The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-30
OWE NO MAN ANYTHING.
Pastor Scudder Tells How
the Mortgage Was
Paid.
EIGHTEEN FEET OF DONORS NAMES
A Promise to Remember the Tab
ernacle in a Will Starts the
Subscriptions.

A greater crowd was never in the Tab
ernacle than the one that assembled last
night to hear the Rev. Mr.. Scudder tell
how the mortgage had been paid. An
unusually good musical programme had
been arranged for the occasion, and the
church was tastefully decorated. Sus-
pended from the ceiling in evergeens and
laurels were the words:--
"Owe No Man Anything. g."-Romans
xiii, s.
THE TEXT IN THE AIR.
Mr.. Scudder, when he began his re-
marks, said, ''Owe no man anything"
was in the air, and that was why he
selected it as his text. He did not preach
a sermon, but delivered lecture in which
he said that since the church had been
built it had suffered almost continually
from mortgages which at one time were
as high as $4,000. This made the church
resemble wagon going up hill with
brakes on and no oil on the axles.
His first serious attention to the
church's debt was attracted at meeting
OF the Church Society, when 1t was stated
that mortgage of $4,000 was on the
property and about 81 900 in interest that
had accumulated.
This made me feel badly.D said he,
oAAN 4 tsu lAoO UllOuAH J0S I1OI0 ustu n
call for me somewhere else. That night
rolled and tossed upon my bed for sew
eral hours and then | concluded the Lord
wanted me to stand by the ship and to
call all hands up to pump the vessel out
We did SO. and now all leakes are stopped
and our ship is watertight.
A STARTING BEQUEST
sYou see we have no very wealthy peo-
pie in our congregation that we can go
to and ask for large amounts of money,
and when l mentioned the subject to
several prominent members they almost
discouraged me. l thought the matter
over and finally went to Mother Austin,
member of the congregation, and told
her wanted crowbar to raise the other
members. She said she would bequeath
the Tabernacle s., 900 in her wills With
this assurance l called on Mrs. Phoebe
Griffith, who is not member of our
church. and told our necessities, and she
at once. gave me $500. That was
starter"
Mr.. Scudder then in detail showed how
subscriptions had come in and how they
had killed the vampire, mortgage, that
sucked the blood from everyone.
1--WE fired three 81 900 bullets into him
April {, - said he, land now we have shot
the other seven into him and disposed of
him. The money is all paid in, and the
happieSt crowd this side of the Golden
Gate is that which attends the Taber-
nacle now. can tell them by their walk
block away
Especial credit is due Mr. w. H.
Turner for his effort to raise money, he
having gotten over 81 ,009 Mr.. W. II.
Hunt raised $500. Others worked with
equal energy and raised large amounts.
THE LIST 16 FEET LONG.
''The list of contributors to the fund is
eighteen feet long and contains 1900
names, which represent people all over the
world, Japan even sending four contribu-
tors"
The pastor, after reciting these facts
and paying glowing tribute to The JER-
sEY CITY News for It's assistance in the
work of raising money, said, with a ter
rible arnestness:-''And now / promise
you that will not ask a single person for
money again this year" He did not say
that was only two days, but the audience
dropped to it and smiled audibly.
This past year the tabernacle raised in all
over $4,000. He concluded his remarks
by saying he would rather be pastor of
the Tabernacle than be President of the
United States. Because said he,
"they might want me to wear a Harrison
hat and that would be awful. -
The committee who had charge of tho
debt fund were Messrs. w. J. Hunt, C.
c. Stimets, S. G. Negus, George w.
Clerihew, r. B. Flemming, d. A Bishop,
j. r. Turner. w. H. Turner, T. L.
Parker, H. G. Fiske. A. d. White and
Pastor Scudder.
Happy West Hoboken Baptists.
The German Baptist Church of West
Hoboken has been enlarged by the addi-
tion of two story extension on the rear,
"a X AZ feet, and yesterday the edifce was
re-opened and re-dedieated.
The basement of the extension contains
a kitchen, and the front Sunday school
rrbo Annr har a,rfr ,Fx,
for the janitor's family. The cost of the
extension is $1,000. of which 81, ,000 has
been raised.
The church was organized sixteen years
ago, in dancing hall, by the Rev. g.
Knoblock.
The church was handsomely decorated
yesterday, and the services were largely
attended. In the morning they were SER
vices by the Sunday school, with addresses
by the Rev. DR., Schauch, of Brooklyn.
and that well.known sunday school
worker, Richard X. Green. AT the church
service the sermon was delivered by the
Rev. G. knobleck, now Of Newark, Eis
subject begin, How to build up a
church The exercises in the afternoon
were in English and included addresses
by the Rev. Frank Fletcher and the Rev.
DR.. Won Puttkammer, recently of Ger
many. The latter is an uncle of Bis
marck'S wife, and cousin of the PruS.
sian minister Puttkammer. He is an
eloquent speaker and thorough English
scholar. He made a decided Impression
in contrasting royalty with free institu-
tions, and claimed that free America in
religious, social and business matters was
vastly in the lead of Germany. MIR. r. r..
Green also spoke and a collection
amounted to nearly 800.
The Rev. G. r. Thompson, a former pas
tor, preached in German in the evening
and two candidates were baptized by the
pastor, the Rev. E. Auschutz
There will be convention this after
noon of the German Baptist pastors of
New York and vicinity, and this evening
there will be a grand reunion and cele-
bration i'll the church.
Tho Unlucky' Number.
1t is strange how the old shop-worn
superstitions ofthe past clingto the hu-
man mind Aman down in Texas killed
twelve men during the few years he
was in active business down there, and
everything prospered with him, Al