The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-21
IN THEIR NEW HOME
Central Avenue Reformed
Church Dedicates a Hand
some Edifice.
SERVICES BY THE CHILDREN
Description of the Building and
History of the Society
The Sermons.
SERVICES BY THE CHILDREN

The handsome new edifice OF the Central
| Avenue Reformed Church on Bowers street
was yesterday morning dedicated by Pastor
Charles W. Wright and the Rev. Cornelius
Brett, D. D., of the Bergen Avenue Reform
ed Church. The services were impressive
and beautiful. Special music was rendered
by the organist, Miss M. A. Pocknen and the
choir, under her direction sang a number Of
appropriatesanthens Scripture reading and
singing by the congregation, wore also a part
of the exercises. Pastor Wright delivered
the dedicatory prayer. He thanked God for
blessing them so much, and giving them such
a beautiful church to worship in, and Jedi
Gated it TO Him for the sole purpose of do
ing work for the salvation Of souls.
The sermon was delivered by DR.. Brett,
who also blessed the new ediice and con-
graduated the congregation upon having
such an elegant structure TO worship IN
after being cooped up in the little building
on the corner for over twenty years. M
Building Committee then reported through
its treasurer, MIR. j. C. Meharg. The report
showed that the building had been thor
onghiy inspected during its construction and
was of the best material.
THE CRILDREN's SERVICE.
In the afternoon the children's service
was held in the Sunday school room. A
sDecial musical programme wal rendered by
the school choir, under the leadership of
Director John Meyer, assisted by Miss g.
Guilford the o~rganist. Superintendent j.
C. Meharg told OF the work of the Sabbath
| School since his connection with it. He
| said the school had grown SO large within
the past few years, that the old room was
not large enough 30 accommodate the
| scholars all at once, and that half Of them
had to assemble at one hour, while the other
half met at another. He was glad to say,
however. that it would be the case no longer
as they now had a room that was large
| enough to hold them all at the amt time.
An address was delivered by the Rev. ?:
s. Hubert of the Collegiate Reformed
| Church OF New York. He told the children
not to let Sunday school interfere with their
! going to church, and advised them all
to attend both services if possible. He said
he had to do it when he was a child and the
| services in his church were twice as long
| then as they are now. de advised the
! teachers to attend some normal school for a
short time if they had never done SO, and
they would be much better able to com
mandt the attention of their pupils and to
impart the truth more effectuaiiy to them.
| He congratulated the school and especially
| the choir upon their excellent singing, and
| said he had never been In a Sunday school
where tuey 6dlS OoNvoA- AhO booOA anu
| several others also made short speeches.
REV. MR.. BRUsH;S SERMON.
The evening services consisted chiefly of
| singing and scriptural reading, with a short
| sermon by Rev. A. Fl. Brush of Brooklyn.
This evening there will be a service held
| in the church, which will be known as the
Observation-Disclosures service. Tomorrow
| night and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
| evenings there viii also be services held.
| The new edifce which has just been dedi
Gated, is without doubt one of the most
beautiful churches in this city. The plans
for the church were furnished by Walk &
Son Of Brooklyn, who also supervised Its
| construction. The style is Romanesque,
brick with pressed brick front. TIL interior
is an inspiration to the religious
emotion. The beautiful curves and ex-
| ouisite colorings, the soft, delicate tints,
caused by the mingling of tones and colors.
lights and shades, make it impressing and
quiets the nerves Of him who desires to wor-
ship into restfu1ness and peace.
SKETCH OF THE HUE
The Central Avenue Reformed Church
was organized by the Chassis Of Bergen, July
10, 1879, but the Sunday school was pre-
viously organized, and occupied the old
building in 1871. The ground upon which
the building stands on the northwest corner
Of Bowers street and Central avenue was
held bv the late Rev. w. v, Mabon, D. d.,
until 1884, when it was purchased by the
church. The building for some time back
has been entirely too small and i'll adapted
~gregation. The new edif3ce, however, is las
Pastor Wright expressed i'll all right, al
though it did cost S25, 600. The church will
nave about $1,000 OF bonded and floating
debt staring it in the face, which is consid-
cred by officials to be a very small sum.