*** 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 23--- remain in charge of this parish until after Easter. I came here thirty-two years ago and was rector for nearly fourteen happy years. I love this dear old parish with all my heart and it is a joy to be at work in it again. There is a great yearning desire to help this parish to be and to do what it should be and do after all these years; first by helping individual souls to the higher life, and next by helping in its material prosperity. Thirty-two years ago your rector appealed to the few members of the little church to free it from a crushing debt by their Easter offering. This was done by that little handful of people who gave $1350 on Easter morning. On the fol- lowing Easter $1650 was given to build the rectory. The parish is again in debt to the amount of $2200. This can be removed at Easter if every member of the parish will really try to give according to his ability. There are now five times as many people to help pay this debt as there were thirty-two years ago. It surely can be done." In the midst of the pressing needs of the parish, strength, given unreservedly for so many weeks, failed Mr. Foote and he was compelled to stop short of what he had hoped to acomplish materially for the parish. Rev. A. A. McKenzie, of the Divinity School at San Mateo, took charge of the services for a few weeks, and Rev. John B. Wakefield, who through long service had endeared himself to so many of the parishoners of Trinity, was welcomed again into the chancel. Rev. Mardon D. Wilson of Christ Church, San Jose, Secretary of the Diocese of California, and Very Rev. F. B. A. Lewis, Dean of the Convocation of San Jose, gave most gener- ous assistance to the parish in its time of need. At the beginning of the Lenten Season of 1903, an auxiliary vested choir of young women was organized to sing at the Lenten services and to join the regular choir on Easter Sunday and other festivals. *** end ***