The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-15
IN WooDBsIDGE AND ORANGE.
Addresses Made Yesterday by Roy. MT. Hood, Field Secretary of Congregational Church Building Society.

Auuresses muue Yesterday by ReVs MT.
 Hood, Field Secretary of Congregational
 Church Building Society.
 Yesterday morning Rev. George A. Hood Of Boston, New England field secretary of the Congregational Church Building socie- ty, spoke of the work of the society in the Woodbridge Congregational church and in the evening at Orange Congregational church. His text was: 1 Chronicles, xxi, 10: Arise, therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God" He said that ever since God built the tabernacle in the wilderness all forms of the true religion must have their churches, and, indeed, all false religions must have their temples. Congregatonallsts are the only ones who organize 200 churches, more or less, and build only 100 per year.
 our young men developing the new towns, are equipped with docks, elevators, mlils, machinery and every improvement for doing their work six days Tn the week; Will they 80 to church the first day of the week ill an abandoned saloon, or q dance nall, carpenter shop, or the loft of q livery staple! No, 1t makes them homeSick; they nave no respect for church which cannot Dulld, and they cannot afford to give S2o or | So0 to help it build. The church, like any other line of business, must have an equip ment to success If we can aid the young church to build the new settlers will at | tSliu, VIII give oU cents or Sl or SZ per week to make 1t self-supporting; and the future character of the new town can be moulded l by the church. Thus the Congregational Church Building society helps the young cnurcheS Of the Congregational Home Mis- sionary society,". and of the American Mis- slonary association among the dark races.
 We aid them by three funds: The Grant fund' the Loan fund and the Parsonage loan fund. The money is paid back to be used over and over, the loans every five years, the grants irregularly, by contributions. and Insurance policy; therefore there is, no l loss. The aid pays only last bills, therefore the missionary church will be out of debt, The society has always paid every dollar when due; therefore donors to the annuity fund are sure of their annuity.
 Why do they need help? Because q church building m costs four or five times .;, as Home Missionary society helps pay the minister, economy and success demand that the Church Building society should be able to give much larger help on the building. Because to convert open prairies or empty woods into a town is hard for the first set tiers. With farms and homes mortgaged, interest and taxes high, shanties to live in, paint, no cellar or we'll; snowdrifts inside when they are outside, and food frozen solid in the morning; the people, cannot build derfuiiy. A carpenter trying to to get a home for wife and two children gave $175 out of S2 day wages; q laborer earning S400 q year gave $150 and note for $100 more A minister living in dug-out had saved money for a new roof, but afraid of losing the new church for lack of church building society aid, he gave his roof money and kept an umbrella beside the bed in case of rain.
 "A missionary church has its first hope of success when it gets building. and 1t churches will die, or if they live it will only be by taking continued aid from the Home Missionary society; One Home Missionary superintendent said his churches would live only two years without q building. Large numbers of our churches have died from this cause. and $50 now are homeless and hopeless, for a church without building is brooded the worse condition it is in When a church dies, it damages the moral future of the town and loses the Christian workers and riches of the future.
 If we aid church to build, q rival fol lows soon, and many eastern young men are saved in this. way. in the new town, new life, new. habits. A Minnesota church took Home Missionary aid for thirteen years without q sign of success, but when the Church Building society gave it $500 to pay last bills on a 1,600 church, revival be- gan with the dedication and fourteen young men were converted,
 '"rhen comes self-support. One Minneso- ta church expected every year for five years to throw off Home Missionary aid; the sixth year it had $500 aid from the Church Biuld- ing society on $4,00O church, and has been self-supporting ever since. good way 10 save Home MlSSlOnafy money. put why couldn't the Church Building society have aided that church five years before and saved S1,500 Home Missionary money? For lack of money. In north Wisconsin seven new churches were aided to build about the same time: in four years six of them were selfsupporting.
 "Often the Church Building society has to cut down the application of a church forcing 1t to hard struggle to pay up; then the church must have more Home Mis- sionarv aid the next year because they emptied their pockets on the building, and the extra expense to the Home Missionary society proves to be more than the amount of the cut of the Church Building society. The greatest trouble a home missionary has Is the struggle to pay for building when the Church Building society cannot aid him promptly and sufficiently. Worry over work. sickness follow, and often he leaves broken down.
 "Thus by prompt payment of bills, revival and self-support, we see that every s1.000 given to ahe Congregational Church Build ing society will save S1 GOO to the Congre- gational Home Missionary society in about three years
 "At the monthly business meetings the society has to refuse from one-fourth to two-thirds of the applicants; it should have nearly twice it's present income in order to heIp the Home Missionary society do its work with economy and efficiency"