Evening journal., 1919-10-25
SCHOOL FOUNDED
FOURSCORE YEARS
Brandywine Pupils to Cele-
brate; Bishop Mcdowell =
Morning Preacher
EVENING SERMON BY
BISHOP HENDERSON

BISHOP HENDERSON
Brandywlne NJ. Z. Church. the Rev
w. Ernest Greenfield, minister. Twen-
ty-second and Market streets. will OBJ
serve the eighllcth anniversary OF the
Sunday school tomorrow with exercises
appropriate TO the occasion. Glass
meeting at $50 O'Clock will begin the
day. AZ 1880 o'clock. Or. Robert Watt
Avill be I'm charge, sermon by Bishop
William T. Mcdowell D. D.. Ii. D., OF
Washington. d. C., anthem by the choir,
Something for Jesus" Hall; solo, Mrs.
Paul Orlh, open the Gates Of the Tenn
pie" Knapp.
The anniversary and reunion ser
vice viii be held a, o'clock. An in
teresting program has been arranged in
which former members OF the school
will participate. Epworth League will
meet at 6.i5 o'clock, leader Esau
LOOMS; a fine musical program will
be given by the newly-organized choir
AZ 7.30 O'Clock, the program Will in
rlude a sermon by Bishop Theodore S.
Henderson. d. D.. OF Detroit, Mich; an
them by the choir. 20 Be Joyful in the
Lord" Lacy: quartet. The Evening
Shadows Fall" d. d. Wood.
on Monday evening the members and
friends OF Brandywine Church will in
Bugurate an eight-mOntls' campaign
Cor raising funds 10 make the needed
alterations to the parsonage. This VIII
he the FIRST Return and MAKEUP
Night" Dr. John @. Wilson, district
superintendent OF the Philadelphia Con-
ference, will be the speaker OF the
evening and Mrs. Wilson will sing.
There will be no collection or begging.
At the close OF the exercises the flnan-
cial committee will receive reports and
acknowledge favors.
BrandyNvine Sunday school has an in I
teresting history. In the year 1892 |
Sarah lIaislett and Sarah Morrow, both !
of Asbury NJ. L. Church, went into /
Brandywine village and gathered q |
unmber OF children into a Sunday /
school class. which held its meetings |
i'm the old Academy. This building is
still standing on Vandever avenue near
Market street At the present time it !
is occupied by the BrandyNvine Branch
of the Public Library OF this city. AL
That time the villege was not a part Of
The city proper and had less than 400
inhabitants in it. About 1853 the work
OF the school passed into the hands OF
from Union NJ. Z. Church. who /,
CARED for IL until 1851, when Asbury
Church again took hold. William Cal
vert and Elizabeth Stevenson were the
superintendents at that time. They Ii
were assisted by the Rev. Samuel w
Thomas, the Rev. JOsejh Smith. Isaac ]
Preston, Jacob NJ. Garreton, Dennis Orp- !
wood and Miss Stevenson, sister OF the ;
female superintendent. The superin- I
endents after that were elected as fol- I
0ws: William Pierce, Robert W. Holt. I
Edward Morrow, Joseph Pyle, Mr.. Hy-
sore. Harry Husbands, John Bratten. .
cli Mendenhall, w. r. Hail, Moses b.
3uli0ck, a. NJ. Pierce and George B. \
3ayls who is the superintendent at the
present time.
The first organ was put IN the school !
Turing Mr.. Pyle's superintendency and !
donated by him. There was some OBJ |
ecliOn 20 an organ in the church. The
,rgan was placed In the classroom so
hat no one could see Il as they went I
nto the church. The superintendent
pened the school by reading the iJOth !
'salm. and ht the conclusion Of the y
eadlng the psalm four youg men, who =
we're in readiness, brought the organ
n and placed IL behind the chancel.
r. Pyle's daughter played the open
lg hymn, after which all seemed sat d
sled. :,
In 1889 it was found necessary TO y
uild n chapel in the rear OF the =
hurch. The Sunday school purchased n
he lot on which the chapel stands. The :
ecords do not show when the infant o.
apartment was Organlzed. But I'm 1862 q
lrs. Rebecca l.. Morrow was elected O.
superintendent. There, apparently the r,
istOry Of this department begins. In al
$50. a morning Sunday school was or "
anZed with Thomas McCrea as super "
itendent. This school continued for a iC
umber OF years. Early in 1856, prayer
leetings were held in the old Academy
y the Rev. Isaac Stratten which re-
llted in a great revival. Among those y
no worked and worshiped in that y
lace, may be found the names of men ~
no have graced the pulpits OF the ~
Episcopal Church, as the "a
evs. Joseph Smith. Samuel w. Thom- y,
8. Mr.. Kellem. Matthias Barnhlll. John 80
rance, the last three having been g
nong the boys gathered into the NJ
'hOol. The Rev. Mr.. France served Ol
Church as its pastor twice, IN
$500 and is6j-6s In the fall OF 1856 =
10 Brandywlne Methodist Episcopal III
lurch was organized with the Rev. W. a
Kennedy as pastor. On November 10. be
81, the society met in the place Of Sc
Orshiped and elected the following Go
ustees: the Rev. Charles W. Moore. at
Gorge w. Sparks, George Tally, VIII *
nm Todd, Garrett Morgan, John T. go
iuse, John 5. Kennard, and John Ch
'ossley. Meanwhile active prepara- Cr
ms for building a church were made. Ad
lot was secured at TNventy-second MI