Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-07

Inc prlnclpal duur0Ss at INC view
Year rally of the Essex Endeavor
Union on Monday evening in the New
York Avenue Reformed Church will b,
made by the Rev. DR.. Lyman Whitney
Allen, pastor of the South Park Pres
byterian Church.
The Sabbath School of st. Paul's
M. E.. Church, of this city. has or
ganized for tho year. under the fol-
lowing department heads: Homer J.
Diefendorf, superintendent; Mrs. Wal
ter L. ~Jamouneau, intermediate; Miss
Josephine L. Baldwin, Junior; Mrs.
G. e. Smith, primary: Miss Helen B.
Shaw. beginners. and Miss Mary ID.
Winans, homo department.
On next Wednesday evening the an
nual congregational session of the
Elizabeth Avenue Presbyterian Church
will be- held in tho church parlor. The
members will also arrange for the re-
ception of the pastor-elect, the Rev.
Dean Newton Dobson, who will assume
charge on next Sunday. The parson-
age in Chancellor avenue is being i'm
proved and made ready for the now
occupant.
The fourth anniversary banquet Of
the Tr1-Mu class of the Central Pres
byterian Sunday School was held on
Thursday evening in the church par
lors. The menu was all that could be
desired, and the principal address was
delivered by the new pastor, the Rev.
DR.. George Walton King. Other
speakers also responded to toasts.
A social and literary session will be
held by the Woman's Missionary
Society of the Forest Hill Presby-
terrain Church on mex Wednesday
afternoon In the edifice. The members,
aside from the discussion Of the routine
business, will enjoy a social hour and
be entertained by several papers that
will be read.
Walter Drake, the efficient clerk of
the South Baptist Church Sabbath
School, this city, is guessing his twenty
third year In h a capacity. He
served during the pastorates Of the
Rev. DR.. Thomas E. Vassar, the Rev.
w. G. Fennell and DR.. Brownell. the
present divine. He is aslo one of the
most active workers in the church.
1.-The Home and the School" was the
subject of an address made by the
Rev. W. R Neff, pastor of the DeGroot
M. r. Church. at the closing week OF
prayer service held in the West Pres
byterian Church last evening. The
| other churches which unionized In the
series of evening sessions held during
the week were the Memorial Presby-
terrain, the DeGroot Methodist, the
Paramount Baptist and the West Pres
byterian.
The MEMS League of the Franklin
Street M. Z. Church is arranging to
conduct q series of social events. II has
a membership of fifty. DR.. R. s. Hop
kins Is chairman of the committee,
and his associates are Charles Reeves,
C. B. Cadmus, James r. Morton, How
ard Thurber, Percy Tolmie, John Wal
dron, Edward Scattergood, Benjamin
Washer and George Bovine.
During the last interview held with
the late Rev. DR.. Isaiah B. Hopwood,
who a served in the ministry for
over half a century, just a week prior
to his death, he was asked II he would
go into the calling again If he had his
life to live over. why, most as
suredly," said he, 'for the ministry has
the same opportunities of the past, and
have no regrets and would positively
ft myself for the work If I were a
young man again. Thus spoke the
late dean of the local Presbyterian
| oi.-xxar uyAA 1taA sNn thu n aYnaqQb
at the age of 10.
With the acceptance of the High
Street Presbyterian charge by the Rev.
]. ]. Moment, the filling Of the pulpit
of the Central Presbyterian Church by
the coming of the Rev. DR.. George w.
King and the decision of the Rev.
Dean N. Dobson to accept the pas
torate Of the Elizabeth Avenue Pres
byterian Church there now remain
still five focks pastorless. They con-
sist of the First Presbyterian, the
First and North Reformed, the Second
German Presbyterian and the Mt.
Pleasant Baptist churches. 1t is be-
lieved that the First Presbyterian and
the First Reformed churches will in tho
near future make a decision, as the
matter has been freely discussed re-
Gently by the boards of both churches.
and the officials, 80 II Is said, realize
that the lack Of an acceptable pastoral
leader somewhat hampers the growth
of the denomination. Some have said
that the resignation of the Rev. Dr..
Thomas Chalmers Easton. a former
pastor of the First Reformed Church
this city. from the pulpit Of the High
land Park Reformed Church, near New
Brunswick, might lead to a call being
extended him by his former fiociS- As
DR.. Easton Is somewhat advanced IN
years, 1t is doubtful whether tho e.
fcial board of the church would tender
him the charge. The NORTH Reformed
congregation have as yet made no
choice of a successor to the Rev. DR..
Vance.
EVANGELlSnC SERVICES.