New-York tribune., 1908-02-01


, 10Th street New York City. to membership OF
almost nineteen hundred in the same part OF the
/ city. all in the period OF twenty short years.
will be told and retod in the next fortnight at the
! West End Presbyterian Church. Amsterdam avenue
! and 105th street.
On Friday February Z. the West End Church
| will have rounded out two decades OF history At
! the suggestion OF the Rev. Dr. A. Edwin keigwin,
the pastor, his associates and all the church off,
GERS the event will be celebrated with much cere-
nony. ten special public services having been
| planned. DR. Keigwln and committee of the Off
GERS have arranged most elaborate programme.
| The interior of the church will be decorated for
the occasion The walls will be hung with clusters
of wistaria and there will be columns wrapped in
lavender bunting, ilIumined with specially installed
small electric lights. every meeting there will
be programme Of music. Besides the church
quartet. which is considered of the best in the
city. there will be selections different nights by
the West End Glee Club the Girls Gee Club the
! Mixed Chorus and the West End Orchestra, all
under the direction of Professor Leonard B. Nc
Who'd of Columbia University, who is in charge
of these church organizations.
On Friday night-which is the anniversary proper
preceding the there will be procession of
minister's officers ana charter members. the latter
numbering twenty. Greetings from pastors of all
the neighboling Protestant churches will be given
while the address of the evening will be delivered
by the Rev DR.. John BaIcom Shaw who will come
from Chicago especially for this occasion.
On Sunday morning. February Q. DIR. Shaw will
preach historical Sunday night DR.
Kegwin will preach the sermon having reference
10 the future of the church Monday will be a rest
day. and Tuesday night the service will be given
telling ''Woman's Work The Rev Dr.
Thomas G Hall, professor in Union Theological
Seminary. VIII preside Mrs. Henry r. Elliot will
explain Our Woman's Work" and there will he
address by a prominent woman yet to n
nOunced.
Wednesday night will be given discus
sion Of Mems Work" The presiding officer will
be the Rev. Dr. William r. Richards. pastor of the
Brick Presbyterian Church and the present mod
orator of the Presbytery of New York Greetings
will be extended by the Rev DR.. William Henry
Roberts. of Philadelphia, moderator of the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. and also its
stated clerk.
The address this occasion will be delivered
by the Rev DR.. Ira Landrith, OF Nashville Tenn,
moderator of the last General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which has since
been merged into the larger body. Thursday night
! viii be given over TO The Sabbath School" The
Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson. pastor OF the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church will preside and
the address Will be delivered by the Rev. DIR. A.
F. Schauiiier Of the New York City Mission. the
recognized authority Sunday school work.
Friday will be "Old Home NigtN" The presiding
officer will be the Rev. Dr. Henry H Stebbins for
years pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church.
Rochester who was acting pastor between the
/ departure of DR. Shaw and the coming of DIR.
ketgwin. DR.. Stebbins will make an address. and
,
day morning. February IL. will be given up to
Home Missions" and Sunday night, when the
hnal anniversary service Will be held, Foreign
Missions" At the former the preacher will be
the Rev. DR.. Charles L. Thompson Of East Or
J anSe, n j.. one Of the secretaries of Board
: of Home Missions the Presbyterian Church
! and at night the preacher viii be the Rev. DIR.
Arthur j. Brown, also of East Orange. one of
the secretaries of the Board OF Foreign Missions
! of the Presbyterian Church.
he ST End (~f1r,rcb
Isi7 and that of the Sunday school Its Last
year this church gave s4Sss to home missions and
%lV 10 foreign missions. The entire cOngrega-
uonal expenditures ES7s2 The church is
considered one of the most popular on the West
Side Dr. keigwin, VINO is still under forty years
OF age has been the pastor just three years He
came from Newark, N J., where for five years
he was pastor Of the Park Presbyterian Church
the second largest of the denomination in the
state His first settled pastorate was at Millyiue
n D.. Where he built up the largest church in he
PreSbyteTy OF West Jersey DR.. Kegwln received
his degree of Doctor Divinity from LAFAYETTE
College, OF which he is a graduate
The problem of getting a crowd never confronts
! the west END Church 1t is with difficulty that
| me audience Is seated at each Sunday service
ana the auditorium accommodates over twelve hun
/ area persons All the seats taken but strang-
eFs are always welcomed ard room made for them
mere Is a minister employed who does Moth
ing but look after those church members VINO
/ come TO any Of the services. Their names once
! 10 iDfa
lheI IN the church life. DR.. hefgwfn sends then,
letter. ncloSing his personal card so they NAV,
receive special attention from tae ushers
Aho'Hef way DR. keiewin endeavors to keen I'm
i'o'' Win MS constantly changing flock. due to
'i'e Iafse number Of apartment houses and the
/ unceasing moving. Is through a card svstap, A.
me communion service, which is administer cred both
morning and night one Sunday every two months
tach person receives Il card and is reouesta5 -
record the name and address
Inc West End congregation is considered a t,,
icdl modern institutional church. The building js
used every night of the week and there is p cb1rob
mouse at No. 166 West 105th street which 70 onar
on UdN ana every evening The lower floor is for
'he men and boys and the upper for women and
girls. Besides all the musical orpanizations 4t
chuith operates an employment bureau has reIjaf
co'hiiI'leeS' conducts mothers meetings one or two
"oO"S every week and while the women are in the
-+"i't pdiiofS thelr babies are cared for in the
n0cH mouse across the street by the Little Moth
tiS' or young women of the congregation i
There is girls gymnasium class and mems e,,,,,
HdSiIi classes under the instruction of Professor
JdfGlhe. Other organizations are the Good ,,baar
Oircle' hligs Daughters. Nimble Fingers Girls,
'Iup' Forward Movement Class, Young Women's
Bible Class, Mission Study Class athletic clubs
pdSheIoaIl teaIn not TO mention the Christian
hhdeaNor societies and the graded Sunday school
Inc ReV' j. Garland Hammer. jr., the assistant
pastor. is superintendent of the Sabbath scboo1
eats d monthly church paper The West
church house and assists Dr. Kegwin to a large
degree in the parish calling
When the Sunday school from which has grown
'll'S large ehufch' was organized. which was Nav
= 1917, all around there vacant lots with few,
small frame houses The elevated had only raoat,,
been bullt. and there few electric cars in tho
Flclhlty- Inc little booth only about twenty
feet long and fifteen feet wide Next came a small
wooden chapel DE- Shaw undertook the mission