The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-23
SORRY TO LOSE HIM
HILLSIDE PRESBYTERIAN
PARISH SENDS LETTER.
Read to Rev. Stanley White, After serv.
ice Yesterday-He breaches First
Sermon Over Again, with Cuts.

Showing their appreciation of the twenty
years services of the Rev. Stanley White,
pastor of the Hillside Presbyterian Church,
Orange, the congregation yesterday morn
ing presented a testimonial, attractively
bound, to the popular clergyman, who will
assume his new duties as secretary of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
on October |. There was a large attend
ance of the members of the parish at the
morning service, and when 1t was CON
cluded a committee delegated for the pur-
pose waited on the Rev. Mr.. White and
presented him with the testimonial. 1t was
as follows: +
In contemplating so unique a pas
torate as has been yours over the Hillside
Presbyterian Church, of Orange, N. j., our
hearts are filled with profoundest graft
tude to the Giver of All Good that in His
all-wise providence He had guided and
directed you at the very outset of your
calling to the ministry of the gospel of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, twenty
years ago, to cast in your lot with this
people, not then fully organized into a
church.
You have thus been identified with all
its history, labors and progress, sharing
with each OF Us III our joy and sorrows, as
we In yours; and by Your efforts helped
OF TINS church in everything that tended to
righteousness in this community, and also
IN the greater world without.
The years as they have passed have
witnessed in you a rich development, as
you have steadily ~expounded to us from
the. Word of God, brought souls to the
feet of the Saviour, broken for US the
bread of life, and ministered cheer and
consolation to the troubled and bereaved
heart. And we trust that you have noted
IN us in some measure an enlargement of
me christian virtues, q greater faith in
God and His promises, more holy living
after the example of our Divine Master,
ana an, increased love for our fellow men
In al their needs, temporal and spiritual.
our feelings as we approach a sever
anee OF the pastoral relations existing for
SO long q period bring to US the keenest
to your request for such a separation, it
Is because of our deep love for you and
the BELIEF That by our SO doing we enable
you to answer the, call of duty to assume
q greater service for the Master in another
branch of His work.
That health and abundant success may
attend you in your new field of labor n
in all the future, and that you and yours
may receive the choicest blessings from
our Heavenly Father, is the prayer OF all
Church.
In behalf of the congregation, 1. Rem
sen Lane, Clarence D.. Newell, Walter N.
vail, committee"
The bound paper ~recites the fact that
az a meeting of the congregation on
<Aprn tne committee was appointed to
prepare n permanent form In expression
oAid ACCAAil6b VI liz OI-
gregation TO be presented on or about
to take effect.
Replying to the kind expressions of
me congregation the Rev. Mr.. White
thanked his people heartily and commend
ca them for their twenty years faithful
assistance and cooperation in the pastoral
work. Vt the service the Rev. Mr.. White
mad taken his text from Ezekiel, Il will
10 better for. you han at the beginning,
and he prophesied a brighter future and
continued EnRGnZG for tho nnrtuh Ia fho
years that are to cone.
AT last nights service, which was the
last to be conducted by the Rev. Mr.. White
as pastor, although at the request OF the
congregation and officers, he will preach
next Sunday night. the clergyman took
as his topic the text he preached upon
nrst sermon as pastor of the new church.
This text was The sweetening Influence
Of the cross Of Christ He had his orig
inal manuscript used a fifth of a cen
tury ago, and stated he had improved
upon his original manuscript by clipping
out eleven pages of the matter. The orig
mai talk was also amended In several In
stances and changed in others, but II
contained st arling doctrine and made a
profound impression pom the congreg7-
ton. Mr.. White thought one passage was
take up mission work at this date, and he
repeated his tw .nty-year-old thought,
which was q strong appeal for mission
work.
Nothing but that which had real life
and wonderful vital lower could work
such q transformation as that which APP.
pears in the story of the heather lands
said Mr.. White. II wish that everyone
who doubts the truth of Christianity
could be induced to read the history of
Christian missions. He would be a hard
ened man who. before finishing, would
not be compelled to say. Surely the
hand of the Lord Is in this thing.
York for the winter near where his Office
Is to be located. He has not studied out
his plans. for the future beyond this
point.
The Rev. Mr., Whites successor will be
the Rev. Robert Service Steen. Mr.. Steen
received the unanimous congregations call
as pastor N Tuesday, Tune %. He Is the
son OF a retired Presbyterian minister. re.
siding in Philadelphia. He is q gFaduate