The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-28
FRONTIER LIFE.
The Rev. F. 6. Puddefoot
Tells CongTegationists
How to Make Potato
Cakes.
CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONS
Rally at Newark individual Com
munion Cups Condemned
An Elastic Text.
|NGREGATI0NAL HOME MISSIONS

-NSNdIA. lHe attendance at the afternoon
service was very small. about three
fourths Of it was composed of represen-
tatives of the Tabernacle, who went out
together in the trolley. The devotional
exercises were led by the Rev. Samuel L.
Loomis, pastor of the Bel.leville Avenue
church. The Rev. t. w. Jones, D.. D.,
whose address was to have been Our
State Work" did not come and the first
address of the afternoon was made by
the Rev. c. W. Sheltan. eastern field Sec
rotary of the. Home Missionary Society.
His subject was Where We Work, and
he ~sadd:-aThe work Of taking care Of the
emigrsnts is never carried on by regular
contributions but by special legacy.
What is this problem of emigration?
Senator Edmonds has said the greatest
question Of our civilization is what We
win do with immigrants. It is an army
Of ignorance; ignorance of our. language,
cur religion, our laws, ignorant of any-
thing pertaining to our national life.
They come with the nest intentions of
tentimes. 1t was a 60 per cent. foreign
vote which closed the Louisiana Lottery,
and a As per cent. foreign vote which in
serted the temperance clause in the Con-
stitution of South Dakota. They have
GOIG lHuCil lOI us, NGdl can We 40 Tor
them? But what of those VINO come with
antagonistic ideas, the foreign criminals
who come? 1t was to the lost sheep Jesus
came, and to these same lost sheep He
sent His church.
Another problem is our Christian cit
.es. New York is a Christian city, but If
you crowded every place where divine
worship is held to its utmost capacity.
there are left 9S7, 600 people who couldn't
get in. The appropriation for the East
grows large each year. Massachusetts,
has more home missionaries than any
other State or Territory in the Union.
Among the poor whites in the South
there are two milliSls waiting for help.
In the great West there are 5000 towns
where the Gospel has never been preach-
ed. All we have asked of these Congrega-
tional churches is that each member will
give us one cent a day. IL they would do
this we could meet our running expenses.
pay our debt of $40, COO and have IN the
treasury one million dollars. What they
give us is not quite n OF a cent. per
member"
The Rev. DR.. William Kincaid gave a
short Glance at History He said he
once heard a colored brother pray when
introducing a speaker that the congrega-
ton might be endured with power from
on high" and he hoped his audience would
be able to endure a few sober and his
toric facts. The day of home missions
did not really begin until the Revolution
airy War. Before that there had been a
little work among the Indians, but the
war brought forward the necessity OF
home missionary work. In 1888 DIR. Man
assam Cutler led a small colony of off
oArE Fl n ICn Vint in III q TO ryA ~ ~ AHnTs
eta. In 1876 the first Congregational
church west of the Alleghanies was built
IN this tow LA ana May 4 Of this year q
Cutler secured the charter forbidding
slavery in the great Northwest. In 1872
Samuel Mills went on a journey through
the new States establishing churches.
Oberlin College was organized by him and
an eminent politician has said that to
that institution is due the aboltionlzing
Civil War. The Home. Missionary Society
has made a succession of quick cam
paigns through the States and now the
lished in every State.
The Rev. w. G. Pnddefoot, also East
on the Frontier" He said: There are
four or five denominations in the country
and all are in debt but one. That makes
me think of the man who slept sixteen
hours p day because by doing SO he
saved expenses. Our society doesn't
sleep and so she runs into debt. The
earth is the Lords and you belong to
his kingdom, and you can't skulk out of
it because you live in New Jersey. /
had a letter a short time ago from a
little woman out West, and she told me
their four had given out and for eight
weeks they had been obliged to live on
potato cakes. She thought my wife
might like the receipt and so she sent
or nine if you are very hungry, and
crate them and mix a very little -four
with them, and bake them o. a griddle.
We'll, 90 you know that woman had
the letter came saying we had cut down
her husbands salary, she just cried and
thought she'd like to come East and get
a mutton chop. It's hard to have faith
when the pantry's empty.
well we started out one day on the
frontier to dedicate a new little church.
We rode on indian ponies. 1T was one
hundred degrees in the a and the
we caught sight of something that
looked like a barn. 1t was the little
church. We got there and had the SER
vices. It was a little church and they
munion table and for the communion
services they had rafsin water in q
ketchup bottle and the saucers of flower
pots to drink out Of. When / saw those
saucers l thought of my church at
home that was having a solemn meeting
to decide df they hadn't better have in
dividual cups to keep from getting germs
from. A generous Eastern church had
given them an organ with three keys
wretch down. / got up to preach, and
preached half an hour. I was just going
to stop when Parker pulled my coat
tails and told me to preach some more,
that there were w hundred coming.
had a kind of elastic text, SO / branched
off on another side and talked another
half hour when Parker pulled my. coat