The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-19
X THE EVENING STARS TWO PAGE MAGAZINE x
CAPSULE NO. 7.

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A STUDENT of history easily discovers where the unexpected gained its
- reputation for being always on the job 1t more hi oten happens
that a cloud which upholstrs one entire end of the sky will. disasree.
able shades of purple n black an threatens a tempest II trouble blows over
On the other hand with equal frequency a cloud which is nc bigger han .
mans hand when it FIRST appears in HI aerial omns mas be packed with a tiny
tornado, which, when it is life size IN twice as natural will scatter everything
not anchored or nailed dow all over the map. All this is apropos of ar incident
which. viewed from the outside, might be regarded as trivial. but which in tn.
end almost disrupted the town.
Colonel Josiah ogdeu, a v in MS church and in he " M day in
1888 was engaged with his slaves and workmen as-was Maud Muller when the
judge rode by. Only in thsc easel vas wheat, instead of nay, and III day hap,
pened to be sunday In a community which vas essentially religious and any
thing else it happened Ito be- aftervard. the spectacle of the colonel in the
wheat field on the sabbath naturally caused n N of talk among the neishbors.
4 larse number Of them passed the field on their "a to churehss ana tie res
of them when they had heard of the scandal went nut of their wy going home
to see for themselves II such a thing could be. On ordinary occasions Colonel
Ogden would av beer a 1oath to work or Sunday as m Of his critics. But
a it happened his wheat had been cut and h aentrec crop was threatened by
continued rains He held, with Others whose horizons were a trne wider, hat
the Sabbath vas made for mar IN not nan for the Sabbath. The coloners
action was toe radicals that day to be allowed to sir by without omcial notes
being taken IF it, H was censurd by the church authorities, but believing he
was right refused to abide by hfr decision, m appealed hi. case. A bitter
controversy vas engende~d, Everyone took sides Soon it became a cae of
neiehhOr against neghbor, friend against friend ant brother against brother.
In the end Colonel Ogden and his sympahiaers drew out of te First Church
organization and established the Trinity Episcopal Church.
In lips a Dutch congregation established itself at second River, now,Bens-
affairs, n were welcomed. Episcopal services were held in Newark a. early
as 1929 but Colonel Ogden and his friends formed the hrsto organization of that
church.
The Rev. Aaron Burr father of the genius of nike memory, vas made
pastor of the First Church in ts His pastorate vs inportant for more.
reasons than N He VA ito be president IF Princeton m foster that great in
stHuuon then known al h college of New Jersey. during III eight years it
was located in Newark Then, too, his brilliant son., later vtce-President and
Vould-be empire builder vas BORN here. He as a man Of profound learning,
strong personality amd contributed much to the life of tn community. But
that he vas overshadoved BY, his son his fame wou have been wider ana
greater His worth vas universally recognized in the community, IN when, !.
president Of the College of New Jersey he accompanied it to Princeton. his loss
was keenrv felt