Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-04
DR.. IngiS Won
His Point i'm a
Unique Meeting
Final Favorable Disposition Of
His Third Church Plan Ger
tain to Be Approved.

This basis of the plea of DR., KoperC
Scott Inglis, pastor of the mira
Presbyterian Church. for the maj
| sanction of his collegiate plan before
the Presbytery of Newark on last
Tuesday afternoon, won his point LOT
him and conquered opposition, bitter
insidious and un-Christian.
The Presbytery meeting Of Tuesday
was in many ways a remarkable one.
one perhaps unique in the history OIL
the church in Newark, Its DECISIONS
in regard to the matter in mana
have been fully explained, out the
dramatic. intense, human interest Oh
fine meeting has not been completely
illustrated.
Vast Wealth at Stake.
The dramatic element of the con-
test lay in the fact that there were
at stake many hundreds of thousands
of dollars; that the fate of a church
was to be decided which for ninety
years had been a landmark OF the
city And, If this church We're 10 pe
abandoned, If its spirit and its fold
were not to be transplanted to an
other part of the city, all its wealth.
| would revert to the First Presbyte-
ran CnuTCn, dIl Vi SdhiNetbiCll ga
enormously endowed and yet calling
iupon its congregation for more money
at this very time.
II was a fight which had reached
it's crisis, and all the members OF the
/ Presbytery seemed to feel this-none
more so than the main figure in the
battle-Dr. Inglis.
without delay DR.. Inglis arose and
presented his plea. He explained the
details of his collegiate scheme to
preserve the entity of his church IN
a trinity of churches formed under
the aegis of the law of the Presby-
terrain Church.
The Opposition's Onslaught.
Then Dr. Inglis proffered his re
quest for the $4,000 required to finish
his new Third Church North, and
upon this request was trained the OPP
position of the foes of the speaker,
foremost among whom were the pas
tors of the churches supposed to be
affected by the choice for the site of
the new Third Church North, These
were Rev. Mr.. Mcdowell of the Gin
ton Avenue Church, and Rev. Frank
Lewis, of the Forest Hill Church, now
laboring under a heavy debt and
jealous of approach of any other con-
gregation.
The tactics of these foes of DR..
Inglis and his plan, while pursued
with a certain degree of restraint,
were singularly disingenuous They
built the fabric of their dissent upon
the insidious plea that DR.. 1nglis had
broken faith with presbytery after he
first proposed his plan and it was
approved.
But these parliamentary subterfuges
of obstruction only reacted upon
| mr. Tpolic had
forestalled them in his opening adj
dress. for he had declared that the
opposition to him would take just
this form.
But the suave eloquence and per-
suasive logic of DIR. Inglis were not
more effective in defeating his
enemies than a bold and splendid ad-
dress made in his behalf by DR.. w.
Y. Chapman, of the Roseville Avenue
Church, and a bit of convincing logic
from the lips of DIR. Pleasant Hunter
of the Second Presbyterian Church.
Two Giants Had Arisen.
Before the reasoning of these two
giants in the Presbytery the invidi-
Gus attacks of the Rev. Messrs.
Lewis and Mcdowell fell fiat. and the
ill-expressed and ill-conceived sup
port of their less gifted friends was
|
of words.
Finally. ii is doubtful which most
marked the extraordinary character
of the meeting, whether the restraint
and power and moving sweetness of
the words of DR.. Inglis or the deciding
crushing force of the addresses of DR..
Chapman and DR.. Hunter, both pow
erfu in their manner, unanswerable
in their presentation Of the points at
issue and impressive and noble in
bearing and address.
He Establishes a Precedent.
DR.. Inglis rightly spoke of his
scheme as unique and as establ shing
for all time a precedent for the Pres
bytery of Newark and he arose to a
height of eloquence rarely heard in
such an assemblage when he declared
1--WE were not summoned to this bar
to explain our purpose, we were not
hidden to defend our course, we were
not asked to plead-we camel And,
hereafter, none within the rule of this
: presbytery will dare to build a new
church without first observing the
} law of the precedent which we have
set"
One of the noblest points in the ad-
dress of DR.. Chapman was his out
spoken tribute to DR.. Inglis to the
eminently dignified and ingenious
way in which he had conducted his
campaign in the long warfare over
the question of the disposal of the
Third Church, and his rebuke for
, those who in this very meeting had
insinuated unworthy motives as hav-
ing had lodgment In the breast of
DR.. Inglis. Such a scathing arraign-
. ment is not often delivered in pres
bytery by one presbyter against fell
, low presbyters
Newark Should BE Proud
Newark has reason to be proud that
/ in her pulpits are such men as DR..
: Chapman, and DIR. Hunter, and DR..
! lnglis, but 1t is only upon such a
momentous occasion, perhaps, that
the characters of men of this type
, shine forth in all their glory.
And, lastly the wisdom of DR..
Inglis was in nothing better exem-
plitied than in his surrender to the
final desperate suggestion that to q
: committee of seven, three laymen OF
: elders and four ministers, shall be
; submitted the merits of his case
whether his proposition be agreeable
to the laws of the Presbyterian
Church and the laws of New Jersey
and whether his proposals be before
l the Presbytery of Newark in proper
E and legal form. This committee O.
] seven is to be chosen by the mod.
t orator, DR.. Buttinghousen; Dr. Chap
! man and Rev. Mr.. Lewis.
2 His Triumph Complete.
But that the triumph of DR.. Ingli,
!, was complete and irrevocable wa.
: shown by the almost unanimous alt
hearty vote upon the proposal X
= grant DR.. Inglis $4,000 over the 500.
9 900 already allotted for his new Third
: Church North.
r Thus, soon, in Newark, will be es.
1 tablished on the colonizing plan g
? collegiate church which will n Is So 2,