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Presbyterian Church iii the U.S.A. Synov
New Jersey.
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MINUTES
OF THE
Seventy-First Annual Session
OF THE
Synod of New Jersey
HELD IN THE
First Presbyterian Church,
BRIDGETON, N. J., OCTOBER, 1893
with an appendix.
Published by Order of the Synod, under the Direction
OF THE Stated Clerk.
TRENTON, N. J.:
MacCkBLLISH & QuiGLEY, BoOK AND JOB PRINTERS.
Officers of the Synod.
Moderator,
REV. SAMUEL M. STUDDIFORD, D.D., - - Trenton, N. J.
Vice-Moderator,
REV. LEWIS W. MUDGE, D.D., - - Princeton, N. J.
Stated Clerk,
REV. WALTER A. BROOKS, D.D,,
Trenton, N. J.
Permanent Clerk,
REV. BENJAMIN S. EVERITT,
Jamesburg, N. J.
Recording Clerk,
REV. WILLIAM F. WHITAKER, -
Orange, N. J.
Treasurer,
REV. EBEN B. COBB,
Elizabeth, N. J.
Treasurer of Synodical Home Missions.
ELMER E WING GREEN, Esq., - - - Trenton, N. J.
MINUTES
OF THE
SEVENTY - FIRST ANNUAL SESSION
OF THE
Synod of New Jersey.
The Synod of New Jersey met at Bridgeton, in the First
Church, on Tuesday, October 17th, 1893, ^t 7.30 o'clock P.M.
After devotional services, the following letter from the Mod-
erator was read :
Philadelphia, Pa., July nth, 1893,
Rev. Walter A. Brooks, D.D ,
Stated Clerk of the Synod of New fersey :
Dear Brother : In addition to the informal intimation I gave
you of my inability to be present at Sj'nod's meeting next fall, I
feel it due to the Synod itself to make this more regular s atement,
and to leave with you oflBcially my regretful good-b3-e to the
brethren.
The oflBce of Moderator, in which Synod's complimentary voice
placed me, and the performance of whose duties Synod's generous
consideration lightened, has become to me a subject of pleasant
thought, as it will be always a cherished honor. The chair which
I shrank from a year ago, I am now free to confess I would have
been pleased again temporarily to occupy, that I might in person
hand it over to my successor. That agreeable duty I must now
leave to Dr. Hickok. * * *
God graciously bless us all in our one work, in His Name !
Fraternally,
Robert Hamill Nassau.
The Synod then listened to a sermon by Rev. Henry F.
Hickok, D.D., the Vice-Moderator of the Synod, from i Cor.
HI, II.
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After the sermon, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was
administered. In this service the Vice- Moderator was assisted
by Rev. A. Nelson Hollifield, D.D., and Rev. William W.
Knox, and by the followiijg Elders : Theophilus Trenchard,
Edward B. Holcombe, E. W Ketcham, James P. Jones, Joseph
C. Magee, Hudson Muchmore, Abram C. Smith. Joseph Cross.
The Synod was constituted with pra5'er by the Vice-Mod-
erator.
The roll was called, and the following members were found
present :
Presbytery of Oorisco.
Ministers — None.
Ruling Elders — None.
Presbytery of Elizabeth.
Ministers— Joseph M. McNulty, D.D., Everard Kempshall, D.D.,
Ezra F. Mundy, John A. Liggett, D D. (2), Kneeland P. Ketcham,
D.D., William E. Honeyman, James G. Mason, D.D., James M.
Nourse (2), Samuel Parry, William R. Richards, D D., Eben B.
Cobb, James H. Owens, William A. Alexander, William Hoppaugh.
Charles E. Herring, J. Garland Hamner, D.D.— 16.
Ruling Elders— B. E Young, Clinton ; Spencer C. Blake, Cran-
ford ; Charles H Langdon, Elizabeth, First ; Charles Rommell,
Elizabeth, Second ; W. H. Candee, Elizabeth, Madison Avenue ;
Joseph Cross, Elizabeth, Westminster ; E. W. Barnes, Perth Amboy;
George A. Bush, Rahway, Second; Charles G. Endicott, Westfield-9.
Presbytery of Jersey Oity.
Ministers -Charles D. Shaw D.D (2), George Sluter, Henry T.
Beatty— 3.
Ruling Elders— E. W. Ketcham, Hoboken, First ; Charles A.
DeWitt, Jersey City, First ; T. W. Randall (2), Paterson, Second— 3.
Presbytery of Monmouth.
Ministers -Alfred H. Dashiell, D.D., Joseph G. Symmes, D.D.,
Benjamin S. Everitt, Joseph S. Van Dyke, D.D., Edward B. Hodge,
D.D , George Swain D D., Henry R. Hall. Oliver A. Kerr, William
L. Cunningham, D.D., Charles Everett, Henry G. Smith, William
P. Finney, George T. Eddy, Nathaniel J. Sproul— 14.
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Ruling Elders -Jacob Wilson, Beverly; James Hemphill, Cal-
vary; Oscar B. Fenn, Bordentown; William H. Thomas, Cranbury,
First; J. L. Whitaker, M.D., Cranbury, Second; Thomas Camp-
bell, Englishtown; Andrew Perrine, Freehold; Joseph C. Magee,
Jamesburg; H S Simons, Lakewood; James Steen, Shrewsbury— 10
Presbytery of Morris and Orange.
Ministers— William W. Halloway, Jr., D D., O. H Perry Deyo,
Henry A. Harlow, Henry F. Hickok, D.D , Washington A Hooper,
Thomas Carter, Edward P. Gardner, John R. Fisher, William F.
Whitaker, Stanley White, Samuel J. McClenaghan -ir.
Ruling Elders — Enoch Hammond, Boonton; Hudson Much-
more, Chatham; Richard Purdue, East Orange, First; H. H. Ward,
East Orange, Brick; Aaron Carter, Jr., Hillside; William P. Tuttle,
Madison; Robert Carter, Morristown, South Street; Charles A.
Lindley, Orange, First— 8.
Presbytery of Ne"wark.
Ministers -Charles T. Haley, D.D., Charles E. Knox, DD,
Alexander H. Young, D.D., A. Nelson Hollifield, DD., Hugh B.
MacCauley, Ford C. Ottman, J. Garland Hamner, Jr., Frederick N.
Rutan— 8.
Ruling Elders— James P. Jones, Bloomfield; Robert S Grum-
mon, Newark, Third; A. L. Runyon, Newark, Fifth Avenue; W. S.
Ketcham, Newark, Wickliffe— 4.
Presbytery of New^ Bruns-wick.
Ministers— Joshua H. Mcllvaine, D.D., Samuel J. Milliken,
William M Wells, Samuel M. Studdiford, D.D., Charles P. Glover.
Thomas S. Long, William Swan, Lewis W Mudge, D D , James W.
Van Dyke, William H. Filson, John Dixon, D.D., Frank B. Everitt,
Walter A. Brooks, D.D., Titus E. Davis, Samuel A Harlow, George
H. Ingram, James B. Clark, William S Voorhies, William VV. Knox,
David T. Smyth — 20.
Ruling Elders— Edward B. Holcombe, Amwell, Second; David
S. Bellis, Amwell United, First; George D. Scudder (2), Bethany;
Uriel T. Scudder, Ewing; Manuel Runyon, Kingston; Frank L-
Janeway, New Brunswick, First; John B. Van Doren, Princeton;
Pierson B. Hunt, Titusville; Joseph A. Pittenger, Trenton, Third;
Franklin Dye, Trenton, Fourth — 10.
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Presbytery of Ne-wton.
Ministers — William Thomson, Robert J. Burtt, Henry S. Butler,
D.D., S. Nye Hutchison, Isaac H. Condit, Robert A. Bryant, A.
MacShannon Higgins — 7.
Ruling Elders — Abram C. Smith, Bloomsbury ; W. W. Ship-
man, Stewartsville; D. W. Ribble, Washington — 3.
Presbytery of "West Jersey.
Ministers — Allen H. Brown, William Bannard, D.D., Henry
Reeves, Ph.D., David Stevenson, D.D., Alfred J. Snyder, Frederic R.
Brace, Ph.D., John Ewing, D D., Heber H. Beadle, Alfred P. Bots-
ford, J. Howard O'Brien (2) William J. Bridges, Edward Scofield (2),
Arthur W. Spooner (2), Clearfield Park, William V. Louderbough,
William H. Johns (2), Sylvester W. Beach, Herbert R. Rundall (2).
Edward A. McLaury (2), Thomas Thompson, Albert K. Staiger,
Daniel I. Camp (2), John Turner (2), James C. Russell (2) — 24.
Ruling Elders— Richard Stevenson, Blackwood ; Theophilus
Trenchard, Bridgeton, First; Benj. T. Harding, Bridgeton, Second ;
C. S. Padgett, Bridgeton, West ; Andrew Abels, Camden, First ;
R. T. Bancroft, Camden, Second ; Eugene Bostwick, Elmer ; Smith
Sheppard (2), Greenwich ; J. W. Marcy, Merchantville ; Jos. L.
Richman, Pittsgrove ; Morris H. Stratton, Salem ; Isaac C. Steven-
son, Wenonah; Joseph H, Webber, Woodstown — 13.
Corresponding Members— Rev. W. W. MofFett, N. J Confer-
ence M. E. Church ; Rev. Thomas McCauley, D.D., Synod of Pa.;
Rev. James A. Worden, D.D., Synod of Pa.; Rev. Samuel J. Fisher,
D.D., Synod of Pa. ; Rev. E. C. Ray, D.D., Synod of Illinois; Rev.
D. J McMillan, D.D., Synod of N. Y. ; Rev. T. E Montgomery,
Synod of Ky. ; Rev. J. Eugene Dieterich, English Lutheran General
Synod ; Rev. J. Judson Pierson, N. J. Baptist Association ; Bishop
Lee, African M. E. Church— 10.
Summary— Ministers, 103 ; Ruling Elders, 60 ; Corresponding
Members, 10-173.
Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D.D., of the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, was elected Moderator.
The Committee of Arrangements presented a report, recom-
mending :
First. That the sessions of Synod begin at 9 A. M., and that re-
cess be taken from 12:30 to 2 P. M., and from 5 to 7:30 P. M, ; and
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that the first half hour of the morning sessions be given to devo-
tional exercises.
Second. That during the last two hours and a half of the afternoon
session on Wednesday, opportunity be given to such representatives
of the Boards of the Church as may appear in Synod to present the
work of their respective Boards ; also, that Rev. William W. MoflFett
be granted fifteen minutes in behalf of the work of the American
Bible Society.
Third. That a popular meeting be held on Wednesdaj^ evening in
the interest of Home and Foreign Missions, at which the Modera-
tor of Synod shall preside, and addresses be delivered by Rev.
Duncan J. McMillan, D.D , and Mr. Robert E. Speer.
Fotirth That the report of the Committee on Systematic Bene-
ficence be made the first order of the day for Wednesday morning,
and that the report of the Committee on Synodical Home Missions
be the order for 10:30 A. M. the same day.
The report was accepted, and the several recommendations
were adopted.
Sundry orders of the day for Wednesday and Thursday were
adopted.
The Synod adjourned to meet on Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock.
The session closed with prayer.
Wednesday, October i8th.
The Synod met at 9 o'clock A. M., pursuant to adjourn-
ment, and a half-hour was spent in devotional services.
The minutes of Tuesday's sessions were read, and the record
was approved.
The Moderator announced Rev. Lewis W. Mudge, D.D., as
Vice-Moderator, and the Standing Committees as follows :
I— Bills and Overtures.
Ministers— Kenry F. Hickok, D.D., Charles T. Haley, D.D.,
George Sluter, Robert A. Bryant.
Rtding E/ders— Jacob Wilson, Joseph Cross. Benjamin T. Hard-
ing,
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II— Judicial Business.
Ministers — ^John Ewing, D.D., Henry Goodwin Smith, Everard
Kempshall, D D., Thomas S. Long.
Ruling Elders— KhrsLva. C. Smith, E. W. Ketcham, Robert Carter.
Ill — Minutes of General Assembly.
Ministers— Willisim. Thomson, William W. Halloway, Jr., D.D.
Ruling Elder — Morris H. Stratton.
IV — Narrative for 1894.
Ministers— ^\\Y\z.m.^. Bridges, Henry A. Harlow.
Riding Elder — Charles G. Endicott.
V — Finance.
Ruling Elders — Franklin Dye, W. W. Shipman.
Ministers — Henry R. Hall, Hugh B. MacCauley.
VI. — Records of Presbyteries.
Corisco— Rev. Henry S. Butler, D.D., Rev. William L. Cunning-
ham, D.D., Elder William P. Tuttle.
Elizabeth— Rev. Edward B. Hodge, D.D., Rev. A. Nelson Holli-
field, D.D., Elder Charles A. DeWitt.
Jersey City — Rev. David Stevenson, DD., Rev. Kneeland P.
Ketcham, D.D., Elder L. Marshall Teel.
Monmouth — Rev. Frederick N. Rutan, Rev. Thomas Carter,
Elder Joseph A. Pittenger.
Morris and Orange — Rev. Robert J. Burtt, Rev. Charles Everett,
Elder Isaac C. Stevenson.
Newark— Rev. James H. Owens, Rev. William Swan, Elder
Richard Purdue.
NeviT Brunswick— Rev. William V. Louderbough, Rev. William
P. Finney, Elder William H. Thomas.
Newton— Rev. Alexander H. Young, D.D., Rev. Stanley White,
Elder Charles H. Langdon.
West Jersey — Rev. Joseph S. VanDyke, D.D., Rev. James G.
Mason, D.D., Elder Pierson B. Hunt.
The report of the Stated Clerk was presented, and the acts
and expenditures of the Stated Clerk as reported were approved.
The proposal of the Stated Clerk to print the reports of the
Permanent Committees and other reports in the Minutes, rather
than in the Appendix as heretofore, was approved b}^ the
Synod.
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Sundry papers in the hands of the Stated Clerk were placed
in the hands of the Committee on Bills and Overtures. The
Stated Clerk presented a copy of the Minutes of the Synod for
1892, bearing the approval of the General Assembly of 1893.
The report of the Treasurer was presented and accepted, and
referred to the Finance Committee.
The following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That the Treasurer of Synod be authorized to pay the
traveling expenses of the Trustees of the Synod for November, 1892,
and for October, 1893 ; and in the future to pay their traveling ex-
penses to special meetings in the service of the Synod, upon the
order or certificate of the President of the Trustees.
In response to a telegram from Elder William M. Ivanning,
of Trenton, the Synod appointed Rev. Ev^erard Kempshall,
D.D , to draft a minute upon the evils of legislation favoring
gambling upon race-tracks.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Sabbath Observ-
ance was made the second order for Thursday morning.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Systematic
Beneficence was presented and accepted. The resignation of
Rev Theodore F. White, D.D., as Chairman of the Committee,
was accepted, and the Committee was authorized to appoint a
Chairman.
The report is as follows :
The Permanent Committee of Synod on Systematic Beneficence
respectfully report:
First. The contributions to the nine objects of our church, ac-
cording to the Assembly's Minutes for 1892 and 1893, are as fol-
lows :
Table A.
1892. 1893. Increase. Decrease.
Home Miss ons I97.245 $101,139 $3,894 • • •
Foreign Missions 94,647 108,212 13,565 . . .
Education 12,735 14.558 1.823 • • •
Sabbath-school Work, .... 13,098 13,656 558 . . .
Church Erection, 19-579 18,393 .... $1,186
Ministerial Relief, 10,554 ii,957 1,403
Freedmen, 10,922 9,514 .... 1,408
Sustentation, S. H. M., . . 14,427 14,007 .... 420
Aid for Colleges, 6,667 7, 108 441 . . .
S279.874 $298,544 $21,684 $3,014
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Net increase to the nine objects, $18,670
Congregational, ...... $871,552 $938,240 .... 66,688
Miscellaneous, 59-542 67,832 .... 8,290
Net increase to all objects,
The net increase of $18,670 to the nine objects of our church is
very gratifying, particularly in view of the fact that inasmuch as
the number of communicants has increased only by 756, it shows
an increase per capita in gifts to the nine causes of 24 cents.
Second. The measure -of support given by Synod to the Boards of
our church, and the amounts expended in Synod, are as follows:
Home Missions, . .
Foreign Missions, .
Education,
Sunday-school Work,
Church Erection,
Ministerial Relief, .
Freedmen,
Sustentation, . . .
Aid for Colleges, . .
Table B.
Expended in Synod.
1892. 1893. Increase. Decrease. 1892. 1893.
$48,135 $48,498 $363
81,665 85,988 4,323
6,454 5.817 . . • %^2,1 $3-849 II.550
7.881 7,953 72
6,496 6,454 ... 42 . . . 1,000
9,533 10,347 814 .. . 5,575 6,100
6,874 6,589 ... 285
228 229 I
4,015 4,113 98
$171,281 $175,988 $5,671 $964 $9,424$ii,650
Sy nodical Home Miss., 14,802 15,262 460 . . . 14,049 15, 452
$23,473 $27, 102
Net increase to the Boards, $4,707
Net increase to Synodical Home Missibns, 460
Net increase to all Presbyterian Agencies, 5.671
The above increase to the Boards of $4,707 over 1892 and of $2,933
over 1891 is gratifying. The increase in the church membership of
Synod since 189 1 is 4 771, showing that the increase in gifts to the
Boards since 1891 is just 62^/^ per cent, of the increase in member-
ship. Ought this ratio to continue ? The percentage of the contri-
butions of Synod to the nine objects of our church, given through
the Boards, is 621^5, and that of those given in other ways is Zl\h>
as against 38 7 last year. It is worthy of notice that whereas the
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sum given to Foreign Missions in 1892, viz., $81,665, was the largest
in our history, that of 1893 exceeds it by $4-323.
Third. Table C shows the amount given by each Presbytery to
the nine objects of our church, including Sustentation.
Morris and Orange, $67,470
Newark, 52,124
Elizabeth, 39,896
New Brunswick, 36,237
Jersey City 25,681
Monmouth, 17.125
West Jersey, 18,512
Newton, 14.787
Corisco, 142
1893.
Increase.
Decrease.
$68,842
$^,Z72
65,100
12,976
40,646
750
48,446
12,209
20,193
512
17.380
255
16,735
^.111
15 081
294
. . .
121
21
$271,974 $298,544 $28,368 $1,798
Net increase to the nine objects, $26,570.
Fourth. Table D shows the amount given by each Presbytery
through the Boards of our church.
1892 1893. Increase. Decrease.
Morris and Orange, $41,652 $45.7^9 $4,067 . . .
Newark, 29,518 30.423 905 • • •
Elizabeth 27,551 28,881 1,330 . . .
New Brunswick, 24,496 22,038 .... 2,458
Jersey City, 14-544 13.976 .... 568
Monmouth, 12,823 12,328 .... 495
Newton, 11.158 ii.597 437 • • •
West Jersey, 9,733 ii.449 i.7i6 . . .
Corisco, 182 139 ... . 43
$171,657 $176,550 $8,457 $3,564
Net increase, $4,893.
In amounts given to the nine objects the order of Presbyteries is
the same as in 1892 except that Elizabeth yields the third place to
New Brunswick. The order of gifts through the Boards remains
unchanged. It is encouraging to note that whereas in 1892 all the
Presbyteries except Elizabeth, Monmouth and Newton had declined
in contributions in 1893, all but Corisco and West Jersey have in-
creased, and Newark and New Brunswick very largely. In gifts
through the Boards five Presbyteries show an increase of $8,457, a°d
four a decrease of $3,564.
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Fifth. Table E shows blanks in each Presbytery.
Table E.
Oct,
Totals.
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9 9
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76
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Elizabeth
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22
23
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Jersey City, . . . .
9
6
12
14
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17
7
18
76
112
36
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2
4
9
10
9
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4
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7
8
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17
73
66
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New Brunswick, .
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0
0
0
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Newton,
4
4
6
7
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12
73
61
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West Jersey, . . .
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9
17
13
18
17
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12
27
147
142
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Totals, . . . .
41
38
67
69
71
74
79
59
105
619
602
50
67
While we are thankful for the net decrease of 17 in the number of
blanks this year we must remember that this is a decrease over 1892,
when we had a net increase of 131, and a comparative one over 1891
of 76. Why should not more Presbyteries copy the noble example
of New Brunswick and fill all the blanks ?
Sixth. Table F shows the total amounts given to the Boards of
Home and Foreign Missions, Sabbath-school Work and Freedmen,
and the portion thereof contributed by the Sabbath-schools and
Ladies' Societies.
Home Missions, . .
Foreign Missions, .
Sunday-school Work,
Freedmen,
Table F.
/
Ladies'
Sabbath-
Per
Societies.
schools.
Both.
Cent.
$48,498
|i6,i68
$5,331
$21,499
44-33
85,988
31,162
7.738
38,900
4524
7.953
3,260
3.260
4224
6,589
588
1.457
2,045
31.00
$149,028 $47,918 $17,786
5,704 44.08
The percentage of gifts contributed by Ladies' Societies and Sab-
bath-schools in 1891, was 39 22 ; in 1892, 42.29; in 1893, 44.08 ; show-
ing a steady increase of 4.86 per cent, in two years.
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In amount of contributions to the nine objects New Jersey stands
third as heretofore. In average gifts per member to the same causes
New Jersey stands third instead of fourth as in 1S92. Oregon is
first with the remarkable percentage of $14 per member ; Minnesota
is second giving $5.92 per member ; and New Jersey is third, con-
tributing $4.76 per member. The extraordinary percentages of
Oregon and Minnesota are explained by the very heavy gifts of
$44,181 for Oregon, and $46,688 for Minnesota, to the Board of Aid
for Colleges. But it is only just to Oregon to say that it would still
remain first, giving $5 63 per member, even if the sum for Aid for
Colleges were omitted.
Synod will remember that in 1891 your Committee called atten-
tion to the large aggregate of gifts to our Boards from miscellaneous
sources, which are not included in the tabulated statements of their
receipts, and are not credited to the Synods or Presbyteries, and
that Synod directed your Committee, together with the Stated Clerk,
to correspond with the Secretaries of the Boards on this subject. In
1892 your Committee reported that it had conducted such cor-
respondence and the results, but Synod took no further action, and
your Committee supposes that in your judgment none was consid-
ered necessary. The sum of such contributions gathered from the
reports of the Boards for 1893 is about $345,000 ($344,831.39).
The number of churches in Synod is 319. If all had contributed
to all the Boards there would have been a total of 2 871 g fts. But
we find 602 failures to contribute or 21 per cent, of the whole,
averaging 67 to each Presbytery, or 75, omitting New Brunswick,
which had none. Nor are these failures confined to our weak
churches, since 164 are found in churches having over 100 mem-
bers, and reaching as many as 600 or more.
Our average gift to Home Missions this year is $r.6i, as against
$1.50 last year ; and that to Foreign Missions $1.73, compared with
$r 53 in 1892.
Fathers and Brethren, we have presented to you the customary
statistics on this subject, and these have a certain value. They
enable us to compare ourselves with ourselves, and they seem to
show that we are becoming more systematic in the sense that we
are growing more regular and faithful in the support of the work
of our church. But it must be plain to us all that they throw com-
paratively little light on the matter of Systematic Beneficence in its
truer and better sense, viz., on the question whether the members
of our congregations are making progress in regular, universal,
proportionate and devotional giving to the cause of the Master. Or
rather, they seem to teach that but little gain is being made in this
direction, for if so, there can hardly be any questioning that our
increase in contributions would be much greater than it has been
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Your Committee has not been able to obtain general and reliable
statistics concerning this, but such as we have received appear to
sustain the conclusion that, while some churches and more indi-
viduals are attaining toward true systematic giving, the old
methods generally prevail. Indeed this grace of true Systematic
Beneficence is so closely related to a higher type of Christian life
that it can hardly be expected to become generally prevalent in the
church without a larger outpouring, and a fuller indwelling of the
Spirit of God. Something, probably much, can be done, as was said
in our last report, in the way of training the children and youth in
our families and Sabbath-schools ; but our main dependence must
be on the revival of pure and undefiled religion in the hearts of
our people. And for this we, pastors, sessions and people, should
give our most earnest prayer and faithful endeavor.
The Narrative of the State of Religion was read and ac-
cepted.*
The report of the Permanent Committee on Synodical Home
Missions was presented and accepted, and its recommendations
were considered seriatim and adopted as a whole. The report
is as follows :
The Synod of New Jersey comes to the close of the seventh year
of the care of its own weak churches and mission stations with in-
creasing cause for gratitude to God. During the past year we have
raised more money, we have done more work, and we have aided a
larger number of churches than ever before. The importance of our
work and the eflSciency of our plan become increasingly evident.
When your Committee held its stated meeting early in September
the outlook was tar from promising. The wide-spread financial
troubles seemed to make it almost impossible to secure from any of
the Presbyteries the amount needed. The chairman of the Com-
mittee feels it to be his duty to incorporate in this report his tribute
of heartiest praise to his associates for the splendid work they did
in securing the needed funds. Letter upon letter, urgent and per-
suasive, was sent by them setting forth the needs of the treasury
and pleading for the good of the cause and the standing of the
Presbytery. Their self-denying and persistent efforts have made it
possible to say to Synod that the last year has been our best year.
But the hearty consecration and earnest work of these brethren
would have been fruitless were it not that the ministers and elders
of Synod were ready to join with the members of the Presbyterial
Committees in securing the funds needed to meet our obligations.
* See Appendix.
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We enter upon a new year with the ability to give of many seriously
reduced. Even under the most favorable circumstances financial
prosperity will return to our country but slowly, yet we are not cast
down, for we are sure that next year, even as this, we shall have
cause for rejoicing.
The Treasurer reports that during the past year he has received
from all sources the sum of $15,262.15, as follows, viz.:
Elizabeth $2,508 87
Jersey City —
Churches $1,292 63
Individual gift 5 00
1,297 63
Monmouth —
Churches $i,X47 41
Special oflfering by Presbytery 85 34
1.232 75
Morris and Orange 2,817 64
Newark 2,618 93
New Brunswick —
Churches $1,731 89
Individuals 750 00
2,481 89
Newton 969 49
West Jersey —
Churches $1,319 95
Individual 15 00
1.334 95
$15,262 15
This is $459.68 more than last year. The Presbyteries of Mon-
mouth, Morris and Orange, New Brunswick and West Jersey have
somewhat exceeded the amounts expected from them. Elizabeth
and Newark both fall a little short, but each of them sends more
than last year. Jersey City would appear as contributing more than
last year if the Treasurer had received all that had been raised dur-
ing the fiscal year. Newton has fallen somewhat below the amount
sent last year, which was the largest sum which had been con-
tributed by that Presbytery.
The Treasurer has paid out $15,452.05, which is $(89.90 more than
the receipts, and $1,402 87 in excess of last j^ear. With the expendi-
tures in excess of the receipts, and with the prospect that it will be
more difficult for the churches to raise mone}' during the coming
year than for several years past, the Committee were compelled to
scrutinize the applications from the Presbyteries with more than
usual care The various Presbyteries voted to ask Synod for nearly
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$iy,oco. Every dollar was needed, and every place was important.
Both in countrj' and in city there is a growing need of assistance,
and this will doubtless continue to be the case for many years. In
the country the churches are, for the most part, destined to grow
weaker until the foreign populations which have taken up the
farms are brought into active sympathy with the church. The
rapid growth of the cities opens up new fields which cannot safely
or properly be neglected. Our funds will not permit us to give to
all, though nearly double the sum for mission work is spent in New
Jersey as compared with the former gifts of the Home Board. Shall
we neglect the old in order to take up the new ? That would not
be right. So we recommend Synod to do the best it can lor the new
work while not neglecting the old.
Aid has been given during the year to 8i churches and missions,
the places and amounts being set forth in the report of the Treas-
urer. These churches have added to their membership during the
ecclesiastical year a total of 754 persons, of whom 510 were on con-
fession and 244 by letter. It is a suggestive, or, at least, a singular
fact that the accessions to our mission churches almost equal the
net gain of the entire Synod in the matter of membership The
Minutes of 1892 reported the total number of communicants of the
Synod as 61,911. This year it is 62667 — ^ ^^^ gain of 756. The
average amount paid to our churches is $190. The average amount
paid by the Home Board to the churches under its care in the Synod
of New York is $234, which sum does not include the cost of admin-
istration.
Special appropriations were made to the Presbyteries of Jersey
City and West Jersey, for work among the foreign populations
Important work has been done and excellent progress made. The
Presbytery of Newark has been specially successful in its work
also, among the Italians. Jersey City Presbytery has resolved upon
beginning a new mission in that city, and would have asked Synod
for an appropriation at this time. The uncertain prospect as to our
revenue for the coming year, as well as the numerous and pressing
calls from other Presbyteries for established work, have induced the
Presbytery to do the whole work of the proposed new mission with-
out assistance from Synod ihis year, but it will be compelled to seek
an appropriation next year. Steadily, though perhaps not as rap-
idly as some cou d desire, the churches are being pressed towards
the point of self-support. But it seems as soon as that point is
reached Presbytery finds a new field waiting for its help. To this
great work we are thoroughly committed as a Synod. We rejoice in
the opportunity for such service, and pray God to prosper us in it
more and more.
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We recommend —
I, That Synod offer its heartiest thanks to Elmer Ewing Green,
Esq., for his services as Treasurer of this fund, and ask him to serve
for the ensuing year.
2 That Presbyteries be asked to contribute upon the same basis
as last year, so that the following sums may be expected :
Presbytery of Elizabeth, $2,552 40
Jersey Cit3% 1,633 5°
Monmouth 1,198 60
Morris and Orange, 2,741 10
Newark, 2,789 37
New Brunswick, 2,309 85
Newton 1,182 60
West Jersey, 1,275 40
115,682 82
3. That allotments be made to the Presbyteries as follows, viz. :
Presbytery of Elizabeth, $375 00
Jersey City 2,600 00
Monmouth, 4,000 00
Morris and Orange, 1.750 00
Newark, 1,525 00
New Brunswick, 625 00
Newton 925 00
West Jersey, 4,200 00
$16,000 00
The report of the Treasurer of Synodical Home Missions vi^as
presented as follows :
To the Synod of New Jersey:
Your Treasurer of Synodical Home Missions respectfully presents
the following report :
The close of the seventh year of Synodical Home Missions in New
Jersey charges the Treasurer with the obligation of making a short
statement of the year's work, so far as it has fallen within the lines
of his emplo3^ment. This statement may naturally be brought
under three heads — reminder of the provision for the work, narra-
tive of the performance of the work, and suggestion based upon
experience in the work.
At the beginning of the year, your Permanent Committee on
Synodical Home Missions recommended that fifteen thousand, four
hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents should be raised
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within the borders of Synod, and that sums, reaching in the aggre-
gate fifteen thousand, six hundred and eighty-eight dollars, should
be granted for use in the general work within the limits of the sev-
eral Presbyteries. Under the leading of another Committee, it was
also recommended that supplementary grants of two hundred dol-
lars each, should be made to the Presbyteries of Jersey City and
West Jersey for use in the work among foreign populations. It
certainly bears testimony to the foresight and wisdom of your Com-
mittee that the sums actually expended in the general work of the
year and the expenses of administration fell within the income
actually received. All of the recommendations of the Committee
were b}'^ you adopted.^ and their apportionment among the Presby-
teries of the sum to be raised and allotment of the sums to be used
were confirmed by your action. The particulars of such apportion-
ment and allotment will be found in Schedules i and 2, hereunder
written and making part of this report.*
In the performance of the work thus provided for, thirty-one
churches within the limits of the Presbytery of Elizabeth have con-
tributed two thousand, five hundred and eight dollars and eighty-
seven cents ; twenty-nine churches within the Presbytery of Jersey
City have contributed twelve hundred and ninety-two dollars and
sixty-three cents ; forty-seven churches within the Presbytery of
Monmouth have contributed eleven hundred and forty-seven dollars
and forty-one cents ; forty-four churches within the Presbytery of
Morris and Orange have contributed two thousand, eight hundred
and seventeen dollars and sixty-four cents ; thirty churches within
the Presbytery of Newark have contributed two thousand, six
hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety-three cents ; thirty-five
churches within the Presbytery of New Brunswick have contributed
seventeen hundred and thirtj^-one dollars and eighty-nine cents ;
twenty-nine churches within the Pri^sbj^tery of Newton have con-
tributed nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents ;
and forty-eight churches within the Presbytery of West Jersey have
contributed thirteen hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-five
cents. Of these contributions, thirteen thousand, six hundred and
fifty-eight dollais and sixty-eight cents have come from congrega-
tions, six hundred and six dollars and seven cents from Sabbath-
schools, and one hundred and forty-two dollars and six cents from
missionary societies. In addition to these gifts, five persons have
contributed in differing sums seven hundred and seventy-one dol-
lars. Of these persons, one was a pastor of a church in Jersey City
Presbytery, one a pastor of a church in West Jersey, one a member
of a church in Monmouth, and three members of churches in New
Brunswick. The Presbytery of Monmouth also contributed eighty-
* For the Schedules accompanying this report see Appendix.
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four dollars and thirty-four cents, for the avowed purpose of making
up a deficiency in the gifts of the sixth year. In Schedule 3 here-
under written and making part of this report will be found the gifts
of the year, classified as heretofore ; and in Schedule 4 will be found
a comparative statement by Presbj-teries of the gifts of the churches
in the sixth and seventh 5'ears, which shows, both absolutely and
relatively, the number of churches giving and the sum of their
gifts.
In the further performance of the year's work, aid has been given
from the Synodical Home Mission Fund in maintaining the preach-
ing of the gospel in eighty-one mission fields within the borders of
the Synod. Of the seventy-nine fields in which has been wrought
the usual or general mission work of the Synod, one lies within the
bounds of the Presbytery of Elizabeth ; eleven lie within the Pres-
bytery of Jersey City; eighteen within the Presbytery of Mon-
mouth ; ten within the Presb3-tery of Morris and Orange ; four
within the Presbyterj- of Newark ; five within the Presbytery of
New Brunswick ; si»i within the Presbytery of Newton ; and twenty-
four within the Presbytery of West Jersey. Of the two fields, or
stations, in which has been done the special or supplementary work,
one is within the bounds of the Presbytery of Jersey City, and the
other within the Presbytery of West Jersey. During the past year,
payments have been made on account of appropriations for the ser-
vices of ministers and missionaries, reaching the sum of fifteen
thousand, four hundred and fifty-two dollars and five cents, the
average for each quarter being a little over three thousand, eight
'hundred and fiftj' dollars Of the whole sum, there have been paid
out upon the orders of the Chairmen of the several Presbyterial
Committees on Home Missions, for services within the Presbj-tery
of Elizabeth three hundred dollars, for services within the Pres-
bytery of Jersey City, in the general work, two thousand, three
hundred and nineteen dollars, and in the supplementary work, sixt}-
dollars, for services within the Presbytery of Monmouth three
thousand, nine hundred and thirtj'-five dollars and twenty-two
cents, for services within the Presbytery of Morris and Orange
fourteen hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents, for ser-
vices within the Presbytery of Newark sixteen hundred and twent}--
five dollars, for services within the Presbytery of New Brunswick
seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-six cents, for ser-
vices within the Presbytery of Newton seven hundred and sevent}--
seven dollars and ninety-two cents and for services within the
Presbytery of West Jersey, in the general work, three thousand,
nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents, and
in the supplementary work, one hundred and thirty-three dollars
and thirty-three cents. These payments for strictl}' mission work
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will be found particular!}' set forth in subdivisions la and ib of
Schedule 5*, hereunder written and making part of this report.
There have also been paid out during the year, for printing and
stationery, (including the publication of contributions in The
Church at Home and Abroad,) fifty-eight dollars and sixty-two
cents ; for postage and expressage, thirty-seven dollars and ninety-
two cents ; and for the necessary traveling and other expenses
(except postage) of the members of the Permanent Committee,
thirty-seven dollars and forty-five cents ; — in all, one hundred and
thirty-three dollar.'^ and ninety-nine cents The particulars of these
incidental expenses of administration will be found in subdivision
2 of Schedule 5. In- the Schedule 6 hereunder written and making
part of this report will be seen a comparative statement by Pres-
byteries, of the payments in the sixth and seventh 3'ears for the
services of ministers and missionaries, which shows, both abso-
lutely and relativel}', the number of mission fields wherein aid was
given and received, and the amounts expended. The balance in
the treasurj' at the closing of the books was four thousand, eight
hundred and twenty-one dollars and eighty- five cents. Against
this, we must charge the debts of the several Presbyteries for work
fully performed by ministers and missionaries in the last quarter of
the year just ended. If the average quarterly payment should be
maintained, the true balance at the disposal of the S3'nod will be
less than one thousand dollars.
In the line of suggestions for the work of the new year, two only
will be offered, based upon experience gained in the finished work.
In the first place, while the Treasurer, both as an officer of Synod
and as an individual church member, highly approves of mission
work among foreign populations, he must express the hope that the
making of special or supplementary grants for the carrj'ing on of
such work may not permanently become a part of our policy. It
makes a needless distinction in work among different foreign peo-
ples, as between work among Germans and work among Slavs ;
it makes a needless distinction in work among men of the same
race in different Presbyteries, as between work among Italians in
Newark and work among Italians in West Jersey ; it adds to the
length of this report, and consequentU' to the cost of printing it ;
and in case of a failing treasury, it would give rise to difficult ques-
tions of administration, which would require for settlement more
power than is conferred upon the Treasurer, and all of the patience
and prudence that are possessed by your Permanent Committee.
In the second place, moved thereto by his own observation and by
letters lately received, the Treasurer would with all modesty remind
the Sj-nod that we are in the midst— perhaps not at the worst — of
the first financial and business depression which has overspread the
* Not printed, by order of Synod.
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country since the establishment of our plan for Synodical Home
Missions, and that, while promising work already begun should be
maintained at much hazard and at great sacrifice, these are not
times in which to undertake new labors or to assume increased
responsibilities.
The report was referred to the Finance Committee.
It was made the order for Wednesday afternoon to hear Rev.
Charles E. Knox, D.D., upon German Education, for ten min-
utes after the addresses of Dr. Mcllvaine and Principal Lyon.
The report of the Trustees of Synod was presented, as
follows :
At the last meeting of this Synod and for reasons which were
then deemed satisfactory, the Trustees of the Synod made only a
brief verbal report. (See Minutes 1892, page 23). They now beg
leave to present a report covering two years.
First, they report that, as authorized b}- S^^nod, they conveyed by
deed the Chapel and land at Barnegat City to the Presbytery of
Monmouth, and they conveyed the Chapel and land at Holly Beach
to the Trustees of the Presbytery of West Jersey.
They also report that the Holmes Fund of $725 and the Wurts
lyCgacy of $525 have been combined in one mortgage, dated March
ist, 1892, upon property in Newark at five per cent. It is known as
the " Kane Mortgage."
They further report, that the conditions in regard to the Wood-
land Avenue Chapel in the Eighth Ward of the City of Camden
having been complied with, the One Hundred Dollars held con-
ditionally by Synod have been paid to the Presbytery of West
Jersey, for the final liquidation of the debt on that property.
On October loth, 1892, the Trustees appropriated $17.50, the bal-
ance of the " Manse Fund," to the manse at New Gretna, formerly
called Bass River, and the balance of $6 50 of the Holmes Fund,
remaining after the investment of $725, to the church at Forked
River.
The special donation of $500 for Barnegat Village was used to
purchase a valuable lot for a manse, adjoining the church, and the
title is, for the present vested in the Presbj'tery of Monmouth.
The congregation at Mays Landing, aided by the special gift of
$500 through the Synod, has erected a very neat and commodious
manse and has given to your Trustees a mortgage, without interest,
similar to those which the Board of Church Erection requires.
In consequence of the action of S5'nod last year, the Board of
Trustees held a special meeting at Newark in November and re-
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solved to sell the Seaside Chapel at Long Branch and to devote the
proceeds to the interest of the Presbyterian Church at that place.
The disposal of the property vi'as ccmmitted to the Trustees of the
Long Branch Chuich, who have only very recently decided to take
down the building and to use the material in the erection of their
greatly needed new church and to wait for more prosperous times
before selling the land When it is sold, your Trustees will execute
the deed to the purchaser and report to Synod.
Your Trustees report that they have accepted the ofier of a new
chapel at Avalon, which is a new and attractive watering place on
Seven Mile Beach in Cape May county. The building was com-
menced and failed as-a union enterprise and was then offered to the
Presbyterians. Though unfinished, it was opened for public wor-
ship, for the first time, on the 30th of July, 1893, and was regularly
supplied through the summer. It is now completed and the whole
propert}^ is valued at nearl}^ four thousand dollars. A debt of two
thousand dollars rests upon it, payment of which is secured by a
mortgage, guaranteed b}^ four responsible individuals, whose names
are upon the bond. Therefore, in accepting the gifts the Trustees
assume no financial obligation, only holding the property in trust
for the Presbyterian Church. Both residents and visitors have
manifested unwonted enthusiasm in the work. The establishment
of a summer school especially for the teachers of Philadelphia adds
prospective importance to Avalon and to its one only church.
Whereas the Synod of 1891 (see Minutes, page 93,) endorsed a
plan for "special voluntary contributions" to a Manse Fund for
the benefit of any of our missionary fields in New Jersey, to be paid
to the Trustees of the Synod and to be distributed by them, accord-
ing to such rules as the Trustees may adopt and the " Synod may
approve," now, therefore, the Trustees submit for the approval of
Synod these rules, which were prepared for presentation one 5'ear
ago, but failed to arrive before the adjournment of Synod, because,
with other papers, they were missent through the mail.
The Synodical Manse Fund is designed only for the Missionary
Churches to help them to self-support by donations for the erection
of manses under the following
RULES.
1. All specially designated contributions to be paid promptl}^
according to the wishes of the donors.
2. Grants to be made by the Trustees upon recommendation of a
Presbytery or of its Missionary Committee.
3 Except in extraordinary cases no grant to exceed one-third of
the cost of the manse.
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4. To prevent alienation and loss of the property, a mortgage
shall be given to the Trustees of Synod for the sum granted, paya-
ble only in case of alienation of the property from the Presbyterian
Church.
5. To release a mortgage — any Missionary Church making an
annual contribution to this fund of not less than ten per cent, of the
amount originally granted to it shall be deemed as paying in such
contribution an installment of like amount upon the mortgage held
by the Synod, and when such payments in the aggregate shall
equal the amount of the grant the Trustees shall execute a release
of the mortgage, and thus remove Synod's lien from the property
of the church ; provided, that such church, at the time its contribu-
tion is sent, shall notify the Trustees that it desires such application
thereof to be made.
The vacancy in the Board of Trustees, occasioned more than a
year ago by the death of Rev. Charles K. Imbrie, D. D., should be
filled at this session.
In 1891 Rev. Robert Aikman, D. D., resigned the office of Treas-
urer and Rev. Allen H. Brown was chosen Treasurer to hold the
office from January ist, iSg^i.
The report of the Trustees was accepted, and the acts of the
Trustees and the proposed rules relative to funds for manses,
were approved.
The report of the Treasurer of the Trustees was also pre-
sented, and was referred to the Finance Committee.
The Stated Clerk was directed to cast the ballot of the Synod
for Rev. Charles D. Shaw, D.D., to fill the vacancy in the
Board of Trustees caused by the death of Rev. Charles K.
Imbrie, D.D.
The Moderator appointed Rev. Alfred H. Dashiell, D.D.,
Rev. Samuel Parry, Elder Frank L- Janeway as a Committee
on the next place of meeting.
The report of the Committee on Necrology was presented
and accepted ; * and the Synod engaged in prayer.
The Committee appointed to examine the records of the
Presbytery of Elizabeth reported in the following resolution,
which was adopted :
*See Appendix.
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Resolved, That we recommend the approval of the minutes of the
Presbytery of Elizabeth as far as written, with the following quali-
fication, to wit : In approving the minutes of the Presbytery, the
Synod is not to be understood as deciding that a refusal to accept
the statements of the Confession in Chapter III., section 7, and
Chapter X., sections 3 and 4, may not involve rejection of "the
system of doctrine," but only as assuming that the Presbytery
deemed that the difi&culties experienced by the Elder-elect had
reference to certain forms of statement rather than to the system
itself.
The Synod took a jecess until 2 P. M.
Wednesday, 2 P. M.
The Synod re- assembled, and proceeded to business.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures reported, recom-
mending :
(i) That the sixteenth annual report of the Woman's Synodical
Society of Home Missions be referred to the Permanent Committee
on Synodical Home Missions ; (2) that a memorial from the Presby-
tery of Newark in reference to changes in the Plan for Sjmodical
Home Missions be referred to the same Committee ; (3) that an
overture from the Presbytery of New Brunswick in reference to in-
struction in temperance in the public schools, and asking that the
Synod seek legislative action, be answered in the affirmative, and
that the matter be referred to the Permanent Committee on Temper-
ance.
The recommendations were adopted.
The following paper was adopted :
Whereas, Evelyn College is the only institution for the higher
education of women in the State of New Jersey, is under Pres-
bj'terian control, and is devoted to the religious education and
training of young women ; therefore.
Resolved, That we commend it to parents and guardians as emi-
nently suitable and desirable for the education of their children.
Whereas, The business trouble prevailing throughout the country
renders it necessary that the college should be financially aided;
and in view of its high character,
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Resolved, That we cordially commend it to effectual support by
our people, and by all who are interested in the education which it
represents ; and in full recognition of the autonomy of our pastors
and sessions in all such matters, we recommend that, if they shall
judge it to be wise, they admit the President of the College to their
pulpits to preach on the higher education of women.
Addresses upon education were made by President Mcllvaine,
Principal Phoebus W. Lyon, President Charles E. Knox, D.D.
The following paper, prepared by Rev. Everard Kenipshall,
D.D., appointed for the purpose, was presented and adopted
by a rising vote, and the Stated Clerk was authorized to send a
copy to each minister and vacant church in the Synod, the
Synod recommending that the paper be read in every pulpit :
Resolved, That Synod is in deepest sympathy with the effort now
being made to suppress race-track gambling in New Jersey. The
gravity of the situation can hardly be exaggerated. By the system-
atic and persistent effort of the abettors of this most demoralizing
vice, it has come to pass that laws legalizing book-making and
pool selling upon race-tracks have been placed upon the statute
books of our State. The law-abiding citizens of New Jersey feel
most deeply the humiliation and disgrace thereby brought upon the
State, while the resultant evils from this legislation, accomplished
in scornful indifference to the most earnest protest of the people,
are too apparent to need recapitulation. The issues at stake in the
impending election, as affecting the most sacred interests of our
homes, the community, and the State, are in their momentous char-
acter beyond the power of human computation. The question of
the hour is simply this : " Shall the State of New Jersey be perma-
nently surrendered into the hands of men who, for their own selfish
and mercenary ends, will continue to corrupt our legislation, de-
bauch suffrage by the lavish use of money, defy the courts and
tempt to ruin scores and hundreds of the citizens of our State ?"
The Synod of New Jersey calls upon all ministers and laymen
within its bounds to rise in the power of righteous indigaation, and
lend their aid in giving answer at the polls in November next ;
" that by the help of God, this thing shall not be '
Synod urges upon pastors to endeavor to keep the duty of the
hour before the people of their charges, and earnestly calls upon all
who have a vote to cast, to allow no other obligation to interfere
with doing their part in the coming election toward freeing our
State from the power of these conspirators against its peace and
prosperity, and restoring it to its once honored position in the
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sisterhood of States, by votinof for candidates, without regard to
party, who can be trusted to oppose race-track gambling in New
Jersey.
During the last two hours of the session, addresses were
made by Rev. Edward C. Ray, D D., upon Aid for Colleges
by Rev. Samuel J. Fisher, D.D , upon the work for Freedmen
by Rev. James A. Worden, D.D , upon Sabbath-school Work
by Rev. William W. Moffet, upon the work of the American
Bible Society.
Rev. George Swain, D.D., was appointed to convey the
fraternal salutations of the Synod to the Annual Conference of
the District of New Jersey of the Methodist Protestant Church
in session in this cit}-. From this Conference the following
message was received :
The Annual Conference of the District of New Jersey of the
Methodist Protestant Church, sends its Christian recognition and
fellowship in relation to a church whom we have learned to love.
We would express it more particularly in the language of I Cor.
3:9: " For we are laborers together with God : ye are God's hus-
bandry, ye are God's building."
L D. Stults,
Secretary.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Foreign Missions
was presented, and its several recommendations were adopted.
The circular-letter proposed by the Committee, for distribution
in the churches of the Synod, was referred back to the Com-
mittee, after its issue by the Committee had been authorized.
The report is as follows :
In reviewing the ecclesiastical year your Committee has seen
unusual reasons for thankfulness and hope ; not only because the
work abroad has been owned of God, as heretofore, but especially
because the church at home seems to be responding to the well-
directed efforts to enforce the commands of Christ, and to empha-
size the pathetic appeals of perishing mankind, on the part of its
Board and other various agencies of our church It is hoped that a
revival of intelligent activity in Missions has begun. A single
symptom may be worthy of mention. The Woman's Missionary
Society of one of our Presbyteries has asked for a repetition this
fall of the Simultaneous Meetings which, in many localities, were
so profitable in 18S7 and 18S9. Other hopeful indications are not
wanting.
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I. FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT.
The notes under this heading, furnished to the Chairman, at his
request, by Elder William Rankin, so long- the Treasurer of the
Board, and a member of this Committee, are inserted without altera-
tion as a part of the report.
The Annual Report of the Foreign Board of the first of May last
presents the gratifying statement of an advance in every depart-
ment of receipts, with a sum total of 151,014,500 and a balance in the
Treasury of $1,858 after meeting all obligations, including a deficit
of the previous 3'ear of $54,500. These receipts include $50,000, the
estimated aggregate balance in the Mission Treasuries on April 3Cth,
1892. A week of special prayer and self-denial, recommended by
the Board and widely observed, brought into the Treasury $20,000
which was also further replenished to an extent of over $i6,oco from
that new source of suppl}^ " the Christian Endeavorers." This is
the first 3^ear since 1888 that the Board has reported itself free of
debt, and it is made specially memorable for its income of over a
million dollars.
We continue our table of average contributions to the Board since
the beginning of the second century of our American Presbyterian
Church, from our last report to the Synod :
Gifts of Ch's Worn. B'ds,
S. S. and Y. P. Soc.
1886-7, $6oS,88r
1887-8, 660, [65
1888-9, 620,984
1889-90. . . . • • 608,068
1890-1, 721,038
1891-2 693,658
1892-3 730.8S4
The following table shows that the Board has increased its outgo
at an annual rate of about 2 per cent, during the last five years :
1889 —Expenditures, . $901,700
1890 " 907,900
1891 " 972,500
1892 " 1,002,600
1893 " \ . . . 1,008,100
The General Assembly, "in grateful recognition of the outfield
opportunity and of the infield sufiicienc}'," recommend as the aim
of our churches the supply to the treasurj'^ for the current year of
$i,2co,ooo. It is to be hoped that the churches ot our Sj'nod will
keep this aim in view, and regard their proportionate share of the
sum called for as not less than one-tenth of the whole, our contri-
Av. per
Total
Member.
Av. per M.
$0.87
$1.12
0.91
1.24
0.82
I-I3
0.77
1.02
0.89
I 16
0.83
1. 12
O.85K
1.18;^
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bution heretofore being at that rate. Last year the Treasurer of the
Board reported $85,986 received from our Synod, from sources speci-
fied in the following table :
Presbyteries. Churches. Sab Sch Worn. Soc. Total.
Corisco $32 ... . $25 §57
Elizabeth, 6,622 $1,679 5-3^9 13.620
Jersey City, 3.616 776 2,797 7,189
Monmouth, 2,178 589 2,707 5.474
Morris and Orange 14.399 ^^I'^l 5.884 22,070
Newark, 10,600 839 5,379 16,818
New Brunswick, 5,234 653 4,440 10,327
Newton, .- . . 2,736 529 1,943 5,208
West Jersey, 1,650 906 2,667 5,223
I47.067 $7,758 $31,161 $85,986
This is an aggregate advance of $3,969 on the report of the pre-
vious year, which was $82,015. The average per member is $1.37,
as against $[.32. It is proper to add that the Minutes of the last
Assembly credit the Synod with $[08,212, as against $94,647 in
1892, an advance of $13,565. (This is more than one-third of the
advance of the whole Cliurch for the year.) Some of this extra
amount in the statistical tables of the Presbyteries may be found
among the miscellaneous and individual contributions acknowl-
edged by the Treasurer of the Board, but doubtless the greater part
is for objects outside of the regular work of the Board. In this con-
nection it is proper to call the attention of the Synod to the action
of the late General Assembly (Minutes, page 82), deprecating " pro-
miscuous giving to independent and measurably irresponsible mis-
sionary efforts, earnestly calling the churches to consider whether
there should be encouraging response to these roving appeals."
Your Committee would remind the Synod of the " Mitchell Mem-
orial Laos Fund" of $25,000, to be spent in the enlargement of the
Laos Mission, appropriately recommended by the General Assem-
bly in honor of the work of the sainted Secretary who so recently
passed " to his crown and kingdom." Your Committee ask the
members of the Synod to read carefully the entire report of the
Committee of Foreign Missions of the last General Assembly
(Minutes pp. 77-83) ; and to consider the scheme for an apportion-
ment tentatively proposed by the Assembly's Committee on
Systematic Beneficence.
II. ORGANIZATION AND METHODS.
Looking at this department, first, on the home side, your Com-
mittee continues to believe that a distinct advantage is gained in
the designation of some layman (usually an elder) in each congre-
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gation, to be, in conjunction with the pastor, a medium of com-
munication bet*/een that congregation and the Board, and the
Committees of the Synod and the Presbytery. Your Committee
desires to see this method in use throughout our Synod and requests
the Presbyteries to co-operate in making it general.
Recognizing the propriety and importance of training our youth
to active participation in Missions and its support, while we con-
gratulate our Woman's and Young People's Societies and Mission
Bands upon the educational work already accomplished, we urge
them to give prominence to instruction in the principles which
underlie the work of Missions and especially in Scriptural methods
of giving to God for its maintenance.
Properly managed popular services in the interest of missions are
a most useful instrumentality. Your Committee commends the
plan to be pursued this fall in the New Brunswick Presbytery,
of a number of central meetings to be attended by delegations from
surrounding churches ; also that of the Newton Presbytery, which
divides its churches into groups, making the pastors of each group
a committee to see to it that a public meeting in this interest is held
in each church during the fall or winter.
The Board desires that the week of prayer and self-denial, which
yielded the tangible result of $20,000 to its treasury, shall be re-
peated this year.
On the foreign side we find a deepening conviction that more
missionaries must be engaged in the work of evangelization proper.
This conviction has found definite expression in Persia during the
past year, and has been felt in Africa and India, and probably in all
of our fields. It may mark a turning point, and result in modifi-
cation, if not change of the methods hitherto pursued.
III. HISTORY AND PROGRESS.
Among the significant events of the past year may be mentioned
the final transfer to the Home Board of the work among the Indians
of North America as being no longer foreign work.
Certain signs now manifest on the foreign field tell of the expan-
sion and power of the work. One of these \s growing opposition, as,
for example, in Japan, where the fear of the natives is that, under
its influence, that which is distinctive in Japanese history and civil-
ization is likely to be merged and lost ; as in the Turkish and Per-
sian Empires, where that which was considered of little account
and hardly worth notice now appears as a formidable rival of Mo-
hammedanism ; as almost everywhere, at the hands of Greek
and Roman Catholics, who are fast losing their former supremacy
in certain fields and are scheming for its recovery by a Jesuitic
and aggressive policy.
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Another sign of progress is the growing conviction among the
missionaries, already mentioned, that this work must henceforth
be pushed upon new lines and with far greater rapidity. Our
brethren in India see the necessity of doing not less for the edu-
cated classes, but far more for the unevangelized masses, among
whom there is promise of abundant harvest. In Persia some of the
missionaries, stimulated perhaps by the imprisonment and noble
confession of the martyr, Mirza Ibrahim, and by the noble conduct
of some of their own number, in the face of the cholera epidemic,
have questioned whether the past conservative policy, which aims
so largely to avoid collision with native prejudices, is not too time-
serving and cowardly J whether the proclamation of the gospel
should not be more bold and aggressive even though the blood of
missionaries should be made to mingle with that of native martyrs
as the seed of the future church.
Famine relief among the starving Laos furnished a noble oppor-
tunity which the missionaries and helpers were forward to improve,
greatly enlarging the scope of their labors and making necessary
an earnest appeal to the church at home for men and means to reap
and caie for the abundant harvests ready to their hands. Let the
"Mitchell Memorial " be raised, in answer
Mosul has been occupied, in spite of unhealthiness and Moham-
medan hate, and from it messengers, both men and women, are
going forth to the Kurdish mountain fastnesses.
Our sister Presbytery, Corisco, has already sounded the note of
advance from the strip of coast so long occupied by way of prepara-
tion into the great unknown interior between it and the Congo
Free State. Already i8o miles have been traversed, the timber-belt
lining the coast penetrated, one or more new stations occupied,
while supposed diflSculties have vanished before the brave pioneers
who send back messages full of courage and cheer — full, too, of
pleading with the church at home to give the gospel to these multi-
tudes, so needy and apparently so ready to receive it. Is not this a
special call to us, brethren of the Synod, in whose memory the
burning words of our late Moderator still linger, to stand by and
encourage these dear brethren in thefr forward movement ? Let us
think of Corisco, our special care, with its 200 conversions last year
and its unlimited prospects eastward, and while we double our
prayers and sympathy, let us add a |5,coo or |io,ooo to our gifts
in view of this, our Synod s unexampled opportunity, making the
total $120,000 as Elder Rankin suggests, the tenth of the Assem-
bly's estimate for the year.
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RESOLUTIONS.
1. That we render humble thanks to God for the prosperity which
has attended our work of Foreign Missions during the past year,
and especially for the grace of giving bestowed upon His people,
which enabled the Board to report more than one million dollars
and no debt.
2. We recognize, as instrumental of these results, both the faith-
ful and self-denying labors of our brethren and sisters on the field,
and also the earnest endeavors of the oflScers and members of the
Board, of the committees of the Presbyteries, of pastors and elders,
of women's societies, and, not least, of Sabbath-schools and associa-
tions of young people, whose growing zeal and gifts we welcome as
a goodly omen for the time to come.
3. We ask for more /"r^r^r for Foreign Missions, in the closet, the
pulpit, the social meeting, the monthly concert, and for more conse-
cration of personal gifts, children and mone5\
4. With faith in Him who has helped us hitherto, we will under-
take our share in the work of raising $1,200,000 asked for by the
General Assembly for the current year ; not daunted by " hard
times" or stumbled by hindrances of Satan, but triumphing in the
conquering grace of Christ, our L,ord.
5. Believing that " the time is ripe for a forward movement, and
that it should now be undertaken, both in outfield and infield work,"
we commit ourselves to the policy of more rapid and aggressive de-
velopment at home and abroad.
6. We recommend to our churches not to forget the Mitchell
Memorial Fund for Laos.
7 We send a message of congratulation and cheer to our late Mod-
erator, the Rev. R. H. Nassau, D.D., and to our sister Presbyter}' of
Corisco in her advance into interior Africa. Considering this move-
ment a special call of God to the churches of our Synod, we pledge
ourselves to hold our hands up in supplication and to hold them out
in sympathy and generous giving while she is waging the battle at
the front.
The Sj'nod took a recess until 7:30 P. M.
Wednesday, 7:30 P. M.
The Synod re-assembled and engaged in devotional exercises,
and listened to an address by Mr. Robert E. Speer upon Foreign
Missions.
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There was a collection of ojBFerings for Home Missions and
Foreign Missions, amounting to $109.87.
The Synod adjourned to meet on Thursday, at 9 o'clock A. M.
The session closed with prayer and the doxology.
Thursday, October 19th.
The Synod met at 9 o'clock A. M., pursuant to adjournment,
and a half-hour was spent in devotional services.
The minutes of Wednesday's sessions were read, and the
record, as amended, was approved.
The Judicial Committee reported that nothing had been pre-
sented requiring its attention, and it was discharged.
The Permanent Committee on Systematic Beneficence re-
ported that it had chosen Rev. Robert A. Bryant as Chairman,
and at its recommendation the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the Synod directs the attention of all our pastors
and elders to the Resolution 3, on page 122, G. A. Minutes, 1893,
relative to the subject of a tentative apportionment among the
various churches and Presbyteries of the contributions needed by
our Church Boards, arranged by the Assembly's Committee on
Systematic Beneficence, and set forth and explained on pages 349-
355 •
The following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That Synod appoint a new Permanent Committee, to
be called the Committee on Young People's Societies, the object of
which shall be, in connection with the Presbyteries and sessions,
to aid and direct the Young People's Societies of our churches, to
promote unity of aim and harmony of action, to collect all data of
these societies and report a summary of the same to Synod, and
generally to do all possible to excite a deeper interest in the noble
and continued successes of our young people.
Resolved, That the attention of all our Presbyteries be called to
Ihe very great advantage of a Presbyterial Committee on Young
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People's Societies, as a means of furthering S3modical co-operation
and Presbyterial oversight of this grand work, and suggest that
Presbj'teries proceed to form such a Committee as soon as the way
be clear.
Resolved, That, in order to secure the objects above mentioned,
the Committee be composed of the Chairmen of the Presbyterial
Committees on Young People's Societies.
Under these resolutions, the Moderator named Rev. Hugh
B. MacCauley as the Chairman of the Synod's Committee.
The Permanent Committee on Temperance presented its
report. This was accepted, and the recommendations were
considered seriatim, and adopted as follows :
1. That we urge ministers to preach more frequently against the
awful evils of intemperance.
2. That we urge the sessions of those churches that have failed
to comply with the Assembly's recommendations, to secure temper-
ance instruction in our Sabbath-schools.
3. That we will hail with joy the utter destruction of the liquor
trafl&c.
4. That we condemn most heartily the law appointing Excise
Commissioners for counties, and thereby taking away the power of
cities and communities to effect the prohibition of the liquor traffic
in their midst, and we will most earnestly strive to secure the repeal
of that law and the enactment of laws in the interest of local
option.
5. That the following persons be elected members of the Inter-
denominational Church Commission on Temperance, viz. : Rev. B.
S. Everitt, Rev. Robert Aikman, D.D., Rev. A Erdman, D.D., Rev.
John Woodbridge, D.D., Rev W. E. Honeyman, Elders J. Y. Foster,
J. R. Bennett and H. E Simmons
The following were added to the Permanent Committee on
Temperance : Rev. Joseph M. McNulty, D.D., Rev. Titus E.
Davis, Rev. Charles D. Shaw, D.D., Rev. Thomas Carter, Rev.
William V. lyouderbough.
The Committee on the Minutes of the General Assembly
reported that it found nothing requiring the action of S^^nod.
The records of the Presbyteries of Monmouth, Morris and
Orange, Newark, New Brunswick, Newton, West Jersey, were
approved.
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Rev. Duncan J. McMillan, D.D., was heard concerning the
work of Home Missions.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Sabbath Observ-
ance was presented and accepted, and its recommendations
were adopted, as follows :
A brief survey of the observance of the Sabbath within the
bounds of this Synod presents the encouraging fact that in many
localities efforts have been made, and with commendable results, to
secure an orderly Sabbath, and to prevent a defiant violation of our
Sunday laws.
The Barbers' Association of Camden recently discussed the ques-
tion of Sunday opening. A number of the barbers desired to open,
but, by an overwhelming vote, it was decided that should any of the
barbers attempt to open tor business on Sunday they would be
promptly prosecuted, and a committee of three for each ward was
appointed to watch, and report any violation of the Sunday law. A
number of offenders, on complaint of this association, have been
brought before the court.
In our last report reference was made to the Egg Harbor Agricul-
tural Fair, which for several years had continued over Sunday-, and
turned the day into a scene of disorder and dissipation. This year
the fair has been omitted. We believe this has been largely' due to
the declaration of the county prosecutor made last year, "that he
would take measures next season to prevent a recurrence of the
scenes of last Sunday and to-day."
In Atlantic City, which has had an unenviable notoriety for Sab-
bath desecration, the places of amusement are closed on Sunday.
The proprietors of some of the largest of these announced that they
would open on a certain Sunday. Notice was promptly served upon
them that if they did they would be immediately arrested and im-
prisoned for a hearing put off until Monday. They were informed
that the proper officials would be in the Recorder's office on Sunday
morning to attend at once to their case on their arrest by special
officers detailed for the purpose. This prompt and decided action
prevetited the opening of those places of amusement. The course
of these civil authorities deserves high praise, and they have set an
example which should be imitated in all parts of our State. The
only vendors who absolutely close their places of business on Sun-
day along the boardwalk are two Japanese merchants. They are
Christian men, and by their example put to shame many who call
themselves Christians.
In Elizabeth a real estate agent advertised a sale of land, with
free lunch and sacred concert, to take place on Sunday. The Ma3'or
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arrested all the parties, and they were fined. A German parade on
Sunday was prevented. Several saloon-keepers have been heavily
fined for breaking Sunday laws. The churches are united in sus-
taining the Mayor in this course.
At the September term of the Hudson County Court, Judge
Lippincott in vigorous language charged the Grand Jury to indict
any one habitually selling intoxicating liquors on Sunday.
In Trenton, Sabbath desecration appears to be on the increase.
During the last summer so called " Sacred Concerts " have been
held at Broad Street Park. On Morris Island there have been
balloon ascensions, theatrical performances, and similar attractions
on Sunday. To these large crowds have been drawn. And facili-
ties for reaching the Island have been afforded by a steamer, which
was run in connection with the electric railway. It would seem
that the religious sentiment of that city ought to prevent these
modes of abusing the Lord's day.
In the other cities of the State, the condition of Sabbath observ-
ance seems to be no better and no worse.
These facts thus presented furnish encouragement to believe that
we may have the day of rest more generally observed if the people
and the civil authorities in each locality will do that which lies
within their reach. The awakening in the public mind on the side
of Sabbath observance should be converted into eflficient action, to
secure a better observance of the Sunday laws
The Committee offer the following resolutions :
First. Synod urges individuals and churches to maintain a
watch over their own neighborhoods, and, by the use of all proper
measures, to prevent or remove such modes of Sabbath desecration
as may exist.
Second. General Assembly last May adopted the following reso-
lution :
" We call the attention of our churches to the efforts now in pro-
gress for the formation of associations, the design of which is to
protect the weekly day of rest. We believe that the widespread
interest now taken in this question furnishes a favorable oppor-
tunity for the affiliation of the friends of the Lord's day into as.so-
ciations that can render most efficient service in protecting the
Sabbath against all invasions."
In this State, such an Association has existed for nearly twenty
years— "The New Jersey Sabbath Union." The object of this
Union has been approved by former Synods. This Synod at this
time desires to recognize the importance of this Association, and
earnestly to commend it to our churches for their co-operation and
pecuniary help.
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The minutes of the Presbytery of Jersey City were approved,
with the following exceptions :
1. To the records on pages 232, 267 and 272, which make mention
of commissions appointed to ordain ; ordination being, in the judg-
ment of Synod, a prerogative of Presbytery itself, which, according
to our Book of Discipline, cannot be delegated to a committee or a
commission.
2. To the record on page 241, from which it appears that Presby-
tery authorized the session of the church at Rutherford to disband
the church at Avondale, which can be constitutionally done only by
Presbytery itself.
3. To the failure of the record on page 277 to state definitely what
it was in the action of pastor and people alike which was " irregu-
lar," but which, in the judgment of Presbj'tery, did not preclude a
dissolution of the pastoral relation. The minutes of the Presbytery
should have been suflBciently full and clear for Synod to judge
whether the action of Presbytery was constitutional and wise in the
case.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Sabbath-school
Work was presented and accepted, and the resolutions proposed
were adopted. Elder Palmer Campbell, of the Presbytery of
Jersey City, was elected a member of the Committee in place
of Elder John B. Pudney, and Elder James J. Reeves in place
of Elder Franklin Dye. The report is as follows :
The statistical reports show a slight increase in the number of
schools in Synod, but they also indicate a considerable falling off in
the membership and average attendance. Your Committee believe
that this decrease must be due to clerical errors or more careful re-
vision of the rolls. The Committee calls upon Presbyterial chair-
men to endeavor to secure more accurate reports.
The benevolent offerings for the year show an increase over any
previous year. This, too, was the case last year. According to the
reports, the schools gave to the Board of Sabbath-school Work
$4,037 ; the other Boards received $16,413 ; while to other benevo-
lences the contributions were $15,702 ; the total amount for benevo-
lence, as above, is $36,182. The average offering per Sabbath-school
member, for the Synod, is 57 cents ; the average last year was 53
cents ; the preceding year it was 52 cents.
The average offering for benevolence per Sabbath-school member
by Presbyteries was as follows :
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1893 1892
Morris and Orange $081 |o 78
Elizabeth 80 71
West Jersey 69 50
Newark 66 60
Monmouth 53 44
Jersey City 43 46
Newton 2^1 3^
New Brunswick 32 32
The Committee last year requested information upon what is
being done in the schools of Synod in the matter of systematic
giving. Responses came from a number of sources, but the work
will have to be continued for another year. It is evident to your
Committee that the schools following some system of giving to the
Boards, and those that impart information with reference to the
objects for which they give, make the best records.
Reference w-as made last year to a number of schools in which a
system was followed with most gratifying results. These Sabbath-
schools report another year of success along this line. This year
the average offering per member for benevolence in these schools
varies from $1.55 to $3.00 ; while the average for the Synod is %'i 57.
Many other schools make similar!}' good showings.
The mission work of the Board has beea prospered during the
year. The receipts from all sources were $164,890, including the
balance from last year. The churches gave more this year than last
by $[o, 000, while the schools remained at the $43,000 mark. The
missionaries of the Board organized 866 schools, and one-third as
many more were re-organized. The organization and the re-organi-
zation of these Sabbath-schools may seem an easy and at the same
time an ephemeral work, but when we realize that into these new
schools of the Board were gathered last year seventy-five per cent,
as many members as are to be found in our Synod, it is no small
achievement, be it for a longer or a shorter period.
Your Committee would also call attention to the important phase
of Sabbath-school work known as the Home Department Recog-
nizing that large portions of the average congregations are unable
to attend the regular services of the Sabbath-school, it is highl}' im-
portant that this inability should not prevent a methodical study
of the Word of God in the home. The aged, the infirm, and those
burdened with household cares are enabled by the Home Depart-
ment to unite with the church school in the regular and diligent
study of God's Word.
The Committee offers the following recommendations :
Resolved, That the Committee continue their inquiry into the
methods of giving employed in the Sabbath-schools and give a
summary at the next meeting of Synod.
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Minutes of the Synod of New Jersey.
Oct.,
Resolved, That S3mod call the attention of all our sessions to the
very great need of sessional oversight and direction in this matter,
to the end that some plan of systematic giving be introduced and
operated in the Sabbath-schools.
Resolved, That Synod remind the sessions and Sabbath-schools
of the quarterly missionary Sabbaths, suggestive of missionary and
benevolent operations, as being most favorable seasons for present-
ing the needs of the Lord's work and encouragements thereof, and
for receiving additional offerings for the support of the same.
The report of the Committee on Work among Foreign Pop-
ulations was presen-t^d and accepted, and its recommendations
were adopted.
The report is as follows :
Work among the foreigners who, in such large numbers, are find-
ing homes within our bounds, is of two kinds, viz.: Such as is
done in regularly organized churches and such as is done among
people as yet in no way connected with the church of our fathers.
There are in connection with the Synod eighteen German churches,
with a membership of 2,017 ^.nd a Sabbath-school membership of
3.520.
Presbytery. Locality
I Elizabeth, .
Elizabeth, 3 .; Rahway, . .
I Maurer, . . .
f Passaic, . . .
Paterson, First,
Paterson, Broad
i Carlstadt, . .
Monmouth, i Sayreville, . .
f Orange, First,
Orange Valley,
Pleasant Vallev
I Myersville, . .
f Newark, First,
^T 1 , ; Newark, Second,
Newark, 4 ' , • ,
Jersey Cit}', 4
Morris and Orange, 4.
vay
West Jersey, 2
Newark, Third,
i Bloomfield, .
f Atlantic City,
I Liberty Park, Camden,
S. S. Mem-
Communicants.
bership
180
325
64
80
30
41
38
88
80
300
126
235
70
182
81
145
no
166
no
147
82
55
75
6d
305
796
219
268
175
249
150
200
58
lOO
64
83
2,017
3.520
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The opportunity for successful evangelistic work among the
thousands of Germans congregated in our cities is such as should
arouse our enthusiasm and stimulate our liberality in an augment-
ing degree.
Our German Theological School, which has furnished fifteen of
our eighteen German churches with pastors, is making steady and
encouraging progress. The greater number of her graduates are now
drawn to fields outside of our bounds, though, as will scarcely be
denied, we have still work for many of them if we only possessed
a more aggressive spirit and adequate funds.
The experiment, now in progress, of receiving Bohemian and
Italian students and candidates from other foreign nationalities into
the German Theological School is cumbered with some embarrass-
ments, especially in the lack of funds for this special purpose.
Nevertheless, in the judgment of your Committee, the effort to
raise up a ministry suited to these nationalities is worthy of en-
couragement and support.
There is one Italian church in Newark, having a membership of
114, and loi pupils in its Sabbath-school
Of mission work among our fellow-citizens of foreign birth the
Synod has just reason to be proud. The Presbytery of Monmouth
has a very interesting mission work in progress among the Ger-
mans at South River. The success among the Italians in Newark,
in Orange, in Orange Valley and in Hammonton is quite remark-
able, and merits the warm and enthusiastic support of Synod. To
the mission in Hammonton, Synod last year appropriated |200,
which has proved, as we think, a judicious investment. An Italian
is employed who holds religious services and has charge of two
Sabbath-schools, as well as a day and night school. He has also
visited the Italians in Vineland and Mays Landing.
Mission work has also been carried on among the Slavs in
Passaic with results which encourage its continuance with increased
energy.
Last winter an educated Christian Russian Jew was employed to
visit his countrymen in Atlantic and Cape May counties, especially
at the Baruonde Hirsch settlements in Mizpah and Woodbine. He
met a varying reception— sometimes violent opposition, sometimes
great kindness. He distributed Gospel tracts and copies of the New
Testament in the Hebrew language. A condensed account of his
work was published in the New York Evangelist of March 9th,
1893. A Mission Band at Absecon and the ladies of East Orange
have made special contributions to the work among Hebrews and
Italians.
Your Committee recommends the adoption of the following reso-
lutions : '
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I. That we urge Presbyteries and churches to adopt all honorable
and feasible means of enlarging their contributions and multiplying
the agencies for effective mission work among our fellow-citizens of
foreign birth, securing, if possible, the co-operation of Woman's
Home Missionary Societies, Christian Endeavorers and other organi-
zations.
2 That Synod warmly commends the Presbyteries which have
devised and prosecuted efforts along this line which is so manifestly
in accord with the spirit of the Master.
3. The Synod warmly commends the German Theological School
at Bloomfield and urges its churches to bear in mind that the in-
creased patronage it is receiving calls for and encourages more
liberal contributions to its support in order that it may be fully
equipped for the most successful work attainable.
Rev. George Swain, D.D., reported that he had borne to the
Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church the salutations
of the Synod, and that these had been received with most
cordial courtesy.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Unemployed
Ministers and Vacant Churches was presented and accepted,
and its recommendation was adopted. The report is as fol-
lows :
The last report of this Committee called attention to the chaotic
condition of this whole matter of vacant churches and unemployed
ministers so far as Presbyterial oversight was concerned, and urged
the most careful consideration of the scheme of vacancy and supply
adjustment which was then in overture to the Presbyteries. We
have to report to-day the rejection of the overture by a vote as
follows :
Presbyteries voting in the aflSrmative, 100.
Presbyteries voting in the affirmative with conditions, 4.
Presbyteries voting in the negative, 86.
Presbyteries not voting, 8.
The constitutional majority being one hundred and eleven, the
General Assembly declared that the overture was not adopted.
It is interesting to note that six overtures were received by the
last Assembly on this subject, but as they were doubtless more or
less changes or modifications of the overture that was defeated, the
Committee on Bills and Overtures recommended that action at this
time was inopportune.
It will be observed that except in the wisdom gathered from the
agitation of this important matter for the last five or six years, we
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are practically back in the unsatisfactory condition which had pre-
vailed since the adoption of the law of 1881 ; a law which evidently
did not commend itself to the practical acceptance of the church.
While your Committee regard the matter of the relation of the
unemployed minister and the vacant church as in a deplorable
condition from the standpoint of Presbyterial oversight, still in
view of the absorbing interest which attaches to the consideration
of revision and other matters, we do not deem the present an oppor-
tune time for the presentation of new schemes calculated to remedy
the evils We would advise, however, that in order to the modifi-
cation of these evils Presbyteries exercise a wise discretion in
securing and retaining the closest possible supervision of their
vacant churches and unemployed ministers. That in order to
this, they select their wisest and most influential brethren for their
Committee on Vacant Churches and Unemployed Ministers and
seek in every way to magnify this Committee's work in the estima-
tion of the churches concerned.
Your Committee would recommend to Synod to call the attention
of Presbyteries to a matter which has already been proposed in one of
them, viz., the appointment of a standing committee which shall be
a kind of confidential advisory board, and shall hold, in a sense, a
paternal relation to the pastors and churches in the Presbytery ; a
committee which may be consulted where matters of difference arise
in the churches, and who may advise to such courses as will tend to
promote peace and harmony. The functions of this committee
shall be merely advisory, and its principal and all-absorbing pur-
pose shall be to render stable and permanent that important order
of the Church's polity, the pastorate, and thus reduce to a minimum
the number of vacant churches and unemployed ministers.
The following statistical tables, showing the status of ministers
and churches of the Synod have been compiled from the reports to
the last General Assembly :
Whole number of ministers, 399
Of which there are —
Pastors, 225
Stated supplies 26
Without charge, 34
Evangelists, 17
Honorably retired 15
Variously employed,* 82
399
Whole number of churches, 307
* Professors, 19 ; foreign missionaries, i6 ; pastors elect, 8 ; chapel missionaries, 7 ; presidents,
secretaries, principals, teachers, &c., 32.
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Of which there are with —
Pastors, 233
Stated supplies, 36
Vacant, 26
Pastors elect, 12
307
There are 23 licentiates and 97 candidates for the ministry.
The report of the Special Committee on the Endowment of
the German Theological Seminary was presented as follows :
Since the Synod's "Committee was appointed the following
amounts have been contributed or subscribed in valid subscriptions :
Three Presbyteries have contributed more than the amount ap-
portioned, viz :
Presbytery of Newark $9,083
Presbytery of Morris and Orange, 3,75i
Presbytery of Monmouth, 416
Five Presbyteries have contributed less than the amount appor-
tioned, viz :
Presbytery of Elizabeth, I1.165
Presbj'tery of Jersey City, 480
Presbytery of West Jersey, 69
Presbytery of Newton, 67
Presbytery of New Brunswick,* 60
$15,091
The Presbytery of Newark has largely exceeded its amount, but
deducting one half from the Newark contribution, the amount orig-
inally suggested ($10,000) has been secured. The Committee there-
fore report their work accomplished and request to be discharged.
They wish, however, to say that the needs of the institution are
greatly increased, and the enormous increase of our foreign immi-
gration creates an enlarged demand for its services. The seminary
is therefore now seeking a much larger addition to its endowment
than that proposed by this Committee, and commends itself anew
to the confidence and large generosity of our Christian benefactors.
The Committee was discharged with thanks.
*T\vo persons in the Presbytery of New Brunswick contributed specially $750, desiring the
Treasurer to use the gifts for endowment or for current expenses, as might be considered the
better. The gifts were placed by the Treasurer in the current accounts.
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The report of the Custodians of Historical Material was read*
and the Committee on Historial Materials presented its report,
which was accepted and is as follows :
Without repeating the report of last year, printed in the Appendix,
though not submitted to Synod, your Committee beg leave to call
the attention of those who have not read it to the very important
statements therein contained concerning the existence and the de-
positories of the materials for the history of the Synod, and renew
their appeal for help to discover and bring forth from their hiding
places the first volume of the Minutes of the Presbytery of Morris
County prior to 1797, also the histories of the Presbytery of New
Brunswick and of the Presbytery of New York, which were sub-
mitted to the General Assemblies of 1801 and 1804, respectively
The Custodians have faithfully reported during the last two years
valuable additions to Synod's collections, of which it is not expe-
dient to speak minutely except in one instance.
The fifty-five type-written pages of the minutes of the Presbytery
of Abington, from 1752 to 1758, give important facts respecting the
southern territory of this Synod and of the labors of some of the
men of the Log College. In 1751 a number of the Presbytery of
New Brunswick petitioned to be erected into a distinct Presbytery.
Accordingly, the Synod of New York did erect that part of the said
Presbytery that live in Pennsylvania, together with those who live
in New Jerse}' to the southward of Philadelphia, bordering upon
Delaware, into a distinct Presbytery, by the name of the Presbytery
of Abington. (See Records of Presbyterian Church, 246.)
This Presbytery was organized at the appointed time, May 20th,
1752, and consisted of Gilbert Tennent, Richard Treat, Charles
Beatty, Daniel Lawrence, John Campbell and Benjamin Chestnut,
and Mr. John Todd, absent on a mission in Virginia. Five ruling
elders were present, viz., David Chambers, William Adams, John
Wigton, Thomas Armstrong and Hugh Hamilton. This Presbytery
diligently appointed supplies for vacancies at Cape May, Piles-
grove, Penns Neck, Woodbury, Timber Creek and frequently to
Egg Harbor.
Nehemiah Greenman, a licentiate of New York Presbytery, and
educated at the expense of David Brainerd, was ordained and
installed pastor of Pilesgrove Church. This Presbytery also in-
stalled Rev. Daniel Lawrence over Cape May, and William Ramsey
pastor over Fairfield.
At the reunion of the two Synods in 1758 the Presbytery of Abing-
ton was merged in that of Philadelphia, which was reconstructed
with thirteen ministers, of whom five appear to have labored among
*See Appendix.
44 Minutes op the Synod of New Jersey. Oct.,
the nine churches of West Jersey. On page 75 of the original min-
utes is the signature of Wm. Tennent, Moderator of the Synod of
New York in 1756.
During the present synodical year one highl}' esteemed member
of this Committee, the Rev. William T. Findley, D D., has been
removed from his earthly labors.
It is worthy of consideration whether it may now be expedient to
reorganize this Committee and to increase the number, so that
each Presbytery in the State shall have a representative on the Com-
mittee, and each member of the Committee shall feel his personal
responsibility to gather -for preservation the historic material of his
own Presbytery.
For your historical material, increasing in quantity and in value
every year, your Committee have a deep and growing conviction
that better provision should be made for its preservation, and would
be exceedingly happy if Synod would instruct the custodians to
procure a more suitable book-case and authorize your Treasurer to
pay for the same.
The following resolutions were adopted^
Resolved, That the Custodians be authorized to procure a more
suitable book-case for the preservation of Synod's historical mater-
ials and that the Treasurer of the Synod be authorized to pay for the
same.
Resolved, That the Standing Committee on Historical Materials
be re-organized and enlarged so as to consist of one member from
each of the Presbyteries of Synod, as follows :
Rev. Allen H. Brown, Rev. Henry C. Cameron, D.D., Rev. David
R. Frazer, D.D., Rev. Charles Herr, D.D., Rev. John C Clyde, D.D.,
Rev. William F. Whitaker, Rev. Eben B. Cobb, Rev. R. Hamill
Nassau, D D., Elder James Steen.
The report of the Finance Committee was presented as
follows :
The Finance Committee report that they have examined the ac-
counts of the Treasurer of Synod and find them correct. They
report the balance on hand September 30th, 1893, to be $624.55.
Your Committee recommend the following apportionments to
Presbyteries for the ensuing year :
Elizabeth, $60 00
Jersey City, 50 00
Monmouth, 45 00
Morris and Orange, 60 00
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Newark, $60 co
New Brunswick, 60 00
Newton, 45 00
West Jersey, 50 cx)
$430 00
Which is the same as last year, with the exception of Monmouth,
which by mistake overpaid its apportionment to the amount of five
dollars last year.
The Committee are pleased to state that the recommendation
made by the Committee of last year, " that the Presbyteries be re-
quested to pay to the Treasurer of Synod their apportionments
before the end of the fi-?cal year, ending September 30th," has been
complied with and we recommend the continuance of this practice.
The accounts and report of the Treasurer for Synodical Home
Missions, and of the Treasurer of the Trustees of Synod, have also
been examined and found correct.
Your Committee express their high appreciation of the services of
these Treasurers, and the careful and efficient manner in which
their accounts have been kept.*
The minutes of the Presbytery of Corisco were approved.
Trenton was chosen as the place of the next meeting.
The Synod appropriated twenty dollars for the use of the
Permanent Committee on Foreign Missions in printing and
circulating the circular letter reported yesterday.
The following supplementary report of the Permanent Com-
mittee on Synodical Home Missions was presented and adopted :
The Committee on Synodical Home Missions beg leave to report —
I. That they have received and examined the recommendations
of the Presbytery of Newark concerning the plan for Synodical
Home Missions, referred to them by Synod, said recommendations
being as follows :
(i) We recommend that Sec. V, par. 3, of the Plan for Synodical
Home Missions, be amended to read :
" The Presbyterial Committee on Home Missions shall have per-
sonal conference with the elders of the aid-receiving churches before
recommending them to Presbytery. The Presbytery shall receive
from the elders of the aid receiving churches, through the Synodical
Home Mission Committee, an annual financial report, stating —
*For ihe reports see Appendix.
46 Minutes op the Synod of New Jersey. Oct.,
" {a) The total membership
" {b) The number of contributing members.
" {c) The amount paid by the church to the pastor.
' {d) The fact that a thorough canvass of the congregation has been
made within the year
" {e) The method or methods of raising the funds of the church."
(2) We recommend that each Presbytery in granting aid to weak
churches urge (or insist on) the introduction of the weekly envelope
system as the most approved method of managing church, finances.
(3) We recommend that a certain amount be appropriated in each
Presbytery to send "Jhe Christian Steward" to every family in
each aid-receiving church.
The Committee do not deem it expedient to recommend the incor-
poration of this amendment into the Plan, but would recommend to
Presbyteries the adoption of such parts thereof as they may deem
expedient.
II. That they have received the reports of the Woman's Synodical
Society of Home Missions and recommend action thereon as follows:
We find the report of the Woman's Society for Home Missions in
order, and we express our very great satisfaction not only with the
work done but with the spirit of devotion so clearly and fully shown
in the doing of it.
In a supplementary report the Permanent Committee on
Foreign Missions recommended the following, which was
adopted :
Acknowledging the receipt of the Sixteenth Annual Report, and
the Minutes of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's
Synodical Society for Foreign Missions, the Synod expresses its
continued appreciation of the spirituality, zeal and efficiency of our
Woman's Work.
The Stated Clerk was authorized to print seventy-five copies
each of the reports on Foreign and Home Missions for the use
of the respective Societies
Rule XVI was amended so as to read :
The Committee on Systematic Beneficence shall co-operate with
the Stated Clerk and the Committee of Arrangements in selecting
topics and securing speakers to address the Synod upon the subjects
of Benevolence and Church Work, and the evening session of the
second day of the meeting of Synod shall be devoted exclusively to
popular addresses, by Secretaries of Boards or others.
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The Statistical Reports were ordered printed.
The thanks of the Synod were extended to the Pastor, Ses
sion and Trustees of the First Church of Bridge ton, for their
cordial welcome and for the careful, convenient and efficient
arrangements made for the entertainment of vSynod ; to the
people of the churches and the citizens of Bridgeton for their
kindly hospitality ; to the choir of the First Church for the
enjoyable music in our public worship, and to the press for the
excellent reports of our sessions.
The bill of the janitor was ordered paid.
The Permanent Clerk reported that 103 Ministers, 60 Ruling
Elders and 10 Corresponding Members had been in attendance,
and that the following members, having given satisfactory
reasons, had been excused for absence
FROM THE PRESENT MEETING :
^//2'rt'(5<?///.— Ministers, George Buckle, John T. Kerr, I. Alstyne
Blauvelt, D.D , John C Egbert, D.D.
Jersey City — Ministers, Edwin A. Bulkley, D.D., Philo F. Leavens,
D D , Charles Herr, D.D.
Monmouth — Ministers, Thaddeus Wilson, D.D., Frank Chandler,
D.D., Rufus Taylor. D.D., S. Edward Young, Thomas Tyack, D.D.,
H. W. Haring, Frank R. Symmes, N. D. Hynson, Joseph K Freed.
Morris and Orajige -Minister, Theodore F. White. D.D.
Newark — Ministers, Orville Reed, Julius H. Wolff, William F.
Junkin, D.D., Henry C. Vanderbeek.
New Brunswick — M\n\'s\.&xs, John T. DufEeld, D.D., Amzi L.
Armstrong, George S. Mott, D.D., Henry C. Cameron, D.D.,
Horace D. Sassaman, O Howell Hazard, John B Kugler, Joseph
H. Dulles, Daniel R. Foster, Horace G. Hinsdale, D.D., Chalmers
Martin.
iV^Z£//<?«— Ministers, E. Clarke Cline, Charles D. Nott, D.D.
West Jersey— yi\.n\?X.Qxs, Edward Dillon, J. Baillie Adams, Benja-
min P. Johnson ; Elders, August Barber, W. H Dillon,
AFTER WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
.£"//>ato/i— Minister, J. Garland Hamner, D.D.
Monmouth — Elder, James Hemphill.
Morris and Orajige—'i^l.inisX.tv, Stanley White ; Elders, H. H.
Ward, Charles A. Lindsley.
48 Minutes of the Synod of New Jersey. Oct.,
Newark— M\ri\s\.^xs, Charles T. Haley, D.D., Alex H. Young, D.D.
New Brunswick — Elder, Franklin Dye.
West /(^r^^j— Ministers, Frederic R. Brace, Ph.D., William H.
Johns, J. C. Russell ; Elders, R. B. Stevenson, I. C. Stevenson.
AFTER WEDNESDAY EVENING.
y1/(?«wo?///i— Ministers, Henry G Smith, Alfred H. Dashiell, D.D.,
N. J. Sproul ; Elders, J. C. Magee, Jacob Wilson, J. L. Whitaker,
M D., Andrew Perrine, H. S. Simons, Thomas Campbell.
Mortis and Orange— ^\d,&x, Aaron Carter.
iWay^r/t— Minister, "L. Nelson Hollifield, D.D.
New Brunswick — Ministers, Frank B. Everitt, James B. Clark,
Samuel A. Harlow ; Elders, David S Bellis, Manuel Runyon, John
B. VanDoren.
Newton — Minister, Isaac H. Condit ; Elder, A. C. Smith.
West /^r.y^— Ministers, J. Howard O'Brien, William Bannard,
D D., A. K. Staiger ; Elder, Theophilus Trenchard.
AFTER THURSDAY NOON.
Elizabeth — Ministers, William E. Honeyman, John A. Liggett,
D.D., William R Richards. D.D., James G. Mason, D.D., William
Hoppaugh, Everard Kempshall, D.D.; Elders, Charles Rommell,
Spencer C. Blake.
Jersey G/y— Minister, Charles D. Shaw, D.D, ; Elder, T. W. Ran-
dall.
Monmojith — Ministers, Henry R. Hall, William L. Cunningham,
D.D., Charles Everett ; Elder, W. H. Thomas.
Morris arid Ora?tge — Ministers, Henry F. Hickok, D.D , John R.
Fisher, Edward P. Gardner, Samuel J. McClenaghan; Elders, Rich-
ard Purdue, Hudson Muchmore, Enoch Hammond.
Newark — Ministers, Charles E. Knox, D.D., Hugh B. MacCauley;
Elder, A. L. Runyon.
New Brjmswick—lAmisters, William W. Knox, William H. Fil-
son, William M. Wells, Samuel J. Milliken.
Newto?i— Ministers, S. Nye Hutchison, William Thomson; Elders,
W. W. Shipman, D. W. Ribble.
West Jersey — Minister, David Stevenson, D.D.
The roll was called, and the following members were found
absent without excuse :
Elizabeth— Mimstors, William A. Alexander, Charles E. Herring;
Elder, Joseph Cross.
Jersey City — Minister, George Sluter,
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Morris and Orange— Mimster, Washington A. Hooper.
New Brunswick — Ministers, Wm. S. Voorhies, David T, Smyth;
Elders, Edw. B. Holcombe, George D. Scudder, U. T. Scudder,
Pierson B Hunt.
West /(jr^O'— Ministers, Clearfield Park, E. A. McLaur3^ John
Turner ; Elders, B. F. Harding, C. S. Padgett, Andrew Abels, R. F.
Bancroft, Eugene Bostwick, Smith Sheppard, J. W. Marcy, Joseph
ly. Richmond.
The minutes of the day were read, and the record was ap-
proved.
The Synod adjourned to meet on the third Tuesda}^ of
October, 1894, in Trenton, the place of meeting and the hour
to be determined and advertised bj^ the Committee of Arrange-
ments.
The session closed with prayer and the benediction.
WILLIAM F. WHITAKER,
Recordi7ig Clerk.
WALTER A. BROOKS,
Stated Clerk.
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APPENDIX.
I.— NARRATIVE OF THE STATE OF RELIGION IN
THE SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR
ENDING OCTOBER isT, 1893.
The records of the Presbyteries and the minutes of the General
Assembly furnish material for a very encouraging report.
THE CHURCH SERVICES.
Regular services have been held in all the churches of the Sj'nod
throughout the year, the only exceptions being the churches at
Sterling, Mine Hill and Berkshire Vallej' in the Presbytery of
Morris and Orange.
All the Presbyteries make encouraging reports concerning the
attendance at Divine service. It is gratifying to note that onh* one
Presbytery indicates a falling off of attendance at the evening
service. The percentage of children in the congregation, while
not large, is not discouraging.
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
In addition to the home schools many of the churches maintain
missions, and the most encouraging reports come from all the Pres-
byteries concerning the Sabbath-school work. It is to be noticed,
however, that only one child out of six is in full membership of the
church, while only one out of four is recorded as having been bap-
tized. During the year one thousand six hundred and eleven
scholars were added to the church ; the Presbytery of Newark re-
ceived three hundred and twenty-eight ; the Presbytery of New
Brunswick standing next with two hundred and sixty-six, and the
Presbytery of Elizabeth being third with two hundred and fifty-
three.
About two-thirds of the schools have taught to them the Shorter
Catechism, and a somewhat larger percentage use the Westminster
Lesson Helps. The Sunday-schools contributed last year to the
Sabbath-school work of the Presbyterian Board four thousand and
thirty-seven dollars, a decrease of one thousand three hundred and
52 Narrative. Oct.,
seven dollars over the previous 3-ear. To the other Boards of the
church they contributed sixteen thousand four hundred and forty-
three dollars, an increase of one thousand three hundred and nine
dollars, showing- that the amount lost to the Sabbath-school work
of the Presbyterian Board was turned to the use of the other church
Boards.
PRAYER-MEETING.
The social meetings for worship are numerous, there being re-
ported, in addition to the weeklj^ prayer-meeting, Christian En-
deavor meetings, Bro,therhood meetings, Mission Bands, Women's
Missionary meetings. Cottage prayer-meetings and Pastor's Aids.
The interest in all these meetings is well sustained, only two Pres-
byteries reporting to the contrary.
It would appear from the records that only six churches in the
Synod fail to maintain interest in these devotional services.
In all the Presbyteries monthly services are maintained in the
interest of missions.
FAMILY WORSHIP.
All the Presbyteries report with diflSdence and with more or less
discouragement on the subject of family religion. It seems clear to
3'our Committee that most of the families of our churches endeavor
to be faithful to the obligation of presenting their children for bap-
tism We would, however, call attention to che estimate made in
the General Assembly tables that ovAy one out of four of the Sab-
bath-school scholars is baptized, and from the same report we learn
that in the whole Sj'nod two thousand and fifty infant baptisms are
recorded for the year.
The inference is that the attention of Christian parents should be
more earnestly directed to this important obligation.
It is clearly evident to your Committee that in all our Presbyteries
family worship has become a matter of history. Various explana-
tions are given to account for this neglect. The maintenance of
family worship is so vitally connected with a right spiritual life of
the people that we cannot but deplore the unmistakable evidences
of laxitj' in the matter.
It would appear from the narratives that there is a serious and
wide departure from this time-honored custom, and that it is doubt-
ful whether the people receive sufficient public and private instruc-
tion.
OFFERINGS
The reports indicate that the financial obligations of the churches
are very promptl}' met. It is to be observed that those churches
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which contribute by some systematic method show the most favor-
able returns.
The reports show increased contributions to nearly every Board
of the church ; both Home and Foreign Missions reaching above
one hundred thousand dollars, an increase of nearly four thousand
dollars to Home Missions, of over six thousand dollars to Foreign
Missions, of nearly two thousand dollars to Education, and over
five hundred dollars to Sabbath-school Work, fourteen hundred
dollars to the Board of Relief, over four hundred dollars for Aid for
Colleges. Church Erection suffered a decrease of about twelve
hundred dollars, Sustentation over four hundred dollars.
The Presbytery of Morris and Orange presented the most satis-
factory report concerning the condition of benevolence. It reports
the Church of Flanders increasing her gifts one hundred and nine
per cent ; it speaks of Madison Sabbath school Missionary Society
contributing the sum of eleven hundred dollars to missions, an
average of f^ur dollars and fifty cents per member
The church at Hanover contributed two thousand and nineteen
dollars, being the largest offering made during the one hundred and
seventy-four years of her existence.
Some provision is made for the poor of all the churches in our
Presbyteries. In some churches there seem to be no poor, and in
others they are all poor.
Nearly all the churches make grateful reference to the various
organizations for benevolent purposes. In spite of the generous in-
crease to the various objects of benevolence, an urgent call is made
upon our Synod for increased giving during the coming year.
Through our Presbyter}^ of Corisco we are vitally linked to
heathenism. This Presbytery inform us that last year their esti-
mates were cut down because of insufiiciency of funds, and they
gravely fear that the situation will be still more distressing the
coming j'ear The narrative concludes with this appeal: "We
would therefore urge upon all the members of the Presbyteries
forming the Synod that the claims of the work among the heathen
be presented frequently in all the churches, not officially, but in as
interesting and popular a manner as possible For we need both
men and money to fulfill our Saviour's parting command We
hope that next j^ear the Synod of New Jersey will have doubled its
contributions and furnished a double quota of men for the foreign
branch of our Master's work."
INCREASE OF iMEMBERSHIP.
Your Committee regret not being able to record any very marked
spiritual awakening within the bounds of the Synod. The Presby-
tery of Morris and Orange especially commends the effective work
54 Narrative. Oct.,
done by its Evangelistic Committee, and it is possible that such a
committee existing in every Presbytery vpould serve to quicken the
spiritual condition of our churches.
While no general revival has prevailed in any of our Presbyteries,
some few of our churches have held series of special services with
very encouraging results.
We have been obliged to direct much of our energy during the
past year against the iniquity enacted hy the Legislature of our
State. This and other evils have grown up thickly about us, im-
pelling lis to take a position of defence rather than aggression.
In reviewing the yeaj, while it is evident that we have very much
to be grateful for, it is yet more evident that we have had much to
humble us. May the Lord enable us from our humiliation to arise
to great and glorious victories the coming year.
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II.— NECROLOGICAL REPORT.
Presbytery of Elizabeth.
THE REV. FRANK STILES WOODRUFF
fell asleep in Jesus May 26tli, 1893. He was born on the ancestral
farm adjoining the city of Elizabeth, January 29th, 1863. His child-
hood and youth were passed amidst the blessed influences of a
devoutly Christian home. At the age of thirteen he united with
the Third Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, and from that time his
was the path of the just which, as the shining light, shineth more
and more unto the perfect day. He graduated with distinction
from the College of New Jersey in 1885, and at once accepted an
engagement as instructor in English at the Syrian Protestant
College, Beirut. At the expiration of three years he returned home
and entered the Princeton Theological Seminary, whence he gradu-
ated in the spring of 1891. It now became possible for the first time
to establish a professorship in English Language and Literature in
the Syrian Protestant College, and Mr. Woodruff was immediately
and cordially elected to fill the chair. This appointment was ac-
cording to his heart's desire, as it meant the opportunity for
regularly preaching the gospel, as well as for special study along
lines for which he had peculiar aptitude. He was ordained as an
evangelist by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, June 29th, 1891, and
in September set sail for Syria, and was ready to take up his
work at the opening of the college in October. Mr. Woodruff's
health, which had never been robust, began now to show signs of
failing, and several severe spells of sickness gave better chance for
the pulmonary affection to which he finally succumbed. After a
brave struggle he was forced to give up his work and return home,
which he reached early in May, a little more than two weeks before
his death. The end was beautiful, as the life had been. He felt the
awful mystery involved in the shattering of his life's plans, but he
knew that "better plans were being made for him." Quietly and
triumphantly he entered into rest on the 26th of May. His funeral
took place from his father's house three days later.
" Loved while on earth, not less beloved, though gone."
Presbytery of Jersey City.
THE REV. ROBERT R. THOMPSON
was a native of the State of Maine. The date of his birth was
October 17th, 1824. Early left an orphan, he was subject to the
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many privations of poverty, and struggled hard to obtain an
education. It is not known that he ever attended a college or
theological seminary, but he began to preach when quite young,
probably in the Methodist Episcopal Church. It is definitely
known that he was ordained to the ministry in 1853. Previous
to that he had served as a private soldier in the Mexican War,
for which he received a pension during the last years oi his life.
He is said to have preached at Glen Cove, lyong Island, and in
Johnstown, Pa. It is certain that on June 21st, 1859, the Sixth
Street Presbyterian Church, under the care of the Third Presby-
tery of New York, having acquired the property in First street.
New York, formerly owned and occupied by the Saviour's M.
E. Church, invited Mr. Thompson to become its stated supply.
This invitation he accepted, and continued to serve this church for
several years. The presumption is that he had previously been the
pastor of the above-named church while it was connected with the
Methodist denomination, and that, with some of his people, he
entered the Presbyterian fellowship at the time when the church
property was transferred. In 1861 he was appointed chaplain of the
Fifth New York Cavalry, and held the position until, for disability
incurred in the service, he was honorably discharged, November
I2th, 1862.
For several years he was entirely unable to preach, and was con-
istrained to follow some secular business for a livelihood. He re-
turned to the work, however, in 1871, and became pastor of the
church at Weehawken, N. J., under the care of the Presbytery of
Jersey City. The date of his installation was October loth, 1871.
In 1874 he was stated supply of the church of Oak Ridge in the
same Presbytery. After laboring for several years on this field, he
was installed as pastor of the church, which relation continued
until July ist, 189 1, when he retired from further active labor. His
health was never fully restored after the privations and exposures
of army life, and in his later years he suffered greatly from diges-
tive troubles and paralysis agitans. In consequence of these in-
firmities his work as a pastor was much hindered, though his
preaching continued earnest and most acceptable to his people to
the end.
His natural gifts were of a superior order, but lack of thorough
training put him at disadvantage in his profession. A natural diffi-
dence of temperament grew into a morbid sensitiveness in later
years, and he shrank from contact with any but a few chosen and
trusted friends. Besides his own ill health, he carried the burden
of a wife's prolonged illness, and in other respects was a man of
sorrows .
The date of his marriage is not known to the writer, nor the
number of his children. A married daughter survives him, and, at
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her home in Newark, N. J., he died in peace, March 12th, 1893. His
Christian character was unblemished and his work and influence
were abundantly fruitful. His body was interred in the churchyard
at Oak Ridge, where for seventeen years he had faithfully preached
the gospel.
Presbytery of Motwiouth .
THE REV. FREDERICK T. BROWN, D. D.,
diedatManasquan, N.J , January nth, 1893, in the seventy-first year
of his age. Dr. Brown was the son of William and Eleanor (Lyons)
Brown. He was born May i6th, 1822, at West Carlisle, Ohio. He
graduated from the College of New Jersey in the class of 1845. After
spending one year in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, he
went abroad and studied two years (1846-8) in the Reformed Semi-
nary, Geneva, Switzerland. He returned home in 1848 and took
another year at Princeton. Upon May i6th, 1848, he was licensed
by the Presbyterj' of Logansport and the same j^ear, June 13th,
ordained as an evangelist. In 1849 Dr. Brown was stated supplj' of
the First Church, Dayton, Ohio. In 1850 he became pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, Madison, Indiana, where he labored for three
years. A mission station in Cleveland, Ohio, induced him to leave
Madison in 1853. Through his labors in this field the Westminster
Presbyterian Church was organized in 1854, and in 1857 Dr. Brown
was installed as its pastor. In 1861 he was transferred from Cleve-
land to Georgetown, D. C, where he was installed as pastor of the
West Church. Called to Chicago, Central Church, in 1864, he left
Georgetown to take that charge. This he retained until 1866. His
next pastorate was in St. Paul, Minn., where he labored from
1867 to 1873. He then became agent of the Board of Education,
which position he held for two years, from 1873 to 1875. Called to
Ann Arbor, Mich., Dr. Brown resigned this agencj^ to return to the
pastorate, the work that he loved most of all. His next and last
pastoral charge was at Manasquan, N. J., where he was installed
June 29th, 1881. Here he labored until the end.
Dr. Brown was an earnest and consecrated minister of the Word.
His great interest in foreign missions is indicated in the fact that
one of his sons and two of his daughters are foreign missionaries.
For many years he was a regular correspondent of the " Presbyter-
ian," and during his pastorate at INIanasquan he edited " The Illus-
trated Christian Weekly." He also published " Letters to a Young
Christian," "Inspiration," and many sermons. He received the
degree D.D. from Lafaj-ette College.
He was married April loth, 1848, to Miss Harriet T. Little, of
Winchester, Va., who died August 5th, 1849. June nth 1850,
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lie married Miss Charlotte A. White, of Carlisle, Pa., who died July
25th, 1872.
March icth, 1875, he was married to Miss Annie Eliza Bates,
of Cherry Valley, N. Y , who survives him, as do four sons and
four daughters. One of his sons is the Rev- Paul F. Brown, of
the Lutheran Church, and another the Rev. Hubert W. Brown, a
graduate of Princeton Seminary and a missionary in Mexico City.
Two of his daughters have had charge of the Sidon Female Semi-
nary, Syria, for several years.
THE rev: WILLIAM T. PINDLEY, D.D.,
was born in West Middletown, Pa., June 2d, 1814. He graduated
from Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, in 1838. He studied
theology under his father, the Rev. Samuel Findley, D.D., and
afterwards at the Associate Reformed Theological Seminary, Alle-
ghany, Pa. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Associate
Reformed Church, Chillicothe, O., in 1843. This pastorate con-
tinued until 1855, when he accepted a call to the Presbyterian
Church, Springfield, O , where he remained four years. From this
church he was called to Xenia, O., in 1859, accepted the call and
held the pastorate there for ten years. From Xenia, O., Dr. Findley
removed to Newark, N. J., in 1869, and was installed pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church, which he faithfully served for twenty
years. In 1889 he became stated supply of the Church of Millstone,
Perrineville, N. J., at which place he died June 14th, 1893. He was
stated clerk of Newark Presbytery for sixteen years.
He was married November 22d, 1843, to Miss A. Joanna Gowdy,
of Xenia, O , who with a daughter and son survives him.
Presbytery of Morris and Orange.
THE REV. ELIAS L. BOING
was born in New York City, October 31st, 1824 He graduated
from the University of New York in the Class of 1850. His theo-
logical education was received at the Union Seminary, New York,
where he took the regular three years' course. In 1853 he was or-
dained as an evangelist and went as a missionary to the Choctaw
Indians. In this work he continued until 1855. He next preached
at Almont, Michigan, one year, from which place he was called to
Durham, N. Y. Here he was pastor for eight years, from 1856 to
1864. In the interval between 1864 and 1872 Mr. Boing was pastor
at Angelica, N. Y., missionary to the Freedmen, and agent of the
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Board of Church Erection, with his home at Rochester, N. Y. In
1872 he organized a church in Federalsburg, Md., in the service of
which he continued until 1S79 He was called to return to Durham.
N. Y., in 1S79, where he resided until 1885. In that year his work
was arrested by a stroke of apoplexy, from which, however, he re-
covered sufficiently to be removed to Green Village N. J., where he
lingered until October 27th, 1892. Had he lived four days longer he
would have passed his sixty-eighth birthday.
He was married August 30th, 1853, to Miss Anna M. Stiles, of
Newark, N. J.
THE REV. PEARCE ROGERS.
Rev. Pearce Rogers fell asleep in Jesus at Mine II ill, N. J., Janu-
ary 8th, 1893. He was born in Cornwall, England, fifty-five years
ago. His father was a laboring man and brought up his son to be
a practical miner and assayist. In his early manhood he removed
from England to Wales, where he secured a responsible position in
a gold mine. From thence he emigrated to America in 1866 with
his wife and two children. He first found employment at Scrub
Oaks mine as time-keeper. Soon afterwards he took charge of the
Mellen Mine, owned b}?^ Robert F. Orem, Sr., which position he held
with great executive ability for several years. In England and
Wales he had been a licensed exhorter connected with the Methodise
Church. When asked to assist in the Sunday-school at Scrub
Oaks, his first home in America, he gladly consented, saying " I
have found my mission." He was licensed to preach by the Pres-
bytery of Morris and Orange, and he became increasingly active
and useful in Christian work, and more and more zealous and effec-
tive in telling the story of Christ's love to the miners and others who
crowded the school-house to hear him. A church was organized
largely through his influence, and he was ordained to the ministry
and placed in charge of the new church by the same Presbytery that
had licensed him. This was in 1874 He preached also at the
Welsh Presbyterian Church of the Richard Mine, and the Berkshire
Valley Church.
Mr. Rogers was never robust, but he was endowed with an in-
tense will and strong personalit}'. His practical knowledge of mines
and miners peculiarly adapted him to the special work to which his
ministry was consecrated. He is said to have preached most inter-
esting and impressive sermons, being, however, more earnest than
rhetorical or oratorical. He was a man of deeds rather than words.
He was universally respected and esteemed. His was a strong,
heroic soul. He died with the words "Thank the Lord " upon his
lips. A wife and six children survive him.
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THE REV. ALBERT WILLIAMS
was born in Orange, N. J., April 29th, 1809. He graduated from the
College of New Jersey in the class of 1829. He entered the The-
ological Seminary at Princeton in 1830, the intervening year being
spent in teaching. He did not finish his course at the Seminary,
leaving before the close of his third year. He was ordained as an
evangelist by the Presbytery of Newark October 8th, 1834. In the
interval after leaving the Seminary until this date he ^Aas chaplain
at the Home of the Reformed, New York City. From 1834 to 1838
he filled the position of chaplain to the seamen at Mobile, Alabama.
In 1839 he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church, Clinton,
N. J., where he continued his labors until 1848. But Mr. Williams'
heart was in missionary work, and in 1849 he gladly accepted an
appointment from the Old School Board of Domestic Missions to
enter the Territory of California, the newly- acquired possession of
the United States. With him were commissioned two others, kin-
dred spirits, and this noble and brave trio were afterwards familiarly
and affectionately known as "the three W's." His companions
were the Revs. Sylvester Woodbridge and James Woods. Mr.
Woodbridge was the first to reach the field, arriving in March, 1849,
by the first Pacific Mail steamer, via Panama. Mr. Williams came
in April, by the same route, and Mr. Woods, who went around the
Cape, did not arrive till January, 1830. Mr. Woodbridge located at
Benicia, on the north side of the bay, where it was supposed the
great city of the future would find its site. Rev. James Woods
selected Stockton, the great thoroughfare to the gold-fields, as his
parish. Mr. Williams decided to locate in San Francisco. Here he
organized the first Presbyterian church and the first Protestant
church on the Pacific coast, on May 20th, 1849. It illustrates the
cosmopolitan character of the early population of California when
the fact is stated that in the six members of which that church con-
sisted, Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Chile and
China were represented. The congregation first worshiped in a
school-house, in which, also, Mr. Williams had opened the first
school in San Francisco When the congregation outgrew that
room, they worshiped for a while in the District Court-room, and
then bought the "wigwam " of a disbanded mining association and
removed it to a lot which Mr. Williams, with wise foresight, had
bought for a church. In November, 1850, a church, built for them
in New York by members of the Scotch Church, arrived in San
Francisco, and, with great rejoicing, was set up on Stockton street,
a lot more eligible than that on which their tent had been pitched.
Here Mr. Williams preached until 1854, when he returned home,
probably owing to failing health. His headquarters were Prince-
ton, N. J., until 1859, when he returned to San Francisco, and be-
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came stated supply of St. Paul's Church in that city. Here he
labored up to the year iS66, when he retired from his charge, but
not from active work. For twenty-three years from this date, till
1889, his home was in San Francisco, These were probably the
busiest years of his life. His pen, his voice, his counsel were ever
at the command of the Church, and his influence was felt in every
movement for the strengthening the stakes and lengthening the
cords of Presbyterianism on the Pacific coast. The death of Mrs.
Williams in 1888 was a shock from which Mr. Williams never recov-
ered. His heart now went out towards the home of his boyhood,
and, leaving San Francisco for the last time, he returned to his
native state and town. In West Orange he built a house overlook-
ing his birth-place, where surrounded by his books and the associa-
tions of his childhood, he quietly and patiently and busily waited
for the end. His head was as clear and his brain as active as ever,
and he devoted much time to rewriting some papers relating to the
history of California. His contributions to the religious press were
also frequent and valuable. His death occurred June 4th, 1893.
Presbytery of Newark.
THE REV. JOSIAH ADDISOX PRIEST, D.D.,
was born in Albany, N. Y., April 28th, 1822. He united with the
Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, in 1842. He took his bach-
elor's degree from Hamilton College in 1847. The Junior year,
1847-48, he studied theology in Union Seminary, N. Y. ; the Middle
and Senior he took at Auburn. He graduated in 1851, and the same
year, June 25th, he was ordained and installed at Cooperstown, N.
Y , by the Presbytery of Otsego This pastorate continued until
1855. In 1862, seven years after the first pastorate had ended. Dr.
Priest was recalled to the church of his first love, and served a
second term of two years During the interval, 1855-62, he was
pastor at Homer, N Y., and Montclair, N J.
From Cooperstown, in 1864, Dr. Priest was called to Gloversville,
N. Y., where his pastorate continued until 1868. His next charge
was at Quinc}', 111., from 1868 to 1875 From this place he was
called to Newton, N. J. Five years later, in 1880, his health gave
way, and he was obliged to \\y down his work. He traveled abroad
for a time, and so far regained his strength that in 18S4 he was able
to resume work, and accepted an invitation to the Westminister
Church Cincinnati, where he remained in active service until 1889.
Thus, for forty years Dr. Priest was in the pastorate or in other use-
ful service in the ministry. His preaching is described as "the
clear, faithful and powerful proclamation of the truth." As a
pastor and friend he was " kind and sympathetic and true, genial in
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conversation and in all social life " He made four visits to Europe,
gaining vast resources of information and illustration, of which he
made the most effective use in his ministry. He was a frequent
contributor to the religious press. He wrote with choice diction
and fine literary finish. He was made D D. by Hamilton College
in 1872.
He entered into rest March nth, 1893, at his home in Montclair,
N.J.
In 1852 he was married to Miss Frances Walker, of Cooperstown,
N. Y.
Presbytery of West Jersey.
THE REV. ALBERT WORTHINGTON
was born in Cooperstown, N. Y., September 30th, 1806. He gradu-
ated at Hamilton College in 1824, and from the Theological Seminary
at Princeton in J827 Burning with missionary zeal, Mr. Worthing-
ton chose his field of labor in what was then the frontier wilderness
of western Michigan. He was ordained as an evangelist by the
Presbytery of Detroit in 1832. Throughout the destitute fields of
Michigan he labored for ten years and planted many churches,
several of which have since become strong and influential. To the
semi-centennial of one of these, Milford, he returned two years ago,
and was the hero of the occasion. After removing from Michigan
he was pastor at Franklin, Pa. ; then labored as a missionary in
New York and Pennsylvania, and was settled in Vineland, N. J., in
i8$4 In 1869 his name appears on the roll of the Fourth Presbytery
of Philadelphia as stated supply of the church at Cedarville, subse-
quently known as the Second Presbyterian, and now as the Osborn
Memorial.
At the reconstruction of Presbyteries in 1870 he became a member
of the West Jersey Presbytery, in which connection he continued
until his death. May i6th, 1893, at the Mercer Home near Philadel-
phia. At different times he served the churches of Vineland, Brain-
erd and Bass River. From the latter place he wrote in 1885, on his
79th birthday: "I have been here six years living without a
salary, feeding on the promises of God. I walk eight miles on the
Sabbath and preach three times, and as I walk I sometimes stop
and talk and pray with the families "
He was married to Miss Ruth Parker, Ypsilanti, Michigan, July
ist, 1S35. They had three children born to them, only one of whom
survives, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Harris, of Washington, D. C. He lost
a son who was a student of theology ia Auburn Theological Semi-
nary.
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Mr. Worthington was a man of gentle and loving disposition.
His Christian experience was most deep and spiritual. Few men
excel him in personal effort for the salvation of individuals, and
many rise up to call him blessed.
His body sleeps in Greenland Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
THE REV. JULIUS EDWARD WERNER
was born in Wengelsdorf, Prussia, Jul}' 17th, 1849. His parents
emigrated to this country in 1852, when he was but three years of
age, and settled in Watertown, N. Y. His early education was re-
ceived in the public schools. At the age of fifteen he entered a dry
goods store, in which he was clerk for several years. He united
with the Stone Street Presbyterian Church, in Watertown, in April,
1865. He graduated from Willi<ims College in 1874 and Auburn
Theological Seminary in 1877. He was ordained pastor of the
church at Oaks Corner, N. Y , by the Presbytery of Geneva in 1877,
where he was pastor three years. He was installed over the church
at Haddonfield, N. J., in 1881, and this happy and fruitful pastorate
continued till his death at Colorado Springs, July loth 1893.
Mr. Werner was universally beloved. He was simple and beauti-
ful in character and his Christly influence was a benediction to all
who knew him. As a preacher he was much above the average,
his sermons being fresh, thoughtful and vigorous. His last hours
were full of peace and joy.
He was married to Miss Mary S. Robinson, of Canandaigua, N. Y ,
October 6th, 1886, who with three daughters survives him.
THE REV. JOHN O. WELLS,
a member of the Presbytery of West Jersey, died July 226., 1893, at
the home of his daughter, Mrs- Sylvester W. Strong, Greenville,
N. Y. He was born in Riverhead, L. I., May ist, 1818. He was
left fatherless at four years of age and without means for securing
an education. He was therefore without the training of academy,
college or theological seminary. But he was a close student of
books and a careful observer, and rose to respectable scholarship by
his thirst for knowledge and persistency of purpose. He studied
theology under the superintendence of his pastor, and was licensed
to preach by the Long Island Congregational Association in 1844.
He was ordained to the ministry in 1846, as pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church at Northville, l^ong Island, not far from the place of
his birth. From this church he was called to the Presbyterian
Church, Greenville, N. Y., in 1857. From thence he was called to
Vineland, N. J., in 1866, where he remained as pastor till 1887, a
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period of twenty-one years. He resigned by reason of failing health,
which continued to incapacitate him for regular work until his
death.
As a preacher, Mr. Wells was orthodox, earnest and impassioned ;
as a pastor he was sympathetic, kind and prudent ; as a Christian
gentleman he was universally respected and esteemed.
He married, in August, 1843, Miss Charlotte Glover, of Wading
River, Long Island. Two sons and three daughters survive him.
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III.— SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
WOMAN'S SYNODICAL SOCIETY OF HOME
MISSIONS IN THE SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
Again we are privileged to assemble as a Synodical society, and
for the sixteenth time review another twelve-month of work accom-
plished for Home Missions in New Jersey. We rejoice that the
watch-word has been advance, and that to-day we stand on a higher
plane than has ever been reached before.
Our Synodical society at the present time is composed of 186 aux-
iliaries and JT, bands, representing 7,924 members.
The oflScers as elected at the annual meeting one year ago have
been permitted to perform their duties, with the single exception of
Mrs. M. E. Truax, Treasurer of the Contingent Fund, who has been
compelled to resign on account of removal to another State. We
would take this occasion to express our high appreciation of her
diligence, fidelity and efficiency in the past and our hope for her
prosperity in the future.
The following amounts were paid to the Woman's Executive
Committee of Home Missions during the year ending March 31st,
1893:
Presbyteries. Value of boxes. Money. Total.
Elizabeth, $1,909 04 $4,238 03 $6,147 o?
Jersey City, 1,055 H 1-554 54 2,609 68
Monmouth 1,076 75 i,559 47 2,636 22
Morris and Orange 5,761 73 3,813 29 9,575 02
Newark, 2,544 19 1,789 00 4-333 19
New Brunswick, 2,539 63 2,493 ^7 5,032 80
Newton, 1,187 52 1,382 jj 2,570 29
West Jersey, 1,301 88 1,069 7^ ^>37^ 60
Total $17,375 88 $17,899 99 $35,275 87
A larger proportion of money has been sent this year through the
organized channels. The amount sent directly to the Executive
Committee not credited to our Presbyterial societies is $1,614.97,
against $2,422.80 last year. With this additional amount the sum
total contributed has been $19,514.96, a net gain of $453.11 over the
preceding year. While this gain is encouraging, we dare not make
the statement that it denotes increased liberality on the part of old
members, but must rather give the credit to the 341 new members
who have joined our ranks this year. We can, however, take the
credit, in so far as time and energy have been given in obtaining
the increased membership, and this is a point which every societj'
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66 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct.,
will do well to emphasize during the coming year. Larger forces,
well organized, means better work always.
It is with regret that we note a falling off in the number of Bands,
though this is offset by the increased number of Sunday-schools
contributing. With the prospect of creating in our Synodical Com-
mittee the office of Secretary for Young People's Work, we hope to
report increased interest in this department next year.
The merits of the Home Mission Monthly are being appreciated
more and more each year by the women of New Jersey. Our sub-
scription list now numbers 1,047 names, an advance of 87 over the
preceding year. In five of the Presbyteries a secretary of literature
has been appointed to attend to this important feature of the work.
The valuation of boxes has fallen I744 short of last year, and
while this branch of the work has always been considered second-
ary, we must not under-rate the good accomplished through this
channel. The cheer brought into the home of the missionary on
the frontier through this instrumentality is repeatedly told of in
the pages of the missionary magazine. Let those societies who this
year have fallen below previous attainments in this direction be
reminded of Ihe truth set forth in Hawthorne's Marble Fawn that
"Avast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of
the needle, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the
humblest, and keeping high and low in a species of communion
with their kindred beings."
I will not take time to recapitulate figures reported by the various
Presbyteries, but will simply call your attention to a few items of
interest which have come to our notice.
Elizabeth Presbyterial Society still retains her place as largest
contributor of money in the Synod, though the amount has fallen
below last year. The report of 1892 showed an unusual advance,
due to special gifts which could not be counted upon a second time,
and so the Secretary fittingly writes : " We do not feel discouraged
because we have done a little less this year" Roselle reports the
success of an all-day work meeting held once a month which proved
to be especially profitable in regard to work accomplished. Roselle
also deserves particular mention in that her Sunday-school was the
banner school of the United States this year in point of money con-
tributed to Home Mission work.
Jersey City has made a commendable advance of $207 over last
year. The valuation of boxes is not so high, though one society
reports that "nothing calls but the latent interest in missions in
our church more than preparing a box for a Home Missionary," and
another tells of sympathies universally aroused in preparing a box
for a missionary who had met with loss by fire. One new society
has been added to the number of last year
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Jersey City reports a much smaller number of subscribers to the
"Home Mission Monthly" than any of the eight Presbyteries, only
forty-five copies being taken. When we compare this number with
the membership of six hundred and seventy-nine it seems a very
small proportion. Doubtless the report will be more favorable next
year, as a secretary of literature has been appointed.
Monmouth reports a steady, healthful growth, both as to mem-
bers and mone\' contributed, an advance of $160 having been gained.
A cheering item of Band work comes from this Presbytery. Five
young girls interested themselves in preparing a Christmas box for
a little orphan girl in one of our Indian Territory schools. While
working for others, a reflex blessing came to them, and at the fol-
lowing Communion these young workers dedicated themselves to
the Master's service.
Morris and Orange is the largest member of our Synodical body,
and we alwa3-s expect great things of her. Last year she fell some-
what below the standard of the previous 3'ear, but we rejoice that
the loss reported then has stimulated her to renewed activit}', so
that a splendid advance of $900 has been made this year. Her zeal
extended so far that in one case, where a new church was being
started, the Home Mission Society was formed before the church
was fairly organized. The membership is enlarged by two hundred
and thirty-nine members, though the number of organizations stands
the same as last j-ear.
Newark Presbyterial Society, our youngest member, is still quite
an infant as to age, having celebrated only her fifth anniversarj^
last spring ; but she gives promise of strong development, and has
already surpassed three of her older sisters in point of monej- con-
tributed. A gain of $115 has been reported this year. Her liber-
ality to the mountain people of the South is especially commenda-
ble, in that considerably more than the apportioned sum was sent
to the treasury. A helpful suggestion comes from the young ladies'
society of the First Church of INIontclair. They have taken orders
for sewing and in this way raised quite a goodly sum of money.
Though this Presbytery reports two bands and one less society' than
last year, there is a small increase in membership.
New Brunswick stands second among the Presbyterial Societies
who have gone forward this year, having made an advance of S35i.
This denotes gratifying liberality on the part of her members, as
there has been a falling off of twenty-eight in membership. New
Brunswick ranks second also in the number of subscribers to the
' ' Home Mission Monthly, ' ' twenty names having been added to their
subscription list.
Newton Presbyterial Society, notwithstanding the gain of four
societies and one hundred and five members, has not quite reached
68 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct ,
the standard of last year in regard to money contributed. We do
not forget that an advance of twenty per cent was made in 1892,
and with the record of what can be accomplished, we believe that
greater things will be reported in the future. Two years ago 3'our
Secretary noted the fact that an enviable prominence in the number
of bands was found in this Presbyterial Society. This characteristic
is still pre- eminent, as the record shows nearly twice the number
reported by any other Presbytery.
West Jersey, our far-away sister, deserves great encouragement,
because she is composed mostl}' of small churches and has, there-
fore, fewer members than anj' other Presb5-terial Society. She has
decreased forty-eight in membership, but nevertheless has advanced
$42 in contributions. We regret to record that she reports only five
Bands against ten last year.
In addi ion to the pledged work of the various societies, we have
as a Synod made contributions to two special objects this year.
When, at the last Synodical meeting, we decided to hold ourselves
responsible for one-tenth of the amount required to establish the
Boys' Farm School at Asheville, it was not without some forebodings
that more had been assumed than could be accomplished. Time
has shown that our fears were unfounded, for early in the year, in
response to the able and comprehensive leaflet on this subject, pre-
pared by our President and circulated widely through all the Pres-
byterial Societies, great interest was aroused and $2,415 98 can now
be reported as the contribution to the Boj's' Farm School, which is
$;1i5 98 in excess of our pledge. Surely this gladdens our hearts,
and we rejoice that the women of New Jersey have proved them-
selves so loyal to these mountain people. They may be called o?ir
heritage, for we are told that the first school for these people was
established in 1879 b}' two women from New Jerse}\
The second special object, Washington College, Tennessee, was
left in the hands of our Young People's vSocieties, the small sum of
S25 being all that was asked from each Presbj'tery. By a misunder-
standing some of the Presbyterial Societies did not realize until too
late that this money had been pledged and consequently' did not
contribute, but notwithstanding this fact the institution has re-
ceived from our Synodical Societ5' $340.61—156.61 of this amount
coming from Christian Endeavor Societies.
So much for success from a financial standpoint, but while it
must be admitted that the monetary question is the practical feature
of all missionary eflFort, the all-potent factor of prayer must not be
forgotten. Who can measure the results attained by the petitions
■which have gone up to the Father in Heaven as we have met to talk
about the affairs of His Kingdom ? Sorhe one has emphasized the
power of the " prayer-covered dollar," and we will do well to carry
iSgj. Woman's Work for Home Missions 69
this expression from our meeting to day down into the local socie-
ties and to remember that it is only such dollars that will win our
land for Christ. Old Tertullian once said " the violence of praj-er
is pleasing to God," and so as a Synodical Societ}^ let us make this
oflfering together with our money.
A report is always interesting if it can note advance, but the
"laurels" achieved in the past we trust will wither before those
that shall adorn the brow of the future. This is a day of review,
but let us not forget that the coming years concern us far more
deepl}'. The past with its mistakes and half-hearted service is irre-
trievable, but the future with its opportunities, its hopes, its possi-
bilities, is abundantly ours.
CLARA. D. MANNING,
Corresponding Secretaty.
70 Woman's Wobk for Home Missions. Oct.,
IV.— ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S SYN-
ODICAL SOCIETY OF HOME MISSIONS IN THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Sy nodical Society
of Home Missions in the Synod of New Jersey, was held in the
Second Presbyterian Church, Rahway, N. J., October 12th, 1893.
After a half-hour spent in devotional exercises the meeting was
opened by responsive.-reading conducted by the President, Mrs.
William E. Honeyman.
Mrs. Liggett addressed a few words of welcome to the ladies and
ofifered pra3'er.
At the roll-call there was a response from every Presbytery of the
Sjmod.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
The President proposed as the work of the coming year, agreeably
to the recommendation of the Woman's Executive Committee, that
$2,000 be raised for the "Equipment Fund" of the Boys' Farm
School at Asheville, N. C.
In the absence of Mrs. Manning, the Corresponding Secretary,
her report was read by Miss White, of Roselle. This report was
accepted, adopted and ordered to be sent to Synod, together with
the minutes of this meeting.
The report of Mrs. Truax, Treasurer of the Contingent Fund, was
read bj' Mrs. Paul, and accepted.
The President stated that the Woman's Executive Committee de-
sire the appointment of a Secretary of Literature, and a Young
People's Secretary, and also recommend the appointment of a Secre-
tary for Freedmen in each Presbytery.
In a short address. Miss Wishard, Young People's Secretary,
urged the cultivation of the missionary spirit in the societies of
Christian Endeavor, of which there are 270 in the State of New
Jersey.
A strong, practical and stirring address was made by Miss
Stephenson, of the Home Industrial School, Asheville, N. C, em-
phasizing the need of schools for the education of the mountain
people.
At the close of her address it was, on motion, resolved that the
sum of $2, 000 be raised for the equipment of the Boys' Farm School
at Asheville, N. C.
In the necessary absence of Rev. Dr. John Hall, Dr. Charles L
Thompson, a member of the Board, made an address, confirming
the statements of Miss Stephenson, and urging more active efforts
to meet the demands upon the treasury, that the work be not stayed.
i8^3- Woman's Work for Home Missions. 71
In response to an appeal for the church at Logan, Utah, the sum
of $264.50 was pledged by individuals and local societies.
The report of the Nominating Committee was now made, recom-
mending that the appointment of the Secretary of Literature and
Young People's Secretary be in charge of the Executive Committee,
which recommendation was adopted.
The further report of the Nominating Committee was accepted
and adopted, as follows :
President — Mrs. W. E. Honeyman, Plainfield.
Vice-Presidents— M-B.s. J. H. Owens, Perth Amboy.
Mrs. G. W. B. Gushing. East Orange.
Mrs. C. H. Langdon, Elizabeth,
Mrs. J. Marshall Paul, New Brunswick.
Mrs. Charles Brearley, Trenton.
Mrs. D. C. Blair, Belvidere.
Correspo}iditig Secretary — Mrs J. H. Manning, Plainfield.
Recordijig Secretary — Mrs. J F. Pingry, Elizabeth.
Treasurer Contiyigent Fund — Miss M. K. Jones, Englewood.
SYNODICAL COMMITTEES.
ELIZABETH.
Mrs. F. H. Pierson, Elizabeth.
Mrs. E. B. Cobb, Elizabeth.
Mrs. W. P. Stevenson, Roselle.
Mrs. J. M. McNulty, Woodbridge.
Mrs. W. E. Honeyman, Plainfield.
Miss M. J. Peck, Elizabeth.
JERSEY CITY.
Miss L. C. Pudne}', Passaic,
Miss C. D. Shaw, Paterson.
Mrs. William Nichols, Hoboken.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, Jersey City.
MONMOUTH.
Mrs. J. S. Long, Freehold.
Mrs. H. V. Deshler, Hightstown.
Mrs. B. S. Everilt, Jamesburg.
MORRIS AND ORANGE.
Mrs. Robert Aikman, Madison.
Mrs. J. B. Beaumont, Morristown.
Mrs. P. A. Gile, East Orange.
Mrs. Albert Erdman, Morristown.
Mrs. G. W. B. Cushing, East Orange.
72 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct.,
NEWARK.
Miss Julia S. Halsey, Roseville.
Mrs. Paul Babcock, Montclair.
Mrs. A. V. VanFleet, Newark.
Mrs. George A. Paull, Bloomfield.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
Mrs Charles Brearley, Trenton.
Mrs. ^Itner E. Green, Trenton.
Miss Margaret Sloan, Trenton.
Mrs. P. A. Studdiford, Lambertville.
Mrs. P. I. Nevius, Flemington.
NEWTON.
Mrs. A. C. VanFlick, Washington.
Mrs. William Morrow, Belvidere.
Mrs. William Thomson, Stewartsville.
Mrs. McMurtry, Newton.
WEST JERSEY.
Miss Nellie M. Skinner, Woodbury.
Mrs. John M. Moore, Clayton.
Mrs. A. M. Reeder, Camden.
The following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That we desire first to express our gratitude to God for
this beautiful day, for the interest in missions as manifested by the
large attendance, and for His blessing upon our feeble efforts during
the past year.
Resolved, That we extend hearty thanks to the pastor and oflScers
of this church for its use, to those who have led the music, to the
speakers who have addressed us and to the ladies of the churches
who have entertained us so bountifully and graciously.
Resolved, That we desire to express our appreciation of the untir-
ing efforts and interest of those oflficers who, after many years of
self-denying service, have to-day resigned.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to renewed and more prayer-
ful efforts to spread a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour through-
out our own and other lands.
The Society adjourned to meet at Dover, in October, 1894.
SUSAN H. H. PINGRY,
Secretary pro tern.
rSgj. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. jt,
v.— SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WO-
MAN'S SYNODICAL SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
In submitting a report for the j^ear now closed, your new Synodi-
cal Secretary feels that the work for so long efficiently discharged
by Mrs. A. A. Hodge has fallen into inexperienced hands — hands,
too, that are filled with many other duties. She can only beg your
kind indulgence, in the hope and prayer that each added year may
bring a higher measure of fitness for the post to which you have
appointed her.
When w^e come to look back upon the year 1S93 we shall remember
it for other things than the splendid Columbian Exposition. We
shall think of the disasters by land and sea, hurricanes, floods,
shipwrecks, railroad horrors, of which our daily papers have seemed
so full. We shall recall the great financial crisis which has im-
periled our national prosperity. As friends of Missions, we shall
remember the disgraceful anti-Chinese legislation that has jeopar-
dized our precious interests in the vast Celestial Empire, and the
shameless aggression of France against Siam, which suggests the
possibility that our prosperous work in Laos may some time suffer
the same sort of hindrance which followed the establishment of
French influence on the west coast of Africa.
Nor shall we be able to forget that this year the cause of Missions
has lost a friend whose place we cannot hope soon to see filled. On
April 24th, after a long struggle for life, our beloved Missionary
Secretary, Dr. Arthur Mitchell, was called to join that vast throng
from every tribe and nation for whom, through so manj' 3'ears, he
had spent himself with such unselfish devotion.
Amid all these and many other stirring events, some sad, some
glad, our Presbyterian sisterhood of New Jersey have steadily pur-
sued their blessed work for Foreign Missions. The reports from
the Presbyterial Societies show that both those events which have
threatened harm and those which have been full of hope have been
recognized as alike calling for increased endeavor.
Elizabeth Presbyterial Society reports in this twenty-second year
of her history an Auxiliary or a Band in every self-sustaining church
in the Presbyter3^ and that some churches maintain both an Auxili-
ary and one or more Bands The Society has been helped to a better
understanding of the work by the vivid impressions which its presi-
dent, Mrs. Gillespie, brought to them from her months of travel in
Mission lands and association with our missionaries in their homes.
The Society has adopted another missionary in the person of Miss
74 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Oct.,
Emma Morris, of Perth Amboy, who has gone out to India. It has
also appropriated money for furnishing a room in the Chinese Home
in San Francisco, to be known as the " Mrs. John Gillespie Room."
This Society numbers among its missionaries Miss Cornelia McGil-
vary, of Chieng Mai, Laos. There is all the more reason, therefore,
why its Secretary in her last annual report should recapitulate the
wonderful progress of the work in Laos, and should add her appeal
to that sent by the Mission to the Church at home.
The Woman's Society of the Presbytery of Jersey City, like its
sisters of Newark and Monmouth, celebrates this year its twenty-
first anniversary. Jersey City reports a growth in these years from
seven Auxiliaries in '']2 to twenty Auxiliaries and twelve Bands this
year. One new Band was organized during the year and one— a Boys'
Band — (Jersey City seems to have had unusual success in maintain-
ing Boys'Bands) was disbanded, because a majority of the members
have grown up to manhood or entered business or gone away to
school or college, but its place has been taken by a junior society of
the same name. Nor can we doubt that these young men, though
no longer organized as a Band, will show the effect of their training
in an intelligent and life-long interest in Foreign Missions. A new
bond of personal sympathy has been welded between Jersey City and
the work abroad, in the going out to China of Mrs. Thwing, formerly
a member both of the First Church of Jersey City and of the Steady
Gleaners' Band, now the banner Band of the Presbytery. The
Society has assumed the support of Mrs. Thwing. Monmouth reports
a year of quiet and successful work on the part of its twenty-five
Auxiliaries and fourteen Bands. One Auxiliary has been aban-
doned for a time, and as in Jersey City, one Boj's' Band— the David
Holbrook Band, of Matawan — has graduated into " the wide, wide
world;" but, as there, so here, a band of young boys has been
formed to take its place. Monmouth devotes a special report to
the work of her Bands, and a very interesting and encouraging re-
port it is. Among other points of interest, it emphasizes the use-
fulness of "Children's Work," in fostering a zeal for Missions
among our young people.
While several Presbyterial Societies have appointed Secretaries of
Missionary Literature, only one — New Brunswick — presents a spe-
cial report on that subject. Certainly, there is a wide field for our
excellent Missionary periodicals in this Presbytery— with its thirty
Auxiliaries, twenty-two Bands and six co-operating Endeavor Socie-
ties, and its twenty-five hundred members. Two new Bands have
been formed during the year, and now only two churches in the
Presbytery are unconnected with the Presbyterial Society
New Brunswick feels the stimulus of having Princeton within
her bounds. Many Missionaries have made their home for a time
rSgj. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 75
in the college town, and last j'ear a new tie was formed bj' the de-
parture of Mrs. Braddock, to Woodstock, to take the place left vacant
by the death of Mrs. Scott. The strength of this Band may be
guessed from the fact that when a part of Mrs. Braddock's outfit
was lost on the journe3^ the ladies of Princeton contributed an extra
$130 to make good the loss.
Newark sends the good word that this year's work in her Auxil-
iaries and Bands has been one of the brightest in her history — that
there has been more earnest prayer, more consecrated effort, more
liberal giving and more diligent study — and especially that one of
their number, Miss A. Adelaide Brown, of the Third Church of
Newark, has been sent out to India. The printed report of this
Presbyterial Society contains individual reports also from nineteen
Auxiliaries and fifteen Bands. One new organization of each class
was added during the year. The Society record with regret that
their Treasurer, Mrs. William Rankin, after eighteen years of ser-
vice, has felt compelled to give over her work to other hands
Newton reports earnest work and slightly increased contributions
on the part of her twenty-four Societies and twenty-five Bands, but
a considerable decrease in the number of copies of "Woman's
Work" and "Children's Work" taken. New interest has been
awakened by the appointment of Miss Emma Morris a teacher in
the public school in Newton, to work at Woodstock.
The amounts contributed by the several Societies last 3'ear were
as follows:
Elizabeth, |5 318 89
Jersey City, 2,929 26
Monmouth, 2,839 28
Morris and Orange, 7.577 33
Newton, 1-943 08
New Brunswick, 4.416 82
Newark, 5,121 83
West Jersey 2,667 i^
Total $32,814 51
The raising of this sum has been one ot the waj'S in which the
Presbyterian women of little New Jersey have endeavored to obey
the bidding " Go work in my vineyard." But there has been an-
other answer also, Qui orat laborat—'' Who prays, labors." And is
there not special need always for prayer ? Can we think of Wood-
stock bereaved of Mrs. Scott, for fifteen years its efficient principal,
who made it the equal as far as possible of the best schools for girls
in this countr}', without a prayer for Mrs. Braddock, who goes to
assume this responsible charge?
76 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Oct.,
Or can we hear again the thrilling cry of our brothers and sisters
in Laos, and not pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers
into that harvest ? And what an emphasis their appeal gains when
we think that they who make it are onl3' planning new privations
and hardships for themselves.
"It is the policy of the Laos Mission," wrote Mrs. Peoples to
your Secretary a few weeks ago, " to send the older missionaries to
open new stations." And so, while they are calling for recruits,
these brothers and sisters of ours are eagerly planning to forsake
the comfortable houses which the^- have built for themselves with
such difficulties, and the garden they have planted, and the home
comforts which little by little they have gathered about them, and
above all to leave that company of native Christians, so affectionate
and devoted — their own spiritual children — to begin again the work
of seed-sowing in some community of half-distrustful heathen.
"For," as Mrs. Peoples adds, "it matters little where we live, if
onl}' these people can have the Gospel preached to them." Have
not such as these a claim upon our loving thoughts, our daily
prayers ? Shall not each one of us in this wa3^ if in no other, have
fellowship with them in their sacrifices for Christ's sake?
i8cfj. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 77
VI.— SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
WOMAN'S SYNODICAL SOCIETY OF FOREIGN
MISSIONS IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
This meeting was held in the Second Presbyterian Church, Rah-
way, N. J., at 2 P. M , on Thursday, October 12th, 1893. For the
second time delegates from every Presbytery were present.
The minutes of the previous meeting, the report of the Cor-
responding Secretary and that of the Treasurer of the Contingent
Fund, were read and accepted.
The Constitution which has been under consideration for the past
three years was adopted and ordered printed.
Miss Charlotte Brown described the city of Sidon, presenting a
number of j-oung people in the costumes of Sj'ria, and gave an
account of her work in Sidon Seminar3^ Miss A. Adelaide Brown,
who is to sail for India on October 28th, was introduced and asked
all present to remember her in their prayers.
Rev. George William Knox, D.D., spoke on the history and
growth of the Church in Japan.
The Committee on Resolutions expressed the gratitude felt bj' all
present to the ladies of Rahway for the admirable arrangements of
the meeting.
The following named officers were elected :
PresideTit — Mrs W. P. Stevenson, Roselle.
ist Vice-President — Mrs. Joel Parker, Freehold.
2d " —Mrs. J. D. Bedle, Jersey City.
jd " — Mrs. J. Davidson, New Brunswick.
4th " — Mrs. J. Gillespie, Elizabeth.
St/i " —Mrs. S. E. Ware, Salem.
6th " —Mrs. R. H. Young, Newark.
y/h " — Mrs. Robert AiKMAN, Madison.
8//1 " — Mrs. Frank Chandler, Asbury Park.
p/h " —Mrs. John Dixon, Trenton.
jo/k " —Miss A. M. Carter, Newark.
iitk " — Mrs. S. R Form an, Jersey City.
i2ih " — Mrs. William Green, Elizabeth.
Treasurer — Miss E. M Colton, Elizabeth.
Corresponding Secretary —M'rs. Chalmers Martin, Princeton.
Recording Secretary — Mrs. Paul Babcock, Montclair.
MARY W. BABCOCK,
Secretary.
78 Custodians of Historical Materials. Oct.,
VII.— CUSTODIANS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALS.
The Custodians of Historical Material respectfully report to the
Synod of New Jersey that the following material has been deposited
on the shelves in the Historical Room in Princeton, during the past
year:
By the Rev. Allen H. Brown :
Minutes of the Presbytery of Abington, 1 752-1758, tj'pe-written
copy
Memorial Discourses :
Mrs. Martha Rice, sister of Rev. Archibald Alexander, D.D., and
wife of Rev. Benjamin H. Rice, D.D., pastor of the First Church of
Princeton, by Rev. Charles Hodge, D.D., 1844.
Rev. John Burtt, Salem, by Rev. Daniel Stratton, 1866.
Rev. Daniel Stratton, Salem, by Rev. Joseph W. Hubbard, 1866
Rev. Charles Hodge, D.D., by Rev. William M. Paxton, D D.,
1878.
Rev. Ravaud K. Rodgers, D.D , by Rev. George Sheldon, D.D.,
1879
Printed Sermons and Addresses on various occasions :
Education for the Ministry, by Rev. Archibald Alexander, D.D.,
1846.
Rev. John Burtt, Blackwoodtown, 1856.
Rev. J. T. English, Moderator's sermon before Synod of New Jer-
sey, 1859
Rev. Alexander T. McGill, D.D., 1862.
Charles Hodge Semi-Centennial, 1872
The Princeton Jubilee, Rev. William B. Sprague, D.D., 1872.
Re-opening of the Chapel of the Theological Seminary at Prince-
ton, by Rev. Charles Hodge, D.D., 1874.
Princeton Alumni Association, 1876.
Rev. Henry J Van Dyke. D.D , 1857.
Rev Henry Van Dyke, D.D., 1893.
Miscellaneous Papers :
Catalogue of Princeton Theological Seminary, 1840, marked to
show the proportion of students who were children of godly
parents.
Constitution of the Missionary, Bible and Tract Society of the
Theological Seminary, Princeton, N J., 1843
Sixth Annual Report of the Monmouth County Bible Society,
1843.
Westfield Church case, 1875
i8()3. Custodians of Historical Materials. 79
Church Manuals :
Westfield 1864 ; Trenton, First Church, 1867.
Extracts from the Minutes of the Presbytery of New Brunswick,
from February ist, 1848, to October 3d, 1854, prepared by Rev. A. L.
Armstrong, giving a history of efforts to establish a Presbyterian
Church at Long Branch ; also, the complaint of the Classis of New
Brunswick to the Synod of New Jersey against the Presbytery of
New Brunswick.
Steel-plate engravings :
Rev. James W. Alexander, D.D.; Rev. C. Van Rensselaer, D.D.;
Rev. Ethan Osborn.
By the Rev. John Ewing, D D. :
History of the Presbyterian Church of Pittsgrove, 1893.
By Mr. Samuel B. Ketcham:
Manuscript notes concerning the formation of churches in Hope-
well and Maidenhead townships (origin of the Ewing and Trenton
churches), by Rev. Eli F. Cooley, D.D., 1859.
By the Session of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City:
Minutes of the Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Ber-
gen, N. J., from October 31st, 1856 to March 19th, 1890. 3 vols.
Minutes of the Congregation and Trustees of the Presbyterian
Church of Jersey City, from 1845 to March 19th, 1890.
Sundry copies of the Minutes of the General Assembly, from the
librarj' of the Rev Charles A. Aiken. D.D.
Memorial of Rev. Caspar Wistar Hodge, D.D., by Rev. Francis
L. Patton,D.D., 1892
B}'^ the Presbytery of Newark:
Sundry copies of the Minutes of the Synod of New York and New
Jersey, New School, " for deposit ".
Walter A. Brooks,
Joseph H. Dulles,
CMstodia7is.
8o Schedules — Treasurer Home Missions. Oct.,
VIII.— SCHEDULES REFERRED TO IN THE REPORT
OF THE TREASURER OF SYNODICAE HOME MIS-
SIONS AS THEREUNDER WRITTEN.
Schedule i.
Contributions sought for the work of Synodical Home Missions
for the year ending October ist, 1893 :
From the Presbytery of Elizabeth, $2,573 4°
" Presbytery of Jersey City, 1.529 50
" Presbytery of Monmouth, 1.193 80
" Presbytery of Morris and Orange, 2,67030
" Presbytery of Newark, 2,772 63
" Presbytery of New Brunswick 2,263 68
" Presbyteryof Newton, 1,171 40
" Presbyteryof West Jersey, 1,275 20
$15-449 91
Schedule 2.
Sums allotted for use in the work of Synodical Home Missions
for the year ending October ist, 1893 :
Subdivision i.
Allotments for use in the general work :
To the Presbytery of Elizabeth, $300 00
Presbytery of Jersey City, 2,500 00
Presbytery of Monmouth, 4,000 00
Presbytery of Morris and Orange, 1,650 00
Presbytery of Newark, 1,600 00
Presbytery of New Brunswick, , . . . 838 00
Presbytery of Newton, 800 00
Presbytery of West Jersey, 4,000 00
$15,688 00
Subdivision 2.
Supplementary allotments for use in the work among foreign
populations :
To the Presbytery of Jersey City, $200 00
Presbytery of West Jersey 200 00
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Cofitributions by Presbyteries, durifig the sixth and seventh years,
compated.
PRESBYTERY.
Elizabeth,
Jersey City, . . . .
Monmouth, . . . .
Morris and Orange,
Newark,
New Brunswick, . .
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West Jersey, . . .
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t" H. and B.," members of churches within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum of
S6.00
t Of this sum $200 were privately contributed for the credit of the Presbytery.
•' Three persons, members of churches within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum
of §450.
* One person, pastor of a church within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum of $5.00.
§ One person, a member of a church within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum of
^i.oo.
•I^Two persons, members of churches within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum
of S550.
**One person, pastor of a church within this Presbytery, contributed the further sum of
#15.00.
Schedule 6.
Payments on account of appropriatio7is for services, made duting the
sixth and seventh years, compared by Presbyteries.
PRESBYTERY.
Elizabeth,
Jersey City, ....
^Ionmouth
Morris and Orange,
Newark,
New Brunswick, . .
Newton,
West Jersey, ....
No. of Churches,
etc., where aid
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777 92
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265 65
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103 55
12 08
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+ Besides these there was one mission field or station among thje Slavs.
*[ Besides this sum J16o were paid for work among foreign peoples.
* These sums include the salaries of the Presbyterial Missionaries.
+ Besides these there was one mission field or station among the Italians.
^ Besides this sum 5'33-33 were paid for work among foreign peoples.
1893. Schedules — Treasurer Home Missions 87
Summary of Account
For the year ending October ist, i8gj.
Dr.
To balance from last year, $4,974 25
" unused appropriation returned, 37 5^
" contributions during the year —
From congregations, $13,658 68
" Sabbath-schools, 606 07
Societies, 142 06
" individuals, 771 00
15,177 81
" the Presbytery of Monmouth, 84 34
$20,273 90
Cr.
By payments for services of ministers or missionaries —
General work, $15, 124 73
Supplementary, 193 33
115,318 06
By payments for printing, postage, traveling or other
expenses 133 99
$15,452 05
Balance to next year, 4,821 85
$20,273 90
ELMER EWING GREEN,
Treas7irer.
Examined and found correct.
Franklin Dye,
Henry R. Hall.
88 Report of Treasurer oe Trustees. Oct.,
IX.— REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE TRUS-
TEES OF SYNOD FOR 1892 AND 1893.
From January /, rSgz, to October ig, i8g2.
CASH RECEIVED.
1892.
January i. Interest on Stuart Manse Fund in 1890, . $17 50
" 2. Of Robert Aikman, Treasurer —
Account Woodland Avenue
Chapel $100 00
Account Holmes Fund, . . . 727 50
Account Wurts Fund, .... 525 00
1.352 50
Of Benj. F. Holmes, for Holmes Fund
(additional), 4 00
September 7. Of Elwood C. Harris, int. on mortgage, . 31 25
$1,405 25
CASH EXPENDED.
1892.
February 25. Paid to Elwood C. Harris, for investment
on mortgage, $1,250 00
September 10. Paid to the Brainerd Mission, 13 12
Paid to the Forked River Church, ... 18 13
October 10. Paid to Forked River Church, additional, 6 50
Paid to Manse of New Gretna or Bass
River 17 5°
" 19. Balance in Bank appropriated to Wood-
land Avenue Chapel, 100 00
$1,405 25
Report from October ig, i8g2, to October 18, i8gj.
CASH RECEIVED.
1892.
October 19. Balance on hand $100 00
December 31. Accrued interest in Camden Safe Deposit
and Trust Compan}^ 6 40
1893.
April 12. Of Elwood C. Harris, account Kane mort-
gage, 31 25
iSgj. Report of Treasurer of Trustees. 89
September 21. Of Elwood C. Harris, account Kane mort-
gage 31 25
|i68 90
CASH EXPENDED.
1893-
May 25 and Oct. 17. To Presbytery West Jersey, ac-
count Woodland Ave. Chapel, $106 40
April 24 and Sept. 21. To Forked River Church, . ... 3625
June 10 and Sept. 21. To Brainerd Church's Pastor, . . 26 25
$168 90
ALLEN H. BROWN,
Treasurer.
Examined and found correct.
Franklin Dye,
H. R. Hall.
90 Treasurer's Report. Od.^
X.— TREASURER'S REPORT.
Eben B. Cobb, Treasurer, i7i account with the Synod of
New Jersey.
Dr.
To balance from previous account $546 70
" apportionments frolri nine Presbyteries, . . . 495 00
" receipts for advertising, 15 00
" sale of minutes i 55
11,058 25
Cr.
By janitor's bill, Belvidere, $8 00
" salaries for year ending October ist, 1893, . . 160 00
' printing, 237 80
' envelopes and postage, 13 18
' Treasurer's book, 6 00
' binding minutes, 2 50
' sundry expenses, 6 22
' balance on hand September 30th, 1893, . . . 624 55
$1,058 25
EBEN B. COBB,
, Treasurer.
Examined and found correct.
Franklin Dye,
H. R. Hall,
Committee.
i8g3' Statistical Reports. . 91
XI.— STATISTICAL REPORTS.
I. Presbytery of Corisco — No report received. For ministers
and churches, see Minutes of General Assembly.
II. The Presbytery of Elizabeth consists of forty-seven minis-
ters, thirty-three churches, and has under its care four candidates
and three other candidates under the care of some of its Sessions.
Ministers received —
October 19, 1892, Rev. Albert E- Wirth, from the Presbytery of
Hudson.
November 22, 1892, Rev. Charles E. Herring, from the Presbytery
of New York.
February 7, 1893, Rev. Wilmot A. Carrington, from the Presby-
tery of Washington City.
April 18, 1893, Rev. Thomas Heyvpood, from the Presbytery of
Morris and Orange.
October 3, 1893, Rev. Joseph O. McKelvey, from the Presbytery of
Jersey City.
Ministers dismissed —
April 18, 1893, Rev. George A. Liggett, to the Presbytery of Bing-
hamton
October 3, 1893, Rev. Wilmot A. Carrington, to the Presbytery of
Lackawanna.
Candidate licensed —
April 19, 1893, Mr. VanDerveer V. Nicholas.
Ministers installed —
November i, 1892, Rev. Albert E. Wirth, as pastor of the First
German Church of Elizabeth.
November 22, 1892, Rev. Charles E- Herring, as pastor of the
First Church of Plainfield.
Pastoral telatiofi dissolved —
October 4, 1893, between Rev. James M. Nourse and the Madison
Avenue Church, Elizabeth.
Licentiate dismissed —
April 19, 1893, Mr. VanDerveer V. Nicholas to the Presbytery of
Chester.
92 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
Church organized —
May I, 1893, the First Presbyterian Church of Carteret.
Death of minister —
May 26, 1893. Rev. Frank Stiles Woodruff, at Elizabeth, N. J.,
aged thirty years.
Samuel Parry,
Stated Clerk.
III. The Presbytery of Jersey City consists of forty-six min-
isters and thirty-two churches, and has under its care one licentiate
and three candidates for the ministry.
Ministers received —
June 6, 1893, Rev. Henry C. Cronin, from the Springfield, Mo.
(Cong.), Association.
June 6, 1893, Rev. John W. Waite, from the Primitive Methodist
Church of England, on probation.
October 3, 1893, Rev. William Imbrie, D.D., from the Presbytery
of Tokyo, Japan.
October 3, 1893, Rev. John Hutchison, from the Presbytery of
Nassau.
Candidates received under care of Presbytery —
Decembers, 1892, August A. Braasch.
April 18, 1893, Franklin E. Taylor.
Licetises conferred —
April 18, 1893, Franklin E. Taylor.
April 18, 1893, Joseph O. McKelvey.
June 6, 1893, Adolph Pape.
June 6, 1893, Felix Steinmann.
June 6, 1893, Frederick W. Hock.
Ordinations —
October 23, 1892, Robert H. P. Miles.
October 28, 1892, George Coulsen.
May 3, 1893, Franklin E. Taylor.
June 6, 1893, Joseph O. McKelvey.
Installations —
October 13, 1892, Rev. Hugh R. McClelland, Ph.D , as pastor of
Lake View Church.
May 3, 1893, Rev. Franklin E Taylor, as pastor of Dundee, Pas-
saic, Church.
i8gj. Statistical Reports 93
June 6, 1893. Rev. Henry C. Cronin, as pastor of Second Church,
Jersey City.
Dissohition of pastoral relations —
September 12, 1893, between Rev. George Sluter and the Arlington
Church.
September 12, 1893, between Rev. August Lange and the Carlstadt
Church.
Ministers dismissed —
February 7, 1893, Rev. George Coulsen, to the Presbytery of New-
castle.
March 7, 1893, Rev. Louis Rymarski, to the Presbytery of Lacka-
wanna
October 3, 1893, Rev. Joseph O. McKelvey, to the Presbyter}- of
Elizabeth.
October 3 1893, Rev. August Lange, to the Presbytery of Lacka*
wanna.
Licentiates dismissed —
June 6, 1893, Adolph Pape, to the Presbytery of Hudson.
June 6, 1893, Frederick W. Hock, to the North Classis (Ref'd) of
Long Island.
October 3, 1893, Felix Steinmann, to the Presbytery of Lacka-
wanna.
Died—
March 12, 1893, Rev. Robert R. Thompson.
Edwin A. Bulkley,
Stated Clerk.
IV. The Presbytery of Monmouth consists of forty- eight min-
isters and forty-eight churches, and has under its care three licen-
tiates, four candidates and one local evangelist.
Ministers received —
April II, 1893, Rev, James J. Coale, from the Presbytery of Hunt-
ingdon.
May II, 1893, Rev. Albert E. Weston, from the Presbytery ot
Choctaw.
Licentiates received —
April 12, 1893, Harry W. Haring, from the Presb3'tery of Phila-
delphia.
May 16, 1893, Joseph K. Freed, from the Presbytery of New York.
94 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
June 7, 1893, Nathan D. Hynson, from the Presbytery of New
York.
June 20, 1893, S. Ward Righter, from the Presbytery of Morris and
Orange.
Ca?tdidates received on exaniinatiofi —
April II, 1893, Walter A. Semple.
October 4, 1893, John E. Parmly.
Candidate received by certificate —
April 12, 1893, N. J. Sproul, from the Presbytery of Orangeville,
Canada.
Candidate dismissed —
June 12, 1893, Conover S. Osborne, to the Presbytery of New
Brunswick.
Licensures —
April II, 1893, William L. Everitt, Nathaniel J. Sproul, Daniel I.
Camp, Harry W. Haring.
Ordinations —
October 27, 1892, George E. Gillespie.
May II, 1893, Nathaniel J. Sproul.
May 16, 1893, Harry W. Haring.
June 7, 1893, Joseph K. Freed.
June 29, 1893, Nathan D. Hynson.
Licentiates dismissed—
April 6, 1893, Walter A. Hitchcock, to Presbytery of Albany.
April 12, 1893, Daniel I. Camp, to Presbytery of West Jersey.
June 29, 1893, S. Ward Righter, to Presbytery of Morris and
Orange.
Mi?iisters dismissed —
October 28, 1892, Rev. Charles H. Wisner, to the Presbytery of
Philadelphia.
December 13, 1892, Rev. Charles W. Nevin, to the Presbytery of
Chester.
April 12, 1893, Rev. Robert B. Ewing, D.D., to the Presbytery of
Utah.
July 17, 1893, Rev. William C. Alexander, D.D., to the Presbytery
of Washington City.
/<5pj. Statistical Reports. 95
Pastoral relations dissolved —
December 13, 1892, Rev. Charles Everett and the church of Eng-
lishtown.
July 17, 1893, Rev. Williata C. Alexander, D.D., and the church
of Matawan.
Installatio7is—
October 27, 1892, Rev. George E. Gillespie, as pastor of the
churches of Cream Ridge and Plumstead.
February i, 1893, Rev. Charles Everett, as pastor of the church of
Belmar.
May II, 1S93, Rev. Nathaniel J. Sproul, as pastor of the church of
Englishtown.
May 16, 1893, Rev. Harry W. Haring, as pastor of the church of
Delanco.
June 7, 1893, Rev. Joseph K. Freed, as pastor of the churches of
Providence and Jacksonville.
June 29, 1893, Rev. Nathan D. Hynson, as pastor of the church of
Manasquan.
Ministers deceased —
January 12, 1893, Rev. Frederick T. Brown, D.D., at Manasquan,
N. J., in the seventy-first year of his age.
June 14, 1893, Rev. William T. Findley, D D , at Perrineville, N.
J., in the eightieth year of his age.
Benj. S. Everitt,
Stated Clerk.
V. The Presbytery of Morris and Orange consists of fifty-
eight ministers and forty-four churches, and has under its care two
chapels, three licentiates and six candidates.
Ministers received —
January 17, 1893, Rev. Thomas A. Reeves, from the Presbytery of
Boston.
September 19, 1893, Rev. John H. Myer, from the Presbytery of
St. Paul.
Minister received from another denomination —
June 20, 1893, Rev Edwin M. Bliss, from the Manhattan Congre-
gational Association.
Licentiates received—
June 9, 1893, Asa Wynkoop, from the Presbytery of New York.
September 19, 1893, Stephen W. Righter, from the Presbytery of
Monmouth.
96 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
Candidates received —
April II, 1893, John M. Thomas, from the Presbytery of Cham-
plain.
April 19, 1893, Eugene A. Mitchel, from the Presbytery of Chester.
Lice7isures —
•January 17, 1893, Stephen W. Righter.
April II, 1893, R. Hilliard Gage, John M. Thomas.
Ordinations —
June 9, 1893, John M. Thomas.
June 28, 1893, Asa Wynkoop.
Ministers dismissed —
April II, 1893, Rev. Arthur C. Dill, to the Presbytery of Albany.
September 19, 1893, Rev. Rufus S. Green, D.D., to the Presbytery
of Chemung.
Minister dismissed to another denomination —
June 20, 1893, Rev, IvCwis B. Paton, to the Middlesex Congrega-
tional Association.
Liceyitiate distnissed —
June 9, 1893, Stephen W. Righter, to the Presbytery of Mon-
mouth.
Installatiotis—
April 19, 1893, Rev. Thomas A. Reeves, as pastor at Rockaway.
May 10, 1893, Rev. Andrew M. Sherman, as pastor at Whippany.
June 9, 1893, Rev. John M. Thomas, as pastor of the Arlington
Avenue Church, East Orange.
June 28, 1893, Rev. Asa Wynkoop, as pastor of Trinity Church,
South Orange.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
May 7, 1893, between Rev. John R. Fisher and the First Church,
South Orange.
September 17, 1893, between Rev. Rufus S. Green, D.D., and the
Central Church, Orange.
Church organized
November 10, 1893, Arlington Avenue Church, East Orange.
Deaths —
October 27, 1892, Rev. Elias Levi Boing, at Green Village, N. J.,
aged sixty-eight years-
i8()j. Statistical Reports. 97
January 8. 1893, Rev. Pearce Rogers, at Mine Hill, N. J., aged
fifty- five 5' ears.
June 4, 1893, Rev. Albert Williams, at West Orange, N. J., aged
eighty- five years.
William F. Whitaker,
Stated Clerk.
VI. The Presbytery of Newark consists of fifty-seven minis-
ters and thirty-two churches, and has under its care one licentiate
and twelve candidates.
Ministers received —
January 20, 1893, Rev. Paul F. Sutphen, D.D., from the Presbytery
of Cleveland.
April 5, 1893, Rev. Howard T. Widdemer from the Northern N. J.
Conference of Congregational Ministers.
Minister received 07i probation —
February i, 1893, Rev. G. Waldemar Gorlitz, ordained minister of
the Moravian Church, Germany.
Ordinations —
October 28, 1892, Edwin Fairley.
May 10, 1893, Albert Pfaus.
May II, 1893, Henry L. P. A. Schwartz.
October 4, 1893, Charles Schneegas.
Licensures —
May 10, 1893, John Becker and Martin Henry Qual.
May II, 1893, Henry L. P. A. Schwartz.
October 4, 1893, Charles Schneegas.
Pastoral relations constituted —
October 28, 1892, Rev. Edwin Fairley, with Roseland Church.
January 20, 1893, Rev. Paul F. Sutphen, D.D., with Second Church,
Newark.
Lice7itiates dismissed —
April 5, 1S93, Winthrop Gates to Presbytery of Philadelphia,
North.
May ID, 1893, Martin Henry Qual to Classis of Philadelphia, Ger-
man Reformed Church.
Candidates received o?i exavwiation —
October 4, 1893, George Brauer, George G. Wacker, William J.
Kern, Louis C. Kniger.
7
^ Statistical Reports. Oct.,
Minister deceased —
March ii, 1893, Rev. J. Addison Priest, D.D., at Montclair, N. J.,
in the seventy-first year of his age.
Julius H. Wolff,
Stated Clerk
VII. The Presbytery of New Brunswick consists of sixty-six
ministers and thirty-four churches, and has under its care three
licentiates and fifty-four candidates.
Ministers received from other Presbyteries —
April II, 1893, Rev. George T. Purves, from the Presbytery of
Pittsburgh.
April 12, 1893, Rev. James B. Clark, from the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia.
June 27, 1893, Rev. Varnum D. Collins, from the Presbytery of
Canton, China.
Ministers received front other Detiominatiofis —
January 31, 1893, Rev. George Warrington, from Beaver Valley
Presbytery, United Presbyterian Church.
June 27, 1893, Rev. David T. Smyth, from South Philadelphia
Conference, M. E. Church.
September 11, 1893, Rev. William W. Knox, from the South
Classis of Bergen.
Ministers dismissed to other Presbyteries —
February 27, 1893, Rev. D. Stuart Moore, to the Presbytery of
Philadelphia.
June 27, 1893, Rev. Varnum D. Collins, to the Presbytery of
Washington.
September 11, 1893, Rev. George Warrington, to the Presbytery
of West Jersey.
October 18, 1893, Rev. Charles Clinton Meek, to the Presbytery of
Furrukhabad.
Minister dismissed to another denomination—
December 5, 1892, Rev. Adrian Westveer, to the Classis of Passaic.
Ordination, sine tit7ilo —
April 26, 1893, Charles Clinton Meek.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
December 5, 1892, Rev. Adrian Westveer, with Amwell Second
Church, to take effect December 11, 1892.
iSgj. Statistical Reports. '99
February 27, 1893, Rev. D Stuart Moore, with Hamilton Square
Church, to take effect March 5, 1893.
Pastoral relations constittded —
May 4, 1893, Rev. James B. Clark, with Amwell Second Church.
July 13, 1893, Rev. David T. Smyth, with Hamilton Square
Church.
September 15, 1893, Rev. William W. Knox, with New Brunsw ck
First Church.
Candidates received o?i certificate —
October 4, 1892, James M. Boger, from Presbytery of Catawba.
January 31, 1S93, Henry McBride, from Presbytery of Belfast >
Ireland.
April 25, 1893, Thomas John Harrison, from Presbytery of Bally-
bay, Ireland.
April 25, 1893, Neelo Freerichs Janssen, from Presbytery of Free-
port.
April 25, 1893, Conover Samuel Osborn, from Presbyter}^ of Mon-
mouth.
Candidates received on examination —
April 25, 1893, John H. Alexander, Ernest C. Arns, Franklin John
Barackman, Rufus Luther Barackman, Robinson P. D Bennett,
James Boddy, Henry Kreider Denlinger, William Harris, Jr.,
James Ross Macdonald, David Charles Mackintosh, Charles
Spurgeon McKinney, Levi Schade Mogel, Charles Ogden
Mudge, Delavan Leonard Pierson.
June 27, 1S93, Maurice Alexander Filson.
Lice?isures —
April 25, 1893, Thomas John Harrison, Henry MacBride, Charles
Clinton Meek and George Livingstone Robinson.
Candidates dismissed to other Presbyteries —
November 11, 1892, Gregory Avack Shiragian, to the Presbytery
of New York.
November 29, 1892, Henry M. Moore, to the Presbytery of New
York.
April 3, 1893, James Robinson, to the Presbytery of New Castle.
April 6, 1893, Alexander Gilmore, to the Presbytery of New Castle.
April 22, 1893, Burton H. Woodford, to the Presbytery of Chicago.
Licentiate dismissed —
May 9, 1893, John A. Terhune, to the Presbytery of North River
Amzi L. Ar.mstrong,
Stated Clerk.
loo Statistical Reports. Oct.,
VIII. — The Presbytery of Newton consists of thirty-seven
ministers, and has under its care thirty-seven churches, two licen-
tiates and five candidates for the Gospel ministry.
Ministers received—
December i6, 1892, Rev. Alfred N Raven, from the Association of
Central New York of the Congregational Church
February 2-], 1893, Rev Samuel F. Bacon, from the Presbytery of
Kalamazoo.
June I, 1893, Rev.' Edgar A. Hamilton, from the Presbytery of
Ozark ; Rev. Edwin J. Reinke. from the Presbytery of Lehigh.
October 4, 1893, Rev. George B. Crawford, from the Presb5^tery of
Lehigh.
Candidates received —
June I, 1893. Courtland P. Butler.
October 3, 1893, Rheuel H. Merrell and James H. Northrop.
Lice?ise conferred —
April 12, 1893, R. Collins Bryant,
Mifiisters dismissed—
December 16, 1892, Rev. Eliphalet W. Brown, to the Presbytery
of Corning.
April II, 1893, Rev Albert L. Kelly, to the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia North.
October 4, 1893, Rev. I Davison Decker, to the Presbytery of
Butler.
Pastoral relatiofis cofistituted —
December 16, 1892, Rev. Alfred N. Raven, with the First Church
of Phillipsburgh.
June 25, 1893, Rev. Edwin J. Reinke, with the Church of Green-
wich.
June 28, 1893, Rev. Samuel F. Bacon, with the First Church of
Wantage.
June 28, 1893, Rev. Edgar A. Hamilton, with the Church of
Deckertown.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
December 16, 1892, between the Rev. Eliphalet W. Brown and the
Church of Greenwich, to take effect December 18, 1892
February 27 1893, between the Rev. Alexander McA. Thorburn
and the Church of Deckertown, to take effect the same da}'.
i8gj. Statistical Reports. ioi
April II, 1S93, between the Rev. Albert L. Kelly and the Church
of Musconetcong Valley, to take effect April 16, 1893.
April 12, 1893, between the Rev. James M. Huntting and the
Church of Andover, to take eifect April 30, 1893.
June I, 1S93, between the Rev. I. Davison Decker and the Church
of Harmony, to take effect June 25, 1893.
June 13, 1S93, between the Rev. Charles D. Nott, D.D., and the
Church of Washington, to take effect the same day.
E. Clarke Cline,
Stated Clerk.
IX. — The Presbytery of West Jersey consists of forty- six min-
isters, forty-eight churches, and has under its care two licentiates
and eight candidates.
Ministers received—
April 18, 1893, Arthur W. Spooner, from the Presbytery of Hunt-
ingdon.
April 18, 1893, James M. Cockins, from the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia.
May 17, 1893, J. Baillie Adams, from the Presbytery of Baltimore.
June 27, 1893, John Turner, from the Presbytery of Hudson.
September 26, 1893, James C. Russell, from the Presb^'tery of
Chemung
September 26, 1893, John E. Wildey, from Sullivan Congrega-
tional Association, N. H.
September 27, 1893, George Warrington, from the Presbytery of
New Brunswick.
Ministers dismissed —
January 31, 1893, John T. Crumrine, to the Presbytery of Geneva.
February 13, 1893, William Boyd, to the Presbytery of Chester.
June 27, 1893, Thomas W. Pulham.tothe Presbytery of Baltimore.
September 26, 1893, Andrew J. Sullivan, Ph D., D.D., to the Pres-
b3tery of Philadelphia.
Licentiate received —
April 18, 1893, Daniel I. Camp, from the Presbytery of Monmouth.
Licensure —
June 27, 1893, Phineas B. Kennedy.
Ordination —
May 17, 1893, Daniel I. Camp
hist a llatiofts —
October 31, 1892, Andrew J. Sullivan, Ph.D., D.D., as pastor of
Third Camden Church.
102 Statistical Reports. Oct., 1893.
May II, 1893, Arthur W. Spooner, as pastor of First Camden
Church.
May II, 1893, D. I. Camp, as pastor of the Tuckahoe Church.
August 23, 1893, John Turner, as pastor of the Deerfield Church.
October 10, 1893, James C. Russell, as pastor of the Second Cam-
den Church.
Pastoral relatio?is dissolved —
October 19, 1892, Rev. Wellington E. Loucks, with First Camden
Church.
Januar}' 31, 1893, Rev. John T. Crumrine, with First Cedarville
Church.
February 13, 1893, Rev. William Boyd, with Second Camden
Church.
April 18, 1893, Rev. Edward Scofield, with Cold Spring Church.
June 27, 1S93, Rev. Thomas W. Fulham, with Fairfield Church.
September 26, 1893, Rev. Andrew J. Sullivan, Ph.D , D.D , with
Third Camden Church.
Ca?idtdates received on exaininatio7i —
April 18, 1893, Leonard P. Davidson.
September 26, 1893, Homer C. Snitcher.
Expiration of licensjire —
September 26, 1893, the term of licensure of Mr. Robert B Stevens
was declared to have expired by limitation of time.
Change of title—
The title of the Cape Island Church has been changed to the First
Presbyterian Church of Cape May.
Ministers deceased —
Rev. Julius E. Werner died at Colorado Springs, May loth, 1893,
in the forty-fourth year of his age.
Rev. Albert Worthington died at Ambler, Pa., May i6th, 1893, in
the eighty-seventh 5'ear of his age
Rev. John O. Wells died at Greenville, Greene county, N. Y., July
22d, 1893, in the seventy-sixth year of his age.
Henry Reeves,
Stated Clerk.
. Standing Rules of the Synod.
I. — The Synod shall meet annually, on the third Tuesday of October,
at 3 o'clock P. M., unless otherwise ordered.
II. — The officers of Synod shall be a Moderator, a Stated Clerk, a
Permanent Clerk, a Recording Clerk and a Treasurer
III. — The Moderator shall be elected annually, after calling the roll
of the Presbyteries for nominations, when the Presbytery
which has been longest without having a representative in
the Moderator's chair shall be called first. The Clerks and
Treasurer shall be elected by ballot, unless otherwise ordered,
and shall hold office during the pleasure of Synod.
IV. — It shall be the duty of the Stated Clerk to cause a notice of the
time and place of meeting to be published in the religious
papers, most current in the Synod, at least three weeks prior
to the time of meeting ; to lay on the Moderator's table, at
the opening of Synod, a printed docket of business ; to pre-
serve the proceedings of Synod in printed form ; to file and
preserve all important papers coming into the possession of
Synod ; to furnish certified copies of minutes to those properly
entitled to them ; to conduct the correspondence of Synod ;
to transmit to the General Assembly the Statistical Report
and the duly certified printed Records of Synod ; to send a
printed copy of the minutes of each annual meeting of Synod
to every Minister, to the Session of each vacant ciurch, and
to each Ruling Elder who attended that meeting ; and to
cause the copies that have been submitted to the General
Assembly to be bound in volumes at suitable intervals. The
Stated Clerk shall print an Appendix to the Minutes, which
shall contain all the papers and reports presented to Synod
that are of permanent value. But in preparing such mate-
rials for publication he shall be authorized to abridge the same,
except where resolutions and recommendations have been
adopted by Synod, and when otherwise ordered by Synod.
V. — The Permanent Clerk shall prepare a roll of Synod before the
opening. To enable him to do this, all members shall report
themselves to him on arrival at the place of meeting. To him
I04 Standing Rui.es of the Synod. Oct.,
reasons for absence or late attendance shall be given, and of
him permission to leave shall be obtained. He shall be the
Reading Clerk, call the roll, and otherwise assist the Stated
Clerk as he may require ; and he shall act as Stated Clerk in
the absence or disability of that oflScer.
VI. — The Recording Clerk shall make the minutes of the proceed-
ings of Synod from day to day, and deliver them to the Stated
Clerk on the adjournment of Synod ; and he shall act as
Permanent Clerk in the absence or disability of that oflScer.
VII. — The compensation of the Stated Clerk shall be one hundred
dollars per annum, that of the Permanent and Recording
Clerks, thirty dollars respectively.
VIII.— The Treasurer shall receive and disburse all funds of the
Synod for contingent expenses, and render an itemized
account at each annual meeting.
COMMITTEES.
IX. — The Committees of Synod shall be divided into three classes,
viz. : Standing, Permanent and Special.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Standing Committees, to be appointed by the Mod-
erator at each annual meeting, shall be as follows :
1. On Bills and Overtures, seven members — four Min-
isters, of whom one shall be the retiring Moderator, and three
Ruling Elders.
2. Judicial Committee, seven members — four Ministers
and three Ruling Elders.
3. On Records of Presbyteries, three members for each
PrewSbytery — two Ministers and one Ruling Elder.
4. On Minutes of General Assembly, three members —
two Ministers and one Ruling Elder.
5. On Narrative, three members— two Ministers and one
Ruling Elder.
6. On Finance, four members— two Ministers and two
Ruling Elders, who shall audit the accounts of the Treasurer
of Synod and of the Treasurers of the different funds ; and
arrange the apportionment of the amount required from each
Presbytery for contingent expenses.
/<?9J- Standing Rules of the Synod. 105
X. — The Committee of Arrangements shall consist of all the Pres-
byterian Pastors and one Ruling Elder from each church in
the place where the Synod meets, together with the Stated
Clerk of Synod, the Pastor of the church in which Synod
meets to be chairman. They shall provide accommodations
for the Synod ; suggest hours of meeting and adjournment ;
arrange for public services, and the persons to conduct them,
and provide for hearing representatives of the Boards.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES.
XI. — The Permanent Committees of the Synod shall be as follows :
1. On Synodical Home Missions, eight members — one for
each Home Presbytery.
2. On Foreign Missions, eighteen members— one Minister
and one Ruling Elder for each Presbytery.
3. On Historical Materials, six members — four Minis-
ters and two Ruling Elders.
4. On Sabbath-School Work, seven members— four Min-
isters and three Ruling Elders.
5. On Sabbath Observance, three members — two Minis-
ters and one Ruling Elder.
6. On Temperance, nine members — one from each Home
Presbyter}', besides the chairman.
7 On Unemployed Ministers and Vacant Churches,
eight members — one from each Home Presbytery.
8. On Necrology, three members — two Ministers and one
Ruling Elder.
9. On Systematic Beneficence, eight members — one
from each Home Presbytery.
10. On Work Among Foreign Populations, five mem-
bers— three Ministers and two Ruling Elders.
XII. — The Permanent Committees shall each report to S^'nod an-
nually, upon the matters assigned to them, and recommend
suitable action to be taken by Synod in relation thereto.
io6 Standing Rules op the Synod. Oct., i8gj.
XIII. — The Necrological Committee shall present, at the annual
meeting, brief obituary notices of all Ministers of Synod who
have deceased during the Synodical year.
XIV. — Each Presbytery belonging to the Synod shall send a written
Narrative of the State of Religion within its bounds, to the
Synod's Committee on Narrative, at least one week previous
to the stated meeting of Synod.
XV. — The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper shall be administered at
each stated meeting of the Synod, under the superintendence
of the retiring Moderator, or the Minister presiding in his
place, at such time and place as the Committee of Arrange-
ments shall designate.
XVI — The Committee on Sytematic Beneficence shall co-operate
with the Stated Clerk and the Committee of Arrangements in
selecting topics and securing speakers to address the Synod
upon the {Subjects of Benevolence and Church Work, and the
evening session of the second day of the meeting of Synod
shall be devoted exclusively to popular addresses, by Secre-
taries of Boards or others.
XVII. — All notices of, or calls for, meetings of Presbyteries or Com-
mittees, and all resolutions, shall be in writing and read by
the Clerk.
XVIII. — The rules for Judicatories adopted by the General Assem-
bly shall be the rules of the Synod, so far as they apply.
XIX —These rules may be amended or repealed by a two-thirds
vote, but if notice of a proposed change has been given at a
previous stated meeting, a majority may amend or repeal ;
and any one of these rules may be temporarily suspended by
a majority vote.
Permanent Committees.
Synodical Home Missions.
REV. JOHN DIXON, D D. REV. JOSEPH M. MC NULTY, D.D.,
REV. CHARLES D. SHAW, D.D , REV. ALFRED H. DASHIELL, D.D.
REV. J. GARLAND HAMNER, JR., REV. WILLIAM THOMSON,
REV. THEODORE F. WHITE, D.D. REV. FREDERIC R. BRACE, PH.D.
Foreign Missions.
REV. R. HAMILL NASSAU, D.D.,
REV. JOHN W. TEAL, D.D.,
REV. PHILO F LEAVENS, D.D.,
REV. EDWARD B HODGE,
REV. WILLIAM F. WHITAKER,
REV. FORD C. OTTMAN,
REV. ABRAHAM GOSMAN, D.D.,
REV. HEBER H. BEADLE,
REV. HENRY S. BUTLER, D.D.,
Chairrnayi.
ELDER CHARLES O. MORRIS,
ELDER CHARLES A. DEWITT,
ELDER HORACE CHURCHMAN,
ELDER HENRY E. SIMMONS,
ELDER WILLIAM RANKIN,
ELDER HUGH H HAMILL,
ELDER H. O. HILDEBRAND,
ELDER DAVID R. HULL.
Historical Materials.
REV. ALLEN H. BROWN,
REV. DAVID R. FRAZER, D.D.
REV. JOHN C. CLYDE, D.D.,
REV. EBEN B. COBB,
REV. HENRY C. CAMERON, D.D.,
REV. CHARLES HERR, D.D.,
REV. WILLIAM F. WHITAKER,
REV. R. HAMILL NASSAU, D.D.,
ELDER JAMES STEEN.
Sabbath-School Work.
REV. GEORGE H. INGRAM, REV. HUGH B. MAC CAULEY,
REV. HENRY GOODWIN SMITH, REV. ROBERT J. BURTT,
ELDER JEREMIAH BAKER, ELDER JAMES J. REEVES,
ELDER PALMER CAMPBELL
Sabbath Observance.
REV. GEORGE S. MOTT, D.D., REV. GEORGE SWAIN, D.D.,
ELDER JOHN A. ANDERSON.
io8 Permanent Committees. Oct., iS9j.
Temperance.
REV. WILLIAM E- HONEYMAN,
REV. JOSEPH M MCNULTY, D.D., REV. CHARLES D. SHAW, DD.,
REV. THOMAS CARTER, REV. J. GARLAND HAMNER, JR.,
REV. JOSEPH G SYMMES, D D., REV J. DEHART BRUEN,
REV. WILLIAM V. LOUDERBOUGH REV. TITUS E. DAVIS.
Unemployed Ministers and Vacant Churches.
REV. JOHN R. FISHER, REV. LEWIS W MUDGE, D.D.,
REV. SAMUEL PARRY, " REV. E. CLARKE CLIN'E,
REV. GEORGE SLUTER, REV. WELLINGTON E. LOUCKS,
REV. ALFRED H. DASHIELL, DD
Necrology.
REV. SYLVESTER W. BEACH, REV. EDWARD B. HODGE, D.D.,
ELDER SAMUEL H. PENNINGTON, M.D.
Systematic Beneficence.
REV. ROBERT A. BRYANT, REV. JOSEPH G. SYMMES, D.D.,
REV. THEODORE F. WHITK, D D , REV. JOSHUA B. GALLAWAY,
REV ISAIAH B. HOPWOOD, D.D., REV. HARRY L. JANEWAY,
REV. THOMAS S. LONG, ELDER EDWARD P TENNY.
"Work Among Foreign Populations.
REV. ALBERT ERDMAN, D.r>., REV. EDWIN A. BULKLEY, D.D.,
REV. JOSEPH S. VANDYKE, D.D., ELDER AARON CARTER,
ELDfeR FRED W. B.\LDW1N.
Young People's Societies.
REV. HUGH B. MAC CAULEY, REV. LEWIS W. MUDGE, D D.,
REV. BENJAMIN S. EVERITT.
Trustees of Synod.
REV. ROBERT AIKMAN, D.D., REV. ALLEN H. BROWN,
President. Treasurer.
REV. CHARLES D. SHAW, D.D., REV. ABRAHAM GOSMAN, D.D.,
REV. HUGH SMYTHE, REV. WILLIAM THOMSON,
REV. ALFRED H. DASHIELL, D.D., ELDER JOSEPH ALWARD,
ELWOOD C. HARRIS, ESQ.
Custodians of Historical Material.
Rev. Walter A. Brooks, D.D., Stated Clerk, Trenton, N. J.
Rev. Joseph H. Dulles, Librarian Theol. Seminary, Princeton, N J.
Moderators Since the Reunion.
DATE.
PLACE OF
MEETING.
June 21,
Oct. i8,
Oct. 17,
Oct. 15,
Oct. 21,
Oct. 20,
Oct. 19,
Oct 17,
Oct. 16,
Oct. 15,
Oct. 21,
Oct. 19,
Oct. 18,
Oct. 17,
Oct. 16,
Oct. 21,
Oct. 20,
Oct. 18,
Oct. 17,
Oct. 15,
Oct. 21,
Oct. 20,
Oct. 20,
Oct. 18,
Oct. 17.
1870 Elizabeth,
1870 Morristown,
187 1 Bloomfield,
1872 Trenton, .
1873 Washington,
1874 Camden, .
1875 Orange, .
1876 Elizabeth,
18771 Newark, .
1878' Morristown,
1879 Trenton, ,
1880 Bridgeton,
l88i|Asbury Park,
1882 flackettstown
1883 Orange, . .
1884 Elizabeth. .
1885 Atlantic City,
1886 Camden, . .
18871 Asbury Park,
1888 Asbury Park,
iSSg^Asbury Park,
1890 Atlantic City,
1 89 1 Long Branch,
1892 Bel videre,
i893lRrids:eton, .
MODERATOR.
*Rev. Jona. F. Stearns, D.D., .
*Rev. Charles K. Imbrie, D.D.,
Rev. Robert Aikman, D.D., .
^Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., .
Rev. J. H. Mcllvaine, D.D., .
*Rev. J. M. McDonald, D.D., .
Rev. William C. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Thomas McCauley,
Rev. E Kempshall, D.D.,
Rev. William Bannard, D.D.,
Rev. Abraham Gosman, D.D.,
Rev. Charles E. Knox, D.D.,
Rev. Joseph G. Symmes, D.D.,
*Rev. Alfred Yeomans, D.D., .
Rev. Edwin A. Bulkley, D D ,
*Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D.D.,
Rev. Allen H. Brown, . . .
Rev. William Thomson, . , .
Rev. Frank Chandler, D D.. .
Rev. K P Ketcham, D D., .
Rev. Henry M Storrs, D D , .
Rev. David R Frazer, D D , .
Rev. Charles D Shaw, D D , .
Rev. R. Hamill Nassau, D D.,
Rev. S. M. Studdiford, D.D , .
PRESBYTERY.
Newark.
Jersey City.
Morris & Orange.
Monmouth.
Newark.
New Brunswick.
Elizabeth.
Newton.
Elizabeth.
West Jersey.
New Brunswick.
Newark.
Monmouth.
Morris & Orange.
Jersey City.
New Brunswick.
West Jersey.
Newton.
Monmouth.
Elizabeth.
Morris & Orange.
Newark.
Jersey City.
Corisco
New Brunswick.
• Deceased.
Ministers in the Synod of New Jersey.
Abbott, Justin E., Bombay, India. J. C.
Adams. J. Baillie, Elwood. W. J.
Aikman, Robert, D.D., Madison. M.& O.
Aikman, William, U.U., Atlantic City. W. J.
Ainslee, John A., Mosul, Turkey, N. B.
Alexander, Maitland, Long Branch. Mon.
A'.e.\ander, William A., Plainfield. EHz.
Allen, Lyman W ., Newark. N'rk.
Anderson, Charles T., Somerville. M. & O.
Armstrong, Amzi L., Dutch Neck. N. B.
Bacon, Samuel F., Deckertown, Newt.
Baldwin, Theodore A., Broussa, Turkey.
N'rk.
Ballantine, Henry W., D.D., Bloomfield.
N'rk.
Bannard, William, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
W. J.
Bannerman, William S., Ogowe River, W.
Africa. Cor.
Bardwell. David M., Perth Araboy. M. & O.
Barnes, George G., Hamburgh. Newt.
Beach, Sylvester W., Bridgeton. W. J.
Beadle, Heber H., Bridt;eton. W. J.
Beatty, Henry T., Hobo'<en. J. C
Beaumont, James P., Morristown. M. & O.
Belden William H., Clifton Springs, N. Y.
W.J.
Bent, R. Howard Shanghai China. W. J.
Bentley, Richard, Tenafly. J. C.
Berry, Charles T., Caldwell. N'rk.
Berry, George T., Caldwell. N'rk.
Blauvelt, L Alstyne, D.D., Roselle. Eliz.
Bliss, Edwin M., East Orange. M. & O.
Blumenfeld, David, Pleasantdale. M. & O.
Bonsall. George H., Keyport. Mon.
Booth, Henry i\L. D. D., Auburn, N. Y. J. C.
Botsford, Alfred P., Wenonah. W. J.
Brace, Frederic R., Ph.D., Blackwood. W. J.
fradley, Joseph H., Tuckerton. Mon.
Brewster. James F., Summit. INL & O.
Bridges, William J , Bridgeton. W. J.
Bridgman, Chester, Woodstown. W. f.
Brooks, Walter. A.. D.D., Trenton. N. B.
Brown, Allen H., Camden. W. J.
Brown, Josiah J., Newark. N'rk.
Bruen, James DeHart. Belvidere. Newt.
Bryant, Robert A. Asbury Park. Newt.
Buckle, George, Elizabeth. Iliz.
Bulkley, Edwin A., D.D., Rutherford. J. C.
BuUard, Charles B., Parsippany. M. & O.
Burtt, Robert J.. Marksboro Newt.
Butler, Henry S., D.D., Blairstown. Newt.
Buttinghausen, Remi Justus, Camden. W. J.
Cadwell, Newton W., Westfield. Eliz.
Cameron, Henry C, D.D., Princeton. N. B.
Camp, Daniel L, Tuckahoe. W. J.
Campbell, George H. S., Danville. Newt.
Campbell, Richard S., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Campbell, Stuart Mc.A., Lyons Farms. N'rk.
Carlile, Samuel, D.D.. Newton. Newt.
Carroll, Vernon B.. Tenafly. J.C.
Carter, Thomas, Boonton. M. & O.
Casanowicz. Immanuel M., Ph.D., Baltimore,
Md. N'rk.
Chambers, L Mench, Merchantville. W.J.
Chambers, Theodore F., German Valley, M.
&0.
Chandler, Frank, D.D., Asbury Park. Mon.
Clark, James B., Mt. Airy. N. B.
Clark, Fohn P., Stillwater. Newt.
Cline, E Clarke, Phillipsburgh. Newt.
Clyde, John C, D.D., Bloomsbury. Newt.
Coale, James J., Mt. Holly. Mon.
Cobb, Eben B., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Cockins, James M., Cape May. W.J.
Colville, Andrew, New York. J. C.
Condit, Isaac H., Stanhope. Newt.
Condit, Uzal W., Ph.D., Easton, Pa. Newt.
Converse, Charles S., Union. Eliz.
Cottrell Georije W., Wheatland. Mon.
Coyle, Leonidas E., Bridgeton. W. J.
Crane, Edward P., Hanover, Germany. J. C.
Crane, Oliver, D.D., LL. D., Boston, Mass.,
M. & O.
Crawford, George B., Franklin Furnace.
Newt.
CromacU, Joseph C. Perth Amboy. Newt.
Cronin, Henry C., Jersey City. J. C.
Crowell, John, D.D , East Orange. M. & O.
Cunningham, William Luke, D.D., Point
Pleasant. Mon.
Dashiell, Alfred H., D.D., Lakewood. Mon.
Davis, John D., Ph.D., Princeton. N. B.
Davis, Titus E., Baund Brook. N. B.
Decker, Frank H., Manapalan. Mon.
Dennis, James S., D. D., Beirut, Svria. N'rk.
Deyo, O". H. Perry, Highland, N.Y. M.&O
Dillon, Edward, Woodbury. W. J.
Di.xon. John, D.D., Trenton. N. B.
Dod, Samuel B., East Orange. M. & O.
Dodd. William S., M.D., Cajsarea, Turkey.
M. &0.
Doughty, James Walter, Yamaguchi, Japan.
N. B.
Duffield, John T., D.D., LL D., Princeton.
N. B.
Dulles, Joseph H , Princeton. N. B.
Eddy, George T., P.everlev. Mon.
Eddy, William W., D.D., Beirut, Syria. N'rk.
Edmondson. John B., Belvidere. Newt.
Eells, James, Englewood. J. C".
Egbert, James C, D.D., West Hoboken. J C.
Elliott, James C. Brooklyn. Mon.
Erdman, Albert D.D., Morristown. M. S: O.
Everett, Charles, Belmar. Mon.
Everitt, Benjamin S., Jamesburg. Mon
Everitt, Frank B., Trenton. NT B.
Ewing, John, D.D., Daretown, W. J.
Fairley, Edwin, Roseland. N'rk.
Ferguson, James A., D.D., Hanover: M. & O.
Fergusson, E. Morris, Trenton. Newt.
Filson, William H., Frenchtown. N. B.
Finney, William P., Moorestown. Mon.
Fisher, John R., Newark. M. Xc O.
Ford, Henry T., Kansas City. Mo. J. C.
Foster, Bentley S., South Amboy. Mon.
Foster, Daniel K., Trenton. N. B.
112
Ministers in the Synod of New Jersey.
Oct.,
Frazer. David R., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Freed, Joseph K., Jacksonville. Mon.
French, J. Clement, D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Frissell, A . Cogswell, New York, N. Y. N'rk.
Frissell, Hollis B., Hampton, Va. N'rk.
Gabrielian, M. C, M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
N. B.
Gallaway, Joshua B., Paterson. J. C.
Gardner, Edward P., Chatham. M. & O.
Garretson, George R., Jersey City. J. C.
Gault, William Chambers, Batanga, West
Africa. Cor.
George, William A., Paterson. J. C.
Gibson, James R., Califon. Eliz.
Gillespie, George E., New Egypt. Mon.
Gillespie, John, U. D., 53 Fifth Ave., New
York. Eliz. ,.•<
Glover, Charles P., Trenton. N. B.
Godduhn, George Albert, Batanga, West
Africa. Cor.
Good, Adolphus C, Ph.D., Batanga, West
Africa. Cor.
Gosman, Abraham, D.D., Lawrenceville.
N. B.
Green, William Henry, D.D., LL. L)., Prince-
ton. N. B.
Greene, George F., Cranford. Eliz.
Gruhnert, Herman Carl, Orange. M. & O.
Guenther, Johann U., Newark. N'rk.
Haley, Charles T., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Hall, Henry R.. Columbus. Mon.
Hall, John, U.U., Trenton. N. B.
Halloway, William W., Morris Plains. M.
&0.
Halloway. William W., Jr., D.D., Dover.
M. & O.
Hamilton, Edgar A., Deckertown. Newt.
Hamner, J. Garland, D.D., Lamington. Eliz.
Hamner, J. Garland, Jr., Newark. N'rk.
Hanle, Frederick B., Passaic. J. C.
Harbaugh, F. Reck, Red BanK. Mon.
Hardin, Oscar J., Abeih, Syria. Newt.
Haring, Harry VV., Delanco. Mon.
Harlow, Henry A., Mendham. M. & O.
Harlow, Samuel A., Trenton. N. B.
Hascall, Theodoras B.. Ph.D., Rutherford.
J. C.
Hathaway, Israel W., D.D., Jersey City.
J. C.
Hausser, F. Ernst, Ph.D., Bloomfield. N'rk
Hazard, O. Howell, Bound Brook. N. E.
Henderson, William J., Glen Gardner. Eliz.
Herr, Charles, D. U., Jersey City. J. C.
Herring, Charles E., Plainfield. Eliz.
Heywood. Thomas, Elizabeth. Eliz.
Hickok, Henry F., D.D., Orange. M. & O.
Higgins. A. McShannon, Beemerville. Newt.
Hinsdale, Horace G., D.D., Princeton. N. B.
Hodge, Edward B., D.D., Burlington. Mon.
Hollifield, A. Nelson, D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Hollinshed, William, Sparta. M. & O.
Honeyman, William E., Plainfield. Eliz.
Hooper, Washington A., West Summit. M.
&0
Hoppaugh, William, Springfield. Eliz.
Hopwood. Isaiah B., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Houghtaling, Paul, Riverton. Mon.
Houston, Thomas, Jersey City. J. C.
Howell, J Beatty, Burlington. Mon.
Hunsicker, Francis R. S., D.D., Lafayette.
Newt.
Hunt, Theodore \V., Ph.D., Princeton. Eliz.
Huntting, James M., Andover. Newt.
Hutchings, Samuel, D.D., Orange. N'rk.
Hutchinson, Aaron F., Trenton. N. B.
Hutchinson, David W., Paterson.^ J. C.
Hutchison, John, Arlington. J. C.
Hutchison, S. Nye, Belvidere. Newt.
Hynson, Nathan D., Manasquan. Mon
Imbrie, William, D.D. J. C.
Ingram, George H., Trenton. N. B.
Irving, David O., East Orange. M. & O.
Jackson, Fred. W., Jr., China. N'rk.
Jacot, Herman L., Ogowe River, W. Africa.
Cor.
Janeway, Harry L., Williamstown. W. J.
Jessup, William, Beirut, Syria. N. B.
J'Ikenge, Ibia, Gaboon, W. Africa. Cor.
Johns, William H., Woodbury. W. J.
Johnson, Alfred V. C, Yonkers, N. Y. M.
&0.
Johnson, Benjamin P., Woodstown. W. J.
Jones, Franklin C, Newark. M. & O.
Jones, Henry W. F., Bayonne. Eliz.
Julien, Robert, Bordentown. Mon.
Junkin, William F., D.D., LL.D., Montclair.
N'rk.
Kellogg, Samuel, Plainfield. Eliz.
Kempshall, Everard, D.D., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Kennedy, James B., Trenton. N. B.
Kern, John F., Orange. M. & O.
Kerr, Frank M. , Chester. M. & O.
Kerr, James R., Hopewell. N. B.
Kerr, John T , Elizabeth. Eliz.
Kerr, Oliver A., Bordentown. Mon.
Ketcham, Kneeland P., D.D., Plainfield
Eliz.
Kilbourn, John K., Philadelphia, Pa. W. J.
King, David H., Vineland. W.J.
Kirk, William Henry, Orange. M. & O.
Klein, Charles F. A., Ph.D., Rahway. Eliz.
Knipe, Samuel W., Oceanic. Mon.
Kno.x, Charles E., D.D., Bloomfield. N'rk.
Knox, William W., New Brunswick. N^ B.
Kuebler, C. Rudolph, Hackensack. J. C.
Kugler, John B., Keaville. N. B.
Lampman, Lewis, D.D. , Newark. N'rk.
Landis, John L., Cape May. W.J.
Landis, Henry M., Tokyo, Japan. N. B.
La Velle, James, New York, N. Y. M. &. O.
Leavens, Philo F., D.D., Passaic. J. C.
Leeper. S. Harper, Mt. Holly. Mon.
Leonard, Stephen C, Orange. M. & O.
Liggett, John A., D.D., Rahway. Eliz.
Lloyd, George W., Branchville. Newt.
Lockwood, V. LeRoy, D.D., Bloomfield.
N'rK.
Long, Thomas S., Dayton. N. B.
Loock, George, Long Hill. M. & O.
Loucks, Wellington E., Philadelphia, Pa.
W. J.
Louderbough, William V,, Salem. W. J.
Love, Edward, Plainfield. Eliz.
Lowrey, John, Hackettstown. Newt.
Ludlow, James M., D.D., East Orange. M.
&0.
Lum, Samuel Y., Mays Landing. W. J.
Lusk, Davis W., Newark. N'rk.
Lyle, Albert F., Newark. N'rk.
Lynch, William A., Newark. N'rk.
MacCauley, Hugh B., Newark. N'rk.
McClellan, Chas. H.. Lakewood. Mon.
McClelland, Hugh R., Ph.D., Lake View.
J. C.
McClenaghan, Samuel J., East Orange. M.
&0.
McConaughy, Nathaniel, Somerville. W. J.
McCosh, Jas., D.D., LL.D., Princeton. N. B.
McFarland, Everett O., Newark. N'rk.
Mcllvaine, Joshua H., D.D., Princeton. N.B.
McKelvey, Alexander, Newark. J. C.
i893.
Ministers in the Synod of New Jersey.
113
Mackenzie, James C, Ph.D., Lawienceville.
N. B.
McKnight, William J., D.D., Washington,
D. C. N. B.
McLaury, Edward A., Cedarville. W. J.
Macloskie, George, LL.D., Princeton. N. B.
McMillan, Jno., M. D., Crenau, Ontario.
Cor.
Macnaughtan, John, D.D., Morristown. M.
&0.
McNaughton, James P., Smyrna, Turkey.
J. C.
McNulty, Joseph M., D.D., Woodbridge.
Eliz.
Magie, David, D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Marling, Arthur W., Gaboon River. W.
Africa. Cor.
Martin, Chalmers, Princeton. Eliz.
Marline, Abram 1., Dunellen. Eliz.
Mason, James G., D.D., Metuchen. Eliz.
Maxwell, Irving, O.xford. Newt.
Mewhinney, William J., Pleasant Grove.
M. & O.
Miles, Robert H. P., Lyndhurst. J. C.
Miller, Franklin E., D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Milliken, Samuel J., Titusville. N. B.
Mills, B. Fay, Pawtuxet, R. I. Newt.
Mitchell, David, Jersey City. J. C.
Mix, Eldridge, D.D., Worcester, Mass.
M. & O.
Morgan, Minot S., Princeton. N. B.
Mott, George S., D.D., Flemington. N. B.
Mudge, Lewis W., D.D., Princeton. N. B.
Mundy, Ezra F., Metuchen. Eliz.
Murgatroyd, Edwin R., New Vernon.
M.&O.
Murray, James O. D.D., Princeton. N. B.
Myer, John H., Hoboken. M. & O.
Myongo, Frank S., Benito, W. Africa. Cor.
Nassau, Robert Hamill, D.D., Gaboon, W.
Africa. Cor.
Newell, George Kennedy, Plainfield. Eliz.
Nicholson, Alfred, Newark. N'rk.
Noble, George P., Mendham. M. & O.
Nordt, William A., Newark. N'rk.
Nott, Charles 1)., D.D., Washington. Newt.
Nourse, James M., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Nyenyc, Etiyani ya, Benito, W. Africa. Cor.
O'Brien, John Howard, Clarksboro. W. J.
Orris, S. Stanhope, Ph.D., L.H.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Osier, J. Thompson, West Milford. J. C.
Ottman, Ford C, Newark. N'rk.
Owens, James H., Perth Amboy. Eliz.
Palmer, S. Fielder, Paterson. J. C.
Park, Clearfield, Millville. W. J.
Parry, Samuel, Pluckamin. Eliz.
Patton, Francis L., D.D., LL.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Paull, George A.. Bloomfield. N'rk.
Payson, (jcorge H., Rah way. Eliz.
Pesaturo, Francesco, Newark. N'rk.
Peters, John E., Sc.D., Camden. W. J.
Pfaus, Alliert, Claremont, Minn. N'rk.
Pingry. John F., Ph.D., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Polhemus, Isaac Heyer, Newark. N'rk.
Pratt, John H., D.D., Allentown. Mon.
Preyer, I). Charles, Kearney. N'rk.
Purvcs, George T., D.D., Princeton. N. B.
Rankin, JohnC.D.D., Basking Ridge. Eliz.
Raven, Alfred N., Phillipsburgh. Newt.
Raymond, Geoige L., L.H.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Reed, Orville, Montclair. N'rk.
Reese, Philip P., Beattystown. Newt.
8
Reeves, Henry, Ph.D., Bridgeton. W. J.
Reeves, Thomas A., Rah way. M. & O.
Reinke, Edwin J., Greenwich. Newt.
Richards, William R., D.D., Plainfield EHz.
Riggs, Elias, D.D., LL.D., Constantinople,
Turkey. Eliz.
Robeson, William D., Princeton. N. B.
Rogers, John M., Trenton. N. B.
Rowland, Maxwell S., Whitesville. Mon.
Rowland, Samuel J., Clinton. Eliz.
Runda'l, Herbct K., Hammonton. W. J.
Russell, James C, Camden. W.J.
Rutan, Frederick N.. Montclair. N'rk.
Rutherford, John, Plainfield. M. & O.
Sassaman, Horace D., Mt. Pleasant. N. B.
Schneegas, Charles, Davenport, Iowa. N'rk.
Schumacher, Gustave, Paterson. J. C.
Schwartz, P. August, Canton, Minn. N'rk.
Scofield, Edward, Cape May. W. J.
Scofield, John H., Budd's Lake. M. & O.
Seibert, George C, D.D., Bloomfield. N'rk.
Seibert, Henry W., Ph.D.. Bloomfield. N'rk.
Sharpe, Robert H, Oak Ridge. J. C.
Shaw, Charles D., D.D., Paterson. J, C.
Sherman, Andrew M., Whippany. M. & O.
Sherwood, Nathan M., Jersey City. J. C.
Shields, Charles W., D.D.,LL.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Shuler, Laurens T., Newark. J. C.
Simanton, Ephraim, Hackettstown. Newt.
Sluter, George, Arlington. J. C.
Smith, Baker, Flanders. M. & O.
Smith, Henry Goodwin, Freehold. Mon.
Smyth, David T., Hamilton Square. N. B.
Smyth, George H., D.D., East Orange. M.
&0.
Smythe, Hugh, Schooley's Mountain. M. & O.
Snyder, Alfred J., Bridgeton. W. J.
Spooner, Arthur W., Camden. W. J.
Sproul, Nathaniel J., Englisbtown. Mon.
Staiger, Albert K., Atlantic City. W. J.
Steen, William S., Wayne, Pa. Mon.
Stevenson, David, D.D., Gloucester. W. J.
Stier, Richard R., Sayreville. Mon.
Slinson, William C, Wauwatosa, Wis. Eliz.
Stoddard, Elijah W., D.D., Succasunna. M.
&0.
Stonelake, Chas. A., Aquebogue, N. Y. N'rk.
Storrs, Henry M., D.D., LL.D., Orange. M.
&0.
Street, Robert, Roselle. Eliz.
Strong, Charles hi.. New Biunswick. N. B.
Stryker, Isaac P., Perth Amboy. J. C.
Studdiford, Samuel M , D. D., Trenton. N. B.
Sutphen, Paul F., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Swain, George, D.D., Allentown. Mon.
Swan, William, Lambertville. N. B,
Symmes, Frank R., Tennent. Mon.
Symmes, Joseph G., D.D., Cranbury. Mon.
Taylor, Franklin F., Passaic. J. C.
Taylor, Rufus, D.D., Beverly. Mon.
Teal, John W., D.D., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Thomas. John M., East Orange. M. S: O.
Thompson, 'J'homas, Elmer. W, J.
Thomson, Robert, Constantinople, Turkey.
N'ik.
Thomson, William, Stewartsville. Newt.
Thorburn, Alex. McA., Syracuse, N. Y.
Newt.
Titus, Albert C, Trenton. N. B.
Todd, William Newton, Newton. Newt.
Tomson, George W., Clayton. W.J.
Truman, Ntaka, Gaboon, W. Africa. Cor.
Turner, John, Deerfield. W. J.
Tyack, Thomas, D.D., Hightstown. Mon.
Underwood, Horace G., D.D., Seoul, Korea.
J.C.
114
Ministers in the Synod of New Jersey. Oct., i8gj.
Van Allen, Charles E., Delaware. Newt.
Van Cleve, Benjamin G., Milford. N. B.,
Vanderbeek, Henry C, Newark. N'rk.
Van Uyke, James \V., Stockton. N. B.
Van Dyke, Joseph S., D.D., Cranbury. Mon.
Van Syckel, Phineas B., Bayonne N. B.
Vermilye, Uupuytren, Ridgewood. J. C.
Voorhies, William, Trenton. N. B.
Wall, Edward. Orange. M. &0.
Wanderer, Adolphus E., Patersjn. J. C.
Ward, John, Glenridge. N'rk.
Warfield, Benjamin B., D.D., LL.D., Prince-
ton. N. B.
Warne, D. Ruby, Kingston. N. B.
Warriogton, George, Glassboro. W. J.
Webb, Samuel G., New Gretrm. Mon.
Wells, J. Lester, Jersey City:' N'rk.
Wells, John A., Liberty Corner. Eliz.
Wells, William M., Ringoes. N. B.
Wenrick, George W. S., Kingoes. N. B.
Weston, Albert E., Farmingdale. Mon.
Whitaker, William F., Orange. M. & O.
White, Stanley, Orange. M. & O.
White, Theodore F., D. D., Summit. M. & O.
Widdemer, Howard F., Newark. N'rk.
Wildey, John E., Merchantville. W. J.
Williamson, Joseph G., Sidney. Eliz.
Wills, David, Jr.. Pennington. N. B.
Wilson, Robert E., Pittston, Pa. Mon.
Wilson, Thaddeus, Shrewsbury. Mon.
Wirth, Albert E., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Wolfe, Aaron R., Montclair. N'rk.
Wolff, Julius H.. Newark. N'rk.
Wood, Charles W., Mt. Freedom. M. & O.
Woodbridge, John, D.D., New Brunswick.
N. B.
Woolverton, William H., Stockton. N. B.
Wright, Ormond W., Barnegat. Mon.
Wynkoop, Asa, South Orange. M. & O.
Young, Alexander H., D.D., Newark. Nik.
Young, James S., Garfield. J. C.
Young, S. Edward, Asbury Park. Mon.
Whole number of Ministers October 19th, 1893, 413.
Number of Churches, 319.
Number of Communicants April, 1893, 62,667.
INDEX
PAGE.
Addresses, 25, 26, 31, 34
American Bible Societ}' .' 26
Apportionments, 1893-1894, 44
Bills and Overtures, 7, 24
Synodical Home Missions Plan, Newark, 24, 45
Instruction in Temperance, New Briinswick 24
Collection, 32
Committees, Permanent, 107
Foreign Missions 26, 45, 46
Historical Materials 43, 44
Necrology 23, 55
Sabbath Observance 34
Sabbath-school Work, 36
Synodical Home Missions, 14. 45
Sj'stematic Beneficence, 9, 32
Temperance, 24, 33
Unemployed Ministers and Vacant Churches, 40
Work Among Foreign Populations, 38
Young People's Societies, 32, ;^;^
Committees, Standing, 7, a
Arrangements, 6
Bills and Overtures 7. 24
Judicial Business, 7, 32
Minutes of General Assembly, 7, 33
Narrative, 1894, 8
Finance, 8, 44
Presbyterial Records, S
Elizabeth. 23, 24
Jersey City, 36
Committees, Special,
Endowment of German Seminary, 42, 43
Corisco 31, 45
Custodians, Historical Materials, '. . . . 43, 78
ii6 . Index.
PAGE.
Elizabeth, Records, 2;^, 24
Evelyn College, 24
Narrative 14, 5^
Nassau, Rev. Robert Hamill, D D., 3, 31
Necrology, 23, 55
Place of Next Meeting 23, 45, 49
Presbyterial Records, 23, 33, 36, 45
Race-Tracks, 9, 25
Roll of Synod, 4. 5. 6
Salutations 26, 40
Standing Rules, 46, 103
Synodical Home Missions, 14, 45
Treasurer's Report, 17.45. 80
Thanks, Resolution of, 47
Treasurer's Report, 9, 45, 90
Trustees of Synod 9, 21, 23
Treasurer of Trustees, 23, 45, 88
Vice-Moderator, 3, 7
Woman's Home Missions, 24, 46, 65, 70
Woman's Foreign Missions, 46, 73, 77
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