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HoLLOND Memorial Churci

A HISTORY

OF THE

HARRIET HOLLOND

MEMORIAL

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

OF

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

BY

Harry Pringle Ford

PHZLADELPHIA

CASTLE «fe HEILjVIAIS"

Printers

27 IVOKTH Secoxd St.

1899

PO BOK 2270 j^j., ,270
Fort Wayne. IN 46801 ^^'«

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all

SPIRITUAL blessings.

— Ephesians 1 : 3.

TO THE

CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN

WHOSE FAITHFULNESS IN THE PAST

HAS MADE OUR BELOVED CHURCH

WHAT IT NOW IS;

TO

THOSE WHO IN THE PRESENT

ARE STRIVING WITH UNWAVERING DEVOTION

TO INCREASE ITS USEFULNESS ;

AND TO

ALL WHO IN THE FUTURE

SHALL AID IN ITS DIVINE MISSION

OF SAVING SOULS,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

The Golden Age lies onward, not behind.

The pathway through the Past has led ns np.

The pathway through the Future will lead on

And higher. * * *

If we but fight the wrong, and keep the faith,

And battle for the Future, all mankind

Will bless us in the days that are to come.

—James A. Edgerton.

CONTE J^rTS

The Moyamensirg Mission, 1

A Personal Eeminiscence, 10

The Moyamensing Church 13

A Critical Period, 23

The New Life 27

Inspiration, 32

The Hollond Chapel, 34

Faith Mission 53

A Pastor's Recollections, 59

Hollond Chnrch Organized 67

The Building Fund 80

The New Building, 88

Development 118

Old Leaders and New, 125

The Sunday-School, 144

Church Organizations, 158

Biographical Sketches 188

Charter, 255

The Old Tenth Church, 266

The Present Tenth Church, 275

isroTE

The story of the inception and development of the
Hollond Memorial Chnrcb is here told for the simple
pnrpose of perpetuating the record of a noble work for
the Master. The hope is expressed that it -will incite
to higher spiritual usefulness all who read its pages.

A great field is about us: a groat duty calls us. Let us

go onwai d !

H. P. F.

Philadelphia, Pa.,

December 1899.

THE MOYAMENSING MISSION

The Moyamensing Mission School, of which
the Hollond Memorial Church is the outgrowth,
was organized by members of the old Tenth
Presbyterian Church, and first met in a small
hall on Christian street, near Tenth. The
Rev. A. P. Happer, D. D., who was afterwards
known throughout the entire Presbyterian
Church by his nearly fifty years of missionary
service in China and who died in Wooster, Ohio,
October 27, 1894, at the age of 76, was one
of the first superintendents. In a letter dated
October 17, 1893, Dr. Happer wrote: "In
November, 1842, at the request of the
teachers, I commenced the duties of superin-
tendent. The hall in which we met was used
on week-days for all kinds of secular purposes,
often till late on Saturday nights. Some of
the teachers had to go on Sunday before school-
time to clean it up, and get it ready for the
scholars ; and then had to go through the
streets to gather in the children."

Dr. Happer mentioned William H. Mitchell
John McArthur and family, Daniel Mallery,

2 THE MOYAMENSING MISSION

"the indefatigable visitor and worker," and
Thomas Jones, as being his early associates in
the work. John Culbert was one of the first
and most active workers, and his daughter
Elizabeth, now Mrs. "Williams, attended the
first session as a scholar. Paul T. Jones was
also an able helper.

The school continued to meet in the hall,
which was at that time on the southern out-
skirts of the city, for about three years, and
then was removed to a public room opposite.
Shortly after, it was again removed to the sec-
ond floor of a fire hose-house, occupied by the
Native American Hose Company, on the south
side of Carpenter street, below Tenth. The
neighborhood was a most unpleasant one, as
men and boys frequently congregated on the
open lots and fought along the streets.

In 1847, Mr. Maurice A. Wurts was elected
to the superintendency, several persons having
filled that position subsequent to the resigna-
tion of Dr. Happer. Mr. Wurts conducted
the school with signal ability for eleven years,
and was quite as strong a factor in its success
as Mr. Morris and Mr. Ogden afterwards be-
came. It numbered less than sixty scholars
when he became the leader, and the room in
which it met was not only cheerless, but almost
destitute of furniture — unless plain board
benches could be so called. He succeeded,

THE MOYAMENSING MISSION 3

however, iu securing a large and efficient force
of teachers, and soon after a building costing
$[,8oo was erected on Carpenter street, adjpin-
ing the hose-house. It was dedicated in June,
1848. A parish school, numbering at times as
many as one hundred scholars, was formed
and maintained for several years. Miss Mar-
garet Thompson, (now Mrs. Mason), was the
first principal. In 1849, Miss Elizabeth N.
Brown became interested in the work and
taught a girls' Bible class for some three years.
She was then appointed assistant superintend-
ent, and held that position until 1865. By
her untiring efforts in visiting the scholars
in their homes and the interest she took in
the families connected with the school, she
did much to promote its general prosperity.
Two rooms were added to the rear of the main
building in 1854, at a cost of $r,ioo. At
that time the names of 232 scholars were on
the roll. The largest attendance during the
year was 226, and the average attendance 166.
The collections amounted to $8051. The
library numbered 700 volumes.

In May, 1854, Mr. Wurts thus writes: "The
school will compare favorably with other
Sabbath- schools in regard to punctuality, order
and progress. The scholars come not by com-
pulsion, but from love of the school. We
have ascertained in several instances in visiting

4 THE MOYAMENSIXG MISSION

that the greatest punishment their parents can
impose, is to refuse them permission to attend.
Our semi-monthly examinations show com-
mendable progress in the study of the Cate-
chism.

" Only a few years ago, many who now
compose our number, were to be found in the
street on the Sabbath, ignorant, ill-clad, and
ill-behaved; they are now respectful and obe-
dient, well-clothed and cleanly, and in their
appearance and deportment will compare most
favorably with those ordinarily seen in a regu-
lar church Sunday-school Above all, they
have received, and are receiving, much in-
struction, and we trust it will yet be seen that
the efforts put forth have been the means, un-
der God, of bringing many from nature's
darkness to the marvelous light of the Gospel.
In a word, we think a great work has been al-
ready accomplished, and that much is still
being done for the spiritual and temporal good
of this entire neighborhood through the instru-
mentality of the enterprise which the liberality
and countenance of the Tenth Church have
so long sustained."

At that time the officers of the school were :
Maurice A. Wurts, superintendent ; William
ly. Mactier, vice-superintendent ; William Ma-
son and James McAllister, librarians ; Charles
W. Leavitt, secretary. The teachers were

THE MOYAMENSING MISSION 5

Messrs. H. M. Olmstead, John Mason, Ed-
ward Orne, William L. Hildeburn, William L,.
Mactier, Jared Craig, Robert Nichol, John A.
McAllister, John W. Reed, Wilson Dunton,
John H. Brown, John Wescott, Mrs. Ellen
Reynolds, and Misses Margaret Thompson, El-
len Thompson, Elizabeth N. Brown, Harriette
Wurts, Elizabeth Grier, C. D. McLaughlin,
Sarah Taylor, E. h. Dickinson, Mary Young,
Lydia S. Penrose, Mary Brown, Mary Briscoe,
Mary Linnard, Emily Leavitt, Agnes M.
Goertner (lost at sea on a French steamer),
and Miss McFetrick. Mr. Samuel H. Fulton
succeeded Mr. Wurts as superintendent.

From 1855 to 1862, the school attained its
greatest early prosperity, numbering at one
time nearly six hundred scholars. A spirit of
generosity was inculcated and the children
were encouraged to aid in the furtherance of
outside benevolences. For many years a por-
tion of the collections was devoted to the support
of a boy in China, Ah Chung, who received
the name of Mitchell Wurts (after two of our
superintendents). He was adopted by Dr.
Happer, and afterwards became an assistant iu
the medical work. A case of surgical instru-
ments was presented to him by our school.
Dr, Happer's letters relative to him were al-
ways listened to with intense interest by the
scholars. He was baptized and married in the

6 THE MOYAMENSING MISSION

same year, 1854. His was the first Christian
marriage in Canton. He became the father of
several children, one of whom was educated in
America by the Chinese government.

On the 27th of October, 1856, Dr. Board-
man, pastor of the Tenth Church, wrote the
following letter to the Rev. Willard M. Rice,
D. D., who had been for sixteen years propri-
etor and principal of a classical school at the
south-east corner of Ninth and Arch streets,
and who had also been actively engaged in
church and Sunday-school work:
" My Dear Sir:

"The teachers of our mission school on Car-
penter street, below loth, wish to .^ecure the
services of a minister or licentiate to preach
there and do the work of an evangelist. I do
not know whether it would suit you to labor
there, or whether your gifts and style of
preaching would suit the place. But with an
excellent building erected for the purpose (the
property of my church), a very flourishing
school, with an efficient corps of teachers, and
a prosperous neighborhood, the field is really
one of much promise.

"It has occurred tome that it might be agree-
able to you to preach there on some SablDath
evening; and, if so, 1 beg to ask whether you
could go on next Sabbath week, the 9th
proximo? As they have no preaching there
ordinarily, the arrangement should be made
the Sabbath before."

Dr. Rice visited the school on November 2d,

Rev. Willard M. Rice, D. D.

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and, after an interview with the officers and
teachers, accepted the invitation to hold serv-
ice on the 9th. He took for his text John
6: 37. " Him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out." Many of the teachers, schol-
ars and parents were present, making in all a
congregation of one hundred and seventy-five.
On the 17th of November Dr. Boardman
thus wrote to Dr. Rice:

"It has given me much pleasure to learn how
acceptable your ministrations have been to the
people at our Moyamensing mission."

Dr. Rice engaged to labor as an evangelist
in the neighborhood, especially among the
families connected with the Sabbath-school.
Services were held every Sabbath evening,
and four afternoons each week were spent in
visiting the families whose children were con-
nected with the school. Maurice A. Wurts,
the superintendent, was a very earnest, devo-
ted Christian. He was greatly beloved by the
teachers and scholars of the mission. He af-
terwards became an elder in the Woodland
Church, and was for many years missionary
secretary of the American Sunday-school
Union. Miss Brown, who is still living, was
also devotedly attached to the work. In
1865 she went to Bethany school where she
has since labored with great fidelity and
success. A more faithful company of Sab-

8 THE MOYAMENSING MISSION

bath-school teachers could not be found.
Messrs. Wurts, Fulton, Hoyt, McMillan,
Mason, Craig, Leavitt, Balbirnie, and the
Misses Penrose, Grier, Mary and Fanny
Brown, Mc Arthur, Hazzard, and Mrs. Fulton,
assisted in carrying on the work of visitation.
The enthusiastic interest of Mr. Charles Bal-
birnie was specially helpful at this time.

During Dr. Rice's seven years' connection
with the work a large Bible class was taught
at different times by Mr. McMillan, Peter
Walker, Dr. J. G. Kerr, now, and for more
than forty years, a medical missionary in China,
and Mr. F. A. Packard, the corresponding
secretary of the American Sunday-school
Union. Every Saturday afternoon during the
winter season a sewing school was conducted
by the lady teachers, and much help was thus
rendered in supplying clothes to the needy.
The spirit of Christ was in all the work.

During the winter of 1856-7, there were
much suffering and want among the poor fami-
lies connected with the mission, which the
teachers did much to relieve. Dr. Rice at-
tended every session of the school — often
teaching when teachers were absent. The
teachers, however, were remarkably regular
and prompt in their attendance. Nearly all of
them were members of the Tenth Church and
lived at a considerable distance from the

THE MOYAMENSING MISSION 9

school. Some, however, were members of
other churches, among them being Miss Agnes
Ashman, (who died Feb. 12th, 1897). She
was a sister of Judge Ashman, and a member
of a Baptist church. She gave devoted serv-
ice to the school in the Infant Department.

The pastor and session of the Tenth Church
were uniformly friendly, and were deeply in-
terested in the welfare of the mission. Every
year a Christmas festival was held, which was
attended in crowds by the children and by the
friends and supporters of the school in the
Tenth Church. It was a red-letter day with
all; as were also the anniversary days, which
were celebrated every spring in the Tenth
Church.

Very frequently during the first two winters
the water in the gas-meter would be found
frozen when the room was to be lighted.
Very often Dr. Rice would have to borrow a
kettle of hot water from a neighboring house
to thaw the ice. He was then living some
three miles from the field. One snowy winter
night he and his son (who afterwards became
a surgeon in the U. S. Navy, and died at sea
on the man-of-war " Ossipee," July 13th,
1868), walked (there being no cars) down to
the mission, thawed out the meter, and held
service. The thermometer was down almost
to zero. Only five other persons were present.

A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE

W. D. Hoyt, M. D., of Rome, Ga , cue of the first
elders of the old Moyamensing Church and a teacher
in the school, in a letter written in January, 1S99, thus
describes this period:

"I do not remember in what year I first
became connected with Moyamensing Sunday-
school. It was during Mr. Wurts' superin-
tendency, and in response to an appeal made
by Dr. Boardman for teachers, that I offered
myself and was accepted. The school seemed
to be in a flourishing condition, the attend-
ance being quite large. It was then occupy-
ing the building on Carpenter street. I was
given a class of eight or ten boys — pretty
rough little fellows, full of fun and mischief.
There were considerable poverty and want in
the neighborhood, and there were many bar-
rooms. The people generally belonged to the
laboring classes, and were in need of the up-
lifting power of applied Christianity.

" I have a distinct recollection of the violent
abuse I received from the infidel father of one
of my boys. The boy had been absent from
Sunday-school, and I had called on him in

W. D. HOYT, M. D.

A PERSONAIv REMINISCENCE ii

consequence. The father came in whilst I
was there, and proceeded to open the vials of
his abuse upon me. His wife was much afraid
that he would strike me as he threatened to do.
I thought it was my duty to take the abuse,
but had mentally drawn the line at a blow —
and I was pretty well up in boxing. How-
ever, he did not strike me.

"I recollect the earnest discussion we had
when it was proposed to organize a church.
I was solicited to become an elder, I was
quite young and hesitated on that account;
but it was presented to me so strongly as a
matter of duty that I had to consent. The
church was accordingly organized in 1858,
Dr. W. M. Rice being the pastor and Mr.
Samuel H. Fulton and I the two elders. At
the time it was proposed to organize a church
the neighborhood was thoroughly canvassed,
but there was found to be only a very small
sprinkling of Protestants. Whether it was
from an anti-Protestant feeling or the natural
perversity of boys, I know not, but it was not
at all unusual to have our evening services dis-
turbed by the throwing of stones at the build-
ing. I recollect on one occasion, when the
stone-throwing was particularly violent, my
making a sally and chasing the fleeing boys
across some vacant lots; my capturing a little
fellow and threatening to take him into the

12 A PERSONAL REMINISCENCE

church, and finally releasing him at his
frightened pleadings. I think this episode
had a good effect in stopping the stone- throw-
ing. Dr. Rice did not seem much disturbed
by such occurrences, but continued his sermons
uninterruptedly.

"We had preaching morning and evening on
Sunday, Sunday-school in the afternoon, and
prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. There
was a gradual growth and development in the
church. I remained with it until 1861, when
anticipations of the war led me to arrange to
come South to my own people. I have been
in Philadelphia only once since, and regret
very much that I did not re- visit the church on
that occasion. Should I chance to visit it
again, I shall certainly go to the Hollond Me-
morial Church, and endeavor to absorb some of
the enthusiasm and zeal with which it seems to
be so fully imbued. Let me extend to you my
hearty congratulations for the achievements of
the past, and my best wishes for your contin-
ued success in turning many souls to right-
eousness. May the labors of the pastors, su-
perintendents and teachers be crowned with
God's richest blessings! "

THE MOYAMENSING CHURCH

It had long been a cherished wish of the
teachers that the school should develop into a
church. Many of the pupils, and some of the
parents, had become hopeful Christians and
had united with various churches.

The attendance on the services during the
first winter of Dr. Rice's labors (1856), aver-
aged 125; it afterwards became much larger.
Morning services were not held until the spring
of 1858. The church was organized October
nth, 1858, with twenty-nine members. The
installation service of Dr. Rice as pastor was
held in the Tenth Church, October i8th, and
the sermon preached on that occasion by Dr.
W. P. Breed was afterwards published in tract
form by the Presbyterian Board of Publica-
tion. Dr. John McDowell delivered the charge
to the pastor and Dr. Henry A. Boardman the
charge to the people. Samuel H. Fulton and
William D. Hoyt, M. D., were the first elders.

The number at the organization was 29 ;
nine months later (June, 1859), the member-
ship had increased to 42, and consisted of the

14 THE MOYAMENSING CHURCH

following persons : Charles Balbirnie, Mrs.
Margaret Balbirnie, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Basse-
ter, Mrs. Charlotte Broomell, Miss Elizabeth
N. Brown, Thomas Bryan, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bryan, Jared Craig, Mrs. Ann Craig, Mrs.
Nancy Cunningham, Miss Ellen N. Dickinson,
Mrs. Catharine Duffy, Samuel H. Fulton,
Mrs. Margaret Fulton, Mrs. Jessie Goodsman,
Miss Mary J. Gowen, William D. Hoyt, Mrs.
Eliza Kerr, Mrs. Gracie Ke3'^ser, Charles W.
Leavitt, Mrs. Susannah C. Lewis, Miss Marga-
ret Mahood, John Mason, Mrs. Margaret R.
Mason, Mrs Elizabeth McCormick, Miss
Eliza McCormick, James McFarland, Mrs.
Sarah McFarland, Samuel McMullen, Miss
Sarah McMullen, Miss Margaret J. McMullin,
Miss Mary E. McMullin, Miss Mary McWil-
liam. Miss Catharine C. Mink, Mrs. Margaret
Preston, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Rice, John M.
Rice, Mrs. Margaret Rivell, Miss Elizabeth
Rivell, Miss Isabella Smith, Mrs. Margaret
Taylor, Mrs. Anna C. Thompson, Robert
Vincent.

There were i8o male scholars, 249 female
scholars, 14 male teachers and 16 female
teachers — making a total Sunday-school mem-
bership of 459.

The pastor held monthly afternoon meetings
for the training and instruction of those who
were considering the question of uniting with

THE MOYAMENSING CHURCH 15

the church. Much good resulted from this
loving and painstaking attention.

Dr. Rice continued in charge of the church
until October 15th, 1863. During his efficient
ministry the church at one time numbered 1 10
members. When he resigned, the congrega-
tion passed very complimentary resolutions
relative to his "untiring zeal and faithful
ministry; " and the session of the Tenth Church
put on record " their deep sense of the fidelity,
ability, and unsparing labor with which their
esteemed brother had discharged the duties of
his pastorate, and their gratitude to God for
the blessings which had attended his efforts."

After the departure of Dr. Rice, the school
rapidly decreased in membership. The ques-
tion of continuing the church was raised, and
a committee appointed by Presbytery to inves-
tigate the matter made the following report :

" It is not believed by your committee that
it would be either right or expedient for Pres-
bytery to permit this church to remain in its
present condition. It is without a pastor ; its
income is small; and those who have for years
been working for its increase and upbuilding
are becoming discouraged. If it remains in its
present unprogressive state it must necessarily
decline and speedily become extinct. In this
state of the case, but two methods, in the
judgment of your committee, remain open :

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" First. The church may be dissolved, and
its members distributed to adjacent churches.
There will then nothing remain but a mission
school of the Tenth Church, to be supported
and controlled by that church. The responsi-
bility of the Presbytery in the matter will have
wholly ceased.

" Second. The Presbytery may continue
the organization, and take measures to give
it increased efficiency, and augment its power
for doing good."

The report then gives in detail the difficul-
ties in the way of adopting the latter course:
the narrow street in which the church is situ-
ated ; the chances of little or no improvement
in the neighborhood ; the unsuitability of the
present building for church purposes, and the
location of an attractive Presbyterian church
of the New School Branch within three squares
(Ninth and Wharton streets), with a flourish-
ing school, against which it would seem almost
hopeless to compete. To escape these disad-
vantages, the committee suggests that the
church be removed to another neighborhood
and assisted in the erection of a suitable build-
ing; and, further, that the location selected be
to the south and east of Broad street and
Washington avenue. The report thus con-
tinues :

"The question which is thus raised might

THE MOYAMENSING CHURCH 17

be easily settled if the Moyamensing Church
and its property were wholly under the control
of the Presbytery, but this is not the case.
The Tenth Presbyterian Church originated
the Moyamensing Church by establishing
there a mission Sabbath- school, and by nobly
and generously supporting the church after its
organization. Some of the members of that
church are trustees of the Moyamensing
Church, and hold the titles of that property
in their names. The Presbytery, therefore,
can do nothing without a full and fraternal
consultation with the pastor and session of the
Tenth Church, and with those gentlemen of
that church who hold the legal title to the
church building of the Moyamensing Church.
In order that this may be accomplished, your
committee would respectfully suggest the pas-
sage of the following resolution :

^^ Resolved : That a copy of this report be
transmitted to the session of the Tenth Church
and that the session be requested to furnish
Presbytery at an early date with a statement
of their views and wishes in regard to the mat-
ter submitted in this report."

In a paper dated October i, 1864, written
by Dr. Boardman, the session of the Tenth
Church thus makes answer :

" The session of the Tenth Church, having
duly considered the paper referred to them

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by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, respectfully
submits the following reply :

"It is now twenty-two years since the
Tenth Church established a mission school in
Moyamensing ; and six years since a church
was organized there. In both its forms, as a
school and as a church, the enterprise was
blessed of God. We believe it will be be said
of many ransomed sinners at the last day,
' This and that man was born there.'

" Under the ministry of a faithful and labo-
rious pastor, aided by a most efficient corps of
teachers, an interesting church was collected,
comprising a very goodly number of active,
working Christians. It became apparent, how-
ever, to all concerned, that the neighborhood
was one in which no self-supporting church
could be built up, and that the utmost ex-
ertions of all engaged in the effort would be
requisite to maintain the status of the congre-
gation already secured. By the course of
events, several of the most zealous and in-
fluential of the Christian men, who, without
(in some cases), becoming communicants
there, had given their time and labors to the
enterprise, were obliged to remove to other
and distant churches. After this, the school
sustained a serious loss in the withdrawal of
several of the stated teachers ; and finally,
their excellent pastor felt it to be his duty to

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resign his charge and seek another field of
labor.

' ' These events could not fail to operate dis-
astrously upon a church situated like this one,
the more so as circumstances occurred which
augmented their untoward influence. These
circumstances, it could do no good to relate.
Enough that the misfortunes that have over-
taken that promising mission, are attributable
in no form or degree to us as a session, or to
the church we represent, for even the falling
off in the annual subscriptions of our congre-
gation to this mission was only an effect result-
ing from causes beyond their control.

" We are aware that harsh judgments have
been pronounced upon the session of the Tenth
Church for their supposed delinquencies in this
matter. We are not careful to repel these
censures ; they spring more from ignorance
than malice. They will find slight countenance
among the excellent people of the Moyamen-
sing Church. They know that the Tenth
Church has testified its concern for their wel-
fare by tokens of regard not to be mistaken.
They must be assured that they have our
hearty sympathy in their present trials, and
that we would do anything in our power which
a wise and prudent policy would dictate, to
succor them.

" To build them a new church edifice is not.

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and never has been, in our power. We have
always hoped that they might grow into a self-
sustaining church, and that through a general
effort on the part of the churches of our Pres-
bytery, they might one day be put in posses-
sion of a suitable house of worship. It would
appear from the report referred to us, that the
Presbytery regard this time as having come,
and that all that is necessary to accomplish the
object is a transfer to the Moyamensing Church
of the lot and building they now occupy (free
of rent), and the title to which is in the Board
of Trustees of the Tenth Church.

" Assuredly our church is the last one in the
Presbytery which would in any way hinder
the attainment of so desirable an end — it is
what we have been longing for these twenty-
two years. During this entire period, the en-
terprise, first as a Sunday-school, then as a
church, has derived its chief pecuniary sup-
port from our congregation. We claim no
merit for what we have done. It was not less
our pleasure than our duty. Nor do we speak
of it in this place willingly, but the occasion
seems to require of us the simple statement
that eighteen or twenty thousand dollars
would, in our judgment, be a fair estimate of
the amount contributed by the Tenth Church
for the culture of this mission- field. We wish
the sum had been still larger. We are con-

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vinced that the seed thus sown has, by God's
blessing, 3delded a harvest which is above all
price, and we think the fact ought to satisfy-
all parties, that we cannot be indifferent to the
future fortunes of this mission.

" The Presbytery, of course, would not wish
us to imperil the Moyamensing property. Its
financial value is not great, for it is incum-
bered with a mortgage of $i,coo. But such
as it is, we have no moral right to expose it
to those hazards which have proven fatal to
the property of so many of our feeble churches.
Should the building cease to be required for
worship by the Moyamensing Church, that is,
should this church be forced by uncontrollable
circumstances to relinquish its organization,
the Tenth Church would still be bound to use
the property, or its avails, for the objects con-
templated in the original subscription. But
if the Moyamensing Church shall, within
two years from this time, secure funds suffi-
cient to pay for a lot, and erect, free of debt, a
suitable church edifice — sufficient, i. e., when
supplemented by the avails of the property
they now occupy — we agree on behalf of the
trustees and session of the Tenth Church, that
the property in question, or the proceeds
thereof, shall be made over to them.

"We suppose that this offer covers the
ground contemplated in the report referred to

22 THE MOYAMENSING CHURCH

US. We think it is every thing which the
struggling Moyamensing Church or the Pres-
bytery could ask of us. And we trust that
both the church and the Presbytery will see
in it another evidence of our deep and abiding
interest in the well-being of that congregation
and the prosperity of our cause in the southern
part of the city."

The Presbytery on October 3d, 1864, took
the following action :

''Resolved, That the report submitted by
the session of the Tenth Church in the matter
of the Moyamensing Church, is highly satis-
factory to this Presbytery and the proposition
contained in the report is one honorable to that
church, and entirely acceptable to this body."

The plan to continue the church was found
impracticable, however, and on October 13th,
Presbytery took the following action :

' 'Resolved, That the Moyamensing Church
be, and it is hereby dissolved, and the members
thereof be recommended to connect themselves
with neighboring churches."

The Rev. Dr. Matthew B. Grier was ap-
pointed to announce this action to the members
of the Moyamensing Church ; he was also
appointed by Presbytery to give, in conjunction
with the sessi m of the church, certificates of
dismission to the members. The school, how-
ever, was continued.

A CRITICAL PERIOD

The following paper, written in January, 1 899, by
Dr. S. T. Ivowrie, gives an interesting glimpse of the
field in 1864-5:

" I visited Philadelphia in August, 1864, to
learn whether I could be employed here in
some work of church extension. The Presby-
tery of Philadelphia had a committee to look
after such enterprises. It consisted of the Rev.
Dr. M. B. Grier, (who died Jan. 23d, 1899),
the Rev. F. Reck Harbaugh and Mr. John
Harper, and my inquiries brought me into
communication with them. This, be it re-
membered, was before the Reunion. It was
not plain to the committee that Presbytery
could accept my offer of service, but they
thought my services would be acceptable in
the Carpenter Street Mission of the Tenth
Church — also called the Moyamensing Mission
— and undertook to arrange that. As the
Presbytery would not meet before October, the
committee could not earlier present this matter
for its action.

"Thus it came to pass that in October, 1864,.

24 A CRITICAL PERIOD

I returned to Philadelphia and began work in
the Moyamensing quarter as a missionary of
the Presbytery, with the Moyamensing Sab-
bath-school of the Tenth Church as the basis
of operation. After a little acquaintance with
the region, I found a lodging on Ninth street,
not far from the school, and lived in the field
I was to cultivate.

" The church that had existed under Dr. W,
M. Rice, having been dissolved, and the greater
part of the members having been enrolled in
the Tenth Church that fostered the mission
Sabbath-school, there could be no meetings
there on Sunday mornings, for the people
who could make a congregation owed attend-
ance at the Tenth Church. But there was the
Sabbath-school in the afternoon; and Sunday
evening and Wednesday evening services were
instituted there, and other house meetings
held during the week. It was a hearty and
happy work for all who were actually engaged
in it. But the meetings continued small, and
under any adversity were likely to fail alto-
gether. One of the few notes I still have of
that period records that I preached on Feb. 12,
1865, Sunday evening, to six adults and three
children. The text was: Zech. 3: 2, ' Is not
this a brand plucked out of the fire ? '

"The chief interest was in the Sabbath-
school. Mr. H. W. Pitkin was superintendent

A CRITICAL PERIOD 25

and conducted the school, and Miss E. N.
Brown was assistant superintendent. But after
a few months Mr. Pitkin was able to be there
only occasionally, so that I had often to con-
duct the school; and I was always teaching
classes for which no regular teachers could be
found. The teachers who were regular and
reliable were few; but they were very admir-
able for ability and devotion to their work, and
taught large classes. With such good work-
ers and faithful work, it seemed that, sooner
or later, there must come enlargement in every
respect, and with it the revival of a church.

' ' It was not the discouragements of the field
that led to my removal from it, but the very
hopeful character of another field. In the
spring of the year 1865 the Bethany Mission
applied to Presbytery to be taken under its
care, with the request that I should be trans-
ferred to that field. The circumstances of the
two fields led Presbytery to make the change,
in which I very heartily acquiesced. It was
not to take effect until I had fulfilled the year
for which, as it was understood, I had been
appointed to labor in Moyamensing. The
year practically ended when the Carpenter
Street Sabbath- school reduced work for the
summer, as was necessitated by reason of the
teachers there being, nearly all of them, per-
sons who lived out of the city in summer.

,26 A CRITICAL PERIOD

' ' But more than reduction of the school took
place; for, in view of the discouragements
attending the work, the session of the Tenth
Church judged it expedient to discontinue the
mission Sabl)ath-school. I was invited by Dr.
H. A. Boardman, the pastor, to participate in
the mournful transaction that was intended
to conclude the efforts to plant a church by
that mission. It took place, I think, in the
afternoon of the last Sunday of June, (25th)
1865, with appropriate worship of God, re-
counting the blessings of the past and acqui-
escing in what seemed to be His present will.

' ' It was, however, not so to be. There were
murmurs against the action of the session.
Before the summer dispersion of the teachers
of the school took place, consent was got by
some of them to make a further trial. The
prime movers in this were Miss Estabrook and
Miss Penrose, and word was spread among the
Sabbath-school scholars that the school would
be opened again in October. What happened
then and thereafter belongs to the first chapter
of the inspiring story of the rise and progress
of the Hollond Memorial Church."

Miss Ellen a. Estabrook

THE NEW LIFE

The Rev. Heber H. Beadle, now, and for the past
thirty-three years, pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church, Bridgeton, N. J., has prepared the following
paper on a very interesting and important period In
the history of the school — the period immediately
following that described by Dr. L,owrie in the preced-
ing chapter:

"It was my good fortune to be connected
with the Hollond Memorial field in days long
past; it was my misfortune that it was only
for a very short service. After a lapse of more
than thirty years my recollections of it are
somewhat indefinite and unsatisfactory.

" In the fall of 1865, after the church had
been for some time disbanded and the school
had been abandoned, when the work in that
field seemed almost hopeless to all except a
faithful few — like Miss Estabrook and Miss
lyydia S. Penrose — I was asked by them to look
over the field and see whether, in my opinion,
something could not yet be done to restore life
to what seemed to be most utterly dead.

" They talked the matter over with Mr. H.
W. Pitkin, the former superintendent, and my-

28 THE NEW LIFE

self, and with such persistence and enthusiasm
that we were made to believe that it was worth
while, at least, to try to see what could be
done — there might be a spark of life some-
where, which, by judicious nursing, would
come to something.

' ' Being for the moment an idler in the market
place, I was glad of an opportunity to work
for Christ, even in so unpromising a field.

' ' One Sabbath in October we met in the
school room with a few of the teachers of the
old school and the matter was again talked
over most earnestly and most prayerfully. It
was finally determined that, if we could gain
permission from the proper authorities in the
mother church, we would re-open the school
and see if a determined purpose, along with
the help of God, would not bring the success
which we coveted; and that the dead should
be made to rise and walk.

" We did not wish to make an experiment —
that had been done already — we wanted to do
the thing. Notice was given at once, through
the teachers and a few scholars who had come
in to see what was to be done, that there
would be school in that place the next Sunday
and every Sunday thereafter; and that every-
body was invited to come, and to bring others
with them. In the meanwhile. Miss Estabrook,
Miss Penrose and myself were to see the au-

iss Lyoia S. Penrose

THE NEW LIFE 29

thorities and win them over to let us have the
building. Knowing well the good men who
had the matter in charge, we did not antici-
pate any real difficulty.

' ' With two such brave, faithful, self- forget-
ting souls as these back of the enterprise, to
suggest, to insist, to have heart and courage
enough for all that had little or none, diffi-
culties vanished and hope was born where
there had been only despair before.

" We were allowed to try the ' experiment,'
as it was called, but those who gave the per-
mission gave it without the least faith in the
world that any more would come of it than
had already come — that is, absolute and piti-
able failure. But we had other ideas, and were
the more determined to make not failure but
success of the trial, if God would help, and of
that we had not the least doubt.

' ' The place was not a pleasant and cheerful
one to which to invite children. An abandoned
room is rarely a bright one. The benches were
old, cut, and carved, broken and repaired by
home talent; the walls were not very clean;
the windows were almost as useful for ventila-
tion as for light, and for the first we had no
need whatever — the cracked and shrunken
doors gave enough of that. During the week
we went to a tailor's and bought a basket of
list, and a large and heavy basket it was to

30 THE NEW LIFE

carry, I remember. Borrowing a hammer and
buying tacks, we went out to the school and
spent the day in caulking up the rents and
holes that let in too much of the winter air;
and doing this and many other like things
that much needed to be done, we succeeded in
making the place warmer and more present-
able for the children.

' ' Some of the teachers who had been faithful
in the old school in spite of many discourage-
ments, who stood ready again for still harder
work, and who lived near by, agreed to have
the room washed and cleaned for the next
Sabbath. So much was done to the building.

" The neighborhood was visited, every child
seen upon the street was smiled upon and
asked to come to the school, and from the out-
set it was work, work, work, and pray, pray,
pray, until to the amazement of all — save those
whose hearts had been in the service — the
school was set upon its feet, and began to
grow strong in a way to delight those of us
who had undertaken the work against the
judgment of many much wiser than ourselves,
and almost against our own most cherished
hopes at the beginning.

" In the spring of 1866 I was called to take
charge of the church where I am at present,
and very reluctantly was compelled to give up
the superintendency of the school that was

Rev Heber H. Beadle

THE NEW LIFE 31

now growing so prosperous, into better hands
to carry on to new successes.

"Miss Estabrook and Miss Penrose were still,
as at first, the moving spirits that, under God,
furthered the work to its wonderful ultimate
growth. In the present unbarring of the
doors of the past to let in light by which to
see the faces of those who toiled so patiently,
so faithfully, and did so much, when there was
no promise for reward save in the promises of
God, and it was hoping against hope to remain
in that field, the names of these two faith-
ful servants of God should not be overlooked;
for they were the very life of the effort.
Others took hold and toiled too, and with all
their hearts — most noble helpers they were,
and without them success would have been
impossible or much delayed — but about the
earnest, insistent, unwearying efforts of these
two did everything turn at the beginning, and
their names ought to be written upon a tablet
of bronze and set upon the walls of the church
— for without them it would not have been,
humanly speaking."

[Miss Estabrook is now (1899) living in
Barre, Mass. The devotion of Miss Penrose
to the work has continued through the years
and she is still one of the most valued teachers
of the school.]

INSPIRATION

" They helped every one his neighbor ; and every-
one said to his brother, Be of good courage." Isaiah
41 : 6.

The efforts of Mr. Beadle, Miss Penrose, Miss
Estabrook.and others were crowned with almost
unlooked-for blessings. Miss Harriet Hollond,
a prominent teacher in the Tenth Church,
expressed her great joy, and promised finan-
cial assistance. She had the walls whitewashed,
and the heater, which could only be relied on
to fill the room with smoke, put in good order.
Former teachers, catching the enthusiasm, re-
turned to the work, and gathered in their scat-
tered scholars. Hope was in every face, faith
and courage in every heart. There was a
swing and^^ about everything, and a mighty,
heaven-born impulse that was full of cheer and
inspiration for all. Three months later, Christ-
mas was joyfully celebrated with two hundred
scholars.

Mr. A. B. Shearer was made superintendent,
and he was succeeded by the Hon. J. K. Find-
lay. In the early part of 1870, Judge Findlay

INSPIRATION 33.

resigned, and the teachers unanimously elected
Mr, Charles K. Morris, a promising young
lawyer, and at that time a teacher in Bethany,
to fill the vacancy. He declined to accept, but
consented to become associate superintendent,
provided Mr. Julian Cary would act as su-
perintendent at the regular session of the
school on Sunday afternoons, thus allowing
Mr. Morris to meet his class in Bethany. This
arrangement continued until the spring of 1871 ,
when Mr. Cary removed to New York. Mr.
Morris was again elected superintendent, and,
to the great joy of the oflScers and teachers,
accepted.

He held the important position with marked
ability and success until his untimely death on
the loth of February, 1879. Under his mag-
netic leadership the school made great pro-
gress. The seats in the old Moyamensing
building were replaced by better ones; the
floor, which had given way during one of the
sessions, was relaid; the house was repainted;
the division wall between the main room and
the infant school was removed, and new life
and energy took the place of old and worn-out.
methods.

THE HOIvLOND CHAPEL

A few days before the death of Harriet Hol-
lond, which occurred on the 9th of August,
1870, she added a codicil to her will, in which
she bequeathed $io,oco to the Tenth Church,
provided it would undertake, within five years,
to place the Moyamensing school in a more
desirable neighborhood.

The Tenth Church accepted the terms of
Miss HoUond's legacy, and contributed an
equal amount. On the i6th of June, 1873, it
entered into a contract with Charles D. Supplee,
architect, to erect a handsome memorial chapel.

The site finally selected was at the southwest
corner of Federal and Clarion streets, the lot
originally chosen, at Twelfth and Wharton
streets, being relinquished.

Ground was broken June 17th, and the cor-
ner-stone laid July 31, 1873. The exercises
were participated in by the Rev. Willard M.
Rice, D. D. , of the Fourth Presbyterian Church;
the Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D., of the Bethany
Presbyterian Church ; and the Rev. J. Henry
Sharpe, D. D., of the Wharton Street Presby-

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 35

terian Church. Mr. Charles K. Morris, super-
intendent, also took part.

The dedicatory services commenced on Sun-
day morning, February 15, 1874, the day being
an unusually beautiful one. The Rev. Henry
A. Boardman, D. D., preached the opening ser-
mon from the texts "6> Lord our God, all this
store that we have prepared to build thee an house
for thine holy name cometh of thi?ie hand,
and is all thi^ie own.''^ i Chron. : 29-16.

' ' This also that she hath done, shall be spoken
of for a 7nemorial of her.'' Mark 14 : 9.

Among other things, he said :

' ' This commodious and beautiful structure,
whose walls to-day resound for the first time
with the praises of Almighty God, is not pri-
marily designed as a church, but as a Sunday-
school mission chapel. The predominant serv-
ice is to be the careful religious training of the
young ; to be blended, however, with the
preaching of the Gospel, and its kindred exer-
cises.

"You bring the Gospel to the very door of the
people. You bring it to them without money
and without price, under circumstances which
leave no possible room for them to distrust the
purity of your motives. You address your-
selves to the young who are accessible to
the approaches of kindness, and who are the
particular objects of the Divine regard. Your

36 THE HOIvLOND CHAPEL

whole aim concerning them is to rescue them
from evil courses, to throw around them the
only adequate safeguard against temptation,
to make them wiser and better and happier,
to fit them for the duties of this life, and the
enjoyments of the life to come. The whole-
some agency thus brought to bear upon the
young, they carry into their homes. Children
become missionaries to their parents ; all the
more efficient, because neither party recognizes
the relation, and the healthful influence distills
around silently like the dew. Intemperance,
profaneness, and crime, will be checked ; order,
industry, and frugality will prevail, and you
will have done more for the peace and thrift
of the neighborhood, than the police could
have accomplished in a score of years."

" But your aim is higher than personal ref-
ormation, or domestic comfort, or social order,
or all of these combined. You come hither as
to the lost, to make known to them a Saviour;
you come to snatch deathless souls from endless
ruin; you come to train perishing sinners for
Heaven."

Of Miss HoUond, he said, in part : " With
a humility never exceeded in any Christian ot
whom I have known or read, she shrank from
hearing her name used in connection with any
of her daily benefactions. Her ambition never
rose beyond the privilege of ministering to the

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 37

relief, temporal and spiritual, of God's suffer-
ing poor, and for these ever-repeated offices of
kindness she would not hear without protest a
word of commendation even from her dearest
friends. ' '

At 2 p. M., the Sunday-school assembled for
the last time in the old brick school-house on
Carpenter street. After a parting hymn and
prayer, they filed out by classes and marched
to the new chapel, singing " Our Sabbath
Home." The boys entered by the east door,
the girls by the west, and took their ap-
pointed class forms. ' ' The little people of the
Infant and Primary rooms came last, and
when all were in place, Mr. Morris tapped his
bell, the singing ceased, all were simultaneous-
ly seated, and the exercises of the school went
on just as in the old hall." Mr. W. L,. Cooke
made the opening prayer.

In the evening, the co-pastor of the Tenth
Church, the Rev. Louis R. Fox, preached.
The Rev. Willard M. Rice, D. D., also
spoke.

On Monday, the i6th, the Rev. Dr. S. T.
Lowrie, read the Scriptures and made the open-
ing prayer. Addresses to the children were
delivered by the Rev. James M. Crowell, D. D.,
and J. Bennet Tyler, Esq. The following
original dedication hymn was sung:

38 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

Father, enthroned above,
Hear us in gracious love ;

Accept our vows :
Holy and Sovereign L,ord,
Keep Thou the watch and ward,
Be the perpetual Guard

Of this Thy House.

Thou, the Anointed One,
God's own eternal Son,

Grant us Thine aid :
Here let Thy favor dwell,
Here may Thy praises swell ;
Saviour, Immanuel,

Be Thou our Head,

Oh, Holy Comforter,
Thy people, prone to err,

Thy help implore :
Presence Divine, unseen.
Breathe every heart within,
Cleanse from all taint of sin,

Forevermore.

Jehovah ! Lord and King,
Angels Thy glory sing

Through endless days :
World without end, to Thee,
To Thy great Majesty,
Father, Son, Spirit, be

Eternal praise !

A report was read by Mr. Charles E. Morris,
showing that there had been a total expendi-
ture of $30,000, all but $3,400 of which had
been paid. $20,000 of the amount had come
through the Tenth Church and Miss Hollond,

THE HOLLOND CHAPEIv 39

$4,000 from the sale of the old Carpenter street
building, and about $1,000 from the mite boxes
used by the children of the school. $70,00 of
this was raised by Miss Elizabeth Rivell's class.
In less than two weeks after the report was
made, the building, through the liberality of
two good friends of the school, was free from
debt.

On Tuesday, the 17th, the Rev. Henry C.
McCook, D. D., Hon. W. S. Peirce, Rev. E.
R. Beadle, D. D., of the Second Presbyterian
Church, and the Hon. John Wanamaker, took
part.

On Wednesday evening, the Rev. H. V, S.
Meyers, of New York, the Rev. W. W. Hallo-
way, of Jersey City, and the Rev. Wm. P.
Breed, D. D., of the West Spruce Street Pres-
byterian Church, were the speakers.

Thursday evening, the Rev. H. J. Van Dyke,
D. D., of Brooklyn, and the Rev. J. F. Dripps,
of Germantown, preached. On Friday even-
ing, the sermon was delivered by the Rev. W.
W. Ormiston, D. D., of New York city. Sat-
urday evening was observed as a praise and
thanksgiving service, in which the Rev. Dr.
Z. M. Humphrey, the Rev. Dr. J. R. Miller,
and Messrs. Maurice A. Wurts and James O.
McHenry participated.

At this time there were 36 officers and teach-
ers, 55 primary scholars, 210 infant scholars,

40 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

and 222 scholars in the main room —making
a total of 523. The officers were: Charles E.
Morris, superintendent; William L. Cooke, as-
sociate superintendent; William ly. Du Bois,
treasurer; Samuel R. Sharp, treasurer of me-
morial fund; Walter K. Maxwell and William
W. Porter, secretaries; Charles J. Cooke and
Robert Briggs, librarians.

At the dedication of the chapel the keys
were placed in the hands of Mr, James C.
Taylor, who was one of the early Moyamen-
sing scholars and whose active interest in the
work still continues. Perhaps no member of
our church has ever been at heart more truly
devoted to its service or more closely identified
with it. To many of us his name and Hollond
are almost synonymous terms. Beginning life
with but few advantages he deserves special
credit for having won his way to the front
ranks of our city's painters. As a practical
business man, his experience and advice have
been of great value to our board of trustees,
of which body he is a member. He was one
of the loyal men who went to the front at their
country's call during the war of the rebellion
and he is justly proud of his record as a sol-
dier.

The chapel is of Gothic architecture, and is
built of Trenton brown stone. It has a front-
age of sixty-two feet on Federal street and

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 41

ninety on Clarion, Two vestibules on Federal
street, ten feet square, give entrance to the
main room and to the galleries. The north
gallery was erected with the chapel; the two
side galleries were added in 1882. The library,
superintendents' room, secretaries' room, and
wash room, are at the north end of the build-
ing; four Bible class rooms are on the west
side and two on the east side, and the Primary
and Junior rooms are at the south end, back
of the pulpit platform. By means of slid-
ing glass partitions, all of these class rooms
can be at will opened on or separated from the
main audience room. The building is seated
with chairs, which can be arranged into class-
forms for Sunday-school purposes or placed in
rows for other services. The pulpit was the
gift of a Sunday-school class in Bethany, and
the organ, made and bought in Paris, was pre-
sented by a member of the Tenth Church.
The building has a total seating capacity of
above one thousand. Davis E. Supplee was
the supervising architect.

Many loving hearts have been, and are, in-
terested in the beautiful stained glass windows
which adorn the chapel — each of them being a
memorial of a loved one gone. The committee
having charge of securing these windows were
much encouraged at the very beginning by re-
ceiving an offer of two windows from a lady

42 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

who had originally given them to a church in
the interior of the State, from whence they
were removed owing to a growing prejudice
in that community against such memorials
being erected in churches. These windows,
which bear the names of Saul and Katherine
Hood McCormick, were gladly accepted and
are now among the most beautiful in the build-
ing. The two large front windows were do-
nated by personal friends of Harriet Hollond.
Among the names commemorated by some of
the other windows are Rev. W. M. Engles,
D.D., Mrs. Rebecca M. Schott, Emily Duncan,
Ellen W. Jones, Dr. John MacDowell Rice,
U. S. N., (presented by the Fourth Presby-
terian Church) ; Hattie Wanamaker (pre-
sented by Grace Chapel, Jenkintown) ; Rev.
Dudley A. Tyng; Rev. John Todd, D.D.
(presented by the Clinton Street Presbyterian
Church); John Cresswell; Rev. Albert Barnes
(presented by the First Presbyterian Church) ;
John Wilson (presented by the Woodland
Presbyterian Church); Helen B. Glass, Benja-
min John Cooke, Harvey Mann, Jr., Rachel
J, Mann, James B. Mann, Mrs. Samuel Sharp,
James B. McFarland and William Jardine.

Among the churches not mentioned above
which presented windows were the old Tenth,
Bethany, Chambers' and Cohocksink.

In the main room there are handsome tablets

THE HOIvLOND CHAPEL 43

to the memory of Harriet Hollond, Dr. Henry
A. Boardman, and Charles E. Morris.

In 1875, steps were taken which resulted in
the building of the cozy parlor over the Prim-
ary and Junior class rooms. The following
description of the movement appeared in Our
Sabbath- School Helper oi April 11, 1875:

' ' Since the occupation of the Hollond Me-
morial Chapel the need of a room suitable for
social and prayer meetings has been greatly
felt. But remembering the prompt and gener-
ous contributions which gave us a beautiful
and attractive chapel without a dollar of debt
upon it, we chose rather to suflfer the incon-
venience than trespass further on the liberality
of those who have done so much for us.
Providence seems now to have opened the way
for the accomplishment of this object. Miss
Annie Morris, a beloved teacher in our school,
whose recent death we so deeply lament, died
possessed of a mortgage of $2000, to which by
law, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris, succeed.
These parents, remembering that their daugh-
ter once offered this mortgage as a loan with-
out interest for the completion of the chapel,
and believing that it is a sacred trust, have
been led lo offer the money to the chapel, on
condition that the balance required for the pro-
posed addition be raised, so that no debt remain
after the completion. The whole cost of the

44 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

addition is estimated not to exceed $4,500."
The offer was accepted on the condition pro-
posed. The work of building the addition was
commenced May 28, 1875, and pushed forward
with such vigor that it was completed Septem-
ber 23rd. Its total cost, including furniture
and memorial window, was $5,000. The last
$200.00 of this amount was obtained from a
concert given by the scholars and some of their
friends, February 15, 1876 — the second anni-
versary of the dedication of the chapel. This
pleasant ' ' upper chamber ' ' has been a great
blessing. It is specially dear to many of the
active workers of the church, for in it they
have had precious and tender revealings of the
Holy Spirit ; and many of our young people
have there been inspired to make the first fee-
ble efforts which have since led them onward
to splendid Christian usefulness.

Miss Morris was the sister of Mr. Charles E.
Morris, and had given valuable service to the
school. Her memory is perpetuated by a beau-
tiful tablet on the walls of the room which was
made possible by the liberality and thoughtful-
ness of her parents. The beautiful window in
the east end of the room is also a memorial of
her.

Shortly after her death in March, 1875, an
extended obituary notice, prepared by the Rev.
H. J. Van Dyke, D.D., of Brooklyn, appeared

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 45

in The Presbyterian, from which the following
brief extracts are made:

' ' Her intellect was of a high order and was
cultivated by habitual reading and study.
Back of her social qualities, and infinitely
more precious, there was a deep fountain of
tenderness, and a well of living water spring-
ing up to everlasting life. The three charac-
teristics of her religious life were supreme
loyalty to Christ, love for the poor and lowly
for His sake, and an intelligent devotion to
the Presbyterian Church. These character-
istics pervaded every part of her nature, and
became more and more predominant. Her
love for the poor and lowly was demonstrated
during the last years of her life in her active
zeal in connection, first, with the Bethany Mis-
sion, and afterwards with the HoUond Me-
morial Chapel. She had no fear of compro-
mising her character or her position with
ignorance and poverty. She was as ready to
sing the songs of Zion in a hovel, or beside
the bed of a dying child, as in the church or a
parlor. To win the affectionate confidence of
a class of rough boys was, in her eyes, a con-
quest worthy of her accomplishments."

The chapel remained the property of the old
Tenth Church until the dissolution of that
church in 1895, when it became, by gift of the
mother church, the property of Hollond. The

46 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

expense of maintaining the building was met
by the Tenth Church, an annual appeal being
sent to all the members for contributions.
The following list, accidentally preserved, con-
tains the names of those who contributed to
this purpose for the year beginning October i ,
1876, and is here given to show the liberality
of the members of the Tenth Church to the
enterprise :

James Baird, $5.00; Mrs. Bayard, $100.00;
Dr. Boardman, $25.00; Miss Mary Brown,
$50.00; Misses Burt, $25.00; Cash, $25.00;
Miss Chester, $75.00; Proceeds of concert at
chapel, $72.25; Henry Cowan, $10.00; A. C.
Craig, $10.00; John Crawford, $1.00; Dr.
John DeWitt, $15.00 ; Dr. John Dickson,>
$25.00 ; W. K. DuBois, $10.00 ; W. L. Du-
Bois, $25.00; Mrs. Z. Gemmill, $10.00; Mrs.
J. R. Grier, $50.00; Mrs. M. Johnson, $25.00;
Mrs. J. Kennedy, $2.00; Miss Mary S. Kirke,
$20.00; Rev. W. W. Latta, $10.00; Mrs. Law,
$5.00; Margaret MacMullen, $1.00; Mrs.
Milliken $10.00; P. McBride, $25.00; Charles
E. Morris, $35.00; Mrs. Penrose, $25.00; Mrs.
A. K. Pomeroy, $25.00; W.W. Porter, $40.00;
Mrs. Potts, $5.00; Miss E. Rogers. $2.00; Mrs.
J. B. Ross, $100 00; Misses Sanford, $10.00;
Mrs. Savage, $50.00; Miss Mary B. Smith,
$150.00; Miss Margaret R. Smith, $50.00;
Tenth Church collection, $125.13; Peter

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 47

Walker, $ro.oo; William Wilson, $50.00; Mr.
White, $1.00; C. Wurts, $10.00; Young Peo-
ple's Association of Hollond Chapel, $9.30.
Total, $1,308.68.

It should not be forgotten that this Appeal
was sent out year after year, and always met
with a generous response.

The Rev. Frederick B. Duval, a Princeton
theological student, was in charge of the field
during the summer of 1874. He returned to
his studies in the fall. On the 12th of No-
vember, the Rev. William F. Garrett was or-
dained in the chapel as an evangelist to labor
in connection with the mission. The Rev. S.
W. Dana, D.D., acted as moderator, the Rev.
William P. Breed, D.D., preached the sermon,
the charge to the pastor was given by the
Rev. Dr. Henry A. Boardman, and the address
to the people by the Rev. J. M. Crowell, D.D.

In his report to the Tenth Church, May,
1876, Mr. Garrett thus writes: "The past
year at the chapel has been one never to be
forgotten, a year made sacred by the special
advent and blessing of God in our very midst,
by large additions to our church, by increased
attendance at the services, by a quickening of
Christians, and general interest in matters of
religion.

" Preaching services have been conducted
every Sabbath morning and evening; the aver-

48 THE HOLLOND CHAPEL

age attendance in the morning being from two
hundred and fifty to three hundred, while in
the evening the attendance at times has num-
bered over five hundred. One hundred and
twenty-four persons have united with the
church. The Young People's Meeting on
Tuesday evenings has been blessed of God in
an especial manner, overflowing in attendance,
and characterized by fervency of spirit and the
energy of zeal. On Wednesday evenings cot-
tage prayer-meetings have been held from
house to house. These meetings are con-
ducted and sustained by the young men of the
chapel, who, having formed themselves into a
band of Christian workers, are unremitting in
their labors, having held as many as three or
more meetings during the week. The chapel
prayer-meeting is held every Friday night.
We cannot fully know here what the Holy
Ghost has done for us. Truly enough has
been accomplished to satisfy and amply repay
those who, in self-sacrifice, and love to Christ,
assisted to erect the Hollond Chapel; enough
has been done to make us thank God and
take courage."

In his report made at the same time, Mr.
Charles K. Morris said: "It has been the
most eventful year of our history. Never
could so much be said of God's goodness and
mercy to us, and we have abundant cause for

THE HOLLOND CHAPEL 49

thanksgiving and praise. Earnest prayers
have been answered, long- cherished hopes real-
ized, and the blessing richly poured upon us.
Fifty-nine of our scholars have united with
our church, and at least a score have joined
other churches. We exclaim, ' Bless the Lord,
O my soul, and forget not all his benefits ! ' "

Mr. Morris also speaks of the good work
accomplished by the young men's prayer-
meeting, the cottage prayer-meeting, the moth-
er's meeting, the young ladies' prayer-meeting,
teachers' meeting, and the sewing school. In
1871, the school numbered 260; in 1874, 560;
and in 1876, 925. In closing his report, Mr.
Morris said: "When the books shall be
opened, and every secret thing be made
known, it will be found that to Dr. Boardman,
more than to any other human agency, has
the success and present prosperity of our
mission been due."

The officers and teachers of the school at
the time of this report (May, 1876), were:
Charles K. Morris, superintendent; William
L. Cooke and George C. McConnell, asso-
ciate superintendents ; William W. Porter,
chorister; Walter K. Maxwell, W. J. Parry,
Charles T. Cresswell, secretaries; Gustavus.
Harkness, Washington Freund, Hugh Kay,
librarians.

Teachers: William B. Blight, Hon. T. B.

50 THE HOIvLOND CHAPEL

Dwight, Hon. John K. Findlay, Mrs. Sarah
G. Beck, Mrs. Samuel C. Hayes, Miss Eliza-
beth Potts, Miss Mary Potts, John L. Kugler,
Miss Mary Irvine, Miss Emma Fithian, Miss
Sallie Cooke, Mrs. Charles J. Cooke, Samuel
Cowan, William L. DuBois, Nathan H.
Jarman, vSamuel M. Kennedy, Henry W.
Lambirth, John A. Martin, George C. Mc-
Connell, William H. Sivel, Samuel R. Sharp,
Mrs. Susan O. Babbitt, Mrs. Mary J. Boyd,
Miss Sallie Bunting, Miss Bessie Cooke,
Miss Jennie Cowan, Miss I^izzie Cresswell,
Miss Ellen Dickinson, Miss Lizzie Dukes,
Miss Mattie Fisher, Miss Lizzie C. Fithian,
Miss Mary R. Fox, Miss L. J. Gaskill, Miss
Sue A. Gaskill, Mrs. Ollie Y. Hamilton, Miss
Virginia F. Handy, Mrs. Clementine A.
Harper, Miss Hattie G. Henry, Miss Mary E.
Hill, Miss Cecelia Hogan. Miss Ella P. Irwin,
Miss Mary J. Kennedy, MissEllieS. Maxwell,
Miss Lily M. McBride, Miss Annie J. Mc-
Cormick, Miss Mary McCormick, Miss Jennie
C. McKane, Mrs. William E. Morris, Miss
Helen Parry, Miss Eleanor C. Patterson, Miss
Lydia S. Penrose, Miss Mary L. Pleasants,
Mrs. Anna K. Pomeroy, Miss Kate E. Reese,
Miss Elizabeth Rivell, Miss Eliza R. Sharp,
Miss Margaret R. Smith, Miss Lucie Stitt,
Miss Addie L. Stewart, Mrs. John L. Stewart,
Miss Annie Weaver.

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Mr. Garrett resigned in the spring of 1878,
and was succeeded by the Rev. J. Henry
Sharpe, D.D.

Soon after this the school was called upon
to sustain one of the most serious losses that
could possibly come to it — the removal by
death of its beloved superintendent, Mr.
Charles E. Morris.

Dr. Louis F. Benson, his brother-in-law,
thus writes of this untimely event: "His
robust system had never wholly recovered
from the effects of an attack of typhoid fever,
and finally, after a hard battle, with the in-
domitable bravery of his spirit, it succumbed
to the hand of disease; and in the endurance
of pain and weakness, such as only he fully
realized, his great soul went home by the
thorny road of suffering, whereupon were the
footprints and the helping hand of his Master.
He died at seven o'clock on the morning of
Monday, the loth of February, 1879, at his
residence in Spruce street, having been con-
fined to his bed only since the Saturday
evening preceding."

In his successor, Mr. Robert C. Ogden, the
school was exceptionally fortunate in finding
one whose practical experience, ripe judgment,
and large-hearted liberality specially fitted him
for so important a position. Under his wise
superintendency, continued for a period of

52 THE HOLLOND CHAPEI.

nearly twenty years, the school steadily ad-
vanced in numbers and io usefulness.

FAITH MISSION

The cottage prayer-meetings and other mid-
week meetings which had been carried on so
successfully by the young men of Hollond
during the winter of 1875-6, had results little
dreamed of at the time. As usual with all
true spiritual service, not only were others
helped but the workers themselves were in-
spired with fresh missionary zeal to win souls
for the Master. Three active young men of
the school felt that there was near at hand a
wider field of usefulness which they might
enter. On the 28th of December, 1876, these
young workers — George C. McConnell, John
L. Kugler and Edgar A. Leslie — had a meet-
ing and resolved to canvass the neighborhood
south of Dickinson street, and east of Broad,
with a view of establishing a mission. They
consulted with Mr. H. A. Brainard, an en-
thusiastic worker who had some experience in
similar efforts, and from him and others they
received such encouragement that on the 4th
of January, 1877, they came before the teach-
ers of Hollond to ask for their endorsement of

54 FAITH MISSION

the movement and for their support in meeting
the rent of two small rooms at 1639 Passyunk
avenue, which they had already secured, and
in which they contemplated organizing a mis-
sion school. This support being readily and
heartily promised, the young men went to
work with a will to get the people of the imme-
diate neighborhood interested in the move-
ment, and with such success that when the
school was opened on the 14th of January
forty-five scholars and fifteen adults were
present, eleven of the latter being there to
engage in the work as teachers.

It was intended to call the new enterprise
the Morris Mission, in honor of Mr. ChWles
E. Morris, but Mr. Morris objecting, the name
Faith was substituted. The desk used was
from the old Moyamensing school.

The school increased to such an extent dur-
ing the next few Sundays, that at the Febru-
ary meeting of the Hollond teachers a report
was made of the over-crowded condition of
the rooms, and a committee was appointed to
secure larger accommodations. An eligible site
for a building was selected on the south side
of Castle avenue, east of Broad, the price being
$2,250. The land was taken on ground-rent.
Hollond at that time not being a corporate
body, could not take title to the ground but
this was vested in twelve of the Hollond teach-

FAITH MISSION 55

ers who thus became responsible for the prin-
cipal and interest. The interest, amounting
to $135.00 annually, was paid from the Hollond
school fund from May, 1877, to April, 1882,
when the principal was paid by members of
the Tenth Church.

Mr. George C. McConnell, who was devoted
to the work, as chairman of the committee on
building purchased at auction sale February
12, 1877, one of the buildings which had been
used as police headquarters during the Centen-
nial. The price paid was $200.00. He went
immediately after to the law office of Mr.
Morris, and the following petition was drawn
up:

' ' Being assured of the great necessity for
mission work directly south of the Hollond
Memorial Chapel, a number of earnest Chris-
tians, acting under the advice of the teachers
of our Hollond Memorial School, have organ-
ized a school to be known as Faith Mission.
The enterprise has in attendance exceeded our
expectations, and has made it necessary that
we should have a building better suited to our
wants. We have therefore purchased a frame
building, 36 by 70 feet, which will be erected
on Castle avenue, below Broad street, and will
cost, when completed, from $700.00 to $800.00.
In bringing this work to the attention of our
friends, we hope that many will feel willing to

56 FAITH MISSION

aid us in the effort to establish a Presbyterian
enterprise in a locality where it is greatly
needed."

To this appeal Mr. Morris was the first sub-
scriber, and before noon the next day Mr. Mc-
Connell had succeeded in raising enough money
to meet the first cost of the building. The ex-
penditure, including the original cost, removal,
erection on the new site, and general fitting
up, was $1,861.94, nearly all of which, owing
to the indefatigable efforts of Mr. McConnell,
who was heartily assisted by the officers and
teachers of Hollond, was paid within a year.
The entire amount was paid in 1879. The
teachers themselves gave much time and labor
to make the building attractive and comfort-
able.

It was long the custom of Hollond to march
up to the old Tenth Church on " Anniversary
Day." In May, 1877, "Little Faith also
marched up for the first time and from the
gallery seats captured the hearts of all present
by their enthusiastic singing of ' A better day
is coming.' "

In his printed report of the two schools —
Hollond and Faith — in May, 1878, Mr. Morris
said: "Faith Mission is in reality a part of the
work of the Hollond Memorial School." The
officers and teachers at this time were: Super-
intendent, George C. McConnell; associate.

FAITH MISSION 57

John L,. Kugler; secretaries, Edgar A. Leslie
and Jay F. Bryant; librarians, Joseph Young
and George Taylor; teachers, Miss Emma
Bryant, Miss Kate Roberts, Miss Maggie
Henry, Mrs. L,. Gibson, Miss A. J. Markfield,
Miss Eizzie Osmond, Miss Lizzie Orr, Miss
Mary Parvin, Miss Annie R. Patterson, Miss
Minnie Sherwood, H. A. Brainard, Charles A.
Chew, Charles Cook, George Douglass, W.
H. Lamb, A. W. Martin, Charles A. Oliver,
Samuel Patrick and Samuel Williamson. Six-
teen of these were from Hollond. Mr. Mc-
Connell held the position of superintendent
until his removal to San Francisco in 1884.

The new building was dedicated May 13th,
1877, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Addresses were
made by Dr. Henry A. Boardman, Dr. John
DeWitt, Rev. W. F. Garrett, Dr. J. Henry
Sharpe, Hon. W. S. Pierce and Mr. Charles E.
Morris.

In the spring of 1883 the mission was or-
ganized into the South Broad Street Presby-
terian Church, and the Rev. J. C. Thompson,
D.D., who had been successfully laboring in
the field since 1880, was installed as the first
pastor. In 1884 the organization was merged
with and became known as the Scots Presby-
terian Church. In 1888 the united congrega-
tions erected on the southeast corner of Broad
street and Castle avenue one of the prettiest

58 FAITH MISSION

church buildings in the city. The old chapel
is still in use as a Sunday-school room. Under
the pastoral care of the Rev. George Handy
Wailes, who was installed in 1897, this pros-
perous church is doing a noble work for the
Master. The Hollond Church takes a pardon-
able pride in its advancement and prays for it
the Father's richest blessings.

>.\V\U///,

A PASTOR'S RECOIvLECTlONS

[In the following paper the Rev. J. Henry Sharpe,
D.D., now pastor of the West Park Church, Philadel-
phia, has kindly written of his connection with the
Hollond field; and also of his impressions of some of
the workers] :

At the Christmas holidays of 1870, Mr.
John Wanamaker was unable to keep his en-
gagement to speak at the festival of the
Sabbath- school of the Wharton Street Church,
of which I had recently become pastor, but he
recommended in his place Mr. Charles K.
Morris, a young lawyer, then in charge of a
Bible class in the Bethany school. As a young
pastor, the impression made on me by Mr.
Morris' address on that occasion was strong
and vivid; it abides with me to this day as
characteristic of the vigorous and magnetic
qualities I afterward learned to appreciate so
highly by personal association with him in
Sabbath-school work. He illustrated the moral
of his address by the story of a boy who was
following his father by treading closely in his
footsteps through a blinding snow-storm at
night. He was tempted to turn aside, thereby

6o A PASTOR'S RECOIvI^ECTIONS

floundering into a deep drift from which he
was rescued by his father at the last moment.
The story was so told that it was impossible
to forget it or its lessons. From that occasion
I date my deep admiration for Charles E.
Morris as the peer of the foremost Sabbath-
school men 1 have known.

Another of the future makers and workers
of Hollond I met two years later on the occa-
sion of his installation as associate pastor of
the Tenth Church. On the evening of Janu-
ary 25th, 1872, being then moderator of the
Presbytery of Philadelphia, I was invited by
Dr. Boardman to dine with him and meet his
associate-elect, Rev. Louis R. Fox, and others,
and proceed with them to the church at the
hour of installation. Dr. Boardman preached
the sermon, Dr. Breed charged the pastor, and
Dr. Crowell charged the people. It was to me
a memorable meeting with two men, a father
and a brother, with both of whom I was
thenceforward to sustain the most agreeable
relations; becoming, in time, to be the asso-
ciate of the one and the successor of the other.

A still later contact with these three strong
friends of Hollond — Dr. Boardman, Mr. Fox
and Mr. Morris — was in a friendly difference
of opinion as to the wisdom of fixing the site
of the proposed Hollond Memorial at Twelfth
and Wharton streets, within three squares of

Rev. J. Henry Sharpe, D. D.

A PASTOR'S RECOLLECTIONS 6r

the Wharton Street Church. The Moyamen-
sing Mission was first in the general field, and
so had a show of right to occupy any site
within it. The Presbytery, however, sided with
the protest of the Wharton Street Church, so
the Tenth Church sold its lot and selected the
present location of the Hollond Chapel. In
the light of subsequent events, all concerned
now see in this change of plan an overruling
providence, without which the wonderful after
development of the project could scarcely have
been possible.

It was a long step nearer Hollond when the
session of the Tenth Church, in the autumn
of 1874, extended to me an invitation to be-
come the associate and assistant of Dr. Board-
man, after the retirement of Mr. Fox from
that position. In the meanwhile, the Hollond
Chapel had been reared, and under the able
leadership of Mr. Morris, sustained by the
hearty co-operation of both the pastors of the
parent church, and under the immediate minis-
try successively of Mr. Duval and Mr. Garrett,
who had charge of the chapel services of wor-
ship, a large and growing school and also a
large and growing congregation were estab-
lished. The prosperity of the mission pres-
ently became a source of embarrassment, as it
brought to consideration the propriety of sepa-
rate and independent organization as a church.

62 • A PASTOR'S RECOLLECTIONS

It was natural that there should be honest and
earnest differences of opinion on this subject.
In his impassioned advocacy of what manifestly
was premature as to time, ways, and means,
Mr. Garrett withdrew from the mission and
many of his sympathizers were ready to do the
same. It was at this critical juncture of the
history of Hollond that my own relations with
it became most intimate.

I had been associate pastor with Dr. Board-
man for nearly two years, when he felt con-
strained to resign his pastorate of more than
forty years of continuous service. I presented
my own resignation at the same time, and
shortly afterwards accepted charge of the
Gethsemane Mission of the Bethany Church
at Point Breeze. Rev. Dr. John DeWitt be-
came the successor of Dr. Boardman, and, like
him, took a deep interest in the welfare of the
Hollond Chapel.

When the vexed problem of independent
organization at Hollond arose, as it did a year
or so later, and Mr. Garrett had withdrawn, it
was thought by Mr. Morris and his fellow
teachers that one who understood the situation
so thoroughly as I did might be helpful; ac-
cordingly the Tenth Church session, on peti-
tion of Mr. Morris and his corps of helpers,
extended a call to me to come to the chapel as
minister in charge.

A PASTOR'S RECOLLECTIONS 63

My acceptance and installation (the latter
taking place March 24th, 1S78 — Drs. DeWitt,
Dulles and Crowell participating) brought me
once more into fellowship with the Tenth
Church flock, and especially with its earnest
and enthusiastic group of workers at the
Hollond Chapel. My providential relations
were such as permitted and enabled me to do
something in promoting mutual good under-
standing between the mother church and the
mission. The question of organization was
kept in abeyance, and the wisdom of this was
seen in the rapid subsequent growth of both
the school and the congregation worshipping
in the chapel.

It was during this period that I was thrown
into intimate association with Mr. Morris, the
soul of the new Harriet Hollond Chapel. He
had a large and thoroughly devoted company
of co-laborers, and with their help he laid
broad and deep foundations for the future.
He builded better than he knew, for even he
in those days had no vision of the great and
grand church which was so soon to rise upon
them. At the head of the whole enterprise,
gathering about him kindred enthusiastic help-
ers, proposing and promoting every means to
develop the usefulness of the mission, devising
and co-operating with the establishment of
Faith Mission, to the southward, for the over-

64 A PASTOR'S RECOLLECTIONS

flow of the surplus energy and enterprise of
the prosperous Hollond school and congrega-
tion, he made full proof of his calling and
lifted the Hollond Memorial from obscurity to
be one of the foremost as well as most promis-
ing fields in the southern section of the city.

As I review the past, it seems almost incredi-
ble that so much was accomplished under his
brief administration. He was not spared to
build on his own foundation or to reap where
he had sowed, but the success of his labors
was such that even he could nob resist the
lesson of expansion and manifest destiny.
What he might have done had he lived out
"the residue of his years," we shall never
know. His work was limited to foundation
laying, but therein he proved himself a master-
builder. Before his seemingly untimely death
he foresaw that Hollond could not remain a
mission and must become a church. Had he
lived he would doubtless have become a fore-
most spirit in converting the noble chapel into
the nobler church and in consecrating it to
the beneficent future, on which already it has
so largely entered.

God called him away to an early reward,
and those of us who were then identified with
the mission were left broken-hearted, leader-
less and almost hopeless. But God never calls
away one workman before he has another

A PASTOR'S RECOLLECTIONS 65

ready to take up his work. Mr. Morris was
followed by Mr, Robert C. Ogden, who, though
a recent resident of the city, had been trained
in similar work in Brooklyn and brought the
best methods of enlarged business and philan-
thropic experience to the wide and promising
field of the HoUond Memorial Mission, The
result was inevitable, if not immediately mani-
fest. The prosperity of the enterprise ren-
dered it impossible that it should remain a
mission, and in due season the parent church
not only acquiesced in the separate organiza-
tion of the Hollond Memorial Church, but be-
stowed on the daughter her hearty benediction
in her independent establishment.

But before this was accomplished, the prob-
lems of the early transition period were too
various and trying for a pastor who was bound
by his office to be a mediator rather than an
advocate for either side. In withdrawing from
the Hollond Mission (Dec. 5th, 1880), I ex-
changed fields with another worker who was
destined to remain with the Hollond Memorial
for nearly a score of years thereafter. Rev.
Dr. J. R. Miller, who had long been the hon-
ored pastor of Bethany, was then the tempor-
ary supply of the West Park Church, which
called me to its pastorate. Beginning each his
new work within a few days of the other, it
has been my privilege to look on and witness

66 A PASTOR'S RECOLI.ECTIONS

the wondrous growth of Hollond under the
pastorate of Drs. Paden and Miller, and the
superintendency of Messrs. Ogdcn and Cooke,
and to rejoice in the ever-increasing prosperity
of her whose praise is in all the churches.
Though Morris and Ogden, and Paden and
Miller are withdrawn, Martin and Overman,
Cooke and Walker, and a goodly host of
others, both men and women, remain — some
of them unfaltering supporters of the work
since the old Moyamensing days, their youth
renewed with the immortal vigor of the new
Hollond. It is the prayer alike of the old
friends of Hollond and of the new, that " the
glory of this latter house shall be greater than.
the former! "

The session of the Tenth Church took the
following action on Mr. Sharpe's resignation:
" (i). In accepting with great regret the
resignation of Mr, Sharpe we desire to give
expression to our sense of the great loss which
the work at the Harriet Hollond Chapel will
sustain in his removal. (2). We note also
the great ability and fidelity with which Mr.
Sharpe has carried forward his labors, and
record our gratitude to God for the success
which has followed them."

H. P. F.

HOLIvOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

We now enter upon the more modern era of
our history — the era of church organization
and of church building. Our foundations had
been carefully and securely laid along broad
and far-extending lines. The old Tenth had
faithfully and lovingly nurtured her child, and
now that child, in the full bloom of youthful
vigor, was herself to assume churchly dignity
and to launch forth as an independent organ-
ization— independent, yet clinging with never-
ceasing trust and affection to the dear old
mother church through which she had had her
being, and from which, to the very last, she
continued to receive direct and practical evi-
dences of love and confidence.

As has already been shown, earnest men and
women had made many personal sacrifices in
order that the work might go on, and in its
ever-increasing prosperity they had found
much of encouragement and cheer. Now new
leaders were to come to the front and to see to
it that there should be no backward steps
taken, no falling away from the high standards

68 HOLI.OND CHURCH ORGANIZED

which had been so long maintained. Under the
inspiration of a Miller, a Paden, an Ogden and
a Cooke, the youthful church organization was
to get the mighty impulse which was to sweep
it from the newest and lowliest to the very
front ranks of our city churches, and which
was to raise it from an almost unknown mission
station to an enviable position of far-reaching
spiritual power and usefulness. I^oyal men
and women, many of them already long and
faithful workers in the field, were to rally with
renewed zeal about these leaders and to give to
them the help and encouragement without
which the ablest must fail. Moses had Aaron
and Hur to hold up his hands when the battle
was going against his people, and successful
men from that day to this have not gained
their victories by fighting alone, for somewhere
faithful hearts have struggled for them and
with them and helped them to the winning.
Our beloved church has been no exception.
Our leaders have been successful largely be-
cause of the brave-hearted workers they have
had to cheer and to support them.

Dr. J. R. Miller succeeded Dr. Sharpe. He
preached his first sermon in the chapel on the
2d day of January, 1881. His first letter to
his new charge contained suggestions which
were faithfully followed, and which not only
gave to the work many of its distinctive feat-

Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D.

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ures, but were also largely instrumental in
giving the right impulse to much of its subse-
quent development. He wrote, in part :

" You can help to make this chapel a warm,
loving place, into which the weary, the sor-
rowing, the poor, the friendless and the stran-
ger will love to come. It costs but little to be
kind, to reach out a cordial hand, to speak a
few welcoming words ; and yet whole families
have been won by just such simple courtesies
in church aisles. Do not wait for introduc-
tions. Those who enter our church doors are
our guests, and we must make them feel at
home.

" I desire to have a place in your confidence,
and in your affections. The work of a true
pastor is more, far more, than the faithful
preaching of the Word. He is a physician of
souls, and his work must be largely personal.
I desire, therefore, to become the close, per-
sonal friend of every one. I invite you to come
to me freely for counsel and prayer in every
matter that may concern your spiritual welfare.
In sickness I want you to send for me. If
you are in trouble, I claim the privilege of
sharing it with you. I shall ever have a warm,
ready sympathy, and a brother's helping hand
for each of you when any burden presses, or
any sorrow tries you. And in turn, I ask from
you continual prayer, large patience, the firm-

70 HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

est, truest friendship, a place in each home and
heart, and ready co-operation in all the Master's
work.

" Shall we not, one and all, sink every per-
sonal consideration and consecrate ourselves to
a service for Christ and for souls, which shall
only cease when we are called home to our rest
and reward ? ' '

This letter, as will be seen, would serve quite
as fully to sum up Dr. Miller's work at the
close of his long and helj)ful connection with
our church as it did to outline it at the begin-
ning.

The deep, spiritual current which was to
flow so long and so prosperously now set in.
"The people had a mind to work." It soon
became evident that the time had come to or-
ganize the mission into an independent church.
This action was determined upon at a congre-
gational meeting held in the chapel on Friday
evening, February 24th, 1882, when, on motion
of Mr. Charles Hunter, it was

''Resolved, That a petition be signed by the
members of the congregation, requesting the
Presbytery of Philadelphia to grant the request
for our organization into the Harriet Hollond
Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia;
and that the application be made through the
session of the Tenth Presbyterian Church."

The following communication, received

HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED 71

through Mr. William I,. DuBois from Dr.
John DeWitt, pastor of the Tenth Church, was
read. It is preserved here to show the feeling
of the mother church in relation to the pro-
posed action :

"It is not impossible that I shall be unable
to attend the meeting of the Hollond Memorial
congregation on February 24th. If I am not
there, and it should seem to you to be well to
say so, please state that I shall bid the new
church God-speed most heartily ; and that I
cannot believe that the Tenth Church's inter-
est in the Hollond Memorial will be diminished
in the slightest degree by the organization ; on
the other hand, I believe that that interest will
be increased."

A committee, consisting of Messrs. Robert
C. Ogden, Theodore H. lyoder, Charles Hunter,
and William h. Cooke, was appointed to rep-
resent the congregation at the next meeting of
Presbytery.

One month later, March 24th, 1882, the
church was organized by a committee of the
Presbytery, which consisted of Rev. Willard
M. Rice, D.D., William L. DuBois and John
Wanamaker, with General Stewart, John K.
Findlay and Dr. J. R. Miller as corresponding
members. The meeting was held in the chapel.
Dr. Rice presiding. After brief devotional
exercises, Dr. Miller read the names of the

72 HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

228 members received from the Tenth Church,
and of the one (Bates J. Griswold) received on
profession of faith, — a total of 229 members
for the new HoUond organization.

The following officers were elected by a ris-
ing vote : Elders — Robert C. Ogden, William
L. Cooke, Samuel M. Kennedy, and Theodore
H. Loder. Deacons — Charles Hunter, Alfred
Adams, Charles A. Oliver, and Walter W. Rey-
nolds. Dr. J. R. Miller 'received the unani-
mous call of the congregation to the pastorate.
Addresses were made by Dr. Rice, Dr. DeWitt,
Mr. W. ly. DuBois, General Stewart, Judge
Findlay, and Mr. John Wanamaker.

The church had no trustees until January
5th, 1883, when the following were elected :
Robert C. Ogden, Theodore H. lyoder, David
Orr, James C. Taylor, Amos Dotterer, Henry
A. Walker, John K. Findlay, William L. Cooke
and James M. Leo.

The following list contains the names of
the 229 persons who joined the church at its
organization :

Alfred Adams, Mrs. Martha Adams, Miss
Millie Allen, Mrs. Anna Auld.

Mrs. Eliza Bell, Miss Ella E Biddle, Mrs.
Eouisa Bishop, Henry Bowman, Miss Agnes
Boyd, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer, Miss Mamie E.
Brinton, Miss Mattie S. Brinton, H. Ernest
Brown, Mrs. Lavinia Brown, Miss Mary Bru-

HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED 73

lard, Mrs. Martha Bryant, Mrs. Hannah Bry-
ant, Miss Emma Bryant.

Miss Mary J. Calder, William F. Campbell,
Mrs. Anna Campbell, Miss Sadie Campbell,
Mrs. Eliza Campbell, Miss Jennie Campbell,
James Carnes, Mrs. Eliza Carnes, John Carson,
Mrs. Jane Carson, Miss Florence A. Chalker,
Mrs. M. Chestnut, Charles A. Chew, Miss
Selena Chew, Miss Nellie Christie, Mrs. Susan
Coates, Robert H. Cochran, Mrs. M. Cochran,
Miss Mary J. Colwell, Miss Emma Coogan,
Miss Mary Coogan, William L. Cooke, Miss
Bessie Cooke, Miss Josie Cooke, Miss Carrie
M. Craig, John Crosgrave, Mrs. John Cros-
grave, Miss Sarah Crosgrave, Miss Jennie Cros-
grave, Mrs. A. E. Cunningham, Mrs. W. S.
Cunningham.

Miss Anna Louise Daly, Miss Priscilla Daly,
Miss Katie Davis, Mrs. Eizzie Dos Passos,
George Douglass.

Frederick Edwards, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards,
Mrs. Louisa Edwards, Mrs. Mary Elliott, Mrs.
Mary Ellis.

Mrs. A. H. Fillott, Miss Fannie B. Fithian,
Mrs. Anna Fleming, Miss Mary Fleming, Miss
Sadie Fleming, Samuel Frame, Mrs. Mary
Frame,

Mrs. Annie Gallagher, Mrs. Elizabeth Gam-
Tjle, Miss Lizzie Gamble, Mrs. Laura Gardner,
Mrs. Virginia Gardner, Mrs. Emma Gensel,

74 HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

Mrs. Annie Glanding, Mrs. Maria Goodall,
Miss Mary Gowen, Miss Ida B. Graham, Bates
J. Griswold.

Miss Fannie Habich, Mrs. Jane Haff, Miss
Ella Hall, Mrs. Phoebe Hamilton, Thomas
Harkness, Mrs. S. Harper, William B. Hens,
Miss Ella Hook, Miss Lizzie Hulse, Charles
Hunter, Mrs. Kate Hunter.

Miss Lulu Jardine, Miss Mary Jones, Miss
Annie Keller, Samuel M. Kennedy, Mrs.
Jane Kennedy, Miss ^ary Kennedy, Miss
Annie Kennedy, Mrs. Jennie Kennedy, William
P. Kirby, Christian Kleinhenn, Miss Martha
Klenneck, Charles Kruse, John Kugler, Mrs.
C. Kugler, Mrs. Kate Kugler.

Mrs. C. Langman, Mrs. R. Leigh ton, James
Leo, Charles Lesley, Mrs. K. E. Lesley, Frank
Lesley, Miss Kate Linsenmeyer, Thomas Little,
Mrs. Lizzie Little, Theodore H. Loder, Mrs.
E. H. Loder.

Miss Jennie Magee, Andrew Martin, Mrs.
Ida Martin, John Martin, Mrs. Sallie Martin,
William Matlack, Mrs. Mary E. McAninch,
Ira B. McCormick, Mrs. Maggie McCormick,
Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy, Mrs. Susan McFarland,
Miss Bella McIntire,Miss Bella McKeever, Miss
Agnes McNevin, Mrs. Margaret Meares, Miss
Priscilla Meloy, Miss Lottie Milden, Mrs. Louise
E. Miller, Mrs. Mary V. Mitchell, Fred Mohr,
Miss Martha Morrow, Miss Lizzie A. Murray.

HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED 75

Miss Cora Narrigan, Mrs. Adele Nifenecker.
Miss Camille Nifenecker, Alexander Nixon,
Mrs. Eliza Nixon, Miss Mary Nixon, Miss
Martha Nixon.

William W. O'Brien, Robert C. Ogden, Mrs.
Ellen Ogden, Miss Julia T. Ogden, Charles A.
Oliver, Miss Katie O'Neil, Miss Eizzie Orr,
Mr. and Mrs. David Orr.

Miss Mary Parvin, Miss Ridie E. Parvin,
Miss Kate Parvin, Mrs. Eizzie Pessano, Miss
E. L. Pinkerton, Miss Eillie Poole, Mrs. Beulah
Powell, Victor Powers.

James Radcliffe, Mrs. Charlotte Ramsay,
Mrs. A. Randolph, William P. Rawlings,
James Reid, Mrs. Rebecca Reid, Mrs. Margaret
Reilly, D. R. Reynolds, W. R. Reynolds, W.
W. Reynolds, D. C. Reynolds, M.D., Mrs. D.
C. Reynolds, George C. Reynolds, Miss Eaura
Rhoades, Mrs. Margaret Rhoades, Mrs. R.
Richards, Mrs. Kate Robinson, Mrs. Jane
Russell, Robert Russell.

Mrs. S. A. Scofield, Mrs. Elizabeth Semple,
Mrs. Sadie Siemen, Miss Sallie Shingle, Miss
Nellie R. Smith, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs. Clara
Smith, Daniel R. Smith, Mrs. A. Steele,
George W. Steinbach, Mrs. Margaret Stein-
bach, Joseph Sterrett, Mrs. Mary Sterrett,
A. A. Stevenson, JohnW. Stewart, Mrs. JaneS.
Stewart, Mrs. Margaret Stewart, Miss Mary
C. Stewart, Miss Martha B. Stewart.

76 HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

Mrs. Mary Tafford, Benjamin Tafford, James
C. Taylor, Mrs. Kate Taylor, Miss Jeannie
X. Thompson, Miss W. Trautvetter, Miss
Annie Trautvetter.

Miss Katie Vance, Mrs. Mary Voudersmith,
Miss Mary B. Vondersmith.

Miss Minnie Wagner, Samuel Walker, Mrs.
S. J. Walker, Samuel O. Walker, Miss Lucy
Walker, Mrs. Anna Ware, Mrs Emma War-
ren, Mrs. Ann J. Waters, Miss Mary Waters,
Mrs. H. H.Watt, Mrs. H.Webb, J. M. Weiss,
Mrs. Anna Weiss, Mrs. EHza White, Miss Stella
White, Mrs. Sarah Wiley, Robert Williamson,
Mrs. Sarah Williamson, Miss Delia Wilson.

Mrs. Sophie Young, Mrs. Fanny Young.
Dr. Miller was installed as the first pastor
on the 23rd of April, 1882. At the May meet-
ing of the General Assembly of that year, the
church reported a membership of 259, and a
Sunday-school membership of 1024.

The Hollond Monthly, of February, 1883,
had this to say of Dr. Miller's second anni-
versary : "It was a time of thanksgiving, for
his work has been signally blessed of God.
Not only are we organized into a church,
bound more closely together by the bands of
love and sympathy, and to the Saviour by in-
creased devotion, but also our number has
been augmented by the addition of 169 prec-
ious souls won for Jesus. ' '

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On the 3rd of September, 1883, the pastoral
relation existing between Dr. Miller and the
church was dissolved, Dr. Miller resigning in
order that he might give his time more fully
to the duties connected with his position in
the editorial department of the Board of Pub-
lication and Sabbath-school Work, a position
he had held before and during his pastoral care
over Hollond. His resignation was regretfully
accepted.

The Rev. William M. Paden, who had grad-
uated from the Princeton Theological Seminary
in the spring, accepted the call extended to
him by the church to become its pastor, and
with consecrated enthusiasm entered upon the
work October 7th, 1883. He was ordained
and installed on the 20th of the following No-
vember. The sermon was delivered by the
Rev. John S. Macintosh, D.D., the charge to
the pastor by the Rev. William Brenton Greene,
D.D., and the charge to the people by the Rev.
Dr. Miller.

When Mr. Paden was away the next year,
on his first vacation. Dr. Miller wrote the fol-
lowing words of commendation in the Hollond
Monthly : "Mr. Paden has won the love of all
hearts. He has become a welcome visitor in
all the people's homes. His words in the pul-
pit are listened to with eagerness, and many
are helped and strengthened by them. His

78 HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED

ministrations in the households where sickness
and sorrow have called him, have been tender
and consoling. His words spoken by the way,
have been wise and faithful. It would be hard
to find a church anywhere more proud of its
pastor than Hollond."

Mr. Paden continued to work with marked
ability and success, but as the field enlarged
and the outlook grew more and more encour-
aging, it was felt that na one man could hope
to meet successfully the demands which such a
task would impose upon his time and strength,
so Dr. Miller was cordially invited to assist Mr.
Paden in the work. Under the title, "A
Happy Combination," the Hollond Monthly, of
January, i8S6, thus speaks of this forward
movement :

" The heavy pressure of parish work, added
to the preparations for pulpit duties, have laid
a heavy burden upon Mr. Paden. Not but
that he could and would carry it, but the cares
have become so exacting as to keep him almost
entirely from that quiet and deliberate study
which, as a young minister, he deems essential
to proper growth. This has been a matter of
conference between him and friends, both
within and without our church.

"It is but natural that under these circum-
stances, the plan of inviting Rev. Dr. Miller
to associate himself in the pastoral office with

Rev. William M. Paden, D. D.

HOLLOND CHURCH ORGANIZED 79

Mr. Paden should suggest itself to several
minds simultaneously. The peculiarly happy
relations existing between the church and both
its pastors, and the continuance of Dr. Miller
in the active work of the church and school
since he retired from the pastorate, added to
the close personal relations existing between
the two men, give testimony at once to the
propriety and success of such a plan, could it
be adopted.

" Upon investigation, it has been found in
every way feasible, and, by the action of the
session and trustees upon the one part, and
Dr. Miller upon the other, an arrangement has
been made whereby he will become immedi-
ately Mr. Paden's associate in the pastorate of
the church. The whole arrangement is per-
vaded by so deep a cordiality, and is evidently
so much in harmony with a spirit of earnest
Christian work, that it promises great things
for the work in Hollond."

And so, indeed, it proved. Through the
consecrated and untiring efforts of these de-
voted men, blessed by God, an era of pros-
perity was entered upon which soon made the
work an important centre of Christian use-
fulness.

THE BUILDING FUND

The church, after its organization in 18S2,
held its services, thanks to the Tenth Church,
in the chapel, which, however well adapted to
Sunday-school work, was unsuited to the needs
of a growing congregation. It soon became
evident that a new church building was neces-
sary, and plans were at once instituted to raise
money for that purpose. As early as Novem-
ber of the same year, the following announce-
ment appeared in the Hollond Monthly: "Our
'Brick Fund,' which is the Sunday-school
work for the future church building, now
amounts to $898.76."

The next month a "Children's Parlor Fair"
was held by Miss Helen Ogden, and in
April, 1883, a "Japanese Tea Party" was
given. At the business meeting of the con-
gregation on the 2ist of January, 1884, Mr.
William I,. Cooke, the treasurer, announced
" a balance on hand of above $1,200 belonging
to the Church Building Fund, the result of
the ' Brick Books,' the ' Children's Parlor
Fair,' held by one of the scholars at her

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home, and the 'Japanese Tea Party.' I^ittle
Margaretta Morris' two dollars, given at
Christmas, has been made a nest egg for
'The Hollond,' as that was the object to
which she in love gave it."

Miss Ogden afterwards became one of our
most efficient teachers. As the wife of Mr,
Alexander Purves, also a former Hollond
teacher and now treasurer of the Hampton
Institute, Virginia, she is in a position to
render much valuable service to the great
educational institution of which her father,
Mr, Robert C. Ogden, is the president. The
" little Margaretta Morris" referred to is now
a beloved teacher in our school. She was the
only child of Mr, Charles E. Morris, and it is
with special pride and pleasure that we find
her giving much of her time to the work to
which her father was so devotedly attached,
and in which her mother has been so long and
so helpfully engaged as a teacher.

On Sunday, June 15th, 1884. the importance
of a new building was brought directly to the
attention of the people, and in the giving that
followed there were many touching evidences
of the devotion of all to the work. Through
subscriptions received that day from the church
and the school, the fund was increased to
$7,178.21. This sum, with $5,000 from the
estate of the late Rev. Henry A. Boardman,

82 THE BUILDING FUND

D.D., was sufficient to pay for the land, with
quite a little sum left over for the building.
Soon after, the lot on the south-east corner of
Broad and Federal streets was purchased — Mr.
Amos Dotterer, a trustee, advancing $3,600,
Mr. W. Iv. Cooke $1,400 and Miss L,. S. Penrose
$i,coo, until the subscriptions should be paid
in. These subscriptions were nearly all paid
before the close of the yqar.

The purchase of the lot was an important
forward movement, and greatly increased the
interest of the congregation in the work. The
fund continued to grow. A "Garden Party" at
Mr, William I,. Cooke's was highly successful;
the Mite Society, of which Miss lyydia S. Pen-
rose was the president, was organized about
this time and was of material help; a contri-
bution was received through Mr. James Whyte,
a valued teacher, from the Sunday-school of
Ayr, Scotland; Chinamen in San Rafael, Cali-
fornia, " out of their poverty found something
to send as a kindly response to a gift pre-
viously sent to them from Hollond; " the An-
sonia Clock Company and the New Haven
Clock Company sent contributions through
Benjamin J. Cooke, a scholar in Professor
Edward MacHarg's class ; members of the
Tenth Church made liberal subscriptions ;
many friends manifested their interest by
substantial donations; and, best of all, the

THE BUILDING FUND 83

people themselves, by far the larger number
being poor or in moderate circumstances, made
splendid sacrifices in order that the needed
funds might be obtained.

We have spoken only of some of the begin-
nings; it would be difficult to mention all
the sources through which assistance came at
various times. To those familiar with these
anxious days of preparation it seems as if
human love and self-denial were intertwined
with every stone and added to the sacred-
ness of every portion of the beautiful struc-
ture which has since been erected to the glory
of God and for the advancement of his kingdom
here among men. It was almost a literal re-
production of the golden time of Isaiah when,
"They helped every one his neighbor; and
every one said to his brother, ' Be of good cour-
age! ' " Brave-hearted boys and girls, striving
to make meager salaries meet life's necessities,
denied themselves that the work might go on;
toil-worn men and women, struggling with the
grave problems of existence, forgot themselves
and their needs in their devotion to the general
good; followers of many creeds, with disinter-
ested generosity, helped to make the burdens
lighter; and natives of many lands, by their
practical sympathy and aid, attested the
brotherhood of man. Is it any wonder,
then, that we now glory in the freedom of

84 THE BUILDING FUND

our pews, and welcome all visitors, without
regard to race, creed, or social condition, to
share with us in the privilege of worshipping
God in our temple beautiful !

Among the friends of the church who gave
$250.00 and over to the Building Fund and
whose names do not appear on our list of
members, are the following: Mrs. Gustavus
Benson, $500.00; Col. R.^Dale Benson, $500.00;
John S. Bispham, $250,00; John H. Converse,
$500.00; Robert Creswell, $500.00; Miss Cres-
well, $300.00; A. Boyd Cummings, $5,000,00;
Thomas Dolan, $500.00; William L. DuBois,
$[,000.00; W.W. Frazier, $500.00; Mrs. Louis
R. Fox, $[,000.00; B. W. Greer. $50000;
George Griffiths, $500.00; Mrs. Charles E.
Morris, $4,000; Jonathan Ogden, $500.00;
Mrs. Slaymaker, $500.00; Estate of Miss Mar-
garet Smith, $500.00; James Spear, $500.00;
Charles N. Thorpe, $500.00; R. S. Walton,
$650.00; Thomas B. Wanamaker, $2,500;
John Wanamaker, $5,000.00.

In his ninth anniversary sermon, delivered
in the chapel on Sunday morning, October 2d,
1892, Dr. Paden thus spoke of some of the
early plans for the new building:

" My best conceptions of the mission of this
church have come out of the development of
the church itself. When I came here nine
years ago, I had no overmastering desire to

THE BUII.DING FUND 85

enter upon the work of building a new church.
I thought the chapel quite equal to the field;
when I found out better, my first thought was
to compromise with the Lord, and advocate
the building of a little church against the
chapel. It would cost less and save time,
said Prudence. But the lyord checkmated
that scheme by refusing to interfere with the
blacksmith shop on an adjoining lot. He
probably knew that it was a better place for a
blacksmith shop than for a church. Then we
said: It's expensive — too expensive; but per-
haps we would better buy the Broad street
property; there is nothing to hinder us from
building an inexpensive church, even if we are
obliged to build it on a costly lot. We set out
to build a thirty-thousand dollar church. We
soon found, however, that we could not build
a church that would suit the field, even on
paper, for thirty thousand dollars. We screwed
our courage up to the thought of raising forty
thousand dollars; and a committee was asked
to look about for a church to suit the field and
our faith. Meanwhile, our ideas were expand-
ing, our hearts enlarging, and the resources
and responsibilities of the young church be-
coming more evident. As one of the conse-
quences, the committee came back with some
of the disillusionment a mother experiences
when she goes to the store one of these autumn

86 THE BUILDING FUND

days with her strapping fifteen-year-old boy.
She takes money to pay for a boy's suit, and
finds out that nothing will suit him but men's
styles and sizes. So our committee came back,
saying: We cannot build a church of the size
and sort we need for the Hollond force and
field for forty or fifty thousand dollars. They
thought it might be done for sixty-five or
seventy thousand, without trimmings ; but,
what was more to the point, they were ready,
and they found the trustees ready, and the
trustees found you ready, to undertake the
building of the best church we could plan for
the force and the field, whatever the cost. In
all this I believe the I^ord has directed our
steps. He has directed us in our delays. He
has directed us in the development of our
ideas; and if we have done wrong in going
beyond the forty-thousand dollar limit, the
lyord has already given us double for all such
sins. He has given us eighty thousand dollars,
and we have every sign of his continued
favor. ' '

The trustees, under the inspiring leadership
of Mr. Ogden, and helped and encouraged
always by the pastors, gave the most pains-
taking and unwavering oversight to the many
serious and perplexing problems which so con-
stantly confronted them at this period. With
a faithfulness worthy of the highest commen-

THE BUILDING FUND

87

dation, and with a devotion which should
never be forgotten, they sought to the utmost
of their abihty to secure the plans of a build-
ing which would combine beauty and comfort
with churchly dignity and durability, and
which would be in every way worthy of the
commanding position it was to occupy. In
this, as events proved, they were signally
successful.

THE NEW BUILDING

The ground for the new building was broken
by Mr. William E. Cooke, chairman of the
building committee, at 5 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, October 23, 18S9. Drs. Paden and
Miller, Dr. William Brenton Greene, Jr., pastor
of the old Tenth Church, and Mr. Robert C.
Ogden, also took an active part in the service.
Soon after, the cellar was dug and the heavy
foundation walls placed in position.

On Saturday afternoon, May 31, 1890, the

corner-stone was laid by Dr. J. R. Miller, with

impressive ceremonies, in the

CORNER- presence of a large gathering of

LAYING happy people. Dr. Paden made

a brief address of welcome.

Dr. William Hutton offered a prayer. Dr.

J. C. Thompson read the scriptures (i.

Peter, 2 : 1-9), Mr. Robert C. Ogden made

a "statement of progress," Dr. William

Brenton Greene, Jr., delivered an address.

Dr. Paden announced the contents of the

box to be placed in the corner-stone, the

stone was laid by Dr. Miller with prayer.

HoLLOND Memorial Churc>

THE NEW BUILDING 89

Dr. Charles A. Dickey made an address,
and Dr. Willard M. Rice pronounced the
benediction.

The following articles were placed in the
box :

Bible; Confession of Faith and Shorter Cate-
chism; Book of Worship of Hollond Sunday-
school; programme of the ground-breaking of
the building; Memorial of Charles E. Morris;
short history of the church ; programme of
the laying of the corner-stone; Westminster
Teacher; "In His Steps," by Dr. Miller;
bronze medal of the Centennial General As-
sembly; medal of the Centenary of Presby-
terianism in the United States; rules of the
Ministering Ten and of the King's Daughters,
with the talent envelope used by Dr. Miller's
Sunday-school class in collecting for the build-
ing fund; description of work at Hollond, by
Dr. W. M. Paden, as given at the Buffalo Con-
vention; roll of officers and teachers of the
Sunday-school; constitution and roll of officers
of Young People's Association; roll of officers
of missionary societies; roll of officers of the
church; prayer-meeting topic card; brick book
collection envelope; American flag; postal card
and stamps; Presbyterian Journal; The Presby-
terian; New York Observer; Sunday School
Times; The Independent, four copies, contain-
ing a full discussion of the Revision question;

go THE NEW BUILDING

morning and afternoon papers, and the Ledger
almanac.

Dr. Paden, in concluding the reading of the
list, said, " Many of these are small things,
but as the mark of the bird's wing in the sand-
stone has made history so may some of these
little things."

At a meeting of the congregation held
on Monday evening, February 13, 1893, to
pass upon 'the series of resolu-
tions presented for consideration
relative to the system to be
adopted in reference to sittings
in the new church when it should be com-
pleted, it was heartily and unanimously re-
solved that all the seats should be absolutely
free and unassigned. This had been the policy
of the church from its organization.

The following article, from the pen of Dr.
Miller, appeared in the New York Evangelist^
on the 23d of the same month. It admirably
presents the case in all its bearings :

"The subject of 'free pews' has excited
considerable interest in this city as well as
elsewhere during the past year. Reference
has already been made in this correspondence
to the Hollond Memorial Church, as being
thoroughly committed to this plan of support
and benevolence. During the twelve years of
its history it has worked along this line with

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constantly improving results and with growing
satisfaction among its people.

" Mr. Robert C. Ogden has been identified
with this church from the beginning as super-
intendent of the Sabbath-school, elder, and
president of the board of trustees. Mr. Og-
den's views on the subject of ' free pews' are
well known, especially through his admirable
address on the subject a year ago, which was
published by the Fleming H. Revell Company,
and has had a wide sale.

" The Hollond Church system is not only
no pew rents, but no pledges of any sort. En-
velopes are used, and each member contributes
each lyord's day, as the Lord has prospered
him and his own conscience dictates, he and
the treasurer alone knowing how much he
gives.

" The new church building of this congrega-
tion is approaching completion, and the ques-
tion has been under consideration, whether the
pews shall be assigned to families and others,
by lot or otherwise, or whether no assignment
whatever shall be made. The subject has had
patient and careful thought, and has been much
discussed among the people. The decision has
been reached that no assignment of any pews
or sittings shall be made. The whole house
will be free — as free to the stranger coming
in any Sunday as to the member who has

92 THE NEW BUILDING

been longest in connection with the church.
"This is practically a new departure, at
least for Philadelphia; indeed, it is doubtful
whether any Presbyterian church in the coun-
try has tried the experiment, and its working
will be attentively watched by many people.
The decision of the church on the matter at the
congregational meeting held on the 13th inst.
was unanimously made. The people them-
selves settled it without any urging or per-
suading by any advocate whatever. The feel-
ing is that any assignment of pews, however
qualified, would be an encroachment on the
absolute freeness of the church, which must be
maintained as a cardinal principle of its organ-
ization and system. As a matter of fact, there
is no doubt that most of the families and mem-
bers will practically settle down in a little
while into certain pews, where they will habit-
ually sit. But as there has been no assignment
of the pews, no one can assert a claim to any
sitting, however long he may have occupied it.
No person coming into the church at any time
and having been shown into a pew, need fear
that he is in any other person's place, for no-
body will have a place which is his own. Re-
spect will, of course, be paid by regular wor-
shippers to the preferences and habits of fellow-
worshippers. The ushers, too, will regard the
desires of families and individuals as far as pos-

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sible, not putting strangers into pews which
thej' know to be ordinarily occupied by mem-
bers, unless it be necessary to do so. Then it
is to be hoped that the spirit of hospitality will
be so thoroughly developed and so practically
dominant that they will think always of others,
not of themselves, taking the place of hosts in
the house of God, not of guests, and giving to
any one who enters the door a true vi^elcome in
the name of the I^ord. For, after all, whatever
the method of church support, and whatever
the manner of distributing the worshippers in
the pews, the members of the church are re-
sponsible for the character of the welcome
given to strangers. In a free pew, as well as
in one rented at the highest price, an occupant
can freeze a visitor by a look, if the inhospit-
able spirit be in his heart. The only way to
make a church with free pews and unassigned
sittings, or any other church, a place where
anybody will feel at home, is to have the spirit
of love, the mind of Christ, ruling among the
people."

Many causes combined to prevent the com-
pletion of the building at as early a date as had
been anticipated, and the trustees
were often compelled to have re-

DEDICATION , ,, • -, . , •

course to wise and masterly in-
activity." The work, however,
though slow at times and often delayed, was

94 THE NEW BUILDING

done thoroughly. At length, to the great joy
of all, there came

" A day in goMen letters to be set
Among the high tides of the calendar,"

when the hopes of the building committee were
to have glad fruition and the patience of the
congregation was to be richly rewarded — the
eventful day of occupancy, Monday, October i6,
1893!

On Sunday, October 15, the last preaching
services were held in the chapei. Heaven
never gave to earth a more beautiful day.
The room was crowded. In the morning Dr.
Miller preached from the texts: ''Remember
the words of the Lord Jesus, hozv he said, It is
more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 2c:
35; ''Remember the word unto thy se?vant,
7ipon which thou hast caused me to hope^ Ps.
119: 49.

In speaking of those who once were with us,
he said: "They labored, suffered and died
before they saw the finished work. They did
their part, and passed to their reward; the
work has fallen to us. Their hands are folded
now, but we must not fold our hands until our
work is done."

In the evening Dr. Paden preached from
Ezekiel 3: 12, " I heard behind me a voice of a
great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of
the Loid from his place. ^^ The sermon v\as

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largely made up of readings from reminiscent
letters written by those who had long labored
for the church. The benediction was pro-
nounced at five minutes of nine o'clock, and
at 9.23 the last lingering worshipper had de-
parted, the lights were extinguished, and the
building was left alone with its memories. It
continues to be used for Sabbath-school and
prayer-meeting purposes.

On the next evening, Monday, October i6th,
the dedicatory services, which were delight-
fully helpful and interesting, commenced in
the new church and continued throughout the
week. At his own request, the beautiful plants
with which the building was decorated were
contributed by a member of the Roman Catho-
lic Church. The pulpit Bible also was pre
sented by a friend of the Roman Catholic
Church " as a mark of his appreciation of the
kindness members of Hollond had shown to
him and his family." The communion table
was a gift from Mr. John D. McCord.

The first sermon was by Dr. Miller, and his
text was from Heb. 13: 8, *' Jesus Christ the
same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever^
" That name," said Dr. Miller, " is far
above all others for salvation, for help, for
comfort, for refuge. In the hour of tempta-
tion it is a name of strength ; in the hour of
trouble, of need, of pain, it is a name of hope.

96 THE NEW BUILDING

Compared to it all other names fade as the stars
before the sun. Christ in his person is always
the same. Before his incarnation, as now,
he felt the same ardent love for sinners on
earth. He is the same to the world ; no man
spake as this man ; His words are eternal.
He is the same ; unchangeable ; in redemption
the light of the cross shines down through all
ages. Men may come and go, but Jesus Christ
is the same yesterday, to-day and forever."

Addresses were made by ex-Mayor Edwin S.
Stuart and Mr. R. C. Ogden. Tuesday even-
ing was devoted to the interests of the Chris-
tian Endeavor Society. Addresses were made
by Dr. William M. Paden, G. S. Benson,
Esq.. and the Rev. J. T. Beckley, D. D., pas-
tor of the Beth-Eden Baptist Church. Mr.
Charles A. Hoehling was installed as presi-
dent of the Christian Endeavor Society. Wed-
nesday evening, there were greetings by the
Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, D, D., pastor of
Chambers Presbyterian Church, and a sermon
by the Rev. John R. Paxton, D. D., of New
York. The sermon on Thursday evening,
was by the Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall,
of Brooklyn. Mr. Leonard E. Auty, the
famous tenor soloist, sang. The benediction
was pronounced by Dr. W. C. Cattell. Ad-
dresses were made on Friday evening by the
Rev. James D. Paxton, of the West Spruce

North Rose Window

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Street Presbyterian Church, Rev. H. ly. Duh-
ring, of the Episcopal Church, and the Rev.
S. W. Dana, D. D., of the Walnut Street
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Murray Chism
and his sister sang duets. The church was
filled to overflowing at every service. The
weather during the entire week was delightful.
The dedicatory sermon was preached on
Sunday morning October 22d, by the Rev. Dr.
Paden, from the text : " Therefore let no man
glory hi men. For all things are yours;
whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the
zvorld, or life, or death, or things present, or
things to come ; all are yoiirs ; and ye are
Christ's; and Christ is God's.'' i Cor. 3:
21-23. Among other things he said: "Par-
tisanship is carnality, not piety." "When
will we learn that there is nothing essentially-
pious either in swearing by or swearing at
Luther or Loyola, Calvin or Wesley, Spur-
geon or Newman, or Martineau ? Christianity
is not loyalty to human leadership, but loy-
alty to Christ." "Thomas a Kempis, Bun-
yan, Rutherford and Woolman, do not belong
to the Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians or
Quakers; they belong to us all. All things
are yours." " This is not the church of St.
John, or St. Paul, or St. David, much less of
St. Calvin, or St. Wesley ; it is the church of
Christ."

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"A Protestant church? Yes; but Chris-
tian first, Protestant second. A Presbyterian
church? Yes; but Christian first, Protestant
second, and Presbyterian with what is left
over." "We have at one communion re-
ceived members by letters from seven different
denominations. Our enlistments by confession
come from homes of almost every denomina-
tional congregation. We receive all alike ort
the one condition : ' ^aith in the lyord Jesus
Christ, manifest in Godly sorrow for sin, and
in a Godly life.' Our question is not. Are
you a Paulite, or a Methodist, or a Presbyte-
rian, or a Baptist; but, Do you want to fall in
with us in our following of Jesus Christ ? You
can no more keep a man out of Christ's
Church, for the cut of his theology, than you
can for the cut of his coat."

" The Christian Church must be as broad
as Christendom. Christian character must be
as broad as life."

At 2.30 in the afternoon, 1300 out of 1500
scholars marched from the chapel into the new
church. After the doxology, the first hymn
sung was, " Come, Thou Almighty King."
Addresses were made by Dr. Willard M. Rice,
R. S. Walton, Esq , and the Hon. George S.
Graham. Mr. Walton's helpful talk was on,
"Mind the steps," his three stepping stones
being, "Be true; be trusty ; be 7ioble."

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The closing services of the dedication were
held in the evening, Dr. Miller presiding.
The keys were delivered to Mr. Robert C.
Ogden, chairman of the trustees, by Mr.Wm h.
Cooke, chairman of the building committee.
Addresses were made by the Rev. Louis R.
Fox and the Hon. John Wanamaker. Madame
Suelke sang, and a congratulatory letter was
read from the Rev. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr.,
D. D., who was unable to be present.

The day, which had been cloudy, ended
with a down-pour of rain. The church, how-
ever, was filled to its utmost capacity.

Mr. William L. Cooke wears on his watch
chain a highly-prized gold dollar which was
presented to him during dedication week by
Dr. Paden. This dollar was given to Dr.
Paden on the day the ground for the new
building was broken and is marked with that
date — " Hollond Memorial, October 23d,
1889."

The new church is of noble proportions, and

is without doubt, the most imposing structure

of its kind in South Philadelphia.

THE NEW I'he outer walls, which have

BUILDING a frontage on Broad street of

ninety-four feet and a depth of

one hundred and nine feel on Federal street,

are constructed of Ohio buff Massilon stone,

with trimmings of red sand-stone from the

loo THE NEW BUILDING

famous Ballochmyle quarries of Scotland, the
two colors most happily blending. The two
entrances on Broad street are through vesti-
bules sixteen feet square, lighted by handsome
memorial windows. There is also an entrance,
through a vestibule, on Federal street. The
roof, which is covered with Roman tiling of
a bright rich color, forms a most harmonious
contrast with the walls and is strikingly at-
tractive.

A massive stone tower, 150 feet in height,
adds greatly to the artistic appearance of the
building, and is one of the most conspicuous
land-marks on South Broad street. The
church is cruciform in shape, and of the Ro-
manesque order of architecture. In its interior
construction the architect, Mr. David S. Gen-
dell (assisted by Mr. Thomas Jamieson as
supervising architect) while yielding to the
modern demand for a square amphitheatre,
happily retained all the desirable features of
an ecclesiastical building, many of which are
so conspicuously lacking in the churches of the
present day.

The heavy oaken pews, beautifully uphol-
stered, are arranged in semi-circular form, and
give the church a seating capacity of 1,200.
The inner roof is of the open timber construc-
tion, and is finished in oak, as are all of the
interior decorations. Even the smallest details

THE NEW BUILDING loi

of the work bear evidence of beauty, strength,
and durability. The building is heated by
steam and lighted by both gas and electricity
— the latter was used for the first time on
Sunday evening, July 31st, 1898. The fix-
tures were made by Cornelius & Rowland
from specially prepared designs. A comfort-
able, well-appointed study is at the left of the
pulpit.

The following appeared in the Presbyterian
Observer of February 7th, 1895 : " One of the
best and latest works of modern architects is
the Hollond Memorial Church. For harmon-
ious proportions, intricately carved woodwork,
rich and suggestive stained glass windows and
appropriate furnishings, this building is not
surpassed, and, so far as I know, is unequaled
in Philadelphia."

The most earnest and painstaking attention

was given by the trustees to the windows,

which represent the supreme

THE efforts of the best stained-glass

WINDOWS artists of Philadelphia and New
York. Tiffany, Armstrong, and
Godwin have here their finest conceptions
crystaiized in stone and glass. On every side
are figures of saints and apostles, angels and
arch-angels, produced in all the marvellous
combinations of coloring which have made
the works of the old masters the wonder

I02 THE NEW BUILDING

of succeeding ages. The worshipper whose
heart is open to the touch of the beautiful here
gets soul-ennobling sermons other than those
preached from the sacred desk, and he re-
ceives benedictions as divine as those from the
lips of the pastors. Hopeless, indeed, must be
the lot of him who heedless of the teachings
of Christ through his ministers, also feels no
longings for better things when God speaks to
his innermost being through these matchless
creations of art.

In each of the four gables of the church is a

large rose window, twenty-one feet in diameter.

Perhaps the most beautiful of

THE these is the one in the east gable,

EAST ROSE ,. , , , r i , .

WINDOW directly back of the pulpit. It
is a masterpiece of decorative art,
and cannot fail to excite the admiration of all
beholders. Over the little oriental town of
Bethlehem in the center shines out clear and
bright the Star of the Nativity ; and although
we cannot see the manger, nor hear the sing-
ing, we instinctively feel, with Dr. J. G. Hol-
land, that

There's a song in the air !
There's a star in the sky !
There's a mother's deep prayer
And a baby's low cry ;
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful

sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king !

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There's a tumult of joy

O'er the wonderful birth,

For the Virgin's sweet boy

Is the IvOrd of the earth.
Ay, the star rains its fire, and the beautiful sing.
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king !

In the light of that star

Lie the ages impearled ;

And that song from afar

Has swept over the world :
Every heart is aflame, and the beautiful sing,
In the homes of the nations, that Jesus is king !

We rejoice in the light,

And we echo the song

That comes down through the night

From the heavenly throng.
Ay, we shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
And we greet in his cradle our Saviour and

King!

In four of the sixteen segments which radiate
from the center, are flame colors that represent,
or rather suggest, the Cross, and in the inter-
mediate segments are groups of happy cherubs
flying toward the town. There are thirty-six
of these beautiful figures, and they are so
naturally and gracefully arranged as to relieve
the work of all suggestion of stiffness. A
wrapt expression of holy joy and adoration is
on each face, and, as we look, our thoughts
turn reverently to the deathless night of long
ago when o'er the Judean plains was heard

I04 THE NEW BUILDING

" the heavenly host praising God and saying,
' Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will toward men. ' " The artist
has happily caught the inspiration of the hour
and through his masterful skill the song still
trembles on the air and falls as a benediction
on all hearts that worship the Father in spirit
and in truth in this his earthly temple.

Though immediately back of the pulpit the
coloring is so skillfully modified that even in
the brightest morning light the speaker is
never thrown into shadow. The window was
made by Alfred Godwin, after designs of
Frederick Wilson. It is a memorial from the
women of the church to Charles E. Morris,
"whose faithful service and inspiring leader-
ship in the past history of Hollond made the
new church possible."

The rose window in the west gable was

designed and executed by Maitland Armstrong,

a master of color in glass. In

THE view of the intricate stone tracery,

WEST ROSE

WINDOW which is altogether different from
that of the east window, it was
necessary to follow purely decorative designs,
with no attempt at illustration. The many
colors, in which the pale warm reds predomi-
nate, are artistically blended. The glow of
the afternoon sunlight is needed to display its
beauty to the best advantage.

THE NEW BUILDING 105

lu this window an interesting effort has been
made to illustrate the " fruits of the Holy-
Spirit." The central figure rep-
TH E resents the ascending Christ, with

NORTH ROSE , , . , . , _ .

WINDOW hands raised in benediction. Im-
mediately above, is the descend-
ing dove, indicating the coming of the Holy
Spirit after the departure of Christ from the
earth, as foretold in the fourteenth chapter of
St. John. Angel ministrants surround the as-
cending lyord, while in the larger circles
beyond, the fruits of the Spirit — " Love, Joy,
Peace, lyongsuflfering, Gentleness, Goodness,
Faith, Meekness, and Temperance, ' ' (Galatians,
5 : 22, 23) — are represented by figures of mor-
tals. It was a brilliant conception which thus
so successfully blended the divine, the angelic,
and the human in this very intimate but dis-
tinct relationship. This window also was made
by Alfred Godwin from drawing by Frederick
"Wilson. It is a memorial to a sister of Mr.
Robert C. Ogden, Mrs. Helen Ogden Wood.

The stone tracery of this window is exactly

similar in design to the one in the north gable.

At present it is filled with plain

THE glass painted to harmonize with

SOUTH ROSE . 1 ^^- nAi •

WINDOW i^^s general setting. This paint-
ing has been done so well as to
make a surprisingly good appearance. It is
hoped that this glass will, at no distant day, be

io6 THE NEW BUILDING

removed and its place taken by a handsome
memorial.

Under each of the four rose windows is a

group of five arcade windows. Those in the

north, south, and west walls are

THE about three feet wide and eight

EAST ARCADE r ^ i • i n^^ • j • .-i.

WINDOWS fsst high. The wmdows in the
east wall are somewhat smaller.
This difference was made necessary by the
location and desigQ of the choir, which is
between them and the pulpit. From the floor
of the choir to the base line of the arcade win-
dows the wall is covered by an oak wainscoting,
and the diminution of the windows was com-
pelled by this decoration, and by the necessity
of keeping all exterior light above the pulpit
and choir. The design used in these windows
is, in the main, merely a decorative, geometri-
cal pattern, and is alike in all, slight variations
in the color of the several windows giving
moderate contrasts. In the arch at the top of
each window is a cherub's head, serving to
associate the thought of the music below with
that of the heavenly host represented in the
great rose window just above.

These windows complete the memorial to
Charles E. Morris, of which the east rose win-
dow is, of course, the important part. Alfred
Godwin was the maker.

Under the north gallery is a group of five

THE NEW BUILDING 107

attractive windows. The figures, while not

original in design, are of such

THE exquisite workmanship as to

NORTH ARCADE . . . ,.„

WINDOWS make one quite indifferent to
the fact that they are copies
— especially is this true when we learn that
they were made from models, designed by the
master hand of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, now
in important English churches — the central one
being from a church in Brighton, and the
others from Salisbury Cathedral. The win-
dows are of a highly decorative character, and
are all idealized angelic figures of the type for
which Sir Edward is distinguished. The rich
and harmonious coloring was the work of
Alfred Godwin, who followed the originals in
design but adapted the color scheme to the
location of the windows and to the general
light of the church.

These windows are all memorials. The first
on the left is to the memor}^ of Elizabeth C.
Williams (1860-18S4) ; the second was pre-
sented by the Thoughtful Circle of King's
Daughters to the memory of Samuel M.
Kennedy (1853- 1893); the third was given
by Miss Penrose's Sunday-school class to the
memory of Dr. Paden's brother, Henry Armine
Paden (1857- 1892); and the fourth and fifth
arememorials of Alice Slaymaker (1867-1896),
and Bertha M. Slaymaker (1864-1877).

io8 THE NEW BUILDING

A pathetic interest attaches to the Slaymaker
sisters. They were not connected with Hollond.
Dr. Miller was the friend of one of these (Alice),
and he visited her frequently during her long
illness. She was a great sufferer but the peace
of her heart was never shadowed. Her sister
also lived a joyous Christian life, brief though
it was. When both had gone home, there were
some precious savings which were to be devo-
ted to whatever sacred use the parents might
designate. They were given to the new Hol-
lond building, and being put at interest, the
sum grew to five hundred dollars — the cost of
the two memorials.

The five arcade windows in the west wall

were the gift of the King's Daughters, and are

no less beautiful illustrations of

THE the loving ministry of the donors

WEST ARCADE ^, ^, c ^u i ..■

WINDOWS than they are of the perfection
which may be attained in the art
which gave them being. They vividly depict
the different scenes described in Matthew 25:
35> 36: (i) "I was an hungered, and ye gave
me meat; " (2). " I was thirsty, and ye gave
me drink; " (3). "I was a stranger, and ye
took me;" (4). " Naked, and ye clothed me;"
(5). "I was sick, and ye visited me." The
fidelity to detail is marked, and indicates close
study on the part of Mr. Frederick Wilson,
the designer. There is a delicacy of execution

THE NEW BUILDING 109

and a strength of expression rarely to be
found in works of this character.

This group is under the south gallery and is

considered by many to be the finest in the

church. In the first is a figure

THE representing St. Matthew, and

SOUTH ARCADE . • ^ j. r, ■ ■ t ^

WINDOWS IS a memorial to Benjamin John
Cooke (1820- 1 873); the second
is St. Mark, and is in memory of Mary Langley
Cooke (1825-1882J. Mr. and Mrs. Cooke were
the parents of Mr. William L,. Cooke, our
church treasurer. The third represents St.
John, the design being taken from Thor-
valdsen's famous statue. It is a memorial
to Mary Burnside Morris (1813-1891), the
mother of Mr. Charles E. Morris. The fourth
contains the figure of St. Luke, and the fifth,
that of St. Paul. These last two are memor-
ials to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Ogden, the
parents of Mr. Robert C. Ogden.

After examining these windows carefully, a
gentleman visiting the church said: " I have
seen the leading cathedrals of Europe and have
closely observed many of the windows, but I
have nowhere found finer work in glass than
is represented in these five figures of .the apos-
tles." All, with the exception of the St. John
window, are from originals by Frederick
Wilson, and the entire five were executed
by the Tiffany Decorative Company.

no THE NEW BUILDING

This fine window is in the north vestibule
and represents John the Baptist, with the in-
scription, "Prepare ye the way
JOHN of the Lord . ' ' The figure of the

THE BAPTIST

WINDOW Baptist has remarkable force and
power, and the accessories are in
entire accord with the historic surroundings
of the subject. It was presented by the Minis-
tering Circle of "king's Daughters. A tablet
to the memory of Miss Marie Meares, who
died January 4, 1897, and who was one of the
most faithful and devoted members of this
active Circle, is placed on the window.

The windows under the east end of the south

gallery were erected by Mr. and Mrs. James C.

Taylor to the memory of their

OTHER fou^" children — Lizzie V., John

WINDOWS c., Annie Morris, and Harriet

Hollond. These windows were

the work of Alfred Godwin, and have for their

design lilies and passion flowers, surrounded

by beautiful ornamental work.

In the lobby leading to the north gallery is
an interesting group of four windows, repre-
senting St. Michael, St. Raphael, St. Uriel and
St. Gabriel. Mr. Wilson, who designed them,
and Mr. Godwin, who made them, have reason
to be proud of their work. The St. Michael
window perpetuates the memory of Mary Eliza-
beth Blodget (1S30-1888); the St. Raphael

John the Baptist Window

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window is a memorial to Emma M. Smith,
who died October 3, 1883; the St. Uriel win-
dow is in memory of dead members of the
Armstrong Class; and the St. Gabriel window
keeps alive the memory of Samuel B. Stewart,
who was born May 9, 1865, and died Septem-
ber 29, 1885. Young Stewart was a beloved
and faithful worker in the church and school,
and was preparing himself for the work of the
gospel ministry, when the Father called him
to a higher life and a nobler service.

Our church becomes nearer and dearer to us
all as we see on every side these beautiful me-
morials of a deathless love, through which the
light of heaven falls as a benediction, and by
which we catch faint suggestions of the bright-
ness surrounding those who now walk in " the
city that hath no need of the sun, neither of
the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God
doth lighten it."

The organ is one of the finest in the city and

was made by Haskell, the famous builder, at a

cost of $8,500. "It is divided

j„^ and stands on either side of the

ORGAN chancel, with the key-box and

choir-seats arranged between.

The separate parts are connected by tubular

pneumatic action. Particular attention has

been paid to the acoustics of the building, and

the position the organ occupies — the strength

112 THE NEW BUILDING

of the various qualities of tone being most
admirably balanced The instrument, as a
whole, is a representative one of the perfection
to which the art of organ-building has been
advanced. It is in every way worthy of the
edifice in which it stands.

"One of the important features of the instru-
ment is the Haskell patent register keys.
This device does away with all draw stop
knobs, and, in connection with the Haskell
patent combination and crescendo attachment,
effects an entirely new and distinct method of
registration. The register keys consist of a
row of alternate sharps and naturals, of the
same scale as the manual key-board ; they are
situated just above the swell keys. The
natural keys bring the stops on and the sharps
take them ofE. By pushing down a natural
the stop is drawn and remains down until
released by the depression of its corresponding
sharp. In this way the player can readily see
what stops are on and what are not. The
register keys are grouped together to avoid
confusion, and each is engraved on the front
with the name of the stop which it controls.
They can be operated either singly or in com-
bination as desired, as by a single motion of
the hand one can be drawn and another pushed
off, or a group of stops can be drawn by a
single stroke.

North Gallery Lobby

THE NEW BUILDING 113

" By the application of the patent combina-
tion and crescendo attachment, the player ob-
tains a control of the instrument which hereto-
fore has not been attainable, being enabled
thereby to bring on or take off any number of
stops desired. It also acts as a crescendo,
drawing one stop after another until all stops
are drawn, and pushing them off in the same
manner, without the lifting of a finger from the
key-board to effect this orchestral crescendo and
diminuendo ; thus effects in registration, which
have heretofore been sacrificed for the sake of
preserving the harmony of the composition, can
be produced without loss of time and wholly
without the aid of the hand. Although the
resources of this pedal are almost unlimited,
its operation is extremely simple.

" On each side of the pedal is a flange,
situated in a convenient place to be operated
by the toe of the shoe. These flanges bring
the crescendo into action — by pressing the one
to the left to bring the stops on, and the other
to the right to take them off. Any number of
stops can be brought on or taken off at once by
placing the pedal in position before pressing the
flange to the right or left.

" On the main board, over the keys, is an
expression indicator which shows the exact
position of the pedal, so that the player can
tell at a glance how much of the organ would

114 THE NEW BUILDING

be brought on or taken off by the motion of
the foot to the right or left.

" The bellows is fitted with large horizontal
acting feeders, which are operated by an eight-
inch Ross hydraulic motor, situated in the cel-
lar, thus furnishing a full supply of wind at all
times. In this organ each chest is provided
with its reservoir, or regulator, giving to each
part of the organ the proper pressure, and in-
suring absolute steadiness in the wind. The
scales and voicing of the pipes, on which
mainly depend the success of the instrument,
are of the highest order of excellence."

The organ has three manuals, thirty-eight
speaking stops, with six couplers ; seven com-
bination pedals, a complete pedal scale of thirty
notes, and 2314 pipes, ranging in length from
two inches to sixteen feet.

Mr. Russell King Miller, son of the Rev.
Dr. J. R. Miller, was the organist from the
dedication of the building to 1898, when he
resigned to accept a similar position in the
First Church, Germantown. His successor
was Mr. D. E. Crozier, who was the organist
of Princeton Chapel during the two years pre-
ceding his graduation from the college in 1886.
He studied in Chicago under W. S. B. Mathews,
and in Paris under Guilmant. From 1886 to
his coming to us in 1898, he was the organist
of the Market Square Presbyterian Church,

D. E. Crozier

THE NEW BUILDING 115

Harrisburg, Pa. He has exceptional taste and
ability, and easily ranks among the foremost
performers of the city.

The land (100 feet on Broad street and 200
feet on Federal street, including the entire
distance from Broad to Juniper
TOTAL COST strccts), which was secured at
BUILDING different times, cost $21,833.33 '>
the building, including complete
furnishings, approximates $120,000.00 — mak-
ing a total expenditure, in round numbers, of
about $142,000.00. Property has greatly ap-
preciated in value since the land was purchased.
It is estimated that the entire plant, including
the chapel property, is now worth nearly a
quarter of a million of dollars. It is hoped at
no distant day to erect a commodious building
on the lot back of the church, which shall
furnish ample accommodations for the manifold
organizations now helping in carrying forward
the work.

The following resolution was adopted at a
congregational meeting of the Tenth Presby-
terian Church, held May 24th,

TENTH ^o^- .

CHURCH ^^93-

LEGACY "Resolved, That when the

property at Twelfth and Walnut
streets be sold, $75,000 of the money be appro-
priated to the Hollond Presbyterian Church —
$35,000 of the same to be applied to the pay-
ment of the church indebtedness, and $40,000

ii6 THE NEW BUILDING

to be held as an endowment fund, protected by
the language of the deed of the Tenth Presby-
terian Church, which is as follows : ' Provided
always that they shall adhere to and maintain
the mode of faith and church discipline as set
forth in the Confession of P'aith of the Presby-
terian Church in the United States of
America.' "

At a congregational meeting of the Hollond
Memorial Church, -held on the 5th of June, the
following action was taken on the resolution
adopted by the Tenth Church :

''Resolved, That the Harriet Hollond Mem-
orial Presbyterian Church accept the proposal
of the Tenth Presbyterian Church to transfer
to the use of the Harriet Hollond Memorial
Church, from the proceeds of the sale of the
property at the north-east corner of Twelfth
and Walnut streets, the sum of $75,000. upon
the conditions named in the communication
containing the proposal, and subject to the
language of the deed of the Tenth Presbyterian
Church, as follows : ' Provided always that
they shall adhere to and maintain the mode of
faith and church discipline as set forth in the
Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States of America.' " It was
further

" Resolved, That the thanks of the Hollond
Church are due and are hereby tendered to the
Tenth Church for the generous Christian spirit
displayed in the liberal assistance in the work
of the Hollond Church proposed by the Tenth
Church in its recent action."

THE NEW BUILDING 117

The following extract, relative to the bequest
of the Tenth Church, is from the annual report
(January, 1896) of Mr. William L. Cooke, our
treasurer :

" On April 8th, 1895, the board of trustees
of the Hollond Memorial Church received
through its treasurer, from the trustees of the
Tenth Presbyterian Church, deeds for the
chapel property at the corner of Federal and
Clarion streets, free of all encumbrance ; a
check for $35,000 ; mortgages to the value of
$5,500, being the Boardman Trust — also check
for $279.40, being the accrued interest on the
same to date ; deed for ten burial lots in Wood-
land Cemetery, and certificate of two shares of
stock in the ' Woodland Cemetery Company.'
At the same time, the Philadelphia Trust,
Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, as trus-
tees, received $40,000 as an endowment fund
for the Hollond Church."

DEVELOPMENT

In his fourteenth anniversary sermon, deliv-
ered on Sunday morning, October 3rd, 1897,
Dr. Paden said :

" God has brought our church into a large
place. Situated as we are in one of the world's
great cities, and at one of the great life-centres
of that city, we have a field which is exceeding
broad. There are more immortal souls within
a half hour's walk of this church than there
are scattered over the whole area of a half
dozen of our newer western states. Moreover,
our force is phenomenally large ; there are as
many members in HoUond as there are in the
whole twenty-three Presbyterian churches of
Utah. As for our church property, it is worth
almost as much as all their church property
combined. Few congregations in this great
and wealthy city have finer accommodations
for ' whosoever will.' and none have freer.

" Much of this enlargement has come to us
during the last fourteen years Fourteen
years ago, this church did not own an inch of
property ; it did not own the building in which
it worshiped. The school was still almost en-
tirely supported by the mother church ; some

DEVELOPMENT 119

$1,300 had been raised toward a building fund;
this was every dollar of assets the church had
in hand ; but she had faith and hope, and the
favor of God. This favor was manifested in
innumerable ways, most notably in the end by
his stirring the workers and the members of
the church with the spirit of liberality and by
his guidance of the mother church in the mak-
ing of her last will and testament. Now, our
church property and endowment represent
capital to the amount of a quarter of a million
dollars. We have enough members to fill the
church and to carry on its work with notable
efficiency, if our people will only rise to their
privileges and their possible spiritual power."
The following figures, taken from the
minutes of the General Assembly, show the
membership of the church on the first of April
of each year since its organization :

1882 259 1891 754

1883 310 1892 775

1884 341 1893 825

1885 360 1894 1,005

1886 460 1895 1,090

1887 502 1896 1,105

1888 562 1897 1,164

1889 660 1898 1,170

1890 697 1899 1,170

Although there has been a net gain of only
6 since the report of 1897, yet 125 persons— 71
on profession of faith and 54 by letter— have

I20 DEVELOPMENT

united with the church since that time. The
losses by deaths and removals have almost
equalled the gain.

Our growth, when compared with that of
other churches, has been gratifying. In 1882,
when we had 259 members, there were 41
larger congregations of our Presbytery ; in
1883, 36 ; in 1884, 26 ; in 1885, 27 ; in 1886,
20 ; in 1887, 15 ; in 1888, 13 ; in 1889, 9 ; in
1890, 10 ; in 1891, 8 ; in 1892, 7 ; in 1893, 5 5
in 1894, 2; in 1895, 2; in 1896, 2; in 1897, 2;
in 1898, I ; in 1899, i.

The following table gives the number of
persons received to the church each year :

On Profession.

By Letter.

Total

1882

79

19

98

1883

55

21

76

1884

45

18

63

1885

44

21

65

1886

81

42

123

1887

59

31

90

1888

99

33

132

1889

88

43

131

1890

52

26

78

1891

47

36

83

1892

56

35

91

1893

60

15

75

1894

83

92

175

1895

75

49

124

1896

36

29

65

1897

76

43

119

1898

52

20

72

1899

19

34

53

Totals 1,106

607

1.713

DEVELOPMENT 121

It will thus be seen that 1,106 persons have
united with the church on profession of faith
and 607 by letter, making a total of 1,713. If
we add the original membership — 229 — we
have a grand total of 1,942 persons whose
names have appeared on our church rolls be-
tween March, 1882, and April, 1899. The
difference between 1,942, the total membership^
and 1,170, the present membership, is 772 — ■
the number of names which for various causes
has been removed from the roll. In a floating
congregation, such as ours, this number is not
unduly large. It is pleasant to know that
many of those who have removed from us are
now giving helpful service to other churches.

203 adults and 571 children have been bap-
tized. The Sunday-school reports this year
(1899) a membership of 1,176, making it, with
one exception, the largest school of the Pres-
bytery. The total congregational collections
aggregate $2 15, coo. 00.

These figures represent only the numerical
growth, which, let it never be forgotten, should
mean but little in any church when compared
with the spiritual. The religious organiza-
tions, however small in numbers, which laid
the foundation of the world-wide usefulness of
such men as Moffat and Livingstone, Duff and
Brainerd, have been instrumental in rendering
an infinitely nobler service to God and to

122 DEVELOPMENT

humanity than have those with hundreds of
members whose only evidence of Christianity
is that their names appear on the church
registers. For, after all, it is the upbuilding
of Christ-like manhood and womanhood that
counts. It is in this direction that Hollond has
rendered a far-reaching service. It has never
failed in its insistence that for a life to ring
true, creed and conduct must go hand in hand.
Through its influence, character has been
developed, homes have been refined, and social
life has grown purer and more wholesome.
Eternity alone will reveal the results of the
quiet and beautiful ministry of those who have
here been taught to stand bravely in life's
hard places for " whatsoever things are true."

That the church is dear to many may be
inferred from the following portion of a letter
recently written by one of its workers :

' ' What a powerful centre of usefulness our
dear Hollond is ! How helpful is the influ-
ence of the truly consecrated lives we have in
our church family ! The services are reverent
and uplifting, and the entire atmosphere a joy
and a benediction. It is a holy place — a place
for the truly penitent soul to get into close and
helpful touch with its Saviour. I am always
spiritually stronger after a Sunday of sweet
content passed within the walls of our beloved
Zion, I am thankful that there are so many

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123

good and true friends of Jesus among our mem-
bers, for I know that he is always present for
their sakes, and maybe for the sake also of
what I long to be, and because he knows that
I have so much need of his presence. My
daily prayer is that all of us may so labor that
our work may be as lasting as eternity ; that
when we shall pass into the great hereafter we
may see from the heavenly heights many
precious sheaves gathered from our sowing."

Nor is this feeling confined alone to those
who now labor with us; a young lady in a dis-
tant city writes :

" I do not know what the influence was, or
wherein lay the charm, but I do know that I
always loved and revered my associations with
Hollond far above those of any other church.
Although I have now been away from it ten
years, yet even to this day a great longing pos-
sesses me every Sabbath to be there whenever
I hear the church bells here ringing. Dear
old Hollond ! I wonder if you know just how
much your children — whether they be near or
far — love you ! ' '

Several of our young men, who received their
inspiration and training here and who gave in
return much helpful service while they were
with us, are now in the gospel ministry, and
all have charges. Their names and addresses
follow: Rev. Charles A. Oliver, York, Pa.;

124 DEVELOPMENT

Rev. Robert H. Kirk, Coleraine, Pa.; Rev.
Peter Rioseco (who is doing an important work
as a Sabbath-school missionary of the Presby-
terian Board of Publication and Sabbath-school
Work) Havana, Cuba ; Rev. Samuel Semple,
Titusville, Pa.; Rev. W. F. S. Nelson, Ambler,
Pa. ; Rev. Cleveland Frame, South Hermitage,
Pa.; Rev. Charles G. Hopper, Georgetown,
Delaware; Rev. Ray H. Carter, assistant pas-
tor of the Walnu^Street Church, Philadelphia ;
Rev. Harry W. Bloch, assistant to Dr. W. M.
Paden in the First Presbyterian Church, Salt
Lake City, Utah ; and Rev. W. H. Dyer,
Audeureid, Pa. Although Messrs. Kirk and
Rioseco were not members of our church, yet
they were so intimately associated with us as to
be always included among " our boys."

Theodore H. Lodeh

OLD LEADERS AND NEW

Under God, much of our spiritual and nu-
merical growth was due to the faithful pulpit
and pastoral ministrations of Drs. Paden and
Miller. "With a fidelity seldom excelled, they
devoted themselves, to the extent of their
ability, to the work, and it is not surprising
that they won the love and confidence of all
their people.

During the latter part of 1891, Dr. Paden's

health became impaired, and early in January,

1892, he was granted by the ses-

DH. PADEN sion a leave of absence of three

THE SOUTH months, which was afterwards
extended to nine, in order that
he might recuperate. He spent much of the
time in the mountains of North and South
Carolina and was greatly benefited. His first
sermon, after his return, was delivered in the
chapel on the 2d of October. He said in part:

" If there was one desire uppermost in my
heart as I entered the new year, it was to
make it the most active and effective year of
my ministry. As a pastor, a preacher, an

126 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

apostle of good courage, an organizer for the
day of church-occupation, and as a useful as-
sistant in the thousand little things which some
one must know about in an era of church
building, I desired to shoulder and carry my
share of the burden. Instead, at the beginning
of the year I was laid aside with grippe-pneu-
monia, and have spent the months for which I
had devised unusual industry, in inactivity,
while nature made her kindly, but tedious
repairs. ^

"Just now, I would talk about things just
ahead, rather than of things just past — with
this one exception: I am eager to say that one
of the divinest touches which has ever come
into my life, has come through your affection-
ate and prayerful interest in me during these
months of absence. None of you will be jeal-
ous when I give Dr. Miller the place of honor
in this ministry of love. He has served you
for me, and me for you; and all of us for Christ
in a very Christ-like way. Other loving-kind-
nesses have come into my life through the wise
and prompt provisions made for me by the
session; the words of love and good cheer
from one and another of the people; and
through the Spirit of Love which brought me
boundless comfort through my confidence in
the unspoken affections of the many whose love
has been none the less real because silent."

George D. McIlvaine

OLD LEADERS AND NEW 127

Dr. Miller was away from the city from
March 27, 1893, to the middle of the following
May, during which time he enjoyed an ex-
tended trip along the Pacific coast.

In the fall of 1895, Dr. Paden received an

invitation to spend the winter in Paris for the

purpose of taking charge of the

DR. PADEN evangelistic movement which had

TO PARIS for its main object the reaching
of the English and American art
students in the I^atin Quarter of that city. At
first, he virtually refused to consider the pro-
position, deeming it inexpedient to leave the
work of HoUond even for a season; but after
much conference, he finally determined to ac-
cept. The session took the following action:

Whereas, Rev. Wm. M. Paden, D.D., has
been invited to take charge of highly important
evangelical work among the American and
English students in Paris for six months from
the ist of December prox.; and

Whereas, A careful examination by the
pastors and session of the opportunities thus
afforded indicates hopeful promise of large
influence for good; and

Whereas, Dr. Paden is inclined to enter
upon the work if it appears possible to do so
without impairing the efficiency and usefulness
of the Hollond Memorial Church. Therefore
it is

Resolved, That in the opinion of this session
it is possible to carry out the plan suggested in

128 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

the foregoing preamble, and therefore that Rev.
Dr. Paden is granted a six months' leave of
absence from the pastorate of the Hollond
Memorial Church, the dates of such absence
to be determined by his own convenience; and
it is further

Resolved, That Mr. W. H. Dyer be em-
ployed to assist Rev. Dr. Miller in the addi-
tional pastoral work during and caused by the
absence of Dr. Paden, and that Dr. Paden's
place in the pulpit be filled by the engagement
of other clergymen as supplies.

Dr. Paden sailed for Paris on the 21st of
November, 1895, and returned on the 5th of
June, 1896. Dr. Miller, who spent July and
August, 1896, in Europe, thus wrote: " It was
very pleasant in Paris to hear good reports of
Dr. Paden's work among the students. Most
of those who attended his services are now
away from their artist haunts, but I had the
pleasure of meeting with two or three of them,
and was delighted to hear them speak so grate-
fully of Dr. Paden and so confidently of the
value of his work and influence. Dr. Thurber,
pastor of the American Chapel, spoke without
stint of the value of Dr. Paden's services."

During Dr. Paden's absence. Dr. Miller re-
ceived invaluable assistance in the pastoral
work from Mr. W. H. Dyer, a member of
Hollond, and at that time a student in Prince-
ton Theological Seminary. He greatly en-
deared himself to the people by his faithful

Charles Hunter

t -^

OIvD LEADERS AND NEW 129

and sympathetic devotion to the work. Dur-
ing Dr. Miller's absence in Europe, he con-
tinued to assist Dr. Paden.

Among the prominent clergymen who ap-
peared in our pulpit while Dr. Paden was away,
were Dr. Theodore ly. Cuyler, Brooklyn, New
York; Dr. L. Y. Graham, Philadelphia; Dr.
J. E. Danforth, Philadelphia; Dr. Charles A.
Dickey, Philadelphia; Dr. James O. Murray,
dean of Princeton University; Mr. Robert E.
Speer, secretary of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions; Dr. Charles Wood, Philadelphia; Rev.
Charles A. Oliver, York, Pa. ; Dr. J. F. Dripps,
Germantown, Pa.; Dr. Arthur J. Brown, sec-
retary of the Board of Foreign Missions; Dr.
William R. Taylor, of the Brick Church,
Rochester, New York; Dr. S. W. Dana, Phil-
adelphia; Dr. Maltbie D. Babcock, of the
Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, Md. ;
Dr. Alexander McKenzie, Cambridge, Mass.;
Rev. Stephen B. Penrose, president of Whit-
man College, Washington; Dr. J. D. MofFatt,
president of Washington and Jefferson College,
Washington, Pa.; Rev. Henry E. Cobb, of the
Collegiate Reformed Church, New York, and
Dr. William Brenton Greene, Jr., of Princeton
Theological Seminary.

It is but just to state that it was expressly
stipulated by Dr. Paden that the expenses in-
curred for pastoral assistance and for pulpit

I30 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

supplies during his absence in Paris should be
paid out of his salary account, which was done.

The year 1897 brought to the work its most
serious losses. In April, Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
whose business required him to
THE LOSSES ^6 permanently in New York, re-
OF 1897 signed the superintendency of
the school. He had given to it
eighteen years of the most faithful and helpful
service. Other losses were to follow — the res-
ignations of Drs. Paden and Miller.

Dr. Paden spent his summer vacation of that
year in Utah, and during his visit preached in
the First Presbyterian Church of Salt I^ake
City. Soon after his return he received a call
from that church to come to it as its pastor.
After careful consideration of all the interests
involved, he determined to accept the call.
This decision he announced from the pulpit
on Sunday morning, October 3d — his four-
teenth anniversary as the pastor of HoUond.

The next day Presbytery took the following
action:

" At a meeting of the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia, held October 4, 1897, the Rev. William
M. Paden, D.D., presented a request for the
dissolution of his pastoral relations to the
Hollond Memorial Church. Whereupon it
was

^'Resolved, That the congregation of the
Hollond Memorial Church be, and the same

Charles A. Chew

OI.D LEADERS AND NEW 131

are hereby cited to appear by commissioners
duly appointed, at a meeting of the Presbytery
to be held in the Assembly Room, 1334 Chest-
nut street, on Monday, October 18, 1897, ^^ 2
o'clock, to show cause, if any there be, why
Dr. Paden's request be not granted."

On the 14th of October Dr. Miller sent to
the session the following letter:

" My relation as a worker in the HoUond
Memorial Presbyterian Church had its origin
in an invitation from the boards of the church.
It has reference only to the pastorate of Dr.
Paden. If therefore Dr. Paden's resignation
be accepted, my relation to the church is at
the same time ended without any motion of
mine.

' ' But to remove all uncertainty in the matter,
I hereby tender to the session my resignation,
to take eflEect on and after next Sabbath, Oc-
tober 17th.

' ' I would have it understood also that this
severance of relations on my part is final; that
I could not consent to return to any pastoral
relation in the church. The nature of my other
duties to the Church at large, in my editorial
position in the Board of Publication, devolves
upon me ever-increasing burden and responsi-
bility, making it impossible for me to assume
again the additional labors of a pastorate or
co-pastorate.

"Any assistance, however, which I can

132 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

render the Hollond Church in securing another
pastor, I will cheerfully give. Any visiting of
the sick, burying of the dead, or other such
ministries as I can perform, until a new pastor
is installed, I shall gladly render.

" I must thank the session, the other church
boards, and the people of Hollond, for the
courtesy and affection which I have received
during all these years of m}' connection with
the work. I have tried to do my duty, but no
one can be so conscious of the inadequacy ot
my service as I am myself.

" While I .shall no longer have any official
connection with the church, I shall never cease
to have the warmest affection for it and the
deepest interest in its growth and prosperity.
I have put too much love and toil and prayer
into my nearly seventeen years in Hollond,
ever to forget the church.

" I shall cherish the memory of these years
of close fellowship with Dr. Paden. For ten
years he was a member of my own family and
we shall always hold him in most kindly regard.
My prayers will rise to God for him in his new
home and work, and I shall be affectionately
interested in his personal happiness and in the
prosperity of the important work to which he
believes he has been so clearly called of
God."

A congregational meeting, to take action on

Charles A. Hoehling

OLD LEADERS AND NEW 133

Dr. Paden's request, was held in the chapel

on Friday evening, October 15th,

coNGREGA- Dr. William H. Gill, at the re-

TIONAL , r .1 • 1 J

MEETING quest of the session, acted as
moderator. Dr. Paden spoke
briefly as follows:

' ' On Sunday week I tried to make it clear
that my request to be released was not due to
any lack of confidence in this field; it is one
of the very best in the city, a church set on a
fruitful hill. It is in good financial condition,
and is in every way a desirable charge. I
want you to understand that I do not resign in
a fit of discouragement; that I am not trying to
get away from a church that I feel has reached
its best. I want to leave you full of courage
as to the undeveloped capacity of this field.

"I tried, in the second place, to have you
understand clearly that I do not go, or ask you
to release me, because I distrust you, or the
loyalty or love of the members, or any of the
members, of this congregation; and I want to
emphasize, that least of all do I distrtist the loy-
alty and love of the session of this congregation,
for our records will show that for fourteeii years
there has not been a divided vote.

' ' The next Sabbath I tried to show to you
the other side — the overmastering reason I had
for going. I tried to give you a glimpse of
what I considered to be providential indica-

134 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

tions that my going west is a part of God's
plan for my life.

' ' My conscience is perfectly clear on this
subject. I cannot be true to my conscience
without hearing the 'Woe be unto me' if I
obey not this call, which I have every reason
to believe to be the voice of God.

" I simply ask that you join with me in re-
questing my release of Presbytery, in order
that I may obey these beckonings of provi-
dence. Only a glimpse of these beckonings
have been given to you, because God's deal-
ings are very personal with man. I simply
ask that you will trust me, and trust God's
providence. Never once in these fourteen
years has this congregation said ' no ' to any-
thing for which I asked. And you will under-
stand, I think, that this is a matter which is
more personal to me than anything I have ever
asked of you before; and I say that the way
in which you can best show your confidence in
the saneness of my judgment, in the sincerity
of my desires to follow conscience, and what I
believe to be the voice of God — the best way
in which you can show your affection for me,
the best way and clearest way, is by joining
with me in asking for my release.

" Yes, there is one way that is better; there
is one way that you can show your loyalty and
love to me better, and that is by standi7ig by

George H. Kei

OLD LEADERS AND NEW 135

this work after you have released me, and I am
gofie.

" God grant that the future of Hollond may-
be the best testimony that could possibly be
made to the fact that good work has been done
here during the past! "

Mr. W. It. Cooke read the following resolu-
tions, addressed to the Presbytery of Philadel-
phia, which were adopted by a standing vote
— no one speaking or voting against them:

1. That we hereby acquiesce with Dr. Paden in his
request that the pastoral relations between himself
and this congregation be dissolved.

2. That we take this action with unfeigned reluc-
tance and deepest regret, not of any voluntary motion
or desire on our part, but because of Dr. Paden 's
insistence that it should be done, he having both pri-
vately and from the pulpit declared it to be his sol-
emn conviction that it is his duty to accept the call
recently tendered him by the First Presbyterian
Church in Salt Lake City, Utah.

3. That in taking this action, the Hollond Memor-
ial Presbyterian Church and congregation hereby de-
sire to express their very high appreciation of Dr.
Paden as a man, a Christian, a preacher and pastor,
and as a man of high literary culture and attainments,
and to bear testimony to the sincere aiTection and
respect with which he is universally regarded, not
only by the people of his immediate flock, but by the
community at large.

4. That we take pleasure in bearing testimony to
the success of his ministry amongst us both from a
material and spiritual point of view. When Dr. Paden

136 OIvD LEADERS AND NEW

was settled over us as pastor fourteen years ago, the
membership of our church was hardly more than three
hundred, while at the present time it numbers nearly
twelve hundred ; and it has been during his adminis-
tration also, and owing in a goodly measure to his
persevering efforts, that our house of worship on
Broad street has been erected. No one has recognized
more generously than Dr. Paden that, in carrying for-
ward all this great work to its present prosperous con-
dition, he has been ably seconded by the Rev. J. R.
Miller, D.D., who, at the request of the session, has
been associated with %im during nearly the whole of
his pastorate, and whose services on behalf of the
church have been as unremitting as they have been
invaluable, the two striving together for the glory of
God in the upbuilding of Hollond.

5. That in parting with Dr. Paden, whom we love,
our sorrow and perplexity are rendered all the greater
because the nature of the relation existing between
him and Dr. Miller, whom we also love, is such that
the severance of the one tie carries with it and in-
volves the severance of the other, so that we are, as it
were, bereft of two pastors at one stroke, leaving us a
pastorless flock, as sheep without a shepherd. Never-
theless, we face the future hopefully, confident that
He, whose work it is, Vvfill constantly watch over us,
and in his own good time send us another or others of
his servants, who will take the oversight of the flock
and give to the work a still greater enlargement than
it has even now attained.

6. That we will ever cherish the most grateful re-
collections of these years of unwearied and self-deny-
ing labors for Hollond on the part of both these be-
loved brethren; that we will enshrine them both in
our hearts and remember them in our prayers, pray-
ing that they may long be spared, each in his own

Amos Dotterer

OLD LEADERS AND NEW 137

sphere, to aid in the upbuilding and extenston of the
Redeemer's kingdom; and for Dr. Paden, whose call
removes him not only from our church but from our
city, that a success even greater than that he has
achieved here in Philadelphia may crown his labors
in Utah, or wherever God in his providence may order
his lot.

7. That Messrs. John Russell, H. P. Ford, W. J.
Barr, T. H. Lodor, and W. L. Cooke be, and hereby
are appointed commissioners to represent this church
and congregation, and to present this action to the
Presbytery.

In closing the meeting Dr. Gill said :
" It has been my pleasure on more than one
occasion to speak of Hollond as a united con-
gregation. I have not heard a single word of
dissension against this people by anyone. It
is a very great record for any congregation that
is so large, with two pastors associated together
for fourteen years, to be at peace among them-
selves, to be in harmony and accord as brethren
in the Lord. As you love your Saviour, as you
serve your God, stand by each other, stand by
your Master, stand by the church, and God will
take care of you. It is God's church, and his
work. He sympathizes with you, and he will
see that the work goes on. Workmen may die,
men may come and go, but the work goes on
forever — at least until the purposes for which
the Church has been constituted in the world,
have been accomplished."

138 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

On Monday afternoon, October iSth, Pres-
bytery reluctantly acquiesced in the request for
a dissolution of the pastoral rela-
ACTioN tionship existing between Dr.
PRESBYTERY P^deu and the church. Mr. W.
L. Cooke, presented the resolu-
tions adopted at the congregational meeting,
and made a short address, expressive of the
devotion of the people to Dr. Paden, and of
their sorrow and deep sense of loss at his going
frottr them. Brief remarks along the same
line were also made by the other three commis-
sioners present — Messrs. Theodore H. Loder,
H. P. Ford, and John Russell. Addresses lull
of regret, commendation, and high personal
regard, were made by the Rev. Drs. A. J. Sul-
livan, W. H. Gill, H. A. Nelson, M. J. Hynd-
man, J. G. Bolton, J. A. Henry, W. M. Rice,
and others.

"There is no man," said Dr. Paden, "to
whom I would more willingly commit the work
of Hollond at this time than to Dr. Miller. I
most earnestly and heartily unite with the ses-
sion in asking that he be appointed moderator
of the church until a pastor be chosen."

Presbytery granted the request. The Rev.
Dr. Gill was appointed to preach on the fol-
lowing Sabbath, and to declare the pulpit
vacant.

By a standing vote, Presbytery adopted the
following :

James C. Taylof

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Resolved, That we place upon record our
sincere regret at the departure of the Rev. Dr.
Paden from the Presbytery ; that we hereby
express our high appreciation of his eminent
Christian character ; his ability as a preacher,
pastor and presbyter ; that we shall follow him
with our prayers and best wishes for his suc-
cess to his new field of labor.

Dr. Paden preached his last sermon as the
pastor of Hollond on Sunday evening, October
17th, his text being "For I am
DR. PADEN's persuaded that neither death, nor
SERMON ^^-^ * * * shall be able to separate
us from the love of God. ' ' Romans
8 : 38-39. The church was crowded. On the
following Wednesday evening, the Ushers'
Association tendered him a farewell reception
in the chapel. People were in line until
nearly eleven o'clock waiting for an opportu-
nity to take him by the hand, to express their
sorrow at his going, and to wish him God-
speed in his new field of labor.

Dr. W. H. Gill preached at both services on
Sunday, October 24th. Just before he an-
nounced his morning text, he
THE PULPIT said: "I am here at the request of

DECLARED ^, . j , • 4. 4. .

VACANT ^'^^ session and by appointment oi
Presbytery, to inform this congre-
gation officially that the request of Dr. Paden —
that the pastoral relation existing between him
and this church be dissolved — has been granted.

I40 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

I now officially declare this pulpit to be vacant. ' '
By virtue of his appointment by Presbytery
as moderator of the Hollond session, Dr. Mil-
ler continued to perform all pas-
sEEKiNG A toral duties until the pulpit should
PASTOR be filled. Steps were at once
taken to secure a pastor. Several
committees, consisting of representative men
of the congregation, visited nearby cities to
hear able ministers ; a number of clergymen,
who were preaching as supplies in other pul-
pits in this city, were also heard. No recom-
mendations, however, were made.

Dr. George Edward Martin preached twice

in our pulpit on Sunday, April 24,1898. He

also conducted both services on

DR. MARTIN Sunday, May ist. At a congre-

CALLED gational meeting held in the

chapel on the loth of May, he

received a unanimous call to the pastorate.

Messrs. William L. Cooke, William J. Barr,

Charles A. Hoehling, John Russell and Daniel

J. Weaver, were appointed commissioners to

present the call to Presbytery.

Dr. Miller preached his last sermon on Sun-
day evening, June 5th, his subject being,
" Into Thine Hands." Psalm
DR. MILLER'S 31 ; 5. The church was filled
SE^RMON with a deeply interested and at-
tentive congregation. This serv-

William J. Bai

OLD LEADERS AND NEW 141

ice witnessed the close of a long and faithful
ministr3^

On Sunday morning, June 12th, Dr. Martin
again preached, and at this service an-
nounced his acceptance of the
Dr. MARTIN'S Call which had been extended to
ACCEPTANCE him by the congregation ; it
being understood that he would
not enter upon his pastoral work until Sep-
tember.

Dr. J. B. Brandt, pastor of the Tyler Place
Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo., had
charge of the work during the month of July,
and by his genial, kindly nature made many
friends among the people. He received valu-
able assistance from the Rev. Harry W. Bloch,
who was very helpful both in the church and
school work during the summer. After Dr.
Brandt's departure, the pulpit was supplied by
the Rev. Harry Bloch, Dr. Frederick J. Stan-
ley, of Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. C. S. Sargent,
of St. Louis, Mo., Rev. A. B. Robinson, editor
of the Church at Home and Abroad, and Dr.
George S. Chambers, of Harrisburg, Pa,

Dr. Martin was installed pastor of Hollond

on the 17th of October, 1898. Dr. S. W.

Dana, pastor of the Walnut Street

DR. MARTIN'S Church, presided and proposed

INSTALLATION the coustitutioual questious; Rev.

E. P. Terhune, D. D., preached

142 OLD LEADERS AND NEW

the sermon ; Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore, *
editor of The Presbyterian, delivered the charge
to the people; Dr. Charles A. Dickey gave the
charge to the pastor, and Dr. J. R. Miller
made the installation prayer.

On the Wednesday evening following the
installation the Ushers' Association gave Dr.
and Mrs. Martin a reception in the chapel.

The Rev. L. L. Overman accepted an invi-
tation to become Dr. Martin's assistant. He
was in the pulpit for the first
REV. LESLIE L. time oh December 5, 1898, and

OVERMAN assisted in the service. His first
sermon was preached January 8,
1899, his text being " And he spake this par-
able unto certain which trusted in themselves
that they were righteous, and despised others."
I^uke 18 : g.

It is earnestly hoped that under these our
new leaders, our beloved church will go for-
ward to greater spiritual power and ever-in-
creasing usefulness.

* Dr. Mutchmore came from a sick bed to take part in the in-
stallation service. He had been in poor health for some time.
His death took place thirteen days later— October 30th. On
Sunday evening, May 26, 1S61, on the invitation of the Rev.
Dr. W. M. Rice, he preached his first sermon in Philadelphia in
the old Moyamensing chapel in Carpenter street. Thus by a
singular providence, his first and last sermons in Philadelphia,
although delivered more than a generation apart, were preached
in the Hollond field.

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Andrew R.IPoulson

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The officials of the church at the present

time are :

Pastor

Rev. George Edward Martin, D. D.

Assistant
Rev. Leslie L,. Overman

Elders
Robert C. Ogden William L. Cooke
Theodore H. Loder George D. Mcllvaine
Henry A. Walker

Deacons
Charles Hunter George H. Kelly

Charles A. Chew Charles A. Hoehling
H. P. Ford

Trustees
Robert C. Ogden Theodore H. Loder
William L. Cooke William J. Barr
Amos Dotterer Henry A. Walker

James C. Taylor Andrew R. Poulson

H. P. Ford

Treas7irer
William L. Cooke

Janitor
George W. Taylor

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HoUond owes much to its Sunday-school,
from which it had its origin. But for the de-
votion of Miss Estabrook, Miss Penrose and
Mr. Beadle, and the faithfulness of a number of
little children away back in October, 1865 (see
chapter entitled ' ' The New Life " ) , it is doubt-
ful whether our church would be in existence
to-day.

To the school belongs the honor also of
making the first attempt to raise money for the
new church building. Through "brick-
books," and other means, $898,76 had been
collected as early as November, 1882.

The additions to the church membership
come largely from the school, and from those
who are influenced by the teachers and schol-
ars, supplemented by the earnest efforts of the
pastors.

Then, too, through the generosity of the
school, the church is represented in a number
of benevolent enterprises, thus bringing it into
prominence as a liberal supporter of worthy
charity. Among the objects to which it has

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contributed comparatively recently may be
mentioned the Young Men's Christian Associ-
ation (South Branch), the Boards of Church
Erection. Home Missions, Education, Minis-
terial Relief, and Publication and Sabbath-
school Work ; Presbyterian Hospital, Presby-
terian Home for Aged Couples and Old Men,
Seaside Home, Visiting Nurses' Society, State
Sunday-school Association, Midnight Mission,
Hampton Institute, French and Waldensian
Missions, Consumptives' Home, Presbyterian
Orphanage, Mariners' Church, Armenian Re-
lief, Whitman College, Children's Aid Society,
Magdalen Society, Albert Barnes Memorial,
Seamen's Mission, and Lincoln University.

It would be pleasant, if it were possible, to
record the names of all those who have taught
in the school — some for a brief season only,
others through many years. The sand-dunes
on the New Jersey seaboard, although nameless
and constantly changing, are quite as effective
in keeping back the destroying waves of the
ocean as are, on other sea-coasts, the giant
rocks whose names are world-wide ; and so the
transient and forgotten teachers who have
labored with us have, in their way and for the
time being, doubtless been as forceful in help-
ing to stay the waves of sin as have those who
are known to us all through their long and
splendid service — "To every man his work."

146 THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL

We are grateful to one and to all who have in
any way contributed to the usefulness of the
school.

A full list of the oflBcers and teachers of 1876
appears on pages 49-50 ; a list of the present
teaching force will close this chapter. For the
purpose ot comparison, the names of the offi-
cers and teachers of 1887 (a period about half-
way between 1876 and 1899) are herewith
given : Superintendent, Robert C. Ogden ; as-
sociate superintendents, William L. Cooke and
Henry A. Walker ; treasurer, William ly. Du-
Bois ; missionary treasurer, Samuel R. Sharp ;
statistical secretaries, Daniel J. Weaver and
William B. Hens ; librarians, James A. Main,
Thomas Harkness, CharlesV. Williams, Samuel
Brown. Teacher of Primary Department, Miss
Minnie Sherwood; teachers of Junior Depart-
ment, Miss Sallie Cooke and Miss Mary J. Col-
well ; teachers of Main School, William ly. Du-
Bois, Prof. Edward MacHarg, Miss Elizabeth
Potts, Mrs. Charles E. Morris, Rev. William
M. Paden, D. D., Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D.,
Samuel R. Sharp, Theodore H. I^oder, Mrs. R.

D. Clark, Miss L,ydia S. Penrose, Miss Mary

E. Hill, Samuel M. Kennedy, Miss Fannie
Fithian, Miss Caroline A. Douglas, Miss Eliz-
abeth E. Pinkerton, Mrs. A. C. Windle, James
Whyte, Wm. J. McEaughlin, Miss Katie B.
Davis, Charles Hamilton, Miss Kate Beard,

THE SUNDAY-SCHOOIv 147

Miss Jane MacHarg, David Glandfield, Miss
K. A. Austin, Miss Mamie McCorkell, Henry
A. Walker, T. Miller Plowman, Samuel O.
Walker, Miss Sadie Fleming, Charles A. Chew,
Morris S. Hamilton, Miss M. E. Lennington,
Miss Alice Douglas, Miss Helen Merrick, Miss
Ida Blodget, Miss A. B. Spear, Miss Julia Og-
den, Mrs. Mary V. Mitchell, Gilbert Elliott,
Miss Mary A. Jones, Mrs. Jane Skerritt, Miss
Jennie Crosgrave, H. P. Ford, Mrs. J. R.
Miller, Miss Addie Cooper, Miss Harriet Scott,
Miss S. H. Chew, Miss Emma Bryant, Miss A.
C. Woods, Miss Lizzie Henry, Miss Laura
Penn, Mrs. Mary Furber, Miss Lizzie Holland,
Miss Elizabeth P. Cresswell, Miss Stella White,
Miss Helen Ogden, Mrs. Kate Robinson,
Madame Fillot, Miss S. M. Bloch, and Miss
Elizabeth Rivell. Eighteen of these workers
are still connected with the school.

Mr. Robert C. Ogden, who in 1879 was
elected to the office of superintendent, made
vacant by the death of Mr. Charles E. Morris,
was broad-minded, enthusiastic and generous.
Under his wise leadership the school continued
to grow in numbers and efficiency, and its high
standard was maintained.

Many will remember with pleasure the
" Flower Mission," which was introduced into
the school by Mr. Ogden about 1882, " to en-
courage the cultivation of flowers as a means of

148 THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL

spiritual growth." Flower seeds were given
out in the spring and an exhibition held in the
fall. Prizes were awarded for the best single
plants, the largest collection of plants, and for
the best bouquet, basket, or collection of flow-
ers. " The movement was found to be of value
in many ways — in giving pleasure and instruc-
tion ; in the refining of taste ; in a beautiful
ministry to the sick ; in bringing the scholars
together for other than the ordinary Sunday-
school purposes ; and in the practical demon-
stration that Christian work has a right to
make use of anything that tends to brighten
life's hard places and to broaden humanity."
For years afterwards flowers found their way
weekly to the superintendent's desk (due
largely to Mr. Ogden's liberality), and at the
close of the session were taken to sick scholars,
to whom they were a blessed and beautiful
bond of union between themselves and the
school .

The "Boys' Nobility Club" was instituted
by Mr. Ogden in the fall of 1890, "to cultivate
noble ideas of living in the minds of the Hol-
lond boys." In order to encourage the boys
to familiarize themselves with stories of heroic
actions, prizes were awarded to those submit-
ting, at a specified time, the best papers con-
taining ten incidents representing to their
minds the noblest deeds of heroism.

Henry A. Walker

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In February, 1895, an appeal for help was
received from the Mizpah Presbyterian Sunday-
school, Eighth and Wolf streets. HoUond re-
sponded in a very practical way by sending a
number of workers to act as teachers. Among
these were Miss Bella Chalker, Miss Hattie
Ramsay, Miss Marie C. Sutphin, Miss Tillie
McKinley, Miss Elizabeth McKinley, Miss
Cora S. German, Miss Margaret Burns, Miss
Bertha Coward, Mr. and Mrs. Huntley Mur-
dock, Mr. Charles K. Gibson, and Mr. Robert
G. Maguire. Of these teachers, Mr. Thomas
Gamon, the then superintendent of Mizpah,
wrote : ' ' The homes of many of these devoted
workers are quite a distance from the school ;
yet, with very few exceptions, not a Sunday
has been missed, but, wet or dry, cold or hot,
pleasant or otherwise, these friends are always
at their post of duty." After rendering valu-
able assistance for a time, these teachers finally
returned to Hollond.

For years Mr. Ogden personally gave re-
wards of books, etc., for faithful attendance on
the sessions of the school, and many fine
records were made by teachers and scholars.
It frequently happened that the number of
those who had been absent but two Sundays or
less during the year approached one hundred.

The annual excursions to pleasant country
places are very popular. They afford an ex-

I50 THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL

cellent opportunity for the church and school
to unite with each other for a day of gladness
in "God's first temples" — the woods. Class
picnics and other outings are also frequently
held during the summer months.

Much is made of the Christmas entertain-
ment, at which time the chapsl is always pret-
tily festooned with evergreens, and some form
of amusement provided. Giving, not get-
ting, however, is the uppermost thought in the
minds of all. The teachers and children bring
whatever they thiiik will prove useful to the
needy — groceries, vegetables, baskets of pro-
visions, toys, money, subscriptions to maga-
zines, and orders for coal. These are assigned
either by the donors themselves or by a com-
mittee specially appointed for that purpose.
Through this generous custom nearly two hun-
dred families, many of them not connected
with our church, annually receive a bit of
Christmas cheer and blessing.

Special attention has always been given to
our Primary and Junior Departments, they
being important factors in replenishing the
class forms of the Main School. Miss Cooke
has been for many years at the head of the
Junior Department, and has given to it faith-
ful and conscientious service. The teachers of
the Primary Department also are devoted to
their important work.

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Both Dr. Paden and Dr. Miller taught in the
school during theirconnection with the church.
Dr. Paden had charge of the young men's
class in the west gallery, now taught by Mr.
Overman; and Dr. Miller taught the young
ladies' class which occupied the east gallery.
This class numbered 275 members. It con-
tributed largely to the building fund of the new
church, and in many other ways materially in-
creased the effectiveness of the school. The
class is now taught by Mrs. George E. Martin.

The school has quite a large library. A
number of the books were presented by Dr.
Miller. A large addition was made to it from
the Sunday-school library of the old Tenth
Church upon the dissolution of that organiza-
tion.

Our book of worship, for which we are in-
debted to Mr. Ogden, is, perhaps, one of the
best Sunday-school books in existence. It was
compiled, under his direct supervision, for our
special use, and contains eight " Orders of Ser-
vice," which may be varied indefinitely by the
use of the additional seventeen ' ' Selections
from the Psalms." The book also contains
163 hymns, all of which are of exceptional
merit.

After each session of the school, some of the
teachers linger for a few moments to attend the
helpful prayer-meeting, at which earnest peti-

152 THE SUNDAY-SCHOOIv

tions are offered to God for his blessings to fall
upon the work of the afternoon, and for the
seed sown in the hearts of the scholars to be
quickened into rich spiritual life. It is a rev-
erent and stimulating service.

A monthly teachers' meeting is held, at
which the affairs of the school are freely dis-
cussed, and suggestions, having for their object
the improvement of the school, offered. At
some of these gatherings tea is served, and this
never fails to add a delightful social flavor to
the meetings.

For many years special emphasis has been
placed by our leaders on the necessity of a
careful study of the lesson on the part of the
teachers. In order to encourage such study,
weekly teachers' meetings have long been an
important feature of the work. Until some-
what recently these meetings were held in the
chapel parlor ; they are now held in the hall of
the South Branch Young Men's Christian As-
sociation, where not only our own teachers but
those of neighboring churches enjoy the privi-
lege. For many years this class was taught by
Dr. Miller, He relinquished the work only on
severing his connection with the Hollond field.

On the 4th of April, ^^, the school
met with a serious loss in the resignation of
Mr. Robert C. Ogden. On that day he oc-
cupied the desk as our leader for the last

William L. Dubois

THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL 153

time, and in his accustomed address on the
lesson made no allusion whatever to the fact
that the close of the session would also wit-
ness the close of his official connection with
the school. He ended his splendid service of
eighteen years with no self-laudation, with no
mawkish sentimentality, with no undignified
allusions to his noble record. He went from
us as quietly as he had done on hundreds
of other Sunday afternoons, and in his going
only the teachers and a few of the scholars
knew of the almost irreparable loss which had
come upon us. His letter of resignation, dated
April 4th, was received and accepted by the
teachers at their meeting on the following
evening. It had long been known that his
business relations with Wanamaker's New
York establishment, of which he was the head,
would, sooner or later, compel him to give up
the superintendency of the school, and the
teachers were in a measure prepared for the
letter. It was, however, with unfeigned regret
that they acceded to its request. One para-
graph of his letter was as follows :

"It is impossible to refer at length to the
happy associations in the Hollond school — to
its vicissitudes, anxieties, failures, and suc-
cesses. The officers and teachers do not need
any assurance from me of sympathy and re-
gard. An expression of my gratitude would

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be equally superfluous. The many years of
comradeship have made an understanding that
is beyond verbal statement."

The following action was taken by the officers
and teachers:

'^Resolved, That in accepting the resigna-
tion of Mr. Robert C. Ogden, superintendent
of the school for the past eighteen years, we
hereby express our sincere regret that circum-
stances over which he has no control have
compelled him to sever his connection with
our school. His loss will be the more felt
when we remember his worth as a man, his
ability as a teacher, his effectiveness as a
speaker, the urbanity of his manner, and his
activity and benevolence as a Christian. He
carries with him to his new sphere of useful-
ness the highest regards and best wishes of us
all."

Mr. Ogden's fine personality, uncompromis-
ing integrity and masterful strength of char-
acter exercised a strong, uplifting influence on
the members of the school. He raised the
standard of manhood, and gave to the work an
added dignity, Life to many means more of
earnestness, of self-reliance, and of faithful en-
deavor because of his kindly presence among
us.

Mr. William L,. Cooke, who became the as-
sociate superintendent under Mr. Charles E.
Morris in 187 1, had temporary charge of the
school after Mr. Ogden's resignation, until

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November i, 1897, when he was elected,
against his earnest protest, to the superintend-
ency, a position which he has continued to fill
with unwavering fidelity. Mr. Henry A.
Walker, his associate in the work since Octo-
ber, 1886, gives invaluable assistance in help-
ing to maintain order, and in seeing that classes
are supplied with teachers.

The officers and teachers at the present time
are : Superintendent, William L,. Cooke ; asso-
ciate superintendent, Henry A. Walker; Sab-
bath-school treasurer, Wm. L. DuBois ; mis-
sionary treasurer, John Russell ; recording sec-
retary, Robert G. Maguire ; statistical secre-
taries,Wm. B. Hens, T. EHwood Frame, Geo,
Rhea Carr, John C. Heil ; distributing secre-
taries, Wm. H. Fulmer, Wm. E. Thompson,
Warren P. Dexter ; librarians, A. W. Martin,
J. T. Williams, Wm. Macpherson, R. B. Parsons;
leader of singing, Frank S. Holloway ; organ-
ist. Miss Tillie Keller ; cornetist, Asher H.
Frame ; violinist, Chester Griesemer.

Door-keepers — William McFarland, A. H.
Kruse, Wm. Moeller. Teachers of Primary "
Department — Miss Josephine A. Bloch, Miss
Martha J. Crowe, Miss Bessie G. Overbeck,
Miss Anne P. Gamon. Teachers of Junior
Department — Miss Cooke, Miss Tillie McKin-
ley, Miss Emma P. Blume. Teachers of Main
School— John Russell, H. P. Ford, Miss

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Elizabeth Potts, Mrs. E. B. Morris, Theodore
H. Loder, Mrs. George Edward Martin, Major
George Gow, Miss Lydia S. Penrose, Mrs.
Mary B. S Fox, Henry A. Walker, Miss
Alice F. Douglas, Thomas Gamon, Miss Leah
Welsh, Miss E. L. Pinkerton, Miss Bertha
Sutphin, Miss Laura Hurgeton, Miss Katie
Davis, Frank L. Hansen, Mrs. Rebecca C.
McVickar, Walter J. Whitaker, Huntley R.
Murdock, Miss Margaret Auld, Miss Mattie
Patton, James F. Wallace, Miss Jane L. Ham-
ilton, George D. Mcllvaine, Miss Ida Bloch,
Miss Sara Eddie, Robert G. Maguire, Miss
Mary Niven, Miss Mabel H. Briscoe, William
L. DuBois, Mrs. W. H. Gill, Mrs. M. V.
Mitchell, Miss Anna E. Blume, F. M. Brasel-
mann. Miss Minnie L Taylor, Miss Sara Barst-
ler, Miss Sara J. Hanna, Miss Harriet Scott,
Miss Annie Kennedy, Miss Mary B. Allen,
Miss Harriet K. Hopkins, Miss Margaretta B.
Morris, Miss M. A. Dickson, Mrs. George D.
Mcllvaine, Mrs. Catharine S. Tonilinson,
Mrs. Etta Harpel, Miss Margaret Burns, Miss
Isabella Chalker, Miss Elizabeth Rivell, Miss
Margaret Welsh, Frank R. Buckalew, Rev.
L. L. Overman, Miss Tillie McKinney, Miss
Mary Macpherson, James H. Taitt, and
Samuel H. Barsller. Substitute teachers —
Benjamin F. Lutton, Robert H. Pre.-ton, Miss
Margaret M. Smith, Mrs. Mary McAllister,

Robert G. Maguire

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Miss Mattie McFadden, Miss Mary Murphy,
Daniel B. McAllister and Prof. Edward Mac-
Harg. As teacher, substitute teacher, and
recording secretary, Prof. MacHarg has ren-
dered valuable service to the school for many
years.

Of the seventy officers and teachers connec-
ted with the school in 1876, six only are now
actively engaged in the work — William I,.
Cooke, Miss Cooke, Miss L,. S. Penrose, Wil-
liam L. DuBois, Miss Elizabeth Potts, and
Miss Elizabeth Rivell. Miss Rivell was one
of the charter members of the Moyamensing
Church, and has always been devotedly at-
tached to the work.

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Attention has been given at various times
to many plans which have had in them promise
of usefulness in the development of the church
and school; some were temporary expedients,
others obtained a permanent place in the work.
Among those which have been, or still are,
more or less influential for good, may be men-
tioned the Young Men's Improvement Society,
Young People's Pastors' Aid, Pastors' Ladies'
Aid Society, Kitchen Garden Class (the first
of the kind in Philadelphia), Sewing School,
Mothers' Meeting, Parents' and Children's
Meeting, Boys' Lyceum, Gospel Links (a
temperance organization), Wadsworth Deba-
ting and Literary Club, Young Men's Prayer
and Conference Meeting, Young Men's Union,
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, King's
Daughters, King's Sons, Woman's Home and
Foreign Missionary Society, Boys' and Girls'
Mission Band, Young Ladies' Mission Band,
Little Light Bearers (a mission band for chil-
dren under five years). Boys' Brigade, Literary
Circle, Fifteen Club (also a literary circle),

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Chatauqua Circle, Young People's Association,
Christian Endeavor Society, Junior Endeavor
Society, University Lectures, Young Men's
Christian Association, Athletic Association,
Ushers' Association, Choir, Beneficial Society,
Building Association, Conference of Workers,
Organ Vesper Services, and Normal Class.

It seems well to give a more extended out-
line of some of the present working forces.

We have always been proud of our volunteer
chorus Choir. It is an organization on which
depends much of the effective-
THE ness of the Sunday worship.

CHOIR 1"^^ members are faithful in
the performance of their duties
— often at a considerable sacrifice of time and
of self. Mr. Theodore H. Loder was for many
years the devoted leader. On entering the
new church in the autumn of 1893, the Choir
was re-organized and greatly enlarged under
the supervision of Mr. Russell King Miller,
who occupied the dual position of organist and
musical director until 1895, when Mr. Charles
M. Schmitz became musical director, Mr.
Miller continuing as organist. Mr. Schmitz
served with entire acceptance until June, 1897,
when, to the regret of all, he relinquished his
position. The members of the Choir presented
him with a complimentary letter setting forth
their appreciation of his services.

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Mr. Miller again resumed the duties of musi-
cal director in addition to his work as organist
— a position he continued to hold until the 7th
of August, 1898, when he resigned to accept a
similar charge in the First Church, German-
town. The Choir took the following action
on his resignation:

Resolved, That we express our high appre-
ciation of the long and faithful services of Mr.
Russell King Miller in our behalf, and of his
untiring and successful efforts to elevate the
musical standard of our church; and be it
further

Resolved, That we extend to him our grate-
ful thanks for the help, the devotion, and the
encouragement he has given to us in the past.
Our most sincere and earnest wishes for his
prosperity and usefulness go with him as he
enters upon his new duties.

Mr. William Smith had charge of the organ
until the 2d of the following October, on which
date Mr. D. E. Crozier, who is still with us,
assumed the duties of organist and musical
director.

On the 1 2th of February, 1898, the Choir
became a regularly organized body, with Mr.
J. Milton Carr as its president, a position he
still holds.

Organ Recitals were introduced by Mr.

John Milton Carr

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Miller shortly after the dedication of the new
building. At these recitals some
TALs AND of the leading organists of the
VESPER country have been the perform-
ers. The Vesper Services, also
introduced by Mr. Miller, and continued by
Mr. Crozier, are held during the winter on
Sunday afternoons. They are designed to give
opportunity for a quiet, restful half-hour to
those who feel inclined to enter the church
for meditation and prayer. The music, the
beauty of the windows, and the holy stillness,
all conspire to make lives cleaner, thoughts
nobler, and hearts purer.

On the evening of February 5, 1887, Dr.
J. R. Miller invited a number of young ladies
to meet at his house to talk over
KING'S t^^ practicability of an organiza-
DAUGHTERs tion lu Holloud somewhat similar
to the one started the year pre-
vious in New York City by Mrs. Bottome,
known as the King's Daughters. This was
the first meeting of the kind, so far as known,
in Philadelphia. It was determined to under-
take the work, and the Circle which was then
organized was known as the " Ten Times One
Club " — the name, " King's Daughters," was
soon after adopted. The members of the
original circle met together a few times only
and then went out by twos to form other

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circles. Many of our young ladies became
interested in and subsequently strongly at-
tached to the work. In November, 1892,
these circles met together for the first time to
form the King's Daughters' Union, the object
being "to unite all the King's Daughters of
HoUond Church in the endeavor to develop
spiritual life and to stimulate to Christian
sympathy." Miss Alice Anthony vi^as the first
president.

The work performed by this devoted sister-
hood has been of jnestimable value to the
church. The sick in hospitals and in private
homes have been visited; old people and little
children have been taken to quiet country
places; tired and neglected wives and mothers
have been given outings; rents have been paid;
coal, food, and clothing have been provided
for the needy; "shut-ins" have had sympa-
thetic words to brighten their lives, and books
and flowers to cheer their loneliness; baskets
have been sent to the poor at Christinas times;
entertainments have been provided for desti-
tute children; and large contributions have
been made to our church building fund. The
group of five west windows, and also one or
two other windows in the new church, were
paid for by the several circles. All honor to
these noble workers who thus quietly, unos-
tentatiously, and often self-sacrificingly, con-

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tribute to make the hidden current of the
church life so full of beauty and so rich in
blessing !

The Woman's Home and Foreign Mission-
ary Society was organized about 1882, and has
done a noble work in extending
MISSIONARY hands of blessing and cheer to

SOCIETIES many spiritually destitute por-
tions of our own country and of
foreign fields. Mrs. J. R. Miller was the first
president, Mrs. R. B. Anthony, who has long
been unselfishly devoted to the work, was for
ten years its president, an ofiice she was com-
pelled to relinquish on account of ill health.
Mrs. W. H. Gill is now the president.

The Society, as originally organized, was an
effort to create an interest in foreign mission
work, but for a long while past the home and
foreign fields have received equal attention —
the monthly meetings being alternately de-
voted to each, when an hour is spent in con-
ference and prayer. The work for foreign
fields is largely represented by donations made
to schools in Kohlapur, India, and Tokyo,
Japan; while the home work is represented by
a scholarship in the Mary Gregory School for
Indians, Oklahoma Territory. This is known
as the Jennie Crosgrave Poulson scholarship,
and was established to perpetuate the memory
of Mrs. Jennie C. Poulson who was deeply in-

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terested not only in the work of the Society
(of which she was treasurer for eleven years),
but also in all the efforts of the church to re-
lieve distress and suffering. Her untimely
death on the 9th of December, 1896, was felt
in many branches of the work.

The Yoimg Ladies' Mission Bajid was or-
ganized in January, 1899, at the request of the
younger members of the church; its object
being to interest girls and young ladies in
foreign mission fields. Miss Alice F. Douglas
was elected president. Its contributions are
given directly to the work of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society,

The Boys' and Girls' Mission Band, the ob-
ject of which is to make its members familiar
with Presbyterian mission stations, was organ-
ized in 1886, and has been most helpful in
giving to the children right conceptions of the
importance of missions. Miss Margaret Hunter
(now Mrs. Robert H. Kirk), was the first
president. Miss Minnie Macpherson was its
leader for a number of years.

Suggested by Dr. William M. Paden, and
financially assisted by Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
the Boys' Brigade became one of
BOYS' the organizations of the church
BRIGADE in April, 1895, with a member-
ship of twenty-five. Since that
time it has steadily increased in numbers and

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proficiency. It is now one of the leading
companies of the city. George A. Gow was
made major, a position he still fills. It would
be a difficult matter to match his faithfulness
and devotion. Not only have the youthful
soldiers received training in military move-
ments, but — which is the vital thing in all
organizations connected with church work —
they have been well taught in other ways.
The recitation of Scripture and other devo-
tional exercises, are important features at every
drill. Many boys have been induced to attend
Sunday-school, and a number of the members
have united with the church. Miss Minnie I.
Taylor has endeared herself to all the boys by
her faithful work at the organ.

Every member of the Brigade takes the
following pledge:

" I promise and pledge, that so long as I am
a member of the Boys' Brigade, I will not use
tobacco, nor intoxicating liquor, in any form;
that I will not use profane nor vulgar language;
that I will obey faithfully the company rules,
and that I will at all times set an example of
good conduct to my comrades and other boys."

They are taught that Christian gallantry is
shown in courage, obedience, helpfulness, and
courtesy; that the best soldier is ever the finest,
truest gentleman. The main objects of the
movement are : The advancement of Christ's

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kingdom among boys; the promotion of habits
of reverence, discipline, and self-respect; and
the cultivation of all that tends towards true
Christian manliness.

This institution, which is just across the

street from us, is quite as helpful as if it were

on our own property and under

SOUTH BRANCH ,. ^ '^ ^ , ._ . .

YOUNG MEN'S our dircct coutrol. Many of the
CHRISTIAN advantages of a great institu-

ASSOCIATION ^-11^ J ,, 1

tional plant are secured through
it for Hollond, while other churches have an
equal share in its m'anifold benefits. It minis-
ters to the needs of the body through its gym-
nasium; of the mind, through its educational
classes, libraries, and game rooms; and of the
soul, through its religious meetings and spir-
itual influence. Six members of Hollond are
closely identified with its interests — Mr. Wil-
liam I,. Cooke, as president ; Mr. Frank R.
Buckalew, as secretary; and Messrs. Henry A.
Walker, James C. Taylor, James D. Black-
wood, and William J. Williams as four of the
directors.

Many expedients have been employed to in-
culcate a love for learning and right culture in
the hearts of the young people.
LITERARY Auioug thcsc havc been debating
CIRCLES clubs for the boys and young
men, and reading circles for the
young people of both sexes. In recent years.

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the best known of the latter were the Fifteen
Club, which met on Wednesday evenings for
the critical study of well-known poets and
poems ; the Students' Club ; and the Chau-
tauqua Circle. The Free Public I^ibrary, in
the South Branch Young Men's Christian
Association building, is proving an important
medium of mental culture and information to
our people. The University Extension Lec-
tures, in which Dr. Matthew Woods is the
recognized leader, are also a valuable source
of pleasure and profit.

This is one of the youngest of the working

forces, its object being to promote friendship

and sociability among the young

ATHLETIC people of both sexes, and to give
ASSOCIATION them an added opportunity for
the cultivation of out-door exer-
cise— such as lawn tennis, croquet, and bicyc-
ling. Chess, checker, handball, and quoit clubs
have also been formed. By much hard labor,
the members transformed the lot back of the
new church into a first-class play-ground, and
formally dedicated it on the 4th of July, 1896.
Dr. Paden and Mr. Ogden made addresses, and
the Boys' Brigade was present in full uniform.
Many young people enjoy the excellent oppor-
tunity thus afforded for physical culture and
development.

It has been the policy of the church to

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make Christianity as practicable as possible.
Many of the city's poor, who
COAL would like to be entirely inde-
FUND pendent, are often obliged to ap-
ply to charitable organizations for
fuel in the cold winter months. In order that
the needy of our congregation may be spared
this humiliation, a branch of the Fuel Savings
Society has been established in the church, and
through it our people are encouraged to de-
posit small amounts at stated periods in the
summer to supply themselves with coal during
the winter. The money thus collected is placed
in a common fund and coal is purchased at
wholesale rates, enabling the depositors to pro-
cure much more for their money than they
otherwise could. By this means many fami-
lies have been kept from want and their self-
respect has been maintained. We find the
plan helpful.

This Society was organized June 28, 1894,

chiefly through the efforts of Mr. Andrew

Martin. It has become very

BENEFICIAL popular with those careful ones

SOCIETY who believe in preparing for days

of sickness in time of health.

The Society was a success from the si art, and

during these years has been a blessing to many

who have been incapacitated from work

through illness. The sick benefits are $5

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per week, and the sum of $75.00 is, in case of
death, paid for funeral expenses. At the end
of each fiscal year all the money remaining in
the treasury, after the expenses are paid, is
divided pro rata among the members in good
standing. The Society is then re-organized
for the ensuing year.

This Association, known as the " Samuel M.
Kennedy," issued its first stock on the loth of

September, 1894. Mr. James C.

BUILDING Taylor, who was at the heart of

ASSOCIATION the movement, became its first

president. It has had a very suc-
cessful career. Many of our people are stock-
holders and therefore directly interested in its
well-being. It is proving a good investment to
those who are using it merely as a savings fund,
as it has paid an annual profit of over six per
cent. It is also helpful to those who through
it have bought and are now paying for their
homes. In encouraging many to cultivate
habits of thrift and economy it has been of very
practical service.

It is a good thing for churches to have
their workers come together now and then

to learn what the several organ-

coNFERENCE Izatlous are trying to accom-

woRKERs plish. For several years this

has been very successfully car-
ried out in Hollond. The plan is thus de-

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scribed in The Open Church of April, 1897 :
" The various organizations working in the
church are all brought together in an annual
conference of Hollond workers. They gather
at a tea, prepared by a committee of ladies,
and then every department is represented by
some chosen speaker. This is an original idea,
or at least carried out in an original way, and
it has been found to work very admirably.
The pastors present the work from their point
of view, the superintendents of the Sunday-
school voice its needs, and each department is
represented through an appointed speaker."
Thus all are made familiar with what is being
attempted.

The Christian Endeavor Society was organ-
ized in the chapel parlor on the 4th of Octo-
ber, 1892, with the following
CHRISTIAN members: Rev. W. M. Paden,
^so°c?ety" D, D., Rev. J, R. Miller, D. D.,
Mrs. M. H. Allen, Miss Kath-
eryn T, Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Thomas
Boyle, Miss Margaret Burns, J, Milton Carr,
G. Rhea Carr, Ray H. Carter, Miss I^otta
M. Cavin, Charles A. Chew, Miss Jessie S.
Connerd, Miss Jennie Crosgrave, Miss Helen
Crossley, Miss Caroline A. Douglas, Miss
Alice F. Douglas, Miss Margaret Eddie,
Miss Sara Eddie, Miss Sadie Fleming, Harry
P. Ford, Cleveland Frame, Miss Sara J.

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Hanna, Miss Martha Hartman, Charles A.
Hoehling, Miss Mary R. Hunter, Miss Kathar-
ine Hunter, Miss Jessie Jamieson, George H.
Kelly, Samuel M. Kennedy, Miss Emma
Knous, Joseph MacMorris, Miss Minnie Mac-
pherson, Miss Margaret Macpherson, Miss
Tillie McKinley, John McKnight, Miss
Rebecca McNevin, John Molitor, Miss Lizzie
Orr, Miss Maggie Patton, Miss Lillie Pairman,
George M. Peak, Miss C. E. Ramsay, Miss
Malvina Toram, Miss Clara A. Walker, Miss
Eillie Williamson, Miss Etta Wilson.

The following united as associated members :
Miss Helen Gillison, Walter Higgenbotham,
William K. Miller, Donald Pairman, Miss
Hattie Ramsay, Miss Nettie Reid.

This movement was the outgrowth of a flour-
ishing Young People's Association, which,
since 1876, had been an important factor in the
advancement of the general work. Under the
able leadership of Mr. George H. Kelly, the
first president, the new organization was a suc-
cess from the beginning. So many active
workers are now connected with it that, with
the exception of the monthly consecration
service, which is usually under the care of the
president, it is seldom that a member, however
prominent, is called on to lead more than one
meeting during the year. It has frequently
happened at the monthly roll-call that all the

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members, save perhaps a half-dozen, have re-
sponded to their names by a verse, a prayer,
or a brief talk; once only one failed to respond.
It has been a long time since any of the mem-
bers have responded to their names by answer-
ing " Present," and we trust that such a ques-
tionable method of easing one's conscience will
never again be revived.

The names of the leaders for the entire year,
and notes relative to the local work, are printed
and then inserted in the Presbyterian Hand-
book, which is issued annually. By having
this useful booklet constantly at hand, the
members become familiar with the work that is
being carried on by the Presbyterian Church
through its several Boards, As a rule, much
is made of the annual meeting in October, at
which time the interior of the chapel is decor-
ated, a good supper enjoyed, reports made by
the chairmen of the several committees, and
new officers elected.

Much of the far-reaching usefulness of this
important organization is doubtless due to the
fact that a fairly successful effort is constantly
being made to have all the members interested
in the work. Every member is on a committee,
and is expected to help. The several commit-
tees touch life at many points, and open to the
young people neglected fields of untold useful-
ness. Many missions in our own and other

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lands have been encouraged by substantial
tokens of remembrance from the Missionary
Committee ; sailors on many seas, and the sick
in many of our hospitals, have been made better
by helpful books, magazines, and tracts which
have been distributed by the Good Literature
Committee ; and the entire membership has
grown into larger usefulness through the im-
pelling influence of these and the other com-
mittees in inspiring in them a desire to be
helpful to others. It is but just that special
mention should be made of the faithful work of
the Floating Committee, which holds a meet-
ing every Sunday morning at the Barracks at
League Island; assists the chaplain (by leading
the singing) at the service held an hour later
on the receiving ship Richmond; conducts an
Endeavor service on the Richmond every
Wednesday evening; and frequently visits the
Marine Hospital. Much of the success of the
recent work has been due to the enthusiastic
leadership of Miss Sara Eddie. Letters of
grateful appreciation from soldiers in Manila
and Cuba, and from sailors on men-of-war,
speak volumes in favor of the value of the work.
Rev. Thomas A. Gill, chaplain in the U. S.
Navy, and for a long while stationed at League
Island, thus wrote to Miss Eddie after his re-
cent removal to another station :

"I can hardly tell 3'ou what a solace and

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comfort the co-operation of yourself and co-
workers was to me in my work on the Rich-
mond at League Island. Aside from the bear-
ing of it on the common Christian work, in
which we were all interested, it greatly en-
couraged and sustained me personally in the
isolation attending such work as mine on a
ship-of-war. Your faithful presence and co-
working made me feel that I was in touch with
the real, warm Christian world. I pointedly
indicated, the value of your co-operation in my
report to the Secretary of the Navy at the close
of last year. I indeed miss your help on the
ship where I now am."

Two handsome pictures — "Christ in Geth-
semane," and the battleship " Brooklyn " —
the former from Chaplain Gill and the latter
from the men of the " Brooklyn," have
been presented to our workers as a mark of
appreciation. These pictures hang on the
wall of the chapel parlor and are highly
prized.

At the annual meeting in October of this
year (1899), Miss Sara Eddie was elected
president; Miss Sallie Peak and Mr. James H.
Taitt, vice-presidents ; Mr. W. C. M. Barstler,
recording secretary ; Miss Josephine Bloch,
treasurer ; and Miss Sara F. Barstler, corres-
ponding secretary.

After several conferences of the Executive

Miss Sara Eddie

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Committee of the Christian Endeavor Society,
it was resolved, with the approval

THE JUNIOR r ., . .

CHRISTIAN of the pastors, to organize a
ENDEAVOR Junior Endeavor Society. This
interesting event took place on
the 29th of March, 1896, and James D, Ger-
hardt was elected president. The original
members were Roscoe C. Barstler, William E.
Batchelder, Eva Begley, Katie Bentz, Lillie
Bickley, Ida Caldwell, Nellie Caldwell, Frank
Christopher, Crete Connelly, Lillie Dobbins,
Maud Dobbins, Orpha Farren, Emma G. Gar-
diner, James D. Gerhardt, Robert A. E- Hamp-
ton, Robert J. Hunter, George W. Johnston,
Maidie Kennedy, Wilson Kessler, Bella Kyle,
Cassie Eittle, Walter Martin, Hattie McKinley,
Vinnie Mintzer, Lizzie Morrison, Albert A.
Myers, Eouis ODonnell, Louise C. Roelofs,
Lizzie Taitt, Samuel J. Taitt, Florence Thorp,
Mary Torrens, Bessie Selfridge, Charles A.
Smith, Raymond Steinbach, Walter G. Stein-
bach, Anna Stewart, Mamie Stewart, and John
Stinson.

The children have had many pleasant out-
ings. On one of the excursions to Menlo Park,
given by the Sunday-school, they had a special
car to themselves. When Dr. Paden left for
Utah, the Juniors made him a present of a
fountain pen " as a slight token of their appre-
ciation of his loving-kindness to them and of

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their affectionate regard for him." They also
gave him a five-dollar gold piece, with the fol-
lowing note :

" We understand that you are going to a
field scarcely larger than Hollond was when
you came here fourteen years ago. Our par-
ents tell us that you had not been with us long
before you began to feel, and to make them
feel, the need of a new church, and that you
gave yourself and them but little rest until our
beautiful new building crowned your efforts
with success. Now we have been thinking
that you will not be in Salt Lake City very
long before both you and your people there
will be feeling something of the same need of
a new place of worship, so we have determined
to give you Five Dollars to start a Building
Fund at once. You will find the amount in a
coin of pure gold— emblematic of the love we
bear you. If you need more money let us
know and we will see you through."

To this Dr. Paden made the following re-
sponse :

" No token of hope or love which I have
ever received has pleased rce more than yours;
it was so full of confidence in the good things
to come. The pen I shall use every day; if I
do not learn to write more plainly, I think I
shall at least write the more hopefully and lov-
ingly because of your gift; and the gold is

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worth more to me than a large nugget from the
Klondike. I hope you will one day know that
it has increased ten thousand fold."

Under the loving care of Miss Sara Barstler
and Miss Margaret Burns, the work is still
carried on with every promise of much future
usefulness to the church and school.

The two photographs of the members, which
are here reproduced, were taken on the first
excursion to Bartram's Gardens, May 16,
1896.

The Ushers' Association is one of the
youngest and most progressive of our many
activities. It was organized on
USHERS' the i6th of October, 1893, and
ASSOCIATION rapidly developed into one of the
most useful of our working forces.
In seating and making comfortable the congre-
gation, in the quiet and reverent methods of
taking the collection, in the maintenance of
order, and in the welcome extended to visitors,
its members are constantly exercising a blessed
and beneficent influence. They are also re-
sponsible for the editorial and financial man-
agement of the church paper. The Hoilond Re-
minder; they see to it that it is issued regu-
larly, free of expense to the church treasury.
At the great Peace Jubilee in the fall of 1898,
one of the handsomest stands on Broad street
was erected by the Ushers in front of the

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church, from which they realized a total sum
of $696.00, the net profits being $357.00. This
amount is being used to assist in meeting the
expense incurred in the publication of The
Reminder.

At the monthly meetings of the organization
rouiine business is transacted, interesting pa-
pers are read, instructive debates on live ques-
tions are indulged in, and able addresses are
delivered. '

The group of members which is here repro-
duced was photographed January i, 1897.

On the back row, at the extreme left of the
picture, is George H. Kelly, the first presi-
dent ; then follow in order William B. Hens,
Charles A. Hoehling, William R. Taitt, James
W. Stevenson, James C. Taylor, H. P. Ford,
Charles A. Chew, Charles Hunter, Joseph Mac-
Morris, William A. Leonard, Andrew Martin,
and Andrew R. Poulson.

On the middle row, beginning at the left,
are Daniel J. Weaver, Harry B. Smithson, John
Russell, Frank L. Hansen, and William E.
Thompson.

On the lower row, beginning at the left, are
Joseph C. Ramsey, Eugene Smith, Huntley
Murdock, George Rhea Carr, T. Ellwood
Frame, and Chester D. Griesemer.

In the death of Mr. William R. Taitt, on the
28th of March, 1899, at the early age of thirty

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years, the Association met with its greatest
loss. At the time of his death he was the presi-
dent of the organization. By his quiet influ-
ence, remarkable energy and unselfish devotion
he had done much to increase its prosperity
and usefulness. Mr. Charles Traub succeeded
him in the presidency.

The following is copied from a book recently
issued by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, en-
titled " Modern Methods in Church Work " :

" The ushers at one end of the church are as
important as the minister at the other. The
first impression which strangers receive on
coming into a church is usually from the ush-
ers. The courteous welcome and ready atten-
tion, and the prompt seating of visitors, as well
as the regular attendants, when necessary, is
no small factor in the success of winning people.

' ' If there is any body of men who need to be
prayed for, who ought to pray for themselves,
that they may at once realize the importance,
delicacy and dignity of their office, it is the
ushers of a church,

' ' The Ushers' Association of the Hollond
Memorial Church, Philadelphia, is deserving
of mention. This organization has published
in a neat attractive form its constitution and
by-laws, together with the names of the officers
and members. The suggestions to ushers
contained in this booklet are so capital that a

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copy of them should be in the hands of every
usher in the country :

1 . Be at your post fifteen minutes before time
for service.

2. Be careful to reserve seats when requested
to do so.

3. Fill your front seats first.

4. Knov^^ how many each pew wall seat, and
see that it is filled when the house is crowded.

5. Make an effort to seat friends together.

6. Give strangers the best seats, and see
that they have a hymn-book or programme.
(Read Hebrews xiii : 2.)

7. The head usher should make it his busi-
ness to direct the ushering. He should see
that the house is evenly seated, and that the
ushers do their work properly.

8. Never seat anyone during prayer or the
rendering of special music.

9. Be prompt in starting the collection, but
go slow in taking it, and be careful not to
slight any one.

10. Keep the air good. If it becomes close,
open windows during the singing.

11. Be quiet and reverent in your work.

12. Do not permit groups to assemble in the
back part of the church and talk before or dur-
ing the service.

"Once a year this Society gives a supper
and entertainment to the men of the church.

Charles Traub

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The work of the Association is then re-
viewed, other short addresses are made, and a
general good time is realized. In speaking of
this Association, the Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D.,
says : ' It has worked admirably. It is a good
thing for the young men themselves. It has
trained them to thoughtfulness and helpfulness
in many ways. They have learned to greet
people cordially and to take an interest in
strangers, old people, and poor people. Beside,
it has been of great advantage to the church,
assuring system and order in the seating of
people, and in the taking up of collections.' "
The present membership is as follows : Dr.
George E. Martin, Rev. ly. L. Overman, Fur-
man Algie, Royal Balch, Samuel H. Barstler,
W. C. M. Barstler, Thomas Boyle, Frank R.
Buckalew, Carroll H. Burton, W. S. Butler,
Robert Carnswarth, J. Milton Carr, G. Rhea
Carr, Charles A. Chew, W. I.. Cooke, M. G.
Crillman, William Cutler, Frank J. Day, War-
ren P. Dexter, John Dunn, George Flanagan,
H. P. Ford, T. EUwood Frame, Wm. H. Ful-,
mer, William K. Gorham, George A. Gow,
Chester Griesemer, Frank E. Hansen, Lewis
P. Harding, John C. Heil, Wm. B. Hens,
Hermann Hillebrand, Frank Hitchens, Chas.
A. Hoehling, Charles Hunter, George H.
Kelly, Wm. A. I^eonard, Harry Light, T. H.
lyoder, George Loder, Benjamin F. Lutton,

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Joseph MacMorris, Andrew Martin, Huntley
R. Murdock, David McAfee, Daniel B. Mc-
Allister, William McFarland, George D. Mc-
Ilvaine, Thomas Iv. Niven, Chas. Oelschalger,
Hugh O'Neill, George M. Peak, R. H. Pres-
ton, Andrew R. Poulson, J. C. Ramsey, J. H.
Restine, John Russell, Harry P. Smithson, J.
W. Stevenson, Robert J. Sterritt, James H.
Taitt, James C.Taylor, Wm. E. Thompson, Wm.
J. Tomliuson, Charles Traub, J. S. Tweddle,
Henry A. Walker, James Wallace, Daniel J.
Weaver, J. E. Williams, David Woods.

For many years this helpful gathering for

conference and prayer was held on Friday

evenings ; on the 23rd of Novem-

CONGREGA- , o o i.i- .• • i ^

TioNAL t)er, 1898, the meetmg night was
PRAYER changed to Wednesday. While

MEETING , . , ,

these services are never so largely
attended as they should be, yet those who come
find them helpful and stimulating. With but
few exceptions, those who are doing the most
to advance the interests of the church are to be
found at one or both of our week-night prayer
meetings, audit is doubtless here that they get
much of the spiritual stimulus for continuance
in well-doing. The value of these quiet gath-
erings to our church, and to those who regu-
larly attend them, cannot be overestimated.
Miss Katie Linsenmeyer has long been the
faithful organist.

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The money devoted to this purpose is eco-
nomically administered. Fortunately, there

are but few desperately poor peo-

DEAcoNS- P'^ connected with our church,

FUND and that this is so is doubtless

due largely to our policy to give
as little financial aid as possible, but rather to
encourage and help the needy to be self-sup-
porting and self-reliant. In the carrying out
of this policy many families to-day are living
in comfort who in all probability would other-
wise be helpless. We give financial assistance
only when it seems to be absolutely necessary ;
and those to whom money is given are encour-
aged to return it, if possible, in order that it
may continue its helpful mission to others.
Our aim is to build up character, even in our
charities.

This helpful Class was organized by Dr.
Martin in January, 1899, and meets on Friday

evening. The course of study

NORMAL covers three years — the first, to

CLASS be devoted to the authorship,

main divisions, purpose, and dates
of the books of the Old Testament ; the second,
to a similar study of the books of the New
Testament ; and the third, to teaching in the
Sunday-school and pursuing a course of read-
ing directed by Dr. Martin. The conditions
of membership in this Class are : ist, a pur-

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pose to complete the course in three years ;
and, 2nd, an earnest desire to know more of
God's Word. From its very nature the work
has promise of much future usefulness and is
already very popular with its members.

From the dedication of the chapel down to
the present time a number of papers have
been issued to keep the work of
CHURCH ^hs church before the congrega-
PAPERs tion. The fir.st paper was pub-
lished in October, 1874. It was
a small four-paged monthly, and was known
as Our Leaflet. It printed but little local
news. The November Leaflet contained a list
of the ofl&cers and teachers of the school. Un-
fortunately, however, the last names only of
the workers were given. Obeying a well-
known law of nature, the Leaflet appears to
have passed out of existence before the snows
of December came.

In January, 1875, Our Sabbath- School Helper,
a much larger paper, was issued. Of its twelve
columns but one was devoted to the happen-
ings of Hollond. Two or three numbers only
were published.

The successor of the Helper was The Hollond
Quarterly, which appeared in September, 1879.
Most of the space was devoted to orders of re-
view exercise. The last number appears to
have been issued in December, 1880.

CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS 185

In November, 1882, The Holland Monthly
made its first appearance, with Dr. Miller and
Mr. W. L. Cooke as editors, and Mr. H. A.
Walker as business manager. It was published
under the supervision of the Young People's
Pastor's Aid Association. The first page was
devoted to stories, the second and third to church
and school matters, and the last to advertise-
ments. The advertisements were discontinued
with the February, 1883, issue. After March,
1883, the paper was not published until Decem-
ber of the same year, when it awoke to renewed
activity under the editorial management of
Dr. Paden and Messrs. R. C. Ogden, W. I..
Cooke, Charles A. Oliver, and Samuel M.
Kennedy. Mr. H. A. Walker retained his
po.sition as business manager, with Mr. Chas.
A. Chew as treasurer. In the February num-
ber appeared Mr. MacMorris's excellent cut of
the chapel, which has become so familiar to us.
The paper appeared monthly up to and includ-
ing January, 1885, and then in March, June
and November, 1885, and in January, Febru-
ary, March, May, and June, 1886.

The Holland Quarterly was issued in Novem-
ber, 1886, and was almost the exact counter-
part of the Monthly. Drs. Paden and Miller,
and Messrs. R. C. Ogden, W. I^. Cooke, Samuel
Semple, and S. M. Kennedy were the editors.

The Hollojid Messe?iger, issued January,

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1888, was the next paper. But three num-
bers appear to have been published, the last
one being in December, 1888. It was larger
and more interesting than any of its predeces-
sors. The first three pages were devoted to
church news, and the fourth to advertisements.
In the spring of 1892, Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
at a teachers' meeting, spoke of the importance
of a church paper and suggested that one be
published. The outcome of this suggestion
wah The Hollond Reyjiinder, which made its
initial appearance on June 5th of that year.
It contained no advertisements and all the
expenses of publication were paid by Mr.
Ogden. After continuing as a weekly for nine-
teen consecutive numbers (the last number
bearing date of October 9th, 1892), it was
changed to a monthly — the first number of
which was published in November, 1892. As
a monthly, it was published by the Church
Press Association, which allowed the church
the first eight pages, free, for local news, the
Association having the privilege of using the
other eight pages for advertising purposes.
This arrangement continued for four years,
when the contract was canceled with the Octo-
ber, 1896, issue, in order that the church might
undertake the publication of the paper on its
own responsibility. Under the new arrange-
ment, the paper was published by the Christian

D. B. McAllistef

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Endeavor Society, the first number appearing
in December, 1896, with Mr. Chester Griese-
mer as the business manager. The paper con-
tained sixteen pages in addition to the cover,
and presented an attractive appearance, a
special cover design having been drawn for it
by Miss Caroline A. Douglas.

Owing to Mr. Griesemer's serious illness,
the business control of the paper was ofi"ered to
and accepted by the Ushers' Association, and
Mr. Ellwood Frame was appointed business
manager. The first number under the new
management appeared in April, 1897. After
rendering valuable service, Mr. Frame re-
signed, and Mr. Daniel B. McAllister suc-
ceeded to his position. Although very much
engaged with his personal business, Mr. Mc-
Allister has given much time to this labor of
love ; and it has been largely due to his earnest
efforts, ably seconded by Mr. Thomas I^.
Niven, that The Renmider has been continued
to the present time. It is pleasant to state,
that since its first appearance in June, 1892,
the paper has been published without missing
a single issue, save that of November, 1896,
which was due to changing publishers.

Bound copies of The Reminder may be found
in the church library, and also in the library of
the Presbyterian Historical Society. H. P. Ford
has edited the paper from its beginning.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

" Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever."

One cannot make even a general review of
the history of Hollond without being impressed
with the vigorous and uplifting nature of the
work, and with the singular devotion of the
workers — characteristics which have marked
the undertaking from the very beginning. In
the early years, men and women of culture and
refinement, who could lend an added grace to
any position, left a pleasant church home, with
delightful spiritual and social surroundings,
to give themselves with consecrated energy to
the cause of the poor and the friendless in a
neglected portion of the city ; and not for a
brief season only, but for long years of faithful
service. Not only were they directly helpful
at the time but their influence has continued
through the years, and the Hollond life of to-
day is cast in a finer mould because of them.
To notice with any degree of fullness all who
deserve special mention would require volumes;
we must be content with brief sketches of a few
of the official leaders.

BIOGRAPHICAIv SKETCHES 189

Henry Augustus Boardman, D. D., was born

in Troy, New York, January 9th, 1808, and

was graduated from Yale College,

HENRY A. in September, 1829, being the

BOARDMAN, i j ,. • r ■,• i tt

P p valedictorian or his class. He

studied law for a year and then
determined to devote his life to the work of the
gospel ministry. In the fall of 1830 he en-
tered Princeton Theological Seminary, from
which he was graduated three years later. He
preached his first sermons in the Tenth Church
July 28th, 1833, from the texts Luke 6: 43-45;
Isaiah i: 2, 3. At a congregational meeting
held on the 2nd of the following September he
receiv^ed a call to become the pastor. This he
accepted and on the 8th day of November he
was ordained and installed. This was his first
and only charge, and for forty-three years he
filled the pulpit " with distinguished ability,
learning and fidelity."

In 1853, Dr. Boardman was elected by the
General Assembly to the chair of Pastoral
Theology in Princeton Seminary, made vacant
by the death of Archibald x\lexander, which
he declined to accept — many of the leading
citizens, irrespective of denominational affilia-
tion, uniting with the members of his own con-
gregation in urging him to remain in Philadel-
phia. In 1854, he was elected moderator of the
(O. S.) General Assembly.

igo BIOGRAPHICAIv SKETCHES

On the 5th of May, 1S76, Dr. Boardraan
addressed a tender and affectionate letter to his
people, requesting them, in view of his im-
paired health, to unite with hira in an applica-
tion to Presbytery dissolving the pastoral rela-
tionship. In this letter he thus generously
alludes to his two associates: "Restricted of
late years to one sermon a Sabbath, my lack of
service has been liberally supplied by my able
and excellent associates, the Rev. lyouis R.
Fox, from January, 1872, to June, 1874, and
since November 29th, 1874, by the Rev. J.
Henry Sharpe. On the occasion of Mr. Fox's
resignation, speaking not less for me than for
yourselves, you bore your cordial and united
testimony to ' his piety and earnestness, his
fidelity and zeal, in the discharge of his co-pas-
toral duties.' And you will pay the same tri-
bute to his successor, Mr. Sharpe, from whose
lips (let me add) I have never heard, in the
eighteen months he has been with us, a single
common-place sermon. My intercourse with
these brethren has been of the most refreshing
character. In serving you faithfully, their
uniform courtesy and kindness towards myself
have converted this very delicate relation into
a source of the greatest comfort and encour-
agement."

Very reluctantly the congregation determined
to acquiesce in Dr. Boardman's request. At a

Rev. H. a. Boardman, D. D.

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meeting of Presbytery held in the Tenth Pres-
byterian Church an the 25th of May, 1876, the
following action was taken on the resignation :

" Resolved, That the Presbytery accede to
the united request of Dr. Boardman and the
Tenth Church for the dissolution of the pastoral
relation."

Resolutions of regret and esteem were
adopted by both the Presbytery and the church.
By the vote of both bodies Dr. Boardman was
made "pastor emeritus," a position he held
until his death on the 15th of June, 1880, in
his seventy-third year. He had returned the
preceding day from Atlantic City, and although
he was known to be ill his sickness caused no
serious alarm. He grew worse, however, dur-
ing the night and quietly passed away the
following morning.

Dr. Boardman was an able writer. His
printed works embrace above a dozen volumes
and some twenty-five or thirty discourses and
other pamphlets. Of his ability as a preacher,
Dr. Alfred Nevin wrote : " He was evangelical
and elevated in his thought, and pure, simple,
and direct in his style. He charmed while he
instructed his people, and he bound them to him
by the ties of reverential love. He was uncom-
promisingly orthodox in his doctrinal beliefs ;
always and everywhere he maintained his
Presbyterian opinion." Dr. William P. Breed

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said of him, "For ability and true manly
dignity, for fidelity to sound doctrine, for rich-
ness of pulpit instruction, for purity and felic-
ity of literary style, for persuasive eloquence,
and for reach of healthful influence, he left
nothing to be desired."

The first sermon preached in the HoUond
Chapel was by Dr. Boardman. He was inter-
ested in all that pertained to its welfare. Mr.
Charles E. Morris bore this generous testimony :
"When the books shall be opened, and every
secret thing be made known, it will be found
that to Dr. Boardman, more than to any other
human agency, has the success and present
prosperity of our Mission [Hollond] been
due."

On one of the visits of Dr. A. P. Happer to
this country from China, he and Dr. Rice were
dining with Dr. Boardman. The theme of
conversation was the subject in which the three
were so deeply interested — the Moyamensihg
Mission. Turning to Dr. Happer, Dr. Board-
man said :

^^ Some day you will come from China on a
visit to your native cozmtry, as riozv, and yo7i will
find the Tenth Church Missioyi not i?i its present
cramped quarters on Carpenter street, but in a
large, mag7iificent, well-fu7nished cathedral
church, equal, or even superior, i?i its eqjiipments
for aggressive work, to the mother churchy

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This prophecy of Dr. Boardman has had re-
markable fulfillment.

Rev, Dr. A. P. Happer, at the age of twenty-
four, became the first superintendent of the old
Moyamensing Mission school. In
REV. ANDREW 1893, he wrote Dr. Paden as fol-

P. HAPPER, , <, T TVT u n

D.D., M.D. lows: In November, 1842, at
the request of the teachers, I
commenced the duties of superintendent of the
Moyamensing Mission." In view of his early
association with our work, it has been thought
well to give a somewhat extended account of
his life. The following abbreviated article,
from the pen of William Rankin, Esq., was
taken from the January, 1895, Church at Home
mid Abroad :

Andrew Patton Happer was born in Monon-
gahela City, Pa., October 20, 1818, and died
in Wooster, Ohio, October 27, 1894..

Dr. Happer, then a graduate of Jefferson
College, having completed his theological
course at Allegheny, was studying medicine
in Philadelphia, where he took the degree
of M.D. in the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1844, he was ordained by the Presbytery of
Ohio, and on the 22d of June, that year, sailed
from New York for Canton.

The mission having succeeded in entering
and establishing itself in Canton, Dr. Happer,
on the nth of November, 1847, married Eliza-

194 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

beth, daughter of Rev. Dyer Ball, of the
American Board, who became the mother of
his four daughters, who, under the appoint-
ment of the Presbyterian Board, were at times
his co-laborers in the field; also his son, who
ministered to him in his last hours.

Mrs. Happer's health gave way in 1854,
making a change necessary. Dr. Happer em-
barked with his family for the United States
in December of that year. He returned to
the field in 1859, and in 1862 the first Presby-
terian church was organized, with seven na-
tive members. He became its pastor and
gathered into that fold some five hundred con-
verts. He detached members as colonies to
form nine other churches.

In December, 1865, Mrs. Elizabeth Happer
departed this life. A suitable provision for
his motherless children required that the father
should bring them to America. In October,
1869, he returned to China, having on the 6th
of that month married Miss A. I^. Elliott, who,
for twenty years, had been a teacher in West-
ern Pennsylvania. She died four years later.

Dr. Happer's third marriage was on March
18, 1875, to Miss Hannah J. Shaw, a member
of the mission, who survives him.

It was not until after fourteen years of con-
tinuous labor that he consented to another
furlough. He came home, but not to rest.

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The project of a Chinese Christian college,
permanently endowed, engaged his attention.
He came to New York, and for several weeks
was engaged in securing the desired funds.
Success crowned his efforts, and over $100 000
were placed in the hands of trustees in New
York. The Chinese College was inaugurated
on paper and he was made the first president.
Mrs. Happer went back with her husband to
China. For two years they labored together.
Mrs. Happer's health now failed, compelling
her return home. Her husband followed a
few months later, mainly from the same cause,
resigning the presidency of the college to its
trustees. They removed to Wooster, whence
the great soul of this busy man entered into
the joy of his Lord.

Mr. Wurts was born in Louisville, Kentucky,
August 31, 1820, and died in Philadelphia De-
cember 15, 1 88 1. He removed

MAURICE A. to this city in his youth and at
WURTS an early age became a member of
the Tenth Presbyterian Church.
He took an active interest in many branches
of the work of that church but was specially
devoted to mission labors in the neglected por-
tions of the city.

In 1847, he became the superintendent of the
Moyamensing Mission, which then met in the
second story of the Native American Hose

196 BIOGRAPHICAI, SKETCHES

Company house on Carpenter street, below
Tenth. The following year he succeeded in
having erected a comfortable Sunday-school
building and through the impetus thus given
to the work, together with his able leadership,
the membership of the school grew from fifty
to above four hundred. His strong personality,
love for children, devotion to the work, and
deep spiritual earnestness, admirably fitted him
for the responsible position which he con-
tinued to fill with ever-increasing usefulness
for eleven years.

In 1858, he removed to West Philadelphia
and became the superintendent of the Green-
way Mission, which has since been organized
into the Green way Presbyterian Church. To
this work he gave seven years of faithful and
successful service.

Mr. Wurts was twice superintendent of the
Sunday-school of the Tenth Church. He was
one of the first elders of the Woodland Presby-
terian Church.

" His enthusiasm and unselfish devotion to
Sunday-school mission work led to his appoint-
ment as secretary of Missions of the American
Sunday-School Union, and recording secretary
of its Board, February 19, 1861," a position he
continued to fill with great acceptance until
his death in 1881, a period of twenty years.
A booklet entitled "An Unselfish lyife," set-

Maurice A. Wurts

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ting forth the value of his work to the Sunday-
School Union and other religious enterprises,
was published shortly after his death.

Strong leaders have been connected with
our work from the beginning and Mr. Wurts
was among the foremost of them. He was
largely instrumental in laying the firm founda-
tion upon which much of the subsequent suc-
cess of the HoUond school has been built. A
lady who was a teacher during his superin-
tendency thus writes of his work and its results:

"I was not with Mr. Wurts in the early
years of his work in Moyamensing. but I have
often heard him speak of the difficulties en-
countered, the rough surroundings, and the
unsatisfactory arrangements in the old hose-
house, with boards placed on boxes or barrels
for seats, and the rough, undisciplined element
he had to contend with.

" It was his aim to make this a model school;
but with the raw material he had to work with,
this involved much patient and persevering
work.

" When I entered the school I was given a
class of fourteen girls. With the exception of
two or three, they were utterly untrained, un-
kempt little waifs, picked up from the neigh-
borhood. Often bare feet and bare heads pre-
sented themselves in the class, heads evidently
not under the subduing influences of comb or

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brush; faces and hands free from any sense of
the need of soap and water. We began with
requiring cleanliness, hoping that the next
grace might be induced to follow. After a
few years the effect on the school became so
manifest that at our regular church anniver-
saries, our dear pastor, Dr. Boardman, looking
over the two schools brought together in the
Tenth Church, would often remark that a
stranger would not be able to tell which was
the church school and which the mission.

' ' The change in the neighborhood was also
quite as marked. When I first took a class, it
was considered unsafe for the lady teachers to
go alone, and as Mr. Wurts was very desirous
that each family should be visited, it required
no little courage to carry out his wishes.
Drunken men, most untidy houses, and occa-
sional fights with brickbats, etc., were en-
countered, but it was not so very long before
all this was changed, and a great improvement
seen in the character and appearance of the
neighborhood."

Dr. Rice was born April 30th, 1817, at Low-

ville. New York. He was graduated from

Wesleyan University, Middle-

wiLLARD town, Connecticut, in 1837. He

MARTIN RICE i. *. • 1 • xi. i.

D D was tutor in languages in that

University from the time of his

graduation until 1840, when he became the

REV. W. M. Rice, D. D. (1896)

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principal of a classical school in Philadelphia —
a position he continued to hold until 1856,
when he assumed charge of the Moyamensing
Mission of the Tenth Presbyterian Church.
Two years later, the Mission developed into
the Moyamensing Presbyterian Church, and
Dr. Rice became the first pastor. He remained
in charge until 1863, when he resigned to be-
come the pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, where he stayed until 1874 ; in that
year he received and accepted a call from
Trinity Church, Berwyn, Pa., where he re-
mained until 1876.

The following action was taken by the
congregation of the Moyamensing Church, Oc-
tober, 14th, 1863, on the resignation of Dr.
Rice:

"Resolved, That in uniting with Mr. Rice
in his request, we do so with a deep sense of
his faithful labors and patient sacrifices in our
behalf.

"Resolved, That in the harmony and love
which should ever exist between pastor and
people, there is not a single link wanting in
this whole church.

" Resolved, That during the five years of his
pastorate, his untiring zeal and faithful minis-
trations have endeared him to us by con-
stantly increasing ties, and bound us together
by a love and harmony which we can never
cease to remember with gratitude.

" Resolved, That we unite in prayer to the

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Great Head of the Church in behalf of our
pastor that his useful life may be spared ;
that wherever his lot may be cast he may win
the same love which we here desire to express
towards him, and that he, who has all his ser-
vants in his keeping, would graciously watch
over him and his, and make him eminently use-
ful in his Church."

Dr. Rice was a member of the Board of Pub-
lication from i860 to 1887. Since 1862 he has
been its recording clerk. He has also been
engaged in much literary work in connection
with the Board.

He has been clerk of the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia since 1858, with the exception of the
years 1874-1877, during which time he was a
member of the Presbytery of Chester. He was
clerk of the Synod of Philadelphia from 1868
to 1882, and has frequently been a member of
the General Assembly. He received his degree
of D. D. from his Alma Mater in 1866.

On the 7th of July, 1840, Dr. Rice married
Miss Elizabeth McDowell, daughter of the Rev.
John McDowell, D. D., for sixty years one of
the most prominent clergymen of the Presby-
terian Church.

Although he has reached an advanced age,
he gives daily attention to business in his
office in the Witherspoon Building. His men-
tal faculties are unimpared and he retains
much of his physical vigor. He is one of our

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finest lyatiu, Greek, and Hebrew scholars and
retains his knowledge of these languages to a
wonderful degree. His knowledge on all mat-
ters relating to the history of the Presbyterian
Church in Philadelphia is almost encyclopedic.
He is deeply interested in all that pertains to
Hollond.

The question has frequently been asked,
" How did the Hollond Church get its name ? "
It was so called in memory of
HARRIET Harriet Hollond, a member of
HOLLOND the Tenth Church, who gave
$10,000 towards the erection of
the chapel at Federal and Clarion streets, which
we now use for our Sunday-school and prayer-
meeting services. The following excerpts were
kindly made by Mr, William L,. DuBois, from
a memorial volume written by Dr. Henry A.
Boardman :

Miss Harriet Hollond was born October 12,
1812, and was the daughter of Charles and Ann
K. Hollond, Of her father it is said, " he was
an English gentlemen of honorable descent
whose generous culture and attractive quali-
ties lent grace and dignity to the sterling
virtues which formed the base of his charac-
ter." He died in March, 1831, leaving a
widow and five children, Harriet being the
oldest, although she outlived them all. Her
mother and two sisters, dying within a short

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time of each other, left her alone in the world
so far as family was concerned. This heavy-
stroke fell with great severity, and her slender
frame seemed as though it must sink under
its accumulated burdens. Her flesh and
strength declined. In 1847 her physicians
prescribed a visit to Europe, and in company
with Dr. H. A. Boardman and family, she
spent thirteen months abroad and there is no
doubt that, under Providence, this was the
chief means of prolonging her valuable life for
many years.

Her chief characteristics were Humility and
Benevolence. One who knew her well for
forty years said, " I have never known in any
sphere of life, a more humble Christian, and
never a more benevolent one." She had in-
herited a generous fortune, and her beautiful
home at 12 14 Walnut street was furnished with
articles of taste and handiwork. Many curios
she had collected in Europe, while many were
keepsakes of her friends, but there was no ex-
travagance or ostentation ; her controlling rea-
son for having these things lay in the gratifi-
cation they afforded her friend.s.

She had as much of that homely Saxon
quality we call common sense, next to piety
the most valuable of all endowments, as often
falls to the lot of man or woman.

In 1855, upon the death of her attached

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friend, Mrs. Ellen W. Jones, she was made
superintendent of the Female Sabbath-school
of the Tenth Church, a position never better
filled by anyone, and in which she continued
until the time of her death. Nothing but
sickness or absence from the city could keep
her from her post. Always punctual, familiar
with the details of every class, knowing even
€very scholar by name, she recognized at a
glance the exigencies of each session, occa-
sioned by absence and other causes, and with
a happy facility provided for them. The last
ten of these years were dedicated to the school
under circumstances which most persons would
have regarded as a sufficient reason for declin-
ing active service. A severe illness in 1859 at
Newport revealed an organic disease of the
heart. This caused her to be an invalid for the
rest of her life, and to suffer numerous attacks
from this malady ; but even then she spared
herself no labor that might contribute to the
well being of the Sunday-school.

To the work of the Missionary Society of
the Tenth Church Miss Hollond gave her ut-
most sympathies, her unwearied care and her
munificent benefactions. She was not the
official head of the Society. It had no such
head. No one cared to be "president," and
she would not consent to be. She was the
treasurer — a treasurer who, after spending the

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inadequate contributions received from the
congregation, uniformly supplied all deficiences
from her own purse.

Her benevolent sympathies demanded yet
wider scope. In the winter of iS57-i858,Win-
throp Sargent, one of the elders of the Tenth
Church, with the aid of his brethren, com-
menced a meeting for social prayer. The en-
couragement given it was so great that two
years later (March, i860) Miss Hollond rented
a suitable house on South Juniper street, and
a lady well qualified for the task was employed
to superintend operations. Here the women,
to the number of sixty or seventy, would meet
on certain evenings to receive religious instruc-
tions, and to sew— making clothing for the
missionaries. The ample stock of materials
demanded by the formidable corps of workers
being supplied by Miss Hollond. Besides,
there was a "sewing school" for the young,
on Saturday afternoons, the children not only
sewing for the missionaries, but cheerfully
contributing their pennies to buy libraries for
the missionary children. Sunday afternoons,
at two o'clock, there was an adult Bible class,
and Sunday evenings were given to a religious
service, conducted by Mr. Sargent, mentioned
above, and a few excellent brethren. Christ-
mas holidays were always remembered, and
the clothing prepared for the missionary boxes

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was displayed at that time. In the evening,
after a brief religious exercise, all repaired to
the parlor, where a bountiful table was spread,
and where Miss Hollond, with the few young
ladies she had invited to help her, took pleasure
in passing the refreshments with her own
hands, addressing a word or two to each by
name, and putting up special parcels for their
invalids at home. Of course the children were
remembered, and had their festival on one of
the holiday afternoons.

While she was specially interested in mis-
sionary work, she was one of the largest con-
tributors in the city to the several Boards of
the Church, and the other objects which make
their annual appeals to our congregations.
With reference to the considerate kindness of
Miss Hollond for those whom no one else
would have thought of, as needing aid, or
being within reach of it, there can be no ques-
tion. And if what she did in this regard ever
came abroad, it was not of her connivance.

For a year or two she had been losing
ground and while spending the summer of
1870 at Cresson Springs, was taken sick, with
what seemed to be a severe attack of indiges-
tion, but which proved to be a new develop-
ment of her subtle heart disease. For a day
or two she seemed to improve, but on the 9th
of August, 1870, she suddenly grew worse, and

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in the early morning fell asleep. Three days
after, her remains were borne to the cemetery
at Laurel Hill, followed by a large concourse
of true mourners. The funeral services were
conducted by Drs. W. M. Rice and Samuel T.
Lowrie.

Miss Elizabeth Potts, who has been con-
nected with the school for a number of j^ears
as one of its most valued teachers,

CHARLES E. has kindly prepared thc followiug

MORRIS sketch which will be read with

appreciation not only by those

who knew and loved Mr. Morris, but by all

who have an interest in Hollond :

Among the men who have done so much for
Hollond Sunday-school in the past there has
been perhaps no more vivid personality than
that of Mr. Charles E. Morris, who for eight
years was its beloved superintendent and who
left behind him influences for good which have
never faded away. An earnest, consecrated
Christian, he was inspiring in his very pres-
ence. Always cheery and bright, and full of
enthusiasm, he exercised a stimulating influ-
ence upon all who came in contact with him.
His deep spirituality and earnestness were
combined with a shrewd common sense and a
great degree of tact which eminently fitted
him to be a leader.

When he was elected superintendent, he took

Charles Ellis Morris

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days for consideration and prayer, and during
that time his mother said that he could neither
eat nor sleep. With his coming, the school,
which knew only the old-time ways, took a
long step forward.

Himself an old-fashioned Presbyterian in
thought and doctrine, a worthy product of
careful home training, and of the instructions
of his revered and oft- quoted preceptor. Dr.
Mark Hopkins, president of Williams College,
at which institution he passed his student life,
he was the first superintendent to introduce
modern features into the school.

The use of an order of service, responsive
readings, silent prayer, the young people's so-
ciety and the parents' and children's meetings
were all started by him. Trained by Dr.
Hopkins' lectures on the subject, he was en-
thusiastic in regard to the value of the Shorter
Catechism and made its study prominent in the
school.

When asked to become superintendent, he
made it one of his conditions that the teachers
should give up any engagement requiring them
to hasten away, and be willing to devote the
afternoon to the school and its interests, look-
ing up absentees, visiting the sick, etc.

By his great earnestness and his strong per-
sonal magnetism, he was able to carry his
teachers with him. He trained them to feel

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that they should be a unit in purpose; that
each teacher was responsible not only for his
class, but for the general welfare of the school.
He impressed upon us that the salvation of the
souls of our pupils was the ultimate aim, with-
out which our teaching was of small account.
In his own addresses from the desk he made
most vivid the claims of the gospel, and left
the impression that personal salvation alone
was vitally important.

Mr. Morris thought a Sunday-school with-
out a teachers' meeting was an anomaly, and
he brought about the establishment of weekly
meetings for the study of the lesson, and so
impressed us with the necessity that the attend-
ance was large. Teachers who habitually ab-
sented themselves were thought very neglect-
ful of duty. We prepared our own lesson
papers for the use of the school, for a time, in
those days before the establishment of the
International lessons. We often held the meet-
ings at the homes of some of the teachers, and
full parlors indicated the general interest. The
lessons were made so delightful and instruc-
tive that the evening was to many of us the
pleasantest of the week.

Mr. Morris would often come to the busi-
ness meetings full of some new plan or sug-
gestion which he would lay before the teachers.
Opportunity was always given for the fullest

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and freest discussion, which sometimes became
quite heated. Strong opposition would often
melt away before his explanations. No plan,
however, was put into operation except with
\he consent and vote of the majority.

Mr. Morris came among us as a young man,
in fullest sympathy with the young, and so
entered into the life and interests of every
pupil. He had a hearty, cheery way of greet-
ing all, which roused the utmost enthusiasm
for him on the part of the pupils. On occa-
sions of entertainment, he was full of life and
fun, ready to lead in games and to rouse
abundance of merriment; but when he took
his place on the platform, his very presence
controlled the school, and there was but small
effort required to keep order. The pupils, one
and all, loved him. One of the older pupils
said recently, "I reverenced Mr. Morris."
Every pupil was sure of his friendly sym-
pathy, and with the comparatively small num-
bers, he could know nearly all individually.
A young girl about to join the church said:
" I never thought much of my need of a
Saviour until Mr. Morris said, ' Annie, I wish
you were a Christian,' and then I felt that if
Mr. Morris cared about it, it was quite time
for me to think about it myself." It was at
Mr. Morris's suggestion that regular competi-
tive examinations upon the lessons were held

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for a time, and some pupils passed with a very
high grade.

In his public addresses Mr. Morris was
strong and vigorous. He alwa5^s held the
attention of his audience without apparent
efifort. In his summing up of the lesson, he
would seize upon one or two of the leading
points and make an intensely practical appeal,
which left its impress upon the memory. It
was because of Mr. Morris's urgent desire, that
we decided to celebrate Christmas by giving,
rather than by receiving gifts, although he
himself did not live to see the experiment
tried.

It was largely owing to Mr. Morris's efforts
and faith that the Hollond chapel was built.
The neighborhood of Tenth and Carpenter
streets had so largely become settled by Roman
Catholics that no further growth was possible.
When Miss Hollond died in 1870 she left us
$10,000, conditional upon our building in a
more promising location within five years.
Two years had elapsed, with no steps taken,
when Mr. Morris, by his statements to Dr.
Boardman and the session of the Tenth
Church, induced them to endorse an appeal to
the members of the congregation for addi-
tional funds. This, with the personal efforts
of Mr. Morris and some of the teachers among
outside friends, resulted in securing a sum

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sufficient to supplement Miss Hollond's legacy
and purchase a lot and build the chapel. He
took great delight in planning the house and
greatly rejoiced when we entered into pos-
session.

His faith in the future of the church to be
was very strong, and he often spoke confi-
dently of the day when a South Broad Street
Presbyterian Church would stand upon the
corner. Although the name was claimed by
another church before we were ready to build,
he would rejoice as fully in seeing there the
Harriet Hollond Memorial Church.

Mr. Morris's activity was so great, and he
accomplished so much, it is hard to realize that
he was only thirty-five years of age at the time
of his death. His funeral services were held
in the Tenth Church, on Thursday, 13th Feb-
ruary, 1879, at which the school attended, a
choir of the older scholars leading the singing.
The addresses on that occasion by Hollond
Sunday-school workers, as well as the touch-
ing resolutions adopted by the teachers and
officers of Hollond school, are included in the
memorial volume published soon after his
death. He is further commemorated in the
fine stained-glass window at the east end of
the church, and also by a bronze tablet above
the superintendent's desk in the chapel, which
bears the following inscription :

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IN MEMORIAM

Our Superintendent
Charles K. Morris

Born March 7th, 1844

Died Feb. loth, 1879

Be thou faithful unto death and

I will give thee a crown of life.

On the 17th of May, 1877, Mr. Morris
married Miss Ella Graham Benson. One child,
a daughter, was born to them. Mrs. Morris
has long been a faithful teacher in the school.
She has fr^quentl}' manifested her interest in
the church by liberal contributions. Recently
the daughter, Miss Margaretta, became a mem-
ber of our teaching force and has entered upon
the work with characteristic devotion.

"Among those still active who have been the

longest time identified with the Holloiid work

and the most useful in it," Dr.

WILLIAM L. J- R- Miller writes, " no one has
DUBOIS wrought more faithfully or more
efficiently, and no one has en-
deared himself to more hearts, than Mr. William
ly. DuBois. As an officer of the Tenth Presby-
terian Church, he was deeply interested in the
promotion of the work at Hollond while it was
still a mission. No one did more than he to
keep the heart of the mother-church warm
toward the child and to secure year by year

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the generous support necessary for the main-
tenance of the Sunday-school ; for whi e the
church services in those earher days were sup-
ported by the Hollond people themselves, the
expenses of the school were borne by the Tenth
Church — an annual collection and subscription
being taken for this purpose.

" In the final disposition of the proceeds of
the sale of the old Tenth Church, when it had
decided to unite with the West Spruce Street
Church, Mr. DuBois was one of the friends in
that church who represented and advocated the
Hollond interests and to whom Hollond is in-
debted for the large share which came to it to
aid in the completion of the new building and
to provide the handsome endowment fund
which will aid so much in the work of the
future. Hollond cannot be too grateful to Mr.
DuBois for his personal influence and wise help
in these and other ways. He did much, far
more than many persons know, to give it its
favorable beginning and its fine equipment as
a church.

" For many years, the work of Mr. DuBois
in the Sunday-school has been invaluable.
Though never connected with the church as an
organization— his membership and ofiicial rela-
tion having always been and still continuing
with the Tenth Church — he has always wrought
and still works in the school. He has long

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served and still serves as the Sunday-school
treasurer, giving careful thought to financial
matters. As counsellor in all the business
aflfairs of the school, he has ever been wise and
faithful. As a teacher, his services have been
of great value and have been fittingly appre-
ciated. He has won a place in the hearts of
the many who have been in the classes taught
by him; and he will long be cherished by them
as a personal friend — sympathetic, kindly,
thoughtful, and ready to help in any possible
way. '

" Mr. DuBois is a quiet man. His voice is
not often heard in public meetings ; but his
work is of the kind that builds up and endures,
and his influence is always for good."

At a conference of Hollond workers held in
the chapel in the fall of 1897, Mr. DuBois
spoke on " The Pioneers of Hollond." He
said in part :

" This work, once known as the Moyamen-
sing Mission, which began in such a small way —
first in the little building on Christian street
and afterwards in the Carpenter street build-
ing— has shown itself to be under God's es-
pecial care. When we contemplate the small-
ness of that beginning and the great church
into which it has developed, with all its acces-
sories which are represented here to-night,
truly we are filled with the deepest gratitude

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to God for all that he has done for us. My
own connection with the Mission began in the
year 1866. I believe that the only teachers
and officers now in the work who were teachers
then, beside myself, are Miss Penrose, Mr. and
Miss Cooke, and Miss Rivell. The work was
full of discouragement, but the old Tenth
Church came to our help nobly — supplying us
with needed funds, and giving us teachers.
Especially were we assisted and encouraged by
Miss Hollond's support."

Mr. DuBois closed by paying a high tribute
.to the worth of Mr. Charles E. Morris. He
explained that it was altogether due to the
energy of Mr. Morris that the conditions of
Miss Hollond's will were met and the money
applied to the erection of our chapel build-
ing.

The following sketch of the Rev. Louis

Rodman Fox, who was directly connected with

the HoUond field from 1872 to

REV. LOUIS 1S74, was prepared by a close
R. FOX personal friend : Mr. Fox was
born at Doylestown, Pa., January
10, 1834, and was educated in Philadelphia at
the school of the Rev. Samuel Wylie Crawford,
D. D. Later, Mr. Fox attended Brown Uni-
versity, after which he studied and entered
upon the practise of law, but his heart turned
continually to the ministry and he prepared

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himself for it at Princeton Theological Semin-
ary in the class of 1859.

He began his ministry at a little mission
station at Bustleton, near Burlington, N, J.,
where he afterwards spent five additional
years, leaving the church in possession of a
beautiful building, erected through his instru-
mentality, free of debt. He spent a year in
laborious mission work at Tuckerton and Bass
River, N. J., and was for a time on a special
service of the Christian Commission in our
Civil War'. His regular pastorates were in
Washington, D. C. , Philadelphia and Detroit.
That in Philadelphia began in January, 1872,
when he was called from the North Church of
Washington to be associate pastor with the
Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D., in the pas-
torate of the Tenth Church. Here he labored
with great diligence, preaching with accept-
ance and profit, and doing most faithful
pastoral work.

Mr. Fox was especially active and helpful
in connection with the Moyamensing Mission
of the church, and his first preaching service
there, which antedated by several days his
installation by Presbytery at the Tenth Church,
was the first preaching service held after the
re-organization of the Sunday-school. His
interest in the enterprise never flagged. He
held frequent services both on Sundays

V

Rev. Louis R. Fo>

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and during the week, and soon found that
meetings for inquirers were necessary. In
the following March, Mr. Charles K. Morris
wrote to a friend: " Scholars from our school
are coming into the church. We ought to be
much encouraged." As there was no church
organization, these were enrolled as members
of the parent church until March 24, 1882,
when the Hollond Church was organized.
When other duties would permit of it, Mr,
Fox was often found teaching a class in the
Sunday-school. He was instrumental in rais-
ing much of the money to supplement Miss
Hollond's bequest, thus securing the erection
of the new chapel on Federal street.

In 1874, Mr. Fox resigned his connection
with the Tenth Church but always took a
deep interest in the work of the mission. It
was a pleasure to him that he was able to
take part in the dedication of the Hollond
Memorial Chapel, February 15, 1874, when he
preached the evening sermon from the text,
* ' Whosoever will, let him take the water of
life freely;'' and also in that of the Hollond
Church on October 15, 1893, when he made
an address full of reminiscences of the past
and of gratitude to God for the prosperity of
the present, to the throng which filled the
large and handsome building.

Mr. Fox's last pastorate was in Detroit,

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Michigan, where, with that missionary spirit
so characteristic of his whole ministerial life,
he devoted himself to the organization and up-
building of a work which had been chaotic
and unpromising. This church is now known
as the Church of the Covenant, and has a
beautiful house of worship, the result of his
efforts. "He consecrated unusual gifts and
acquirements to the preaching of the gospel to
the poor. He identified himself with rare
tact and Christian sympathy with the interests
and sufferings of his people. He was among
them always and gave himself for them. And
he had his reward in that out of that faithful
work there are many shining jewels that one
day will be resplendent in his crown. He was
a devoted friend, staunch and true, whose
ready wit and quaint humor, well stored mind
and kindly heart found everywhere a cheery
welcome. He was a Christian who realized
Christ daily, and so believed His promise and
so loved Him that the passion of his life
was to preach to others that promise of
love. ' '

In 1890, protracted ill health compelled him
to lay down his work and retire to his Phila-
delphia home, from whence, on December 21,
1894, he was called, not to fresh and coveted
labors but to the immediate presence of the
Master to receive his reward.

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Dr J. R. Miller pays this tribute to his memory :
" Mr. Fox was a man of lovable spirit. His
friendships were deep, strong and lasting. He
was much interested in young men, especially
in those who were preparing for the ministry.
He was wise and faithful as a pastor, and his
touch is on many lives.

"All who are interested in Hollond have
special reason to remember Mr. Fox with love
and gratitude. The period of his co-pastorate
in the Tenth Church included the time when
the money was being raised to supplement
Miss Hollond's bequest for the building of our
Sunday-school chapel. Mr. Fox took a very
deep interest in this work, and, in company
with Mr. Charles E. Morris, visited the people
of the Tenth Church to solicit subscriptions.
His heart was in the mission, for which he
often preached, besides rendering aid in many
other ways. We will long cherish his mem-
ory. There are those among us who have
been helped and blessed by his life in the past,
who will carry in our hearts the influence of
his friendship and of his words for many days. ' '

It is pleasant to record that the hearty en-
couragement which Mr. Fox gave to the work
is being perpetuated by the faithful teaching
of Mrs. Fox in the Sunday-school — a loving
service which is fully appreciated.

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In the death of Samuel M. Kennedy, one of

our elders, which occurred early on Tuesday

morning, July 25th, 1893, our

SAMUEL M. church lost a valued and useful

KENNEDY member. The session took the
following action :

"Mr. Kennedy was one of the four elders
chosen at the time of the organization of the
church, in March, 1882. During all the years
of his service he was faithful, not only in his
attendance upon the regular meetings of the
session, but in all the duties of his office. In
his personal life he was singularly blameless
and true; a man of gentle heart, of loving spirit;
thoughtful, unselfish, kind, yet of strong con-
victions and unflinching steadfastness. As a
church member he was exemplary ; always in
his place, a devout worshiper, and prepared for
every good work. As a church officer, he was
faithful in all duties, wise in counsel, discreet,
spiritually-minded, cordial in all his relations,
having favor with the people. His death has
disclosed, in a way not even suspected before, his
wide personal influence in the community. Hun-
dreds of lives will carry forever the impre.'ss of
his life and the memory of his words and acts."

On the following Sunday evening, July 30th,
Dr. Miller preached a memorial sermon from
the text : " He was a good man." Acts 11: 24.
A few extracts are here given :

Samuel M. Kennedy

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"Mr. Kennedy was a friend of those who were
trying to recover themselves from a sinful past.
We all know his deep interest in the temper-
ance cause. Never did any young man, trying
to free himself from the bondage of the drink
habit, turn in vain to him for sympathy,
brotherly love, and help.

' ' He was a man without envy. It gave him
no pain to see others of his fellow-workers pro-
moted and publicly honored even above him-
self. Indeed, he seemed to rejoice more in the
honor that came to others than that which
gathered about himself. He wrought solely
for Christ. Every other name shone in pale
light before his eyes in comparison with the
splendors that burned about the name of Christ.
He shrank from positions which would seem
to give him prominence. Well do I remember
when I spoke first to him about becoming an
elder. Our church was about to be organized,
and he was one of the four men of whom all
the people thought for elders, I told him of
this desire, and it seemed almost to give him
pain. He said he had not the needed qualifi-
cations, and begged me not to permit his name
to be used. I spoke to him more fully of it
saying that it was evidently the call of God to
him. When the time came, and he was unani-
mously chosen, he quietly came forward to be
set apart for the sacred office ; and we all know

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with what a loving and beautiful spirit he dis-
charged the duties of this position until he was
called up higher.

" On the floral tribute sent by the Young
People's Society of Christian Endeavor were
these words: ' Faithful Always.' These words
carr)^ the secret of his life. He was always
faithful to God. He never forgot a promise,
nor failed to keep an engagement. He did his
work conscientiously — the smallest things as
carefully as the greatest. Far more than any
of us know does such minute and painstaking
faithfulness build up beautiful character, and
make a life bright and holy."

Few men have met with greater success in
their life's work than Dr. Miller. He was
born on a farm in Beaver county,
DR. J. R. P^' of Scotch-Irish ancestry.
MILLER As a rule it is a good thing to be
born a farmer's boy and to come
of Scotch-Irish stock. Dr. Miller's career
gives emphasis to the rule. He has won well-
deserved distinction as a pastor, a teacher and
an author. His name is a household word in
thousands of homes, and his uplifting spiritual
teachings have endeared him to thousands of
hearts. He was graduated in 1862 from West-
minster College, New Wilmington, Pa., and
then spent two years and a half in the work
of the Christian Commission, being connected

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chiefly with the Army of the Potomac. In
1867 he graduated from the United Presb}^-
terian Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa.

Dr. Miller's first charge was at New Wil-
mington, where he remained for two years.
He then accepted a call to the Bethany
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, where he
remained for nine years. It was during his
early ministry in Bethany (1870) that he mar-
ried Miss Louise E. King, of Argyle, New
York. Three children have been born to
them. In 1878 he was installed pastor of the
Broadway Presbyterian Church, Rock Island,
Illinois. He relinquished this charge in 1880
to connect himself with the editorial work of
the Presbyterian Board of Publication, Phila-
delphia. During the same year his Alma
Mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor
of Divinity.

January 2nd, 1881, Dr. Miller began his
work in the Hollond field. On the 24th of
March, 1882, the Mission was organized into the
Hollond Memorial Church, and Dr. Miller was
installed as its first pastor April 23rd, of the
same year. The pastoral relation was dis-
solved September 3rd, 1883, in order that he
might devote himself more fully to his duties
in connection with the Board of Publication.

Dr. Paden succeeded Dr. Miller, and was
installed pastor November 20th, 1883. He

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labored alone for awhile but the work con-
tinued to increase so rapidly that Dr. Miller, at
the request of the session and the trustees,
returned in January, 1886, to assist in the
field, still keeping up his connection with
the Board.

During Dr. Paden's enforced absence in 1892,
recuperating his health, the pastoral work was
carried on by Dr. Miller. As a token of their
appreciation, the congregation presented him
with a handsome oak library suit, consisting of
a desk, couch, book-case, rocker and chairs.

On the 27th of March, 1893, Dr. Miller left
Philadelphia on his first vacation in thirteen
years. He travelled with the Hon. John
Wanamaker through the Pacific states. He
had a pleasant experience in San Francisco :
Going into the home of a Christian Chinese,
the man said, "I know you well, for I have
read your books," and from a near-by table he
brought to the Doctor several of his works.
On his return, the Pastors' Aid Society gave
him a reception in the chapel on the i8th of
May.

The first sermon in the new church was
preached by Dr. Miller on Monday evening,
October i6th, 1893, from the text, '^ Jesus
Christ, the sarne yesterday , and to-day, and for-
ever. ' '

On the ist of July. 1896, Dr. Miller sailed

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with his family from New York on the St.
Paul for a two months' vacation tour of
Europe, going as far south as Naples, The
Christian Endeavor Society gave him a parting
reception. The chapel was crowded and many
of the church organizations presented him with
flowers, accompanied with appropriate senti-
ments. He returned to Philadelphia on the
26th of August, and was given a hearty recep-
tion by the congregation on the 28th.

On the fourteenth of October, 1897, Dr.
Miller wrote to the session resigning the work
which they had invited him to take up years
before. He was, however, at the request of
the session, appointed moderator by the Pres-
bytery, until a pastor could be secured to take
the place made vacant by his and Dr. Paden's
resignations. He continued with us until after
the call to Dr. Martin had been accepted. His
last sermon was delivered on Sunday evening,
June 5th, 1898.

He ended his connection with us by conduct-
ing the Christian Endeavor consecration ser-
vice on the following Tuesday evening. A
number of earnest, heart-felt talks were made
in which the speakers gave expression to the
affection they had for him and told of some of
the many ways in which he had helped them.
It was specially fitting that he should receive
these loving tributes in the room which had

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witnessed so many of his most active eflforts to
inspire in others truer ideals of living.

It was no small thing for such a man to give
seventeen years of his life to the service of one
church; and such a service as but few churches
are ever blessed with. He was to all of us the
faithful pastor, the wise leader, the generous
helper, the safe counselor, and the resourceful
friend. No one deserving of help and sympa-
thy ever appealed to him in vain. Whittier's
lines apply to him with singular fitness :
" With us was one who, calm and true.
Life's highest purpose understood ;
And, like his blessed Master, knew
The joy of doing good."

Mr. Henry A. Walker thus writes of Dr.
Miller's connection with Hollond : " His pul-
pit work commanded our respect and admira-
tion. In these days when sensationalism holds
such a prominent place in so many of our
churches, we need to be thankful that there
are men who do no ' show preaching.' Rugged
earnestness, backed by sincere living, is the
only preaching that counts.

" In the practical dealings of life, when the
hard pushed needed sympathy and encourage-
ment, his work was strong in splendid results;
and when the final roll is called, it will be found
that this type of man has lived the biggest and
best because he has grasped the Christ idea of

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" Dr. Miller's work in our church was most
timely. In the critical periods, when a strong,
capable man was needed at the helm, he was
equal to all emergencies. He has always had
enlarged conceptions of what the whole Hol-
lond work should be. For his work, and for
all that he has been to us, we are grateful."

Dr. Miller fills his position as editorial super-
intendent of the Board of Publication and
Sunday-school Work with marked ability and
to the entire satisfaction of the Church. The
Westminster Teacher, of which nearly one
hundred thousand copies are issued each
month, receives a large share of his personal
attention, and is a treasured help to Sunday-
school teachers all over the land. He has
written between twenty-five and thirty books,
and he is to-day one of the best known and
most widely read religious writers of America.
His name is also a familiar one in Great Britain,
where more than a quarter of a million copies
of his works have been sold. These works
have been translated into German, French,
Japanese and Hungarian.

Dr. Miller is a forceful and popular writer.
His thoughts leave a lasting impress upon the
hearts and minds of his readers because he
writes of life as he finds it — in the homes of
happiness and affluence, and in the homes of
the lowly, the discouraged, and the tempted.

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Here he gives a glimpse of joy, there a bit of
heart-break, but never for an instant does he
lose sight of the all-absorbing purpose of his
writing — to encourage the hopeless, to uplift
the fallen, and to inspire in all a holy desire
for truer and nobler living. In all his writings
there is fullness of strength and helpfulness,
and those who follow his teachings cannot fail
to have

" Promptings their former life above,

And something of a finer reverence

For beauty, truth, and love."

It is doubtless true that " there is no royal

road to learning," but it is none the less true

that one may win his way to learn-

DR. WILLIAM ing right royally, and this is what

M. PADEN Dr. Paden did.

He was born in Washington
county. Pa. His father was of Scotch and his
mother of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction. He
worked on the farm during the summer months
and early acquired a passion for nature. For
a few midwinters he went to the district school
and then rode nearly five miles to recite Latin
and algebra to his pastor. Dr. J. S. Marquis.
He attended a summer session of the Canons-
burg Academy, and then taught the home
school for three winters, continuing his sum-
mer studies at the academy, diligently prepar-
ing for college. By 1875 he was ready to enter

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the sophomore class, but at this time a pro-
fessorship was offered to him in the Canons-
burg Academy, which he accepted and taught
lyatin and Greek there for three years. He
entered the junior class of Princeton Univer-
sity, without conditions, in 1878, and gradu-
ated with honors two years later.

During his college course, he took the first
Junior Orator Medal and the $120.00 prize for
best written oration ; was editor of the Nassau
Literary Magazine in his senior year ; took
two medals for essays, and won a $100.00
Lynde Debate Prize. He was the superintend-
ent of the Stony Brook Sunday-school during
his college course, and of the First Church
Sunday-school, Princeton, during his seminary
course. He had three calls, besides the one
from Hollond, during his senior year, and re-
ceived eight calls during his Hollond pastorate.

Dr. Paden graduated from Princeton Semi-
nary in the spring of '83, and spent the sum-
mer travelling in Europe. He entered upon
the Hollond work on the first Sunday of
October of that year, and was installed on the
twentieth of the following November. In 1888,
he was a delegate to the World's Conference of
the Young Men's Christian Associations, held
at Stockholm, Sweden. He spent the first
nine months of 1892 in the South recuperat-
ing his health. He had the degree of Doctor

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of Divinity conferred upon him in 1895. He
sailed for Paris November 21st, 1895, on a six
months' leave of absence, to take charge of a
movement having for its main object the reach-
ing of the English-speaking students in the
I^atin Quarter of that city. He returned June
5, 1896, and on the following Monday evening
a pleasant reception was tendered him under
the auspices of the Pastor's Aid Society and
the Ushers' Association.

He spent his summer vacation of 1897 in
Salt lyake City, Utah, and preached in the
First Presbyterian Church there. After his
return to Philadelphia he received, and finally
determined to accept, a call from that congre-
gation. This decision he announced from the
pulpit on Sunday morning, October 3d, when
he said , in part :

" You have heard, I am sure, of a call I have
had to Salt Lake City, It has come to me in
such a way that I am bound to consider it.

" I do not expect to find a larger place in any
other people's affections ; you have given me
a support and sympathy which I can hardly
expect to find where my lot may be cast during
the coming years. Nor do I think of leaving
you because another church has taken a larger
place in my affections ; I go among strangers,
or among acquaintances of a few weeks' stand-
ing. My tried affections are all here. This has

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been the church of my first love, and into it I
have built some of the best years of my life. I
know every stone in this building. I have
stood on these wal!s from the foundation to the
roof. * * * The membership of the Salt Lake
church is scarcely larger than the member,- hip
of Hollond when I came here, and the church
accommodations are inferior to our accommoda-
tions fourteen years ago. The necessities of
the field are, however, most urgent, and its
place in the metropolis of the great intermoun-
tain region and in the capital of one of our
youngest and most interesting states is unique-
ly important. The church has also a most im-
portant place as situated at the headquarters
of Mormonism, and at the very head of the
Gentile work among this peculiar people. The
call has come to me with prayerful emphasis
and phenomenal unanimousness ; all this, with
the unique importance of the field to our Chris-
tian work has had much to do with its favor-
able consideration. '-!<*=;« I believe that I am
under God's orders to go, and the announce-
ment of this morning is made that you may
join with me in asking Presbytery that I be
released to obey orders."

In view of this statement, and not in accord-
ance with their feelings, the congregation
yielded to the request, and on Sunday evening,
October 17th, Dr. Paden preached his final

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sermon as our pastor. On the following
Wednesday evening a farewell reception was
given him by the Ushers' Association, which
was very largely attended.

The following editorial appeared in the
Presbyterian Jour7ial oi October 2ist :

" While the brethren and friends of the Rev.
Dr. Paden in Philadelphia sincerely regret his
departure from their immediate circle and com-
panionship, and mourn with the HoUond
Church the sundering of near and dear and
valued relations, at the same time they are
gratified that he goes to occupy a position so
important and so far-reaching in its influence
to Church and State, as the pastorate to which
he is invited in Salt Lake City. Many prayers
will follow him, and we can assure him that
the Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and
vicinity will watch with great interest his work
as pastor and citizen of Utah."

Mr. Robert H. Preston thus writes of Dr.
Paden in his relation to the young men of
Hollond :

"He has profoundly and permanently af-
fected our intellectual life. His mind has put
many of us in living and loving touch with a
large and beautiful world of thought ; his
spirit has quickened in us a noble discontent
with unrefined and unrefining relations ; his
view of the possibilities of young men — espe-

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daily those employed during the day — have
fired many of us with new longings after a
higher intellectual standard. In a word, he
has revealed our deeper self to ourselves, and
the revelation has become the power which has
sent us onward and upward towards a nobler
ideal of life."

Dr. Paden gave the very heart of his life to
HoUond, and no one could question his devo-
tion to its interests. He early won and easily
held the affections of his people. To the work
of erecting the new church he gave himself
and his means unreservedly. He was specially
anxious that the building should stand on the
site it now occupies, and to the attainment of
that desire he used his utmost endeavor.

He was never lacking in those finer qualities
which kindle in other men aspirations for better
living. If he loved to develop the intellectual
it was that the spiritual also might " grow from
more to more." Of him it could be said —

" he spake of men
As one who found pure gold in each of them.
He spake of women just as if he dreamed
About his mother ; and he spoke of God
As if he walked with Him and knew His heart."

Higher praise than this cannot be given — he
honored mankind, reverenced womanhood, and
walked with God.

In our Christian Endeavor meetings he was

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Specially earnest and tender. He was rarely-
absent. Our cozy " upper room " had for him
an inexpressible charm. Surrounded as he
was by the love of his young people, he fre-
quently gave the fullest expression to his feel-
ings, revealing a heart rich in spiritual experi-
ence, and a whole-souled charity which brought
us all into closer and more reverent touch with
the Eternal. His rare spiritual gifts and his
splendid intellectual attainments combine to
make of him a, man to be honored as a pastor,
to be proud of as a friend — a man to be forever
held in grateful remembrance by all who have
known and loved him, and who have felt his
helpful touch upon their lives.

Dr. Paden has been very successful in Utah.
During his first year above one hundred mem-
bers united with his church, and an old debt
of $10,000 was canceled. He is to-day one of
the ablest anti- Mormon leaders of the country.
Our present pastor, Dr. George Edward
Martin, preached for us for the first time on
the 24th of April, 1898, and at
DR. GEORGE a congregational meeting held
MARTIN iw the chapel on the loth of the
following month, he received a
unanimous call to our pulpit.

Dr. Martin was born in Norwich, Connecti-
cut. He was graduated from Yale in 1872.

Rev. George E. Martin, D. D.

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After a theological course at the Yale Semi-
nary, he was installed pastor over the Centre
Congregational Church of Brattleboro, Ver-
mont, July 9th, 1879. After a successful
pastorate of four years in this church he was
called to the First Congregational Church of
Brockton, Massachusetts, and was installed
October nth, 1883. He remained in charge
of this church less than a year, leaving it to
accept the pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church, St. I,ouis, Missouri, over which he
was installed in October, 1884. Here he
labored for fourteen years and made a splendid
record. He was moderator both of the Synod
of Missouri and of the Presbytery of St.
Ivouis. He was greatly interested in educa-
tional matters and was officially connected
with several institutions of learning. He
accepted the call to our church, and was
installed pastor October 17, 1898. Dr. S. W.
Dana, pastor of the Walnut Street Church and
moderator of the Presbytery of Philadelphia,
presided, and proposed the constitutional ques-
tions. Rev. K. P. Terhune, D.D., preached
the sermon; Dr. Samuel A. Mutchmore (who
died thirteen days later) delivered the charge
to the people, and Dr. Charles A. Dickey made
the charge to the pastor. Dr. J. R. Miller
delivered the installation prayer.

On the following Wednesday evening the

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Ushers' Association gave Dr. and Mrs. Martin
a pleasant reception. Many floral tributes were
presented by the several church organizations.

Dr. Martin made an earnest address in which
he expressed the hope that the bond of union
between himself and his people might grow
stronger and more helpful, and that great good
might be accomplished by both pastor and
people in their united efforts to do the Master's
will.

On the ist of June, 1882, Dr. Martin was
married to mIss Emily Herrick, who was born
in Tirumangalam, South India, where her
father was a missionary. She has charge of
our largest adult Sunday-school class. In
many other ways also she is giving important
service to the work.

Dr. Martin received the degree of D. D.
from two colleges — Wabash and Park. He is
a talented musician, and is specially interested
in preparing music for children. He is also
the author of several books, among them being
an attractive little volume, entitled "Sermons
and Sermon Rhymes." In "Sunday Songs
for lyittle Children," recently issued by the
Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-
school Work, Dr. IMartin displays his remark-
able versatility by successfully entering three
great fields of culture — poetry, music, and
decorative art. The pages are adorned with

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dainty marginal designs, and each song is
accompanied with an appropriate illustration
which puts into visual form the spirit of the
words. The art work is Dr. Martin's, and
with but few exceptions, the words and music
also are his.

Dr. Martin is an able preacher. His fine
command of language enables him to express
his thoughts in choicest speech. His broad
culture, ripe scholarship, refined manner, and
long experience should make him a leader of
whom any church might be proud. As the
pastor of the First Church, St. Louis, he was
unusually successful. He found it in uncon-
genial quarters with less than 250 members and
with scarcely any organized activities ; he left
it in new and commodious buildings, with
nearly 700 members, and with a number of
organizations thoroughly equipped for aggres-
sive work. This gratifying change was due
almost entirely to Dr. Martin's efforts.

With God's favor, and with the hearty co-
operation of our congregation. Dr. Martin
should easily repeat his fine record. It is
pleasant to know that he is growing in favor
with his people — especially with those who
are " shut in " and who are thus in a position
fully to appreciate his kindly ministry.

We will serve God best, and best advance the
highest interests of our beloved church, by

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being true to the leadings of the Holy Spirit,
and by uniting heartily and prayerfully in all
plans that have for their aim the upbuilding of
a broader, deeper, truer spiritual life in this
portion of our city. We believe in the ability
of Dr. Martin, and we have confidence in the
loyalty of our people. We doubt not that God
has a great work for us to do. We are all
" workers together " with Him. We face the
future gratefully, hopefully, courageously.
" I^et us play the men for our people, and
for tfie cities of our God; and the lyord do
that which seemeth him good."

The Rev. Leslie I<. Overman occupied the

pulpit as Dr. Martin's assistant for the first

time on the 5th of December,

REV. L. L. 1898, and took an active part in

OVERMAN the service.

Air. Overman is a native of
Ohio. He was graduated from the University
of Wooster, and took a post-graduate Philo-
sophical course at Princeton University. His
theological training was received at the Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, from which insti-
tution he was graduated in 1882, He was
ordained by the Presbytery of Portsmouth,
Ohio, November 8th the same year. He has
been pastor of the McNeily Presbyterian
Church, Nashville ; Montgomery Church,
Presbytery of Cincinnati ; Page Boulevard

Rev. L. L. Ove

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Presbyterian Church, St. lyouis ; assistant
pastor of the lyafayette Park Presbyterian
Church, St. Louis, and assistant pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, St. lyouis.

Mr. Overman has had wide experience, and
although he has been with us but a short time,
has won our esteem by his genial manner and
conscientious performance of duty. By his
attention to the sick and by his visits to the
homes of the congregation he is rendering
valuable and effective service. During Dr.
Martin's summer vacation, he had full charge
of the field and zealously labored to meet the
many demands made upon his time and
strength.

It is earnestly hoped that under these our
new leaders our beloved church will go for-
ward to greater spiritual power and to larger
usefulness.

Mr. Ogden's success in life and his all round
usefulness afford excellent illustrations of the
truthfulness of Shakespeare's as-
cuRTrs"^ sertion that

OGDEN " Men at times are masters of their

fates :
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars.
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

His educational advantages were limited, as he
left school and went to work before reaching
the age of fourteen. He soon realized, how-

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ever, the need of more thorough and practical
mental equipment, and determined to acquire
it by diligent study during the only time at his
command — after business hours. He was for-
tunate in securing the services of a wise and
sympathetic instructor, and by faithful appli-
cation, when other boys were sleeping or play-
ing, he was enabled to secure a practical busi-
ness education equal, if not superior in some
respects, to that possessed by many college
graduates. His association with intellectual
people was also of inestimable value to him.

In 1S54, Mr. Ogden removed to New York.
He returned to Philadelphia in 1879 and soon
after became connected with the firm of John
Wanamaker.

During the civil war Mr. Ogden was a mem-
ber of the 23rd New York Regiment. He
held commissions in that regiment, and also
on the staff of the Eleventh Brigade, of which
it was a part.

He is a member of a number of organizations,
among them being Meade Post No. i, the
Union League, Manufacturers' Club, Presby-
terian Social Union, Art Club and Contem-
porary Club, of this City; of the XX Century
and Hamilton Clubs, of Brooklyn; and of the
Pennsylvania Society, Union League, Century,
XIX Century, and National Arts Club, New
York City.

.'^'^

Robert C. Ogden

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For above a quarter of a century Mr. Ogden
has had official connection with the Hampton
Institute, Virginia, and for several years has
been the president of its board of trustees.
Much of its splendid usefulness has been due
to his aggressive and enthusiastic efforts in its
behalf. He is also a director of the Union
Theological Seminary, New York.

In all the great movements in this city dur-
ing the past decade which have had for their
object the alleviation of human suffering, his
has been the fine executive skill and the gen-
erous purse which have added much to their
success — Johnstown (1889), Russia (1892),
Philadelphia (1894), Armenia (1895-6), have
each and all, in their time of need, been the
recipients of his practical sympathy and aid.

He has rendered valuable service to the
Church at large, notably through his member-
ship in two of its Boards — Ministerial Relief
and Publication and Sabbath-School Work.
In 1885, he was a commissioner to the General
Assembly.

Mr. Ogden is an earnest and forceful speaker,
and his services in this direction are in fre-
quent demand. On the 31st of May, 1892, he
made the address at the unveiling of the monu-
ment at Johnstown to perpetuate the memory
of the six hundred and thirty-seven unidenti-
fied dead who lost their lives in the great

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flood that swept through the Conemaugh Val-
ley on the fateful 31st of May, 1889. During
this address he said : ' ' Glancing across the
little slopes of these grassy graves, thinking ot
the history and the mystery, wondering why
it was, and finding not in my mind nor in the
teachings of other men any solution or expla-
nation of the great tragedy, I can only in im-
agination sit with Mrs. Browning in a country
church-yard, and, summing it all up, repeat
her own sweet and comforting lines —

" And I smiled to think God's greatness
Flowed around our incompleteness, —
Round our restlessness, His rest."

His closing thought was —

" Far better some deed of brotherhood to the
living than rare flowers, costly monuments,
and tender sentiments to the dead."

Mr. Ogden is also an able writer. Among
his published works are, " Progressive Presby-
terianism," " Pew Rents and the New Testa-
ment," "The Perspective of Sunday-school
Teaching, " " The Unveiling of the Monument
to the Unknown Dead," and "Samuel Chap-
man Armstrong : A Memorial Address."

Mr. Ogden 's letters to the Holland Reminder
from his summer home in Kennebunkport,
Maine, were always deeply interesting, and
had a virile force which enabled us to see almost
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less yet ever-changing ocean, of which he
never tired of writing, nor we of reading.
The following brief extract from one of these
letters is a fine example of his imaginative and
appreciative powers :

"In my wanderings here I often imagine
that Faber must have written his exquisite
Vox Angelica by the seaside. Only in such
surroundings could he have called upon his
soul to hear the angelic songs swelling

' O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-beat
shore. '

" Only in the blackness of a night storm on
the water could he have felt the sadness that
breathes in the line :

' Darker than night life's shadows fall around us.'

" Only in a golden sunset by the sea could
he have thought :

' Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing,
The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea,
And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing.
Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.'

"And so on to the grand expectancy of
hopefulness with which the blessed hymn ends :
'■ Till morning's joy shall end the night of weeping,

And life's long shadows break in cloudless love.'

"Surely he got his heart lessons from the
gray days and the golden by the sea."

Mr, Ogden became our superintendent in
1879, and at the organization of the church in

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1 882, he was one of the four elected to the
eldership. Some time later, when the board
of trustees was formed, he also became a mem-
ber of that body. He never permitted his in-
timate relation with the broader fields of action
to serve as a pretext to neglect the no less im-
portant duties which came to him through
these offices and to which his intimate knowl-
edge of men and affairs and his wide business
experience enabled him to bring executive
ability of the highest order.

He was married on the ist of March, i860,
to Miss Ellen Elizabeth Eewis. For a long
while Mrs. Ogden was actively engaged in the
work of the church, as a member of the choir;
and of the school, as a teacher of the Primary
Department. Their two daughters were also
teachers in the school.

Although in close touch with many lines of
our work, it may be safe to say that Mr.
Ogden's most serious thought was given to
the planning and erection of the new church
building. To his matchless energy, cultivated
taste, and whole-souled generosity, we are in-
debted for much of the completeness displayed
in its construction. This love for church-
building came to him naturally through a long
line of ancestry. Away back in 1630, Richard
Ogden, of good Puritan stock, came from
England to this country and settled in Stam-

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ford, Connecticut. In an old colonial record,
still extant, there is a contract made by Rich-
ard Ogden and his brother John, in 1642, to
build a church in New Amsterdam, now New
York. Mr. Ogden is a direct descendant from
Richard Ogden, from whom he is six genera-
tions removed.

On the evening of the wedding of Mr.
Ogden's parents, in August, 1833, an official
member of the old Tenth Church called on his
grandmother to get her signature to a letter
addressed to Dr. Boardman, requesting him to
become the pastor of that church. At that
time, his grandmother (she being a widow)
and her family of seven daughters and two
sons, were all connected with the Tenth
Church. Mr. Ogden has always taken special
interest in the Boardman incident in view of
the fact that he himself became an elder in
the church which owes its being to the one
over which Dr. Boardman was so long the
pastor.

Of Mr. Ogden's love for Hollond it is almost
needless to speak. In spite of his pressing
business and social duties he was often at the
mid-week prayer meetings ; and Sunday after-
noons always found him, if in town, in com-
mand of the school. Of his liberality, our
treasurer, Mr. Cooke, writes: "I have often
felt that it was hardly justice to Mr. Ogden

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to keep to myself the knowledge of his gener-
osity to which our church and school owe so
much."

The annual receptions given by Mr. Ogden
to the officers and teachers were always looked
forward to with pleasure. We were not only
received with genial hospitality but also had
the additional pleasure of listening to helpful
addresses from one or more distinguished
speakers.

On the 4th of April, 1897, Mr. Ogden occu-
pied the platform for the last time as superin-
tendent. Having assumed charge of the
Wanamaker store in New York, he found it
impracticable to retain the leadership of the
school. He continues, however, his official
connection with the boards of the church.

The following appreciative sketch by Mr.
H. A. Walker sets forth in much of its true
light Mr. Ogden 's former relation to the
school :

I well remember the first day Mr. Ogden
entered upon his duties as superintendent of
Hollond school. When he arose to speak,
after Mr. Cooke's introduction, he impressed
me as stern, vigorous and forcible, and I won-
dered if he would win and hold the hearts of
our scholars. In the eighteen years of his offi-
cial connection with the school, how completely
and fairly he won everybody is too well known

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to need any words of mine by way of emphasis.
To analyze his work briefly is not easy, large
as the subject is. Here are a few points that
"he who runs may read: "

First. His tremendous honesty of purpose.
He never believed eloquence any substitute for
life and action. Behind the words was the
man; no show or sham about any part of hi&
work; no wooden fronts painted to imitate
marble for him. Like a great rock, he stood
for what is square and true. He helped in a
very large degree to put the Hollond church
and school upon a platform broad and fair —
equal rights and privileges, without regard to
social standing or financial means.

Second. He was able, to a wonderful degree.
The school under his management reached its
highest efficiency. His splendid personality,
his brilliant mind, with its wealth of resources,
the helpful, strong talks he gave from the desk
Sunday after Sunday, were an inspiration to
all. He told no silly, exaggerated, sentimental
stories; he spoke the solid, manly truth. He
hit hard and often, with no compromise with
meanness or narrowness.

Third. His hopefulness and faith were con-
tagious. He left no depressing influence. With
him " To doubt would be disloyalty; to falter
would be sin." He was the father of the
* ' Free Church ' ' idea — wide open doors ; a

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gospel for all ; give as God prospers. His
broad conception of the work put it on a basis
that has given it a commanding position in the
Church throughout the country because of the
rare financial methods that control it. He
backed his faith with his dollars; not only
then, but now. The average man called to
another city would also feel called to drop
his burden. In Mr. Ogden's case he con-
tinues his keen interest and gives substantial
help.

Fourth. His contribution to the general life
at Hollond was very wholesome; his influence
uplifting. The dignity and kindliness of his
life were inspiring. With his varied interests
he could find time to carry a pitcher of soup a
dozen squares to a sick boy — not once but a
dozen times. Match it!

Fifth. He had a beginning, a middle, and
an end to whatever he f/dd. He felt the re-
sponsibility and importance of the office of su-
perintendent; there was nothing slipshod about
his work. He toiled for what he gave us.
His vigor, enthusiasm and fidelity were re-
freshing.

Thank God for men of action; men of high
purpose; men of fine influence; men who tie
themselves to God's work because they love
it; men of large outlook — with no limited
horizon !

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Mr. William ly. Cooke became assistant su-
perintendent of the school under Mr. Morris
in 1 87 1. He sustained this re-

wiLLiAM L. lation until November ist, 1897,
COOKE when he was elected, against his
earnest protest, to the position of
superintendent made vacant by the resignation
of Mr. Ogden. He is one of the most active
and conscientious men who have ever been
connected with our work. His services as
elder, trustee, treasurer, and superintendent,
(all of which offices he now holds) have been
invaluable. His interest in the school began
with his earliest recollection and has grown
stronger with each succeeding year. The
church has no member more consistent, the
school no worker more sincere. He is faithful
to all life's duties, and is in every way worthy
of the high esteem in which he is held.

At the organization of the South Branch
Young Men's Christian Association, Mr. Cooke
was elected to the presidency, and he has been
elected continuously to that office since that
time. Mr. Cooke is also a member of the
Presbyterian Social Union, and a vice-presi-
dent of the Sunday-school Superintendents'
Association.

Although a busy man, Mr. Cooke makes it
a rule to attend all the Sunday services, and
also the Wednesday evening prayer-meetings.

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He was one of the original members of the
Young People's Association, which for years
did much to advance the spiritual interests of
our young people, and which, a few years ago,
was merged into the Christian Endeavor So-
ciety, through which its uplifting influence
continues.

Mr. Cooke represents much that is best in
our church and school life. Few men have
labored more faithfully, and none more dis-
interestedly. His interest has never failed;
his faith has never faltered. He has no ambi-
tion greater than to see the Hollond work in
the forefront of spiritual usefulness.

With the exception of a change in the date,
an invitation somewhat similar to the following
has annually found its way to every officer and
teacher of Hollond:

" Mr. William L,. Cooke requests the pleas-
ure of your company at a social gathering of
the officers of the Hollond Memorial Church,
with the officers and teachers of the Sunday-
school, at his home, 1536 South Broad Street,
Philadelphia, Thursday evening, February 16,
1899."

This is Mr. Cooke's kindly method of keep-
ing alive the memory of the occupancy of the
chapel by the school — February 15, 1874.
Aside from perpetuating the pleasant asso-
ciations of the past, these annual gatherings
have a very practical value in increasing the

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interest of officers and teachers in each other,
and in creating a bond of S3mpathy which
must necessarily have a wholesome and stimu-
lating effect on the entire work.

Mr. Cooke is whole-souled and kindly. He
does his work with rare fidelity. In the sacred
circle of home he is the ideal brother; in the
business world he stands for whatever is manly,
straightforward, and honest; and in his relig-
ious life he is " an example of the believers —
in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit,
in faith, and in purity."

Mr. Henry A. Walker has been connected

with the school from early childhood. He

was made associate superintendent

HENRY A. j October, 1 886. He also holds

WALKER '

the office of elder and trustee. In
supplying classes with teachers, in helping to
maintain order, and in his general oversight,
his services have been of inestimable value to
the school ; while his practical business experi-
ence has made him a most useful member of
two of the church boards. He believes in the
gospel of hope, of cheer, of courage. He
has but little patience with the man who in-
sists on facing darkness rather than light.
He sets his ideals high, and, without ostenta-
tion, seeks to reach them. He has a strong
personality and his life has long since become
a compelling influence for good.

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Mr. Walker is a member of the Presbyterian
Social Union. In 1886, he was the first presi-
dent of the Young People's Union of Phila-
delphia. He is an able and interesting speaker.
That he is a forceful writer and that he is
devotedly attached to the interests of the
church are admirably shown in the following
brief extracts from a paper read by him before
the Ushers' Association May 25th, 1899 : —

" This church of ours— God bless it — is des-
tined, I believe, to do a great work in this por-
tion of the city. The work of the past, with
its noble and inspiring influences, points to
this result ; the present able and consecrated
management points to it also. Sacrifice and
service, past and present, yoked together must
accomplish the purpose we hope for, long for,
pray for — that this church may stand in this
community with no uncertain message, with no
unloving heart, with no compromise with evil.

"Let us be glad we have this opportunity
for work. It is a rare one. Work in any well-
organized church means splendid opportunities.
Work develops ; work means character. I
don't want to live a mean, narrow and
shriveled life; neither do you. I don't want
anyone to discount my Christianity ; neither
do you. It is a sorry thing for any man, and
for the church to which he belongs, if his
religion is so poor it does not help to make

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himself, his church, and other men better.
Not what we have gathered but what we have
given counts in the ways of usefulness.

' ' We want men to believe in the future
of this church with all their hearts ; men who
will try to do something big and noble here ;
men who will feel that the success of this
whole work depends largely upon their own
personal relation to it. Your work and my
work for this church ought to be better to-day
than yesterday ; better this week than last
week ; better this year than last year. We
want to be concerned for its success ; we want
to be hurt by its failure. ' What does my
membership cost me in labor and self denial ? '
That is the question each one of us should face.
We want enlarged work ; we want enlarged
thought. We have got the plant, situated
just where it ought to be — where the current
of life is constant. We have got the preacher.
You may come here four Sundays in a month
that has four, and five Sundays in a month
that has five, and hear sermons stimulating
and uplifting. It is no sinecure to keep pace
with the needs of a congregation such as ours.
One man can't do it ; he should have the
hearty co-operation and the direct support of
every man, women and child connected with
this place. Not for his own sake, but for the
Master's.

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"I have no sympathy with the man who takes
a pessimistic glance at this magnificent work.
Such a look is cowardly ; such a look is dis-
loyalty to God. So long as there is one empty
seat in our church and our school, there is
work for us ; so long as there is one life in this
neighborhood unchurched, there is something
for us to do. Help to lift a man and you lift
yourself ; neglect a man and you hurt yourself.
Nothing but our level best will suffice. The
right spirit wont quail at the work of to-day.
Assume some responsibility ; don't do any-
thing unless you mean it ; don't say anything
unless you feel it. Strength, sincerity, and
individuality of character are worth striving
for. We must think, must plan, must work
and endure, to make our church the place it
ought to be ! "

CHARTER

[The following is an exact copy of our
Charter as amended in 1886. The original
Charter was adopted in May, 1883.]

We whose names are hereunto subscribed
having associated for the promotion of the
cause of Religion by such means, especially
the worship of Almighty God, as are usual
and customary in congregations under the
ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the General Assem-
bly of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, and believing that it is
essential to the permanent organization of
such an association, that it should enjoy the
powers, privileges and immunities of a Corpor-
ation or body politic in law, do hereby certify
that we are all Citizens of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and have associated ourselves
for the purpose of being formed into a Corpor-
ation of the First Class, under the provisions
of the Act of Assembly of said Common-
wealth entitled " An Act to provide for the in-
corporation and regulation of certain Corpor-
ations," approved the Twenty-ninth day of
April A. D. 1874 ^^'^ t^^t the following shall

256 CHARTER

be the objects, articles and conditions of the
said Corporation :

Article First. The name, style and title of
the said Corporation shall be " Harriet HoUond
Memorial Presbyterian Church of the City of
Philadelphia."

Article Second. The faith and government
of the said Church, shall conform to the faith
and government of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States of America, and the real
estate now owned, or which may be owned
hereafter by this Corporation shall be forever
held and used by a church and congregation
which shall be connected with and under the
care of the said Presbyterian Church in the
United Stales of America.

Article Third. The place where the busi-
ness of the said Corporation shall be transacted
is in the City of Philadelphia and the said
Corporation shall exist perpetually. There
shall be no capital stock issued. The names
and residents of the Subscribers are as follows,
viz: Robert C. Ogden, 1708 Locust Street,
Theodore H. I^oder 1402 Wharton Street,
James C. Taylor 1307 Federal Street, Hon.
John K. Findlay 1152 South Broad Street and
William L. Cooke 825 Ellsworth Street all of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Article Fourth. The temporal affairs of this
Church shall be managed by a Board of Nine

CHARTER 257

Trustees, and they shall meet within ten days
after the annual election and shall choose from
their own number a President, Secretary and
Treasurer.

Article Fifth. An Election for Trustees
shall be held upon the Third Monday of January
Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five and upon the Third Monday of
January, bi-ennially thereafter. At each
election the Corporation shall elect three
trustees to serve for the term of six years or
until their successors are elected. For the
purpose of organization Nine Trustees were
elected on the Third Monday of January A. D.
One thousand eight hundred and eighty-three,
three of whom are to serve for two years from
the date of their election, three for four years
and the remaining three for six years, or in
each case, until their successors are elected and
the said Board was given power when organ-
ized to decide by lot the respective terms of
its members. The Trustees so elected shall
be the Trustees of the said Corporation for the
said terms and the term of each member shall
be as by the said lot determined. Any vacan-
cies occurring in the Board of Trustees, by
death resignation or otherwise, the Board shall
have power to fill. If the said Corporation
neglect or omit on the day of the bi-ennial
election, to hold their election as aforesaid,

258 CHARTER

said Corporation shall not be dissolved by
reason of such neglect or omission, but said
election shall take place within one calendar
month from said day ; Provided that in all
cases notice of the time and place of holding
an election, stated or special, for Trustees,
shall be given out in the Church on each of the
two Sabbaths immediately preceding the day
of the election, by the Minister officiating, or
a person delegated for that purpose by the
Board of Trustees, The names and residences
of the present Trustees elected on the Third
Monday of January A. D. One thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three as aforesaid are as
follows ; Robert C. Ogden 1708 lyocust Street,
Philadelphia, Pa., Theodore H. I^oder 1402
Wharton Street Philadelphia, Pa., David Orr
1305 South Fifteenth Street Philadelphia, Pa.,
James C. Taylor 1307 Federal Street Phila-
delphia, Pa., Amos Dotterer 1325 South Broad
Street Philadelphia Pa., Henry A. Walker,
1733 Reed Street Philadelphia, Pa., Hon. John
K. Findlay 1152 South Broad Street Phila.
Pa., William L. Cooke 825 Ellsworth Street
Phila. Pa. and James M. I^eo 1503 Dunganon
Street Philadelphia Penna.

Article Sixth. Any male person of the age
of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of this
State and a lay member of this corporation and
has contributed the sum of five dollars for the

CHARTER 259

year immediately preceding the day of election,
shall be eligible to the office of Trustee.

Article Seventh. All regular worshipers in
this Church who have attained the age of
eighteen years, and who shall have contributed,
by pew rent or otherwise, at the rate of two
dollars annually for at least six months ; and
whose contributions shall be a matter of record ;
and not in arrears, shall be members and
qualified voters in this Corporation.

Article Eighth. The several officers of the
Board of Trustees shall perform the duties
usually pertaining to their respective offices.
The Treasurer shall receive and account for all
moneys belonging to said Corporation, and
shall give ample security on his accepting the
office, for the faithful discharge of his duties,
he shall have his accounts settled annually, to
be laid before the Corporation at the time of
the annual meeting, and he shall pay no
moneys, except in accordance with appropria-
tions made by the Board, upon orders signed
by the President and attested by the Secretary.

Article Niyith. The Board of Trustees shall
hold stated meetings upon the Thursday after
the third Monday of January and on the thiid
Thurday of April, July and October, for the
transaction of business. Special Meetings of
the Board may be called at any time by the
President, and it shall be his duty to call a

26o CHARTER

special meeting upon the request in writing of
at least three of the Trustees. Five Trustees
shall form a quorum for the transaction of
business, but a less number may adjourn from
time to time.

Article Tenth. The board of Trustees,
shall take charge of, and hold all the real and
personal estate of this corporation — and shall
receive rents, and dues of the Corporation, and
the public Collections, keeping the house of
Worship, and other property of the Church in
repair — providing for the payment of the
debts of the Church, and paying the salary of
the Pastor, and employing and paying the
salaries of the Chorister and Sexton — and pay-
ing current expenses necessary in maintaining
public worship. The board of Trustees shall
keep two correct and regular minutes of all
their meetings, whether stated or special, and
full true and correct accounts of all monies
received and expended by them, which said
minutes, and accounts, shall at all times be
open to the inspection, of any three members
of the Corporation, at the time entitled to vote
for Trustees. They shall also produce a full
statement of their accounts, receipts and
vouchers, to be open to the inspection of all
whom it may concern, on the day of the election
of Trustees, one hour before the time specified
for said election to commence.

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Article Eleventh. The Board of Trustees
shall have power to make all such By Laws,
Rules and Regulations from time to time as
may be found necessary for their government
and the support and management of the
secular concerns and affairs of this Corpor-
ation. Provided that the said By Laws, Rules
and Regulations, or any of them, be not repug-
nant to the Constitution and Laws of the
United States, to the Constitution and Laws of
this Commonwealth, or to the Provisions of
this Charter.

Article Twelfth. It shall be lawful for the
Board of Trustees to agree upon and adopt a
Seal with a suitable device for this Corpor-
ation, and the same to alter, break and renew
at their pleasure.

Article Thirteenth. The Pastor of the
Church shall be called according to the Consti-
tution of the Presbyterian Church as afore-
said. He shall be elected by ballot and a
majority of the whole number of votes cast
shall be necessary to his election. Provided
always, that notice of the time and place of
holding such election whenever it shall be
necessary, shall be given out in the Church on
each of the two Sabbaths immediately preceding
the day of election by the minister officiating,
or a person delegated for that purpose by the
Board of Trustees. All the qualified voters for

262 CHARTER

Trustees and all communicants in connection
with t.he Church, who are in good and regular
standing, shall be entitled to vote in the
election of Pastor.

Article Fourteenth. The salary of the Pastor
shall be fixed by a majority of the qualified
voters for Pastor present at the meeting for
^his election, and immediately preceding there-
to : and it shall not be altered unless by the
consent of a majority of the qualified voters as
aforesaid present at an annual or special meet-
ing of the Congregation. Said salary shall
be paid monthly in advance.

Article Fifteejith. The Elders and Deacons
of the Church shall be elected by ballot, by
the communicants in connection with the
Church, who are in good and regular standing
exclusively, and a majority of the whole num-
ber of votes cast shall be necessary to a choice.

Article Sixteenth. The Session of this
Church shall have the superintendence and
control of the singing, and should it be
desirable at any time to engage professional
services in connection with the Church music,
the contract for the same may be made by the
Board of Trustees but shall not be considered
as valid without the duly recorded approval of
the Session. They shall have control of all
funds contributed for missionary and benev-
olent purposes and of all such spiritual matters

CHARTER 263

as appertain to the office of the eldership by
the form of government of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America. The
Deacons shall have charge and distribution of
any funds which may be collected or appro-
priated for the relief of the poor of the Church ;
and the Trustees shall pay over to them all
funds which may be collected or received by
the Trustees for such purposes.

Article Seventeenth. The Annual Meeting
of the Congregation shall be held on the third
Monday in January in each and every year,
when an}' matters of business shall be in order.
Special Meetings of the Congregation may be
held at any time upon the call of the Board of
Trustees, and it shall be the duty of the Presi-
dent upon the request in writing of three
members of the Corporation to call a special
meeting at any time. But, no business shall
be considered in order at any special meeting
unless such business has been distinctly speci-
fied in the notice hereinafter provided for.
No person other than the qualified voters for
Trustees shall be allowed to vote at any annual
or special meeting of the Congregation except
as herein otherwise expressly provided. Notice
of every annual or special meeting shall be
given out in the Church on each of the two
Sabbaths, immediately preceding such meeting,
by the Minister officiating or a person delegated

264 CHARTER

for that purpose by the Board of Trustees.

Article Eighteenth. The Board of Trustees
shall keep a book in which shall be registered
the subscriptions to the support of this Church
of all the subscribing members of the Congre-
gation and such record shall be the only
evidence required as a qualification for voting
as provided for in Article Seventh of this
Charter. The book of the Session, certified
by the Moderator or Clerk, shall be conclusive
evidence of the good and regular standing, as
a communicant, of any person, in all cases
where, by the terms of this Charter, such stand-
ing is required as a qualification for voting.

Article Nineteenth. The clear yearly value
or income of the real and personal estate held
by the said Corporation shall not exceed at any
time the sum of Ten thousand Dollars.

Article Twentieth. All property real and
personal which shall be bequeathed, or devised,
or conveyed to said Corporation, for the use of
said Church, for religious worship or sepulture,
or the maintenance of either, shall be taken
held and inure, subject to the control and dis-
position of the lay members of said Church, or
such constituted officers or representatives
thereof as shall be composed of a majority of
lay members, citizens of Pennsylvania, having a
controlling power according to the rules,regula-
tions, usages or corporate requirements thereof.

CHARTER 265

Article Tiventy -first. Any amendment or
amendments to this Charter shall be proposed
at any annual or special meeting of the Cor-
poration, and if agreed to by a majority of the
qualified voters, then present in person, shall
be entered upon the minutes of said meeting,
with the number of voters given in favor and
against the same, and the said amendment or
amendments, shall again be laid before the
next annual or special meeting of the said
Corporation, and if the same shall then be
adopted by three-fourths of the qualified
voters, then present in person, such amend-
ments or amendment shall be considered as
finally agreed to, and it shall be the duty of
the Trustees or any one of them to procure
the ratification and sanction thereof by the
proper authority. Provided always neverthe-
less that the foregoing provision is not to be
construed, as authorizing any amendment or
change in the second Article of this Charter,
and it is hereby expressly agreed and declared
that the second Article, or any part thereof
shall not be subject to any alteration change
or Amendment whatsoever.

Robert C. Ogden,

WlIvLIAM L^. COOKK

Theodore H. Loder
John K. Findlay
James C. Taylor.

THE OLD TENTH CHURCH

In a sermon delivered November 7, 1858 —
the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate
over the Tenth Church — Dr. Henry A. Board-
man thus spoke of the beginnings of that
important organization:

"The merit of proposing the erection of a
church on this spot [North-east corner of 12th
and Wahiut streets] is due to the late Furman
Learning. He associated with himself five
other gentlemen, namely, John Stille, of the
Second Church, George Ralston and James
Kerr, of the First Church, and William Brown
and Solomon Allen, of the Sixth Church.
Through the liberality and energy of these
six Christian men the work was accomplished.
The corner-stone was laid with appropriate
ceremonies by the late venerable Ashbel Green,
D.D., on the 8th of August, 1828.*

"On the 24th of May, following, the first
sermon was preached in the lecture-room by
Dr. C. C. Lansing. The building was com-

* In a manuscript found in the corner-stone when the church
•was demolished in 1894, the date is given asjuly 14th, 1S2S, and
" Ihe Philadelphia^;' of July 18, 1S28, gives the same date.

H. P. F.

THE OLD TENTH CHURCH 267

pleted on the 7th of December, 1829, and was
opened for worship on the ensuing Sabbath,
the 13th."

Its pastors were : Thomas McAuley, D.D,
IvL.D., installed December 17th, 1829; Henry
A. Boardman, D.D., ordained and installed
November 8th, 1833 ; John DeWitt, D.D., in-
stalled October 12th, 1876; William Brenton
Greene, Jr., D.D., the last pastor, installed
May 14th, 1883. Dr. Greene's pastoral
relation was, at his own request, dissolved by
Presbytery December 5th, 1892, in order that
he might accept the Stuart Professorship of
the Relations of Philosophy and Science to
the Christian Religion, in Princeton Theolog-
ical Seminary. The church also had two
associate pastors — Rev. Louis R. Fox, elected
December nth, 187 1, and the Rev. J. Henry
Sharpe, D.D,, elected November 9th, 1874.
Three of these pastors are still living : Drs.
DeWitt and Greene, who are Professors in
Princeton Theological Seminary ; and Dr.
Sharpe, who is the pastor of the West Park
Church, Philadelphia.

John S. Hart, IvIy.D., the distinguished
author and educator, and the principal of
the Philadelphia Boys' High School from 1842
to 1859, was, for a time, the superintendent
of the Sunday-school. Richard H. Wallace
was the last superintendent.

268 THE OLD TENTH CHURCH

It is interesting to note that the first night
school in this city, for the gratuitous instruc-
tion of young men, was established by mem-
bers of the Tenth Church — an innovation
'which was afterwards adopted by the munici-
pal authorities.

During Dr. Boardman's pastorate the church
became very popular. The services were
crowded, and it was often impossible to pro-
cure sittings. Special attention was given to
visitors, medical students, and young ladies
attending the seminaries. The church was
also distinguished for its noble generosity.
Not infrequently as much as $25,000 a year
was contributed to benevolent objects. Be-
tween the years 1844 and 1873, 250 boxes
filled with clothing, valued at $60,000, were
sent out to missionaries.

The church was interested at various times
in local mission enterprises, the most important
of which was the one known as the Moya-
mensing Mission, and which developed into
the Hollond Memorial Church. In 1856 a
colony from the Tenth Church established the
West Spruce Street Church.

In view of the encroachment of business
houses, the consequent removal to a distance
of many families of the congregation, and sev-
eral other causes, the strength of the church
gradually declined until finally at a congrega-

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tional meeting held on the 3d of May, 1893, it
was

" Resolved, That the work of this church be
discontinued at this place, and that the church
property at 12th and Walnut streets be sold at
the earliest date that a good price can be
obtained for it."

At a meeting of the congregation held on
the 24th of May, of the same year, the follow-
ing action was taken:

Resolved^ That we offer the corporate title
of the Tenth Presbyterian Church to the West
Spruce Street Presbyterian Church.

Resolved, That when the property at Twelfth
and Walnut streets be sold, $75,000 of the
money be appropriated to the Hollond Presby-
terian Church — $35,000 of the same to be ap-
plied to the payment of the church indebted-
ness, and $40,000 to be held as an endowment,
protected by the language of the deed of the
Tenth Presbyterian Church, which is as fol-
lows: "Provided always, that they shall ad-
here to and maintain the mode of faith and
church discipline as set forth in the Confession
of Faith of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America."

Resolved, That the residue be given to the
West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church as an
endowment fund, protected by the language of
the deed of the Tenth Presbyterian Church
and to be held by trustees to be elected by the
session and trustees of this church.

At its meeting on the 5th of June, 1893, the
Presbytery recommended the Tenth Church

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to retain its corporate existence until the sale
of the property; approved of the proposed ec-
clesiastical union between the Tenth Church
and the West Spruce Street Church; and also
approved of the arrangements adopted by the
congregation for the disposal of the proceeds
of the sale of the old church property.

On the 3d of June, 1895, Presbytery took
the following final action:

Resolved, That the Tenth Presbyterian
Church and the West Spruce Street Presby-
terian Church be and the same are hereby
united and merged into each other, and con-
solidated into one church to be known here-
after as the Tenth Presbyterian Church.

In the spring of 1894. the old church was
sold for $150,000, of which amount Hollond,
in accordance with the second of the above
resolutions, received $75,000 and the West
Spruce Street Church about $70,000.

The Sunday-school of the old Tenth held its
sixty-fourth and last anniversary on Sunday
afternoon, May 7, 1893. An interesting pro-
gramme was prepared, which consisted of re-
sponsive reading and singing, and addresses
by Mr. Richard H. Wallace, superintendent;
Professor Robert Ellis Thompson, D.D., and
Dr. Wm. M. Paden.

In introducing Dr. Paden, Mr. Wallace said:
"The Tenth Church and Hollond have been
linked together by the most intimate and

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closest of ties — that of mother and child.
With pardonable pride we have watched and
rejoiced over the marvellous progress Hollond
has made in the past, and which we believe it
is destined to make in the years to come; it is
therefore with peculiar pleasure that we wel-
come Dr. Paden, who has done so much to
make that progress possible."

A touching incident occurred during the
closing exercises. It was plainly evident that
the older members felt the impressiveness of
the hour; hallowed thoughts of other days
were crowding thick and fast upon them;
much that they loved and reverenced was in
the clasp of the dead years; and the old church
building, so dear to their hearts and about
which clustered so many thronging and haunt-
ing associations, would soon be but a slowly
fading memory. As if in sympathy with the
solemn hour, the sun had gone behind a cloud,
and a softened and subdued light came through
the dim, time-stained windows, which seemed,
like the weary eyes of an old man, to look
down wonderingly and full of retrospective
melancholy upon the assembled worshippers.
But just as the congregation joined in the
hymn, "Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me," with an
earnestness which plainly indicated that it was
sung as a heartfelt prayer for future help and
guidance, a flood of sunlight broke through

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the cloud and fell like a benediction upon the
flower- wreathed pulpit, the bright faces of the
children, and the bowed heads of the old.
Coming as it did with the lines —

"May I hear Thee say to me,
Fear not, I will pilot thee,"

it seemed prophetic of answered prayer and
of continued blessings for the dear old church,
for the boys and girls, and for those who were

" Only waiting till the angels
Open wide the mystic gates."

The old building was torn down in the
summer of 1894 to make way for the erection
of the Episcopal Diocesan House. When the
corner-stone was removed in August of that
year, the following interesting paper was found
in a glass jar hermetically sealed:

"The corner-stone of the Tenth Presby-
terian Church was laid July 14, 182S, in the
city of Philadelphia, by Ashbel Green, a min-
ister of the gospel of said city, John Quincy
Adams being President of the United States,
John Andrew Shultz, governor of the State of
Pennsylvania, and Joseph Watson, mayor of
Philadelphia.

"The enterprise of building this house for
the public worship of Almighty God was con-
ceived, undertaken, and the funds for the erec-
tion of the same were principally furnished by

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the following gentlemen, who acted as a build-
ing committee, viz: John Stille, Furman lycam-
ing, James Kerr, Solomon Allen, George Ral-
ston, William Brown. In the erection of this
edifice the architect was William Strickland;
the carpenter and builder, James Leslie; the
bricklayers, A. & E. Robbins. When the stone
was laid the inhabitants of the United States
were enjoying perfect peace, and zealously en-
gaged ill promoting agricultural, mechanical,
and industrial improvements, associations, and
enterprises. Steamboat navigation was much
in use. Of our canals and railroads some were
completed and many more were planned and
commenced. For the promotion of good morals
and Christian piety infant Sunday-schools and
Bible classes had been instituted, the Bible and
tract societies formed; missions, both domestic
and foreign, commenced and successfully pros-
ecuted.

"The Presbyterian Church in the United
States, under the care of the General Assem-
bly, consisted of 16 Synods, 90 Presbyteries,
1,285 ministers, 1,968 congregations, and
146,308 communicants. The house of which
this is the corner-stone, is ever to be con-
sidered as dedicated to the worship of the one
only living and true God, Father, Son and
Holy Ghost. In it no doctrine ought ever to
be taught, no worship ever attempted, not

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consistent with a belief of the unity and per-
sonality of the Godhead, the natural and deep
depravity of man, the atonement and inter-
cession of the Lord Jesus Christ, the indis-
pensable necessity of the renewing and sancti-
fying influences of the Holy Spirit in life,
sincere obedience to all the commands of God,
and a future state of endless rewards and
punishments. /. ' may many souls be won
to God in this His temple on earth that shall
be translated to the glorious worship and eter-
nal bliss of ' the house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.' "

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THE PRESENT TENTH CHURCH

(Formerly the West Spruce Street Church)

By Rev, Marcus A. Bro son, D, D.

The present Tenth Church is the result of a
union of the Tenth Presbyterian Church and
the West Spruce Street Presbyterian Church.
This union was consummated as follows : By
vote of the Tenth Church, May 24, 1893 ; by
vote of the West Spruce Street Church, June
7, 1893 ; by vote of the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia, June 3, 1895 ; by action of the Court
of Common Pleas, September 16, 1895.

The purpose of this chapter is to give a brief
sketch of the West Spruce Street Church from
its organization to the time of the consolidation
with the Tenth Church; and of the united
church since that date. Sketches heretofore
published have been used freely in the prepar-
ation of this chapter.

On the 20th of January, 1852, a number of
gentlemen connected with the Tenth Presby-
terian Church met at the house of the pastor,
Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D. D., to confer

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upon the duty of establishing a new Presby-
terian church in the city.

The Tenth Church, as stated in the preced-
ing chapter, had been the result of a small
colonization from the First, Second and Sixth
churches. Originating in the foresight of only
six persons, it had become a large and prosper-
ous congregation, with a communicant mem-
bership of more than 500 and a Sabbath-school
numbering nearly 700 teachers and scholars.
The feeling became strong that the church
ought to establish another church by sending
off a colony of members. Accordingly the
above-mentioned conference was held, and a
committee appointed to carry this purpose into
effect. The committee consisted of the follow-
ing-named gentlemen : James B. Ross, Single-
ton A. Mercer, Morris Patterson, James Mur-
phy, Thomas Hoge and James Imbrie, Jr.
This committee, in due time, decided to locate
the church in what was then the southwest-
ern section of the city, and accordingly, in
June, 1852, a suitable lot was secured on the
southwest corner of Spruce and Seventeenth
streets.

On the 26th of April, 1855, the corner-stone
of a church edifice was laid by the Rev. Dr,
Boardman, assisted by clergymen of various
evangelical denominations. In due time the
present edifice was completed. The architect

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was John McArthur, Jr., and the contractor
John McArthur.

Before the completion of the church or chapel
building, the organization of "the West Spruce
Street Church ' ' had been effected. Application
having been made to the Presbj^tery of Phila-
delphia for the organization of the church, the
purpose was accomplished by a committee of
the Presbytery consisting of Rev. Drs. Board-
man, Engles, and Rev. Mr. Shields, together
with Messrs. Paul T. Jones and James Dixon,
who, in the name of the Presbytery, constituted
the new church of thirty-four members of the
Tenth Presbyterian Church, who had requested
the Presbytery so to do. The meeting for or-
ganization was held in the lecture-room of the
Tenth Church, April 3, 1856. James Imbrie,
Jr., John S. Hart and Morris Patterson were
elected elders ; John McArthur, Jr., was elected
a deacon ; and the Rev. William Pratt Breed,
then of Steubenville, Ohio, was chosen, by
vote of the congregation, as the pastor. The
charter of the congregation having provided
that the pastor should be chosen by the per-
sons subscribing to the application for the act
of incorporation, a meeting of the said sub-
scribers had been held on February 14, 1856,
at which time it was unanimously resolved to
call Mr. Breed to the pastorate of the church
when it should be organized.

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On the 29th of March, 1856, a charter was
obtained, in which the following gentlemen
were named as trustees : Moses Johnson,
Morris Patterson, Singleton A. Mercer, John
R. Vodges, James B. Ross, James Murphy,
William Brown, William Goodrich, Theodore
Cuyler, James Imbrie, Jr., Maurice A. Wurts,
J. Engle Negus, John McArthur, Jr., John S.
Hart and Anthony J. Olmstead.

The lecture-room of the West Spruce Street
Church was opened for public worship on May
18, 1856 ; Rev. William P. Breed, the pastor-
elect, preached the sermon. Rev. Dr. Board-
man preached in the evening. One of the con-
ditions upon which the thirty-four members of
the Tenth Church consented to form the new
organization was that the pastors of the two
churches should exchange pulpit services once
each Sabbath. This arrangement was contin-
ued for a number of years and until a protracted
illness of Dr. Boardman brought it to a close.

The installation of Rev. William P. Breed as
pastor of the church took place June 4, 1856,
in the Tenth Church, the moderator of the
Presbytery, the Rev. George W. Musgrave,
D. D., presiding. Rev. Dr. Coleman gave the
charge to the pastor ; the charge to the people
was delivered by Dr. Boardman.

In the month of June of the same year, a
Sabbath-school was organized, consisting of

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exactly the same number of persons as origin-
ally composed the church, namely, thirty-four.
By appointment of the session, John S. Hart,
one of the elders, was made superintendent.
Professor Hart was an accomplished instructor,
being the principal of the Central High School
of Philadelphia. His character and work gave
a tone to the school which has continued ever
since.

The church edifice was dedicated to the wor-
ship of Almighty God on the first Sabbath of
January, 1857. The pastor preached, morning
and evening. At the afternoon service the
preacher was the Rev. John M. Krebs, D. D.,
of New York, of whose church at one time Mr.
Breed had been a member.

The church building is rectangular in form,
constructed of brick, with brown stone trim-
mings, and has the tallest spire of any church
in the city. A chapel and Sabbath-school
building are in the rear.

For more than thirty years the pastorate of
Dr. Breed continued, until, at his own request,
he became pastor emeritus, November 7, 1887.
His death occurred February 14, 18S9. The
funeral service in the church was attended by
a large concourse of ministers and prominent
laymen of the city. The members of the con-
gregation, to whose needs he had ministered
so long and so faithfully, were present in full

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numbers to testify, by reverent silence and
with tears, their devoted love to his character,
'life and labors in the Gospel.

Dr. Breed's ministry in the church was one
of strong and wide influence and ever-increas-
ing power. He was held in honor for his liter-
ary work, for his leadership in the courts of
the Church, for his influential advocacy of
matters of morals and of public interest appeal-
ing to his judgment and conscience ; but he
was held in highest honor among his own peo-
ple for his singularly pure character, his faith-
ful preaching of the Gospel, and his tender,
devoted pastoral work.

The West Spruce Street Church has been
unusually fortunate in its eldership. Men of
intellectual strength and of the highest moral
character and spiritual excellence have held
this office, and have guided the spiritual affairs
of the church with the most efficient counsels
and devoted labors, certain ones among them
bestowing also most liberal gifts of money for
the maintenance cf the church and the exten-
sion of the Redeemer's kingdom beyond the
boundaries of their particular congregation.
The Patterson Memorial Presbyterian Church,
in West Philadelphia, is the result of a gift of
$30,000 by the will of Morris Patterson, Esq.,
placed in the hands of the trustees of the West
Spruce Street Church, to establish a church

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wherever they might think a Presbyterian
church was required. The Church of the
Evangel, at Eighteenth and Tasker streets, and
the Presbyterian church at Fox Chase were
established through the gifts of Gustavus S.
Benson, Esq. Suitable mural memorials of
these noble men of God are to be found in the
Tenth Church — one on either side of the beau-
tiful stone pulpit erected to the memory of Dr.
Breed by his loving people.

After the death of Dr. Breed, a call was ex-
tended to the Rev. James D. Paxton, of Sche-
nectady, N. Y., and, having accepted the same,
he was installed as pastor, January 14, 1891.

During Mr. Paxton's pastorate the church
was remodeled and very beautifully ornamented
in the interior. The decorations are of the
Byzantine order of the period from the eighth
to the tenth century. The whole effect is
pleasing and worshipful.

It was during Mr. Paxton's pastorate that
the union with the old Tenth Church was
effected. In 1896 Mr. Paxton resigned the
pastoral charge of the church, to become the
pastor of the American students in the Eatin
Quarter of Paris, where he remained for two
years. Dr. Paxton is now pastor of the House
of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, Minn.

The present officers of the church are :

Pastor — Rev. Marcus A. Brownson, D. D.,

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called from the pastorate of the First Presby-
terian Church in Detroit, Mich., and installed
March 30, 1897.

Elders— George Junkin, LL.D., (1861) ;
John D. McCord (1870); Frank K. Hippie
(1883); Edward Smith Kelley (1891); Wm.
W. Moorhead, M. D., (1891); Isaac Shipman
Sharp (1891); Richard H. Wallace (1893).

Deacons — James Johnston (1890); Gusta-
vus S. Benson, Jr., (1890); J. Howard Breed
(1890).

Trustees — George Junkin, president ; Ed-
ward Smith Kelley, secretary ; Frank K. Hip-
pie, treasurer ; John D. McCord, R. Dale Ben-
son, Edward P. Borden, Henry C. Fox, Henry
Maule, Isaac Shipman Sharp, D. F. Woods,
M. D., W. Atlee Burpee, Strickland h Kneass,
Kenneth M. Blakiston.

The membership of the church numbers 641 ;
and there are enrolled 320 scholars in the Sab-
bath-school, of which Mr. Frank K. Hippie is
the superintendent.

The church has always been known as zeal-
ous for the support of the Boards of the Church
at large. The benevolent contributions during
the Church year of 1898-99 were as follows :
Home Missions, $5758 ; Foreign Missions,
$4429; Education, $464; Sabbath-school Work,
I429; Church Erection, $283; Ministerial Re-
lief, $1877; Freedmen, $288; Synodical Aid,

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$263; Aid for Colleges, $339; General Assem-
bly Expenses, $91; Bible Society, $r 10; Mis-
cellaneous, $2641 ; total, $16,972,

It is thus apparent that the thirty-four mem-
bers of the old Tenth Church builded better
than they knew when they established the
West Spruce Street Church, and it seemed most
appropriate that when, by reason of depletion
(through the inevitable changes of her own
neighborhood) removal became necessary, the
Tenth Church should seek union with the
church which had come out from her thirty -
seven years before, and that mother and child
should again live and labor together in one
happy spiritual family.

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