Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
JAS. | VANCE
FORMALLY QUITS
NEWARK CHURCH
Will Leave North Reformed
Church to Accept Call
to Nashville.

AT the regular monthly meeting OF
the consistory of the North Reformed
Church the pastor, the Rev. DR.. James
l.. Vance, called Peter Campbell to the
choir-room and HANGED him his official
resignation in the form of he follow
ing letter to the consistory:
Following the letter sent you some
weeks since, while absent on my va
cation, through Mr.. Fr~elinghuysen, the
clerk OF the consistory, announcing my
decision to aecepr the repeated calls
to return to the pastorate of the First
PRESBYTERIAN Church, of Nashville,
Tenn, which I lefa ten years 6 on
coming to you, 1 TO- beg that you
will unite with M in a request to call
a meeting in this church on October 8
at 3 .. H.. for a dissolution of the
sacred bonds which have bound us to-
gether as pastor and people, the same
to take effect after the third Sunday
in November. when 1 shall nave round
ed out exactly ten years in the service
of this church.
at has been only after the severest
struggle and most earnest prayer for
divine guidance that I could bring my
self to consider the dissolution of these
happy anu IOiS itldllOiiS. ohu CNOh
now the thought of leaving you over
WhelmS me.
Divine Call TO Nashville.
Nevertheless the repeated and urg-
ent calls which have come to me dur
ing these ten years to return to the
church. of my birth and earlier minis
try, al this last insistent call to go
back to Nashville and ITO the pulpit
which offers perhaps the widest field
of usefulness to a minister of any
church in the Southern States, have at
last convinced me that the call is d.
vine and that my duty is there. I
would not be disobedient to the heav-
emily vision.
~ desire to thank you from the heart
for the loyal support you have given
me as pastor of this great and noble
North church. 1t is your faithful and
united support and that of the great
body of communicates behind you
which has made possible the work Of
these years.
I'm leaving it is with no diminished
enthusiasm concerning the vast oppor-
tunities which confront this church
and the resources it possesses for meet
ing them.
May abundant wisdom and strength
and vision be given to you, my dear
brethren, for spiritual leadership in
this popular city. teeming with re-
ligious needs.
Fellowship mt North Church.
LAS long as life lasts 1 shall cherish
the fellowship we have had together
in our Masters work. and when the
church militant shall have become the
church triumphant 1 trust that we
may all find each other in a fellow
ship whose ties cannot be broker and
whose Joys shall be sweetened and
sanctified by the memory of a COM
mon and joint service here on earth.
Believe me, with lasting esteem and
love, faithfully and ~devotedly your
pastor. JAMES I. VANCE, D. D."
Mr.. Campbell said he nj the o n
sistory hoped that DIR. Vance would
stay with the North Reformed Church
as long as possible, and he spoke feel
ingly of the friendship and o of the
people for their pastor during the
decade he has had charge of the
church.
Special Committee.
After DIR. Vance withdrew from the
meeting the ,consistory proceeded to
appoint a special committee to repre-
sent it at the meeting of the Chassis
of Newark on Saturday afternoon in
the North Reformed Church. In the
call for that meeting there will prob
ably be a full attendance of the Chassis
and also of the Particular Synod
which latter is composed of delegates
from New Jersey and Pennsylvania
churches.
The committee selected is composed OF
Peter Campbell, chairman; James I,
Polhemus, d. Henry Merritt and James
F. Lockhart.
Resigns from Presidency.
DIR. Vance win not only withdraw
from the Chassis of the Particular
Synod. but will also resign as president
of the General Synod of the Reformed
Church of America, for when he goes
to his old Nashville church he will be-
come a member of the Southern Pres
byterian Church. a branch Of the Pres
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