The sun., 1910-06-02

NioNH-LAtR. \ J.. Juna "A Mont
clair church nas ius known only ono
rastai during lt, existence - celebrating
it. p.ts'g anniversary The persons
vim ha." ,srn tris religious body grow
frou the htt'r ypmpany q men who
met tnyptlar b. lS.D to a church with
more than . .Srn names cn IL membership
roll o., tr tl,na ul the coincidence that
make IL po-.,hl, O. uclchrate the ami
ve--nir- OF the church and u the service
Of tnc Rsy Dr Amory Howe BradfOud
a. the same fmr Ard tss newer comeFs
b. %. community. inside and outside
Of u First Congregational Church,
werc saving today that tho significance
IT the event tp them Law IN tho part that
Dr.. Bradford has played IN building a
town.
DR.. Bradford came u Montclair when
he VA q wears Old. having received
he cal immediately after he had finished
his course Al the AndOver Theological
seminary To-day as he sat In the
parsonage you could see why the sOlici-
tids II his congregation has suggested
that his burden he hghtencd during the
sumner They have arranged to have
the Rev Hugh Black carry a part Of Il
a. supply preacher The term II service
has not shadowed their clergyman's
faculties. but the strain upon his strength
has been a little too hard.
Il was on the evening of December
"a. 1889, that number of men who saw
an opportunity for another church in
Montclalr met together at the home of
Joseph h Beade on South Fullertun
avenne aud pledged their mutual and
hearty support IN such an enterprise
IN the following June the church, which
had found a meeting place in a hall near
it, present location. listened for the
arst zine to the Young man who had Just
coma from the seminary He was their
first and only candidate and when al
the end Of the same month they rendered
him q call II was accepted. That sep
temhsr he was installed a. pastor.
The fathers IL the First Congregational
Church saW something appropriate In
heginning is career under the guidance
II man whose ancestor was one of
the founders u Congregatiunallsm N
this country Gov William Bradford
came 10 the shores Of Massachusetts
with the Mayfower and from 1921 until
10s7 there were but five years that IN their
annual election the Pilgrims did not choose
him e. their GnvernoT. The wife Of this
breaker u ground In the Nag World
was Dorothy May, who set oue from the
otheF side with her husband. but did
not I've 70 see the plymouth settlement.
Sha vas drowned Ou Que OF the eNaml-
nation tours ~ Massachusetts, Bay. and
her dRath j. the first one recorded Ia View
England The religious ancestry of the
Bradf0rds dates back even farther than
that John Bradford, who was horn
IN l5lO. Sas the pretend ot 81 Peuis.
and he. died IN lass after two years m
prisdn hecause q his adherence % the Z
doctrines b. rspoused From ms ceil
hr wrote IN the cause Tor which he was
sudedng Imprisonment.
ne Waasng nam istef who began and has 4
cantiniled his pastoral Work IN MOntclaIr. f.
was bJrn Ia tiranhv. Oswego county, .
" Y. On April %. ism We was eighth .
In line in descent from bic hardy Old ]
ancestor who '1iied .n the Massachusetts, .
Colony. Dr Bradford had his prepara- .
tory educ4tiou a. Penn Nan Academy .
and he was graduated from Hamilton .
College m Isg7. After some time II study
~ Auburn he went O. the seminary ~
Andover
ln the fsu after he came 20 M1ntclar .
30 married Julia y stevens daughter
II " r. Stevens of Little Pals. y. y.
A. ihst time there were but e.ghty-tour
members iu the ChurUh Perhaps the f
stand taken by the new pastor was re-
spousibia fpr the growth thai negan with .
his ministry When b" underiuok tho
pastcrata Dr B.1di0U asked M Iues.
tons ab1u. the rrc.is 0r the duCi rinal
views 1f she Individual members oi hls
e. mgr CATION u.s'' 'Hr h'mS'f h" 'iss
Grinding out what we're th' requirements
e the village e ~ ~ which hr had .
come
On tho t-n'h anniversary ~ h.s minis
trv Dr Bradford preached srrmgn 20 .
which hn enumerated -pua of ne things .
that np thought Nuntrilir should have /
ilraadv hn bad fHif '.sif the uufCrppungS
Ofa 0rytI.u mount of rrIruperarcn wuu't .
reach a point r' danger n mntNins wer.
nrt done tu IuH" vItr them One 90 the
things thHt be- IgEo-t = 900 t.a sermon
was a rrf.ru ..r. The sstl'I sung n .
Hhrarv would meet another need Of 'ha .
crmmuUry Do believed The 1b-.trn .
of "a h,-,,ual rr tho noighpnrH0ud -UZ-
rest't % r.u Iha fpunda''Hn - such an
.ust.tUuINg and b." advocated Ht1~irg
some .Hrf ~ 1871 .r-sn' 'yatf1u o. ziIdv
good grverl~HTt Every urr n 'h"s .
fupgsafiHrs 'a- he1u followed nv tho
iustitIr1n ~ a plan that has Ft o. a /
definite r'sfI'
D. Bradford spent -iy MONTHS a. OK .
ford ir 1885, pursuing post- gra.I nate stur- .
ief lu that yssr Hamilton toi'HgH con :
ferrei upon him tho degree of dootor of
divinity soon after TINS his trst nook
appearei IN isSs under the title Spirit
and Life
Whel the international council n Con
crcgs iOnalis's frsf lu London Boz 1871 DR.
Bradford vas -cleat"i A. the r'Trescnta-
tive Of his church from NcW Jersey That
trp - England MAS the tegIrrinR Of hls
Lnglsh ministry The rec's ~ which hal
neen 3 Ia a-tel sever wears tefDre when he
was q student a. Oxford. Besides his .
addresses before the council he had ar
opportun.sy % preach many times IN the
ISLAND kingdom That year be was m
vI,ei 20 delve- the na~calaureate sermon
iu Ne sfeli college. Jvforf which vas
the FIRST time the honor was ever cor
isrrst upon an American There was
much comment upon h.s preaching. After
q ss-rlpn "a the lArsuGu1 Park tOnRre-
gator ai Chapel the lerestef D1dy Post
renaThet unOu o. In pau
Hardly hsd he pa.-ed beyond tho opening 3
sentence of his W1rDiHs sermon than Il
redsme clear that he as master In his own
reid 0f service public '~a,Ier of tho fret
rank DO one Or rUo respects Dr Bradford
f.I. r. place U tho sphere of pulpit orlt0rv
vrlrh .s di.ru.UgoIv hf- own Not only /
E.s ae strongly marked yisps ou some ~
tfa pressing problems uf his time and all
Co. e0Grtse lf bis advanced ,urN. .'tions.
be- Do Ei- 20 iet-f three of ~ essentials
O. -uC-e.s ila Na. Era-p OF thought T.
" oh enable hfm 'p yTau.le win mo most
81 Ti~ut -uN.s .stf HfN .p ordinary -ku F.
De- has H over Hf pN rro...un which lrFst4I. +.