The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-10
METHODIST MARCH
IN ROSEv|LLE EVER
STEADILY ONWARD
Church Membership Now LAT,
With LOO Children on the
= Sunday School Rolls.
SPLENDID EDIFICE AND
PARISH HOUSE AND HALL
Names of Pastors Who Have
Been in Charge of the Con-
gregation Since 1875.

With a membership of 1,247, a roll
call numbering LOO children in its Sun
cay school and a record of a straight.
uphill fight to success, the Roseyille
Methodist Episcopal Church stands to-
day among the foremost congregation
Oh a leading denomination in this city.
III is well-off financially, and enjoys
that most needful element in success
1ul church work-Earmony. In view of
mlls an Easter service is being planned
equal TO any in The city In point of fine
music and devotional service. but with
a spirit behind 1t that bodies well for
the continued prosperity of the church.
The church's activities are carried on
through many departments. the main
church meetings, the Sunday school.
the Epworth League. the missionary
societies and the Mems Club being the
most prominent. There are two build
ings, the church proper, in which the
great majority of the meetings are at
present held, n the parish house, the
home Of the pastor.
The new parish hall, in which the
Mems Club Is TO be conducted. is ex-
pected to be ready for occupancy by
June 1.
an AnhPVsAhR buIlOluE.
The church proper is an imposing
building of gray stone, and faces Or
ange street, on the corner@of Bathgat
place. 1t was occupied first in 1890,
during the pastorate of the Rev. DIR.
Jonathan M. Meeker, the first church
ed1fce being at the corner of Warren
Gray streets. Next the church in
orange street Is the unfinished parish
nall, a building which when complete
VIII be of the same order of archi-
lecture as the church, making a har-
monious group. The parish house,
which TANKS the parish hall on the
east, is a c~ommodious home for the
minister. and has always been well
liked by the pastors who have occu-
pied it.
1t has been the custom to hold two
church services on Sunday, and this
procedure will be followed Easter sun
day. In the morning the pastor, the
Rev. Dorr Frank Diefendorf, will preach
the annual Easter sermon. The choir
will render the two anthems, "Jesus
Lives by MacFarlane, and Awake,
Thou That S~leepest," by Shipper. The
solos of the morning will be sung by
the bass, ]. B.. Hamilton. In the eve
ming service a service of song, with a
so W ttEC pootOl, VII ne GINtD.
Special soloists have been engaged for
this service.
Miss Louise Ormsby, soprano soloist
at st. Bartholomew Church, New
York, and Edward Strong, tenor of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
New York, will sing a duet from
Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise" Miss
Ormsby will sing Handlers II Know
That My Redeemer Liveth'' and
Haydn's with Verdure Clad Mr..
Strong will render Shelly's "Resurrec-
ton" and 81 Heard the Voice of Jesus
by Harris. The congregation extends a
hearty welcome to the public to attend
all these services.
The history of the church is remark
able In its freedom from factional fric-
ton, the bane of SO many large
churches. There have been times whe1
sentiment has been divided on particn-
lar questions, but after the majority
had expressed itself in the official board
all accepted the decision. In sreaking
of this point one Of the oldest and test-
loved Of the board said that to this
spirit of putting their Christianity
In practise" lay the success oe the
church's members.
A list of the pastors of the church
who have led the present re~neratior
beginning in 1875. is as follows: Tho
Rev. John D. Blsin, the Rev. ,Tonathao
H.. Daily. the Rev. J. L. McKown. D.
D.. the Rev. George w. Smith. u n.
the Rev. James w. Marshall. n. D: the
Rev. p. r. Lowrie. n. n. the Fv
Richard Van Horne. p H.. now he
president OF The HaclSettstown ee.,sr-
narv; the Rev. Jo~atlaon NJ Meelcr.
p. D., the Rev. A. II. futile. II. n, the
Rev. Henry W Spe'lrevn~. n. n. thH
Rev. T. ]. Coultas. n. n. and the Row
Dorr II. D~iefendcrf +he --o~cNt rsst~-
The assistant to the minister is p.
Franklin DicNsso,.
The official board @fit ho church Is AZ
follows: The Rev. y. r. r~ier~rd~rf.
president; Charles Pulnrs secretayv: r
N. Congleton, trea sr1er: t~,stees. VIII
lam J.. Banister. wiI'an, rai~,ie. Nor
rts s.. Daniels, EIvoca 8 MeNshh. A.
thur L.. De Croft. VI. NJ vaya Ssnt. pa,-
tamin F. Edsall. p. IT. wood: stewards
James b. Baniste-. w. e Jo.cov,us
William Burgye~. Ha~rra- ~. reer. g
H.. C~odinRton, Ale~arde~ 6. McNaar. +
N. Congleton. G.. Rors'erd Mn-roA. C,,,v
j.. Curtis. Charles prni-. wiiliar r.
Decker, Thomas 6, cr,ith., Paul Fit-.
gerald, Charles w. Stevens. 7. p
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