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Show CHURCH TO fiCJOiP End of Floating Church in the East fiver, New York , York. Dec. 2C Tho floating r .urch of Our Saviour, for sixty-six rad o half yearn unique among the oo-r'e oo-r'e rustic structures of the world, Iiils cVed Its long career a a spiritual i l;n:;e lor mariners. The trustees '.we pr.'sent'd it to All Saints parish,' Ciatea Island and the auclent craft v. ::i nid Us days as an amphibious c'j;:.-ch for It will be a floating church I a; high tide and will rest upon the rviJ- of Mariners' harbor when the Is low. r.itewell sendees were held In the -. irge edifice at noon Sunday, The 11.-rogation said goodbye tearfully, ."ar.y of the gray-haired worshippers 1 t.rid been baptized, confirmed and pi tiled In the church on tho waters. V.'ii'.'.o families had been christened rt the strange font, consisting cf a : -hi' 'a cap tan, crow ned with a broad o'fkle shell. Mourners remembered' l:-t the funerals of their dead had I r-rn held there, and, as the church ji.kcd on tho swell that broke Into tic slip froru the Ivist rvler. mny -I.cd i:nder tho weight of old mem-c; mem-c; ''s. .Vtor tho Eorvjce, members nf the c-.r.cregatlon drifted about tho Inter-lrr Inter-lrr of the old church looking at the I mi-t.v memorials of sailors drowned at r a. sea captains nnd men who nexer c'tiio home, nfflxed to tho walls. T'rie will be taken down. It was In April, 1844, that a group i). young men formed a society with the long name of "The Protestant episcopal Church Missionary poclety f" r Seampn in tho City and Tort of '. ' w York." The same year the first floating r' in eli was burnrd and the present .'-iKture was built. Out of It has ; : :.n th present plant of the Sea-i' Sea-i' en's Church Institute- of New Y-Tk. embracing among Its features a I'otol. a bank, a shipping bureau, a i tram yacht, a North river station and a 1 a'lery station. The institute cares for fifty thou rjnd men and hoys in a year, and h c anning to erect a twelve-story building build-ing to cost, jnnn.OOO |