Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-30
TRIUMPHANT IN CONFLICT
WITH THEOLOGICAL FOES,
HOPE BUOYS CITY FLOCK
Congregation Of Dr. Robert Scott lngs Has Faith That the
Collegiate Trparte Arrangement of its Pastor Will Crown
the Labor of Ninety Years in Broad Street.

/ Generations Of men-nay, nations
will rise and sink into dissolution.
Material things, some among them
regarded as quite as stable as tbs
earth itself, viii crumble and be
thrust into the limbo provided for all
that owes its origin to the hand Of
man.
But-and here is the sadness that
makes the heart sick when the doors
Of a church forever are barred
memories cannot be obliterated while
life lasts and even on the bed of
death they come either to cheer or
harrow the heart Of the dying.
But there is comfort in the souls
Of those who yet worship in the old
Broad street edifice, hallowed by the
| spiritual essence Of those who knelt
there in the past. A new religious
home has been provided for them by
the man who faced obloquy and
sneering innuendo for them in his
own Presbytery And they believe
that their leader, divinely inspired,
will succeed in the new order he has
| conceived and ablished, where the
northern star will lend it's cold but
guiding light upon the new altar
The Church's Origin.
| The Third Presbyterian Church,
| like much else of the organization Of
Newark, owes its existence to the
so-called "Old First" from which IL
separated ninety years ago, just as
the June splendor Of the earth was in
full birth.
Never has it had "the meddling
priests who kindle up confusion but,
| doubtless it had, before a better spirit
dawned, those who disturbed their
hearers with horrifying threats Of in
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flames and torturing fiends,, out OF
| the arrnory of the Puritan fanatic.
When the land burned with the
| fiery spirit of anti-slavery heroes the
church did it's part to aid the cause,
but it has never courted succession
of sensational annals, the even tenor
of it's way being, as it felt. the atti-
tude that church should adopt
When the historic cleavage came in
| the Presbyterian faith and presby-
teries rang with the angry argu-
ments of radicals and conservatives,
with the controversial rage of those
who would disturb the canon Of the
Scripture and those who regarded
such dissertation as the conception Of
hell, the Third Church arrayed itself
on the side of the conservative ele-
ment. and there, steadfastly, it has
remained anchored.
1t Eschewed Vain Faneies.
If the church, looking about in the
world, like Teufelsdroech, saw
others following the religious or
| economic fancy of the moment. es-
/ pousing INFESTED theories of social
| service and Institutional methods,
| sometimes of more than doubtful ap-
plicability and forced to the front by
| those whose nature demanded self
advertisement Theories and meth
DDS. that sober second thought"
would relegate to the study of the
political or social economist, 1t shut
| its eyes and more determinedly than
ever followed the single faith with
| which Calvin, through divine aid,
stirred nations, leaving to it's neigh
| bors the exploitation of vagaries quite
unsuited to the priest who serves at
| the altar of God or the congregation
who kneel before II.
It's Roll of Presbyfers.
Among the ministers who have
| served the Third Presbyterian
! Church none was more highly re-
/ garded than DIR. Craven, after whom
| DR.. Inglis is the third in succession
| DR.. Craven, as well as being man
/ of whom it might be said that his
preaching much, but more his prac-
| tise wrought was also born theo-
/ Logan, a rare master of patriotic
| learning. knowing the Fathers as he
knew his Bible and a ripe scholar.
one to whom almost might be applied
/ the title of an Admirable Crichton
/ of the church. His name and fame
not soon will be forgotten. His de-
/ scendant will be one of those VINO
will take part in the dedication OF
the Third Church, North, on the Sec
ond Sunday in June.
The program of the exercises on
that occasion will be found above.