Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-07
) CHURCHES HERE
WILL CELEBRATE
DEDICATION DAYS
Emmanuel Baptist, Union Street
M. E. and Second Pres
byterian Plan Functions.

Three local churches are arranging
to conduct a special series Of services
in oommemoration of the dedication
and anniversary of their respective
parishes.
Monday evening, October l6, the
newly completed edihce of the En-
manuel Baptist Church, located at
Montclair and Clifton avenues. in
Forest Hill, will be formally dedicated
Rev. DR.. Thomas e. Vassar, of Eliza
beth, will preside at the anu
the Rev. DR.. Curtis d. DAVIS, of New
York. will make the dedicatory ADDRESS
The pastor of the church, tn Rev.
Edwin 0. Wilson, will also take part
in the exercises. The choir will render
an appropriate program.
The Monday service will be preceded
on Sunday by a preliminary evenlng
session. when the churches of Forest
Hill will hold a union service IN the
Emmanuel Church. The pastors VINO
vii participate in the p~rededicatlon
rally will be the Rev. Frederick w.
Lewis, of the Forest Hill Presoyte IAN
Church; the Rev. Henry Merle Mellen,
of the Christ Reformed, and the ReV.
DIR. Julius Maschman, of the summer
field Methodist churches.
A patriotic feature of the service
will be the presentation of the flag to
the church by the members of Colonel
s. L.. Buck Council, Jr. 0. j.. A. M.
Those who will ~officiate in the pre-
senting of the colors will be uneilo
G. Transue, L.. Schmidt, w. Coeyman,
August Bechtoldt, r.. Curtiss, L. G'
Duguid n b.. Wotherspoon.
Wednesday evening, October IL, the
Baptist congregations in this city VIII
conduct a "fraternal and well-Wlshing
union rally in the Emmanuel Churcn'
The closing features of the dedicative
celebration will comprise an organ re-
cital on Thursday evening under Inc
direction of William Cook, and a neigh
borhood social on Friday evening, DC
tober 20.
The church represents an outlay OF
$50, 900, and the cornerstone was laid
on last Easter day, April 16.
The members of the building COM
mittee, who will take part In the series
of services, are G. w. De Lisser, treas
urer; George w. Vernet, L.. c. Harris
DIR. C. w. Tillou, Elisha Rittenhouse,
II. M. Eddy, Thomas M. Watson, IT,
James Robinson, F. S. Buckelew, j. u.
Hanson, H. V. Tucker, John Simmonds
and John T.. Bird.
The pastor, Rev. DR.. Wilson, accept
ed the call to the local church in 1900.
Second Ecclesiastical Event.
The second big event in churchdom
will be the sixty-fourth anniversary OF
the Union Street Methodist Episcopal
Church., which will be duly observed
with a weeks special services, begin
ming Sunday, October %.
The pastor, Rev. Frederick C..
Mooney. will be in charge of the pro-
gram, and the anniversary sermon Will
be delivered Sunday morning by Rev.
DR.. A. II. futile, of Summit, a former
pastor of the church. At 2:3O p. m.
there will be a reunion of the congre-
CATION and former ministers, and adj
dresses will be made by the Revs. j.
w. Ryder, w. S. Galloway, ]. H. Egg
bert, r. b. Collins, H. B. Leech and
Rev. Nathaniel Brooks. In the eve
ming at 6:45 a conservation service will
be held under the leadership Of George
Ougheltree, md at 7:45 p. m. the Rev.
DR.. Frederick Glare Baldwin, of East
Orange, a former pastor of the church,
will preach the annual sermon. Seats
will be reserved In the body OF the
church for the pioneer members of the
flock.
The choir will provide a special an
niversary program.
On Monday evening, October %, a
reunion of the various church societies
will be held, and the principal address
will be made by the Rev. DR.. James
C. Howard, pastor of the Halsey Street
Methodist Church.
On Tuesday evening the Rev. r. F..
Hayes, of Roselle Park, will be the
speaker at a rally service, and on
Wednesday evening a musical concert
will be given by professional talent.
The session on Thursday will partake
of a fraternal gathering of pastors In
the vicinity, comprising the Revs. Sam
uel Alden Perrine, Robert r.. Littell.
Edwin e. Davis and the Rev. Robert
T. Graham. On Friday, the closing
night. a Thanksgiving service will be
held, and DR.. Graham will make the
final address, The congregation has
termed the coming celebration a "home-
coming week." and invites the attend
ance of all former members.
The congregation was organized
January 6, 1S47, by a coterie of men
and women converted at a revival held
in the Franklin Street NJ. e. Church.
The flock worshipped in a small 81, 1000
chapel prior to the erection of the