Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-25
DR.. STEWART Will
Be HEARD SUNDAY
New Pastor of North Reformed
Church Will Preach lnau=
guraI Sermon.
WINNIPEG MOURNS HER
LOSS IN HIS DEPARTURE
Divine a Pioneer of the Cold
Prairie of the Canadian
Northwest.

The Rev. DR.. Charles Hugh Stew
art. who has accepted call to tho
North Reformed Church. viii preach
his inaugural sermon Sunday morn
ing. His topic will be THE Reel
procity of Life" In the evening he
will preach on Not Ashamed of tho
Gospel
The installation of the new pastor
will take place next Thursday eve
ming in the church. DR. Stewart and
his wife will make their home in the
rectory of the North Reformed
Church, Washington and James
streets. The building is being re-
paired for their occupancy.
DIR. Stewart was born March u,
1875. in owen Sound, a port on Lake
Huron, in the Province of Ontario
When he was only ten years of age
his parents went out to the Canadian
west and took up a homestead near
Hamiota, in the province of Manito-
ba. Here on the western prairie they
reared a vigorous brood of sons, two
OF whom were destined to fill lead
ing pulpits in the Canadian west,
Charles in Winnipeg and Robert in
art was accustomed to endure the
rigors and hardships which were in
separable from the life of the Mani
toba settler thirty-flve years ago.
Hardships of Early Life.
The country was still very sparsely
populated. crop failures, We're frequent
and the tour boys in the home had
to work early and late to help make
ends meet For number of years
DIR. Stewart had no chance to go to
school at all. When circumstances
in the prairie homestead became more
favorable, however, the 14-year-
boy went to Blandon and entered an
academy there. So keen was his de-
sire for knowledge and so strenuous
his application that in two or three
years he had made. wonderful strides
and had passed the naturalization
examination which admitted him as
an arts student to the leading Pres
bvterian educational institution of
Western Canada, Manitoba College.
Winnipeg.
.iAfter studying arts he determined
to enter the Christian ministry and
began the study of theology in the
same institution. During the sum-
riiers he went out into the mission
fields of the West, often travelling
thirty miles and conducting three
services every Sunday. He came into
direct contact with struggling set
tiers. He had gone through similar
experiences himself and was thus
able to preach with great power to
his audiences. Even as a student, so
great was his oratorical ability, he
drew crowds wherever 1t was an
nounced that he would preach
In Winnipeg also his eloquent voice
was often heard during the college
term. and it so happened that group
OF Presbyterians who were ambitious
to found a new congregation in the
Western section of the city induced
him to begin work as their pastor
While he was still in his senior year
as a theological student.
So in 1901, DR.. Stewart put his
shoulder to the arduous task of build.
ing a congregation from The ground
up. There were thirteen charter
members in st. Paul's congregation,
but before many months rapid growth
in numbers had taken place.
Growth of His Flock.
During the first five years of DR.
Stewards pastorate the accessions TO
the membership were SO constant
that the church building had to be
enlarged three times, Five years ago
the congregation decided To build
handsome stone edifice large enough,
as they thought, to meet their needs
for many years TO come But go
rapid has been the growth Of the city
westward, and so popular was DR..
Stewards ministry, that the church
has become altogether too small to
accommodate the crowds that have
packed it morning and evening. DR..
Stewards congregation row numbers
$50 members, and at the evening