The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-15
HE YET SPEAKETH"
ONE PHASE OF LIFE OF
CORTLANDT PARKER.
Appreciatve Review of His Religion;
Trend and Efforts to aid the
Work of Bible Mission.

A gentleman VINO was ciosely a9SO
ciated with the late Cortlandt Parker
in a religious way contributes to th'
EVENING STAR the following appre'
citation and information regarding ina
phase of his life and its purposes;
'sThere is one phase Of the life and LABOR
of Cortlandt Parker which was of larg'
Importance and deserving OF a direct view
It was his relation to the work OF tne
American Bible Society. His religion wa
OF quite too practical and objective a char
acter to allow him TO stand aloof from TIT
Bible cause. With 1t he had the pro
foundest sympathy, and from his earles'
life he sought IN every possible and prac'
teal way to advance its interest ana pro
mote its favor. He was born IN th'
society's first year. 1t was In his youne
manhood that his %neighbor. brother ano
master-in-law, Theodore Frelinghuysen
became president of the society, continu-
ing in the office for sixteen years. To him,
the fifth president, and to his successors
and perhaps more particularly to the tenth
pre- sident. Frederick I. Frelinghuysen, MI
Parker gave the right hand OF gladness
and cheer.
ALWAYS in his own quiet and unobtru-
sive way, he served the cause until, quite
naturally. he was brought more promi-
nently forward in the leadership OF TINS
SsDllne Nolk Dy HIS ti1NAhSi 80 -
dent. No one said that this distinction
came TO him because of his public emf
nence or his prominence in his profession.
His eminent Christian fitness brought MIN
10 the post, and never was civil statlon
more snlendidly consecrated to service 1.
previously he had diffused a delightfui
spirit of interest in the Bible cause, 1t was
during the years of his official relationship
TINT he felt the inspiration OF the oppor-
" --sc ~, gnfrff and Q1m. ana
rose TO 1t grandly. There was no ostenta-
tion about It. but 1t was his delight TO
sneak GOOD words for this great benevo-
lent organization.
at thrilled his heart more to be counted
worthy to occupy that official posltoh
than TO sit on the p%roudest seat OF power
in his profession. He was never more
profoundly-while yet humbly-happy' than
when doing something for his Master, anu
never did he display his firm and LOFTY
s~niritual patriotism more admirably than
in tbe society's work. Affiuent In virtues,
be was ardent in this devotion, and ex-
hausted himself in deeds of its advance
ment. That which he did he did as a
man, a citizen and a CHRISTIAN, stanulhs
above all partyism and all grades OF de-
nominational opinion. And yet, none Knew
him in the Bible enterprise who ana not
fool that the mountaineering was with q
staunch churchman.
"And yet he was no bigot. To holo'
conscientiously peculiar and apparently
exclusive and excluding tenets, and yet 10
have a comprehensive and consistent
Christ-like charity was the difficult PROB
lens which he solved. His attachment TO
his own church was exemplary and his in
fuence In 1t almost ~unbounded, but at the
same time his catholic spirit was great,
md never greater than when in the active
= E1.t.4fau .ArxriOn With his
attachment to his own church so eX-
emplary and his influence in it almost I'M
bounded, 1t was but natural that in the
nicer minutiae of his faith he should re-
gard them with a keen relish"
A few years ago several New York man
ufacturers with plants in New Jersey and
Connecticut, having become individually
interested in having the Bible placed in the
homes and boarding. -houses of their en-
ployees. were organized as the Bible MIS-
sion Association, and employed DR.. W. FL.
Morse, of Westfield, who had been for
many years secretary of the Union County
auxiliary of the American Bible Society, as
its superintendent. With headquarters at
Hartford, 1t devolved on him to attend to
this object, and the work is being carried
on with success. Some thirteen years ago
DIR. Morse had established the mission at
Garwood, and eight years later the mission
HI NEW OIdDEC, INV IN'illl WI liz
rector of Trinity p. E. Church at Crawford.
the Rev. Or. Edgecumbe. had become in
terested in both missions. and when in
process of time n distinct Episcopal mission
was opened at Garwood and the Kenil-
worth enterprise became Episcopal, Mr..
Parker became interested, and acquainted
with the doctor.
A little more than a year ago, In the
course of the work of the Bible Mission
A -..ot,tinp thn u,oripfnD1o, ii, arnhrarad
and amplihed an idea of utilizing the Ital-
ian converts to the Protestant faith as
missionaries to Italy. An Italian, Antonio
Granone, had returned from Hartford to
Bisaccia, Italy. and had there founded a
Protestant church, the nucleus having been
an interest In the Italian testament which
he carried home with him.. Another Ital-
ian, converted there, had come to this
country and. locating at Monson, Mass,
had established Protestant worship in his
home. and thereon organized a church, now
the italian Baptist Church of that town.
The pastor, Rev. Alfred Barone, was a
close friend of Rev. A.. Di Domenica, the
italian Baptist pastor at New Haven, who
had come there from Newark, where he
had done c~ommendahle work, which had
attracted the attention of Mr.. Parker and
greatly pleased him.
The Italians not only come in hordes,
but. unlike other immigrants, return in
hordes In a recent year when 142, 91S
came. 149,STS returned. They ''go home
in the fall after the seasons work Is over.
With that which is a fortune to them and
earned by hard labor, they can pay their
passage and spend the winter in Italy for
q less amount than 1t costs 20 remain here.
For four or five months they can enjoy
themselves with the old neighbors. return
ing here the following spring and repeating
the same experience the next winter.
During the soiourn in the homeland the
most laxative Of men are more voluble
than ever as they tell eagerly Of Am
erica to %neighbors, who listen as eagerly.
IL the Italian has found a new experience
as well as of his new home, and the simple
narrative makes a strong appeal. To give
Ii force and weight the Bib is necessary.
and the Bible is an unknown quantity and
curiosity in Italy.
Tho Hartford Italians experience made
1t plain that the Italian convert must be
a true missionary to Italy. DIR. Morse
brought the idea to the attention of Mr..
Parker. ana it was met with his approx
ing enthusiasm. He said: 1.-THE scheme of
making converted Italians colporteurs is
a stroke Of Christian genius, in every way
c~cmmendable. When the nation sent food
to starving ireland the Christian world
said Well DONE When our people give
the Italians the Bread of Life and send
it by those who know its virtue, what can
be said except that 1T is a grander work,
a mission such as Paul and Peter would