New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-27
WHIT CITY PASTOR SEES.
ITEMS OF Personal INTEREST ~
CHURCH PEOPLE.

II would have sounded strange TWO OF 'i"ee -
ago to have heard that the pastor OF churo" ~ Wa
conducting chatte mortgage institution nu
church HISTORY Is making rapidly these days Inc
nresent financial crisis has led the Church 10 'h''n
Of the TEMPORAL welfare Of its own numbers anu
OF the people at large. The report OF tne man's
Of the Loan Bureau carried on so successfully ny
St Barthoomews Church covers more thah TWEEN
ty-fve pages In the Year Book. little lesS thah a
wear ago the Rev DR.. David H. Greer the rec.o.
Of St. Bartholomew's. asked his people for YOU"
IA start the bureau. The receipts from ices Oh
MORTGAGES interest and instruments MAKE tne
total for the first eight months OF %''o'
or the many thousands OF dollars loaned on iur"'-
ture for which chate, mortgages were taken, ine'e
has not been a single foreclosure. and only 81? mas
been lost ,,,.
DR. Greer says concerning this Loan Bureau;
"That experiment. for experiment 1t was Is an
experiment no longer. II has worked wei III every
respect and the resu!ts-as the report VIII sho"
have proved to be more encouraging tnan eve" '"e
most sanguIne Of us anticipated. The losses nave
been so inconslderable that they are hard!y "o''"
mentioning. and In no case as yet has IL pee" he.e
gary to re,ort TO foreclosure. This Is certainly
very satisfactory not only from financial point
OF view but from ethical and social IL SHOWS
that the wage-earnng class OF the community 70
lust as sensltlveiy conscientious in meeting Its obi
cations as the Weather and more prosperous ciasS
II shows. in other words that the great majority
~ the people are trustworthy and honest. ana tnat
IN smile Of the circumstantai difference between
them there Is an ethical bond that binds them anu
m,tns them one The capital OF the bureau Is
coz 600 and with tina, capital II has done We'll IL
would do better however. II the capitai were III
creased not only by assisting and relieving a
roa,., number Of people but by increasing the in
come without Increasing much the expense ftty
thousand dollars would yield. OF course larger
interest and the clerical force required 10 hahu.e
II would not have to be much larger. H. indeed'
any. than 1t is at present
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church mas re-
Gently raised $4,000 for the Home Mission Board
hout the same amount for the Foreign Mission
Board and is about to secure sl5oo Tor us as
,inctively city missionary work it has three
| channels and a mission for the Chinese one OF its
chanel. is downtown on the West Side. In King
g, another is on the East Side. In Fourtcenth-st'
near Avenue a. and the third Is Mt flrst-aVe' anu
Sixtv-thiri-st. The new building uptown cost more
than 10000. and is admirably finished FOR insutn-
,ional work In addition to the large gifts Tor us
own family this church is the largest contributor
IN the extension work carried on by the Presbytery
| e1ualling II not exceeding the gifts OF All 'he
other churches. possibly one excepted IN the r'es
bytcry Or. John Hall says that II the accounts
OF his wedding fees are true he VIII be hea'y
surerer under the new income tax law. but TO the
hoe, NJ his knowledge the enormous wedding fees
which are attributed to him are always LETT al the
| noighboring parsonage.
The Washington Square Methodist Episcopa'
| Church with It's two pastors Is placing new en-
phasls on old methods. especially Oil truths ms
U.s. perhaps more than any oth"r ThIs does not
that the pastors and oiilcers -, ~ ."e in
building and Hait for the ass ef preaching the
GOSPEL IL exalted and an effort made 10y thoroutn
Canvass OF the neighborhood houses 70 carry the
church 20 the people who attend no religious SER
vice In addition TO he time aonSrei hs usual
| fa.ll
EFFORT. provided In the Womans Gniid' me Tn rE
/ inxmen's Club. the Junior League ana the boys,
Club This church Is just now enjoying re'''"'
teasOn.
! Having spent two hours last week In the Essex
N,rket Police Court TO tell Justice Grady what ne
saw In an East Housion-st barro9m one Sui.us ,l
m gyTS ~ an rdicTa in The independent, Sun
day opening In New-York" The police captain fall
pf 20 % sps oHne in Il. room where he the
game played was carried TO the captain s,, cn
/ The station was made and the request that par
room should be closed that was Open w,,nn Our
men cannot get the evidence. can YOU An o,''.ss
d,e6 to go O Mnh n The KEEP, by an
oricer OF the Liquor Dealers Association The pro
prieior had been arrested earlier IN the day for
ternIng hi. barroom open but It not difficult TO
enter the side door. and In nve minutes the "a,
kceprr was In the station with sufficient evidence 70
send him to prison II ne courts wished TO do 90
The appeal OF the proprietor was P,tiae.e IN the
to keep open DV on yet the police
| living Ny children 90 10 Sunday.sch twice on
| sunday. Don't be hard on me TO me simple m
! aury why he did not respect the law. ne saiu
There are $50 saloons in this precinct l5o OF which
are run by members Of our association Evsry one
| Of our members would be glad to close on sunday
the year around but u We do so we VIII lose an o.
| are nun by men whom cannot contro.. don I
want to work seven days In the week ! want 10
spend SUNDAY WIZ my family. what do YOU say a,
| Pastorr That II the police stand by us ana the
courts stand behind the police and the Liquor Deal
ers Association will close their 100 saloons on sun.
| day we will compel the others TO do likewise: but
| what are you going TO do In my case? send the
| Then you're no friend OF mine III not friend
| of yours am trying to bcfrend the families whose
| rent and shoes and food so 10 your family Instead
| Of their own.