The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-04
EMORY'S NEW CHURCH
To Adorn Bergen Avenue
Adjoining It's Present
Building.
CADETS TO HAVE A DRILL ROOM
The Rapidly Growing Membership
Demands More Room-Local
Church Chat.

There is a prospect that there will be
a new church building erected on Bel
gen avenue some time in the near future
by the Emory M. E. Church, which now
occupies a brick building at the rear OF a
valuable plot of ground.
When this was erected, its size was
ample to accommodate the congregation,
and although planned for a chapel and
Sunday school building, it has answered
the pur poses of the church very well. But
the project of adding another and larger
building to the blank wall that faces Ber-
gen avenue was not forgotten, and now
the large increase in the membership
brings the time of accomplishment near
at hand.
AN ERROR IN MEASURE MENT.
The church reserved four lots Of a hun.
d red feet each, which have been used as
a teunis ground during the summe r. and
sometimes as a drill ground for the En-
ory cadets. At the rear of the building
they reserved a space which they Judged
to be 45 by Is feet, and on which it was
lately proposed to erect q drill hall Tor
the two military companies. among the
boys of the church. The matter was held
under consideration some time, plans
were Drawn, and 1t seemed probable
that the building would be erected.
when ut the last meeting Of the commit
tee it was found that from some misap.
prehension as to the size of che lot 1t
would be too small, only 25X100 feetfn-
stead of axis. This plot would not per-
nit the erection of a building giving the
company space for a complete wheel. So
for the present a large hall will be hired
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whose first floor will be used as u drill
| room and general assembly hall.
The rapid growth of the congregation
has made this action a necessity. Already
| the seating capacity has been exceeded.
aud 1t is necessary evervSunday TO throw
open the adjoining rooms. Inc recent
revival brought into III church over
| sixty members, and other have joined by
letter, bringing the increase for the past
| GEAR to nearly 100 members. The mem
bership is now more than 500.
THE CHUReH's NURSERY.
The Sunday school is one of the most
| prosperous in the city. numbering more
| than 400, with a continual weekly increase.
| The SUNDAY before last twelve new
scholars were received, this at a time
when there are no Christmas feasts or
summer excursions to asinducements.
The Emory Cauets, a military organiza-
ton of young men Il boys OF
the church, is In two divisions, the Seniors,
fifty in number, under the command of
J. B. Faulks, Jr.. a graduate of Borden
town Military Institute. and now a ST u
lent at Stevens Institute. The Hudson
County Wheelmen kindly offered them
the use of their rooms on Belmont ave.
nue. for drill purposes until the new build
ing should be ready, a courtesy that was
gladly accepted.
YOUNG SOLDIERS.
The Juniors number about forty reii'
able and constant in attendance. They
exercise In Crescent Hall, under the same
%drillmaster. meeting In the afternoon,
Iwhile the Seniors meet in the evening g.
Membership in these companies is
eagerly sought for on the part Of the
boys of the school, and the attendance is
always regular.
The congregation has not yet fully paid
off the debt or the present edlfice. but is
doing SO by degrees. Plans were drawn
for the main building when the chape
was erected, but these will be discarded.
as being unsuited to present modes OF
architecture. 1t is the intention of sh'
church to make the new building one oil
the largest and handsomest OF the city
Tt will adjoin the chapel, two doors being
cut through the blank wall for come
ton.