The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-05
DARKEST NEW JERSEY.
DR.. Muller's Remarks About the wicked-
est City In the State.

DR.. Muller's Remarks About the wickcd-
est City In the State.
Special to the JERSEY Cisy Nsscs.
MoRRIsTowN, April 5. 1s92-Ir was de-
eide at the Newark Conference yester-
day that the Rev. 4. c. Muller who, for
three years has been pastor of the Emory
Methodist Episcopal Church Of Jersey
City should go to Newark and take
charge of the work of the Board of Ex-
this class of work. led the Newsrkers to
select him. Mr.. Muller will enter upon
his new dutief at once
Last nights session was taken up by
the reading of committee reports. The
camp meeting report was read by Rev.
Dr. j =; Faulks. and In speaking Of the
Mount Tabor meeting he remarked that
1t was no longer mighty engine Of spir-
itual power. Conversions and manifes-
tations Of santifying grace are not SO fire.
quenr as of yore. A discussion followed
rs to the advisabillty of continuing the
camp meeting at Mount Tabor. The Rev.
John Hayes favored resuscitating them,
but thought spot should be found
where ministers could 60 and preach
without the embarrassment of niceties
and so much style.
The Rev. H. 7. Smith disagreed with
DIR. Hayes and argued that If nicaties had
a depressing effect upon soul-saving,
beautiful churches should be abandoned
and the custom of preaching In barns
resurrected The matter was finally
shelved without any definite action.
The Rev. l.. G. Muller of Jersey City
read lengthy report of the Committee
on Missions. He said:-"Although en-
tirely sympathetic with work our society
is doing now in foreign and home
fields. we deprecate greatly its profound
conservatism with reference to the great
cities of the United STATES, and especially
those in the older Conferences. II city
of $4,000 population was discovered in
Dakota without single Protestant Eng
disappearing church, the society would
fly on the WINGS of the morning to pos
sess it; but we have space in Hoboken
with $4,000 populations; space adjoining
1t in Jersey City with $4,000 population,
and very populous space in Newark as
religiously destitute as the imaginary
city in Dakota. and the Society will
hardly consider an appeal in their be-
half
Mr.. Muller read from Elder Ham
mond's report of last year the following:
Pike county. in Pennsylvania, lying
west of the Delaware River, a district
abont twenty-five miles square, is In need
OF a missionary as much as any part of
Africa. One of our pastors made an ap-
pointment at a school house and thirty
one babies were brought to be baptized.
They die and are buried without Chris
could put a man on horseback and let
him go from hamlet to hamlet, or house
to house, in the old Bishop Asbury fash
ION. and give the people religious rites
and gospel truth, great good would be
DONE"
This brought the Rev. T. H. Smith of
Mlllburn to his feet and he shouted, "I've
beeen presiding elder of that District and
/ know that the statement of the elder Is
not correct"
Mr.. Smith was contradicted again and
| iuformep that there was District in Pike
County OF 25 miles square wthout min
lister of any denomination. and the people
there were without the Gospel as they
would be in darkest Africa.
| The greatest excitement was caused
when the Rev. Alexander Craig arose
and said :-"The needs of Pike county are
nothing as com pared with those of New
ark, II the conversion Of the heather in
| Bombay is to go forward to the neglect of
Newark. the unsaved of our great cities
will be left alone and the centres of
heathendom will be removed to these
citles." He favors keeping missionary
money at home TO educate foreigners whe
ara locating here.