New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-28
/ gROOKLYY cHrRCH REScChD.
GOOD RESULTS or AID rE"M Mr.. BEEcHRR AND
Ills PEOPLE

GOOD RESULTS or AID FEpM Mr.. BEEcIIRR ANp
Ills PEOPLE.
One morning in May last year. two gentle
men sat I'm the Rev HcuTy Ward Ircchcrs s'uy. IN bis
house on Columbia Heights IN earnest conversation with
Ire Plymouth pastor. Tine conference was long aid
anxious thoI.h occasionally relieved hy some of Mr.
E,.chcIs characteristic ~ale4. The df, aud result Of
il y,r rrc-ntrd ln the words OF the host hc shook
hand. with H.. departing visitors: well then. = you
c,r settle OF your pastor. max ont your statement
bfiny the hH hero and viii y"u q caeca ipr the
money! suppose shall get u back from thc brethren
in umc"
Tho two gentlemen were member, Of tho Park Cougrc
gatonal Church in scycnth.t near s,th-ay,. Brook
lvn That church the object Of thc relief tius
offered ia history bad been htc hut hot Onc ot pros
urrty Organized IN the hish-prc Tine, following
immediately upon the way. b' scr"ih- member, n the
youu: ana weak fifth iNo1ue Church, 70 hnd grown 49,
strength under the Inn..iraiops ~ tn Kev. Francis
Russell. Past differences healed. III" church was la
far way Of throwing on The heavy debt cntJcd b, tine
buIng Of q handsome chapel and ihr pur.1a-e Of six
carier ut fronting -lNthsyr. destined Tor th" site Of
the future chutch, when the paul+ ~ 1913 brought d.
, ir,,, an" .r. ' ~ yci Ind rs not % 10
hcrctOf ~. The pastor resi- ,uitiuu lc the pulpit to w.
supplied Tor mon than ~" Years rs best ~ might be-.
Lat spring notice OF foreclosure vas serycd' Tie
payment Of interest on ihr m0't<agr being ~
aricar6. IN tins emergency, when the church
had been given up for lost M Br"chcr "bd the
pay The interest the mortgages. amounting 90 some
~ 800 year. \ unanimous cal was extended 10 tho
Row Ihcinas H. -lcer, who pied preached his hr,
sermon "a June as year, ana entered upon MS pastoral
duties month later. Since then thirty live lew mem
br- have been admitted 60 the church, AMI the congr'-
gaiio has more than doubled. Tie floating debt has
been totally cXnsGi~hcd ~ voluntary release on Tie
part OF creditors Important .mpFOycmrntt are conitu-
pd' d. ana tie church looks forward 10 fuluic u USE
fulncs, aud prosperity.
Mr.. Scrr T. a young little more than thirty years
OF age lie native OF Baltimore where hi- father,
Dr. Henry ScrF who once chaplain OF TIE tinted
States senate Was well known as Methodist preacher
Educated in the South, he j. an honorary anmnns OF
Dickinson College. Penn As "a Methodist clergyman hc
WAS stationed successfully at ManaTOnick. ana at Tie
Ncw-York Avenue Church In Br0Oklyf. When
tnc oct thu Park Congscgat Omalists came ne was con-
sidrrng "a change of church relations. lie dd not ar-
uoye the 81 stem ncTancy In 'ho Methodist Church.
M new cau was not a brilliant one, financially speak
Ing gave the Held Lc sought and lie accepted
II.
MI sNcrr only takes the most intense interest In
tie prOIess Of s church, bat ne is also deeply inter
cscd in the progress " science. aud has paid much at
tention the telephone. FrOm!i' house on Eighth
wire connects with the near dwelling 81 Nh. Apvobcrkh
General superintendent Of The Telephone Company, and
ficouct conversation music aud friendly messages pass
over IT, Orca .iunaly connection is mace with points
farther removed, and lev nights the Ias Ia
tened m his pariOr Ia the playing Of band Madison
ave. Ncw-YOrk the hum of musical telephone stii
farther on and the chatting Oi friends In Mr.. Apple
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