The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-01
WORK ON SUNDAY
CAUSE OF BIRTH.
OF '0LD TRINITY
Church Established Because Col.
Josiah Ogden Wanted to
Save His Wheat.

q old Trinity Episcopal Church nigh.
not have been built until long after
174s-<, when Newark was an infant
town on ye Pasayak," had not a
sturdy Presbyterian, a man of wealth
and infiuence, Colonel Josiah Ogden,
been. greatly angered because he was
tried, convicted and publicly censured
by the First Church on a charge of
violating the Lords Day by gather
ing wheat from his field on a sun
day in the fall Of 17s3, to save It
from a storm. The Presbytery reversed
the Judgment OF the church, but so
many men Of the Congregational faith
tentions that the Sabbath was made
for man, not man for the Sabbath"
that when an appeal was taken to the
Philadelphia Synod an able and learned
Presbyterian preacher, Jonathan Dick
inson, was sent to Newark to answer
The arguments of the Church of Eng
land, later called here the Episcopal
Church.
y. The Rev. Louis Shreve Osborne. pres
ent rector of Trinity, said in his sermon
at the 150th anniversary of the charter
of the old church in 1896, referring to
Colonel Ogden: Some churchmen there
are who seem to be afraid to trace the
origin of our parish to this on
scientious Sabbath breaker. But OF
am not 1. And the average Pres
byterian Of today, I am sure-men like
DR.. Briggs, and my beloved friends,
DIR. Frazer, DIR. Lampman and Mr..
Bridges. will, with myself, rise up and
call the doughty old colonel blessed, in
that he rose superior to the bigroty and
superstition of his day and generation. .
Though old Trinity vas not built
until 174S-4, the Rev. MI. Vaughn,
missionary from Elizabethtown,'
preached in Newark about the year
1929, but it is not recorded whether it
was in q dwelling OF a public place. or
how many Church of England people
were present. The Rev. John Beach
preached here in 1876, so the old rec
ords have it, to nearly 400 persons, but
in 1743-4 it is recorded that Trinity
: Church was built, and the Rev. Isaac
Brown, a graduate of Yale. was called
as rector in 1745, and his name appears
in the charter granted by King George
II. to Trinity in 1746, ION the humble
petition of his Loving Subjects. Edward
Vaughn, late rector of Trinity Church
at Newark, John Schuyler and Josiah
Ogden, late Church Wardens. William
Kingsland. William Turner. George
vreiandt. Daniel Pierson, Roger Kings
land and Emanuel Cocker. Late Vestry-I
men of said Church. Colonel Schuyler,
a rich man, was a liberal contributor.
as was Colonel Ogden, and later George
Washington, Robert Morris, Robert
Livingston and Lord Sterling also en-
tered the doors of the old church to
attend service.
The Rev. Mr.. Brown. who was al
Tory, as nearly all Church Of England
ministers were then, resigned, after
thirty years service. at the breaking
out of the Revolution, for the patriots
did not like a religion that had prayers
in it's services for England's King and
family. During the var the american
troops used Trinity as a hospital, broke
I'm he pews and used the pieces as fire.
wood. The damage was paid by the
government in 1889, the church reno
vated and services resumed, and I'M
1888 the Raw. Uzal Ogden was called and
served as rector seven years. The Rev.
Joseph willard. being rector from 1906
to 1919. In May, 1909, the corner-stonel
Of the present Trinity Church was laid
and the building was consecrated May
n 1910, and the church had seventy
onaamenicants IN 1907. ~