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

site of Forest Hill Church. 1t
flourished and became in time the
largest church in the Presbytery of
Newark and the Synod of New Jer-
sey.
The First. Second and Third
churches. with increasing endow-
ments. remained down town with
out difficulty. inspite of decreasing
pew rents but finances became an
increasingly serious problem with the
others.
Central, with no endowment, chung
on too long and nearly a score of
years after Park Church had set a
good example of moving to better
quarters, moved south to Clinton Hill.
but not until she had wasted much
of her valuable possessions and had
lost a large part of her membership
in the distressing discussions" which
preceded the move.
Aided by the Third Church.
In erecting the new building a debt
was incurred which has retarded her
work all these years, but now by the
earnest efforts of her present pastor
and the kindly help of the Third
Church the last of this debt will pres
emily be paid.
BY the activities of the church ex-
tension committee ten more Presby-
terrain churches have been built with
in the last thirty years, and now
there are twenty-seven Presbyterian
churches. plus three missions. with
church buildings. facing the problem
of providing their share of religious
instruction for not less than $50 00C
people. and the ratio has again risen
until in this city almost exclusively
Presbyterian 100 years ago, with only
$500 people to each Presbyterian
church ninety years ago, there are to-
day $4,000 people to every Presbyterian
church.
An Invidious Contention.
The failure to some extent to keep
up with the increasing population has
been at times inyidiously attributed
in measure at least. to the undue
proportion of expense incurred in
keeping up the three endowed
churches in the centre of the city.
The First Church has a historic
mission to maintain in the centre OF
the city. The Second Church has a
field to itself, some distance removed
from the other two. The Third
Church found itself at the beginning
of this century in the centre of a
group of five Presbyterian churches
all well within half of mile of her
The. vast population of this city is
outside that circle. This was the stu
alton facing pastor and people when
the present pastorate began in 1901
Little by little the sentiment has
grown that something should be done
Two years ago DIR. Inglis preached
sermon on the future of the Third
Church and submitted three propo-
sitions, the last of which was adopted
This proposition was to abandon the
old site and to enter upon a policy OF
church extension throughout the CITY
The Third Church resolved first OF
all TO preserve her identity. but tc
do so in some less exepsive manner
and in some place where the constit.
uency of the congregation would be
able to make it practically self-slip.
Porting and administer the endow.
ment for the Extension of the King
dom of Christ in this city.
Collegiate Church Organization.
In order TO secure the permanent
observance of this plan it was deter.
mined to organize Collegiate Church
with at least three places of worship
the members OF which would act as
guardians against each other in the
future selfish expenditure of the en-
dowment, and would not permit It to
be used for the support of a church
beyond the period of efficient service
The Third Church submitted the
plan TO the Presbytery, which APP
proved of it, and practically unan-
imously agreed that the most desir-
able thing that the Third Church