St. Mark's church in the city of Brooklyn : "Looking backward and forward, or, sixty years, a plea for endowment"

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1* OCT 19 1911 *

REV. SPENCER S. ROCHE, D.D.. Rector

REV. WM. MONTGOMERY DOWNEY, Assistant

HERBERT R. JOHNSTON, Lay Reader

REV. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, D.D., in charge of the
work among Deaf Mutes

Clement Lockitt Charles A. Bryan

Olrraaurrr

Clement Lockitt

Urstriimm

Edward J. Cami'hell John Wilson

Edward M. Johnston Henry C. Siegmann, Clerk

John H. de les Derniers Francis C. E. von Sternherg

Edwin F. Page Alexander H. Tomkins

(Enmmittrp of Uratry uu 0t. iKark's ^ixtirtl) Auuiurraarii

Clement Lockitt Edward M. Johnston

Henry C. Sie(;mann

dmnmittrr nf iBnra (Club

W. R. T. Johnston A. H. Rissell

J. MrARIHLR

(Eommtttrr of iBrnthrrhuuiii

Geor(;e G. Grimm Andrew J. Lamiiertson

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"i't ilark'a (EI|urrl| in tl|p Qltty nf Irooklyti"

(Original and legal title.)

The only Episcopal Church between Holy Trinity
on the Heights and vSt. Mary's on Classon Avenue, a
distance of nearly two iniles, and from the Navy Yard
on the East River, to the Church of the Messiah on
Greene Avenue, a distance of a mile and a half; this area
consisting" of more than one hundred closely-populated
city blocks containing not less than two hundred
thousand souls, in the past mostly Atnerican Protestant,
but rapidly receiving Roman Catholics, Hebrews and
many other nationalities and religions, — good citizens
but not Anglican Churchmen.

(§i\t ^m\hrtii (<,ljnuaanfi SoUara uiill ^irr^rtuatr out Work.

The First Church in Fleet Place, built by the Church
of the Holy Trinity, 1859. Cost of three lots, $1800.
construction, furnishing- and bell, $3609.64; total i$5409. 64
Abandoned i860.

Rev. Francis Peck, 1S50-1859

Rev. Edmund Emhurv, 1859

Rev. Thomas G. Carver, 1859-1861

Ask for ffittp l^imbr^li ©ItiiuBattli inllara
to lEttbnui ^t Mtxtk*B

This Church, organized sixty years ago, passed its
first twenty-five years in a struggle for existence. Several
times it was on the verge of extinction. Every five or
six years it had to pass a crisis from which the most of
its adherents believed the only outcome must be death.
Churches are not kept in existence so long unless they
have a work assigned them by Providence, and unless
they endeavor to discharge their obligations.

The last thirty-five years have seen the gathering,
through the self-sacrifice and liberality of the parishioners
and their friends, of a property consisting of Church,
Chapel and Rectory, valued at §130,000, against which
there is not a dollar of debt.

Changes both actual and foreshadowed in the neigh-
borhood render it impossible to maintain the hard-won
property without some judicious amount of endowment
to secure the service of a properly trained and capable
minister,

lllr iiccii (i)itr ffiuiiiirri't alunuuutii DiiUarn.

The general principle should be admitted that
wherever a parish gathers a valuable property, it ought
to go a little further and accumulate a productive fund,
that, in the case of failing financial strength, will still
permit utilization of the property for religious purposes.

The Parish has conducted for sixty years a Sunday
School, for twenty years an Industrial School for teach-
ing little girls to sew and to care for households. We
have a choir organization for the training of boys, women
and men, the boys especially in the care of their persons,
as well as in morals and religion. We maintain societies
where the physical, athletic and social demands of youth
are regarded.

The Second Church, DeKalh and Portland Avenues,
erected by the congregation. Cost of ground 85000;
cost of edifice, $3500; total $8500; occupied December
23, i860; sold in the fall of 1865, to the Lafayette Ave-
nue Presbyterian Church, Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler,
Pastor, for their Mission, which later became the memo-
rial Presbyterian Church, St. John's Place and Seventh
Avenue, Rev. T. Calvin McClelland, Pastor.
Rev. Thomas G. Carver, 1859-1861
Rev. Thomas F. Cornell, M. D., 1861-1869

of 2{ra0tmt. (Uljarilg. dulUtrp. Uplift.

In this Parish was inaugurated the work for the
relief of the blind, which culminated in the Home for
the Blind on the Church Charity Foundation. Without
charging one dollar, we have opened our church every
Sunday for twenty-one years, to a service for the Deaf
Mutes of Brooklyn, and for the same term we have placed
our Parish House at the disposal of our silent brethren,
for their social meetines.

The Third Cliurch and Chapel, Adelphi Street. This
was the birth place of the Churcli of the Messiah, which
in 1850 erected the frame Chapel at a cost of six hundred
Dollars. In this building the North Reformed Dutcli
Church held a service each Sunday, for a year, till their
new edifice on Clermont Avenue was completed in 1H52.
The Messiah in 1852 built the brick church, forty feet
front, fift}' feet deep, with a tower fifty feet high. An
enlargement in 1859 almost doubled the length of this
edifice. St. Mark's purchased this property in the fall
of 1869 for $10,000. The frame Chapel was demolished
in 1885 to build the present Chapel and Parish House;
the brick edifice was torn down in 1888 to make way for
the present church.

Rev. Thomas F. Cornell, M. D. 1861-1869
Rev. William T. Fitch, 1869-1875
Ri-.v. Si'KNCKK S. Roche, D. D., 1875 —

Sllff Qlljurrlj of (Bab jai}auUi atjom aa mitrl| lutH&nm as our
Hprular tnatitutiona.

While our neighborhood changes very slowly, and
will in all probability long retain a residential character,
yet, situated as we are, with the Navy Yard on the north,
wnth the vast and ever-increasing business in produce at
the Wallabout, and with the new freight station of the
Long Island Railroad, anticipating an immense factory
development on the south, the time will purely come
when these streets and avenues will either be given up
to trade, or will house souls needing Christian ministra-
tions, and unable to bear the whole expense of a parish.
The entire sum of one hundred thousand dollars would
do no more than ensure the church's having one reason-
ably paid clergyman ; the cost of assistants, sexton,
organist, singers, repairs, insurance, light, heat, print-
ing and all other things being still thrown on the con-
gregation.

(3nt ^unitreh 5II|ou8anJ» iollara Prmtiira fnr denlurtpa of <6aah Wavk.

Facade of Third Church, showing also present
Parish House — 1886.

Our Young" People's Club is interesting with pure
and proper recreation, sixty, eighty and one hundred
young men and young women, some of whom, with-
out the Club, would be walking the brilliantly lighted
avenues in the evening or going with frivolous or
even vicious companions. The Boys' Brigade with
regular artillery drill on every Wednesday night, has
been the means of keeping growing lads off the streets.
And we are finding positions for these young lads when
they leave school and enter the great world.

Up nteh (3at i^ixniireh mtfaaaanb SaUara

To avoid all misunderstanding, it is asked that every
one giving- to the Endowment Fund, expressly state his
intention. All undesignated sums will be applied by
the Rector and Vestry according to their best judgment,
for the benefit of the Parish.

All moneys received for the Endowment Fund, and
not otherwise safeguarded, will be turned over to the
Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of New York, to
be invested by them under the laws of the State of New
York, the interest to be paid to the regularly accredited
Treasurer of St. Mark's Parish, for the support of ser-
vices in the church.

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Will you give a cash amount to the Endowment
Fund, payable at your convenience?

Will you make an annual cash gift for the next five
years to the Endowment Fund, payable each year at

Christmas?

Will you convey to a trust company, any cash or
securities the income of which shall be paid at regular
intervals to the Treasurer of the Church, for the pur-
pose of Endowment?

IN IKKIOK, IHIKI) CHURCH

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lEn&nui luttl? ©nt ^unbtth (SifouBanti loUara.

Will you convey to the Church, any stocks or bonds,
or house or land, or securities of any description, for the
Endowment Fund?

Will you make by will a bequest to the Endowment
Fund?

After you have enjoyed your property for life, and
after you have provided during their natural lives for
the support of any others, will 3'ou finally allow St.
Mark's Church to receive the remainder, or a part of it,
for the purpose of Endowment?

Make all Payments to

Mr. Clement Lockitt, Treasurer

199 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn

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The Fourth Church, Adelphi Street: the Chapel
built in 1885, costing $11,000; the Church erected 1888-9,
costing $55,000. ; in each case exclusive of the value of
the ground.

Rev. Spencer S. Roche, D. D., 1875 —

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Wnt ^uniivtb ®lJnuaan^ from iJlatiij (&xvttB.

We are appealing to all who have been helped, com-
forted or in any way ministered to during the sixty years,
by the clergy of vSt. Mark's Parish. Many of onr saints
have long since fallen asleep and are rejoicing in the fi:l-
fillment of the divine promises heard within the walls of
St. Mark's. We appeal in their name and memory to
any of the living who now represent them :

To all who were baptized in any of the four churches
that we have occupied, or by any of the ministers of St.
Mark's;

To all who were confirmed or whose parents were
confirmed in our classes;

To all who were married here or whose parents were
married by our clergy ;

To all whose beloved ones were laid to rest with our
solemn burial service;

To all who in sickness or trouble were visited by our
clergy, and who received sympathy, consolation, en-
couragement and the spiritual power to take up anew
the burdens of living.

We solicit the generosity of all, to secure this church
against the possibility of ever having to close its doors.

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The Rectory, situated a few rods from the Church,
at the intersection of Adelphi Street and Willoughby
Avenue, free from mortgage and every encumbrance,
became the property of the Parish in 1905, by the noble
bequest of Mrs. Jane M. IMortimer, for many years a de-
vout and active member.

51 Feet on Adelphi Street
102 Feet on Willoughby Ayenue

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A }?rapr for ?£atabUaI|mettl

O Almighty God, who hast instructed thy holy
Church with the heavenly doctrine of thy Evangelist
Saint Mark; Give us grace that, being not like children
carried away with every blast of vain doctrine, we may
be established in the truth of thy holy Gospel; through
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

A Praufr for Hiberalitij

O Almighty God, who by thy blessed Son didst call
Matthew from the receipt of custom to be an Apostle
and Evangelist; Grant us grace to forsake all covetous
desires, and inordinate love of riches, and to follow the
same thy son Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with
thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.
Amen.

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INKERS OIT

lixJJ^xBiR. Collins, I^JC

138 LiviNoexoN St.

Brooklyn, N, Y.

PHOTOMOUNT
PAMPHLET BINDER

Manu/aclurtd ky

SAYLORO BROS. Ine-

Syracus*, N. Y.

Stoclcton, Cilif.

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