The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-23
ASSOCIATE MISSION HONE
Bishop Scarborough Dedi-
Gated 1t to the State
Church Yesterday.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News y
TRENTON, May %, 19Oo.-Bishop John
Scarborough, of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of New Jersey, yesterday dedi-
Gated to the services of the church in
the State the recently completed Assoc
ciate Mission House. The ceremony was
a most impressive one and there were
many prominent members of the denomi-
nation in attendance.
As previously announced, there was
an all-day celebration in connection with
the formal opening of the building by
several of the best known divines OF the
State.
The Rev. A. ]. Miller, rector of Trinity
Church in Asbury Park. preached the
sermon of the day. and it was after this
that the dedicatory discourse was deliv-
cred.
The congregation that had assembled
marched from Christ Church when Mr..
Miller concluded his address, and headed
by the Episcopalian ministers Of this city.
found seats in the assembly room OF the
Mission House adjoining. There Bishop
Scarborough performed the ritualistic
service that forever binds the building to
its present use. and then he spoke briefly
of the inception of the mission movement
and its partial and promising fruition IN
the final offering of the new building TO
the furtherance of the work.
Between two and three o'clock mis-
sionary meeting was begun and led by
Rev Alfred Baker, D. D., of Princeton,
assisted by the Rev C. NJ. Parkins. D. D,
of Salem. who is the Dean OF the Bur
lington Convocation. Before this, how
ever, there was a session of each of the
Burlington and New Brunswick Conyo-
cations, at which the members separately
considered some matters Of a private
nature, touching, it was said, future plans
for operating the new possession.
The house is built after the old houses
in Chester. England, and over the porch
stands the cross, marking it las a house
set apart for the work of the church.
The ballroom, which is used as
common room, is furnished by the
Women's Auxiliary of the Diocese in
memory of Rev. DR.. Langford, late Sec
retary of the General Board of Missions.
nth is room hang pictures of various
parish and mission churches served by the
Associate Mission, and also shields bear
ing the names of old members of the Mis-
sion who have gone to other fields at
home or abroad.
Adjoining this room is the dining-room
lin which hang pictures of the great
English Cathedrals). the Bishops room
and the memorial room. The Bishops
room, which was furnished by lay read
ers of the diocese. is used as the office
of the Bishop, the Standing Committee,
the Registrar, and other Diocesan off
GERS. III it are kept a file of missionary
leaflets and papers. pictures Of the Bish-
ops of New Jersey, from its first Bishop.
and photographs of all the parish
churches of the diocese.
The memorial room is used for the
daily prayers of the household and pre-
serves the names of founders and bene-
factors of the house, whose interest in
missionary work made the building OF
the house a possibility. and preserves
also the names of the old members of the
Associate Mission who have ried in mis-
sionary fields.
The upstairs is fitted out in apartments
furnished in memory of former mission
arie. Several of the rooms have already
been endowed an dthere is absolutely no
part of the structure that has not been
perfectly built and neatly finished.
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