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A Brief History of Christ Church, from Its Founding in 1901 up to The A Brief History of Christ Church, From its founding in 1901 Up to the present as of spring 2015, By Chuck Hamilton, sexton Christ Church (William Clendenin Robertson Memorial) was born in 1900 along with the twentieth century, as a mission from St. Paul’s. Reasons for organizing First and foremost was that Episcopalians in the Old East Side (Georgia Avenue to East End, or Central, Avenue) wanted a church closer to home than St. Paul’s Episcopal on Pine Street. A contributing factor to this was reportedly the lack of sufficient hitching posts for horses and buggies there. Second, several parishioners at St. Paul’s felt aggrieved over the ill-treatment of, Dr. William Montrose Pettis, a Southerner who had been rector since 1892, by many of the Northerners in the parish. Dr. Pettis had left St. Paul’s for Grace Church in West Washington, D.C., and shortly after his replacement, Fr. Frederick Goodman, arrived, some one hundred parishioners applied to the diocese to form another parish. Third, many of these dissatisfied parishioners wanted a more, High Church worship. According to St. Paul’s centennial history, the services at first were Low Church just like St. Paul’s, and the change did not take place until several years after the parish began. However, the fact that the parish included in its design for its church building a chapel specifically dedicated to “Our Lady” weighs heavily against that testimony. The three wings of Anglicanism High Church, in the Episcopal Church and the rest of the Anglican Communion, refers to worship services, spirituality, and theology which are more traditional ritualistically and more Catholic, for which this wing of the church is also called Anglo-Catholic. Low Church refers to worship services, spirituality, and theology in the Anglican Communion which are less formally ritualistic and more classically Protestant. At one time, their dominant theology was heavily Calvinist, and they are also called Evangelical. Broad Church refers to the trend in the Anglican Communion which first arose in the mid- 17thcentury of de-emphasizing stress on forms of worship and theology which had driven the Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals of the Church of England (the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion) into often violent conflict. A large motivation for this was that its adherents were freethinkers bordering on deism. Members of this wing are also called Latitudinarians. Christ Church begins The first meeting of the vestry was at the home of Mr. C. A. Lyerly at 541 McCallie Avenue, chaired by Prof. John Roy Baylor of Grant University*, on 8 December 1900. At this time the vestry chose to call William C. Robertson of Nashville as rector. Not very long before, Fr. Robertson had been at Grace Memorial Episcopal for six months in 1898 when it was in South Chattanooga (moved to Highland Park in 1907, then Brainerd in 1941), then was founding priest of Thankful Memorial Episcopal, which started several years earlier as a Sunday school, serving for two years. *Founded as Chattanooga University in 1886 and changing its name in 1889, Grant University became University of Chattanooga in 1907. In February 1901, the vestry contracted with the Masonic Hall (at the corner of Cherry and 7th Streets) for a venue in which to hold services. They had first considered the University Chapel, but decided against that due to a smallpox scare at the school. Fr. Robertson led the celebration of the parish’s first Mass at the hall that Ash Wednesday, 20 February 1901. By its first parish meeting on 31 March 1902, Christ Church had purchased the home of Judge Lewis Shepherd at 543 McCallie Avenue on the corner with Douglas Street in the neighborhood then known as Long’s Addition. As a lawyer after retiring from the bench, Judge Shepherd worked on the right side of some of the most famous cases of his day, three of the most notable being the Ed Johnson case in 1906, the Leo Frank appeal, and the so-called Melungeon case regarding the Hampton site on Moccasin Point. The house lay across Douglas Street from what was then First District School and later the second Chattanooga Public Library. The parish held its first service there that summer. There were at this time 265 members with 149 communicants attending services at the small chapel in the house. Incidentally, the street address of the church, as opposed to its mailing address, always was, is now, and ever shall be 543 McCallie Avenue. Unless, of course, the City of Chattanooga renumbers the street. The Robertson years In 1904, Christ Church parishioners started a Sunday school in Rossville, Georgia. The next year the Sunday school members moved into the newly built St. Timothy’s Chapel. Its mission was to serve the impoverished residents of what was then called Black Bottom, the low land along Chattanooga Creek north of the stateline and that adjacent to it. St. Timothy’s served as a precursor to the In-As-Much Mission established in 1920, which was sponsored by all Episcopal churches in the Chattanooga area. The cornerstone for the present church building was laid 28 October 1906, dedicating the church to the Holy Trinity. The congregation had grown to 400 members with 265 communicants. The parish celebrated its first mass in the new building on Palm Sunday, 12 April, 1908, which included a chapel off the narthex dedicated to Our Lady, which had an altar donated to the memory of Elizabeth Theone Hawk by her parents. The original high altar donated by the Daughters of the King had been transferred from the chapel in the Shepherd home. At the other end of the narthex was a baptistery. In Lent of 1913, the parish received a beautiful high altar from an Anglo-Catholic parish in the Diocese of Ohio which was merging with another struggling parish in that city (after which the merged body became St. Alban’s). It was installed in time for Holy Week services. Christ Church helped organize St. Mary the Virgin mission in 1916, and at first the new mission met in rented spaces. After purchasing land on E. 8th Street between Douglas and E (University) Streets, St. Mary’s congregation held Sunday morning services in the Lady Chapel at 8 am and joined Christ Church for Solemn Evensong Sunday evenings. Fr. Robertson helped Jesse Tyler established St. Gabriel’s Convent at 636 McCallie Avenue (one lot over from the southeast corner of McCallie Avenue and University Street), on the feast of Corpus Christi in 1916. On 30 May 1918, Mother Mary Gabriel (the former Jesse Tyler) and Sister Mary Joseph professed life vows at Christ Church, at which time the Sisters of the Tabernacle was founded. At their core, the Sisters were devoted to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as well as works of charity and service, working with both Christ Church and Mary the Virgin (in Chattanooga). They also provided a place or religious retreat for the ladies of the parish, served on the Altar Guild, and hosted parish breakfasts after the 8:00 am Sunday Mass. The Christ Church Service Guild, composed of the entire congregation, adults and children, came into being in 1920. The guild had a Missions Department, a Social Services Department, a Religious Education Department, and a Parish Guilds Department. This service guild created a venereal disease clinic in the women’s section of the county jail, one of the first of its kind, and a sanitarium for drug addicts and alcoholics (the Anti-Narcotic League of Tennessee), also one of the first of its kind at 209 E (University) Street. Other activities included working with inmates in the city and county jails, residents of the county poor house, and patients at Erlanger Hospital and Pine Breeze. Also in 1920, Christ Church established St. Joseph’s Mission at 901 Whiteside (now Broad) Street in South Chattanooga, led by Brother Mark, P.O.H.G., on the southwest corner of that street with W. 24th Street. By midsummer, however, the mission had pulled up stakes and relocated to 227 Oak Street, not far from the mother church. Fr. Robertson expressed doubt about its survival at the time and his doubts proved correct. Christ Church’s acolytes officially became the Order of St. Vincent on 22 January 1922. In the early spring of 1923, Fr. Robertson and his family took an extended leave of absence due to the serious illness of a family member in Boston. While there, he served as a supply priest at the Church of the Advent. When that parish called him as rector the following year, Robertson tendered his resignation to the Christ Church vestry. Years of high expectation In the fall of 1923, the parish began the process of buying the home of Capt. C.A. Lyerly next door to the church at 541 McCallie Avenue. It became the St. Lawrence Parish Hall and the church rectory, as well as home to an order about which little is known, the Sisters of the Poor, meaning there were now two orders of nuns connected to Christ Church. In 1925, the Sisters of the Tabernacle organized a daughter house, St. Saviour’s Convent, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The order was offered a former convent attached to the Church of the Nativity there, which it accepted. With the permission of both dioceses, the Mother House of the order and its novitiate was transferred to the new location. Sister Mary Julian became Novice Mistress at the same time. On 5 May 1927, the parish purchased the lot and frame residence of Mrs.
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