New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

according to "age, infrmity and descent" with
children In the rear under the stern espionage
Of ''tithing man"
Besides the first pastor. the Rev Abraham
Pierson this pulpit was occupied by many noted
men Of their times one Of these was the Rev
Abraham Pierson, I'd, who became the first
president OF Yale College
Another the Rev Jonathan Dickinson, found
er Of two colleges was succeeded in both school
and church in 1876 by the Rev. Aaron Burr, who
in 1755 resigned his pastorate 10 superintend
the completion Of the College Of New Jersey. at
Princeton, becoming the second president Of
Nassau Hall Mr.. Dickinson having beer its
first head
David Brainerd, the celebrated hero pastor 70
the Indians. consecrated to the ministry n
the Newark church. Here had also oficiated
the sanity William Burr father Of Aaron; the
noted Jonathan Edwards. and the fighting par
son." Jedediah Chapman, afterward installed
in 1866 as pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church in Orange. and whose life was always IL
peril because Of his active loyalty TO the cause
Of liberty.
In this church. in Broad street near Market,
took place in the first forty years OF the towns
existence all its civil and military proceedings.
Its walls were strongly fortified in 1919 in order
TO withstand siege by the Indians, whose atroc-
tics in New England at that time filed Newark
with apprehension.
The wives Of New Jersey pastors must have
found life difficult in old times. for innumerable
cases are cited where a clergyman was bereft Of
wife after wife TO the number Of from three 10
five.
one minister so afflicted was the celebrated
DR. Alexander McWhorter who occupied the
Newark pulpit in and after 1859 He took
in ba
ing with Washington at the crossing Of the
Delaware. December -. 1776. He was often
guest of General Washington, who frequently
went TO hear him preach.
Dr. McWhorter one OF the eminent men
who in 11SS were the principal agents in set
Ting the confession OF faith. forming the
stitution of the Presbyterian Church Of the
United States and transferring the authority OF
the highest judicatory from the Synod 10 the
General Assembly, which met first in May 1889
For his capture and that OF the Rev. John Car
michael who also occupied the pulpits of New
ark and Elizabethtown. the British offered q
reward.
The new First Presbyterian Church. erected
almost opposite the old one, was begun in 17S7
and was opened for worship In 1871. when It
was considered splendid edifce The old build
ing was used almost entirely as a courthouse
and town hall The new church stands upon
the home lot" OF Robert Treat called the
founder of Newark" Soon after its opening, IL
1871. negro about to be hanged was, according
to custom. taken first to this church. where his
funeral sermon preached by DR.. UzeI Ogden
The church crowded and the dominic, In
referring at the close of his discourse to the
repentance of the negro, impressively expressed
the hope that the latter end Of his numerous
hearers might be like that of the criminal
Dr. UzeI Ogden was Of the family of Colonel
Josiah Ogden, founder OF Trinity Episcopal
Church. and whose homestead stu stands at
Broad and Clay streets, In Newark It cannot
be said that Josiah Ogden's act IN giving Land
and church sprang from wholly Christian mo
uves Wealthy. influential and q pillar OF the