Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 4 | St. Paul's Church to be Abandoned

ST. PAUL S CHURCH TO WiOIO Congregation Is to Quit Edifice After Service of Thirty Years. After thirty years of service dedicate to the dissemination of Christian teachings, teach-ings, ., Si. Paul's Episcopal church building build-ing will be abandoned with the nlsht service ser-vice Kuiiier Sunday. Official announce-nient announce-nient of this plan was made yesterda by G. YV. Marshall, clerk of the churc. vesiry and ehuch historian. For the i mined iate future, services 01 St. Paul's chuivh will be com! lifted in a new parish house, now near ins completion comple-tion on the church's property at Thiru South and Ninth Kasi streets. Th.f building will be used for church purpose; until a modern el i fice is erected on tin same lot. The rectory, too, will occupy the same property, and is now nearing it ultimate construction staire. St. Paul's church was built under th direction of Tiishop Daniel S. Tut tie h 1SSS. the building fund beinj? provided b; donations made by Maria, Charlotte. Susan and Jane Mount of New York. It stands at South Main, and Fourth South streets and was purchased a year ago by Y. H. Swanson of the American theater. the-ater. The original cost of the property was 25.0m0. Mr. Swanson paid $192,500. Elaborate plans are being: made for a fittin? farewell to the church. Tht Easter morn Ins: services will be in the nature of a song festival, but Sunday niht the meeting wid be of a secularizing seculariz-ing order. The canons of t he Episcopal church provide that the bishop of the diocese dio-cese iryist carry out this rite, hut since there is now no regular bishop in Utah, the bishop of a neighboring jstate may be brought in for the purpose. Should that plan fail, the church standing committee, commit-tee, which is vested with ecclesiastical authority, will act. Plans formulated by the new owner contemplate no immediate extensive construction con-struction work. For the present he will content himself with the building of a series of one -story store places.