New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-04
A MISSION OF DIR. ARMITAGE'S CHURCH.
J. A. BoSTwICK's LIBERALITY-A BUILDING EEECIED
cy-t-r.

IN sUFFoLK-sT.
The handsome little church OF brick ard terra
Gotta with granite trimmings, now approaching COM
pletion IN Sufolk-St., GTand-St, VIII ID" pre-
sented Ii Is finished To the mem Iersol inc
church by J. a. BOstwck, merchant of Ncw-Iork
] he church Will be one Of the mos complete mis-
sion churches IN that part the city, and Will be
known as the Emanuel Bap;lst Church. Inc cnuIch
was organized and iosered by the ruin Avenue
Baptist Church IF which the Rev. Dr. ArnltaSc is
pastor. The Rev. samuel Altman, the pastor oil thc
congregation hat Is 10 occupy the new church gave
its history o TRIBUNE reporter as follows: ,
"In 1870 started little mission school III Madl-
sOn-st., near Grand, that met every sunday IN
of the char factory belonging 10 IOIicc C3iI-
missioner Mason. was able TO get thirteen cnil-
dTen TO tin school. and doing very nicely as the
work was interesting 10 ne, but the ntcCS-
sary expenses attending il increased until feared
it would have To be abandoned. one day MT BoHt-
wick, WAC is member Of Or. Arnitages church. a.
| was also at the time, asked me what these eX,
penses were, and finally tod me that II / wOuid
devote myself wholly TO the Work he WOulu zee
that a regular salary was paid and the otncr
Xpenses met. The school and the services were
continued until III 1876 We had membership OF
torty-fve, and having outgrown our nist quarters
we removed to the corner OF Allen and Grand stS.,
where we organized q church. In 1879 we moved
again TO the old stanton street Westinghouse nut
that was shortly sold and we had TO return TO our
old quarters. where We are now. The need OF "a
building 10 accommodate the church was now ap-
patent, and MIR. Bostwick more lent his ard /;
three lots on SutlOlk-st. were purchased ana last
November the building Was started. IL VIII De
finished this month and will be dedicated on the
churches that dedicated as tins Will be-" the
pastor SAID enthusiastically, entirely free or dept
Now We have church membership OF 700 ana "a
Sunday school of 800 children, 200 beng III the
infant class This part of the city had been over
looked by our churches until within the last lew
years, aud there Is still a large field here"
The total cost OF the church Will he ABOUT SSO,O0O,
including the OF the ground, f2 600. The arch-
tects of the building ID. n j. JaTdne, but the
general plans were prepared after The drawings
made By MT. Altman liz sunday school IL on tho
same floor the church. and the two can be thrown
INTO one by means OF 1Odng doors, accommodating,
with the galleries, 2100 people, The seats are ar
ranged III amphI heatce, with the pulpit ln TIE
front of the auditorium, so that the audience VIII
face the street AL organ is being built 10 be placed
above the pulpit, and there will be ten doors Tor en-
trance and exit The sexton will 1--we In the church.
having SIX rooms for his family over the
part used by the Sunday-scbool.
kitchen will be lifted Up beneath the building TO
be used OIL social OCCASIONS, and Mr.. Altman desires
TO have also gymnasium III the basement for the
use of the young men. There will be library and
readng-room, Tor which the church has raised
So 900, to be opened every evening and III connec-
ton with this paTlOT, III which girls and young
women can assemble to do their sewing. There Will
be piano in this room, and Mr.. Altman wishes TO
have the room furnished attractiyely. The precise
manner in which the property will be held has not
yet been decided, although some time ago Mr. Bos-
wick sIgnied his intention OF making the church n
gift. "The title of the property will prob
ably said Alr. Altman. be held III trust by the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church"