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ALL SAINTS CHURCH: CENTURY OF SERVICE IN NEW YORK CITY, 1972 Celebratory History

 
Title: ALL SAINTS CHURCH: A Century of Service in New York City
Author: Many contributors, see below
Published: 1972 Vail-Ballou Press for All Saints Church, New York City
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Format: Book
No. Pages: 93 pgs
Size: about 6-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches
Edition: unstated, assumed first edition
Cover: hardcover
Illustrations/Photos: b&w photos
Language: English
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About this Book:

Compiled and edited by John W. Blough, Carey Congdon, Olive Johnson, Isobel C Lee, The Rev. R. DeWitt Mallary, Jr., Mary Craig Schuller, and The Rev. Charles W. Scott. From the archives of St. Thomas Chapel and All Saints Church, assembled by Helen Johnson; special sections by Dennis Michno, organist; Stoddard D. Platt, clerk of the vestry; Lloyd A. Wenk, lifetime member. Illustrations from the parish archives with new photographs by Elizabeth H. Burpee. From the Preface:

The ministry of worship and service offered in All Saints Church has its origins in the Free Chapel founded by St. Thomas Church on May 2, 1858, at the corner of Prince and Thompson Streets, in a building which was about to be transformed into a stable.

Ten years later, when St. Thomas Church was itself preparing to move uptown (from Houston Street and Broadway to its present site on Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street), the chapel took over the Church of the Good Shepherd on East 54th Street, where the first service was held on Sunday evening, March 29, 1868. When the lease on this property expired a search was made for more secure premises, and three lots were bought on East 60th Street. Here, on October 4, 1872, Bishop Horatio Potter laid the cornerstone of the third St. Thomas Chapel.

It is the centenary of this event which All Saints Church celebrates this year of 1972.

The story of this hundred years is made up of multiple strands — the imaginative and painstaking efforts of many people, clerical and lay, to enter into the lives of the thousands of newcomers who were building their first American homes on the East Side of Manhattan Island. Their joy in service, and the mutual sympathy and affection that sprang up among parishioners of St. Thomas Church and parishioners of its chapel, come clearly through the statistics and records of the vicars' annual reports. These reports further convey the quality of the services offered. The industrial school and the girls' club taught useful crafts designed to augment income in times of economic distress. The day-care nursery was considered the best-equipped in New York. Lending libraries, cooking classes, clubs for men, women, boys and girls, extended into the daily life of the neighborhood the encouragement and comfort of chapel services. As the need arose, there were successively a Chinese, a Czechoslovak, and a German Sunday School. A club of German women enjoyed the hospitality of the parish house. The chapel was, as one vicar was to describe it, "a hive of social activities." Indeed, the story of St. Thomas Chapel reflects the dramatic changes in the populations which it served from its successive sites-the movement ever typical of New York.

Finally, the story is an account of a developing sense of responsibility on the part of the parish for whom the work had been put in hand as a service to the Master and to his children — responsibility which, with mutual understanding and consent, led to independence and to All Saints Church today.


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