The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-23
iRBSBYTERIANS WAKING UP.
.,oo mn PLEDGED TOWARD $780,
oOO EXTENSION FUND.
n, van Dyke sav That New YORK. tho
Happ, Hunting Ground Of the Finan-
xeIist. Is = splendid Place for . Live
Cburch, but Has C0rOners Handy.

x.,Ist. Is . splendid Place for . Live
church, but Has COroners Handy.
p,oshvterian churches OF New York
-.,.,ed their usual midweek prayer meet
,r,s last evening. at the request Of the Pres
.r,o,v 10 unite in a mass meeting at Car
o..ie Hall In the interest Of church extension
".,b the aim Of starting fund which II Ia
s.rod 10 make S750OOO. The meeting re-
."sed in a collection Of pledges and con-
,shutions to the amount Of about 500. 900,
,,d the managers were so well pleased with
,Ais beginning that they led the meeting In
,be singing of the doxology twice.
The Church Extension Committee. which
..Ied the meeting, made these terse, II not
.dthmetically accurate. statements In lite
appeal:
IN the face OF rapidly increasing popu-
l.tion. the Presbyterian Church has remained
"a, the last ten years stationary.
In 1890 there were ffty-six Presbyterian
,,ur ches in Manhattan and The Bronx In
,ao there were ffty-two. During these
ION years the population increased IS per
cent
More effectively to point their moral,
the committee announced that in 1901 the
Roman Catholic Church started to build
three new ediflces. and added: THE He
brews added eight properties to the tax
exemption list Of the city
All the Protestant gains in buildings
we're balanced by losses during this period.
the appeal said. The committee desired
10 raise $4,000 to start the Church on .
forward movement, $685. 900 OF the sum
10 nav of old debts and the rest for new
work
Carnegie Hall was filed on its main foor
and in the two tiers of boxes and on the
stage when the meeting opened, with Morris
h Jesup in the chair and the pastors and
church officers seated about him on the
platform. MIR. Jesup said In opening the
meeting:
Religion is better than finance. commerce.
literature or art. From religion we make
/, IS well that the committee has called us
together less as Presoyterians than as workers
in a common cause. l. is an indication that
all MIA sre ssde od
ian creed is not dead. The meeting signifies
G i only church us canry tSs
terrain. II you choose. but I call 1t the banner
Of Christ throughout this Imperial city.
Mr.. Jesup introduced the Rev. DR.. Henry
van Dyke; Or. van Dyke. who is short.
Hs syns has as Of S sS&
era7 Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America he desired
TO throw whatever influence, or infooence.
he ight, have in that capacity in favor
Of the aim Of the Church Extension Com
mittee. The doctor explained his care In
the proclamation Of his title by saying
that he expected to hold 1t only a few weeks
longer and he, therefore. wished to get all
he could out OF its extended syllabihcation.
York, the doctor said, was good enough
for him, and he coined word to describe
the city'of his love. 1T Is the happy hunt
ing ground he said, "of the college presi-
dent and the wandering Evangelist He
continued:
ing enterprise 10 doomed to failure. The
man of one talent who hides IL in napkin,
he LIVE: MsS g. s s
PROBABLY gssfe1 c Cor He % Fl. eedy
d seIs issS ss VI. iii 70 e doST:
ssfa yS sSSP BUT Ss. ESsh
Avenue Presbyterian Church, said that
the Presbyterian church property In the
city was valued at $40. 900, or $40 for
generation had given practically nothing
toward the acquisition Of this property.
Most OF the church's money had come from
the sale Of downtown property for which
Other xeneT8ltOuS Ihu p0lo
The Rev. DR.. Richards OF the Brick
Church explained that the committee de-
sired to establish three new churches In
Harlem and four in The Bronx,
The Rev. DR.. Wilton Merle Smith men,
toned the success OF the Methodists, who
in eighteen months had raised $500 900
and had paid OF the Indebtedness OF every
Methodist church in New York amounting
to s87O,OOO) Almost thou persuadest
me TO be Methodist he exclaimed.
The collection Of pledges and contribu-.
tions began. and in fe W minutes total
OF 500, 600 was announced, in seventy-three
gifts. Whole basketfuls OF pledges and
cash remained uncounted. so that 1t IL
probable that the total OF contributions
Tor the evening was well above 500 600.
It. is significant that the Rev. DR.. John
Halls old church, the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain, contributed. through its member
ship, much more than half Of the tot al
sum as announced, or above $4,000. From
this church came the largest single gift OF
the evening, $4,000, and two gifts OF us ,0oo
each The next largest gift was one OF
$4,000, from q member OF DR.. Parkhursts