The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-05
DR. |. B HOLLYWOOD,
VETERAN PASTOR,
TO Be HONORED
Calvary Presbyterian COngrega-
ton Will Celebrate His 35til
Year in Pulpit.
HISTORICAL SERMON
BY HIN TOMORROW
Will Review the Growth of the
Church Since His Com
rlecti0n With 1t.


x.r Members OF Calvary Presbyterian
~ Church have completed arrangements
FOR the celebration OF the t~hirty-ffth
anniversary next week of the Rev. Dr..
Isaiah B. Hopwood as pastor of the
church. He was installed the first Sun
day in June. 1874. Therefore the OBJ
. servance of the event will begin to-
morrow and be continued up to
Wednesday night.
- At the morning service tomorrow DR..
: Hopwood will preach a historical SER
mon ind there will be special music.
1t 8 o'clock the Sunday school, in
which DR.. Hopwood has already taken
q very active interest, will have a spe-
cial service. In the evening there will
be a fellowship meeting in the church,
with speaking by officers of the boards
) of the church. William L. Douglass
will speak for the elders, and DR.,
r. Charles D. Bennett for the trustees.
/, David F. Nichols, who mas had charge
Of the Sunday school all the years DR..
: Hopwood has been pastor, will tell of
the history and work of the school.
James A. Lane will speak of the work
OF the young people n Clifford NJ.
Hopwood. son OF the pastor, will give a
brief ak. There will be special mu-
sic, with Mrs. John L. Courier as
soloist.
Private Family Reunion.
Monday night a private family re-
union viii be held and Tuesday night
there win be a special prayer-meetlng.
Wednesday night, the close of the cell
ebration, there will be a reception for
former members Of the church, friends.
neighbors and ministers. There are to
be brief talks by the Rev. Louis Shreve
Osborne, rector OF Trinity Episcopal
Church; the RAv. DR.. David R. Frazer,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church; the Rev. Samuel ]. Skeving-
ton, pastor of Clinton Avenue Baptist
Church; the Rev. William H. Morgan,
pastor Of Central Methodist Episcopal
Church. n others. John L. Courier
viii preside at the organ and Milton
Grust win give violin solos. After
ward there will be a social hour in the
church parlor.
Fifty Years In Ministry.
DE- Hopwood. who will next year
celebrate his golden jubilee as a min
lister, was born at Bradbury, in
Cheshire, England, on November 6,
1881. His father, a hat manufacturer,
came to the United States when ala
was about 10 years old and established
a hat factory in Newark The boy at
tended the Essex Street School when
3 there were only four free schools for
,sschiidren In the city. He also went to
the Newark Academy when it was
where the postof1ce now is, at Broad
and Academy streets. He then en-
gagged In the hating business with his
= father until the latter died.
In 1852 Isaiah B. Hopwood entered
: the University of New York and vas
graduated in 1855. He then went to
Bnion Theological Seminary to study
Tor the ministry and was graduated in
1861. He got a call from a church at
Coventry, Chenango county. N. Y, and
was ordained there. Several years later
he organized a Presbyterian church at
Oxford Furnace, N. j. His wife's
health began to fail and he returned to
Newark.
DR.. Hopwood's next call was to
Brooklyn, N. Y, where he organized
the Congregational Church of Green
field and was brought into touch with
the greatest Congregationalist preach
ers OF those days. Among them were
Henry Ward Beecher, the Rev. DIR. r.
S. Storrs, the Rev. DIR. Buddington,
the Rev. DR.. Joseph F. Thompson, Of
the Broadway Tabernacle; the Rev. d.
J.. Clement French. afterward pastor OF
Park Presbyterian Church, Newark.
He was next called to the Second Pres
byterian Church, in Paterson, where
he served several years. In 1874 he
came to Newark to Calvary Church.
Called eThe Bishop"
DR.. Hopwood is called the bishop"
trby brother ministers because Of his
venerable appearance. He is short and
stout N build, has kindly blue eyes
and plump rosy cheeks. His long white
hair falls to his shoulders from a big
smiling. Whenever a Presbyterian
church In Newark has a special serv-
lee DR.. Hopwood Is always invited.
II am very fond of nature and for
Fears have been q fisherman. l claim
to pe expert at fishing for trout. 1t is
my delight. 1 attribute my long-con-
tinued good health to simple habits of
living and my close affiliation with
nature. The Bible is my favorite book.
of course, but 1 Hike poetry. 1 delight
III reduluB WdicSF oOOet anu 1eoDSA
Burns"
DR.. Hopwood said he a visited Eng
land a good many times. Three sum-
mers he organized excursion parties
once having sixty persons in the party
and took them to England. He
preached at Stockport to the oldest
and largest Sunday school in the
lworld. 1t has an average attendance
trof 5000 pupils. Miss Elsie Ward
daughter of old friends of his, was the
100, 000th pupil enrolled on the schoo
list. She is now a teacher. DR.. Hop
wood has a wife, a son and a daughter