The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14
PITMAN GROVE.

of our gratitude to God, through whom
alone success has been made possible,
The attention of the Board Of Directors
has been constantly directed to the great
object for which all our arrangements are
constructed-the awakening and CONVEX
sion Of sinners. and the sanctification and
endowment of believers In accomplish
ing this object large OUTLAWS have been
necessary; a commodious lodging house
with large rooms and modern furniture,
| both in the interests of decency and sue
cess, could no longer be dispensed with,
and has accordingly been built. 1t con-
tains thirty EIGHT apartments, well fur
nisled, and cost exclusive OF the work of
our superintendent and timber cut in our
woods, 60, 032, in cash actually paid. Our
receipts from it this year in the gross was
1894. or about six per cent. of its cost. 1t
has also been necessary to regrade the ave
nues with gravel. to construct new COM
mode for ladies. to procure and sink new
pumps, purchase lamps and all the usual
repair of wear and tear incident to keeping
the property in good condition. The re-
port of the Treasurer gives clear and re-
liable representation of our expenditures
and receipts, well as our present finan-
cial condition. The income has been suffi-
cient to meet the large expenses involved
i'll the improvements all current and con-
tingent expenses. and interest ON the bonds
and mortgage which represent the funded
debt, but not large enough to enable us to
make any reduction ofthe debt for this year.
The outlook now is that no expense for
building need be incurred next year be-
yond that attending the erection of one or
two commodes which have become abso-
lutely necessary.
| still recommend adherence to the policy
of the present, and by which we as Board
of Directors have stood for a number of
years past: that the ayails of all sales of
property and all other moneys which can
in any way be made to exceed our ex-
penses should be appropriated to the extin-
gnishment of the mortgage debt A safe
business policy, in my judgment, will not
admit of change for some time yet to
come.
This policy has been carried out by Il e
Directors at no small personal sacrifices,
and many crosses, yexations and annoy
ances. Their reward has been in the salts
faction that they have saved Pitman Grove
from financial bankruptcy, the name of tie
church from the reputation of dishonesty.
and their efforts to save souls crowned
with success. Still in the day of eternity
AN confident that the sacrifices made for
Pitman Grove will be found to have paid
larger interest in Christ. cent per cent.
than in other enterprises whose returns
have been more pecuniarily valuable here,
but however hard they may press us here.
well done" will more than recompense us
there.
The authorities of the West Jersey Rail
road have serupulously observed all their
engagements with us. No train has stop
ped to let off passengers ON the Sabbath.
and their financial agreements, though
depending simply on a verbal arrangement
have been fully kept. And their employees
have been so careful that of all the thou
sands who have crowded the station.
neither life nor limb has been sacrificed.
take pleasure in expressing my apprecia-
ton of the kindness of the Superintendent
in giving US gravel for our use and addi-
tional trains suited to our necessities.
General Sewell still retains his kindly
feeling for us, and think it is because of
our value to his company that he is able TO
still keep the issuance of clergymen's tick
cts at half fare along the line of his roads.
The efforts of J. NJ. Cassidy, our Treas
urer, in securing school district for Pit
man Grove, have been crowned with sue
cess at last. To him and him alone is due
the credit Of its accomplishment. and the
thanks of the stockholders are his rightful
due Our future will involve more and
more of permanent Summer residents, and
the school will be of great value to us in
this regard.
The religious meetings of the summer
have been marked with unusual display of
divine power. Over one hundred persons
are known to have professed conversion,
and two hundred proTessed sanctification.
The labors of the National Camp Meet
ing Committee, for the promotion of holt
ness, were signally blessed of God On
one occasion there was such manifesto
ton of divine power in the desce MT of the
Holy Ghost, that while the children of God
scarcely knew whether they were in the
body or out of the body, unconverted peo-
Pile were SO amazed at what they saw,
heard and felt as to say, 1--WE never saw it
on this wise before This is su rely the
great power of God.
Mrs. Lizzie Smith, as always, was one of
Gods messengers TO us, as was also W. c.
Stockton, Mrs. Inskip and Miss Carrie Cor
man.
The preachers of the Conference, as also
our brethren from distance, gave us ser
mons in which they preached not them
selves but Christ the Lord, and it is our re-
greet that We cannot evince our apprecia-
ton in more substantial forms than in
thanks alone.
From the presence of private duties the
President has been unable to give all the at
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