Bridgeton pioneer., 1889-03-21

'trusts" in spiritual power; no portion
Comprised the heirs and the balance,
the legatees. The deacons should
come in not for priority but for pos
terror mention. The popular assump
tion would make only the clergy the
stewards of the grace of God, and all
others dummies 1t sewed up the
rent made in the temple veil, locked
up the entrance to the mercy seat, and
locked up the key in the pockets of
the clergy. The clergy has assumed
to make itself the only ''holy'' and the
laity had been content to let them do
so. He thought the work of those be
fore him as indicated by the assemblage
was getting back to primitive times,
and Christianity was going to be rec
ognized as comforting the priestly
power upon all such agencies.
A mutual membership in the family
of Christianity was to be recognized.
No story was completely furnished by
one object. The three masts of ship
at sea only lc oked like three poles un-
less q ship beneath them were sup
posed; the segment of carriage wheel
argued the whole wheel in the
shop. Our dealings were with frac-
tions and not with wholes, and our
experiences were made up from quar-
ter sections. Vegetable and animal
life exhibited the unity of the whole
created system of the universe. The
wounded nerve carried the agony of
its pain to the whole body-if one
member suffered all suffer with it.
God builds by perpendicular assent
and getting upon one of Gods straight
liaes there was no need of missing the
way. Man loses, he said, if he tries
to play life's game alone, and so Chris
tianity slost if it goes off into monas-
terry or nunnery of exclusiveness. We
are governed by our antecedents,
said he, and in order to change man
you have need to work upon him a
thousand years before he is born! Man
is hereditary, and it is not for you and
me to tell when We leave off or when
1--WE begin. Influences dating from
thousands of years are wrought upon
us, but in the multitu1inous mass of
humanity there is unity in the whole
a manis fractional, man is integral.
He thought the hlessedness consisted
in feeling this unity the oneness of
humanity.
The doctor was scathing in his de-
nunciations of trusts in religion as
we'll as trusts in sugar and oil, :"
anarchism, Brotherhoods, and combi-
nations of selfishness of all sorts in.
Guiding Gernaonu. Christ and Christ
like life exemplified the true brother
hood-a real Christian was Christ.
man. The address lasted about three
quarters of an hour.
The Convention closed with the bene-
diction by Rev. Mr.. Beadle.
FRIDAY MORNING.
sion of the devotional exercises. Mr..
Cook, Vice President, called the Con-
vention to order.
The Committee on Permanent Or
ganization reported as follows;
For President of the Convention, c.
w. Shoemaker, of Bridgeton.
First Vice President. w. d. Murray,
of Plainfield.
Second Vice President, r. E. Spear,
of Princeton.
Recording Secretary, r. NJ. Ander-
son, of Trenton, assistant Secretary,
Luther Richmond of Salem.
Mr.. Shoemaker not being present,
First Vice President Murray took the
chair and announced the following
committees:
On Credentials-H. A. Rink, of Mill
vile, A. E. Prince, of Bridgeton; Geo.
B. Mershon, of Cranbury.
On Devotion-W. r. Southwell,
Bridgeton; w. D. Murray, Plainfield;
R. Howard Taylor, Trenton.
On Business-Saml. Dudley, Orange;
John Cook, Camden; Prof. Wilbur,
New Brunswick.
On Resolutions Theodore Hampson,
Newark; L. E. Brookaw, Peddie ,Insti-
tute; Arthur Lucas, Jersey City.
Reports from the following Asssocia,
tions were read by their Secretaries:
Asbury Parry, Bloomfield Bridgeton
(they reported 1895 in the treasury and
all debts paid) Bloomington, (reported
$500 in the treasury and asked for the
sympathy of the convention), Blairs
town, Burlington, (deceased), Camden
Cranbury, Dutch Neck, Hackettstown
Jersey City, Millville, New Brunswick,
Orange, Paterson, Plainfield, Salem,
Summit, Trenton, Vineland, S. ]. l. of
Bridgeton, Peddie Institute at Nights
town, Rutgers College of.New Bruns-
wick, Rutgers Grammar School at
New Brunswick.