The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-15

new ZION CHURCH
Corner Stone to Be Laid on
Boulevard and McAdoo
Avenue on July so.
GEREAI And ENGLISH ADDRESSES
Rev. r. Oswald Of Brooklyn
and Rev. w. E. sanft
the Speakers-Among
the Churches.
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The cornerstone Of the new Zion Evan
gelicaa German Lutheran Church. Boule-
yard and McAdoo aavenue. will be laid
Sunday. July 80. The Rev. Fcswald,
pastor OF the st. Johns German Evan
ge1icai Lutheran Church of Brooklyn, n
president Of the Lutheran Conference
win deliver the dedicatory address IN
German. The Rev. VIM. e. Sanft, pastor
Of the zion Evangelical Church, will de-
liver an address in English. Lutheran
ministers from the various surrounding
cities will participate in the ceremonies.
An elaborate musical programme Is being
prepared for the occasion.
The new church is being erected on a
sits situated at the Boulevard and Nc
Adoo avenue, and is to be Gothic in style
OF architecture. The building will have a
ffty-hve feet frontage on the Boulevard
and will extend back eighty-two feet.
Red brick will be used in the construc-
4fon. Al tower, 116 feet, is being con-
structed on the northeast corner of the
buflding, In which a bell will be placed.
The church will have two stories. a gal-
aery n a basement. The ground floor
VIII be divided into a Sunday school and
meeting IQplllSs &4&aAIh A0a VN
held on the top floor.
The interior of the church, including the
gallery, which win extend on three sides
Of the building. win be Of oak. The pulpit
win also be constructed of the same wal
nut.
The contractor has experienced consid-
cradle difhculty in erecting the founda-
tdons owing to the rocky nature OF the
ground it is expected that the church
Will be completed November 80. Services
are 1t present being held In the old
church, which was recently removed from
its position on McAdoo avenue to a site
adjoining the new building facing the
Boulevard.
The new church VIII be erected at a
cost of $4,000. the most Of which has al
ready been raised as a result of hard n
active work by the pastor, William 2.
sanft, and the Building Committee.
When Pastor Sanft took charge of the
church, about three years ago. a fund of
several thousand dollars had been collect
ed, but the member appeared to lack
energy to make further progress. Pastor
Sanft took hold, appointed a building
committee. and instilled new life into the
project. As a result inside of three years
the necessary cash was raised and the
church is now in course Of construction
and will be finished this year.
AT the beginning it was q trife difficult
to induce the members of the Building
Committee to unite upon any definite
plan. the majority being inclined to hold
back for economical reasons. The pastor
then volunteered to give up a portion of
74rc 80 I a ~ q p ryrnff1 the oh11rPh
was paid for. The committee evidently
imbibing a part of his enthusiasm, ar
ranged the matter tremendously, and The
result win be one Of the most beautiful
churches in the Greenville section in a
short time.
The Ladies' Society has rendered SPLEEN
did assistance in swelling the church
fund, and hope that they win be able to
hold their twenty-ffth anniversary in
the new church in December.
The members of the Building Commit
tee are the Rev. William sanft, Chair
man; George Dorm, Henry Meyer, Her
man Cordes, John Grossklaus, Henry
Grossklaus and Carl Cruising. The
church was first started by a few Luth-
Grams In an old school house on the Old
Bergen Road in 1865. Ministers from the
adjoining towns and cities would take
aurns in holding services. The congre-
CATION steadily grew and in 1867 two lots
located at Bergen and McAdoo avenues,
were purchased for ss75. A small church
was erected upon the site. in which ser
vices have been held up to the present
day. The congregation has rapidly In
creased, and IS now one of the largest
in this Greenville section.