The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-04-21
5. H. TWINlNC
131 Penn Avenue.

OPtISldu, Ss IL WlNliNu
131 Penn Avenue.
room seating 200 persons was added tc
the church property
The membership kept gradually in.
creasing until some thirteen years ago
| the Puritan English Congregational
| church was formed from the older
church and was given a splendid start
by the congregation of the latter. A
mission Sunday school lat Dutch Gap
has been established under the auspices
or the churches and a great work is
being accomplished through its agency.
One of the characteristic features of
the church Is that its membership has
been recruited solely and entirely from
the working classes. Not single man
of means has ever been connected with
1t III any way and yet the church has
done more than the average church
every year in the way of raising funds
FOR missionary works. The Christian
Endeavor society has become imbued
with the missionary spirit also and has
undertaken the support of q native
missionary in the Modure district in
India.
The present church building Is in
rather a bad state Of repair having
been in use for so many years but the
congregation has purchased a lot on the
corner of Williams street and Wayne
avenue and as soon as this Is paid for
the work OF erecting new church
building on it will be begun. The
church has a membership of about 26O
at the present time.
Those who were members of the
church thirty years ago and who are
still alive are as follows: Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas r. Williams Mr.. and Mrs. John
j. Morgan. Mr.. and Mrs. John d.
Evans. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Price, Mr..
and Mrs. Evan Gabriel, Mrs. David
Christmas, Mrs. w. B. Jones. Mrs.
Sarah Richards, Mrs. Mrs. David Jones,
Mrs. w. j. Davis. Mrs. w. w. Williams,
Mrs. Seth Grifiths, Mrs. Jane A. Will
liams, Mrs Lewis Harris, Mrs. w. A.
Williams and Mrs. William Isaac Jones.
OFFICERS THIRTY YEARS.
The officers Of the church thirty years
ago were as follows:
Deacons. Thomas Hopkins, Thomas
l.. Davies, David Jenkins, Henry
Christmas and Thomas r. Williams;
trustees, John M. Edwards, Griffith j.
Roberts, Morgan Powell, Charles
Davies and Thomas r. Williams.
The present officers of the church are:
Deasons, Henry Jenkins, Luther
Edwards, Evan Gabriel, John Llody,
Thomas r. Williams, Daniel Price,
John Grier, Thomas j. Evans, Richard
e. Jones, and Henry H. Hitchcock;
deaconesses, Mrs. Evan Gabriel, Mrs
Henry p. Williams, Mrs. Thomas r.
James, Mrs. Richard Thomas, Mrs.
Daniel Price, Mrs. r. S. Jones, Mrs.
David Jones. Mrs. William Richards,
Mrs. John T.. Lewis and Mrs. Seth
Grifiths; trustees, Daniel Price.
Thomas r. Williams, Evan Gabriel,
Luther Edwards, Henry H. Hitchings.
John Hobbs, Thomas j. Evans, Robert
r.. Williams and Thomas e. Thomas.
Rev. DR.. Jones, the recipient of yes
terday's honors. is remarkably we'll
preserved man, who though over go
years old, has all the vigor and vitality
of man twenty years younger. 1t re-
quires something more than ability
to preach to enable a pastor
to hold the pastoral reins of
IL century and DIR. Jones possesses in
no ordinary degree those characteristics
which bind a man to his fellow-men
in bonds of friendship and love. Stern
to rebuke the defiant sinner he is kind
and gentle with the contrite wanderer
from the paths of righteousness. His |
beautiful Christian life has been shin
ing example to the community in which |
he has lived and which has received |
so much incalculable benefit from his |
and influence.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon there will !
be service for the clergymen from
outside the city who may desire to at
end This will be presided over by |
John Grier. The clergymen of Welsh |
from the churches of all de-
nominations in this city will participate
n service to be conducted tonight at
o'clock.
George w. Bowen, the well-known
writer Of music, composed n poem in
Of DR.. Jones' anniver-
ary, which he read at the morning ses-
ion. 1t was as follows:
Oh man of God-scholar profound,
And sermoner OF sacred skill,
For thirty years thy words resound
On holy Zon's tempted hill.
The world in living marble tells
Of deeds wrought on the battlefelds;
And regal Fame their praises swells,
And to the dead her trophies yields.
The noble deeds that thou has wrought,
Along grim Lifcs seIuestered road;
The holy lessons thou hast taught,
Are gilded in the Book of God
That Book tells not OF heroes grand,
Who noby fell in worldly strife,
But ot lost sinners bravely saved
From Death-o God--to Heavenly Life.
oft. in Thy little church. I've heard
The prophet speak with words OF fire.
And songs, like summer zephyrs stirred,
Resound from David's tuneful Tyre.
And. oh. how sweet the music swelIs
All,wart the deep wounds of my SOUL
The magic music sweey Guells
My sin.thoughts as they upward roll.
With thee I've wandered far apart,
Where Hebron, Nebo frowning stand
And heard thy voice, with trembling heart,
Bespeak the glories OF the land.
And then-to hapless Calvary
I've seen my suffering Savior tread;
And spiked upon the cursed tree;
And laughing soldiers spurn Him dead.
Aud thus the retrospective glides
Before my eyes, with burning glow,
And memory the past divides
Recalls thce-thlrly years ago.