Bunker, the proprietor. Clergy from New York and the neighboring dioceses were in attendance, as well as many laymen who held official positions in the Diocese, beside the wardens and vestrymen of the various city parishes, and the scholars of Trinity School.

The procession was formed in the following order: I. The sextons and their assistants, with staves. 2. The Rector, teachers, and scholars of Trinity School, founded in 1709, and from that time continued without interruption.

3. The architect, his assistants, and master workmen. 4. The Vestry of Trinity Church, with the officers of the Corporation.

5. The vestries of the city churches, in reverse order of dates of organization, viz., the last organized to be first in line.

6. Students of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. 7. Lay Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Society for Promoting Religion and Learning in the State of New York.

8. Trustees of Columbia College.

9. Lay members of the Standing Committee of the Diocese, and lay delegates and supernumerary delegates to the General Convention.

10. Strangers especially invited.

11. Clergy in surplices, not of the degree of D.D. 12. Doctors in Divinity in surplices.

The Church was filled long before the appointed hour by the fortunate holders of tickets. Hundreds gathered on Broadway and Rector Street to view the procession and hear the strains of the organ and the first joyous peal of the chimes. As the clergy and laity approached the