New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05
TO BEGIN PASTORAL WORK.
PREACHERS AND PEOPLE ACTIVE AGAIN.
BOTH PREPARED FOR SEASON OF TOLL
WHERE SOME OF THE CLERGYMEN HAVE
SPENT THE sUMMER-cHAYGEs IN

leads his sheep so the city pastors their suosti
tues have preceded their returning focks, ana mSue
ready the spiritual pastures where they are to o.
fed untn the blazing Of 1900 drives them again
to tho mountains TO shady hooks beyond the seas
Many changes will greet both people and pastors |
this year. Extensive alterations have been made In |
several churches. while here and there new pastor
will be welcomed larger number OF ministers than
usual havc been TO Europe this summer. This may
be duo partly TO the Paris Exposition. and partly to
the growing tendency of city congregations TO give
their pastors longer vacations than formerly thus
enabling them TO take voyage. As rue
the Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches
have been open all summer. In the Presbyterian ana
Baptist churches the pastors have had vacations OK
tending over several weeks but the meetings and
Sunday schools have been generally sustained The
Methodist churches have had shorter clOsngs as
rule. The following facts regarding the vacation
weeks of some of the city pastors and the services in
the churches have been learned by Tribune reporter
reporter:
TO SUCCEED DR.. ARMITAGE.
The Fifth Avenne Baptist Church will reopen next
Sunday But the Rev. Mr.. Faunce Of Springfield,
the pastor recently chosen by this wealthy con-
grcgaton will not begin his work until October.
Tho Rev. Dr. Armitage who resigned after success
full pastorate of fortyone years has consented to
2reach for two months in the Hanson Place Baptist
Church OF Brooklyn When speaking of the matter
to Tribune reporter yesterday DR.. Armage said
"The Hanson Place Church is without pastor.
and have consented 10 fill the place for a short
time. No. / would not think of taking another
pastorate at my age. expect preach pretty often
IN the future however. / have invitations to go
almost everywhere and preach to all sorts of denomi'
nations. and l going. I feel perfectly free TO
preach to anybody, anywhere All / want Is lot
of beings called men inside OF four walls. The Fifth
Avenue Church people have been very kind to me.
They have just presented TO me fine residence in
WQrh tlr-g Onl and no
tons completed, | shall move from this city TO
that place. l expect TO do considerable literary work
there. l Just cheerful and llght-hearted as
was when | entered the ministry in 1880, in Long
Island church. During these fifty years have never
been out of pastorae except once, for two weeks.
Ny eyesiCht is becoming source of trouble TO me,
but am just as lively ever"
The Madison Avenue Baptist Church will reopen on
September 10. Its pastor the Rev. DR.. c. Dewitt
Brdman. is now in Europe.
The Calvary Baptist Church has open doors and
large congregations all summer. DR.. Macarthur has
assistant pastor who breaches in his absence.
TRINITY PROUD OF ITS RECORD.
1t is the boast OF old Trinity that she has not been
closed single day in twenty years Even during the
blizzard of 1885 the doors of this historic church
open. This summer the assistant clergy have oi-
cated as usual. The rector, the Rev. Dr. Morgan
Dix, is still at his summer home in Seafeld, West
Hampton, l. l. His eyes, which troubled him for a
time last year, seem to be much strengthened by the
sea air. and the preacher is in excellent health
All the churches, called by courtesy chapes,' which
own old Trinity their head have also been open
all summer. DR.. Dix IS the head rector of all
these branches, and he will soon be at the head Of
another for fine building is being erected by the
Trinity Corporation to occupy the block between Ninth
and Tenth aves and Ninety-frst and Ninety second
sts This Will be completed in two years, at a cost Of
$3500OO:
Grace Church. at Broadway and Tenth-st has also
been open all summer. Its rector the Rev. DR.. W. Il.
Huntington Will not be home for two weeks. In his
absence the assistant clergy have charge Of the SER
vices.
St. Thomass Church, at Fifth-ave. and Ffty-third
ST., Is open every sunday, and tho assistant clergy
are In charge. The Rev. Dr. Brown will return from
Eurone October 1.
The Rev. DR.. Ralnsford is in southampton, where he
can be reached by his people easily. 1t is not known
how he Will return to St. Georges Church
The church organ has had an electric motor put
in this summer but services have been sus-
tanned all summer long The two tall towers on
St. Georges Church are being taken down
st. Bartholomew's Church open for the morning
service last Sunday. The Rev. Dr. David H. Greer
Is travelling in this country and will return on oc
tober l. when the regular services will be resumed
Electric lights have beeh put into the church during
! the summer vacation.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, In Forty secondst
has been open all summer. Its rector, the Rev, e.
| walpole Warren, has, visited Saratoga and Lake
| George and he will return to the city before the
third Sunday Of this month.
GIVING GOOD AS WELL AS RECEIVING IT.
The Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems the pastor Of the
| Church of the Strangers, IS tho president OF the
American Institute of Christian Philosophy at Avon
bytheSea and he has been enjoying the spiritual as
well as temporal delights OF this section of the
| New-Jersey coast. DIR. Deems has been away from
| his church moro than usual this summer but he Is
! Just as active In the early part OF the
summer he visited Mr.. Moody's summer school az
Mortified Mass and made two fine addresses, besides
brilliant Fourth OF July grafton, and shortly after this
he delivered an address before several thousand young
people at the convention of the Society OF Christian
| Endeavor, In Philadelphia.
Rejoicing is the order of the day In the Washington
SQUARE Methodist Episcopal Church. Its new pastor,
the Rev. C. II. McAnney greeted the congregation on
| hts return from Ocean Grove last Sunday The
| organ has been thoroughly Overhauled and repaired
while radical changes have been made In the sunday
school room, enlargng It and giving It more light.
The Rev. DR.. John Hall, the pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presby terrain Church, VIII return from Europe
next week The building has not been closed
this summer DR.. Hall attended the Worlds Sunday
school Convention in London and, by means of letters
published in this CITY, has let OF his many friends
at home enjoy with him the sights of Paris and other
! cities.
! opened The Rev DR. Howard Crosby win not return
to his duties however until the middle Of the month
lie is stil at Pine Hill In the Casks but now and
then a trenchant letter from his pen appears In The
! Tribune to let the police officials and the criminals
| whom they watch know that while resting he IS not
! mapping .,. ,,,-.
! Inc Rev Or. c. L. Thompson, the recent Moderator
! OF the General Assembly, Is in Europe. Hc Will re-
turn I'm time TO preach when his church, the Madison
Avenue Presbyterian, reopens on September H.
CHURCHES UNITING FOR THE SUMNER.
Union services have been held in the Brick Church
! this wear where President W. C. Roberts, OF Lake
Forest University, the present Moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly, and President W. C. Young of Centre
College have been among the preachers Dr. Van
DYKE has been seeking rest on Long Island and at
Lake MohOnk. The West Presbyterian (Dr. Paxton's,
and the Church Of the Covenant Dr. McIivanes have