The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-30
APPROVE NEW
CHURCH; ACT
ON DISPUTE
Grant Upper MOntclair Per-
nit Presbytery Commit
tee on Plane St. Trouble.

A special session of the Presbytery
of Newark was held in the chapel Of
the First Church today, the moder-
ator, the Rev. II. X. Denlinger, pastor
of High Street Church, presiding. The
request of the Rev. Henry II. Henry
and the Rev. Joseph Schaeffer, two
young clergymen. for dismissal to the
Presbytery of Baltimore, where they
have calls to churches, were granted.
The Rev. Mr.. Schaeffer for a time lad
charge of the South Street Mission of
the South Park Church, and the Rev.
Mr.. Henry has served as a pulpit sup
ply here and in New York city.
A petition signed by forty-four men,
bers of a new church in Upper Mont
clair for permission to organize as a
church in the Presbytery was read by
the Rev. Orville Reed, pastor of Trinity
Church, Montclair, who moved that the
request be granted n a commission
appointed to organize the new church.
The Rev. George A.. PAUL, pastor of
the new church. said there was a par
ticular opportunity and need for the
church in Upper Montclair, and it
would not draw members from the
other Presbyterian churches in Mont
clair. 1t has already about sixty MEM
bers, nearly all of whom had dismissal
letters from churches in New York,
Brooklyn an9 other places. The erec-
ton of the church was begun April /
last, and the building was opened for
service October 10, and twenty-three
services have been held in it. The
church is of stone and will seat 200
persons. The building, the land and a
manse were a gift from Timothy G.
Sellew, a member Of the congregation.
The Rev. William Reed, pastor of the
church at Verona, said he was pleased
to learn that some Presbyterians were
showing backbone and zeal, for it
was needed in these days. He aid the
new church would do great work for
the cause of Jesus Christ.
Mr.. Sellew said God inspired a few earn
est men to meet in a house in prayer and
conference and the result was thenew church.
He asked that the Presbytery organize the
new church, take it under its wing, aud not
expect too much from it for some time,
for there was hard work to be done to get
people to enroll as members. He said that
in the church the doctrine of Jesus Christ,
the old orthodox doctrine of the Presbyte-
rian church, would be expounded.
The motion that the request of the petit
TONERS be granted was adopted and the
moderator appointed as the commission to
organize it the Rev, Orville Reed, the Rev.
George A. PAUL and the Rev. J. s. Fulmer,
the latter Of the First Church, Montclair,
and Elder Thomas Russell, Of the First
Church, and Elder Philip Doremus, or
Trinity Church. Montclair.
On motion of the Rev. DR.. David r.
Frazer, pastor of the old First Church,
the action ofPresbytery at its last meet
ing, when a commission of three clergy
men and four elders was appointed to set
tie the trouble in the Plane street Church.
which is a negro congregation, was re-
considered. Dr.. Frazer, who was chairman
Of the commission. then said a commission
OF three could straighten out the affairs OF
Plane Street Church better than one Of
seven members. His motion hat a com
mission of three be appointed was adopted
by n unanimous vote, and he and the Rev.
Or. William y. Chapman. pastor of the
Roseville Church. and Elder Charles Holz-
hauer, Of High Street Church, were elect
ed the NEW commissioners. DIR. Frazer
said that with such men TO aid him the
Plane Street Church trouble would soon
be settled.