The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-15

downtown branch did last Sunday. (The
uatatorium in the Peoples Palace has
been boarded over for the use of the Sun
day school.) He said:-
You are sending money to missionaries.
| Why not send it to us to help the good
work that we are doing. The work is just
as important" Mr. Hill was called to or
not become confused.
| Mr.. Harrison Wright next took the
| floor. He argued for the downtown branch
from the moral standpoint.
Mr.. Harold Trent next gained the floor.
He was formerly a deacon from the down
town branch He began his speech by
saying, THE prophet jeremiah said
plant and climb
Mr.. Russell, the chairman, interrupted
with;-'T beg your pardon; don't under
stand you. Are you talking to the ques-
tion?"
Mr.. Trent replied:-"T said, The prophet
jeremiah said plant and climb? didn't
! hep"
Mr.. Russell looked bewildered and
said:-'sWhy, yes; ! guess so."
A roar of Laughter greeted this, the
down town sympathizers being dis
tinguishable by their silence, and in the
confusion which followed Mr.. Trent was
cut off and Mrs. Scudder gained the floor.
She said:-"I have stood a great many
things. and 1 suppose 1 will have to stand
great deal more, but must say a few
words now. You all know that Mr. Scud-
der worked hard for the interests of the
down town church, and both of US did
all that man and woman could until you
expressed desire for a pastor of your
! own and passed motion for an assist
ant pastor. Even then Mr.. Scudder still
went down town until he was insulted by
these people. I honor and respect the
trustees for the action which they have
taken, and will say that the whole trou-
bic seems to me to be over bricks and
mortar and not over the religious work"
Mrs. Dougherty Immediately rose and
asked if she could speak on a personal
matter The chair said she would be out
or order. She said she did not want to
be out of order and would not be out of
order, but she strongly objected to being
called these people, She considered
such manner of alluding to the down
town people un-Christian and she desired
it stopped
Mr.. Sperry said the uptown people
had been grossly insulted. He was
trustee and had been told upon the oc-
casion of one of his visits to the Taber-
nacle that there were better trustees in
he'll than he was He was then ruled
out of order.
Miss Bertha Chamberlain next took the
floor. She said she had been hard
years and had stayed until she had been
so insulted that it was impossible for her
to stay any longer and that one of the
deacons had even gone so far as to shake
his fist in her face and tell her she would
have to be careful what she said. A point
of order was here taken and sustained on
the ground that Miss Chamberlain re-
marks were personal and not on the SUBJ
ject
Mrs. George w. Clerihew here rose to
point of information. She asked:-sTf in
Your judgment 1t became necessary for
the Tabernacle to be sold could not time
have been taken to~sind some organiza-
tion which would have carried on the
the<same kind of work? Mr.. Scudder has
all these years stood for temperance and
can not understand how he can con-
sent to the sale of this Tabernacle to an
organization which will put a bar into
the building. am one of the oldest mem
bers of the Tabernacle and it simply
breaks my heart to think of that building
being used for a cafe.''
Mr.. Hall answered that the trustees had
secured estimates from real estate dealers
who had said the property was worth s12,500
and no more could be secured unless some
purchaser could be found who could use
the building as it stood. The trustees
thought in securing $4,000 they were do
ing well.
A motion was made to close the debate,
but upon request the motion was with
drawn.
Mr.. Laird promised to raise the money
for the debt if the Tabernacle were not
closed and the people given a chance.
The debate was then closed and vote
taken. Many others had. spoken asking
that the Tabernacle be not sold because
of the great work in the downtown sec
ton which there was to do
The roll of the church was read Each
member rose and answered to his or her
name either yes or no." yes being to
ratify the sale and no to oppose it. The
first and that of the downtown last Out
of the membership of 1880 the final vote
showed PIG for and 20 against
Miss Adele Cox before the vote was an
nounced said:-"May I vote? I am not a
member of the church, but l contributed
to the Tabernacle for fourteen years and
I only stopped last May when the church
was closed The answer was Mo-
Miss Emma Gopsil said:-'T am an
officer of the Christian Endeavor. I con-
tribute regularly to that branch of the
Tabernacle. May I voter" Again the
answer was mo
Immediately after the announcement of
the vote the meeting was declared ad-
journed amid the protests of the Taber-
naclers. who desired some information.