New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-20
LEADERS AT OCEAN GROVE.
MEN AND WOMEN PROMINENT IN THE
WORK AT THE SEASIDE.
WHO THE WORKERS ARE AND WHAT
THEY ACCOMPLISH

Ocean Grove. ~ j., July 10 Gpecial-The crowds
grow larger daily and the meetings of various kinds
mere are attended by largo numbers OF church and
sunday-school workers. Every day this week eX-
cursiOn trains packed with men, women and children
have arrived from the cities and towns of New
York, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania The peopi
who spend the summer season in this place or attend
the big meetings greatly interested in the leaders
and teachers who instruct them. Some of the most
prominent church workers OF the land are already al
WORK, and many more will arrive next week. The
pen pictures of some OF the Christian workers pub
lshed In last Mondays Tribune have created
considerable interest. SO great has been
the demand for The Tribune this week that the news
dealers have all largely increased their orders, and
scrap In which the articles are pasted for future
reference are selling rapidly
Mrs. Martha j. Insklp Is a fine-looklng woman,
with white hair. which she wears pulled She Is
stouty built and dresses in black being in mourning
for her husband the late Rev. DR.. John III. mskip
She made tour around the world with him. holding
meetings on board the steamer and In every place
whittier they went They took with them a tabernacle
tent and cabinet organ. Mrs. InsldD, having clear
strong voice, power In these eyangellstc Efforts
She has conducted the childrens meetings here during
camp meetings for five summers. Mrs. Inskip spends
her winters IN Florida. She had two Ions given her
on which to build church at Eggesto I'm that state
There was no white church within twenty miles OF the
place When nearly 300 had been collected by her.
the church was built and Bishop Maalieu dedicated
the edifce with only four members for beginning and
forty-two scholars In the Sunday Mrs lnskip
travelled on loads Of wood and by all manner OF
conveyances in doing Nr missionary work 10 Florida
The small man, with iron-gray hair, Is the Rev.
b. B. Loomis Phi. D., OF West Troy. He Is member
of the Troy Anua Conference of the Methodist Episco
pal Church. and has been preaching tweny-sx years.
lie Is well verSed in Biblical lore, and has been
.ciated with the Rev. Dr. Farrar I'm conducting the
Round Lake sunday-school Assembly. For eight
years he has been engaged in this work. and has had
charge for three OF the Sunday Assem-
bly, Of Ocean Grove.
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, the corresponding secretary
of the NewJersey State Union of the Christian Tenn
perance Women, comes, her mothers side from one
of the bestknown families in NewYork Methodism,
her maternal grandfather, william Mclean, having
been connected with the Bedford street Methodist
Episcopal Church of New-Yor1 for period of sixty
years, most of that time In an Official way. Her
mother, Margaret Dye, was ono of the pioneer women
In city mission work She and Mrs. Margaret j. Clark,
Mrs r. p. Pcnied aud Others frequent visitors to
the prisoners in the Tombs. Mrs. Ellis IS bright,
snappy little woman, with llght-bown hair and gray
eyes. In 1s74,she worked I'm the temperance crusade
in California. She into the work In Now
Jersey in 1879, and in 1881 she was elected
corresponding secretary, to which office she has Dceh
reelected eight successive years. MIS- Ellis is popular
as speaker and Is in demand for mass and parlor
meetings Her three daughters Interested In
their mothers work, the elder Miss Margaret Dye
Ellis, being superintendent of the Department of Peri
odicas In the State Union.
Wistar II. Stokes, who Is nephew OF the Rev. Dr.
f. H. Stokes the president of the Ocean Grove Camp
Meeting Association is not large man but ne ILLS
large place lie probably answers more necessary aud
| unnecessary questions than any other man on the
camp ground Mr.. Stokes is of Quaker ancestry. His
venerable parents both living. lie came here
twelve years ago suffering with nervous proStration
from ovcrwork cOlporteur and street preacher
He is native Of Germantown, Philadelphia, and is
dfty-sx years of age, though he does not look It,
He owns the model Of Jerusalem which is located
inst east of tho Auditorium, and he has Interested
audience whenever he lectures ON the Holy City and
points out her mountains, rivers and other sacred
places.
A small man IN a gray business suit with black
hair restless black eyes and closely cropped whlsker,
is recognized as the Rev. J. F. Clymer, A NJ. of Bos-
tom He is a member of the New England Annual
Conference and preached the Gospel for twenty-five
wears lie is the Normal Instructor for tho first years
studies OF the Chautauqua in the Sunday School
Assembly here. Wero 1t not for bald spot on his
head as big silver dollar he would not be thought
to be of middle age. Professor Clymer has been
gagged, in Sunday School Assembly work eight years
Mrs. Emma Bourne. the efficient recording secretary
Union Is tall and slender, with brown hair and blue
eyes She is a woman Of strong practical She
seldom speaks at the conventions, but when she does
her remarks throw light on some vexed question She
is the Youngest daughter of Mother H' of Newark
who was for many years president OF the Newark
Cnion and whose memory IS sacred legacy to all of
| the w-Jersey workers. Mrs. Bourne was married
when mere schoolgirl. In the early responsibilities
of motherhood she had little help from the one
| who should have been her strong support. With
four children to rear and educate strong w0manly
traits have been developed In her character 1t speaks
well for her character that her children have been
trained in business habits, she herself being thorough
business woman. As such she has had falr measure
| of
The Rev. DR.. Benjamin c. Lppincottl of Woodbury.
| ~ j., is one of the most popular ministers OK me
New-Jersey Annual Conference. He IS tall
| and portIy. He prepared for college at
| Pennington Seminary, under me rare coi mey.
Dr. Crane and was @ ar iD Of te Cumberland
Valley Institute, but resigned that place Wneh tne
| Church called him become one OF tho CnrlsId an
leaders in Oregon and Washington Territory. In looo
be was appointed principal OF the Puget SOUND rs
ue The next year ne %as eeeS OF Public In
stIucon Of the Territory lie was the mrs. PenSof ~
elec. - the Office. He was afterward pastor pastor o.
| resigned and came East Needed rest restored MS
vigor and he Joined the New-JeIsey Annual con If
ference. Dr. Lippncot has servd as inc Rtsy ynor
churches at Long Branch As6ury PaIk' heyP nay
| Pennington. Salem and Camden lie II NJ"
pastor of the church Woodbury.. Through his efors
| he socety has raised money for new elihce ~ -
now building and VIII be the finest stone church IN
the state The Of the structure VIII be upward
| of 800 600 and when ready for dedlcahOh WIZ De
free of indebtedness DR.. Llpplncott Is one OF the
temperance leaders of New-Jersey and is past Grand
Worthy Patriarch of the state DIVISION OF tne SOls
| OF TEMPERANCE He was at one time the grand CHAP
lain of New Jersey OF the Masonic order; lie j. now
he president Of the State sunday School ASSOCIATION
| he Is a good speaker and a vigorous writer -
| Henry A. Highly Is member OF the New torh
In tho district represented In Congress by joshua
| r G,ddngs and James A. Garfield. For the last
| twentv-dye years be has lived In Brooklyn: Nr.
Highly has been in the produce commission BUSINESS
| for more than thirty years and IS member OF the
| iSrod,,ca ommjsson He was among the first
purchasers of property in Ocean Grove. lie spenus
| his leisure time with his family I'm his handsome
cottage NoB Ptmanavc.. near the sea- lis VIC 81, Is
| prominent In church and mission work. Mt. hIspy
el from a Meslern hlIsIness trD