New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-08
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THE JUDSoY MEMORIAL CHURCH.
GREAT RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND BE-
NEvoLBNT INSTITUTION ABOUT
TO RE BUIIT

TO BE BUILT.
TO ne EaNor or The TrfounG
Sir: Some OF your readers may desire 20 know what
progress 1 am making in prosecuting my purpose OF
building in lower New-York church edifce
memorial to my father, Adoniram Judson the first
American foreign missionary.
have secured for this object 100000 of the
s2eo,000 required. II Is my plan to build not only
a church proper but on one side Of II Young Mems
Building, ard on the other ChIldrens Home; since
have learned during eight years experience IN New
York that the two most fruitful departments OF
Christian work are among young men and among
little children between infancy and the age OF nine
Tho church proper will consist Of a basement and
the main auditorium. The basement will be used on
Sunday for the sunday-schoo primary department
and Bible clsses the rest Of the week during the day
time for educational work including kindergarten, pf
mary class industrial and singing schools. and al
night for worship. So that the basement will be prac
caIy great religious workshop and schoolhouse
open all the time. The main auditorium Will be used
for the Sunday services. II will contain stained glass
windows By La Fargo and a sculptured baptstely by
st. GaIdens
The Young Mems Building will provide lodging
rooms for Al least hundred young men. They will
have the advantage OF being I'm beautiful building on
the finest square in New-York, and within walking
distance Of their places of business At night they
viii have the OF handsome sitting room, with
library, besides a well-appointed gymnasium.
The Chlldrcn'S Home will provide besides day
nursery, temporary permanent residence for such
destitute little children we often unearth in our
mission work They viii have food and clothing and
care well church and school under the same
roof The Of $40 900 has been recently given by
a lady I'm New-Jersey for this home.
We have already secured an eligible site. Our plot
Is situated on the west corner OF South Washington
square and Thomp and is 105 feet wide and
100 feet deep. This Is strategic position IL IS on
the edge Of great tenementhosc district. and yet IS
within easy reach of people OF ample who may
desire TO engage in missionary work il Is accessible
TO all public conveyances. II fronts the square and
almost exactly faces F1fth-ave. and the proposed
Washington Arch. In fact. chance 10 have the
same architect Mr.. Stanford White. Of Mckim. Mead
e. White
My purpose IS to erect a building which will not
only preserve In beautiful and permanent form the
memories Of early missionary history but Will also
help 10 solve the pressing and difficult problem Of
what to do with the masses Of people that arr filing
up the lower parts Of great cities. controlling our
municipal institutions, and through the cities deter
mining the character and destiny Of country at
large. ! hope TO secure the whole amount by Jan
uary l, TO begin to build NAV l. the cxpira-
ton Of our leases. EDWARD JUDSON.
Ncw-York, October ! 1850.