Evening journal., 1910-09-24
ANNIVERSARY
AT SILVERBROOK
Methodist Church Will OBJ
serve Its Seventeenth Year
Beginning Tomorrow

The seventeenth anniversary exer-
cises of Silverbrook NJ. Z. Church Will
begin Sunday with a love feast at
o'clock The other exercises will be:
d. m. anniversary of the Sunday
School. Special Program.
$50 D. m. open-air meeting at the
corner Of Sixth street and Gray
avenue.
AT 1890 a. M. and 7.3O p. m. the
Rev. George Alcorn, of the Philadel-
phia Conference. will preach. DR.. AL
corn is an able speaker. and 1t Is ex
pected large congregations will be
present.
The Silverbrook NJ r. Church had
its birth in series of meetings held
under a beech tree in the little ham
let of Silverbrook, situated just out
side of the city limits on the Lancas-
ter pike, by Andrew ]. Dalbow, a IL
censed exhorter of Asbury NJ. T.
Church, i'm the summer of 1880. The
following year Sabbath school was
organized with Charles A. Foster as
superintendent.
When the tree was cut down 70
make way for the new B. and o. rail-
road. the meetings of this struggling
society were held in various places
opened TO them. For about three
months in 1889 two rooms in the
house Of Robert West we're placed at
the service of the society. Subse-
Quently the stable of colored man
was rented at so a month, the horses
and mules were turned out. and stable
fitted up with seats, platform pulpit
and provided with an organ.
In 1884, a lot 36 by "a feet was pur-
chased at Second and Rodman streets,
upon which the foundations and cor
ner stone for a new Methodist Epis-
copal Church were laid on Thursday,
January 1885. by Drs. w. L. S.
Murray and f. l.. Hubbard. And IN
May 81 of the same year the new
chapel was-dedicated. The wSole
cost of the church and lot S2,242.
The building was frame and built
I'm Gothic style. with seating capaci-
ty of about four hundred.
The dedicatory services were per-
formed by Or. w. l.. S. Murray, as
sisted by DR. c. w. Prettyman.
Until the Conference of 1887 the
pastor of Asbury supplied the pulpit
with local preachers, with occasional
preaching by the pastors Of the city
churches. The Rev. w. p. Tomkinson
was appointed by the presiding elder
as the first pastor.
An the I'd day of May. 1889. the
Rev. w. l.. S. Murray, presiding eld-
or. held the first quarterly conference
and organized Silverbrook a separate
charge, the Rev. G. X. Morris as pas
tor. In order to give more room 70
the increasing Sunday school and
congregation, IN the spring of 1892
il was decided TO build a new church
Joseph Pyle had previously donated
the lot on which the present church
now stands and added to this a sub
scription Of 1000. This so encour-
aged the members that plans were Sc
cured and work begun in the summer
The corner stone was laid October 10
The Rev. Or. Dobbins and T. r. Terry
I Of Grace and st. Pauls Churches, an'
the Rev. W. p. SwRrtz. of the Centra
Presbyterian Church, assisting th'
pastor, the Rev. ". A. Wise.
On September "a, 1898. Silverbrool
Church. costing nearly $4,000, wa
dedicated by Bishop ]. P. Newman
DR.. w l.. S. Murray and the presiding
elder DR.. L. z. Barrett. assisting tn
pastor. the Rey. w. A. Wise.
In 1901 under the pastorate Of tn
Rev. II. S. Thompson, a beautiful an'
commodious parsonage was built a
Second and Woodlawn avenue. INT
total cost was $500.
last wear the church was remodele'
at a cost of 81 200. II has now one o
the most attractive audience rooms II
the conference. NJ =
The present pastor. the Rev. w. +
Greenfield is closing a five-year pas
torate.