*** 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 88--- [Parochial Organizations. continued] All members of Trinity Church, and all persons inter- ested in the work and well being of the Parish, are eligible to membership. Persons may become members by signing the constitution and by-laws, and by paying a fee of twenty-five cents. The dues are ten cents per month. Every member must be an active member of at least one of the Chapters. Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at two o'clock in the afternoon, in the Parish House. In April, 1900, the Guild was legally incorporated with the direct intent that it might secure the lot adjoin- ing the church property on St. John Street. The lot was purchased for twenty-eight hundred dollars, and up to Easter, 1903, all but five hundred and fifty dollars of this sum had been paid. In December, 1901, the Guild was relieved by the vestry from the responsibility of paying the organist's sal- ary and other expenses connected with the music of the church. This responsibility had been borne for years by the Guild known as St. Cecilia's Guild--finally resolved into a Chapter of Trinity Parish Guild. The general objects of Trinity Parish Guild are: "to aid the rector in church work, to provide for needful expenses of the parish, and to foster a spirit of Christian fellowship." The words "Christian fellowship," spoken in the con- nection, will call to the minds of many, two members of the guild, the motive of whose lives was "to foster a spirit of Christian fellowship," Ella Woart Hawley and Mary Mizner Plate. Though they have been sadly missed in the church life to which they gave so much, the best that they gave is still with us--examples of true Chris- tian living. May the same spirit that ruled their lives guide Trinity Parish Guild into ways of truest and high- est service. *** end ***