New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-25
SERVICES FOR THE STUDENTS.
COLLEGIATE REFORMED CHURCH ESTABLISHES

COLLEGIATE REFORMED CHURCH ESTABLISHES
CENTRE OF WORK AT THE UNI
vERsIrY OF THE CITY OF NETWORK.
The Consistory Of the Collegiate Reformed Church
has taken an important step in establishing min
centre OF work in this city-namey' University
Heights the site of the undergraduate college WORK
Of the CITY University. The Collegiate Church mas
been on Manhattan Island over $50 years ana no"
for the first time crosses the Harlem. Her four
centres OF work have been the Middle Church. Sec
ond-ave and Seventh-st. the Marble Church' flith-
ave- and Twenty ninth-s; the Fifth Avenue Church'
Forty-eighth-st, and the West End Avenue Church'
Seventy seventh-st. The University Heights Church
wi he In J'niyersity-ave or East One-hundred-and-
eghty-fryt-st
The Consistory has rented for two years the Asso-
citation Hail OF the university and Will establish
Sunday services at early date. This Will be It's
temporary centre Of work, where 1t expects soon
10 place an abe preacher. 1t has also con-
tracted for church site OF nearly 20 feet frontage
overlooking the college campus. where its future
church buildings will be erected The nearest church
edifce at present is about one mile from the col
lege buildings
The Collegiate Consstory fttlng.y takes the lead
IN planting a church close by the new university
bui,dines As the Oldest church in New-York. II
accepts the responsibility of providing religious
privileges for members OF the university Besides.
was a prominent factor sixty-fve years ago IN es-
tablshing the university. The first three chahcei-
lors-Matthews. Frelinghuysen and Ferris-were all
members Of the Reformed Church, which mas al
ways continued to represented in the University
Council by prominent members Nevertheless, the
university has never been connected with any one
denomination. The active representatives or the
Consis,ory In the present movement have been
Henry W. Bookstaver. John S. Bussing and Dr.
David ]. Burrill.
This Consistory also carries at Seventy
seventh-st. the oldest school existing In New-York
City. The beginnings Of both the school and the
Collegiate Church date from 1873.
The American Institute of Christian Philosophy
found among the papers OF its former president
Dr. Charles F. Deems, letter addressed to Cor
neius Vanderbilt and the other officers OF the In
stitute In which. with rare WISDOM he absoved
his associates from following the exact lines adopted
by him for this society. After several months de-
liberation, the institute at recent meeting re-
solved to set apart its entire endowment fund for
perpetually maintaining foundation. TO be known
the Deems Lectureship, in the University OF the
City Of New-York. The lecturer Is TO be chosen
annually or biennially from eminent in science
or philosophy. either In Europe or America, VINO
shall give six lectures which may be put forth IN
book-form valuable contribution TO scientific
or philosophic thought The subject VIII be
agreed upon between the university and the lect-
urer. and must be OF those for whose investiga
ton the institute was chartered The trustees of
the institute are Cornelius Vanderbilt, NJ j. Yer
oery; James Talcott William F. ST. John and Rob
ert L. Crawford.