New-York tribune., 1883-12-18
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coyGREGATIoyALIsm IN NEW- YORK.
WHY THERE ARE NOT MORE CHURCHES OF THAT
DENoMINATIUN HERE.

WHY THERE ARE NOT MORE CHURCHES or THAT
DENoMINATIUN HERE.
The CONGREGATIONAL Club ate its monthly din
ner at Fleischmann's Vienna Cato last night Roswell
Smith presided There many ladies' present by in
yitatjon Among the gentlemen the Rev Drs. A. H.
Capp Lyman Abbott W. H. Ward, II. q. Carpenter, L.
H. Cobb c. F. Deems, f. W. Gilman, f. P. Inserson and
II. H. Waite: the Rev. Mcssrs A. II. Bradford,
s b. Halliday, s. H. Virgin, A. p. Foster
and A. f. 5chaufier; W. Glider, G.
Branerd Henry Heath and s. q. Ne2is.
After the dinner which began precisely
Of six o'clock and lasted hour and half
DR. Capp treasurer OF the American Home Mission soce
ty began the discussion by reading paper "Congre
g.tionalsIo in New-YOrk-its Past is Present,
and its Future" lie sketched briefly the
spread OF that denomination In Ncw-Engand
and I'm this State and explained why 1t had not
succeeded as an organization III this city In the course
OF his remarks he said:
neys Br0aA way Tabernacle, formed in ls36au earlier
organization Of that name" when, tou2h claiming 10
be Cnngregational be recognized SUCH
Congregational churches nave Decn iorned III NV
York city. Eight OF them stIl nave the Drtah oi me
The other nine have died, or rather seven dled ana
cSUrcb shaved NTH enough survive Congregational
treatment more than three years the Pesbyterans toOE
another twelve before they were thought worthy Of
Presbyterian adoption The causes OF decrease were va
GUS One died Of debt another OF dGbt anu an Immoral
stcr OF one / was written: II dissolved In an orderly
manner "petered out throu.h TOO much "iree
iIlAl
%onIdnJ take IT, OF the eight churches reported
alive in 1876 only the Broadway Tabernacle
bsd unnterrlpfedly survived. The present num-
her e. six: The Welsh dating from lS25,
a part OF the tine PresbyteIiani the broad
way Tabernacle, organized IN 1870; the motifs
ania In 1851: the Pilgrims, IN 1862; the Madison
ave I'm 1872; and the Central Ia 1881. The IaDcrnace
has daughter, Bethany, some twenty years
old which with her mothers help had been
keeping house in hired apartments. Last spring
and Is doing good work among this plain people on the
West side Her affairs COngregatOnay administered
and she should be rcckOned OF this household but tus
far she has been independent Why are there no more
mat has long puzzled wiser heads than mine and give
no There arc many Congregationansts III othcr
churches. Shall this always be SOL Oi our
sY CITY pastors four have been gcDef-
ously supplied by other denominations. Ihree courses
are now open TO US: go keeping one for our
selves and giving 100 10 build up other organzaons
tskng our pay in seeing the good they do; we can assert
that 0ur poty is Of too small account 10 speak o. an
tbat we may az well dissolve body; or we can setc
n among ourselves that we are a denOlnlhhuon'
,Sat be 9chieyements OF the Pilgrim Fathers vndlcate
our right TO respected anywhere under he nag oi s
RenubIic that owes 50 much 10 C0ngtegatOnaLsu anu
maj with the whole land calling fOl ChTlsthn WOIk'
body that makes little OF external ana so nucn vi
spiritual truth and life has hPeclal CAV 10 De IA , m
front OF the army and responsibility that cannot De
evaded.
THE paper WAS discussed by several gentlemen, ana
resolution was adopted suggesting the Feasibility OF ias
ing $4,000 be used In COngregat0hai cauIch ',
sOps In this city and its vicinity. Dr. Wau fciciftH
ouarres which had split apart congregational cnuItheS
In this city. but spoke cncOuraglhgy OF lne I,,l
bers OF the New England Society were COhBTcgiloI ~.
ia theory and principle, but not Ia Iac ana spoke VI
lack OF practical fellowship among the chureher wiz Wmc1
ed 10 the small number In ts city Dr. ADDoll tou VI