Flimsy Edifice Whose Roof Fell in the Forerunner to Present Cathedral ninety years now a British church in Shanghai has continued to peal forth week after week its invitation to devout residents to attend divine service—not the same church building, of course, for there have been two.
May 23 was celebrated in Holy Trinity Cathedral as the 90th anniversary, being Trinity Sunday in the 90th year since the opening of the origi church, No one knows the date when this was opened, so that Trinity Sunday was chosen as the most convenient time at which to celebrate the anniversary. Included among the: special prayers at the morning's service was the following:—"May the lessons taught here have blessed fruition. May the prayers accident which ended. fatally. He tered here be presented in the gold. had accompanied the officers of en censer by Christ, the great Lil HIMS. Marine on a trip to Pootoo, Priest, to the Fother. "May the and there, in September, 1049, when blessed sacraments of love here ad-the yesso! was on the point of return ministered refresh and strength Ing, hho was drowned, many world-worn souls, "and may those who gather here meet without Church Root Falls tu, a parting shadow in "the house not The next chaplain was the Rev. made with hands, eternal in the John Hobson, who held the post for heavens." This prayer was uttered twelve years, The church seems to at the laying of the foundation stone have been of rather flimsy construc of the present building by Dean tion, and on June 24, 1850, a calamity Butcher in 1860, occurred. The root fell in during a Publis worship had been held for! heavy storm, at a time when, for-some three or four years in Shanghai tunately, there was no one in the before the residents decided that building' The repairs cost_half of was necessary to have their own the cost of the building. The old church. Te first document in the church. was destroyed in 1962, and Cathedral archives is a minute dated ts place was taken by a temporary April 6, 1847, and reading as fol-building which served until the opening of the Cathedral in 1809, First Document The Arst baptism in Trinity Church "whereas it is deemed important took place on October 14, 1849, when for our own personal edification, for Me. Hobson. baptised his own son, the interest of religion, that measures and the first marriage on April, 14, should be immediately taken to bulld 1852, performed by the Bishop" of a church and secure the services of
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