The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-10
Mr.. COX ORDAINED
Assistant Pastor of the
Tabernacle Pronounced
a Congregational
Minister.
PROCEEDINGS OF THREE MEETINGS
How Mrs. Sender Became a Beggar
History of the Church
Union - The Ordina-
lion Services.
PROCEEDINGS OF THREE MEETINGS

City yesterday, was opened by devotional
services. led by the Rev. Mr.. Ackerson.
The Rev. Charles H. Everest, D. D., of
East Orange, took the Conference on
'.Wanderings in Alaska He described
his journey to and in Alaska, last year,
and began with a description of Seattle,
which. he said, was built on the perpen-
dicular. He described the voyage ON the
Pacific Ocean and said the waters looked
bluer and brighter when in United States
dominions than when in Victoria's. DR..
Everest told amusing incidents of his
journey and said the people in and near
Alaska are Klondike mad.
AT the meeting of the Congregational
Union. which followed the Conference,
the treasurer, Mr.. f. +. Myers. of New
York, reported the receipts of the Union
81, 24I.S9 and the expenditures the same
sum. The Rev. Howard Bliss, of Mont
clair, the secretary, gave his report. He
outlined the history of the Union. 1t
was organized one year ago for the pur-
pose of assisting the organization, MAIN
tenance and reinforcement of Congresa-
tional churches in New Jersey, and in the
promotion and extension of other Chris
tan work. The first aid was given to
the Waverly Church.. Five hundred and
eighty-two dollars was given that church
to free it from debt, $500 has been paid
the Peoples Palace: $500 was given the
| church at Nutley; STA was given the
Bethlehem Church of Newark. Twenty
| one churches are members of the Union.
OF these. thirteen have taken special col
l~ections aside from annual dues.
- T 49, l. IAa- naoA
money for the Union in the various Con-
gregational churches. spoke about the
Union. She said:-"I have, in my twenty
years of ministerial work. use that word
ministerial advisedly, for in the old New
England Church. where | was first a pas
tors wife. my pew had on it a tin sign
| marked ministerial-in these. my twenty
| years of ministerial life. / have done al
most every variety of church work. but
it was under the auspices of the New
Jersey Union that ! first became a beg
gar, and SO kindly disposed awe they
been towards me that | have developed
a love for begging, and | am longing
for invitations to go and present the
| cause of our Peoples Palace. Our Union
is a body and if one of its churches be-
comes a little enfeebled it hastens to
| strengthen it. A church here needs a
little lift to push off its load of debt;
| another church finds the interest on their
mortgage more than they car pay; the
Peoples Palace needs financial aid. and
under these burdens is placed the strong
shoulder of the Union. There are two
ways of helping. as a little poem by an
unknown author indicates
g When drowning men for aid implore,
Some people run along the shore
And weep and pray and hope,
Till others, with some common sense,
Come Ike a blessed Providence.
And throw a saving rope.
This Union throws the 0 and pre-
vents weak churches and noble lnStltu-
lions from going under.
After the meeting of the Congregational
Church Union the Rev. Mr.. Goodrich, OF
Plainfie!d. called the Council. for the pur-
| pose Of examining for ordination the Rev.
Sydney II. o to order. After the roll
call Mr.. Goodrich asked Mr.. Cox to come
forward and give his religious experience
and state his doctrinal views. Mr.. Cox
told how he came to be converted and
then read a paper stating his doetrinal
views. His conversion was so gradual
that he could give no special time. For
ten years he has wished to enter the
| ministry and has worked for that end. but
obstacles of various Kind have presented
themselves and it is only within the last
ltW 81 tict nc Aoo oSCu dDlC ~
| preach.
Mr., Cox said, after protesting his be-
lief in the Trinity
THE ethical philosophy that seeks a
renewe communion between God and
man, without any reference to the suf-
fering of Christ, or any admittance of
a vital interest in Christ's death, forgets
| thai there is no forgiveness without prior
required as it was, by the necessity of
Gods moral nature, was made manifest
in the person of Jesus. and in no other
way could man discover it. / believe in
the presence of the Holy Spirit in daily
life; the guide and comforter of men:
teaching them and leading them into all
the truth. That apart from the conscious
ness of the Spirits presence, there can
| be no religious life of value or of per-
manence. / believe that the Holy Spirit
of God admitted by man into his heart,
begins. develops and completes the re-
| generation of mans nature, being limited
only by the degree of cooperation from
man himself in his working out of his
own salvation with fear and trembling.
/ accept the Holy Scriptures. both Old
and New Testament. as containing the
| record of the revelation of God to man.
That the Bible contains a historically de-
veioped theology, teaching us of a pro-
| gressive revelation of God. n of the
| doctrines of grace. and eliminating in the
| eaching of Jesus as the fun revelation
| of God to man. That the character of its
Divine inspiration. differentiates it from
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the supreme guide of Christendom in all
its history. | believe in the communion
of saints, the unity in spirit of the visi-
| Bile Church of Christ. That we are the
members of the body of Christ. and as
one member of a body differs from an
other in use and structure. but is still
vitality related. so in the order of Gods
| providence, individual members, single
churches and various denominations may
differ from one another, y but through
each and all flows the same principle OF
| vitality. even the life which is given by
Jesus Christ. l believe in denomina-
tional loyalty, and | abhor and hate Sec
tarianism. | believe that the iconoclas-
tic criticism of all forms too prevalent
in our churches today and the intense
reaction in this century from Protestant
1 scholasticfsm and Romanist superstition
| have a dangerous tendency in many re-
ligious centres. to go to the other ex-
IRENE, and by minimizing the value and
Importance of the observance frequently
of this divine ordinance, there is remov-
ed from the life of the Church in this
age: what was to the infancy of Chris
tianity, its first great source of strength,
union and growth.
That Gospel to me is not a theory Of
righteousness TO be intellectually adopt
ed, though this is part of the process.
/ But it is pre-emlnently a life, a divine
life, communicated to the human soul,
by tile agency OF Gods Holy Spirit, inn
mediately upon my repentance from sin,
and my acceptance by faith in Jesus
| Christ. OF Gods forgiveness as offered ia
the world on Calvary. l believe in the
simplicity OF the Gospel messages. and
am. therefore, heartily In sympathy with
the cry of this age; Back 70 the Christ
preacher. the Gospel is the solution for
Ill ain and all doubt. because 1t is the