens. 
 
 John Potter, another member of the original Vestry, has been 
 frequently mentioned in these Records, and we add only a few facts 
 respecting him, chiefly gleaned from Hageman's "Princeton and its 
 Institutions." He was born at the residence of his grandfather, John 
 Stewart, of Baltimoran, County Down, Ireland, April 12th, 1768. He 
 emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, December 15th, 1784. On the 
 voyage the vessel was wrecked, and he lost all the property he pos- 
 sessed. He began business in Charleston, and by industry and perse- 
 verance soon achieved success and became a prominent merchant, with 
 a princely fortune. He had one daughter and three sons — William, 
 James and Thomas F. Potter. The daughter — Harriet Maria — was 
 married to Robert F. Stockton, then a lieutenant in the navy, and this 
 induced Mr. Potter to remove to Princeton with his family in the 
 year 1824. He purchased the beautiful place now known as "Prospect," 
 or the President's House, which had been once owned by Benjamin 
 Fitz Randolph, the father of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who was instru- 
 mental in securing the establishment of the college in Princeton. Here 
 Mr. Potter resided till a short time before his death, when he and Mrs. 
 Potter moved into Morven, with their daughter, Mrs. Commodore 
 Stockton, and died there. The establishment of an Episcopal Church 
 in Princeton was largely effected by his money and energy. He was 
 
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 a man of strong religious feeling, and a very regular attendant upon 
 public worship. Both he and Mrs. Potter were highly esteemed for 
 their pure and excellent religious character. He was a good steward 
 of his large wealth, and besides providing generously "for his own," 
 gave liberally also to the church and to all benevolent objects claiming 
 his assistance. Mrs. Potter died in 1848, after a union of fifty-seven 
 years, and he died on October 24th, 1849. Both are lying in the family 
 burying ground, near the chancel of the church. 
 
 Commodore Robert Field Stockton has also been referred to in 
 these Records, as a member of the first Vestry, and as taking an active 
 part in all matters pertaining to the establishment of the Parish in 
 Princeton. We add here a brief delineation of his private and public 
 life, drawn chiefly from Samuel J. Bayard's biography of him. His 
 life was full of stirring incident and dramatic movement. In the 
 various stages and spheres of action through which it ran its course 
 we confine ourselves to a few passages in it which throw light on his 
 moral and religious character. His biographer tells us that his boy- 
 hood furnished strong indications of the character by which he was 
 afterwards distinguished. All its principal features were displayed in 
 his early youth. Personal courage, a high sense of honor, an intolerable 
 hatred of injustice, united with unbounded generosity, and devoted 
 attachment to his friends, were traits of his disposition which marked 
 him as a decided and original character while at school. He entered 
 Princeton college in the freshman class when in his thirteenth year, and 
 was soon distinguished for his industry and proficiency. But before 
 his graduation the impending war with Great Britain and the fame of 
 Nelson on the sea fired his young heart, and induced him to emulate 
 the exploits of the great British captain. He relinquished his college 
 pursuits for the navy, sought a midshipman's warrant, and received 
 his commission, bearing date September, 181 1. Although his college 
 course was thus ended, he did not deem his education complete, but 
 embraced every opportunity for improvement put within his reach. 
 Guided by the instincts of good sense and sound judgment, he pursued 
 at all intervals of leisure from active duty such a course of reading, and 
 such studies, as were calculated to be of the greatest practical utility. 
 Moral and ethical philosophy, the law of nations and history consti- 
 tuted the principal subjects of his attention. The Bible, Cicero, Shakes- 
 peare and Lord Bacon were his favourite studies. Whatever subjects 
 he investigated he did so thoroughly. Later in his life, Professor Albert 
 B. Dod remarked of him that he was the most extraordinary and best 
 informed man he had ever met. He early prescribed for himself a line 
 of conduct in which he persevered through all his days. His love of 
 pleasure or society never tempted him to neglect his duty, nor to.tres- 
 
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 pass upon the rules of sobriety; and to his habitual temperance, not- 
 withstanding the seductions of naval life, his capacity for mental and 
 physical endurance was largely due. After ten years of service, during 
 which he won much distinction for bravery and skill in naval warfare, 
 he returned to Princeton, not yet satisfied with the fame he had won. 
 He became much interested in the American Colonization Movement, 
 and with the consent of the Navy Department acceded to the wishes 
 of the Colonization Society that he should go to the coast of Africa 
 and secure a more eligible site for the American colony which had been 
 planted there. He sailed on this expedition in the fall of 1821, and 
 after encountering many difficulties and dangers succeeded in attaining 
 its object. He acquired the territory which is now the flourishing 
 republic of Liberia, and of which the Colonization Society soon took 
 possession. His name thus became associated in history with the 
 names of the founders of this prosperous state : for its original acqui- 
 sition must be ascribed to his prudence and valor. 
 
 While on the coast of Africa he captured several vessels engaged 
 in the slave trade under false colors. The right of capture was tested 
 in the Court of the United States and justified. Daniel Webster was 
 Lieutenant Stockton's counsel ; and in later life, at Mr. Webster's 
 request, Mr. Stockton wrote his celebrated letter on Slavery, which 
 was characterized as the most masterly, statesmanlike, national and 
 comprehensive view of the subject which had ever been taken by any 
 public man. 
 
 Returning to the United States from Africa, he was ordered south 
 with a party to survey the southern, coast of the United States, and 
 while there he was married at Charleston, South Carolina, to Harriet 
 Maria Potter, only daughter of John Potter, before mentioned. After 
 marriage he was permitted to remain in Princeton some time, and 
 while here promoted the organization of the New Jersey Colonization 
 Society and was elected its first President. We pass over a number 
 of years in which he continued in the naval service, — making a cruise 
 to the Mediterranean, and constructing the illfated ship of war 
 Princeton, — until we reach the year 1845, when he was ordered to the 
 frigate Congress and sailed to the Pacific, conveying the American 
 Minister to the Sandwich Islands. The Rev. Walter Colton was chap- 
 lain to the Congress, and to his diary, kept on this voyage, and pub- 
 lished subsequently under the title of "Deck and Port," we are indebted 
 for several interesting notices of the Commodore. In one he says 
 "Commodore Stockton, who has always taken an interest in our religious 
 exercises, having occasion to speak to the crew to-day, I induced him 
 to extend his remarks to topics more sacred than those which lay 
 within his original purpose. He spoke of the Bible as that crowning 
 revelation which God has made of Himself to man, of its elevating 
 
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 influence on the human soul, of the priceless counsels which it conveys, 
 and of the immortal hopes which it awakens. He commended its 
 habitual study to the officers and crew as our only infallible rule of 
 duty — as our only safe guiding light in the mental and moral twilight of 
 our being here. He rebuked the idea that religion was out of its 
 element among sailors, and told them that of all classes of men they 
 were the ones that most needed its restraining influences and glorious 
 promises, and denounced as insane a disposition to trifle with its 
 precepts. Such remarks as these, coming from the commander of a 
 ship or squadron, will do more to sustain a chaplain in the discharge 
 of his difficult duties than any privileges which can be conferred upon 
 him through the provisions of law. They honor the heart from which 
 they flow, and their influences will be felt in the moral well being of 
 hundreds when that heart shall cease to beat." 
 
 Mr. Colton describes another interesting scene when the Com- 
 modore addressed an auditory of three thousand people assembled for 
 worship in the King's Chapel in Honolulu. They had come together 
 under the vague expectation that the Commodore might address them : 
 for a report to that effect, without the Commodore's knowledge, had 
 been circulated about the town. I felt, in common with the mission- 
 aries, a desire that they should not be disappointed. But as the Com- 
 modore was wholly unprepared, and averse to any arrangements which 
 might seem to trench upon proprieties, it was no easy matter to have 
 their wishes realized. I took the liberty of expressing to the people 
 the hope that he would consent to address them. The Commodore 
 was sitting at the time by the side of the King, and while the choir 
 were singing a hymn, I descended from the pulpit and urged with him 
 the public expectation. He finally assented, and, taking the platform 
 under the pulpit commenced a train of pertinent and eloquent remarks. 
 Mr. Colton gives a synopsis of the address, which was upon the Bible, 
 as pointing out to nations the read to prosperity and peace, and to 
 individuals the path to happiness in this world and the next. At the 
 conclusion the King and Chiefs came up, and with undisguised emotion 
 thanked the Commodore for his address. The Commodore may win 
 laurels on the deck, but none that can bloom more lastingly than these. 
 If there be consolation in death, they flow from efforts made and 
 triumphs won in the cause of humanity and God. 
 
 In 1849 the Commodore resigned his command in the navy. He 
 next appears in the Senate of the United States, of which honorable 
 body he was for a brief time an able and useful member. One of his 
 best speeches was in support of a bill to abolish flogging in the navy. 
 
 After he withdrew from the Senate he gave his attention to his 
 private business, and to the interests of the joint companies of which 
 he was President. He died at Morven, his Princeton residence, after 
 
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 a short illness, on October 7th, 1866. Bishop Odenheimer and the 
 Rev. A. B. Baker conducted the funeral service. 
 
 It is evident from this brief sketch that Commodore Stockton was 
 a man of strong religious sentiments and an open and avowed believer 
 in God, and in the revelation made of Him in the Sacred Scriptures. 
 He attended the worship of the church with regularity when at home, 
 and tried to carry out the precepts of the Bible in his daily life. His 
 fame as soldier, sailor, orator and statesman has .been spread through- 
 out the country, and the world — it is ours also to cherish the virtues of 
 his essential manhood, and the memories of his private life and char- 
 acter bequeathed to the Parish and the town. 
 
 The Hon. John Renshaw Thomson was born in Philadelphia, 
 and resided there, till early manhood when he went to China, and 
 became Consular Agent for the Government of the United States. 
 Returning to his native city in 1825, he married Miss Annis Stockton, 
 a sister of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and this led to his re- 
 moval to Princeton where he continued to live till his death. He built 
 the handsome residence opposite Morven, and so embellished its grounds 
 that they became the admiration of all visitors to Princeton. He was 
 a member of the first vestry of the Parish, and elected also its first 
 Secretary. The records of its first meetings, and also the various 
 meetings preliminary to the organization of the Parish are in his 
 script, and bear his signature ; and they evince a purpose on the part 
 of the writer to preserve and transmit to posterity a full and carefully 
 prepared account of all that related to the establishment of the church 
 in Princeton. Accuracy, thoroughness, fidelity to duty were marks 
 of his character ; and these qualities were displayed in whatever he 
 undertook in private or public life. He attended assiduously to his 
 official duties as director and secretary of the Canal and Railroad Com- 
 panies, and as member of the United States Senate to which high office 
 he was elected in the year 1853. Mr. Thomson retained this office 
 till his death, which occurred a few months before the expiration of its 
 term. Although he did not often participate in the debates of the 
 Senate, he was very efficient in the business of its committees and very 
 regular and attentive to all the duties of his senatorial office. Having 
 lost his first wife he married Miss Josephine Antoinette Ward, a 
 daughter of Gen. Aaron Ward, of Sing Sing, New York, and she, after 
 his decease became the wife of ex-Governor Swann of Maryland and 
 lived in Princeton till her departure two years ago. Mr. Thomson 
 died at his Princeton home on the 12th of September 1862, and his 
 funeral was attended by a large company of distinguished personal 
 friends, and by many citizens of the Borough. Bishop Odenheimer, who 
 ministered to him in his last sickness, was present and took part in the 
 burial service. The bulk of his large estate has reached the treasury 
 
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 of Princeton University, but there are thirteen thousand dollars of it 
 also in the Endowment Fund of the Parish of which he was one of the 
 founders. 
 
 The Hon. Richard Stockton Field was not in the Vestry first 
 elected in the Parish in 1833 but became a member of that body at the 
 second election held a year later. He was chosen to fill the vacancy 
 made by the resignation of John R. Thomson, who after a year's 
 service felt unable to continue in the discharge of the duties of the 
 office. Mr. Field must therefore be classed among the Founders of 
 the Parish, and we owe a debt of gratitude to him for the great interest 
 he took in all its affairs, in the early years of its history. He suc- 
 ceeded Mr. Thomson as secretary of the Vestry, and for a number 
 of years very carefully recorded the proceedings of the body. He also 
 served on several of its most important committees, and usually con- 
 ducted its correspondence with Clergy invited to become Rectors of 
 the Parish, or to officiate as occasional supplies. He was a very gen- 
 erous contributor to the Parish, and to all charitable and humane 
 objects, and when the new Church was built, gave a strip of land which 
 enlarged the area, and straightened the lines of the Church lot. There 
 is an excellent account of his life and services in Mr. Hageman's 
 History of Princeton, from which we make a few extracts. 
 
 Mr. Field graduated at Princeton in the class of 1821 and studied 
 law with his uncle Richard Stockton, who was then in the zenith of his 
 professional success and honor. He began the practice of law in 
 Salem, New Jersey, where he married Miss Mary Ritchie, and where he 
 resided till the year 1833 when he returned to Princeton and opened a 
 law office. His residence was on the property now owned by the 
 Parish, on Stockton street, opposite Morven, and used as a girls' 
 school. He was made Attorney General of the State in 1838, and in 
 1847 he was elected Professor in the Law School of Princeton College. 
 To further the interests of that department of the College, he erected 
 on his own ground and at his own expense, the stone building on Mercer 
 street known as Ivy Hall, which has also recently come into the pos- 
 session of the Parish. 
 
 In 1862 he was appointed by Governor Olden to fill a vacancy in 
 the United States Senate, caused by the death of Hon. John R. Thom- 
 son, but when the term expired, the Legislature, being Democratic, did 
 not reappoint him. While in the Senate he delivered an able eulogy 
 on his predecessor, Mr. Thomson. 
 
 In 1863 Mr. Field was nominated by President Lincoln and con- 
 firmed by the Senate, as Judge of the U. S. Court for the District of 
 New Jersey, which office he filled with great ability till his last sickness 
 in 1870. He was much interested in the subject of education and no 
 citizen of the State labored more persistently and successfully for the 
 

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 improvement of the public school system of the State — especially for 
 that branch of it known as the Normal School. He was also much 
 interested in the subject at home and labored perseveringly to improve 
 the Parish School of the Church, and afterward the Public School of 
 the Borough. He was preeminent among the members of the New 
 Jersey bar for his love and study of literature. His library was well 
 supplied with the most valuable Law books ; it was also furnished with 
 the choicest classics, and the rarest productions of modern scholars. 
 Everything around him bore testimony to his fine literary and aesthetic 
 culture. In 1869 he delivered an address before the American Whig 
 Society, at its centennial celebration, which brought him many con- 
 gratulatory letters from esteemed scholars and friends. 
 
 He was a man of warm impulses and enthusiasms, with a generous 
 nature, and a high sense of honor. In social life he was genial, refined, 
 polished and hospitable. He was always ready to help any enterprise, 
 institution, or individual in need of assistance, and no one who applied 
 to him for aid was ever denied or disappointed. He was the last of the 
 galaxy of prominent and distinguished men of a past generation, who 
 by their education, talents and social position, had gained high official 
 dignities, and a wide public reputation and had shed upon Princeton 
 peculiar honor. He died on the 25th of May, 1870, and was buried in 
 the Princeton Cemetery by the Rev. Alfred B. Baker, assisted by the 
 Rev. Asa S. Colton. 
 
 We have been able to learn but little of two other members of the 
 Vestry, C. W. Taylor and C. H. VanCleve. 
 
 C. Houston Van Cleve was the son of Dr. John Van Cleve, one 
 of the most respectable physicians of Princeton. He studied law and 
 was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1830, but soon removed to the 
 West where he died many years ago. 
 
 Mr. Taylor's name is on the list of original communicants, but does 
 not appear on any other Parochial list. 
 
APPENDIX IV 
 
 Substance of 
 
 A Sermon Memorial 
 
 of 
 
 The Rev. Charles Woodruff Shields, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Preached in Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J., Friday, December 9, 1904. 
 
 BY 
 
 Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Joseph is a fruitful bough; a fruitful bough 
 by a well ; his branches run over the well. 
 Genesis xlix 22. 
 
 The incident, from the story of which I take these words, has an 
 eminently significant introduction. It is the story of Jacob's farewell 
 to his sons ; and is introduced, as you will remember, with the words, 
 'And Jacob called unto his sons and said : Gather yourselves to- 
 gether, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days." 
 Has it ever occurred to you to consider how little of their future, after 
 all, Jacob did tell them? Here and there, in those strange and weird 
 farewell words of his, there is a brief lifting of the curtain that hides 
 the future ; but, on the whole, it is, so far as there is prophecy at all, 
 a prophecy suggested by the past. The man — Rueben, Simeon, Issachar 
 — whoever he is, has given certain disclosures of his character, in cer- 
 tain base, or wise, or noble acts, and these forecast the rest. Jacob, in 
 one word, is, after all, only so much of a prophet as he is made com- 
 petent to anticipate the future from the past. A man's conduct and 
 character in one set of emergencies, issues, allurements, reveal what he 
 is likely to be in another ; and so, my young brothers, when, in your 
 hot youth, you hear the kindly but cautionary tones, of riper years 
 admonishing you, do not be too swift to say "Oh, he is a back number, 
 an old fogy, a bourbon ; I can not undertake to be governed by his 
 standards !" Jacob was an old man, but he was not a stupid man ; and, 
 as he sat quietly at one side of that swift current of life in which his 
 sons were struggling for the prizes of their day, he had measured them 
 up with unerring accuracy; and could forecast their future from their 
 past. 
 
 What a fine and interesting future it is that he foresees for Joseph ! 
 In Joseph we seem to have that most engaging type of man who is not 
 only exemplary, but benignant ; — who unites virtue with kindliness, and 
 who, best of all, is endowed with a certain affluence of beneficence 
 
which Jacob can symbolize by nothing so accurately as the "fruitful 
 bough whose branches run over the wall." It is this quality which has 
 in it, not alone the most attractive, but the most distinctly Christian 
 characteristics ; for it is distinctive of the Man Christ Jesus that He 
 reveals to us the divine, not so much in acts of seclusion and re- 
 serve, as in those of what I might call, if they were not His, utter 
 naturalness. He is accessible to everybody; and, best of all, His 
 beneficence has in it an overflowing quality which can not but bless 
 and heal one who only comes behind in a crowd, and touches the hem 
 of His garment. There are people — we all know them, that have no 
 smallest doubt that they are very good people — whose attitude toward 
 their fellow-men is chiefly interrogatory or austere; they own gladly 
 their duty to serve their kind, but you must bring a certificate of 
 character before they can consent to serve you. And then, there are 
 others in whom the impulse of beneficence is so rich, and the love of 
 their fellow-men so real, that, freed from self-consciousness or sus- 
 picion, they go through the world breathing benedictions in all that they 
 are and do. 
 
 It is because Dr. Charles Woodruff Shields always impressed me 
 as such a man, that I have chosen Jacob's words as the motto for this 
 discourse. I came to know Dr. Shields when he was spending his 
 summers at Newport, Rhode Island, where he had, as I then had, a 
 summer home. The foremost impression which, then, he made upon 
 me, was of his benignity — and modesty. He was at that time — about 
 twenty-five years ago — a man of recognized distinction in his high 
 calling ; a man of exceptional gifts and achievements in his profes- 
 sion ; and a thinker whose genius, I must be permitted to say, "blazed" 
 a way for many an inferior mind to follow him, that never recognized 
 the large nobility of Dr. Shield's vision. Earlier than most men of his 
 time, he saw the essential oneness of Science and Religion, and broke 
 away from traditions of the latter which have often transformed con- 
 spicous leaders of a Reformed Faith into blind followers of an ob- 
 scurantism which, in the official utterances of Latin Christianity, have, 
 as Lippold has shown in his "Papacy in the Nineteenth Century," made 
 Papal Encyclicals fit subjects both for mirth and for mourning, among 
 Christian scholars. 
 
 In 1840 he was entered as a Freshman in a Class which contained 
 among others, at least a half dozen men of exceptional gifts and 
 promise, — e. g., Charles G. Leland, Dr. James C. Welling, later Presi- 
 dent of the Columbian University, Governor Colquitt of Georgia, the 
 Honorable H. S. Little, and Colonel Edward Wright, of this State, and 
 others. The relation of these men and others like them, — among Dr. 
 Shield's classmates as theological students were the late Bishop Little- 
 john and the Reverend Dr. W. W. Lord, — to Dr. Shield's future was, 
 
I apprehend, far more potential than, ordinarily, we are wont to 
 recognize. In every Class in College there are a few men who think, — 
 to whom College life is not a mere routine; and who, in encountering 
 the questions which their studies, especially if those studies are of a 
 speculative character, bring up, are provoked to discussions among 
 themselves which, if not of immediate, are destined to be of remote, 
 value of a very high order. With young Shields this was unques- 
 tionably the case. Long afterwards he referred to nightly debates with 
 congenial friends, which, starting with the topics of the day, political, 
 social, or economic, ran on and out, into realms which, with a higher 
 training and wider vision, came to include the fundamental questions 
 of philosophy itself. 
 
 When, after his graduation from College, in 1844, he entered 
 Princeton Seminary to prepare himself for the ministry of the Presby- 
 terian Church, we can well understand that those questions did not 
 become, to the young scholar, less interesting. There was a lull in the 
 air just then; and the ancient formularies in which this youth had 
 been bred and nurtured still held a sway which, as we look back upon 
 it, is full of interesting suggestions. But men had not ceased to think 
 because they were taught the Westminster Catechism, or required to 
 subscribe to the Westminster Confession. Young Shields, however, 
 passed out of the Princeton Seminary, accepting, I presume ex animo, 
 all that had been taught there. He went, first, to a pastorate at Hemp- 
 stead, Long Island ; — I suppose that this was in 1847 ; and thence, in 
 1850, to the Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he 
 remained until 1865. I wonder how he 'relished the fierce sectarian 
 antagonisms which rent Philadelphia in those days? I was a boy in 
 Philadelphia, at that time, and I can remember how swift we of dif- 
 ferent communions were to fasten upon one another's failings, and 
 how little love was lost — or found — between us ! And yet all the while, 
 then, as now, there was a Divine substratum of Truth that should have 
 bound warring Sects together, and made the Kingdom of God real to 
 the eyes of men by the love that shone in the faces of its disciples ! 
 But what was most prized, then, was a master of polemics ; and if the 
 modern Christian did not take pleasure in Jonathan Edwards' sug- 
 gestion that one of the joys of Paradise would be looking from its 
 battlements on the errorists who were seething in hell, there is little 
 doubt that the orthodox believer, when he looked at his heterodox 
 neighbor, complacently thanked God that he was not as other men were. 
 
 Does anybody wonder that the sensitive and devout scholar 
 turned from a ministry in which it was often demanded that the 
 preachers should meet such expectations or to be lectured by his deac- 
 ons — turned, I say, trom such a conception of the office of the pulpit 
 to the Professor's chair. At any rate, there can be no doubt that when 
 
Dr. Shields was called here, to the Professorship of the Harmony of 
 Science and Revealed Religion, he came with a glad alacrity. Already 
 there had dawned upon him that great conception of which his 
 "Philosophia Ultima" was the earliest disclosure. Already he had seen, 
 with strong persuasion, that the revelation of God in His universe, 
 whether in nature, in philosophy, or in religion, were, as they were 
 from one Source and the expressions of one Mind, but parts of one 
 Whole ; and while other men were wrangling about what they ig- 
 norantly conceived to be irreconcilable differences in these dis- 
 closures, or else fled, panic-stricken, as some of them did, to some 
 ecclesiastical standing-ground which substituted an arbitrary dictum 
 for a divine and rational order, Dr. Shields ascended to those upper 
 levels where his great mind seized upon the unifying truths that lay 
 behind these apparent differences, and swung them into view with 
 something of that inspired discernment which breaks upon the ear in 
 Addison's matchless hymn 
 
 In reason's ear they all rejoice. 
 And utter forth a glorious voice ; 
 Forever singing as they shine, . 
 "The hand that made us is divine." 
 
 The necessary limits of such an occasion as this makes it impos- 
 sible for me to do justice to Dr. Shields as a thinker, or to depict his 
 relation to the higher realms of philosophy as his altogether ex- 
 ceptional services deserve. One of his pupils has said, *"With the 
 best American writers in constructive philosophy, I am fairly well 
 acquainted ; and my own deep conviction is that Dr. Shields was the 
 true founder of systematic and constructive philosophy in the United 
 States ; logically coming before" men to whom ordinarily that honor 
 has been conceded. "Many thinkers have, in the last thirty years, 
 made special studies of great value in several departments of philosophy 
 that were only briefly handled by Dr. Shields in his comprehensive 
 synthesis. But his pamphlet of 1861 was the first serious projection of 
 a comprehensive cosmic philosophy ever produced in this country; 
 and his subsequent volumes furnished in my belief, the broadest 
 foundations for Christian theism ever laid. Dr. Shields, when he began 
 his work, was a man so far in advance of his time and place, that no 
 one was prepared to understand him ; and, so far from being behind his 
 times, to-day, the world has never yet caught up with his magnificent 
 conception." 
 
 There remains one other feature in the history of Dr. Shields, of 
 which it will, of course, be expected that I should speak in this place, 
 and which was so eminently characteristic of Dr. Shields that to be 
 silent concerning it would, I think be equally unintelligent and unjust. 
 
 *Mr. H. W. Rankin, of the class of 1873. 
 
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 Dr. Shields became somewhat late in life, a Churchman, and took orders 
 in the Episcopal Church. In order to see the reason of this, we need 
 go no further back in his mental history than to that point in his 
 philosophic studies which I have been discussing. We have seen that, 
 as a student and teacher of philosophy, Dr. Shields was enkindled by 
 what I conceive to have been a really sublime dream of unification. 
 Whether it was mental, physical, or theological, science with which he 
 concerned himself, no man who has read what he has written can be 
 insensible to the great ideal which brooded above all that he said. And 
 if it did, it is not difficult to understand why Unity in the realm of 
 Religion interested him, most of all. The scholar of this later day 
 has no difficulty in seeing that the Sectarist of modern times may well 
 echo the exclamation of the Roman Centurion, 'With a great sum ob- 
 tained I this freedom.'' The Religious Communities that broke away, 
 at the time of the Reformation, from the tyranny of the Papacy, ran 
 into opposite extremes in which individualism became grotesque. The 
 Presiding Bishop told me not long ago, that a religious community in 
 the West — a community of which most of you never heard, but which 
 counts its disciples by thousands, and which is known as "the Church 
 of the Feet Washers," has lately been rent by a schism which now, 
 squarely divided it into two "Churches," one of which holds to the 
 washing of both feet, as a part of public worship, and the other 
 to the washing of only one. If you think such a statement, as typical 
 of the divisions of modern denominationalism, is an exaggeration, get, 
 if you dare, the statistics of denominations, as furnished by the last 
 census. It is a story of individualism run mad ; and the conception 
 of him who seeks, by whatsoever lawful and rational means, to heal it, 
 is born of God ! 
 
 It was not surprising, therefore, that the fine spiritual vision of 
 Dr. Shields, looking over the vast realm of Christendom with all its 
 mutual misapprehensions ; its often deadly animosities ; its pathetic 
 wastes of power and service, should turn to a communion which 
 shared with him a grief for hands which rent the seamless garment of 
 the Common Saviour ; and for hearts in which hatred was mistaken for 
 loyalty, and zeal for humility and love. I do not propose, here, to 
 show how especially adapted for that great movement which cul- 
 minated in the Declaration commonly known as "the Quadrilateral," 
 and adopted by the Lambeth Conference of 1888, was the Episcopal 
 Church in this land; and I am quite ready to admit that, in some re- 
 spects, the Movement with which "the Quadilateral" was identified was 
 premature. But is not difficult to understand with what force such a 
 Movement appealed to Dr. Shields ; nor, with what especial sympathy 
 his mind turned to one — I mean Dr. Littlejohn, a Classmate of Dr. 
 Shields in the Princeton Theological Seminary and, later, Bishop of 
 
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 Long Island, to whom the authorship of "the Quadilateral" has been 
 widely credited. Bishop Littlejohn and Dr. Shields were men in many 
 things greatly unlike ; but in their common abhorrence of a divided 
 Christendom, and in their common interest in and longing for any 
 right thing that would end it, they were "of one heart and one mind." 
 
 Do you suppose, now, that it cost Dr. Shields no pang to sunder 
 ties and end companionships which, in their origin, reached back for 
 generations, and were as truly a part of his mental and emotional 
 identity as anything can be? There were men whom he met, every 
 day, who loved and honored him, — as who that really knew him could 
 help doing, — and who had no smallest doubt as to the honesty of his 
 motives, or the integrity of his actions, in any step that separated 
 him from his earlier associates ; but who could never forget, — and 
 they knew that they never could forget — that a certain action had been 
 determined upon by him, and that a certain step had been taken. When 
 these men met him, with whatever continuance of the old warmth and 
 cordiality, they knew, and he knew, that there was one group of sub- 
 jects that were to be avoided, and one realm of discussion even the 
 outer portals of which were never, any more, to be opened ! 
 
 And yet with what gentle dignity and gracious self-restraint, through 
 it all, he bore himself ! Yes, and with what true nobility of largeness 
 and charity did this ancient University bear herself toward him ! One 
 can easily imagine, on the part of associates and authorities from whom 
 he separated, something of resentment, because of action on Dr. Shields' 
 part, which some of them thought inconsistent, if not positively dis- 
 loyal. But if they ever thought so, they never said so ; or, if they said 
 so, they said it with such cautious reserve that it never came to out- 
 side ears. And I must confess, for myself, that there has always seemed 
 to me some thing especially dear and beautiful in the fact that, with 
 Princeton, its social, and its intellectual life; and, best of all, with that 
 great University in which so long he was a professor — that with all 
 these Dr. Shields remained identified to the last ! Long may his mem- 
 ory survive here as that of a true scholar, a pure, and most lovable 
 man, who brought to great opportunities great gifts, and who used 
 them, with unwearied fidelity, for God and man ! 
 
 An accomplished young woman of letters, — inheritor of a great 
 name and of great gifts, has lately sketched for us, in her charming 
 "Roma Beata," a summer storm, as, from a height, she saw it in the 
 Eternal City.* There are characters like such a storm, with all its 
 thunderous and impetuous traits, its fierce movements, its resistless 
 rush, its torrential outpourings. Like nothing less than like this, was 
 Dr. Shields. But his fine and clear insight, his noble and lofty sere- 
 nity, his gentle and benignant patience gave, no less, to him who 
 
 *Maud Howe Elliot, a daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. 
 
understood him, the sense of power ; and recalled those other spec- 
 tacles of Nature where the broad and peaceful landscape broods be- 
 neath the sun ; and in its own good time and way, bears fruit for the 
 service of man, and the glory of God. 
 
 Even so we think of this our father and brother, who has, for a 
 little, gone before us. He has sown, and we shall reap. May light 
 perpetual shine upon him, and fruit eternal spring from what he 
 sowed. 
 
 Sermon Preached in Trinity Church 
 
 by 
 
 The Rev. A. B. Baker, D.D., 
 
 After The Death of Mr. F. S. Conover. 
 
 Second Sunday After Easter, 1901. 
 
 I Peter 11:21. Leaving us an Example, that ye should follow His 
 steps. 
 
 There are good reasons why the duty of following the Lord's ex- 
 ample should be put forward by the Church while the great Easter truth 
 is still lingering in the mind. It is a duty which is very closely as- 
 sociated with the doctrine of the Ressurection, and which spring nat- 
 urally from it, as the first practical inference it suggests. The duty is 
 always next in order after the rejoicings of the great Easter day, and so 
 the Church links it on to our exalted faith, and makes it the master idea 
 of the services of this second Sunday of the Easter-tide. None can have 
 failed to notice how prominently it is brought to view in the Gospel, 
 Epistle and Collect for the day. It may be profitable to think a little 
 more at length of the reasons why the Church connects "the following" 
 with the Resurrection of the Lord. 
 
 1. One of these obviously is, that the Resurrection completes the 
 Ideal which our Lord presents to His followers, and furnishes a model 
 of perfection which is without blemish or defect. If our Lord had not 
 arisen from the dead there would have been a serious lack in His 
 example and character considered as a model of human excellence. 
 There would still be much to charm us in the record of His life. He 
 would still have left behind Him as He passed away, the fragrance of a 
 celestial purity and grace, but nevertheless, he would seem to be the 
 great disappointment of the ages. There would be no fulfillment of the 
 splendid expectations He created, and His whole life work would seem 
 to be in vain. There would be nothing to vindicate His teachings, to 
 justify His sufferings, or substantiate His claims. The truth He taught 
 would lose their certitude, and His example would be shorn of its 
 moral power. But the Resurrection establishes His teachings and 
 rescues His example from the moral impotence to which it would have 
 
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 been condemned. We have now an Ideal which is completely satis- 
 fying to the mind, and on which none can gaze without being enrap- 
 tured by the view. We have an example which is absolutely without 
 a flaw, and is full of inspiration to those who try to follow it. Even 
 those who are not numbered with His followers admit the charm of its 
 perfection. Many a glowing tribute to our Lord's life and character 
 may be found in the writings of poets, philosophers, and historians 
 who make no claim to be called Christians. One speaks of it as "a 
 holy form which rises before the poor pilgrim like a star in the night, 
 and satisfies his innermost cravings, and most secret hopes." Another 
 refers to it as "a beautiful ideal character which through all the changes 
 of nineteen centuries, has filled the hearts of men with ail impassioned 
 love" ; and still another, hails the Christ as the mightiest among the 
 holy, and the holiest among the mighty, who lifted with His pierced 
 hands empires off their hinges, turned the stream of time into new 
 channels, and still governs all the ages." Tributes similar to these may 
 everywhere be found. The beauty and perfection of the Christ Ideal 
 is universally admitted and it is seen to combine within itself every 
 form of moral excellence. The pattern man gathers up and re- 
 capitulates in Himself every kind of grace and spiritual beauty, and His 
 character is thus both universal in its type, and individual in its appeal 
 and application. Each man and woman may look at Christ, and say, 
 there is my example. Whatever may be the circumstances of our lot, 
 the age in which we live, the mental or moral traits with which we are 
 endowed, the Christ-example is adapted to our case, and was framed to 
 meet our own peculiar need. It is said of the heroine of the Iliad that 
 her beauty was of so universal a type that all men who looked at her felt 
 as though they were related to her. So do all feel a mysterious re- 
 lationship to Jesus Christ, for He combines in Himself the universal at- 
 tributes of humanity, among which, each man may find the image of his 
 better self. Probably the universal example has done more to uplift the 
 race than all the abstract truths which the Heavenly Teacher taught. 
 At all events, the example has put a power into the truths, which with- 
 out it, they never would possess. "Mere ideas," says a modern novelist, 
 "are often poor ghosts, our sun filled eyes cannot discern them, they 
 pass athwart us in their vapor and cannot make themselves felt. But 
 sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with warm 
 breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands, they look at us with 
 sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones, they are clothed in a 
 living human Soul, with all its conflicts, its faith and its love. Then 
 their presence is a power, then they shake us like a passion, and we are 
 drawn after them with gentle compulsion, as flame is drawn to flame." 
 This is true in the fullest sense of the teaching of the Divine Word Who 
 
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 was made flesh and dwelt among us, and Who exemplified in His 
 beautiful life every holy doctrine which He taught. (2) And this sug- 
 gests another reason why the following of the Lord should be bound 
 so closely to His Resurrection, which is that the Resurrection vitalises 
 the example, and imparts to it a present life and power. It shows the 
 Christ we are to follow, not merely as one who once lived in far off 
 ages, and who only affects us as He reaches down to us through cen- 
 turies and from the dust of an ancient tomb, but as one who is nozv 
 alive, who is a present force and inspiration in our human life, and 
 with whom we may be in daily, hourly touch, if we will only walk with 
 Him by the way. Without His present help we would meet with no 
 success in our following of the high ideal. We would look to the stain- 
 less summits of His Heavenly purity, only to say "How inaccessible they 
 are !" We would cry with the poet : 
 
 "O snows so pure, O peaks so high, 
 I shall not reach you till I die." 
 
 But the living present Christ saves us from so great discourage- 
 ment, He aids us by His helping Spirit, and actually infuses into His 
 followers the virtues and graces which He bids them to imitate. Co- 
 operating with Him we are already changed into His likeness, and the 
 promise is that when we awake, we shall be satisfied with it. (3) Once 
 more the Resurrection exhibits the Christ-like graces as immortal in 
 their nature, and as therefore worth the seeking, and seeking with all 
 the ardor we can throw into the noble quest. Were they simply 
 embellishments of a being who perished in the grave they would have 
 little value ; but now being imperishable attributes of our immortal 
 selves, they have a worth which no arithmetic of earth can possibly 
 compute. For these and other reasons which might be named, the 
 following of the Lord is but the natural sequence of His Resurrection ; 
 and to the duties of the follower we ought to address ourselves with 
 enthusiastic ardor, and with the new powers of the risen life. 
 
 II Now my dear friends it is our privilege to help and encourage 
 each other in this blessed work. The good success of one copyist may 
 be a stimulus to another, and awaken the hope that he too may accom- 
 plish something in the work of imitation. No good life is without a 
 power of influence ; the lives of all consistent disciples are caught up 
 into the sphere of the pattern life, and acquire something of its power 
 to affect the mind, charm the heart and stimulate the energies of the 
 will. They are turned themselves into examples endowed with a cer- 
 tain contagion of goodness. They become illustrations of the way in 
 which weak men and women may copy the lofty excellencies of the Son 
 of Man, and they seem to proclaim the possibility of our own attain- 
 
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 ment. God is continually raising up such good illustrators of the 
 duties of discipleship, whom He allows to encourage us as we walk 
 together in life's pathway, and even after their earthly course is done. 
 They cheer and help us while they are here on earth, and when they go 
 away they shed down a holier influence on the ^pilgrim path. Such a 
 helper in the following was he whose earthly life in the beginning of this 
 Easter-tide was ended, and whom we then bore in solemn service to his 
 burial. For many a year he was a good exemplar of the Christian 
 life before the eyes of this whole community, and more particularly of 
 this parish family to which he belonged. He was ardently devoted to 
 the interests of the parish, and for five and thirty years served it faith- 
 fully as its treasurer. His departure is a common loss, and affects not 
 a few of us, as a personal bereavement. It would be far from his wish 
 that I should indulge in eulogy of his character, or make public parade 
 of the graces which shrank from ostentation, and were jealous of the 
 privacy in which they loved to hide, but still such a life cannot be al- 
 together hidden. It is the property of the community and it has lessons 
 for us of which we may not refuse to think. Surely we may briefly 
 mention two or three of the characteristics of his following of the 
 Lord on which it will be helpful to reflect. One was its decisiveness. 
 He committed himself in early manhood to the duties of the Christian 
 life, and that action was for him conclusive. Never afterwards was 
 there any wavering, and question or debate. He had taken his stand 
 and everyone knew where to find him. His following of the Shepherd 
 was positive, resolute, steadfast ; it was always conducted from settled 
 principle, and with fixed intention. What an example he has left be- 
 hind to those who refuse to commit themselves to a religious life, or 
 having made the committal, follow it with instability or indecision. 
 There are many all around us who are trying to live a life which is 
 intermediate between that which is positively Christian and that which 
 is unmistakably of the world. They are not decided Christians nor are 
 they pronounced worldlings. They seek a middle way between God and 
 self, and that they try to follow without looking for much help from 
 above, or having any lofty faith in things unseen. For our departed 
 brother there was no middle way. There was only the path that led to 
 God, and the one that led into sin and death. He chose the path of life 
 and that he followed without pause or deviation. The various duties 
 of the Christian life he discharged with a regularity and method which 
 were born of steadfast principle. It was his fixed habit to attend the 
 public worship of the Church, and two services a day were not too 
 much for him. He was punctual in meeting all the demands of justice, 
 righteousness, brotherly kindness and Christian charity. In his long 
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 the Church, listening continually for the Shepherd's voice, that he might 
 follow the well known call. He looked for help from the highest 
 source and he drew his motives from the eternal world into which his 
 plan of life was projected. He had the "anchor of the soul which is 
 sure and steadfast and which entereth into that within the veil." The 
 influence of such steadfastness in a wavering and unsettled age when 
 so many have "one foot on sea and one on shore, and to one thing 
 are constant never" cannot but be great, and out of it will long come a 
 helpful influence to ourselves in our following of the heavenly way. 
 Another thing that strikes us about the character of the departed one, 
 was its reality. No one could know him well without being made to 
 feel that his religion was genuine, that there was nothing about it that 
 was counterfeit, affected, or insincere. He knew nothing of those 
 phases of unreal religion which are current in the world, and which 
 sometimes pass as genuine like the wax works which deceive us with 
 the show of life. There are some who wear religion as a mere mask ; 
 with others it is but a decoration of the surface of the life, and with 
 others still, it is a variable state in which mere emotionalism is made to 
 do duty for solid principle and fixed habits of obedience. Of all 
 such kinds of fictitious religion the character of our departed brother 
 was a great rebuke. He had the real and solid thing. He had 
 "truth in the inward parts." He always felt more deeply than he talked, 
 and his words and acts betrayed a character which was sound all the 
 way through and was the outgrowth of fundamental convictions, and 
 basal facts of morality and religion. Surely such a life encourages us 
 also to seek reality, to follow Christ with a single mind, and to build 
 up this spiritual life with "the unleavened bread of sincerity and 
 truth." Still another trait, closely connected with the foregoing one, 
 was simplicity. This is the opposite of duplicity, or complexity in 
 motive, spirit, character and conduct. It is to be natural, spontaneous, 
 and free from artificiality. It is an elemental property of the Divinest 
 things, and it is an attribute of God Himself. The greatest truths are 
 the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Our departed brother loved 
 simplicity and nothing could "corrupt his mind from the simplicity that 
 is in Christ." 
 
 Not to mention other characteristic traits, we simply remark that 
 they were all so balanced and blended together as to give the impres- 
 sion of a harmonious and symmetric whole. Often the possession of ex- 
 cellencies of a certain kind is associated with faults or defects of an 
 opposite nature, and a single trait may be unduly exaggerated and 
 thrown out of all proportion to the rest. Of this want of harmony 
 there is little trace in the character of our departed friend. There is 
 indeed but one Being who has ever lived on earth whose character 
 
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 is absolutely faultless in proportions, but there is less to mar the 
 effect of our brother's collective traits than is ordinarily found in the 
 followers of the Lord. Such a life adds something to our responsibility, 
 for we are bound to make a good use of its example. . It also adds to 
 our hopefulness and strength, for it encourages us to persevere in all 
 the struggles and failures of the better way. "Seeing, let us take heart 
 again." Cheered by the example of this good man in his active days, 
 and in the long period of suffering when he could do nothing but trust 
 and patiently wait, let us take up the duties of the Christian life with 
 fresh zeal and courage. We shall miss the inspiring presence of the de- 
 parted one, but we must not think of all that he was to us in the past, 
 as merely so much remembered loss. We must not think of the past 
 companionship as altogether ended, the old songs of love and home as 
 sung out, and flung into eternal silence ; the past is prophetic. It points 
 forward to a companionship yet to come, a song to be resumed in a better 
 world. "To remember," as one says, "is not only to mourn, it is also 
 to hope." And so even loving memory should be a stimulus to present 
 action. The old love and companionship are an abiding force. Exam- 
 ple lives on. The vitality of our own immortal being is imparted to it. 
 The power of our brother's example is with us still. Let us treasure 
 it up and use as we ought to do. His following of Christ is not yet 
 done, for is it not written of the blessed dead, "They follow the Lamb 
 whithersoever He goeth"? May the thought of the heavenly following 
 descend upon us like a benediction ! May the memory of the earthly 
 be an abiding source of inspiration ! 
 
 "God calls our loved one, but we lose not wholly 
 What He hath given : 
 They live on earth in thought and deed 
 As truly as in His heaven. 
 
 And He is with us ; in our path of trial 
 
 He walketh yet : 
 Still with the baptism of our self-denial 
 
 His locks are wet. 
 
 Up then, my brother ! Lo the footsteps of the Lord 
 
 Lie plain in view : 
 He lives, and loves thee, and the God thou servest 
 
 To both is true. 
 
 Bind on thy sandals ! Weary fellow-travelers 
 
 Thy call abide : 
 And He thou mourns't, a pure and holp presence, 
 
 Shall walk beside." 
 
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 A Sermon Preached in Trinity Church 
 
 by 
 
 The Rev. Alfred B. Baker, D.D., 
 
 on the Sunday after the Death of Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, 
 
 and Printed by Request of a Number of the Congregation. 
 
 Hebrews vi. 12 — Followers of them who through faith and patience 
 inherit the promises. 
 
 The supreme demand which the Scriptures make upon the 
 Christian is that he should be a follower of Christ. "Follow Me," is 
 the Lord's bidding to the first disciples, and when later on, the 
 multitude began to flock around Him, He puts the same exaction on 
 them all. "If any man will serve Me let him follow Me: and where 
 I am, there shall also my servants be." We are asked to follow Christ, 
 because He is the realized ideal of human goodness. He is the one 
 perfect exemplification of what God intended us to be, and of what, 
 through the helping of His grace, we may all become. In following 
 Him we cannot possibly go astray, for He has left us an example that 
 is absolutely faultless — has lived a pattern life without the suspicion of 
 a stain or flaw. Having this spotless example proposed for our imi- 
 tation, the question arises why we should be bidden in the text and 
 elsewhere in the Scripture to take frail human beings as our exemp- 
 lars, to "be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit 
 the promises." The answer is that we are required to follow them only 
 as they were followers of Christ, that the recollection of their Christ- 
 like lives helps us to follow Him more closely; and in times of 
 discouragement, to press on to the goal which seems so very far away. 
 The perfection of Jesus Christ often seems at an infinite remove from 
 our low standing ground. Compassed as we are with infirmity and 
 weakness, his splendid holiness appears an unattainable and un- 
 attemptible thing. But the example of the Christ-like follower en- 
 courages us to try to scale the height. It stimulates and inspires us by 
 showing us what men of like passions with ourselves can do. It trans- 
 lates the divine perfection into a more human language, and moderates 
 the splendor of the divine ideal by clothing it in the subdued light of 
 human sympathy and hope. Often we best follow Christ by studying 
 Him as He is shown to us through the medium of a human character 
 and life. The stars may guide us when we cannot see the sun ; and the 
 starlight is but reflected sunlight, shorn of its consuming brilliance, 
 and tempered to the uses of the night. There is many a shadowed 
 hour in life when we are grateful for the Scripture word which bids us 
 to "be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the 
 promises." 
 
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 Good and noble human lives are heaven's best benediction to us. 
 They infect us with the contagion of their goodness. They create, as 
 Froude says "an epidemic of nobleness." They spread their influence 
 on all within their reach. It is not only the great and wise who may do 
 this, but also the humble and meek whose lives are uneventful, and who 
 are themselves alike "to fortune and to fame unknown." Even children 
 may do it is well as the aged follower of the Lord. Often the Christ 
 in the little child may teach us more, and guide us better, than the Christ 
 in the full grown man ; and when death comes, and we bury the little 
 one from our sight, what new tenderness and urgency is their in the 
 demand that we become as little children, and be followers of their 
 simple faith, and dutiful obedience ! But it is of course the older fol- 
 lower of Christ that the Apostle has here especially in mind, and you 
 will indulge me, if in the spirit of his injunction, I speak to you this 
 morning of one whom God has just removed from us, and set in our 
 midst as an example for our loving imitation. 
 
 On Sunday last the sad announcement was made that the be- 
 loved wife of our Junior Warden has suddenly fallen asleep in a distant 
 place of sojourn where she was seeking a little merciful relief from 
 the work and care of her busy life. On Wednesday of this week, she 
 was borne in solemn service to her last resting place, in the city of the 
 dead. To many of us it was perhaps a disappointment that the last sad 
 rites were not conducted in this church and that she was not buried in 
 the neighboring churchyard where so many of her family repose. But 
 is was from no lack of interest in Princeton that another place was 
 selected for her sepulture. No spot in all the world was more dear 
 to her than this her early home. While living and moving amid other 
 scenes her heart was chiefly here. But there was good and sufficient 
 reasons why she should have been laid to rest in other hallowed 
 ground, and why there should be left to us the memory of her life 
 rather than the charge of her precious dust. As but few of us were able 
 to be present at the service in which she was committed to the tomb, 
 and thus express our sympathy' and sense of common loss, we shall 
 deem it all the more fitting perhaps that a few simple memorial words 
 be spoken in this place to-day. And yet, my dear friends, you will not 
 wish me to adopt a strain of panegyric, or to become the eulogist of the 
 deceased. Nothing could be further from her wish than this should be 
 made the occasion for laudations of her character and work. Could 
 she speak to us from the silence into which she is withdrawn, she 
 would rebuke us, rather than commend us for such a wounding of her 
 humility, such an anticipation of the time when "the counsels of the 
 hearts shall be made manifest, and every man shall have praise of God." 
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 be right to dwell in chastened recollection on their virtues, and try to 
 learn what it is in them that we ought to follow. 
 
 The text holds up two things for our imitation, and they are the 
 graces which I think were peculiarly exemplified in the life and charac- 
 ter of the departed. 
 
 i. And first she had a simple, strong, courageous Christian faith. 
 In an age when faith is esteemed a weakness, and the Christian verities 
 are viewed as the obsolete tenets of a worn out creed, she preserved a 
 calm confidence in God, and in Jesus Christ as the God manifest in 
 human form for our salvation. In the society of a great city where she 
 would often meet the thoughtful skeptic, or the frivolous doubter, who 
 affects to be unsettled, because it is the thing to do, she never failed to 
 confess her faith, or to assert it in quiet and becoming ways. Said 
 one who knew her thoroughly, in an hour when faith sat mute, sur- 
 prised and stunned by this sudden blow, her faith was always strong. 
 She never wavered. She always had a child-like and unquestioning 
 trust in God. This is one of the things which we ought to mark and 
 follozv. Notice some of the ways in which her faith was evidenced 
 in her life and conversation. What did her faith do for her? 
 
 (i) You will agree with me, I am sure, when I say that one thing 
 it did was to enable her to overcome the world. "This is the victory 
 that overcometh the world, even our faith," saith the Apostle, and that 
 victory she was able, through the helping of Divine grace, signally to 
 achieve. From the requirements of her station and position, she was 
 necessarily much in the world, but she was not of it. By common con- 
 sent she was esteemed an unworldly woman. Into all worldly occupa- 
 tion and association she carried an unworldly spirit. She was an ac- 
 knowledged leader of the fashionable world, but she cared nothing for 
 its pomp and show and glittering parade. Her eye was fixed, her heart 
 was set on nobler things. As she moved in the drawing room, the as- 
 sembly, or the banquet hall, the sweet savor of Christ was shed abroad, 
 like the perfume of an incensed garment exhaling itself on the common 
 air. Thus the effect of her association with the world was to elevate 
 and purify it rather than to be lowered, herself, by its downward 
 trend. It is impossible to say that the society of Philadelphia is 
 not better, nobler, sweeter in its tone because for seven and twenty 
 years she lived in it, and carried into its most influential circles 
 the spirit of the Lord. This is strikingly confirmed by an eminent Phila- 
 delphian, a member of the Society of Friends, in an article after- 
 wards published in the Friends Intelligencer and Journal. Says the 
 writer : "The language of eulogy is apt to be overstrained, and personal 
 feeling, especially in the first days of sorrow, is apt to magnify its 
 object. But the life and labors of this woman are known to a wide 
 circle, her potent wide spread influence can be testified to by the whole 
 
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 community to which she belonged. And it is the opinion of those 
 who knew her best, and were best qualified to judge, and of many 
 accustomed to measure their utterances, that in the death of Alice 
 Lippincott, a most uncommon character had passed from earth. Strong 
 characters are not uncommon ; gentle lovely characters are also often 
 found; personal charms also measurably abound; but a complete union 
 of all, each in fullest measure, is almost never found, and when the 
 added power which wealth and social position give are joined thereto, 
 the combination is indeed a rare one. Such a union of spiritual gifts 
 and mental forces appeared in our departed friend, and produced in her, 
 as those who know her best, believe, the highest type of womanhood 
 that this generation has seen in our midst." Elsewhere the writer 
 speaks of her unrivalled influence and popularity and traces it to the 
 Christian character which lay behind the grace and charm which were 
 apparent to the world. Such a testimony from one trained to careful 
 speech, strikingly attests the general estimate which was formed of her 
 in the city which she dwealt. This is the victory of faith. Consider it ; 
 and whatever may be your own peculiar world, endeavor to gain in it 
 and gain over it the same great triumph, won by all the faithful fol- 
 lowers of the Lord. "Whose faith follow, considering the end of their 
 conversation, Jesus Christ." 
 
 (2) Another thing that faith did for the subject of these remarks, 
 was to make her fruitful in every good work by which she could 
 benefit and bless her human kind. Her faith was not a mere passive, 
 indolent assent to certain things as true but it was an energetic principle 
 of action. It made her give time and strength, without stint, to every 
 benevolent, and philanthropic scheme which she had the power to aid. 
 The public prints have told us how many were the organizations and 
 societies with which she was connected, and those who knew her well, 
 are aware how faithfully and zealously she gave attention to them all. 
 She would often rob herself of rest and devote the small hours of the 
 night to the preparation of a report or arrangement of a plan for some 
 home, asylum, or institute for whose affairs she felt responsibility; 
 and it is said that overfatigue, in the administration of charitable and 
 other matters laid her open to the attack of the sickness from which she 
 died. Her public benefactions were surpassed by her private benev- 
 olence. It was ever her delight to encourage the struggling, and to aid 
 the poor. No one will ever know how many people leaned upon her 
 for support. Her giving was marked by great simplicity, and she did 
 not wait until her help was importuned. She generally volunteered 
 it, and insisted that it should rest as a confidence between herself and 
 the recipients of her aid. One of her last acts before committing her 
 soul to God. was to ask her husband to send a check to a poor 
 woman, who she feared might be needing help. I have been surprised 
 
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 since her death, by the number of people who have admitted to me that 
 they have been aided by her in secret unsuspected ways, and these are 
 but a few of the vast aggregate of hidden charities which will never 
 come abroad on earth. Verily we may say of her in the words of Job, 
 "She was eyes to the blind and feet was she to the lame. She delivered 
 the poor that cried and the fatherless, and him that had none to help 
 him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon her, and 
 she caused the widow's heart to sing for joy." The spring of such 
 beneficence was faith. Hers was a faith that worketh by love, and 
 such loving work, every Christian according" to his measure and ability 
 is privileged to perform. Vain is the faith that is without such fruit for 
 "as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead 
 also." (3) We go on to remark that her faith was shown to be 
 essentially Christian in its character, in that it incited her to labor 
 and give most of all to the church of Christ. Though deeply interested 
 in various humanitarian and educational societies, she was most de- 
 voted to the church, and on that her ample means was most unsparingly 
 bestowed. She believed that what her Lord loved best was deserving 
 of the first place in the follower's heart. She knew that the Lord 
 Jesus did not come down from heaven, and take our nature upon Him 
 and die upon the cross for any institute, asylum or academy whatever, 
 but that "He loved the church and gave Himself for it that He might 
 sanctify it, and cleanse it with washing of water by the word" ; and 
 so the church had also the best affections of this handmaid of the 
 Lord. I need not say to you that to this Parish, in which her early 
 religious life was formed, her love and care especially were given. We 
 all know how through a long course of years it has been the recipient 
 of her bountiful and beautiful beneficience, how she marked the be- 
 ginning of her wedded life by a munificent subscription for a new 
 church building, how afterwards she built its massive tower, and how 
 she was recently engaged in the erection of the Parish House whose 
 finished proportions she was not allowed to see. Her work and labor 
 of love let us try and emulate. Whatever else we may admit within 
 our hearts, let us reserve the best place for the church which our Sav- 
 iour loved so well. To carry on the work of our church in this place 
 may require greater sacrifice from pastor and people than has been 
 demanded in the past ; that let us be glad for Jesus' sake to make. 
 
 "I love thy Kingdom, Lord, 
 The house of Thine abode. 
 The church our blest Redeemer saved 
 With His most orecious Blood. 
 For her my tears shall fall ; 
 For her my prayers ascend ; 
 To her my cares and toils be given 
 Till toils and cares shall end." 
 
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 II. Time would fail me to speak of the other grace proposed for 
 our imitation in the text, and which was set like a precious gem amid 
 the other jewels which adorned the character of the deceased. Faith 
 and Patience. She had learned "lowliness from the Lord's cradle, 
 patience from His cross." Her cup of life was filled with happiness 
 indeed, but there is no cup in which the myrrh is not sometimes 
 mingled with the wine, and she drank also from the cup of patience 
 which, as an old writer says is "set with diamonds from the mines of 
 Eden, carved by angelic hands, and filled at the eternal fount of good- 
 ness." In all the suffering and discipline of life "she possessed her 
 soul in patience." She was "patient in tribulation." She patiently 
 "continued in well-doing," and now after she had patiently endured, she 
 has attained the promises, and won the reward of those who share 
 "the Kingdom and patience of the Lord." My dear people, let us be 
 followers of the faith and patience, through which she has inherited the 
 promises. Let us use her example simply to bring us nearer to the 
 Lord, and inspire us to a more patient following of His steps. Such 
 a life puts a responsibility upon us, and we ought to be better, purer, 
 more unselfish because of our association with it. Deeply will she be 
 missed by the congregation of this Parish, let her example be a bene- 
 diction to us still. I speak not of the loss which her departure brings 
 to our Parish work. I speak only of the loss of herself. That we shall 
 never again behold on earth her cheering and inspiring presence, 
 that she will never again join us in keeping holy festival and fast 
 in these earthly courts, that life should be impoverished for us by the 
 removal of so much that beautified and enriched it, that there should be 
 taken from earth's treasures so much truth, affection, sincerity and 
 Christ-like simplicity united to womanly strength and force, it is this 
 that most affects us, this that turns this congregation and almost this 
 congregation and almost this whole community into a company of 
 mourners. Why so useful a life should have been cut short we do 
 not know. God must have had some higher field of service for her 
 in another world. We bow in submission to His Holy Will, and 
 ask Him to teach us the lessons He would have us learn. We know 
 that the departed one is not lost to us. She has only gone before 
 us and is for a little time removed from mortal sight. Her example, 
 for instance, her affection, the memory of her beautiful life will still 
 be left to us, and will be an imperishable possession of the heart. She 
 will still be one with us in the communion of the saints, and there 
 are spiritual perceptions that will yet feel "the touch of the vanished 
 hand, and hear the sound of the voice that is still." God grant 
 that through faith and patience we may become meet to join her, and 
 the whole company of the departed, who from the eternal shore look 
 back upon their toils, and behold us singing their songs of earthly 
 
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 faith and hope, while they have learned the melodies of triumph and 
 of everlasting joy. 
 
 Jesus, Lord of Glory, 
 
 As we breast the tide, 
 Whisper thou the story 
 
 Of the other side ; 
 Where the saints are casting 
 
 Crowns before Thy feet, 
 Safe for everlasting, 
 
 In Thyself complete. 
 
 The Rev. William A. Dod 
 
 by 
 
 Asa S. Colton 
 
 In offering a slight tribute to the memory of the Rev. Wm. A. Dod, 
 who died last Wednesday night, I do not propose a biographical sketch ; 
 but simply to indicate my own sense of special excellence in his life and 
 character. 
 
 I would say, to begin with, I have never known a man in whom the 
 fear of God, showing itself in a scrupulous regard for everything per- 
 taining to his Honor and service, appeared more constant and influen- 
 tial. I can hardly conceive of a more absolute submission of the 
 whole soul, and the whole life, to the requirements, or even supposed 
 will of God, than was evident in his conversation and practice. The 
 simple apprehension that anything was in accordance with the divine 
 economy in the world, or in the Church, was as decisive as a voice from 
 Heaven could make it. The same may be said of his regard to Christ 
 our Lord. This was such that he seemed to prefer the form of petition 
 addressing our Lord Jesus Christ to any other. Not that he was con- 
 scious of departing at all from the common Trinitarian theory ; but his 
 sense of our relation to God in Christ was so vivid as to fill the soul 
 and hardly leave room for other thoughts of our relations to the 
 Divine Being. 
 
 In harmony with this was one signal excellence of his preaching. 
 He directed us to Christ as a personal Saviour, with a degree of pre- 
 cision not commonly witnessed. The idea of coming to him, just as we 
 are, and for the entire salvation that he came to give, was presented 
 in such simplicity, that a child could hardly fail to carry off the exact 
 idea. He did not teach us first to master a system of doctrine, or at- 
 tain to especially gracious disposition ; but to sit as Mary did at 
 Jesus' feet, there to be taught, and there to find renewal of heart, and 
 grace for the practice of life. 
 
 As a single instance of his method of teaching, he would say, "It 
 is good to touch the hem of His garment, but better still to lean upon 
 his breast." 
 
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 Perfect simplicity in all discourses, whether in the cirle of his 
 friends or in the pulpit, was always a noticeable characteristic. There 
 was no effort in words or manner, but in the plainest way to express 
 exactly the thought and feeling intended; so that if "an honest man is 
 the noblest work of God," and as honesty reveals itself in this way, the 
 highest praise is due to this departed brother. 
 
 His sermons, thought not always quite evidently regular in method, 
 were yet uniformly suggestive and instructive. Many passages were 
 plain in style, as anything among the English sermonizers ; but with 
 frequently recurring passages of great power and poetic beauty. There 
 was often a solemnity and sweetness of tone and words, which it does 
 one good to recall, as we do special moments of feeling the purest 
 heavenly influences. 
 
 In the social circle, with students about him, he had the advantage 
 of varied acquirements and continued sympathy with the peculiarities 
 of college life — of this I am just now reminded by one who knew and 
 loved him well. 
 
 His kindly regards for the poor and disposition to take them by the 
 hand, as the children of God, wherever they seemed to be such, was also 
 noteworthy. Could I set down such testimony of his pastoral character 
 in this form, as I could easily gather, it would be a record of the highest 
 praise. 
 
 From a Sermon on 
 
 Admiral George F. Emmons, U. S. N., 
 
 by 
 
 A. B. Baker, D.D. 
 
 Permit me here to give a brief outline of his professional career. 
 Born in Vergennes, Vermont, in the year 1812, his boyhood was spent 
 in the calm seclusion of a happy home, amid the green fields and 
 glorious scenery for which his native State is noted. 
 
 On reaching his seventeenth year, he was appointed Midshipman 
 from Vermont, and immediately entered the naval school, Brooklyn, 
 where he served for the first few months of his cadetship. He was 
 then assigned to the steam frigate Fulton, with which he remained till 
 June 4, 1829. He was next appointed to the Brandywine, which was sent 
 on special service to the West Indies in 1830, and to the Mediterranean 
 in the same year. He was promoted Passed Midshipman July 14, 1834, 
 and served on the brig Consort, on the coast, for about two years. In 
 1837, he went with the bark Pioneer to the West Indies, and took 
 part in the closing acts by which Texas was rid of Santa Anna and 
 Mexican domination and became the Lone Star Republic, with its in- 
 
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 dependence recognized by the United States and several States of 
 Europe. Subsequently he was made Master and assigned to the frigate 
 Macedonian on coast service. Until 1841 he served afloat and ashore 
 with the exploring expedition among the Pacific Islands and on our 
 western coast, and contributed memorably to their efficiency and suc- 
 cess. He was on the sloop-of-war Peacock when she was wrecked on 
 a bar at the mouth of the Columbia River, but his life was mercifully 
 preserved. After receiving his commission as Lieutenant in 1841, he 
 was frequently given command of vessels sent out on surveying expedit- 
 ions, and soon was put in charge of a scientific corps to explore the 
 country south of the Columbia River to the headwaters of the Sacra- 
 mento, and thence to California to San Francisco, where the party ar- 
 rived after several skirmishes with hostile Indians. 
 
 During the following six or eight years he saw continual active 
 service in the Brazilian squadron and in various exploring expeditions. 
 In 1856 he commanded the flagship of the Brazilian squadron. He was 
 commissioned a Commander, January 28, 1856. When the war broke 
 out, he was a member of the Lighthouse Board, but was at once sent to 
 the Gulf of Mexico for blockade duty. 
 
 He afterward commanded several steamers on the Mississippi River, 
 and while serving there he took a score of prizes, most of which sailed 
 under the British flag, and also captured Cedar Keys and Pass Chris- 
 tian. He was promoted to a Captaincy, February 7, 1863, and was fleet 
 captain under Admiral Dahlgren at the reduction of Fort Sumter. Sub- 
 sequently he commanded a large division of blockade vessels in the 
 Gulf. While in the vicinity of New Orleans, he assisted in capturing a 
 formidable ram, and on more than one occasion thwarted the attempts of 
 the Confederates to burn the shipping and city by means of fire rafts. 
 He remained with the Gulf squadron till the close of the war, and after 
 the battle smoke had cleared away he had the pleasing task of com- 
 manding the Ossipee on her peaceful mission to Alaska ; and at Sitka, 
 on October 9, 1867, he hoisted the American flag over that newly 
 acquired territory. After receiving his commission as Commodore, on 
 September 20, 1868, he was appointed Senior Member of the Ordnance 
 Board at Washington, and subsequently placed in charge of the Hydro- 
 graphic Office. From 1870 to 1872 he commanded the Naval Station at 
 Philadelphia. He was commissioned Rear Admiral November 5, 1872, 
 and was placed upon the retired list, by the limitation of the statute, 
 in 1873. Thus his term of active service extended through nearly half 
 the period of our national existence ; and brethren, we, who calmly 
 listened to the unimpassioned outline of his professional career, can have 
 no idea of the hardship, the danger, the self-sacrifice, which properly 
 belongs to its filling up. Admiral Emmons went through it all with a 
 brave and intrepid heart. He carried a spirit of self-devotion into his 
 
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 life-work, and there never was a moment when he would not have laid 
 down his life for the honor of the flag under which he sailed. But it 
 gives a higher lustre to his name to remember that his spirit of devotion 
 was baptized in the blood of the Lamb. The life which he devoted 
 to his country he also consecrated to his God, and his knightly feeling 
 for the government of his land was converted by the Hand that makes 
 all things new, into a chivalry to the Cross. He was not one of those 
 whose heart could beat for his country's cause, and yet be dead to the 
 patriotism of the true Fatherland ; who could strike for the free Con- 
 stitution of his birth, and yet would not champion the cause of "that 
 liberty wherewith Christ has made us free." His lower service but 
 prepared him for the higher, and the life which was given to the 
 earthly country he admired, was yielded, also, to the Heavenly Ruler 
 he adored. For this, my friends, his name will endure when all the 
 records of his earthly service are forgotten, and the nation for which 
 he fought shall itself have passed away. 
 
 Another element in the military character, which may easily be 
 transmuted into something nobler, is its sense of justice, and its love 
 of right. The end of warfare is usually the vindication of a right, as 
 the end of a debate is the establishment of a truth ; and when a nation 
 makes appeal to arms, it is usually on the ground that there is no other 
 tribunal to which its cause may be carried, and the ends of justice be 
 secured. The officer who bears its sword is but the embodiment of its 
 sense of justice, and none possessed this sense in a fuller measure than 
 the illustrious one we honor. His love of equity was strong and con- 
 trolling, and he ever meted out the justice he demanded as his due. 
 Fittingly might his epitaph be written, a just man made perfect. If 
 justice be the foundation attribute to God, then it must afford a solid 
 basis for the Christian character of man ; and when properly tempered 
 by the attribute of mercy, it makes us most resemble Him, in whom 
 "Mercy and truth are met together, and righteousness and peace have 
 kissed each other." 
 
 None could know our departed friend without feeling that he could 
 be merciful as well as just, and that he was every ready to put a chari- 
 table construction upon the motives of an offender. The war he made 
 was against principles rather than against men, and if with the repre- 
 sentatives of evil principles he was at enmity with them, as individuals, 
 he was at peace. It is most edifying to remember how he combined 
 the spirit of the peacemaker with the zealous affection for a righteous 
 cause. Often it was his study how to heal a difference, or restore the 
 broken amity of friends. This is for our imitation. Unless we have 
 something of the same spirit, in vain shall we try to hold converse with 
 the company of heaven. 
 
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 "How pure in heart and sound in head, 
 With what divine affections bold 
 Should be the man whose thoughts would hold 
 An hour's communion with the dead ! 
 
 In vain shalt thou or any call 
 
 The spirit from their golden day, 
 Except like them thou canst say, 
 
 My spirit is at peace with all." 
 
 Another trait that easily lends itself to the uses of religion, is 
 courage; and this, touched by the Holy Spirit, becomes that noble 
 moral quality, which enables its possessor, in spite of ridicule or oppo- 
 sition always dare to do right. Our illustrious friend had it in a high 
 degree. Never was he afraid to avow his principles ; never was he 
 ashamed to confess himself a Christian, even in the society of the un- 
 believing or profane. It was his custom to read prayers on shipboard, 
 when the services of a chaplain could not be had ; and his well-worn 
 prayer book, marked at favorite places and at prayers most suitable 
 for his use, is a treasured memorial of his fidelity in the conduct of 
 devotion when at sea. 
 
 Another thing still that predisposes toward the Christian life is the 
 self-subjection of the military man. In the strict regimen of military 
 life, one learns to rule himself and to yield to the rule of others, and in 
 this way the trained officer acquires the ability to command. Is it not 
 -the first requirement of religion that one should frame himself to sub- 
 jection and to acquiesence in the orderings of the Will Supreme? This 
 our departed friend had learned cheerfully to do. Like the centurion 
 under authority, in the Gospels, he saw everywhere the rule of law, and 
 the obedience he exacted from those beneath him he ever rendered to the 
 Will which ruleth over all. This Will for him was that of an all-wise 
 and all-loving God, and he could not think of rebelling against it, even 
 when its dictates seemed inscrutable or severe. When the stern man- 
 date came, "Set thine house in order, thou shalt die and not live," he 
 submitted without a murmur or a sigh. 
 
 Well do I remember that when, on the occasion of a pastoral visit, 
 two weeks before the end, I spoke of the possibility that his sickness 
 might be fatal and of the blessedness of submission to the Father's 
 Will, he replied: My life has been a happy one, and I have always 
 taken great enjoyment in the beautiful world which God has fitted up 
 for the home of the man ; if He permit, I would like "to recover my 
 strength before I go hence and am no more seen." But folding his 
 hands upon his breast, he looked up and added : "Not my will, but 
 thine O God, be done." The rest of his days were days of patient 
 waiting and looking, that he might "understand what the Will of the 
 Lord" was. 
 
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 Another characteristic often developed by a military life is fidelity 
 to duty. This is involved in what had already been said, but it deserves 
 to be brought out with greater distinctness. When penetrated by the 
 religious spirit, such fidelity becomes conscientious, and it is trans- 
 figured by the end at which the Christian ever aims — the Glory of his 
 Maker. 
 
 Certainly, duty was the inspiration of the life we are considering, 
 and duty undertaken "heartily as to the Lord and not unto men." Not 
 only was this true of that portion of the life which moved amid stirring 
 scene and great event, but also of that part of it which was passed 
 in leisure and retirement. He carried the spirit of fidelity into every- 
 thing he undertook. Soon after his relinquishment of active service, 
 he was made a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and, 
 some four years before his death, he became its Senior Vice-commander. 
 How faithfully he performed the duties of this position, learn from the 
 minute of the Companions of the Legion, which, in part, I now quote : 
 "In the discharge of his duty he officiated at the institution of this 
 commandery. In the performance of the functions of his office, at that 
 time, he endeared himself to us. The reverence he manifested for the 
 distingushed duty he undertook, the dignity of his bearing, the modest 
 merit that cast a halo about him, and the geniality of his companionship, 
 will be held by us in highest esteem while memory lasts. He was one 
 of those noble gentlemen whose refinement by the principles of the 
 Christian civilization, whose culture by education and association with 
 many eminent people met while travelling around the world, whose 
 spotless integrity, whose capacity to know the right, with the courage 
 to maintain it, and whose quiet but reliable faithfulness to duty, have 
 conspired with other things to add lustre to our national character. 
 He was actively engaged in the service of his country forty-five years, 
 three months, and twenty-three days, and he never drew a breath that 
 was not perfectly loyal to the flag that is representative of all that is 
 best in modern' civilization. We honor the man, and mourn his loss." 
 Of his fidelity in other spheres we ourselves were witnesses. Early in 
 his retirement he was made a vestryman of this Parish, and in 1879 
 was elected its Senior Warden. On informing him of his election, he 
 said that he esteemed it an honor to hold any position in the Church 
 of Christ, and he hoped that wisdom would be given him for the dis- 
 charge of the duties now committed to him. Surely, he will be remem- 
 bered concerning this, and God will not "wipe out the good deeds that 
 he has done for the house of his God, and for offices thereof." 
 
 Time will not permit us to dwell upon the many illustrations of this 
 spirit of fidelity in other spheres of duty. He was faithful as a parent, 
 faithful as a citizen, faithful as a friend, and, being faithful unto death, 
 
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 must there not be said to him on the day of final reckoning, "Well done, 
 good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 To commemorate the life and example of such a man, there has 
 been placed upon the solid piers of this church the beautiful tablet 
 which meets our gaze to-day. As the names of the spiritual Israel are 
 written upon the great walls of the Heavenly Temple, so on the walls 
 of the earthly there has been inscribed the name of this servant of the 
 living God. Long may this monument endure, and may it speak to 
 generations yet unborn, of the faith and fidelity of the one whose name 
 it bears. Time, indeed, must touch it with its mouldering hand. But 
 the righteousness of a good man remaineth forever; and this shall be 
 his memorial when the graven brass shall have been corroded, and the 
 monumental marble shall have crumbled into dust. On the polished 
 surface of this metal affection has inscribed the words, "Blessed are 
 the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Surely, my friends, we 
 have been thinking of one to whom this beatitude most fittingly applies, 
 for we count him pure, not only because of the habitual pureness of his 
 living, but because he had been purified; because he had "washed his 
 robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Such purity 
 is not only of the outward dress, but of the inward soul of the Christian 
 man, and it clarifies the vision of the soul and enables him to see "Him 
 who is invisible." It is as the eye through which the soul beholds Him, 
 who now is seen "as through a glass and darkly," but by and by shall 
 be seen "face to face." The beatitude is fulfilled for the departed one, 
 and in the pure light of the heavenly world he sees God. 
 
 And now, brethern, let us try to heed that cry of the Liturgy, 
 "Sursum Corda," and lift up the heart and mind to that blessed life, 
 into which all our beloved ones, who have been purified in the Precious 
 Blood, have now entered. There the soldier has laid down his sword, 
 the pilgrim his staff, and the tired saint his garments of mortality and 
 sin. There the lines of care, which once furrowed the brow, have been 
 smoothed away; the tear, which once dimmed the lustre of the eye, has 
 been dried forever by the Hand of God. No stain is on the robes that 
 glisten in the eternal sunlight, no fear or trouble in the hearts that rest 
 in perfect peace upon the bosom of eternal love. "They shall hunger 
 no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, 
 nor any more heat. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor 
 crying, neither shall there be any more pain." 
 
 "Now they reign in heavenly glory, 
 Now they walk in golden light, 
 Now they drink as from a river 
 Holy bliss and infinite. 
 
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 Love and Peace they taste forever, 
 And all trnth and knowledge see 
 
 In the beatific vision 
 Of the blessed Trinity." 
 
 Trinity Church Choir. 
 
 The records of the early musical history of Trinity Church are 
 meagre in the extreme. The first mention of an organist is found 
 in the Vestry minutes for May 1842, when Mr. George Young was 
 appointed in place of Mr. S. Smith. A year later Mr. Young entered 
 the Roman Catholic Church, and his brother Alfred was appointed in 
 his place May 15, 1843. Mr. Alfred Young later entered college and 
 as he was not graduated until 1848 he must have been a very youthful 
 organist at the time of his appointment. In August 1845 he was taking 
 organ lessons at Philadelphia and the Vestry was paying his tuition 
 bills. He remained organist of Trinity at least six years and resigned 
 between 1849 and 1851. Later he studied medicine, then entered the 
 priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church and became Vice-President 
 of Seton Hall. His successor on the Trinity organ-bench was Mrs. 
 Genevieve Smith who died in the summer of 1851. Among Mrs. 
 Smith's successors were Miss M. Clifton, Mrs. Carrie Priest (then 
 Miss Carrie Ross), and Professor Carl Langlotz, who was an instructor 
 in the college and who is well known to Princetonians as the composer 
 of "Old Nassau." In December 1868 a Mr. Groser was appointed 
 organist. He resigned in the following June. 
 
 Until 1870 the choir consisted either of a volunteer quartet or of a 
 mixed chorus. The first vested boy choir was organized in 1870 with 
 Dr. Henry S. Cutler as trainer and Miss Maria F. Stevens as organist. 
 Miss Stevens resigned in May 1876, and for several years thereafter 
 the college was drawn on for this important post. The organists for the 
 last thirty-five years have been James P. Dod (Princeton '78) ; Charles 
 I. Young '83; Harris C. Meserole '86; Charles I. Young '83; (October 
 1886 to April 1887) ; Alfred S. Baker '90 (April 18S7 to October 
 
 1889) ; John M. Mayhew '92 (October 1889 to April 1892) ; L. F. Pease 
 '95 (1892 to 1893; Walter Cottrell (1893 to 1895) ; Augustus Dohm '00 
 1895; R. W. Brace '96 (1895 to 1896) ; Walter Cottrell (1896 to 1902) : 
 George B. Rodgers (1902 to date.) 
 
 In many cases the organists have been their own choirmasters but 
 the following gentlemen have served in the latter capacity alone : Rich- 
 ard F. Conover '80; Horace S. Emmons (resigned January 1883); 
 Professor Charles McMillan (1883 to 1889) ; John S. Conant (1889 to 
 
 1890) ; C. A. Bowlds 1895; V. L. Collins (during the winter of 1895-96) ; 
 Augustus Dohm (1896 to 1902). 
 
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 At various times between 1887 and 1902 there was a retro choir 
 of ladies to support the boys and for solo work when there were no boy 
 soloists. Among the leading boy soloists that the choir has pro- 
 duced may be mentioned Phillip Bennett, Jacob Petz, and David Lloyd ; 
 and we add the present soloists James Robinson, Jr., MacKay Sturges, 
 and Vernon Farr. In length of service, the senior members of the 
 choir at present are Mr. C. A. Bowlds who began as a boy in 1878, Mr. 
 Augustus Dohm who also began as a soprano in 1888 and Mr. V. L. 
 Collins who entered the choir in 1889. On the roll of boys who have 
 sung in the choir as compiled by Mr. Bowlds are listed over 200 names, 
 while there are 96 names on the list of men singers. Among visiting 
 choirmasters who have in years past assisted in training Trinity boys, 
 have been such famous American organists and church composers as 
 Dr. Cutler, Mr. Le Jeune and Mr. Stubbs. The present organist and 
 choirmaster Mr. Rodgers is one of Mr. Stubbs' pupils. 
 
 The Trinity choir began to win reputation under the directorship 
 of Mr. Charles I. Young, the talented son of the late Professor 
 Charles A. Young of Princeton University. An occasion of special in- 
 terest during his incumbency was the celebration at Trinity of the 
 Second Annual Choir Festival of New Jersey, in November 1882. In- 
 spired by Mr. Young's example, Mr. Alfred S. Baker who had been 
 Mr. Young's assistant, set about the work when he succeeded Mr. 
 Young with an enthusiasm which knew no bounds and with results that 
 were remarkable. The Churchman for December 24 1887, says: 
 
 "Stirring accounts reach us of the fine choral work in Trinity 
 Church, Princeton, N. J., under the direction of Mr. Alfred S. Baker, 
 organist and choirmaster ; by correspondence and clippings from the 
 local press. Within less than a year an ordinary parish choir, vested, 
 has under this intelligent worker, been changed into an exceptionally 
 excellent one. The beautiful church with its effective organ and proper 
 chancel arangements is essentially adapted to such a choir and service, 
 and among the choirmasters who have served the parish are Dr. Cutler, 
 the Messrs. Le Jeune, Stubbs and Dod, so that the boys are thoroughly 
 trained in the head tone method of vocal delivery. The music 
 calendars are from the most celebrated modern composers." 
 
 In November 1888 the eighth annual Festival of the choir guild of 
 New Jersey was held at Trinity when Mr. Baker presided at the organ, 
 and evoked numerous flattering press notives. A study of Mr. Baker's 
 lists shows the high class of music his choirs provided. A composer 
 of positive genius and a brilliant organist he had the ability to fire his 
 boys and men with his own enthusiasm. He was a thorough musician 
 whose taste was only for the best in church music, and his service lists 
 maintained a high standard of quality seldom found outside metro- 
 politan circles. On his resignation the Vestry passed the following 
 resolution under date of October 6, 1889 : 
 
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 "Whereas Mr. Alfred S. Baker, organist and choirmaster of 
 Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J., has resigned his office to accept a 
 similar one in Morristown, N. J. 
 
 Resolved that the Wardens and Vestrymen of this Church deeply 
 regret that Mr. Baker's interests should call him away to another 
 Parish, and do also desire hereby to record their very high apprecia- 
 tion of the able, zealous and most generous manner in which he has 
 served this Church in the important position above named." 
 
 Mr. Baker did not allow his departure from Princeton for wider 
 fields, first at Morristown, N. J., and then at St. James' Church, New 
 York City, to separate him entirely from the church and choir of his 
 boyhood and early professional years. He visited Princeton regularly 
 to give the choir the benefit of his assistance, and occasionally gave 
 organ recitals in Trinity bringing with him soloists from his own 
 choir, and once or twice even bringing his whole choir to give some 
 special service. At his death in 1896 his choir was disbanded, but in 
 December 1897, the boys and men forming it re-assembled at Trinity 
 to hold a memorial service in memory of their late director. Of this 
 service the Trinity Record had the following comment to make on its 
 issue for December 1897 : 
 
 "It was a delicate tribute of the personal qualities of the late Alfred 
 S. Baker, that his choir of St. James should have desired the memorial 
 service on December n, and asked that they might hold it in Trinity 
 Church. Choral evensong was sung, Mr. Baker's Magnificat and Nunc 
 Dimittis in E flat being used with his anthem "O God who hast 
 prepared," and the tenor aria from his unfinished oratorio "The Desire 
 of All Nations." The recessional was the favorite "Jerusalem My 
 Happy Home," another of Mr. Baker's compositions. Bishop Scar- 
 borough and the Rev. S. R. Nichols, formerly of St. James made brief 
 addresses. On Mr. Baker's death his St. James' choir disbanded but 
 their splendid training was very evident in their beautiful rendition 
 of his superb music. Messrs. Novello and Ewer, his publishers, 
 printed the order of service, and the high regard in which they held 
 him as a composer was shown by their preface to the list of his works." 
 
 The Processional Cross now used in Trinity was presented in 1903 
 by the Rev. Wifliam Osborn Baker, himself an old Trinity choirboy, 
 in memory of his brother. 
 
 For several years after Mr. Baker left Princeton and in spite of the 
 assistance he rendered by visits, the choir suffered unavoidably by the 
 inability of the Parish to support an organist and choirmaster who should 
 devote his whole time to the work. The constant change of under- 
 graduate organists was particularly harmful. The faithful work under 
 adverse circumstances and the remarkable results shown by Mr. Cot- 
 trell and Mr. Dohm, organist and choirmaster respectively for six 
 years, revealed the possibilities that lay behind a proper system, and in 
 1902 Mr. George B. Rodgers was appointed to the double office. 
 
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 Speaking of his work a year later the Church Standard of May 9, 1903, 
 said in an article on the music at Trinity in Mr. Baker's time : 
 
 "Latterly there has been a return to some degree of the old-time 
 interest. The present organist, George B. Rodgers, has undertaken 
 the work of restoration. He has been filling out the choir, and now 
 has a goodly number of fresh round voices, which balance and har- 
 monize well together. Faithful drill is bringing the organization into 
 a state of preparedness. It is fitting, therefore that musical offices 
 should be resumed. On the evening of the Second Sunday after Easter 
 just past there was a full choral evensong, with anthems and address 
 appropriate to the occasion. The cantor was the curate, the Rev. 
 Harvey Officer, Jr., who gave a good example to all like officiants in 
 that he used the "festival tune" for collects, that is the monotone with 
 proper inflections and cadences." 
 
 Mr. Rodgers' personal influence has been able to enlist the interest 
 of an admirable class, of boys, with the result that the morals and 
 discipline of the choir has been improved, and he has been enabled to 
 give Lenten cantatas and to join in special festival services with 
 Trinity Church, Trenton. In recent years a pleasant feature has been 
 the maintenance of a summer camp at Spring Lake where, thanks 
 to the generosity of certain members of the congregation, the choir 
 enjoys an annual two weeks' outing at the shore. Another feature is 
 the formation of the Galahad Club which, while open to all young 
 men and boys of the town on election, has however been specially 
 instrumental in retaining the interest of old choir boys resident in the 
 town. 
 
 V. L. C. 
 
 The St. Paul's Society. 
 1875-1908. 
 
 The history of the St. Paul's Society cannot of necessity be a 
 record of unusual or dramatic occurrences. Its work from the be- 
 ginning has been of a quiet, undemonstrative kind without especial 
 incident and marked chiefly by a gradual broadening rendered possible 
 by the increase in the number of churchmen in the University. 
 
 The career of the society from the time of its founding may be 
 divided into three fairly well marked sections as follows: from 
 1875 — 1882; 1882 — 1902; 1902 — 1908. 
 
 The first record meeting of the Society was held in November 1875. 
 There had however evidently been at least one meeting before this' 
 for we find a committee on "Name and Constitution", reporting. As a 
 matter of fact, there had existed since about 1870 a society of students 
 known as "The Rector's Aid Society," from which the present St. 
 Paul's Society is descended. 
 
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 At this meeting in November 1875, the present name of the Society- 
 was adopted and from it we may date the corporate life of the present 
 organization. Unfortunately, however, the exact date cannot be ascer- 
 tained. We have however a list of the officers chosen, and members 
 elected at that meeting as follows : President, The Rev. A. B. Baker ; 
 Vice-President, Mr. Johnson; Secretary, Mr. Mayo; Treasurer, Mr. 
 Turnure. Members — Messrs. Davis, Whittlesey, Thompson, Turnure, 
 Townsend, Clarke, Parker, Green, Pyne, Williamson, Barclay, Walker, 
 MacFarland, Black, Vail, Poulteney, Ridgely, McAlenout, Archer and 
 Shriver. 
 
 It is probable that to these as charter members should be added the 
 names of those who had constituted the membership of the Rector's 
 Aid Society ; and formed the nucleus of the new organization, but it 
 is impossible to secure any record of such. 
 
 The Society thus organized soon became active along several lines 
 of work. Regular monthly meetings for business were held which 
 were preceded by religious exercises. Special services with visiting 
 preachers were arranged and held. In February 1876, the Society 
 adopted as its own the missionary work carried on at Princeton Basin, 
 a work which has been maintained ever since then. In April 1876, a 
 paper to be prepared by one of the members was made a feature of the 
 meetings. There is no roll for the year 1875-76, extant; but we may 
 estimate the number of members as probaly about thirty. The meetings 
 were held in the Sunday School room of Trinity Church. 
 
 From this point, i. e., early in 1876 the records of the Society are 
 complete and satisfactory for a period of about six years. Through this 
 time the meetings were held monthly or fortnightly and for a time 
 weekly with an average attendance of about twenty. At these meetings 
 devotional exercises were held, business transacted and papers read. 
 The range of subjects of these last was very wide extending from 
 "Mohammedanism" to "The Feast of the Epiphany," and including 
 "Our Church Hymns", "St. Augustine", "The Early English Bible", 
 and "The Nicene Creed." The work at the Basin Chapel was main- 
 tained apparently with considerable interest and success, while about 
 1880 the Rector widened the work of the Society by securing lay readers 
 from its members to assist in the mission work at Sand Hills, and 
 Rocky Hill. Occasional services were held especially during Lent, with 
 sermons by visiting clergy. 
 
 There is also one feature of this period which should not be 
 passed over entirely although because of scantiness of information it 
 is impossible to do more than mention it. We find the Society, early 
 in its career endeavoring to place itself in line with work in other 
 colleges and universities. The Day of Prayer for Colleges is noted and 
 observed. Correspondence is carried on with church Societies in Yale, 
 
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 Harvard and Trinity. The Society is represented at several intercolleg- 
 itate meetings looking toward greater cooperation among organizations 
 of church students, all of which shows a certain activity and breadth 
 of outlook which are most creditable. 
 
 But this was not a time of untroubled calm or unbroken prosperity. 
 There appear to have been occasional healthly differences of opinion 
 among the members. Early in the Society's career a motion to change 
 its name to the Student's Episcopal Society of Princeton College was 
 offered and laid on the table. Disciplinary measures have to be 
 adopted in regard to non-attending members. A motion that a certain 
 member should read the paper at the next meeting is defeated, though 
 we find the member a short time later reading a paper and receiving 
 the thanks of the Society for his "able, eloquent, interesting and highly 
 instructive composition." Volunteers appear to be needed at the Basin 
 Sunday School, and the work of the committee to secure visiting 
 preachers seems to have been of a vexing character, one such com- 
 mittee reporting that in response to nine requests they had received 
 nine refusals. 
 
 We have treated this period of from 1875-1882 in somewhat full 
 fashion for the reason that it constitutes the formative portion of the 
 Society's life. During these years, the Society was shaping itself on 
 lines along which was to exercise its activities in its after life. The 
 impress received in those first years has persisted until the present. 
 The period from 1882-1902, contains little to be noted. The records are 
 scanty about all that has been preserved being the minutes of two 
 meetings held in each college year when officers were elected. The 
 custom of frequent meetings with papers read by the members died out 
 during this time. But the period was in the main a holding to the 
 principles established earlier and the value of the Society while not of 
 a sort than be reduced to record was doubtless considerable. 
 
 One branch of the activities was of especial worth and interest, 
 namely, the lay reading. This both attracted and interested many men 
 and also broadened their knowledge of the Church and her ways, and 
 strengthened their own religious life. Among those who shared in this 
 work were men prominent in all sorts of college activities. It was not 
 unusual for a lay reader to present himself before his country congre- 
 gation on Sunday bearing marks received on the football field the 
 afternoon before, which made it evident that here was an active 
 member of the church militant. During the last three years of this 
 period the Society was especially under the care of the Rev. Charles 
 S. Fackenthall. 
 
 The Society was also strengthened during this period by the steady 
 increase in members of the church students in the university. 
 
 The last period of the Society's career i.e., from 1902 to the 
 
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 present is largely the record of one man's work. The growth of 
 Trinity Parish and the increasing number of churchmen in the uni- 
 versity led to the calling of the Rev. Harvey Officer, Jr., as curate 
 of Trinity, with especial oversight of the St. Paul's Society, and for 
 the next four years, up to the time of his resignation in September 
 1906 to enter Order of the Holy Cross, his labors were largely respon- 
 sible for increased interest and efficiency. Gifted with great social 
 charm, endowed with extraordinary intellectual powers, above 
 all possessed of fervent zeal and deep spirituality, he was both splendidly 
 equipped for, and eminently successful in his work. 
 
 Under his direction, the Society undertook systematic Bible classes 
 for its members, a monthly corporate Communion was instituted, and 
 more frequent meetings were held. The mission work was continued 
 and the Society became a chapter of the Church Students' Missionary 
 Association and sent delegations to its conventions. The special eve- 
 ning services were increased, and at last one "Quiet Day" was held, 
 conducted by Fr. Huntington, O. H. C. 
 
 Since Fr. Officer's resignation the work of the Society has been 
 under the general oversight of the present curate of Trinity, the Rev. 
 Ralph B. Pomeroy, B.D. 
 
 And here we may close our record, an honorable one though it be 
 not one of great and signal events. The Society has for over thirty 
 years striven to gather together the sons of the church to strengthen 
 their loyalty and love for their spiritual mother. Nnmbered among its 
 former members are many now faithful and devoted lay men and a 
 goodly number of clergy. One of its former presidents has been 
 elevated to the episcopate, the Rt. Rev. F. H. Spalding D.D., '87, Bishop 
 of Salt Lake. 
 
 But the full record of its work can never be written here on earth. 
 It can only be known at the day of the revelation of all things done 
 in the name and for the sake of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
 
 R. B. POMEROY.