New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-24
VIEWS OF TIE REv.DRs. JOHN HALL, NJ. r. VIM
CENT AND OTHERS.

| VIEWS OF TIE REv.DRs. JOHN HALL, NJ. r. VIM
CENT AND OTHERS.
A meeting of the Central, Phillips and Filth
Avenue Presbyterian congregations. in the interest OF
church extension was held in the last named church
last evening. The Rev. DR.. Samuel ID. Alex
ander OF Phillips Church conducted the
services The Rev. DR.. Clarke, who spoke
for the extension committee Of the Presbytery
urged that the work of the future be in tho uptown
10 ,aites and that It be denomin In character
He said Presbyterian church extension In this city has
reached a supreme mODent Decisions reached now
will furnish the precedent for years to come East
OF Third-ave 10 the river. between Fiftyninth and
seventysecond sts:, 10 population OF $1,000 people,
open to them, and not q Sunday School for their
children. ThrtytwO protestant families representing
North from S tH0 70 Eighty
from Central Park TO the river are 9 99'000
children between the ages OF to IS There are 10 plans
of worship, many Of them chapel, some missions This
church. needs 40 houses of worship large the Fifth
avenue Presbyterian. seventyfour men
In this territory banded together there now, ana nave
a sunday OF 100 members, and are asking the
committees aid Still north Of this, at One-hundred-and-
for help From One hundred and twentyhith to One o
people have come to live within few years. Between
the Park and observation-disclosures seconds reet, If
another field. large territory between the Park and
Onehundredand thirty ffthsreet being rapidly built
up and occupied On the West side as well chapels are
needed
nant, said:
An organization with 1S 900 communicates and 21OOO
Sabbath School pupils cannot ignore church extension
Some brother has said that liz Is Christian first and
Presbyterian afterward. That Is all right, when only
Christianity IL involved But while the proper place for
the horse before the cart yet the cart was fact rs
well the horse and both must be taken account OF in
the composition OF the establishment The three Old
congregations in the lover part Of the city should be
fused into church In GTandst. The various success
full efforts OF the committee for seventeen years showed
what could be done II the money were forthcoming.
Henry Day favored the raising Of permanent fund OF
100000 the earnings OF which could be devoted to ex-
tension work from year to year.
The Rev. Dr. Hall said:
The churches New-YOrk cost 80 100000 per year
the amuscmens $1,000 900; the city government 3d.
100000. IL IL not an extrayagant demand that the
churches should have money PresJytcranism has
kept its place relatively IN the city during iS growth
There has been centralng tendency, and the growth
Of the church has not been equal to s responsibilities
This has been partly due 10 distribution Of funds for
miscellaneous purposes. We gave Sl5OOOO for outside
charities the past year $4,000 church extension, An
example OF church work Is to be found In tue original
subscription list by which the Fthave. congregation
founded IN 1907 The subscribers we're guaranteed
interest their money from the sale Of pcws until paid
back. They duly repaid and in tue sixteen years
past besides erecting million dollar cdlnce, tho cOngre-
cation has given Sl,770,OO0 for religious purposes
like 10 have money left 10 good objects by WILL but love
10 money come from the living hand.