New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-07
TEN YEARS or CHURCH LIFE.
TIE REV. MR.. CARSON TELLS WHAT CENTRAL
PRESBYTERIAN OF BROOKLYN HAS
DONE IN IT.


Ten Years of Church Life the topic on
which the pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church Brooklyn the Rev. J. F. Carson, preached
yesterday. He said in part:
Our church organized in 1892. with exactly
80 memhers During the ten years We have re
church or an average of l67 for each year The
during the ten years has been 800 leaving a net
gain for the ten years of l.572. an average net
gain in the membership of lS7 each year on April
i 1892 our church numbered l5p members: to-day it
numbers l,522 members. In the two Sabbath schools
of the church there is an enrolment OF 1,26 per
sons; During the ten years our church has given
each year To the work of missions and general
benevolences we have given si3i0s. an average for
our church life contributed IA total of 1857, of
which $l.55o was for benevolences During the year
of which SIC S was for PsneEoenees -
en- the list of the Presbveran
churches of Brooklyn the matter of membership:
terrain churches in our city in the matter Of mem
hershp. In the matter of contributions of money
thirty-ive Presbyterian churches, while. according
stood third Thus In ten years the Central Church
has advanced from twenty-seventh place in the
pace in 3 the matter of gifts to third Only one
Presbyterian church in the city has larger mem,
year only two churches gave more to all purposes
The Lafayette Avenue and the First
In addition to the work in direct connection with
the home church we have mission enterprises.
did work for The men of the sea at the seamen's
institute. in Atlartic-aVe., and for two has
had n successful work at Inc BushWck branch.
where there 40 members of 9he~ church and
4e5 persons enrolled in the Sabbath school. In adj
dition 10 his home work. have missionary in
Persia. pay half the salary Of a missionary in
Cuba. have a missionary in India and in Syria
Thus the church has four representatives in the
mission fields two in affiliated work in Brooklyn
and in the home church Eight ministers give
their whole time to the work of extending the
Kingdom of Christ in the name of the Central
Presbyterian Church.
These incidents and statistics are not enough in
themselves quote them only as an appeal and for
an inspiration | refer to the past only for the
sake OF the future. The Central Presbyterian
Church has only begun to live. Ten years is
short time \ child ten years of age has only
learned the first lessons of life. So with church
The work OF the future is what interests AS
look back upon the years that have gone and
eur church steadily forging ahead. year after year.
huving "A house of worship. then erecting q
and comnlodious church. opening and maintaining
splendid Sesmen's Institute and the successful
Bushwick branch, supporting eight ministers, pro-
vidng for its bonded debt Of $4,000 meeting all its
financial obligations with an honorable prompt
ness. maintaining an nnbroken harmony in al its
life and enterprise. and then at the end of ten
years standing with fair. ii.front to its work,
with fresh enthusiasm for it and Thorough
adaptation to II. stop long enough TO speak
word of praise TO men and thanksgiving to God
and to strike. II a note that shall sound on
through all the life of church-a note of prog
and advance