New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

| First Presbyterian Church he would not brook
! the discipline and public censure visited upon
| him by the church in consequence OF his act in
saving his wheat from destructive rains on the
Sabbath Day.
Too late the presbytcry endeaVorcd by con
/ doning this offence 10 settle the controversial
storm begun by the chdden man and his fol-
lowers Colonel Ogden took the matter to the
Philadelphia Synod The distinguished iona
! than Dickinson was called to Newarks pulpit
10 lift his voice in the internal disseusions
! which ragged with bitterness. for nearly half
| century-years after Josiah ogden gave the site
and raised the cornerstone Of Trinity Episcopal
Church,
The tower Of the present church IN Military
Park which from 1876 served military
training ground is the same that dignihed the
edihce erected in 1916 and rebuilt in 1909 after
the ravages Of the Revolutionary War.
| Dr. UzeI ogden the first regularly o.
ciating minister Of Trinity Church. but after
ministry Of some twenty years he left IT and
Joined the church Of his fathers He was not as
was leading member Of the Baptist Church.
accommodated under this sentence: For
keeping bad company-joined the Presbyte-
rians."
The Rev MI Browne said that during the
Revolution Trinity was used by the rebels
a hospital for their sick the greater part OF the
summer Of 1916. These broke up and destroyed
the seats and erected a large stack Of chimneys
| IN the middle Of Il" One Of these rebel" oc-
cupants of Trinity a Hessian lad Of twenty an
ensign in General Washngton's army. was
grandfather to the Rev DR.. NJ. H Henderson,
one Of Mr Brownies ministerial SUCCESSORS
II troopers slept in the old church in the Revo-
luton no less personages worshipped and par
took Of communion before its altar than General
washington. Robert Morris Robert Livingston
and General Lord Stirling.
! Over Dividend Hill lies the way from Newark
to Elizabethtown- Here IN 1865 the first church
was used bv Congregationalists and Independ-
ents In 1903 the Rev. John Brooke laid the
cornerstone Of the first Episcopal church Here
in 1866 the first convention of Episcopal min
! listers held.
For forty years the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson
founder Of Princeton College held the pastorate
Of the First Presbyterian Church Of Elizabeth
adjoining which was in 1903 the fedgling col
| lege Dickinson noted as one Of the great
est two writer's on divinity OF his century.
! Bullets ploughed the way from Newark 70 the
old Presbyterian Church at Springfield. where on
June 90 1880, the Americans, under General
Greene, checked and turned back the British ad-
vance In retreat these set fire to the church
and the village adjacent TO it During tins bat
tie the Americans ran short Of gunwadding
| "Parson" Caldwell galloped to the church. gath
cred up the hymn books and flung them to the
gunners, crying: Put Watts into them. boysi"
| On the morning of this day Mrs Caldwell
while sitting with an infant in her arms and
surrounded by eight other children. was wan
ton}v shot twice by British soldier. and her
body was dragged out into the road
Bret Harte was one of many poets who COM
rnemorated Caldwell tho fighter and pulpit or
ator who was at times assistant commissary
general to the army. and its chaplain In 17S1
] Caldwell was murdered by an American sentry.