*** 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 12--- the windows glowed for the outside world through the dark masses of green, there was for the passer-by a vision of "sweetness and light"; and possibly there came to mind another vision, "the ruins gray" of the old Abbey, covered with kindred ivy; ruins that once served to foster the same spirit of love that made little Trinity Church possible. After the death of Rev. Sylvester Etheridge, the Rev. T. A. Hyland took charge of the parish until May, 1864, when the Rev. Dinsmore D. Chapin was called as rector. During his rectorship, which lasted till January, 1866, there was a class of seven confirmed and sixty-six per- sons were baptized. There were signs of material pros- perity as shown by the facts that gas fixtures were put into the church, a fence was built, and a mortgage on the church lot was removed. In January, 1866, the Rev. Dinsmore D. Chapin resigned, and services were held by the Rev. H. H. Messinger until August, when the Rev. Edward S. Peake came in response to a call given him in April. During the second year of Rev. Edward Peake's rectorship, the church building was consecrated, July 27th, 1867, by the Rt. Rev. William Ingraham Kip, Bishop of the Diocese. All debt having now been removed from the church building and lot, the vestry decided to establish a rectory fund. Money for this fund was raised in various ways, but it is especially interesting to note, that the choirs of Grace Church and of Trinity Church, San Francisco, gave two concerts for the benefit of the fund. Among improvements made about this time, in and around the church building, it may seem hardly worth while, in these days of brilliant electric light, to mention the modest little lamp post that the vestry had placed on the southwest corner of Second and St. John Streets; but it must have meant much to evening church goers at *** end ***