*** 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 11--- steamship company. The organ itself cost twelve or fifteen hundred dollars and was paid for by subscription, a large part of the required sum being given by Mrs. H. S. Ashley and Mrs. Samuel Hensley. Possibly no one was more interested in the setting up of the organ in the church, than the rector who had played the melodeon in the City Hall three years before. Since that time the little parish had steadily grown, but his strength had steadily failed. He never preached in the new church, and a few weeks after it was opened, he was forced to give up even the reading of the prayers. On February 18th, 1864, the parish lost its devoted founder and rector. His body, at his request, was laid to rest under the Chancel of the Church. The Church for which he gave his life is his monument. The memo- rial tablet in the south transept, within the space for- merly occupied by the Chancel, was placed in the Church at this time. Until very recent years, fresh Flowers lay upon it every Sunday morning. There are still a few parishioners who can remember the little church building as it looked at this time, standing on a bare, ungraded lot, facing St. John Street, with its steep gable roof, two straight rows of gothic windows, and its unpainted redwood sides. But before many weeks had passed, the redwood was painted a stone gray, and little shoots of green ivy began to creep up on the sides. Later the ivy covered sides and roof, and hung in heavy masses around the porch and windows, and even found its way through the weather-boarding to the interior of the church where it wound itself round the supporting beams of the roof and clustered in every corner. All of this wealth of green came from a slip of ivy Brought by James R. Lowe from the classic ruins of Melrose Abbey in Scotland. When the interior of Church was lighted at night, and the beautiful colors of *** end ***