*** Source: Trinity Church, San Jose, California: Advent, 1860, to Easter, 1903. San Jose, Calif.: Trinity Parish Guild, 1903. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 10--- fence. Fields of golden California mustard stretched away on all sides of this barren spot, but even these armies of mustard stalks, densely crowded as space would allow, standing above a man's height and tossing their yellow heads with assurance, could not shut the blue skies from the view and the things that were to be. The lot was purchased for the sum of three thousand dollars. The same year, 1862, preparations for building were made. Captain James W. Hammond superintended the work, and the result was a pretty little church built of timbers from the native redwoods of California, and finished within with the same natural wood. All parts of the structure had been fitted together with the ship- builder's art, and has been said, that in time of strong winds or heavy earthquakes, this unique little building swayed like a ship on the seas, built for weathering all storms. For some time, white muslin tightly stretched, served in place of the stained glass windows which had been ordered from Doremus of New York, to be sent round "The Horn"; the same windows through which the sun- light still glows in such soft rich tones of red and blue and green and gold, to lighten and beautify Trinity Church to-day. Grateful acknowledgment was sent to the city author- ities for the use of the City Hall for three years, and the first services were held in the church on Advent Sunday, 1863. About this time, the organ, the one still in use, built by William Stevens of Boston, was on its way across "The Isthmus." an organ of two manuals and twenty-four stops, from the far east, was a great possession for a pioneer church, and its arrival was hailed with joy. The sum of eight hundred dollars was paid for freight alone. Two hundred dollars, beside this sum, having been remitted by the *** end ***