The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-16
pRESBYTERlANISB
AnAual Meeting Of the New
Jersey Synod Today
at Trenton.
JERSEY ouTRANKs OTHER STATES
Remarkable Growth of the Synod
Jersey City Presbytery's
Report.
JERSEY ouTRANKs OTHER STATES
Sn,cfa,t to The Jer5cu cry Ee,rs.


o'clock this morning, in the Third
Presbyterian Church, Trenton, the
Synod of New Jersey was opened by
Moderator Rev. Samuel NJ. Studdiford,
D. D. The Synod of New Jersey is a
branch OF the famous Synod which met
FIRST in Philadelphia in 1716. Then the
entire body numbered II ministers and b
elders. Today the membership of the
New Jersey branch alone numbers, after
twenty-four years of reunion, 4l min
listers, 321 churches and 64,9S4 communi-
cants. The Presbyterian communicants
in New Jersey outnumber those OF any
other State.
At the opening this morning there
was a large attendance of delegates
from every part of the State. Although
the Jersey City churches did not ofh-
cialIy appoint delegates to the Synod,
yet many members from Presbyterian
churches in the city were present.
When the Moderator's sermon was con-
cluded the roll of the Synod was called
and the usual routine work was gone
through. Then followed a long list OF
reports from all departments OF the
Synod. The report of Jersey City Pres,
JERSEY CITY'S REPORT
The, Presbytery of Jersey City, consti-
tuted in 1870, comprises the counties of
Bergen, Passaic and Hudson. Its strong
est churches are in Englewood, Paterson
and Jersey City. Including these places
and Hoboken it has a large field, with a
large German element, and it has very
diligently prosecuted the work OF church
extension.
The Presbytery of Jersey City reported
to the General Assembly this year as fol
| lows: II ministers, 80 churches, 1879 ell
| ders, SO deacons, 474 added on eXan1ina,
ton, 1854 added on certificate, o,Ii3 total
church membership; Sunday school, 8, $50;
SIS. 100 for Home Missions, 5000, Foreign
Missions; $500, Education; s64o, Sunday
School Work; $493, Church Erection; 1854,
| Relief Fund; 1858, Freedmen; S1,32S, Syn
| odical Home Missions; 1858, Aid for Col
leges; s133, 4e2, congregational; Misceliane-
BUS. ss,197.
Lunch was served at noon, after
| which the Synod resolved itself into a
Benevolence Committee and heard re-
| norts ,ipon that branch of church work:
This evening there will be a general
GSsowTH OF THE SYNOD.
The history of the Synod shows a re-
narkable instance of. growth. The first
Presbytery resolved itself into the synod
| Of Philadelphia in 17t6. The territory
was he Atlantic coast from Long Island
to Virginia, of course, including East
and West Jersey. In 1741 the Synod
was divided, partly by, a diverse con
| struction placed Upon the Act OF Sub
scription, but more Immediately by the
resiilts of the great revival which swept
from the North to the south under tne
| preaching of Whitetield and the Ten
| nents. The older and better educated
| members of the ministry, accustomed TO
| the quiet and decorous methods of the
past. believed that neither upon the point
of academic preparation nor upon tnat
| of doctrinai soundnesS was su1nclent
stress laid in the examination OF candl-
| dates for the ministry; and they INSISTED
/ that these new evangelists, lntfudlnS
| themselves unbidden into their congre-
cations and preaching sermons in when
\ the non-co-operating pastors were vio-
1 lently denounced, were the cause or dls-
order, and productive of more evil than
| good. The result was not so much a
sehism or an exeision as a ~rupt1o
which for a time threatened the very
life of the Church"
After seventeen years, in l75S, the
| Synods came together again under the
name of the Synod of New York and
| Philadelphia. The membership Of the
united Synod, at this time, was 81 min
! listers, 200 churches, and 10000 church
| members. In 1888 the General Assembly
was organized in Philadelphia. -Four
Synods were constituted: New York and
New Jersey. Philadelphia, Virginia ana
| the Carolinas. At this time in the en-
| tire church there were Is P~resbyteries, III
| ministers, 419 congregations, of which
24 were without pastors. Thu organize
agitated as early as 1885; but it was
not contaminated until 1923.
UNION OF SYNODS.
In the thirty-eight years, from 1923 to
1861, the Synod increased from q to IL
Presbyteries; from SO to 1875 ministers,
and from 14 churches to 1874. The church
membership Of the Synod, 2S,S2s.
IN 1883. the Ola and New se 81 % con n
troversy arising, the synod or NeTark
was organized in 1889 by those favering
the latter. branch of the church. In this
new SYNOD there were three Presbyteries,
namely. Newark, Rockaway and Mont
u1y,o fo11orviyr Waar the SYNOD OF
Newark was merged into the Synod of
New York. and was known from hence
forth, until theareunion as the Synod OF
New York and New Jersey. o
q. process of reconstruction. In 1911 the
synod of New Jersey reported as fol
lows: 8 P~resbyteries, $40 ministered. 2S7
oftar twenty-four years of reunion, the
SYNOD reports: 8 Presbyteries, 401 minis
ters, 32l churches, 81, 9S4 communicates.