Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-13

could do was to move out of the CEN
tire of the city and so relieve the sit
uation for the four surrounding
churches.
In the opinion of the Presbytery's
committee on this subject. any place
for the Third Church was better than
where she was. The Third Church
congregation was drawn from the en-
tire city and the most practical thing
seemed to be to have a Third Church
north. a Third Church central, and
Third Church south. The Clinton
Avenue Church, at Sixteenth street,
in a little chapel overcrowded. need
ing a new church building for the
rapidly rowing community, was Sc
lected as a site for the Third Church
South.
The High Street Church, about five
blocks west from the present Third
Church, on the edge of the populous
hill district and greatly in need OF
endowment for the charging of its
institutional work at point where
il could not be in conflict with that
contemplated by the First Church.
was selected as the site for the Third
Church central.
The Third Church North.
A site on the corner of Abingdon
avenue and Ridge street was desig-
mated as the site for the Third Church
north, because near this point lived
three of the elders, three of the trus
tees and two of the deacons of the
Third Church and about forty mem
bers. The selection of this site has
been the occasion of considerable op-
position.
But when in answer TO the request
of a sufficient number of the people
of the community to guarantee the
reasonable support of a church to be
built for them, the Third Church goes
out of her territory in the centre of
the city, two blocks wide and three
blocks long, the limits set by sur
rounding churches in her present
bounds, into a residential field where
she is $500 feet from any church of any
denomination, she comes as near hav-
ing a legitimate field as any church
in this city. There is not another
church in the whole city that will be
so free from the encroachment from
neighboring churches as the Third
Church, north, will be on the corner
of Abingdon avenue and Ridge street.
Presbytery's Own scheme.
The Third Church. in fact, is doing
what the Presbytery for years had
hoped some endowed church might do,
use the funds for the benefit of more
people. Her north, south and cen
trail churches are to be provided with
Fairgrounds, game rooms, social
rooms, shower baths, kitchens and
whatever else is necessary for the So
cial welfare of the communities about
them. While a considerable portion of
the remainder of her endowment is to
be spent upon the needy in those por-
lions of the ty most urgently re-
curing it,
This is hei ideal and she surely
ought not to receive criticism in the
inception Of her plan, which, if she
follows conscientiously, will disarm
any criticism in its execution. Give
the Third Church time and judge only
the results.
Already, since the Presbytery has
granted her permission to proceed
with these plans, she has paid to the
church extension committee enough
money to warrant the completion of
a splendid church edifice for the Kill
born Memorial Presbyterian Church.
i'm Vailsburg. She has voted to give
in the near future more than $4,000
to other needy churches. She is fur
nishing the funds for the building by
the church erection committee of the
Italian church Down Neck" She has
voted to finance the erection of a
building for the Memorial Presbyte-
rian Church. having the largest Sab
bath school in the Preshytery, with
the promise of great increase when its
building is completed.