Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-14

CHURCH DAY TO
Dr nln rHrMT
Dc Dlu [VLWI ]
President Of Princeton Sem
mary Will Speak at Rally
Next Sunday Morning.
HISTORY OF CHURCH
WILL BE REVIEWED
Various Organizations of
Congregation to Be Seat
ed together at Service.

At the First Presbyterian church next
Sunday morning the fifth annual Church
Day Rally will be observed with ap-
propriate exercises. An interesting
program has been arranged of which
the feature will be an address by DIR.
Francis Landey Patton, d. d., LII. D.,
president of the Princeton Theological
Seminary.
The service will start at 10:30
0 clock and in all probability the
church will be crowded, as never be-
fore has such an eminent speaker as
DR.. Patton been secured. Rev. Il. c.
Hancock will offer prayer and roll
call of the members and of all Of the
organizations of the church win be
made by Rev. James II. Northrup, the
pastor, before the address.
AS Mr.. Northrup calls the roll, the
rganizations-the Session, the Board
of Trustees, the Mite Society, the For.
eign Missionary Society, the Home Mis-
sionary Society, the Sunday School, the
Christian Endeavor Society, the Jun
ior Endeavor Society, the Ladies of
the Congregation, the Men Is Society,
the Westminster Cadets and the Ush-
ers-will respond in q single sentence
to the following points;, When organ
izedP First PRESIDENT Present mem
bership4 Years growth9 The psssent
PRESIDENT The purposei The time ah.j
place of meetiug7 AchievementsG
Church Day is rally Of all these
organizations and a day of reunion for
many Presbyterans who once lived and
wprshifsed hvte November %, 1905,
was the first time II was held, the
present pastor, Rev James r. North
rup, being the founder of it In this
city The roll was called at that time,
but since then il has been revised and
is now practically perfect.
out-of-Town Members
Invitations have been mailed to all
of the out-of-town members of the
church, many of whom usually send
letters of greeting in return. Presby
terians from Woodbridge, South Amboy
and other nearby towns will be pres
ent at the service Sunday.
e. r. Proctor has plotted the church
for the seating of the various organiza
tions, who will occupy the forepart Of
the edifce Sunday morning The 9th
er part will be occupied by the general
congregation and visitors. The new
church directories, containing the or
ganizations, their officers, lists Of resi-
dent and nonresident members and the
new addresses, will be distributed, gra-
tbs at the service. The committee
which has done this work consists of
Arthur La Roe, Ira Moore, Malcolm
Crowell, Kenneth Pierson and Charles
Wright
Princeton Man Here Long Ago.
The fact that 100 years ago, when
the first building on the present site
was dedicated, Rev. Samuel Smith, D..
D., of Princeton College, preached the
dedication sermon, is interesting be-
cause DIR. Patton, also Of Princeton, is
to make the address Sunday. DIR.
Smith at that time took his text from
2 Timothy ITiS, Remember that Jesus
Christ Of the Seat OF David was raised
from the Dead T"
This was not the first Presbyterian
organization In this city, but was the
first that remained permanent. There
was Presbyterian congregation organ
lied in 1740, that was united with
Basking Ridge and Staten Island. Rev.
John Cross was the pastor. The build
ing where they held services was where
the Perth Amboy High School now
stands
At that time Governor Morris, Of
New Jersey, wrote to the Duke Of New
Castle" Perth Amboy is a poor ineon-
siderable place and there is little prob
ability Of its being much better" The
church was b-rely able to stand the
Revolutionary struggle. The building
was used as q stable by the British anl
disappeared entirely in 1888.
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century steps were again taken to or
ganize the Presbyterians in this city
and the foundation for a building Con
the site Of the present church) was
laid In May, 1902 The building was
dedicated on June 8, the following
year David Wait, Captain John An
gus and John Lewis constituted the
first Session and Board Of Trustees, and
Rev Elias Riggs, licentiate, was eho-
sen to preach. On November 20, 1909,
Rev. Peter stryker was installed as the
frst regular pastor.