The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-03

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ward; when be had become President Of Prince;
ton College, he often visited New York city and
preached here, Tho Scottish divine, John
Witherspoon. who succeeded Edwards as Presi-
city many times, and became n %fayorite preacher,
especially after tho close of the Revolution, for
he was one of tho signers of tho Declaration of
There were jcalousies among the Prcsby-
terrain clergy of this city about the middle Of
funeral John Murray and Samuel Spring met
and 1t was observed neither were cordial TO the
o other. and that Spring left the ceremonies
sion to these rhymes in n New York paper:
Parson Spring began to ding.
He couldn't stay to hear one pray
Cause he was ParsOn Murray.
Mr.. Murray, soon nfterward. when Mr.. Spring
had published a book. rctorted thus:
What mortal power from Things unclean
Who can command a vital stream
From An infected SPRING.
The name of Spring is associated with an.
other preacher, DIR. Gardiner Spring. pastor
of the Brick Church, which for a full century
Potter buildings. 1t was built in 1868 by
seccders from the Wall Street Presbyterian
Church. and was the amicable result OF an up.
town movement. DIR. Gardiner Spring did not
come to it until 1910, and sevred there nearly
lnnf : fSSntqbi II ian and n even Yen n Lived to RI preach Gh, not
erected on Fifth avenue at the northwest
corner of Thirty-seventh street, He was not
p paiy a o EnsSt 'MHf anS of h Gs' se also a a P0p9 eole
lected In book form. and show great logical
powers and experience, in pure Saxon rhetoric:
spectacles. and, possessed a magnetic voice.
He was fairly the idol Of his congregation. So
was his contemporary of the Wall street con.
twelfth streetDthe Rev. VI. II. P Phfnqe Vino Sho
attainment. but rather heavier in his orators.
He was peculiarly suspected of n belief in the
eternal punishment of young children, and for
m nnO flvnn fhn E1ff "a NIantI N h ~ grh yNnn lpn tr-N
as the Infant damnation church," Similarly
the white marble church at the corner of Firth
spire topped with a vane representing THE
bird who I warned st; Peter Of his fall" was
s snd ihs c SfllsS "o OF iSs H Gs ths Ro1 kes sh on ann:r
which has its tower snrmonnted by, angels;
church of tAe holy trunpeters."
The Rev. John N. Krebs was another popular
thirties, and OBLIGATED in Rutgers Church,
on Market street, the congregation, OF which
now worShips at the Boulevard d and Sherman
lied by his congregation. During the .twenties.
and much earlier, the Rev. John NJ. Mason was
Murray street church. The edifce can be seen
to-day-less, the steeple-in the Germans
for when the congregation was compelled to
move uptown through business encroachments,
it hit upon the novel plan of removing the
to the new location. This elder Mason. who
belonged TO the clerical school of doctrInal SER
mons rather than those, born Of current topics
and occasions. was at his death succeeded by
his son, Erskine Mason, who similarly pre-
ferred purely theological and d~octrinal themes.
ediace still standing land lately used as a saw
ings bank, on Blocker street fronting Crosby.
Marcus Wilbur. Norman White and c. Y. S.
Wilder were lay, pillars of his church. 1t was
q great grief to him when one of his flock whom
he had christened became a convert to "oman
Catholicism; but the seceder. as a Bianop of
conspicuous for his good Christian works.
ANOTHER magnate OF the Presbyterian Church
was Thomas i. skinner. whose congregation
Clinton place. which Commodore Vanderbilt,
to please his young second wife, purchased long
strangers. DIR. skinner was a noted thcoiogian,
and took. his learning to tho Union Seminary
as a professor Both Mason and he left sons,
colleague was the Rev. DR.. William Adams,
whose church was for many years in Broome
the fashion of taking current events and topics
for his sermons. 1t is in the edifice which his
thai, DR.. P~arkhurst breaches. The lay pillars
Of his church, were Hiram Ketchum and
Thomas ,Fcssendcn. two great lawyers during
the thirtics and forties, and then Charles Gould
and Henry Dwight succeeded them.
During the same period the Rev. Drs. DIN
and Dr.. Spencer II. Cone, in his granite tur-
retted church on Broome street. at Mulberry.
the great Unitarian preacher, and Thomas !.
Sawyer, the Univcrsnlist. were the eloquent
forcrunncrs Of Edwin r. Chaplin, whose church
in Broadway near Prince was on every Sunday
crowded with strangers attracted by his chnrn-
ing word paintings and winning strains OF elo-
The great Methodist landmark of this city Is
the ola John m street chapel, dating from l76s,
prayer meetings were held.
Another famous Universally preacher Of this
city was the Rev; Edward Mitchell; father Of
ell and grandfather of one Of New York's Re-
publican congressman, He was OF a most
lovablc, character and lived and moved in nm
Atmosphere OF Christian amiability. The Rev;
George Is. Cheever was during the same period
a, very popular Congregational preacher in "a
came here from Boston, where he had been i'm.
prisoned on conviction for libel in writing and
RDhe eaeon CHESS 'ef Dirtillee PS.t' r shsire Sffo s@'is Wss
intended to satirize one of his deacons. Tho
when he removed to New York, and no took a
most active part in philanthropic work. In his
New York pulpit he bore out his Boston rcpu'
The first sensational preachers Of New York
were IN the pa Rev; Dr.; Patton of The Spring street
street church. Their opposition to slavery
early in the %,hirties led to a riot in which their
DR.. Patton reioiced in having descendants who
adopted his calling, but Dr.. Cox was saddened
Man ny nn and add d s a letter. pss9' ae" n to E tho family oi namc.
He was the late Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coke.
Apr3IoS Of sensationsl preaching mention
who in the old Chatham street chapel and other
city meeting places inaugurated revival meet:
ings and anxious seats for sinners to fill, and
also DIR. William c.. Brownlee of the Reformed
Dutch Consistory, who spent many years in at
lacking Roman Catholicism.
The early Dutch authorities and the later
English Governors opposed any Judgment OF
the Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan
Island, and it was not until 1856 that a Cath
Ollie church was built the first ST. Peters, at
the corner of Barclay and Church streets.
The present edihce succeeded il in ls36-a
hno specimen of Grecian architecture. Father
Nugent was the first Catholic priest of the city.
The next notabilities OF tho Roman clergy
were the Very Rev. John Power and the Rev.
DIR. Charles Constantine Pisc, who was not
only a great linguist and orator. but also
learned in ecclesiastical lore, AN approved az
thor, and an admirable poet. Undoubtedly the
most able. and famous Catholic priest was
John Hughes-of marvellous executive Hbilil >
and mental resources and u born orator. IL,
could play upon the whole gaInut OF human
nature and human emotions. As a young
priest he attracted great attention and So woT
upon his superior5 that when the good IiishOI
Dubois began to feel the weight Of year,
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