The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-14
DEDICATE CHURCH
MEMBERS PLEDGE S3,137
TO LOWER DEBT.
Exercises at Opening of New Sanford
Street NJ. E. Church, East
Orange, Begin. Ia

and Sunday school of the Sanford Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, of East Or
ange. we're begun yesterday morning. and
will be continued every evening until No
vember 3, and a number of prominent
Methodist bishops and clergymen will par
~ticipate in the exercises
The capacity of the church was taxed
at the three services yesterday, and the
members of the church expressed their ap-
probation of the new edifice by subscrip-
lions amounting to $3,137. This, in addi-
ton to the payments already made, will re-
duce the outstanding debt to less than
S., COCO.
The Rev. DR.. George Edward Reed, LII.
D., president of Dickinson College. Car
Isle, Pa, preached the sermons at both
the morning and evening services. At the
morning service the benedictlon was pro-
~nounced by Bishop Thomas S. Bowman.
who is the guest Of the week. A platform
service was held in the afternoon, when
addresses were made by James w. Pear
sail, of Ridgewood; M. S. Daniels. of New
ark, and George r. Howe and Leonard D.
Baldwin, of East Orange.
At the evening service the dedication of
the building to divine worship was con-
Quoted by the Rev. DR.. J. M. Meeker, pre-
siding elder of the Newark conference.
George Armstrong, president Of the board
nof Trustees, presented the church t. the
congregation.
In his sermon at the morning service DR..
Reed took for his theme the benefits ac-
cruing TO men from association with the
erection and maintenance of houses of wor-
ship, pointing out the personal benefits TO
The individual as well as the benefits to
the community, educational, spiritual and
| social.
At the evening service he took for his
SUBJECT, How Can the Fatherhood of God
and the Brotherhood of Man Be Realized?"
ness from the Saxon root kim" which,
ne SAID. primarily meant the relationship
between members Of a family, and said
Previous to that time" he said, there
was no word in the Greek or Roman or
Hebrew languages to express kindness in
its perfect sense as we understand it. The
thing itself did not exist, and, therefore,
neither did the word to express 1t. Thanks
to the Gospel of Christ all this Is changed,
for because of His teachings zone touch
of sorrow makes the whole world kin"
Two elements he held make up true
Christian kindness-one the cultivation of
the disposition Of mind to please men for
their edification, the other the disposition
to be placed with men to train their mind
to see the good and lovely traits of char
acter, and close the eyes TO faults, snort
comings and idiosyncracies.
Varied and interesting programs have
been arranged for each evening of the cele-
bration. as follows:
This evening at s o'clock: Fellowship
meeting and reunion of former pastors and
members; addresses by the Rev. Ralph s..
Urmy, of Morristown M. e. Church,; the
Rev. Hedding B. Leech, OF the Union
Street M. e. Church of Newark; the Rev.
Charles B. Billiard, of the Elmwood Pres
byterian Church of East Orange; the Rev.
Fred Glare Baldwin, OF. Calvary M. E.
Church of East Orange; the Rev. DR.. War
ren l.. Hoagland, of the Park Avenue
Methodist Church of East Orange; bene-
diction, the Rev. w. B. Wing.
Tuesday evening at s O'Clock: Sermon by
the Rev. Dr.. George F. Eckman. of st.
Paurs NJ. E. Church Of New York, pastor
of Sanford Street Church, April, 1856.
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock-Sermon
by the Rev. DR.. A. III. futile, -of Summit
Methodist Episcopal Church. DR.. Tuttle
preached at the reopening of the old church
after its removal from Vailsburg, Sunday
evening, February %, 1896.
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock-Organ
recital, special program furnished that
evening: Soloist, Reginald L. McA1l, A.
B., New York city; violinist, Hugo Ia
remba, East Orange; accompanist, Otto
Friday evening-Epworth League service
and reception. Address of welcome, Ed
ward l. Stasse, president Of Epworth
League; address, the Rev. DR.. Ezra Squier
Triple, Ph. D., professor of practical the
ology of Drew Seminary, Madison.
Sunday morning, October 20, at II o'clock:
Sermon by the Rev. DR.. DIN A. Curtis.
professor of systematic theology. Drew
Seminary, Madison. At 7:45 o'clock, ser
mon by the Rev. Thomas G. Spencer, pas
tor.
Monday evening, October q, to Sunday
evening, November 3: Series of evangelistio
meetings; the Gospel singers, Mrs. A. Me
derbuehl and Miss A. GARNER, will render
solos and duets, accompanied by guitar and
autoharp. A chorus choir Of twenty-five
voices will sing inspiring hymns.
The new church is an attractive single
covered structure of Gothic design. The
church seats 800 adults and the Sunday
school room adjoining provides for 200. BY
sliding up four doors the two rooms can be
thrown into one large one, comfortably
seating 500 people. The pews and other
woodwork of the church are of quartered
oak. The stained glass is of the opalescent
type and the main windows are or~namented
by Gothic tracery. The east window con-
tains a w~el1-executed figure subject, The
Good Shepherd" which is the gift of Mrs.
M. S. Aekerly, Mrs. John J. Burton, Mrs,
erected in memory of their parents, Hiram
Davis and Jane Wood Davis
On the sides of the organ, behind the pull
pit, is the pastors study and choir vestry.
table, inclosed within the communion rails.
From the centre of the ceiling hangs a large
electroller.
Adjoining the Sunday school rooms is a
parlor, and back of the Sunday school is a
portion Of the old parish building. which
Of some sixty members, together with a
Kitchen and closets for use during church
fairs. The Sunday school room is also
lighted by a central electrolier.
IN church was organized September /,
1872, and the first church built on the Wallis
burg and South Orange line In 1875 at a
cost OF $1,000. The old building was moved
to the present site in 1896 and the present
structure begun in 1903.
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