The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-19
GENUINE
CHRISTIANITY
IN ENGLAND
81 Effect Is Declaration Of
,er Newark Pastor, but
lie Loves America.

~ "
y iy,,stianity as practised in this country
- England, in which latter country
vas born, was contrasted by the Rev.
saiah b. Hopwood, pastor of Calvary
pyterian Church, upon his return to
city yesterday. after seven weeks
ent abroad. DR.. Hopwood, who Is a
: r,2neer in the church life of Newark, is
a tent the oldest clergymen in New Jersey.
Ehe thEngland." said DR.. Hopwood, "the
the rnan is the greater good he seems
In theligion. Wealth is no reason for
o%ueeping out of religion over there.
sort OF p%aternal pride in the
3es over there that is totally lacking
owe couldn't do what they do there;
[iould be impossible"
y1peaklng Of the English pride In
y h,urches. DR.. Hopwood said that in some
IT the smallest places in the land of his
bhrrltivity have churches that cast our big
: s,v riches into insigniieance."
ME- As soon as a church Is built" said the
histor OF Calvary, they begin to plan
r a larger one. When an admission is
, Enlarged to any sort of a church entertain
ment the crowd is larger than if the adj
mission was free"
The returning minister attributed the
rhuTcn fOndlllDlS III EuBIdud "a Btis "
the preponderance of Anglo-Saxon blood,
which makes for one brotherhood, while
here. he observed. the population is made
up of all races under the sun.
In England DIR. Hopwood preached for
the Oldest and largest Sunday school in
the world for the fourth time. 1t Is the
Union Sunday School, at Stockport. There
are 5000 pupils, and the present building
was built in 1904. Ten years ago the one
hundred thousandth pupil was enrolled In
the school.
In telling of the big Sunday school and
comparing the religious fervor of the Eng
llsh In the region Of Stockport, DR.. Hop
wood said:
'aThat Sunday school is the finest thing
of the kind ] ever saw, and, in fact, Is the
finest thing of the kind there is to see
anywhere. The meetings are held In the
loft of a big factory building. The room
Is 800 feet long. with a platform at one
end. have stood on that platform many
times and talked to an assemblage OF $500,
n there are sometimes many more.
"Despite the fact that there are so many
In the Sunday school. 1t does not seem to
take from the church schools any of their
scholars.
-'The school Is quite different from the
Sunday schools We have here. In the first
place 1t Is governed by a body of men
like q council or trustees. All questions
are feIerre0 10 THIS Douy, anu luty uecluo
on the steps that are to be taken. 1t Is
surprising what an interest is taken In
the school over there and, in fact, the in
terest that Is tnken in all matters religious
In that part of England, l cannot say how
FIR this interest extends into the great
centre like Manchester, for instance, but
In the smaller places 1t is quite remark
able.
.rhey are trying to keep up the
church habit in England. It is very
different from what you will find over
here. A big manufacturer over there
will take n personal interest In the family
affairs OF each Of his employees, and when
any sickness or other trouble comes to
them the employer is ready with advice
and help. and the employers family takes
the same interest. It is a general thing
for a housewife In one of the big mansions
to take delicacies from her own table to
the house of some of the factory hands
where there Is sickness.
How much OF that do you find here?
None. A man pays another man his
wages to perform certain work. When
that work Is done satisfactorily that's all
the boss cares for the man under him,
as a rule. He does not care where he
goes after hours or on Sunday. That is
where the Stockport Sunday school comes
In. 1t draws the people closer together
and lets one-half know how the other
half lives.
DR.. Hopwood said that 1t was very
noticeable the way the whole of England
was becoming one vast manufacturing
centre. everywhere you 60 he said, 'it
il impossible to get out OF sight of the tall
chimneys and the factory buildings. Eng
land Is very small compared to this coun-
try, and because there is not room to
spread out much may be the reason the In
dustries look so big and 80 crowded to-
gether.
''They still use old-fashioned machinery
and tell how 1t has done such good work
for so many years. Here we turn out
mechanical geniuses who, whenever we
need some new wrinkle, invent a machine
for 1t. Before long they will have to
adopt these things over there, and, In fact,
they are beginning to do it now.
sEngland is a great country, and 1 was
born there. but / am every inch an Ameri-
can, and, despite my love for the old
country, / would not go over there and
leave my charge If they offered me the
finest manor house and the grandest estate
in ell England"
DR.. Hopwood made the trip with his son,
Clifford M. Hopwood, and w. l. Douglas,
OF Il Emmett street, this city. While the
minister stayed In his native town and
visited the lakes of Scotland for a time,
his companions took a continental trip.
They journeyed through France and Spain,
and spent some time In Paris. They re-
turned on the steamship Columbia, of the
Anchor line. Their journey was un-
eventful, they said, and the ocean on the
return voyage was as calm as a mill pond.