Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-04-19
The New Kind of
Church and Preacher
BY GUY T. vlsKNlskKl.

1E+ 49, r"NF N'
shortly after the clos. - ne civil
va 8 Baptist preacher. Hto LAS thei
Ipiat"1 20 i alag. 10 northeastern
pay Of Cie'rGfe county. \. y. fpuuc
II necessary To criy. 70 Horse Heads
also IN t~nefnulg county. He TOOK xiii
INN MS elder SOL. Their about six year
Old Having finished the busiues that
called him 20 Hois. Heads. ne drove q
.e" iniles further. TO Eluira. principal.
- because Il. was anxious 10 see ihe
church there which mad : billiard table.
p bowling alley ana some cooking ap-
parafps II rs basement These Juno
Vatiors ~ideiy heraldea na4 stirred ul
10 md % controversy amO'g lay,nei!
and ~ciergyfuer all through that portion
Of New YORK.
Arriving ~ tne church. fuarl and boy
aii he'd The horse. found .ta church
doors locked. and hai 10 conten, mem
selves Win an outside View Of the
structure and what elirnpses they could
ct Of its interior by p..rils w the
basement windows. Then they rerained
insir buggy. and as hey started Of rie
father cOuId.d 20 the sou ihaf ~. had
thought long over The innovations at
frst Rad beer decidedly oppose 20
surh methods. but now was convinced
tha. they were conceived in wisdom.
The pastor OF this then remarkable
church WAS nc Rev Dr Thomas X.
E!eecner. q ~helf-nrOther Of Henry Ward
-'" - 40 ~ "iNF nv 'HI''I4
the billiard table, The bowling alley and
the cooking apparatus in the church =
basement. and he WHO. IL the words Of
Lyman Abbott. built up an institutions
al church before the INSTITUTIONAL
church had been heard of. and IL 70
mains 70 this day one of the best con
ceived. II It's equipment, OF any OF It's
class
The Original Institutional Church.
Singular as IL may seen the iusti-
tutionai church was not heard Of until
tw"nty-tnree years after the visit Of the
Baptist preacher and his sor 10 the
Elfnira congregational church
In 1883 Berkeley Temple Boston.
adopted distinctfvely Nov methods of
work. President William ]. Tucker. OF
Dartmouth college. came to the temple
10 deliver an address. and In the course
Of II spoke OF the new work as insti-
tutioral. There was a bright reporter
present. the definition stuck in his mind
and The next morning when his pa per
appeared. II was found that he had
called berkeley temple an 'institu-
tional church" Thus. through an un-
known writer's faculty for catchy
phrase making. Berkeley temple be
came the original institutional church.
eo-cail.d.
Eerkeley temple, however simply
adapted to its uses methods that had
already gained a considerable vogue.
not without much opposition. however.
IN several cities. Under In. Rev. Or.
York. had il 1882 started i~ustitutional
work. which speedily proved to be the
church's salvation. The year following
the Judson Memorial. also of New
York. began similar work. In 1855 the
J~abernacle. Jersey city. now famous
for its Peoples Palace. fen into line
the next year the Pilgrim church. Wor-
cester, Mass. started The original
Boys cub and by The tire Berkeley
temple was designated a. an institu-
tional church. perhaps 4 score of
churches throughout the country we're
deep IN institutional work. Trinity
church, Boston. IN 1866 had founded an
Industrial society, which cut out cloth
ing. 70 be made by poor women. but
this work like tha, At Elnira. was
looked upon as sporadic. when in fact
4 was simply ahead of The times.
The New Church's Unlimited Field.
Tn old line church believes in being
concerned wholly and absolutely in the
spiritual weifar. Of man. The instltu-
tioral church has for It's aim the whole
Inan-his care and urbuilding. physi-
caily. mentally. morally The field is
the broadcast possible, and in the effort
TO cover it. the ~up-to-date Institutional
church stands ready to perform almost
any needfUl service thar can be men
toned.
Well" was the dry comment Of a
visitor who had been shown through IN.
busy parish house of ST. Georges. 1T
strikes me thai you do about everv-
thing there is 10 do for a man except
to get him drunk
THAT * our aim vas tn. clerical
guides reply.
Do you want 70 pawn anything,
More than one church stands ready To
be an uncle" and Il ienient one. 10 YOU.
IN ~ 1trnrEr iv,nSt
tional church maintains an employ
ment bureau. Want TO learn 10 be a
laundress" Several churches run prac-
teal laundry schools. or perhaps YOU
are looking for a place as laundress.
They apply 10 the parish laundry ~
Grace church. New York. where abou;
$4,000 dozen things are Numbered year
ly. maybe there is a vacancy for an
other steady, good and needy worker.
The larder empty. also the pocketbook"
ST. Georges runs a grocery store where
you can get things on credit and later
pay for then e. S.s. price.
Your child sick. and your money too
low To seek medical aid in the regular
way? The Ruggles Street Baptis\
cnurch. Boston. runs a dispensary
with d large medical STAFF and an
apothecary shop. az well. Child too i'll
TO receive the proper care at homo
Grace church has a hospital for just
such cases, and the Samaritan hospital,
Of Philadelphia. is one OF the nuner-
Gus institutions mothercd by The tenn
pie of that city--the Rev. DR.. Russell
u. Conneiis church.
aching tooth" Seek the Ruggles
Street Baptist church dental parlors.
to take boxing lessons The
Rev. J. l.. Scudder himself will un-
be glad to put on the gloves
with you in his Peoples palace. and
you at billiards afterwards. II YOU
watch out.
our suit is rapidly d-isintegrating 10
a bundle of rags" The Peoples church.
st. Paul. makes p specially of old
salvage and supplying; the poor
with decent covering.
Want to improve :-Dur mind or make
your hand skfiful In any speciality.
Every institutional church has it's
library. Berkele: Temple teaches paint
and has a class in current events.
church. Milwaukee, gives
practical courses in telegraphy. cnem-
istry. water coloring. clay modelling.
Sloyd work. music. You can cultivate
your dramatic tendencies at ST. Georges
and St Ba~rthoiomew's. Social science
is a specially with the Westminster
church. of Buffalo. its So
ciai science club for men being the frs;
OF its kind.
Trade Schools md Fresh Air Work. |
The uace schools of ST. Georges Of