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New Jersey.
Minutes of the . . . annual session of ihe S
REV. WILLIAM W. KNOX, D.D.,
Moderator oi- the Synod of New Jersey.
MINUTES
OF THE
Eighty-Eighth Annual Session
OF THE
Synod of New Jersey
HKI,D IN
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Lake wood, N. ]., October, 1 9 JO.
WITH AN APPENDIX
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SYNOD, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE STATED CLERK.
TRENTON. N. J.
MacCrEllish & QuiGLEY, Printers.
Officers of the Synod.
Moderator,
REV. WILLIAM W. KNOX, D.D New Brunswick, N. J.
Vice-Moderator,
REV. GEORGE F. GREENE, D.D., Cranford, N. J.
Stated Clerk,
REV. WALTER A. BROOKS, D.D., Trenton, N. J.
Permanent Clerk,
REV. JULIUS H. WOLFF, D.D Newark, N. J.
Recording Clerk,
REV. JOHN T. KERR, D.D., Elizabeth, N. J.
Treasurer,
REV. EBEN B. COBB, D.D., Euzabeth, N. J.
Treasurer of Synodical Home Missions,
MR. WILLIAM P. STEVENSON, .. RosELEE, Union Co., N. J.
MINUTES
Eighty-eighth Annual Session
Synod of New Jersey*
The Synod of Xew Jersey met in the First Church,
Lakewood, on Monday, October 17th, 19 10, at 8.00
o'clock P. M.
After devotional services, the sermon opening Synod sermon,
was delivered by the Moderator, Rev. C. Rudolph
Kuebler, D.D., from I Cor. i : 17.
At the close of the sermon the sacrament of the i<ord's supper.
Lord's Supper was administered. The services were
conducted by the Rev. C. Rudolph Kuebler, D.D., who
was assisted by the Rev. James S. Young, in the admin-
istration of the Bread; by the Rev. Henry T. Beatty,
Ph.D., in the administration of the Cup, and by the
following Ruling Elders: Willet H. C. Coles, Gavin
Rowe, William E. Cox, H. Murray Richmond, Major
V. Nutt, Joseph S. Peacock, John Carson, William J.
Demarest, James S. Biddell, Charles A. Hall, Edward
L. Cook, Spafford W. Davison, W. W. Woodward,
Theodoras B. Hascall, Edward M. Fithian, Joseph H.
W^right.
In connection with the service an offering amounting Relief,
to $80.00 was made for the Board of Ministerial Relief.
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At the conclusion of the Lord's Supper, the Synod
was constituted with prayer.
The roll was called, and the following members were
found to be present :
Presbytery of Corisco.
None.
Presbytery of Elizabeth.
Ministers — I. Alstyne Blauvelt, D.D., Ernest R. Brown, Eben
B. Cobb, D.D., Louis B. Crane, Joseph B. Ferguson (2), Loyal
Y. Graham, Jr., George Francis Greene, D.D., John T. Kerr, D.D.,
Aimer W. Karnell, James G. Mason, D.D., Joseph O. McKelvey,
James H. Northrup (2), Samuel Parry, Gordon N. Russell (2),
William Irwin Steans, D.D., John T. Scott, Ph.D., William Tor-
rcnce Stuchell, Thomas D. Wesley (2), William F. Whitaker,
D.D., (3)-i9.
Elders — Joseph H. Exton, Clinton ; James A. Burnett, Con-
necticut Farms ; George H. Krause (2) , Cranford ; L. B. Miller,
Elizabeth, First ; William W. Willet, Elizabeth, Second ; James
D. Clark, Elizabeth, Third; Cornelius H. Clark. Ehzabeth, West-
minster; Charles W. Crane (2), Elizabeth, Greystone; Willett
H. C. Coles, Rahway, First ; T. L. Potter, Rahway, Second ;
Robert* A. Fowler (2), Westfield — 11.
Presbytery of Havana.
None.
Presbytery of Jersey City.
Ministers — Thomas H. Amos, D.D. (2), Henry T. Beatt}%
Ph.D., Fisher Howe Booth, Joshua B. Gallaway, D.D., Walter B.
Greenway, C. Rudolph Kuebler, D.D., James Dallas Steele, Ph.D.,
James Scott Young — 8.
Elders — William J. Demarest, Hackensack, First ; George W.
Rouse, Hoboken, First; Gavin Rowe, Jersey City, Claremont ;
James E. Banks, Jersey City, Westminster ; James S. Biddell,
Passaic, First — 5.
Presbytery of iVIonmouth.
Ministers— Charles B. Austin, D.D. (2), Adolos Allen (2),
Courtlandt P. Butler, Charles McK. Cantrall (2), James H. Dun-
ham (2), William P. Finney, D.D., Horace G. Hinsdale, D.D.
(2), William J. Kern (2), Charles H. McClellan, D.D. (2), Wil-
liam Moore (2), Franklin J. Miller, John G. Noordewier, Dwight
L. Parsons, Arthur Phillips, James W. Rogan, D.D., J. Marshall
Rutherford (2), George Swain, D.D., Frank R. Symmes, Thomas
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Tyack, D.D., Ormond W. Wright, Samuel G. Webb, Charles H.
Whitaker (2), Julius F. Wolff, Alexander H. Young, D.D., Frank
Lukens — 25.
Elders — ^John D. Rue, AUentown ; William E. Coe, Beverly ;
George R. Thomas, Cranbury, First; J. S. Silvers (2), Cran-
bury. Second; James E. Orr, Englishtown; James D. Holman
(2), Holmanville; Charles A. Hall, Lakewood, First; William R.
Conover, Manalapan; George Bailey (2), Manasquan; John H.
Hutchinson (2), Plattsburg; Matthew Rue, Red Bank; George
W. Stillwell, Tennent; Francis French, Tuckerton; John W.
Davis, Burlington — 14.
Presbytery of Morris and Orange.
Ministers — William Russell Bennett, David A. Craig, Reid S.
Dickson, F. Boyd Edwards, Walter W. Hammond, D.D., Wendell
Prime Keeler, Peter McMillan, Minot C. Morgan, George K.
Newell, John F. Patterson, D.D., James F. Riggs, D.D. (2),
George L- Richmond, D.D., Joseph G. Symmes — 13.
Elders — John Carson, Boonton ; D. S. Allen, Dover Memorial ;
Edward L. Cook, Madison ; George B. March, Mendham, First ;
William D. Johnson, Morristown, First; H. Murray Richmond,
Orange, Central; Norman M. Ward (2), Orange, Hillside; John
Burling, M.D., Summit, Central— 8.
Presbytery of Newark.
Ministers— Nelson B. Chester, David R. Frazer, D.D., Joseph
F. Folsom, Joseph Hunter, Henry Harris, Robert Scott Inglis,
D.D., Davis W. Lusk, D.D., Edgar C. Mason, Thomas Morgan,
Albert N. Stubblebine, Julius H. Wolff, D.D.— 11.
Elders— Cyrus B. Crane, Caldwell; William I. Soverell, Mont-
clair. Cedar Ave.; Wesley C. IMiller (2), Newark, First; Theo-
dorus B. Hascall, Ph.D., Newark, Third; Munson Pier, Newark,
Central — 5.
Presbytery of New Brunswick.
Ministers— Walter A. Brooks, D.D., Sylvester W. Beach, Wil-
liam S. Bannerman, George H. Bucher, James Oscar Boyd, Ph.D.,
John Dixon, D.D.. William B. Frith. Joseph Howell. George H.
Ingram, William W. Knox, D.D., Samuel McLanahan, Hugh B.
MacCauley, D.D.. Robert Hamill Nassau, S.T.D. (2), Linius L.
Strock, George S. Stark (2), D. Ruby Warne, Albert J. Weisley,
D.D. (2), Daniel R. Foster (3)— 18.
Elders — C. J. Merrill, Bound Brook ; Elwood Hendrickson,
Ewing; Major V. Nutt, Hamilton Square; George W. Mount,
Kingston; Charles M. Titus (2), Pennington; Walter B. Harris
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(2), Princeton, First; Edward S. Wood (2), Trenton, First;
Edward B. Parsons (2), Trenton, Third; Spafiford W. Davison,
Trenton, Fourth ; Joseph H. Wright, Trenton, Prospect St. ;
Ebenezer Mackey, Trenton, Bethany — 11.
Presbytery of Newton.
Ministers — James DeHart Bruen (2), James Ferguson (2),
James W. Martin, Ph.D., Clarence W. Rouse, Robert Robinson,
B.D.-5.
Elders — Martin M. Fredenburgh, Newton; John W. Chne (2),
Stewartsville — 2.
"Presbytery of West Jersey.
Ministers— WiUiam Allen, Jr. (3), Alfred P. Botsford, D.D.,
John W. Bischoff (2), Charles S. Barrett (2), I. Mench Cham-
bers, William W. Casselberry (2), Addison B. Collins, D.D.,
Joseph Lyons Ewing, Christian B. Eby, Edmund J. Gwynn, D.D.,
R. Hilliard Gage, George H. Hemingway, D.D., Eugene A. John-
son (2), William V. Louderbough, James McLeod, D.D., Eugene
H. Mateer, Minot S. Morgan, Hugh R. McClelland, Ph.D. (2).
John Fred Nicholas, D.D., Samuel H. Potter (2), William T.
Pannell, Samuel D. Price, Herbert R. Rundall, Walter E. Smith
(2)— 24.
Elders — Fred W. Messerve (2), Berlin; Edward M. Fithian,
Bridgeton, West; Benjamin O. Titus, Camden, First; Joseph S.
Peacock, Camden, Calvary ; Theodore W. Reeves, Cape May ;
George J. Haven, CoUingswood ; John Ott, Deerfield ; Charles H.
Ayars, Salem ; Thomas W. Synnott, Wenonah, Memorial — 9.
Corresponding Members Present.
Rev. Judson Swift, D.D., of the Synod of New York ; Rev.
James A. Worden, D.D., LL.D., of the Synod of Pennsjdvania ;
Rev. Robert Mackenzie, D.D., of the Synod of New York ; Leighton
W. Eckard, D.D., of the Synod of Pennsylvania — 4.
Total number present — 192.
Moderator.
Rev. William W. Knox, D.D., of the Presbytery of
New Brunswick, was elected Moderator.
Arrange-
ments.
The Committee of Arrangements reported, and the
report was accepted and its recommendations adopted
as follows :
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The Committee of Arrangements respectfully report to the
Synod recommendations for the order of business as follows :
1. That the sessions of Synod begin at 9 A. M. ; that recess
be taken from 12 :3o to 2 :30 P. M., and from 5 to 8 P. M., and
that the devotional services occupy the last half-hour of each
morning session.
2. That in accordance with the arrangement hitherto adopted by
the Synod, the order for Tuesday be as follows — After the ap-
pointment of committees and the usual items of introductory
business, the report of the Committee on Foreign Missions, with
an address by the Rev. Walter E. Smith, of Korea; at 10:30, the
report of the Committee and the Treasurer of Synodical Home
Missions; the Narrative and the devotional half-hour; for the
afternoon, an address for the American Tract Society, by the Rev.
Judson Swift, D.D. ; the report of the Special Committee upon
Executive Commission ; the report of the Committee on Historical
Material ; Home Missions, with an address by the Rev. John
Dixon, D.D. ; the report of the Special Committee on Inter-Church
Federation ; Sabbath-School Work, with an address by the Rev.
Jrmes A. Worden, D.D. ; Young People's Societies; for the even-
ing, a popular meeting in the interest of Foreign Missions, with
an address by Robert E. Speer, D.D.
3. That the order for Wednesday be as follows : Systematic
Beneficence; Sabbath Observance, v^^ith address by Rev. Percy S.
Schelly; Temperance; Necrology, followed by the devotional half-
hour; for the afternoon, an address for the American Bible
Society, by the Rev. Leighton W. Eckard, D.D. ; the report of the
Committee on Evangelistic Work ; the report of the Committee
on the Presbyterian Brotherhood ; the report of the Special Com-
mittee on the Boundaries of Presbyteries; an address for the
College Board, by the Rev. Robert Mackenzie, D.D. ; an address
for the Ministerial Sustentation Fund, by the Rev. George F.
Greene, D.D. ; a brief address for the Presbyterian Association of
Colored IMinisters in New Jersey, by the Rev. Thomas H. Amos,
D.D. ; followed by the presentation of the final reports of com-
mittees and the completion of unfinished business.
After singing, prayer and the benediction. Synod
adjourned until to-morrow at 9:00 o'clock A. M.
Tuesday, October i8th, 9:00 A. M.
Synod met, and, after prayer, resumed business.
The minutes of yesterday's session were read, and the Minutes.
record was approved.
Vice-Modera-
tor.
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The Moderator appointed as Vice-Moderator, Rev.
George F. Greene, D.D., and announced the following
committees :
On Bills and Overtures.
standing
Committees.
Ministers — C. Rudolph Kuebler, D.D., James W. Rogan, D.D.,
Walter W. Hammond, D.D., Robert Scott Inglis, D.D.
Elders — Joseph H. Wright, Martin M. Fredenburgh, Theodore
W. Reeves.
On Judicial Business.
Ministers — George F. Greene, D.D., Alfred F. Botsford, D.D.,
Clarence W. Rouse, Linius L. Strock.
Elders — Theodorus B. Hascall, H. Murray Richmond, Francis
French.
On Minutes oe the General Assembly.
Ministers — James W. Martin, Ph.D., James Scott Young.
Elder— W. H. C. Coles.
On Narrative for 1911.
Ministers — F. Boyd Edwards, I. Mench Chambers.
Elder — Ebenezer Mackey.
On Finance.
Ministers — Nelson B. Chester, Louis B. Crane.
Elders — Edward M. Fithian, William R. Conover.
On Revision of Permanent Committees.
Minister — Joseph Hunter.
£W^r— William W. Willett.
On Synodical Home Mission Accounts, 1911.
Minister — George L. Richmond, D.D.
Elder — William I. Soverell.
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On Presbyterial Records.
Corisco Rev. John F. Patterson, D.D., Rev. Fisher Howe Booth,
Elder Joseph H. Exton.
Elizabeth— Rev. James Scott Young, Rev. Julius F. Wolff,
Elder George W. Mount.
Havana— Rev. James Dallas Steele, Ph.D., Rev. Joseph Lyons
Ewing, Elder John D. Rue.
Jersey City — Rev. Alfred P. Botsford, D.D., Rev. Robert Robin-
son, Elder John Carson.
IVlonmouth — Rev. Samuel Parr}^, Rev. Clarence W. Rouse, Elder
Theodorus B. Hascall, Ph.D.
IVIorris and Orange — Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, Rev. Edmund
Gwynn, D.D., Elder George R. Thomas.
Newark — Rev. Frank R. Symmes, Rev. Loyal Y. Graham, Jr.,
Elder D. S. Allen.
New Brunswick — Rev. William Russell Bennett, Rev. Walter B.
Greenway, Elder Cornelius H. Clark.
Newton — Rev. George H. Ingram, Rev. Albert N. Stubblebine,
Elder James E. Banks.
West Jersey — Rev. Aimer W. Karnell, Rev. D. Ruby Warne,
Elder George W. Stillwell.
Certain i^apers in the hands of the Stated Clerk were siiisand
r^ ■ Ml 1 /^ Overtures.
assigned to the Committee on Bills and Overtures.
The Stated Clerk presented his report, and it was stated cieik,
accepted and its recommendation was adopted, as
follows :
The Stated Clerk respectfully reports :
1. That the records of the Synod for 1909 were approved by
the General Assembly without exception.
2. That Mr. Charles Allen, of Trenton, has presented to the
Synod a gavel and block, duplicates of the gavel and block pre-
sented to the last General Assembly, composed of wood taken
from the buildings or the building sites of four of the early
churches of New Jersey. This wood was furnished by the pastors
or friends of the churches and sufficient fragments of it re-
mained, after the making of the gavel for the Assembly, to furnish
a similar one for this Synod. The oak in the gavel is from the
original building of the Woodbridge Church, 1675. The locust
is from the site of the Old Scots Church of 1685. The cedar is
from the Cohansey Church lot, in South Jersey. The maple is
from the house of Archibald Alexander, in Princeton, the place
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of the organization of the first theological seminary. The handle
of the gavel is oak from the church of Springfield, which fur-
nished the hymn books for Parson Caldwell's wadding for patriot
rifles. The block is made of the locust of Old Scots, with an
inlay of oak from the Old Tennent Church. The gavel thus rep-
resents the order, the doctrine and the loyalty of the early New
jersey Presbyterians.
The Clerk ventures to recommend that the thanks of the Synod
be given to Mr. Charles Allen for his interest and for his generous
contribution.
The report of the Treasurer of Synod was presented,
^vas received, and referred for audit to the Committee
on Finance.
Treasurer of
Trustees.
The report of the Treasurer of the Trustees of
Synod was presented, was received, and referred for
audit to the Committee on Finance.
Foreign
Missions.
The Permanent Committee on Foreign Missions pre-
sented its report, which was accepted and its recom-
mendations adopted, as follows :
1. We recommend to the committees on foreign missions of
our various Presbyteries the advisability of so systematizing their
work as to make each church feel, and feel strongly, their helpful
influence. Some Presbyteries have already adopted the plan of
assigning to each member of the committee a certain group of
churches in the Presbytery, for which that member shall be espe-
cially responsible, holding conferences with pastors and ses-
sions and making missionary addresses when it is deemed ex-
pedient, thus striving to bring each individual church up to its
highest point of missionary efficiency. In some Presbyteries we
trust it will be possible during this j^ear to supplement the work
of committees with the able assistance of returned missionaries,
who not only bring the story of missions to the individual
churches, but embody their gospel in their lives in a way that
makes their message especially persuasive and forceful.
2. We recommend, secondly, the appointment in each church of
?. Missionary Committee which ordinarily should be representa-
tive of the session and the various organizations of the church
which are related to the missionary movement and in jiarticular
the Sunday School. We feel increasingly the importance of mis-
sionary instruction in. connection with the Sunday School work
and recommend that our Sunday Schools avail themselves of
Finance.
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the facilities which our Boards of Sunday School Work, Home
Missions and Foreign Missions are ready to place at their disposal.
3. We recommend, further, the advisability of systematizing and
universalizing missionary benevolence in each church, and to this
end urge, where feasible, the conduct of an every-member canvass
of the congregation in the interests of systematic missionary
giving.
4. And finally, we do most earnestly and solemnly call upon
the members of our churches to unite in daily prayer for our
representatives in non-Christian lands, using, if they will, the
Year Book of Prayer for Foreign Missions, published by our
Board, and to implore the Father of us all to hasten the day
when His kingdom shall come in all its completeness and glory
and His will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven.
In connection with the report Synod was addressed
by Rev. W. Everitt Smith, of Fnsan, Korea, upon
mission work in that country.
The following resolution, offered by the committee,
was referred to the Committee on Finance :
In order to the more effective prosecution and enlargement of
the work of the Synod's Committee on Foreign Missions, we
recommend that the committee be permitted to incur certain
necessary expenses during the year not to exceed $100.
The following resolution, offered by Rev. John conference,
Dixon, D.D., was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee consisting of the chairmen of
Synod's Committees on Synodical Home Missions, Home Mis-
sions and Foreign Missions be appointed to arrange for a mis-
sionary assembly for prayer and conference in connection with the
next meeting of Synod.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures presented a Bins and
report making the following recommendations :
That the report of the Woman's Synodical Society for Home
Missions be referred to the Permanent Committee on Home Mis-
sions ; that the report of the Woman's Synodical Society for
Foreign Missions be referred to the Permanent Committee on
Foreign Missions: that an overture from the Presbytery of Jersey
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Arrange-
ments.
Synodical
Home
Missions.
City, asking :he Synod of New Jersey to direct that all church
collections taken for Home Missions in our State be given direct
to our Synodical Committee, who, after meeting the expenses of
the work in our Synod, will forward the remainder to the Treas-
urer of the Home Mission Board, be answered in the negative.
The report was received and its recommendations
were adopted except the last. The overture was put
upon the docket for action later.
It was resolved that, in connection with the presenta-
tion of the report of the Permanent Committee on
1'^emperance, a representative of the Anti-Saloon
League be heard for fifteen minutes.
The Permanent Committee on Synodical Home Mis-
sions presented its report, which was received.
In connection with the report and preceding its
presentation, the report of the Treasurer of Synodical
Home Missions, Mr. William P. Stevenson, was pre-
sented and was accepted.
The Committee to Audit the Accounts of the Treas-
urer of Synodical Home Missions reported as follows :
The Committee to Audit the Accounts of the Treasurer of
Synodical Home Missions report that they have examined the
same for the year beginning October i, 1909, and ending Septem-
ber 30, 1910, compared the disbursements with the vouchers, and
have found the same correct.
The order of the day having arrived for the devo-
tional services, the consideration of the report of the
Committee on Synodical Home Missions was postponed
until the first order of the day for this afternoon.
Synod now engaged in devotional services led by Rev.
Eben B. Cobb, D.D., and then took recess until 2 :30
P. M.
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Tuesday, 2:30 P. M.
Presbytery met, and resumed business.
The consideration of the recommendations of the h^q^c**^^
report of the Permanent Committee on Synodical Home Missions.
Missions was resumed, and the recommendations of the
report were adopted, as follows :
1. That the thanks of the Synod be given by a rising vote to
Mr. W. P. Stevenson for his services as Treasurer of Synodical
Home Mission funds.
2. That the Synod's Cojnmittee on Synodical Home Missions be
authorized and directed to correspond with the home missionary
agencies of other denominations at work in this State, and to
cooperate with the Interchurch Federation of the State, if formed,
in order to obviate the overchurching of communities, and to
further the unification of Christian activities ; and to communi-
cate to the Presbyteries any information or recommendations
growing out of such correspondence or conference.
3. That Synod recommends that renewed attention be given by
its Presbyteries to the quickening and development of their rural
churches by arranging for conferences and special services in
such communities or in their interest ; and that pastors and
Sessions of such churches are advised to avail themselves of the
growing literature upon the subject, and to inaugurate broader
and more aggressive work wherever possible. Attention is called
to the publications and other assistance provided by the Board of
Home Missions.
4. That it is the judgment of Sj^iod that in ordinary circum-
stances the salary for a pastor in New Jersey should never be
less than $800 and a house ; and that Presbyteries be and hereby
are directed to make immediate effort through an appropriate
committee to increase all salaries which are now less than $1,000
and a house. It is suggested that this may well form a part of
a general movement in each Presbytery in the interest of im-
proved financial methods and results in all departments of every
church's activity.
5. That from the balance in the Synodical Treasury the sum
of $2,000 be set apart to the Special Fund under immediate con-
trol of Synod's Committee.
6. That the several Presbyteries be asked to raise by apportion-
ment during the coming fiscal year at least the same amounts that
were asked for Synodical Home Missions last year, viz. :
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Elizabeth ?3oC30 00
Jersey City, 2,500 00
Monmouth 2,300 00
Morris and Orange, 3.6oo 00
Newark, 7,ooo 00
New Brunswick, 3,200 00
Newton, i>200 00
West Jersey, 2,600 oa
$25,900 00
7. That in addition, because of the greatly increased demand for
home mission work in New Jersey the Sessions of our churches
be directed to deduct from the offerings made. for Home Missions
in the church proper an amount equal to twenty-five per cent, of
the offering and to transmit it to the Treasurer of Synodical Home
Missions to become a part of the Special Fund.
That the Stated Clerk of Synod be directed to transmit this
particular action to the Presbyteries with the request that they
reenact the same as soon as possible.
8. That there be allotted to the several Presbyteries for use
within their bounds, the following amounts :
Elizabeth, $2,500 00
Jersey City, 3,300 00
Monmouth, " 3400 00
Morris and Orange, 2,000 00
Newark, 7,ooo 00
New Brunswick, 1,800 00
Newton, i,35o 00
West Jersey, 4,200 00
For Administration, 350 00
$25,900 00
9. That the Synodical Home Mission Committee be authorized to
appoint a Superintendent of Missions in New Jersey, and to fix the
amount of salary, to be paid out of the missionary funds of Synod.
This officer shall work under the direction of Synod's Committee
and in co-operation with Presbyterial Committees in the investiga-
tion of fields either already occupied, or which might be occupied,,
in advising and assisting missionaries and vacant mission congre-
gations, and in furnishing information to the committees and to
the churches in furtherance of the work.
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sentecl the follovvmg supplemental resolution which was
received and adopted :
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The Synod has received the annual report of the Woman's
S3'nodical Society for Foreign Missions and desires to express its
high appreciation of the effective and self-sacrificing labors of the
women of our churches in behalf of Foreign Missions, and to
assure them of our hearty co-operation in the Master's service,
Synod was now addressed by Rev. Judson Swift, American
D.D., Secretary of the American Tract Society, in be- ^^^ °"^ ^'
half of the work of that society.
The following resolution, offered by Rev. James S.
Riggs, D.D., was adopted :
Resolved, That the Synod affirms its former deliverances as to
the work of the American Tract Society, and in so doing calls
attention to the universal testimony of missionaries that the work
of the Tract Society is indispensable, and recommends pastors,
churches and individuals to take this cause more fully upon their
hearts, earnestly pray for it, and generously support it.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures, in reference Education,
to a communication from the Board of Education,
reported recommending that in compliance with the
recjuest of the Board of Education the Committee of
Arrangements arrange for a popular meeting in the
interest of the newer features of Christian Education
for the next meeting of Synod, if the way be clear.
The report of the Special Committee on an Executive Executive
Commission was presented by Rev. John F. Patterson, commission.
D.D., was received, and its recommendations were not
adopted.
It was resolved to refer the imfinished business of Arrange-
this afternoon's docket, and also the docket for to- «'^"*^-
morrow, to the Committee on Arrangements to report a
new docket as soon as convenient.
After prayer. Synod took recess until 8:00 P. M.
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Foreign
Missions.
Tuesday, 8:oo P. M.
Synod met, and, after devotional exercises led by
the Moderator, listened to an address by Robert E.
Speer, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, on "The Significance and Importance of the
Edinburgh Conference."
Arrange-
ments.
The Committee of Arrangements presented a revised
docket for the remaining sessions of Synod, and the
same was recieived and adopted, as follows :
The Committee of Arrangements respectfully recommend that
the order for Wednesday be, as nearly as possible, as follows :
Sabbath School Work, with an address by Rev. James A.
Worden, D.D. ; report of the Special Committee on the Boundaries
of Presbyteries; address for the Ministerial Sustentation Fund,
Rev. George F. Greene, D.D. ; report of the Special Committee on
Inter-Church Federation ; the Narrative ; Home Missions, with an
address by Rev. John Dixon, D.D. ; Evangelistic Work ; Temper-
an.ce, with an address by Dr. Cairns, of the New Jersey Anti-
Saloon League ; Systematic Beneficence ; Necrology ; the devotional
half-hour ; recess to be taken at 12 :4s ; for the afternoon, an
address for the American Bible Society, by Rev. Leighton W.
Eckard, D.D. ; Young People's Societies ; an address for the College
Board, by Rev. Robert Mackenzie, D.D. ; Sabbath Observance, with
an address by Rev. Percy Y. Schelly ; Presbyterian Brotherhood,
with an address by Mr. J. Fithian Tatem; Historical Material; an
address for the Association of Colored Presbyterian Ministers, by
Rev. Thomas H. Amos, D.D. ; final reports of committees and
completion of the Synod's business.
The committee respectfully suggest to the Synod that in view
of the necessarily crowded state of the docket it be recommended
ti; committees to make reports as brief as possible, and that the
time for addresses be somewhat curtailed, it being understood
that members of Synod speaking on the floor be limited to five
minutes. It is also recommended that in case discussion of mat-
ters proposed in the foregoing docket shall occupy more time
than can be given during the day the members of Synod shall
remain for an evening session for the completion of the business.
After singing, prayer, and the benediction, Synod
adjourned until 9:00 A. M. to-morrow morning.
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Wednesday, October 19th, 1910, 9:00 A. M.
Synod met, and, after prayer, resumed business.
The minutes of yesterday's sessions were read and Minutes,
the record was approved.
The Trustees of Synod presented the following T'-u^tees.
report :
The Trustees of Synod would venture to recommend that the
Stated Clerk of Synod be asked to cast a ballot for the follow-
ing persons to be members of the class of 1913 as Trustees of
Synod: Rev. Fisher Howe Booth, in place of Rev. Dr. Charles
D. Shaw, deceased; Rev. Courtlandt P Butler and Rev. Stanley
White, D.D., whose terms have expired, to succeed themselves.
The Trustees would further announce that, according to the
authority given to them by the last Synod (See minutes of Synod
for 1909, page 31) they have transferred to the fund held by
them in trust for Synodical Home Missions, the sum of $188.59.
The report was accepted and its recommendation
adopted.
The Stated Clerk did cast the ballot and the persons Trustees
elected.
named were declared to be elected Trustees of the
Synod.
The Special Committee on the Boundaries of Pres- Boundaries,
byteries presented its report, which was accepted and
lis recommendation was adopted, as follows :
The Committee on the Boundaries of Presbyteries would re-
spectfully report that it finds no adequate reason why any
change should at present be mad-e in the boundaries of Presby-
teries, and asks to be discharged.
The Finance Committee presented its report, which Finance,
was received and its recommendations adopted, as
follows :
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Apportion-
ments.
The Finance Committee has examined the reports of the
Treasurer of Synod and the Treasurer of Trustees of Synod
and finds the same correct.
In the matter of the request of the Committee on Foreign
Missions for an appropriation of $ioo for expenses, we recom-
mend that $so be granted for that purpose.
We recommend that the apportionment be the same as last
year, viz., from Presbyteries of Ehzabeth, Morris and Orange,
New Brunswick and Newark, $ioo each ; Jersey City and West
Jersey, $80 each ; Monmouth and Newton, $70 each.
Sustentation.
Sabbath
School Work.
Rev. George F. Greene, D.D., addressed Synod in
behalf of the..-Presbyterian Sustentation Fund, and at
the close of his address it was resolved to endorse the
plan.
There being present in Synod no member of the
Permanent Committee on Sabbath School Work it was
resolved to print the report of the committee without
reading.
Rev. James A. Worden, D.D., Superintendent of
Sabbath School Training, of the Board of Publication
and Sabbath School Work, addressed Synod on the
need of reaching the children with spiritual instruction.
Inter-Church
Federation.
The Special Committee on Inter-Church Federation
presented its report, which was received and its recom-
mendations adopted, as follows :
Last year we called the attention of the Synod to a few prom-
inent facts regarding the greatest of all interdenominational
movements, known popularly as Inter-Church Federation. We
must now call attention to the vast work to be done by the
churches federated and the pressing need of all the churches pro-
viding for an eflfective working inter-church agency that will be
a means toward solving the many and increasing problems which
are now confronting us. In the field of this State alone there is
a portentous increase in the tasks before the Church and the
State. The Church itself is passing through a transition period
as to its own development and relations. The benevolences of
the Church require new and ingenious appeals to bring them up
to the mark set by the General Assembly's budget, which is only
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five per cent, increase over last year. The attendance in many
of our churches is not more than two-thirds of the membership,
and the evening services and the prayer meetings are attended by
very few persons. The duty of soul-winning or individual work
for individuals is not accepted by many of our church members.
Inside of the Church there is an increasing difficulty in paying
for the running expenses, together with the wasteful indefensible
overchurching of neighborhoods by the Protestant Churches.
Outside the Churches we see the evil forces of the saloon, the
poolrooms, the dance halls and various forms of Sabbath desecra-
tion and social impurity, united, aggressive and defiant. Linked
with them are the evil forces causing the awful political corrup-
tion in all our great cities. The humiliating exposures lately made
in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, San Francisco, Denver,
Chicago, St. Louis and other cities might well suggest that a
day be appointed for fasting and prayer.
There is indeed much to thank God for. The evident longings of
the people everywhere for honest government, the uprisings of the
citizens in many States against the domination of self-appointed
bosses, the magnificent donations for public charities, show that
God's Spirit is still with us.
All these new questions cannot be solved by one Church alone,
nor one denomination alone. There must be a combination of the
Churches — a united, persistent effort to lift society, in both Church
and State, or the Republic is doomed. Realizing this, the Church
bodies formed the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in
America, popularly called the Inter-Church Federation. The work
of the Inter-Church Federation is the rousing of all our Churches
and citizens to the solving of the great religious and social prob-
lems of our day.
We think the time has now come for all our Presbyteries to
imitate the Assembly and the Synod and appoint their repre-
sentative committees to meet the similar committees of other
church bodies, as a council to supervise their respective terri-
tories, and to stimulate the churches to an advance along the
whole line.
The Assembly has recommended already that our lower judica-
tories be requested to appoint such committees.
Likewise this Synod last year (See Minutes of Synod, 1909, p.
124) directed this Committee to carry out the instructions of the
General Assembly as nearly as possible. We would report that
we have endeavored to do so, and that the Presbyteries have for
the most part created such Committees on Inter-Church Federa-
tion or committed the function to some committee already ex-
isting, and that some of these committees have already done good
work, notably the committee in Newton, headed by Rev. Dr. W.
F. Johnson, which has led to the federating of two counties. War-
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ren and Sussex, and they have taken up a program of advanced
Christian work.
Also, the Synod directed this Committee to make overtures
on its behalf to the proper authorities representing all the other
evangelical judicatories of equal rank with this Synod, to the
end that an Inter-Church Federation of New Jersey may be
formed. We report that we have endeavored to do this. The
South Jersey Conference of the Methodist Church has appointed
its committee. The I^ewark Conference referred the matter to a
committee to report to us later. The other judicatories have just
met before our own and we have no report from them as yet.
We also report that there is an increasing interest in various
parts of the State, and that almost certainly the State Federation
will be consummated this fall. We suggest that when such
Federation shall be formed the Moderator of the Synod, in con-
ference with the Special Committee, be authorized and directed
to appoint the required number of delegates, to serve until the
next meeting of the Synod. We submit the following resolutions,
to wit: "i. That this Synod does hereby express the opinion, in the
words of the preamble of the plan of federation of the Federal
Council, that 'In the providence of God, the time has come more
fully to manifest the essential oneness of the Christian churches
of America in Jesus Christ as their divine Lord and Saviour, and
to promote the spirit of fellowship, service and co-operation
among them.' 2. That this Synod does hereby authorize and direct
the Moderator, in conference with the Special Committee on
Inter-Church Federation of this Synod, to appoint, in accord-
ance with the requirements of the approved constitution for State
Inter-Church Federation, the allotted number of delegates from
this Synod to the State Council (of whom the Moderator shall
be one), when such federation shall be formed, which delegates
shall serve until the next meeting of the Synod, and until their
successors shall be appointed. 3. That the Special Committee on
Inter-Church Federation be continued for another year, and that
the following members of Synod be added to it : Rev. W. F.
Johnson. D.D., Presbytery of Newton; Rev. John McDowell,
Presbytery of Newark ; Elder Hon. Barton B. Hutchinson, Pres-
bytery of New Brunswick, and Elder Thomas W. Synnott, Pres-
bytery of West Jersey."
Home 'phe Permanent Committee on Home Missions pre-
Missioiis. . 1-1
sented its report, which was accepted and its recom-
mendations adopted, as follows :
I. That we hereby call the attention of all our pastors and
sessions to the increasing needs of the work of the Board of Home
Missions, and the need of having our churches meet their full
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apportionments as assigned to them under the Budget Plan, sent
down by the General Assembly.
2. That this Synod does hereby commend the work of our noble
bend of women in New Jersey in behalf of Home Missions, as
seen in their thirty-third annual report, and that we approve of
the said report as submitted to us, and bid them Godspeed in
their work.
3. That this Synod hereby express its appreciation of the address
of Rev. John Dixon, D.D., Associate Secretary of the Board of
Home Missions, and hopes that his work may receive the blessing
of God.
In connection with this report Synod was addressed
by Rev. John Dixon, D.D., Assistant Secretary of the
Board of Home Missions.
The report of the Committee on Narrative was pre-
sented by Rev. Nelson B. Chester and was received.
The following recommendations of the report were
adopted :
1. That Rule XIV of the Standing Rules of Synod be amended
by striking out the words in the last two lines and substituting
therefor these words, to wit : "Stated Clerk of Synod on or before
October ist of each year, by whom the same shall be promptly
forwarded to the Synod's Committee on Narrative," and also
change the words "the State of Religion" to the words "Christian
Life and Work," so that Rule XIV shall read as follows:
XIV. Each Presbytery belonging to the Synod shall send a
written narrative of Christian Life and Work within its bounds to
the Stated Clerk of Synod on or before October ist of each year,
by whom the same shall be promptly forwarded to the Synod's
Committee on Narrative.
2. That Rule IX, Section 5, pertaining to Narrative, be amended
so as to provide as follows : That there shall be a Standing Com-
mittee on the Narrative of Christian Life and Work to consist
of three members of the Synod, being two ministers and one
rr.ling elder, besides the Moderator and the Stated Clerk, ex officio,
v.-hich three members shall be appointed by the Moderator and be
arranged in three classes of one each, and shall serve for three
years, beginning with the close of the Synod at which they are
appointed, except that the first class shall serve for one year, the
second class for two years, and the third class for three years,
the said classification to be made by lot by the Moderator in the
presence of the Synod ; and thereafter one class shall retire and
be ineligible to succeed itself until after an interval of at least
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one year, and the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
Moderator. The Committee shall select its own chairman and may
appoint the Stated Clerk to be its secretary.
3. That by special notice under the hand of the Stated Clerk
we call the attention of all of our Presbyteries to the great need
of improving the method of the Narrative, and in accordance with
the action of the General Assembly (see Minutes of General
Assembh^ 1910, p. 288) request all our Presbyteries to commit this
function to their Executive Commission or to a standing com-
mittee of three rotating members, together with the Moderator and
Stated Clerk, and to allot a suitable period to the report and to
remarks and exercises of prayer and praise.
4. That in view^.of the information coming to the Synod from
the survey of the situation, emphasized by the appeals for help
coming to us from pastors, as reported to us by the Committee
oi: Narrative, this Synod does hereby call the attention of all our
Presbyteries to the pressing need of renewed evangelistic efforts
by them to reach out after the last man and the most isolated home.
wcTrk^^ ^^ ''^ The Permanent Committee on Evangelistic Work
presented its report, which was received and its recom-
mendations were adopted, as follows :
We recommend to the Presbyteries and to the churches of the
Synod the favorable consideration of the plans suggested by the
General Assembly's Evangelistic Committee, looking to a world
wide evangelistic movement amongst the Presbyterian churches
and providing for the holding of evangelistic conferences in the
m.onth of January, the: emphasizing of personal evangelism in the
inonth of February, and the holding of simultaneous evangelistic
meetings in churches or groups of churches in the month of March.
We recommend to the Presbyteries of this Synod the favorable
consideration of the Chester Plan in the employment of Presby-
terial Evangelists.
Temperance. T\\t Permanent Committee on Temperance pre-
sented its report, which was received and its recom-
mendations were adopted, as follows :
1. That we rejoice in the enlarging usefulness of our General
Assembly's permanent Committee on Temperance, and commend
it to all our churches for their more liberal financial support.
2. That we urge our pastors and churches to wi.sely use its lit-
erature, and especially that the Amethyst be sent into every home
and that new emphasis be put upon spiritual tempera-nce work in
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all our congregations, that the lost may be saved and the young
be better protected from the influence of the saloon.
3. That we appreciate the sane and efficient work of the New
Jersey Anti-Saloon League during the past year and renew our
commendation of it to the confidence and support of all our
people.
4. That we commend the action of Senator Gebhardt and other
senators who supported the local option bill presented in the
Senate last wmter. We rejoice in the increased public sentiment
in favor of local option, especially in Hunterdon county, which
returned Senator Gebhardt with such a large majority.
5. We deplore the continued defiance of law by the liquor sell-
ers of Atlantic City and the failure of the Legislature and the
Governor to take such action as would suppress the rebellion
there.
6. We commend the efforts of all judges and other legal offi-
cers in the State to enforce the laws against the evils of the
saloon.
7. That we give our sympathy and co-operation to all who are
wisely seeking the overthrow of the liquor power.
8. That we re-emphasize the historic position of our church
as voiced by the action of our General Assembly : "That the
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America declares
itself unalterably opposed to the liquor traffic and in favor of
complete prohibition by the State and nation of the manufac-
ture, importation, exportation, transportation, sale or gift of in-
toxicating beverages, and the use of every Christian legitimate
method of obtaining this final goal." "The Presbyterian Church
believes that the saloon must go, and by God's help proposes to
have it go, and go soon."
g. That we recommend the observance of Temperance Day
appointed by our General Assembly for the last Sabbath of Octo-
ber for prayer, special instruction and offering to further total
abstinence from the use of intoxicating drinks and the destruc-
tion of the liquor traffic by the strong arm of the law.
ID. That we earnestly petition our State Legislature to enact
a local option law which will give the people the power by vote
to abolish the saloon, and we direct our Moderator and Stated
Clerk to send this petition to the Governor and the Legislature.
II. That we use our influence and best endeavor to secure such
action by Congress and State Legislature as will protect no-license
territory from invasion by outside .liquor dealers and which will
leave to prohibition States the entire control of the liquor traffic
within their bounds.
In connection with the presentation of this report
Synod was addressed by Mr. T. Alex. Cairns, Assistant
Secretary of the New Jersey /\nti-Saloon League.
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Oct.
By a rising vote Synod expressed its appreciation of
the stirring address of Mr. Cairns, the representative
of the Anti-Saloon League.
The Treasurer was directed to pay $2.50 expense in-
curred by the Committee on Temperance.
Systematic /pj^^ Permanent Committee on Proportionate and
Beneficence. ^
Systematic Beneficence presented its report, which was
received and its recommendation was adopted, as
follows :
We recommend the appropriation of $25 for the educational
work of the committee during the ensuing year.
The order of the day having arrived. Synod engaged
in devotional exercises conducted by Rev. George
Swain, D.D.
Necrology. It was rcsolvcd to associate the reading of the report
of the Permanent Committee on Necrology with the
devotional service. The report was read by Rev. James
D. Steele, Ph.D., was adopted, and it was directed that
the substance of it be printed in the Appendix to the
Minutes of Synod.
It was resolved that the afternoon session begin at
2 :oo o'clock.
Synod took recess until 2:00 o'clock P. M.
American
Bible Society.
. Wi;DNKSDAY, 2 :00 P. M.
Synod re-assembled and resumed business.
Rev. Leighton W. Eckard, D.D., Agency Secretary,
Atlantic Agency of the American Bible Society, ad-
dressed the Synod on the work of the society.
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The folloAving resolution offered by Rev. Robert
liamill Nassau, S.T.D., was adopted:
The Synod of New Jersey, having heard with interest and
pleasure the Rev. L. W. Eckard, D.D., Secretary of the Atlantic
Agency of the American Bible Society, puts on record its deep
gratitude and satisfaction at the forward movement and increased
helpfulness of the great work of Bible distribution. The Synod
■would remind the churches that the scattering of the printed
Word of God is fundamental to all Christian work, that the
Bible Society is one of the recognized agencies of our church,
and on the list of benevolences to be reported to the General
Assembly.
We are in full accord with the advanced policy of the American
Bible Society in the establishment of its ten agencies in this coun-
try and twelve agencies in non-Christian lands, through which its
local work can be accomplished more efficiently than from one
common center.
We commend to the Christian forces of New Jersey the interests
of the American Bible Society as represented in this State by
the Atlantic Agency, and recommend that every church in our
communion place the American Bible Society upon its list of
benevolences.
The following resolution, offered by Rev. James H.
Northrup, was adopted :
Resolved, That in view of the neglect of family worship as Family
brought out by the Narrative, and the need of setting up i;he ^^°" ^^'
family altar in the Christian home, we, the Synod of New Jersey,
commend to Christian parents the Family Altar League, whose
purpose it is to induce parents to covenant to gather their respect-
ive families each day for prayer and the reading of God's word.
The Committee appointed to arrange for a mission- Mission
ary conference at the next meeting of Synod reported,
and its recommendations were adopted, as follows :
The Committee to arrange for a missionary conference in con-
nection with the next meeting of Synod recommends as follows :
I. That the first standing rule of Synod be suspended for the
ne.xt meeting, and that the missionary conference already ordered
begin on Monday evening, October i6th, 191 1, and extend through
Tuesday morning and afternoon.
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2. That the next Synod convene on Tuesday afternoon, October
17th, 191 1, at four o'clock, for the purpose of formhig the roll,
organization and necessary arrangements ; and that the evening
service be given up exclusively to worship, including the sermon
of the retiring Moderator and the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
Young
People's
Soeieties.
The Permanent Committee on Young People's Soci-
eties made its report, which was received.
Sabbath
Observance.
The Permanent Committee on Sabbath Observance
presented its report, which was received and its recom-
m.endations adopted, as follows :
1. That the Synod of New Jersey recognizes the observance of
the Christian Sabbath law as a necessity for the highest welfare
of the human race, and does urge upon all ministers and members
of the Presbyterian Church in this Synod to use their time, talents
and influence in securing obedience to this humane law.
2. That the inhabitants of our State should have one day's rest
in seven, and labor, except that which is absolutely unavoidable,
on the Sabbath should be prevented in all our industries.
3. That the publishing, buying and selling of the Sunday news-
papers being a violation of Sabbath laws is hereby condemned, and
all members of our church are requested to refrain from purchas-
ing or reading the Sunday newspaper, which is so detrimental to
the proper observance of the Sabbath and the religious life of the
people.
4. That all Sunday excursions, secular entertainments, games,
sports and worldly pleasures are disapproved and out of harmony
with divine law, which says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy," "not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own
pleasure, nor speaking thine own words. Then shall thou delight
thyself in the Lord."
5. That all public officials are requested to fulfill their obligations
to the State and its people by compelling obedience to the laws
which have been made to secure one day of rest in seven for .dl
our people.
6. That we most heartily approve of the work done by The
Lord's Day Alliance of New Jersey, and recommend it to the
moral and material support of our churches.
7. That we endorse the recommendations of the General Assem-
bly in setting apajt the first and second Sundays of April, with
the intervening week, as a time of prayer for the preservation of
the Lord's Day, and that every pastor of our church preach a
sermon on Sabbath observance during the month of April or
some more convenient time.
Home
Missions.
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In connection with the presentation of this report
Synod was addressed by Rev. Percy Y. S^ielly, repre-
senting The Lord's Day AlHance of New Jersey.
The following resolution, offered by Rev. Samuel
McLanahan, was adopted :
Resolved, That Synod places on record and desires the churches Synodical
within its bounds to understand that in adopting Resolution 7
presented by the Committee on Synodical Home Missions, it is
not desired or intended that any church should diminish its con-
tribution to the Board of Home Missions, but rather that every
church should increase its gifts to the cause of Home Missions, sc
that Synodical aid may be benefited thereby to the extent of a
twenty-five per cent, increase.
The report of the Presbyterian Brotherhood was Brotherhood,
presented to Synod, but not read, and Synod was ad-
dressed by Mr. J. Fithian Tatem, Chairman of the
Committee.
Rev. James D. Steele, Ph.D., also addressed the
Synod in this connection and called attention to the
National and State Conventions of the Brotherhood in
February, 191 1.
According to resolution No. 2 presented in the report Narrative,
of the Committee on Narrative, the Moderator ap-
pointed the following as the Standing Committee on the
Narrative, viz. : F. Boyd Edwards, I. Mench Chambers
and Elder Ebenezer Alackey. The ^Moderator cast lots
and the committee was divided into classes as follows :
Rev. I. Mench Chambers for one 3'ear.
Rev. F. Boyd Edwards for two years.
Elder Ebenezer Mackey for three years.
The following resolution amending the Standing Amendment
'Rules of Synod, offered by Rev. Robert Scott Inglis,
D.D., was placed on the docket for consideration at the
next meeting of Synod.
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•German
Theological
■Seminary.
Resolved, That Standing Rule III be amended so as to read
as follows : The Moderator shall be elected annually. The elec-
tion shall be by ballot and in case of more than two nominations
the name receiving- the smallest number of votes shall be dropped
at each succeeding ballot until one name shall have received a
majority of all the votes cast, which shall constitute an election.
In case of a tie vote the clerks of Synod shall cast the deciding
ballot. The clerks and treasurers shall be elected by ballot unless
otherwise ordered, and shall hold office during the pleasure of
Synod.
Rev. Julius H. Wolff, D.D., made a statement con-
cerning the German Theological School of Newark, at
Bloomfield, and the following resolution, offered by
Rev. E. B. Cobb, D.D., was adopted:
■ The Synod of New Jersey, having heard from Dr. Wolff state-
ments setting forth the needs of the German Theological School
of Newark, N. J., hereby commends the said school to the liberality
of churches and individuals.
•Colored
Ministers.
Historical
Material.
Permanent
•Committees.
The representative of the Colored Ministers Asso-
ciation of New Jersey having waived his right to a
place on the docket, it was resolved to place such a
representative early on the docket of the next meeting
of Synod.
The Committee on Historical Materials presented
his report, which was accepted. It was directed that it
be printed in the Minutes. Its recommendation was
adopted, as follows :
That churches or persons interested in such old papers as may
probably be in the custody of the Presbytery of New Brunswick
communicate with the Stated Clerk of that Presbytery as to the
disposal to be made of such papers.
The Committees on Judicial Business and on the
Minutes of the General Assembly reported that they had
nothing to report that required the action of Synod.
The Committee on the Revision of the List of Per-
manent Committees presented its report, which was
adopted and is as follows :
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The Committee on Revision of the Permanent Committees of
Synod would respectfully recommend the appointment of the
folllowing committees, namely :
Synodical Home Missions — Rev. Samuel McLanahan, Chairman,
Rev. John T. Kerr, Rev. Thomas Tyack, D.D., Rev. Davis W.
Lusk, D.D., Rev. Fisher Howe Booth, Rev. Wendell Prime Keeler,
Rev. Robert Robinson, Rev. Raymond Hilliard Gage, Clerk.
Home Missions — Rev. Hugh B. MacCauley, D.D., Chairman,
Rev. John S. Zelie, D.D., Rev. S. Ross MacClements, Rev. Robert
S. Inglis, D.D., Rev. Calvin W. Laufer, Rev. F. Boyd Edwards,
Rev. Edgar A. Hamilton, Rev. George H. Hemingway, D.D.
Foreign Missions — Rev. Minot C. Morgan, Chairman, Rev. Wil-
liam C. Johnston, Rev. William I. Steans, D.D., Rev. Courtlandt
P Butler, Rev. Orville Reed, Ph.D., Rev. Albert J. Weisley, D.D.,
Rev. Clarence W. Rouse, Rev. Eugene H. Mateer, Elder F. L.
Colver, Elder William P. Stevenson, Elder David B. Perrine,
Elder F. S. Phraner, Elder Joseph M. Williams, Elder John Rell-
stab. Elder Aaron McCammon, Elder Edward M. Fithian.
Historical Materials — Rev. Joseph F. Folsom, Cliairman, Rev.
Frank D. P. Hickman, Rev. Charles Herr, D.D., Rev. D. DeFor-
rest Burrell, Rev. Henry B. Someillan, Rev. Eben B. Cobb, D.D..
Rev. Frank R. Symmes, Rev. John C. Clyde, D.D., Rev. Heber
H. Beadle, Rev. Walter A. Brooks, D.D.
Sabbath School Work — Rev. Henry C. Cronin, Chairman, Rev.
William B. Hamilton, Rev. Robert R. Wicks, Rev. Fred B. New-
man, Rev. William Moore, Rev. William H. Stubblebine, Ph.D.,
Rev. James W. Martin, Ph.D., Rev. Francis J. Collier, D.D.
Sabbath Observance — Rev. Samuel D. Price, Chairman, Rev.
I. B. Ferguson, Rev. Joseph Hunter, Rev. Jacob A. Frey, Rev.
Thomas B. Ironside, Rev. James B. Clark, Rev. Arthur Phillips,
Rev. Hugh Walker, Rev. F. W. Johnson, D.D.
Temperance—Rev. William V. Louderbough, Chairman, Rev.
James G. Mason, D.D., Rev. Joseph E. Curj-y, Rev. Llewellyn S.
Fulmer, D.D., Rev. Richardson Gray, M.D., Rev. E. E. Hoyt,
Rev. Thomas B. Ironside, Rev. Joseph Howell, Rev. Herbert R.
Rundall.
Necrology— Rev. William W. Knox, D.D., Rev. James Dallas
Steele, Ph.D., Elder William P. Stevenson.
Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence — Rev. Joseph L.
Ewing, Chairman, Rev. Aimer W. Karnell, Rev. James D. Steele,
Ph.D., Rev. George L. Richmond, Rev. Ormond W. Wright, Rev.
Harold C. Harmon, Rev. William S. C. Webster, D.D., Elder
Ebenezer Mackey.
Young People's Societies— Rev. Frank Lukens, Chairman, Rev.
William B. Hamilton. Rev. R. H. M. Augustine, Rev. Henry A.
MacKubbin, Rev. David H. King, Rev. Walter B. Greenway, Rev.
A. S. Zimmerman, Rev. J. Newton Armstrong, Rev. Charles H
Whitaker.
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Oct.
Presbyterian Brotherhood — Elder J. Fithian Tatem, Chairman,
Rev. William Force Whitaker, D.D., Elder Datis Reed, Elder
Waldo C. Genung, Rev. James Moore, Rev. Dewitt C. Snyder,
Rev. George S. M. Doremus, Elder Joseph H. Wright, Rev. Nel-
son B. Chester.
Evangelistic Work — Rev. Calvin W. Laufer, Chairman, Rev.
Linius L. Strock, Rev. William T. Stuchell, Rev. Robert S. Inglis,
D.D., Rev. George K. Newell, Rev. John E. Family, Rev. U.
Franklin Smiley, Rev. F. W. Johnson, D.D.
Custodians of Historical Material — Rev. Walter A. Brooks,
D.D., Stated Clerk, Trenton, N. J.; Rev. Joseph H. Dulles,
Librarian Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J.
The attentioa-'of these committees is called to the resolution
passed at the last meeting of Synod, viz. : That the Synod rec-
ommends to the various Permanent Committees that in presenting
their reports from year to year they rotate, as far as is prac-
ticable, in the order of the Presbyteries, that the reports may be
prepared, from time to time, by representatives of the various
Presbyteries.
Presbyterial
Records.
The records of the following Presbyteries were ap-
proved without exception : Elizabeth, Jersey City, Mon-
mouth, Morris and Orange, Newark, New Brunswick,
Newton, West Jersey. The records of the Presbyteries
of Corisco and Havana were not presented.
Thanks.
The consideration of the overture from the Presby-
tery of Jersey City was taken up, and it was resolved
to answer it in the negative.
It was resolved to print the statistical reports without
reading.
The following vote of thanks was unanimously
adopted :
The appreciative thanks of the Synod are extended to pastor,
session and trustees of this church for their gracious and abundant
hospitality, and also to the choir for its aid in the popular meet-
ings; also to proprietors of the various hotels who have made re-
ductions in price of entertainment to members of Synod.
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The Permanent Clerk, Committee on Attendance and ^"endance.
Leave of Absence reported the following attendance at
this meeting, and the report was approved:
Number of members present :
Presbyteries. Ministers. Elders. Total.
Corisco,
Elizabeth, 19 n 30
Havana,
Jersey City, 8 5 13
Monmouth 25 14 39
Morris and Orange, 13 8 21
Newark, 11 5 16
New Brunswick, 18 11 29
Newton. 5 2 7
West Jersey, 24 9 33
123 65 188
Corresponding members 4
192
The following members sent reasons for absence from
this meeting and were excused :
Presbytery of Elizabeth — Ministers Ezra F. Mundy. John T.
Reeve.
Presbytery of Jersey City — Minister Henry C. Cronin.
Presbytery of New Briuisivick — Minister Henry Collin Minton,
DD.
Presbytery of Nen'ton — Minister E. Clarke Cline.
Presbytery of West Jersey — Minister George L. Smith.
Presbytery of Morris and Orange — Albert Erdman, D.D., Paul
Erdman, John Erdman.
The following members were excused before the close Excuses,
of Synod :
Presbytery of Elimbeth — Mini.sters, T. Alstyne Blauvelt, D.D.. L.
B. Crane, William Torrence Stuchell, J. T. Scott, Samuel Parry,
J. B. Ferguson, L. Y. Graham, Jr., Joseph O. McKelvey, William
F. Whitaker, D.D., Ernest R. Brown. Eben B. Cobb, D.D., Aimer
W. Karnell; Elders, Willett H. C. Coles, L. B. Moller, Charles W.
Crane, William W. Willett, G. H. Krause. Jas. A. Burnett, F. L.
Potter.
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Presbytery of Jersey City — Ministers, James Scott Young,
Walter B. Greenway, Fisher Howe Booth, C. Rudolph Kuebler,
D.D., Joshua B. Gallaway, D.D., Henry T. Beatty; Elders, W. J.
Demarest, Geo. W. Rouse.
Presbytery of Moninouth — Ministers, Charles B. Austin, William
J. Kern, William P. Finney, D.D., George Swain, D.D., Charles H.
Whitaker, Julius F. Wolff, Frank R. Symmes, Alexander H.
Young, D.D., Dwight L. Parsons, Arthur Phillips, Frank Lukens,.
James W. Rogan, D.D. ; Elders, W. R. Conover, John H. Hutchin-
son, James E. Orr, Francis French, John D. Rue, W. E. Coe, James
H. Dunham, John W. Davis, Thomas Tyack, D.D., Geo. W. Still-
well.
Presbytery of Morris and Orange — Ministers, Reid S. Dickson,
Peter McMillan,-D.D., Minot C. Morgan, G. K. Newell, Joseph G.
Symmes, Walter W. Hammond, Wendell Prime Keeler, John F.
Patterson ; Elders. D. S. Allen, William D. Johnson, H. Murray
Richmond.
Presbytery of Newark — Ministers, David R. Frazer, D.D., Davis
W. Lusk, D.D., Albert N. Stubblebine, Joseph F. Folsom, Nelson
B. Chester, Joseph Hunter, Robert S. Inglis, D.D. ; Elders,
Theodorus B. Hascall, Ph.D., Cyrus B. Crane, William I. Soverell.
Presbytery of Nezu Brunswick — Ministers, Sylvester W. Beach,
John Dixon, D.D., Joseph Howell, D. R. Foster, D. Ruby Warne,
Geo. H. Ingram, William S. Bannerman, Linius L. Strock; Elders,
Edward S. Wood, George W. Mount, Walter B. Harris, Chas. T.
Merrell, Major V. Nutt, Ebenezer Mackey, Joseph H. Wright.
Presbytery of Nezvton — Ministers, C. W. Rouse, James W.
Martin, Robert Robinson.
Presbytery of West Jersey — Ministers, James McLeod, D.D.,
Christian B. Eby, George H. Hemingway, D.D., R. H. Gage, Alfred
P. Botsford, D.D., Chas. S Barrett, Hugh R. McClelland, Ph.D.,
Samuel H. Potter, E. J. Gwynn, W. V. Louderbough, Minot S.
Morgan, Eugene H. Mateer, W. W. Casselberry; Elders, John H.
Ott, Thos. W. Synnott, Theodore W. Reeves, Benjamin O. Titus,
Charles H. Ayars.
The roll was called and the following members were
found to be absent without excuse :
Bli:zabeth — Ministers, James H. Northrup, William Irwin
Steans, D.D., Thomas D. Wesley.
Jersey City — Ministers, Thomas H. Amos, D.D. ; Elders, Gavin
Rowe, James E. Banks.
Monmouth — Ministers, Adolos Allen, Charles McK. Cantrall,
Charles H. McClellan, D.D., WiUiam Moore, J. Marshall Ruther-
ford ; Elders, George R. Thomas, J. S. Silvers, James D. Holman,
Charles A. Hall, George Bailey, Matthew Rue, William E. Morris.
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Morris and Orange — Ministers, William Russell Bennett, F.
Boyd Edwards, George L. Richmond, D.D. ; Elders, John Carson,
Norman M. Ward, John Burling, M.D.
Newark—Minister, Henry Harris; Elder, Wesley C. Miller.
New Brunswick — Ministers, George H. Bucher, James Oscar
Boyd, Ph.D., Samuel McLanahan, Hugh B. MacCauley, D.D.,
George S. Stark, Albert J. Weisley, D.D. ; Elders, Charles M.
Titus, Edward B. Parsons, Elwood Hendrickson.
Newton — Ministers, James DeHart Bruen, James Ferguson;
Elders, Martin M. Fredenburgh, John W. Cline.
West Jersey — Ministers, William Allen, Jr., John W. Bischoff.
I. Mench Chambers, Eugene A. Johnson, John F. Nicholas, D.D.,
Herbert R. Rundall, Walter E. Smith ; Elder, Fred W. Messerve.
The Treasurer was authorized to pay the usual bills bhis.
and salaries.
The minutes of to-day's session were read and the Minutes,
record was approved.
The Synod adjourned to meet in Atlantic City, First Nextpiace.
Church, provided an invitation be received from the
pastor and session of the church, on the third Tuesday
of October. 191 1, at 4:00 P. M.
The session closed with prayer and the benediction.
JOHN T. KERR,
WALTER A. BROOKS, Recording Clerk.
Stated Clerk.
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Lpproyed in Generax Ac^^^uidi^
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APPENDIX.
I.— NARRATIVE OF THE STATE OF RELIGION IN THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR ENDING'
OCTOBER I7TH, 1910.
The material before us consists of the Narratives from the eight
home Presbyteries.
I. Congregational Services.
All the Presbyteries report the full number of services as maintained,
and state that for the most part the morning services are well attended,
with a fair proportion of children and young people present. This is
especially the case where some special efifort is made to promote their
attendance. Some of these means are sermonettes, rewards for attend-
ance, choir service, etc. Apprehension is expressed by many, however,
over indications that Sunday pleasures, such as auto-riding, are making
sad inroads into the attendance. In regard to the evening service there
is general consent that the attendance is very small. It seems to be a
fact that the attendants are for the most part our own people or
immediate neighbors. The masses are not attending church.
As to the prayer meeting or mid-week service, almost all the reports
unite in saying "pitifully small." One pastor whose meeting is well
attended says "Our people like two things, one is the study of definite
objects in religious thought; the other is worship. They do not care
much to hear public expressions about personal religion. A third thing
also has been helpful and that is the interesting presentation of various
forms of Christian service." In one church in Monmouth there has
been a marked change in attendance from twenty-five to sixty-five, and
a renewal of all phases of the church work on account of the regenera-
tion of the prayer meeting.
II. Sunday Schools.
Several of the Narratives emphasize the general efficiency of the
schools, but question whether the educational methods are improved
sufficiently. There are few teachers' meetings. The Shorter Catechism
is fading out. Most of the schools have libraries, but the enrollment
is stationary. The Narratives seem to emphasize the effectiveness of
evangelistic methods in the Sunday School, but lament the falling
away of so many scholars.
HI. Societies.
The Women's Societies are in good ' condition, owing to regular
meetings and well arranged programmes and definite missionary work.
The same is true of the Young People's Societies under the same
(35)
36 Narrative. Oct.,
conditions. The Narratives note the fact that the societies in the
country seem to be more effective than those in the cities. The men's
societies are not reported on very encouragingly. The members mostly
give through the regular church channels. Monmouth and Newton
say "many of our churches are entirely w^ithout a men's organization."'
West Jersey reports an increase of three in the number. Morris
and Orange says, "The churches in the larger towns report almost
invariably that most of their Men's Clubs have been a means of help
to the church." Some of the Narratives give instances of effective
work by the men. One pastor writes, "The last Sunday night of each
month is devoted to a special men's service (others also invited) at
which the pastor preaches a special sermon to men." Still another
says, "With no pressure^.on the part of the pastor, a committee of
twenty-four men was formed, which has made an every member
canvass of the entire congregation to enlist their increasing sympathy
and liberality in the cause of world-wide evangelism. This movement
has resulted also in a drawing together of the different denomina-
tions, five of whom through their missionary committees reported at
a union service held on a recent Sunday evening. Our own committee
had made so effective a campaign that they were able to report in
pledges on the weekly basis an amount more than doubling the amount
contributed last year to foreign missions."
IV. Spiritual Conditions.
Taking the Narrative as a whole, it may be said that there has been
little out of the ordinary. Some striking items are reported. One
church reports, "The unusual thing about our work is the great
efforts we have made during the year to connect up the disconnected
church members of our neighborhood. We have a lady assistant, who
devotes most of her time to this class of people. The results have
been very satisfactory, as we have added fifty-two members in this
way." Jersey City notes the work among the many foreign-speaking
peoples. Newton, covering two difficult rural counties, says, "All the
churches in Presbytery which have had regular pastors report increases
on profession of faith." Morris and Orange says, "We are filled with
hope. Most of our churches show increase." This is a good place to
speak of the country situation. A large number of the country
pastors say practically in the words of one of them as follows :
"Country churches do not always find it easy in the present day,
especially where wealthy families buy out substantial landowners who
have been a tower of strength in the church and community, while
the new arrivals fail to identify themselves with either. It is only by
keeping everlastingly at it, with God's blessing, that we have secured
present results." Other country pastors speak with gratrtude of the
evangelistic services carried on by the help of neighboring pastors,
but they emphasize the need of holding such services in the pleasant
weather of the fall or the solemn period preceding Easter. Three of
the churches report holding a series of special services, mainly for
church members, at the opening of the new term of church work in
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October that proved to be a great impetus to all the church activities.
This plan is similar to the holding last October in Trenton by Rev. Dr.
R. A. Torrey of a four-day series of inspirational meetings.
All the Narratives give a gloomy picture concerning family worship,
but at the same time confess that they have followed general impres-
sions rather than definite information from the families. In the
Newark Narrative one congregation is reported where all the families
have worship. The Sessions are reported as faithful in looking after
the societies and the baptized children and performing their various
episcopal functions. The Sessions state that parents are faithful in
presenting their children for baptism, but beyond that they report no
definite evidence.
There is plainly expressed in the Narratives a great longing for a
revival of pure and undefiled religion. There is expressed a great
anxiety over the fact that so many in the church are careless as to
their covenanted engagements, and that so many outside the Church
are utterly indifferent. But there is no unanimity as to a method of
evangelism. There are more among the city pastors that express no
desire for the help of an evangelist. There are many expressions from
country pastors that such help is very necessary to them.
V. Benevolence.
The large majority of the churches made a loyal effort to meet the
requirements of the Budget Plan as recommended by the General
Assembly, and to increase the efficiency of their financial plans. These
efforts show in the returns. Alongside of them is a minority large
enough to be reckoned saying, "We are doing our best." "The local
need is too great." "We find it hard to support ourselves." "Expenses
have increased." It is evident also that there is need of improving the
financial plans both for benevolence and for current expenses. In this
connection we quote from the Newark Narrative, which has given the
most attention to this subject of all the Narratives, the experience of
one church, as follows, viz., "We have been using the duplex envelope.
At the end of the first year the results are so satisfactory that every-
body really interested in the financial welfare of the church is pleased.
We have raised more money than ever before, and have done it with-
out incessant pleading and buttonholing." All the Narratives report
that there is fidelity in church support, while, however, some assert that
the salaries ought to be raised because the expense of living is higher.
In one Presbytery two churches have failed in this duty, and the
Narrative calls on the Presbytery to exercise its episcopal authority.
There is no question but what the present agitation concerning the
congregational and benevolence funds is doing much good. Methods
are being overhauled. The Budget Plan is the method of the success-
ful business of to-day. The Budget Plan is nothing but a method by
which a definite estimated expense is met by a definite pledged con-
tribution. Such a plan is going to win the day of full support without
debt.
38 Narrative. Oct.,
We also report as a part of our effort a brief summary of the
answers secured through the use of a special question blank. There
is much valuable and interesting material gathered by this single effort.
It almost amounts to a sociological survey of the State.
I. Location.
Most of the pastors report that there is nothing peculiar or un-
fortunate about their location. The items that are reported are indeed
hard to cure. They are a handicap upon success, such as "business
location."
II. Relation to Other Churches.
There are enough cases of over-churching and consequent deprecia-
tion of salaries to warrant local Inter-Church Federations, in con-
ference with the resporrsible church judicatories, in taking up the
matter for betterment. Some of the instances are indeed "a scandal"
as one pastor calls it — the scandal of brave men trying to live on
$600 a year with hardly an effort by Presbytery to improve the
conditions.
III. Your Own Church Work.
Under this head about one third of the replies say that there is a
falling off in the church-going habits of the community. All insist that
there is need for the Sunday evening church service. A few insist that
new and attractive means must be used and carry this plan into the
mid-week service. They claim that thereby the horizon would be
widened and prayer excited.
IV. Evangelistic Wjork.
A strong appeal comes in from the country pastors and from those
whose financial means are weak, for reliable evangelistic help. The
claim is made that something must be done to stem the tide away from
the church. A few express the belief that the denominations would
co-operate if the plans were wisely laid.
V. Sabbath Observance and Temperance.
A great many sound the note of warning in regard to the increasing
desecration of the Lord's Day by Sunday baseball schemes, vaudeville
parks and Sunday excursions. Many declare that excise conditions are
not improving, and that the church forces are not doing anything to
fight the evils. On the other hand, one pastor says of a closed up
place, "Our church did it." Under the head of substitutes for the
saloon one brother urges that this subject should be earnestly investi-
gated. The city pastors refer to the Y. M. C. A., but even they remind
us that the so-called slum ends of town are not at all reached by the
ordinary Y. M. C. A. A few speak of the great good being done by
parish houses, reading-rooms and similar means.
VI. Under the question of gaining or losing, about two to one think
we are gaining. As to future gain, many answers have emphasized
new means, new effort, new zeal. All have agreed, as we might expect,
that more emphasis should be put upon prayer, fasting and the help of
the Holy Spirit.
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We submit the following resolutions for the consideration of the
Synod, to wit :
1. That Rule XIV of the Standing Rules of Synod be amended by
striking out the words in the last two lines and substituting therefor
these words, to wit, "Stated Clerk of Synod on or before October ist
•of each year, by whom the same shall be promptly forwarded to the
Synod's Committee on Narrative," and also change the words "the
State of Religion" to the words "Christian Life and Work," so that
Rule XIV shall read as follows : "XIV. Each Presbytery belonging
to the Synod shall send a written Narrative of Christian Life and
Work within its bounds to the Stated Clerk of Synod on or before
October ist of each j'ear, by whom the same shall be promptly for-
warded to the Synod's Committee on Narrative."
2. That Rule IX, section 5, pertaining to Narrative, be amended so
as to provide as follows : That there shall be a Standing Committee on
the Narrative of Christian Life and Work, to consist of three members
of the Synod, being two ministers and one ruling elder, besides the
Moderator and the Stated Clerk, ex officio, which three members shall
be appointed by the Moderator and be arranged in three classes of one
each, and shall serve for three years, beginning with the close of the
Synod at which they are appointed, except that the first class shall
serve for one year, the second class for two years and the third class
for three years ; the said classification to be made by lot by the
Moderator in the presence of the Synod ; and thereafter one class shall
retire and be ineligible to succeed itself until after an interval of at
least one year, and the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the
Moderator. The committee shall select its own chairman, and may
appoint the Stated Clerk to be its secretary.
3. That by special notice under the hand of the Stated Clerk we call
the attention of all our Presbyteries to the great need of improving
the method of the Narrative, and in accordance with the action of the
General Assembly (see Minutes of General Assembly 1910, p. 288),
request all our Presbyteries to commit this function to the Executive
Commission or to a Standing Committee of three rotating members,
together with the Moderator and Stated Clerk, and to allot a suitable
period to the report and to remarks and exercises of prayer and praise.
4. That in view of the information coming to the Synod from the
survey of the situation, emphasized by the appeals for help coming to
us from pastors, as reported to us by the Committee on Narrative, this
Synod does hereby call the attention of all our Presbyteries to the
pressing need of renewed evangelistic efforts by them to reach out
after the last man and the most isolated home.
HUGH B. MacCAULEY,
Chairman.
40 Necrological Report. Oct.f
II.— NECROLOCxICAL REPORT.
During the year ending October ist, 1910, eleven members of Synod
have passed to the higher life and larger labors of heaven. The largest
losses were sustained by the Presbyteries of Jersey City and West
Jersey; the former reporting four and the latter three. The Presby-
teries of Elizabeth, Newton, Morris and Orange and Monmouth each
report one, while Corisco, Havana, Newark and New Brunswick make
no report.
P,resbytery of Elizabeth.
REV. ROBERT MC KELI.AR CRAIG
was born in Zoma township, Oxford county, Canada, in 1865. He pre-
pared for college in the school of George Baird, near Clinton, and,
after teaching several years, entered Toronto University. He studied
theology at Knox College, and was graduated in 1883. After a suc-
cessful ministry of six years in Dumbarton and Scarboro, he was
called to Milville Church, Fergus. His ministry here was very accept-
able and greatly blessed. After seven years he removed to Santa Fe,
New Mexico, because of impaired health. He accepted an appointment
from the church in that place, and remained for two years. He was
then appointed Synodical Home Missionary for New Mexico and
Arizona. After the resignation of Rev. G. F. McAfee, D.D., Superin-
tendent of Schools, he was invited to take that position, and entered its
duties. He became a member of the Presbytery of Elizabeth April
30th, 1906. In June, 1908, he went to Alaska to visit the schools there,
and was shipwrecked. Nervous shock brought him to the verge of
death.
He never recovered his health. Resigning his superintendency, he
was appointed special representative of the Board of Home Missions
and of the Woman's Board. While in the discharge of these duties he
was taken severely ill, and died June 6th, 1910, in Ottawa, Canada.
He is survived by a widow and one daughter.
He was a man of high character and marked ability and of great
devotion, which at times was heroic. He loved the gospel, and was
never happier than when preaching it.
Presbytery of Jersey City.
REV. CHARLES DANNEEEY SHAW, D.D.,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Paterson, N. J., died
November 12th, 1909.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., December 17th, 1834. He obtained
his early education in the public schools of that city, and his classical
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knowledge under a private tutor. He was graduated with' honor from
Union Theological Seminary.
He was ordained and installed pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Paterson, N. J., November 5th, 1862. In 1867 he accepted
a call to the Central Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware,
and remained its pastor until January, 1872. He was pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Springfield, Illinois, 1872-1874. In
that year he again entered upon the pastorate of the Second Church of
Paterson, to remain until his death.
He served as Moderator of his Presbytery, and was Moderator of
this Synod in 1891.
He was especially devoted to the children of his church and Sab-
bath-school, and his poetical and musical talents gave them many
cantatas and songs at their Christmas and Easter festivals and ser-
vices.
He was gentle, kindly and ever gracious in spirit. He was a godly
man, an earnest and eloquent preacher, a faithful presbyter, a devoted
pastor, a true friend, an encouraging and inspiring fellow-laborer, a
patriotic citizen.
He is survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters.
REV. S. EIELDER PALMER
died at Paterson, N. J., September 2d, 1910. He was born in Logans-
port, Indiana, in 1848. He received his early education in the public
schools of New York City, was graduated from Middlebury College,
studied theology and entered the Congregational ministry, in which he
held several pastorates, the last at Passaic Park. N. J. Resigning his
charge there, he connected himself with the Presbytery of Jersey City.
He gave up the work of the ministry and entered upon a business
career. He resided in Paterson and held the position of County
Librarian until his death.
He was kind, courteous and thoughtful, a good preacher and a
true man.
REV DARIUS D. LINDSLEY
died April 15th, 1910, at White Sulphur Springs, N. Y. He was borrr
at Downsville, Delaware County, N. Y., January nth, 1809.
His preparatory studies were pursued under pastors and tutors. He
completed the four-year course prescribed by the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and later took some special studies in College. He was or-
dained in 1858, and served the Methodist Episcopal Church in numerous
charges, where he was very successful in winning souls to Christ. He
was for four years presiding elder of the Owego District, New York.
Over thirty years ago he became a Presbyterian, and served the fol-
lowing churches: Franklin Street Church, Elmira, as its first pastor;
42 ^ Necrologicai, Report. Oct.,
Afton, Downsville, Alden, Horsehead, Greyport, Newfield, Woodbridge,
Wellington. At the time of his death he was living in retirement at
Wloodbridge, N. J.
He was twice married. Two children by his first wife survive him,
with his widow.
Mr. Lindsley was pre-eminently a man of prayer, of orthodox views
and sterling principles ; of pure, simple and beautiful life.
REV. DAVID MAGIE, D.D.,
pastor emeritus of the Church of the Redeemer, Paterson, N. J., died at
his home in New York City, Monday, October 3d, 1910.
He was born in Elizabeth, N. J., May 23d, 1837, his father, David
Magie, Sr., being then pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of
that city. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1856,
and from Princeton Theological Seminary in i860. He was ordained
by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, at Rockaway, N. J., August 14th, i860.
He was pastor of the First Church, Mendham, N. J., 1860-65 ; of the
First Church, Penn Yan, N. Y., 1866-72; of the First Church, Paterson,
N. J.,, 1872-86; of the Church of the Redeemer 1886-1907, where he
resigned and was made pastor emeritus. The degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him in 1870 by Hamilton College.
On his retirement from the pastorate, he resided in New York City.
Dr. Magie was deeply interested in the affairs of Paterson.
At the time of his death he was President of the Board of Church
Erection, and a trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary. He is
survived by two sons.
Dr. Magie was a godly man, a scholarly preacher, a faithful pastor,
a good presbyter, a true citizen, and in official positions a useful
servant to the church at large.
Presbytery of Monmouth.
REV. BENJAMIN SMITH EVERITT, D.D.,
entered into rest June 29th, 1910, aged seventy-eight. He was
born of godly ancestors and pious parents, in Jamaica, L. I.,
October lOth, 1832. He was reared in a Christian home, and publicly
professed his faith at fourteen. His preparatory studies were pursued
at the Academy of Jamaica, and he was graduated from Princeton
College in 1856, and from the Theological Seminary in 1859.
He was ordained and installed at Blackwoodtown, N. J., by the
Presbytery of West Jersey, June 22d, 1859. A gracious revival marked
the first year of his ministry.
In April, 1864, he received a call to Stroudsburg, Pa., which he
accepted, and entered upon a ministry of five years, in which the same
revival spirit was manifest, and many were added to the church.
igio. NECROU)GiCAt Report. 43
In February, 1869, he was called to Montclair, N. J. Again his labors
were blessed with immediate and large ingathering, but doubting the
call of God to the place and service, he resigned at the end of seven
months.
He accepted a call to Jamesburg, N. J., in November, 1870, where he
fulfilled a useful ministry of twenty-six years. In 1896, on account of
failing physical health, he resigned, and was made pastor emeritus.
In Jamesburg, also, there were multiplied conversions and large in-
gathering of souls. In 1871, 120 were received on confession of their
faith, sixty of them receiving baptism. In 1874, eighty-four united with
the church. After a partial recovery of his voice he served the New
Gretna church for a season.
Dr. Everitt received his honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Richmond College, Ohio, in 1891. He served as Permanent and as
Stated Clerk of his Presbytery.
He was Enrollment Clerk of this Synod from 1874 to 1897, and in
1896 was made its Moderator. Prayerful in spirit, but practical in
-effort, orthodox in faith, but evangelistic in labors ; patient in sickness,
yet hopeful of recovery; zealous as a servant and heroic as a sufferer,
he finished a long and successful ministry, and, made perfect through
suffering, entered into rest and reward.
He is survived by a widow and two sons, Rev. Frank B. Everitt, of
New Park, Pa., and Rev. Benjamin H. Everitt, of Peekskill, N. Y.
Presbytery of Morris and Orange.
REV. THEODORE E. WHITE, D.D.,
•died at Summit, N. J., April 29th, 1910. He was born in the city of
New York, on July nth, 1830, and was the son of Rev. Henry White,
D.D., first professor of theology in Union Theological Seminary. He
entered and graduated from New York University, and subsequently
entered Union Theological Seminary. He was ordained at the age of
twenty-two, and served the following churches in succession, viz. :
Greenville, N. Y., 1852-56; Hilltop Church, Mendham, N. J., 1856-60;
Church of the Puritans, 1861 ; Delhi, N. Y., 1863-65 ; Ithaca, N. Y.,
1865-77.
After his resignation from the last charge, he resided in Morristown,
N. J., until 1883, preaching in various pulpits as he had opportunity.
On October 2d, 1883, he was installed pastor of the Central Presby-
terian Church of Summit, N. J., where he remained as pastor and pastor
emeritus till his death, a period of twenty-seven years.
Dr. White, a child of the manse, became a Presbyterian by birth,
•conviction and by preference. He was a master of the Form of Govern-
ment, and was familiar, to the minutest detail, with the rules of the
judicatories of the church. This made him an ideal churchman, and an
admirable presbyter.
44 Necrological Report. Oct.^
Dr. White was a theologian. He was a master of the Calvinistic
system, and of the Westminster symbols. Calvinism appealed to his
logical mind. Its definiteness, its symmetry, its certainty, won his ap-
proval and held his allegiance.
But Dr. White was evangelical and his preaching evangelistic.
The church, theology and the ministry existed for the redemption of
man and he loved to preach the gospel of the grace of God.
He was ever the courteous gentleman, the conscientious worker, the
wise counselor, the true friend, and to the end the uncompromising
champion of the truth.
Presbytery of Newton.
REV. SYLVANUS NYE HUTCHISON
died at Belvidere, N. J., Thursday, April 14th, 1910. He was born
near Augusta, Ga., December 29th, 1825. He graduated from Davidson
College, N. C, as the valedictorian of his class in 1845, and was
ordained a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church, Charlotte,
N. C, at 20. He studied law and practiced his profession in Charlotte
until 1853, when he removed to Duchess County, N. Y. He was grad-
uated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1862, and was licensed
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick the same year. Though preach-
ing as opportunity offered, he was not ordained until 1868. He served'
the churches of Salt Point and Pleasant Plains, N. Y., in the Presby-
tery of North River, for 15 years, and the First Church, Oxford, N. J.,
in the Presbytery of Newton, for 17 years. He was honorably retired
in 1900 because of feeble health and made his home in Belvidere, N. J.
He was known as a man of prayer and personal work. He was a man
of simple faith and of great love for Christ. His very presence was
a blessing. His children have carried his principles and his spirit
into the Master's work both in this and in foreign lands. He entered
into rest in his eighty-fourth }'ear, and is survived by a widow and
three sons, two of whom are ministers in the Southern Church, the
third, a teacher, and by four daughters, two of whom were at one
time missionaries in India and two at present teachers.
Presbytery of West Jersey.
REV. WILLIAM HENRY JOHNS,
son of Simon and Cornelia Johns, was born at Doylestown, Pa.,
January 4, 1842. He was connected in his early years with the M. E.
Church. He was a student at Lincoln University from September,
1871, to June, 1873, and ten attended Lincoln University Theological
Seminary (English course) from September, 1873, to May, 1875, and
was graduated from the English Theological course in May, 1875. He
j'p/o. Necrological Report. 45
was licensed April 19. 1876, by the Presbytery of Elizabeth. He la-
bored for one year in the South as a missionary and also conducted
for some time a mission on Park Avenue, North Woodbury, N. J. In
1877 he undertook the supply of the congregation at Jericho, N. J.,
and was ordained on November 19, 1879, by the Presbytery of West
Jersey. The church at Jericho was received into the Presbytery of
West Jersey on November 30th, 1880. Mr. Johns continued to serve
the church at Jericho as stated supply up to the time of his death. He
had therefore served this church, first as a licentiate and then as an
ordained minister, during a period of 32 years. He died at Jericho of
pneumonia qn January 2d, 1910, aged 67 years, 11 months and 29 days.
His continued and faithful service won for him the love of his con-
gregation and the high respect of the community at large. He was
unflagging in the interest he took in the education of his race. His
influence among those of his own color was felt throughout the re-
gions surrounding Jericho. He was a diligent, earnest and faithful
minister of the gospel. He is survived by a widow, two sons and one
daughter.
REV. LUTHER ALBERTUS GATES
was born near Shelby, Cleveland County, N. C, January 17th, 1865.
He made a public confession of his faith in the German Reformed
Church of Newton, N. C, at the age of 17. His preparatory studies
were pursued in Kings Mountain High School, N. C, and he was
graduated from Davidson College, N. C, in 1887. He attended Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, 1887-1890, and was graduated there in 1890.
He was also a graduate student there, 1890-1891, at which time he
also pursued graduate studies in Princeton University, taking there
his master's degree in 1890. He was licensed, July 31st, 1890, by the
Presbytery of Mecklenburg, N. C. He was stated supply of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S. C, in 1890, and of the
Boundary Avenue Church, Baltimore, Md., in 1891. He was ordained
May 26th, 1892, by the Presbytery of Newcastle, Del., and was in-
stalled the same day as pastor of the First Church of Delaware City,
Del., and his pastorate continued there until January 22d, 1900. He
was next installed pastor of the Falling Spring Church, Chambers-
burg, Pa., by the Presbytery of Carlisle, on February 27th, 1900, and
he continued pastor of that church until March 12th, 1903. He was
received by the West Jersey Presbytery on April 21st, 1903, and was
by it installed pastor of the First Church of Bridgeton, N. J., on May
14th, 1903, and he remained pastor of this church up to the time of
his death, a period of six and one-half years. He was stated clerk of
the Presbytery of Newcastle from 1889 to 1900. He was a trustee
of Wilson College (1900) and of the West Jersey Academy, Bridgeton,
N. J. (1903). He died on November 15th, 1909, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is survived by a widow and one son.
46 Necrowgicai, Report. Oct..
REV. FREDERIC R. BRACE, PH.D., D.D.,
died on Thursday, May 6th, 1910, at his home in Blackwood, N. J. Dr.
Brace was born at Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He studied theol-
ogy under Dr. David Cole, of the Reformed Church of America, at
New Brunswick, N. J. He obtained the degree of M.A. from the
College of New Jersey in 1857. In i860 he was Hcensed by the Classis
of New Brunswick and was ordained on October 29th, 1861, by the
Presbytery of West Jersey. He was pastor of the churches of Brain-
erd, Hammonton and Waterford from 1861 to 1867. In March, 1867,
he became pastor of the church at Blackwood and served in that pas-
torate until i8g8. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Grant Uni-
versity in 1892 and oi'D.D. from the American Temperance Univer-
sity of Tennessee in 1897. He was not merely the pastor of a single
church, but was interested and concerned in all the affairs of the com-
munity and was a trusted counsellor and adviser in public matters. He
was especially interested in educational affairs, wrote the history of
education in the Presbytery of West Jersey from 1839 to 1889, was
County Superintendent of Public Schools from 1870 to 1890 and presi-
dent of the New Jersey State Teachers' Association in 1875 and 1876.
Dr. Brace- was always a valued member of the Presbytery, his wisdom
in counsel and tactful energy in executive action being of the greatest
service. He was Moderator of the Synod of New Jersey in 1894.
Dr. Brace was deeply imbued with the missionary spirit and labored
faithfully for the interests of the mission churches of the Presbytery
of West Jersey, in which his ministerial life was spent.
He was also a student and a lover of the history of the Presbyterian
Church, a member of the Executive Council of the Historical Society,
and one of the last papers he prepared was a sketch of the New Jersey
chaplains in the War of the Revolution.
His body was buried in the cemetery at Blackwood on May 7th,
1910. He is survived by a widow, four daughters and a son.
His long life was spent usefully ; his honors were won worthily and
worn modestly; his large service was' given gladly; his final sickness
accepted submissively, his summons was heard calmly, and he slept
his final sleep peacefully. Many will cherish his memory sacredly and
speak his praise sincerely.
WILLIAM W. KNOX, Chairman.
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III.— TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR OF SYNODICAL HOME MIS-
SIONS IN NEW JERSEY— OCTOBER isT, 1909-SEP-
TEMBER 30TH, 1910. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
PERMANENT COMMITTEE.
FINANCIAL REVIEW.
The receipts of the Synodical treasury for the year, excluding bal-
ances from the preceding year, were $21,215.94. This is $183.64 less
than the amount received in the preceding year, which was the largest
annual sum ever received from the Presbyteries represented. But the
total of the former year included a legacy, and if this be eliminated
for the purpose of comparison, then the income through the regular
channels for the year just closed was $151.90 greater than ever before.
The total resources including balances, $25,132.55, was $402.05 in
excess of the previous year.
In addition, there was contributed to the Church Extension Com-
mittee of the Presbytery of Newark $9,301.07. Of this there was
expended for missionary support $5,055.55. The total raised within
the Synod for this combined Synodical and Presbyterial work was,
therefore, $30,517.01, compared with $29,453.50 reported for the pre-
ceding year.
Four of the Presbyteries not only met but exceeded the minimum
apportionment asked by Synod. They were Monmouth, which still
carries the banner for promptness and relative liberality ; West Jersey,
wjiich has never failed in twenty-four years ; Morris and Orange and
New Brunswick, both of which surpassed their own gifts of last year
also. Elizabeth technically lost her accustomed place in this com-
pany by the gifts of her churches, in consequence of a clerical error
only, and intends to make this up. But when the gifts of individuals
within that Presbytery are added Elizabeth takes her place as usual at
the head of her elect sisters in the total of her gifts.
Although Jersey City and Newton did not attain their full appor-
tionments, both surpassed their own gifts of the preceding year.
Newton made the largest proportionate gain in gifts of any of the
Presbyteries.
Newark apportioned to her churches $10,000 to be raised in the
calendar year 1910. Up to September 30th, nine months, $5,562 had
been received.
The summary of the gifts of the Presbyteries for all forms of
Home Missionary objects is as follows :
48 Synodicai, Home Missions. Oct.,
To Synodi- To Board To Board Total
cat Home for for to H. M. ^To Local Grand
Presbytery. Missions. Bvangl. Schools. Board. H. M. Work. Total.
lElizabeth, $4,428 99 $6,580 12 $5,721 42 $12,301 54 $16,901 00 $33,631 S3
Jersey City, 3,524 46 2,951 30 2,979 25 5,930 55 1,251 00 10,706 10
Monmouth, 2,470 97 2,046 97 1,888 94 3.935 9i 6,406 88
Morris and Orange, 3.647 74 13.304 54 6,823 85 20,128 42 5. 70s 00 29,481 16
Newark, *9.30i 07 7.286 58 4.972 13 12,258 71 28,770 00 50.329 78
New Brunswick, .. 3.214 52 4.113 24 2,324 75 6,437 99 1.776 00 11,428 51
Newton 1,069 81 1,484 88 1,049 58 2,534 46 104 00 3,608 27
West Jersey, 2,600 36 3,156 75 1,980 12 5,136 87 650 00 7,737 33
$30,257 92 $40,924 38 $27,740 00 $68,664 45 $55,157 00 $153,329 46
• To Church Extension Committee, Presbytery of Newark,
t For explanation and details see page- ^;.
Disbursements. — When we turn to expenditures, notable changes
appear. The total paid out from Synod's treasury was $22,360.79.
This is $2,157.00 more than was expended in the same t'erritory last
year, an increase of over 10 per cent. Every Presbytery shared in this
increased expenditure.
New Brunswick received $2,381.63, an increase of $718.30, which
was almost all spent in new Hungarian work. Elizabeth got $2,974.69,
an increase of $453.52, which went into Italian and other foreign work.
Morris and Orange had $2,060.00, an increase of $440.00, which was
used for development of new suburban work. Newton drew, $1,522.40,
an increase of $243.29, which was expended for the Hungarian Church
at Alpha. Jersey City expended from Synod's funds $3,982.00, an
increase of $42.00, and special gifts for the Italian Mission in Jersey
City, $1,291.68, an advance of $39.15. making the total expenditure
$5,273.68, an increase of $81.15. West Jersey used $4,170.39, an advance
of $8.44 from Synod's funds and $184.00 from the Van Meter Fund,
an increase of $34.00, making her total $4,354-39. an advance of $42.44-
Monmouth received $3,396.90, an increase of $16.68.
There was drawn out from the treasury $1,144.85 more than was
received into it, reducing our working balance by that amount.
The fact that more was called for and used in every Presbytery,
although some churches reached self-support and others received
reduced aid, not only demonstrates the growing calls for missionary
activity in our State, but also that while this growing demand is
greatest in the northern part and in industrial centers, it is confined to
no section.
Adding to the amounts already reported, those contributed by the
churches directly to local mission work, there was spent during the
year within the bounds of the Presbytery of Elizabeth $19,875; oi
Jersey City, $6,524; of Monmouth, $3,386; of Morris and Orange,
$7,765; of Newark, $33,825; of New Brunswick, $4,i57; of Newton,
$1,626; of West Jersey, $5,004.
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RESULTS AS SHOWN IN STATISTICS.
The annual reports from the fields, while not complete in every
instance, show that aid was given to io8 fields, of which T] were
organized churches, and 31 were missions not organized into churches
In these there were employed 67 ordained ministers and 32 unordained
paid workers. They reached on the average each Sunday 6,000 hearers,
preached about 7,000 sermons ; paid thousands of visits ; baptized 406
infants and 81 adults ; received 654 on profession of faith and 387 on
certificate or transfer.
In the fields reporting the net gain was 234, and the total communi-
cants September 30th, 6,960. There were 85 Sunday-schools with a
total membership of 7,640. The 86 church and chapel properties were
valued at over $500,000. Of these six were new ones, completed during
the year at a cost of about $30,000. Repairs and improvements to
church properties cost about $4,000. Debts to the amount of about
$10,000 were paid off during the year.
The aided churches and missions themselves raised toward pastors'
salaries and other current expenses over $50,000, and gave for benefi-
cence almost $7,000.
Five churches attained self-support, and reduced aid will be required
by at least nine others.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES IN THE SEVERAL PRESBYTERIES.
The Presbytery of West Jersey lost by death the Rev. Frederick R.
Brace, D.D., who for many years had served the Presbytery most
acceptably and usefully as Presbyterial missionary. In this death we
have the passing of the last of a trio of men. Dr. A. H. Dashiell, Dr.
Allen H. Brown and Dr. Brace, to whose zeal, activity and wisdom the
development and care of our Presbyterian mission work in the southern
and seashore regions of our State was largely due in the half century
just ended. The church of Collingswood has become self-supporting.
In Monmouth Presbytery the church of Belmar becomes self-sus-
taining, and that of Perrineville, through the generosity of the present
pastor, also ceases to be aid-receiving. The growing disregard of the
Lord's Day and of public worship, not only in the summer colonies
along the shore, but in permanent inland settlements as well, and the
continued inflow of unevangelized people of foreign speech is felt as a
renewed call for evangelistic activity.
Newton Presbytery confronts, on the one hand, the difficulties of
sustaining and rousing to greater activity and liberality declining
churches in old communities, and, on the other hand, the difficulties
of providing for new communities of recent immigrants, as exemplified
concretely in the affairs of the Magyar Church at Alpha. In both
respects progress has been made.
The increasing demand for work among the foreigners has aroused
in all the churches of Jersey City Presbytery still greater interest than
4S
50 Synodical Home Missions. Oct.,
heretofore, and there has been everywhere evidence of the realization
of responsibility and of the desire to advance this phase of the work.
In the Presbytery of New Brunswick the Witherspoon Street Church
(colored) received a grant of $2,000 from the Barber Fund of the
Board of Church Erection, which enabled it to pay off all encumbrances
OH its properties, and has had built for it by Princeton friends, at 's
cost of $6,000, a commodious and well-arranged parish house, in which
Sunday-school and institutional church work will be carried on. As a
response to this and a result of recent growth in numbers, ability and
liberality, this church, which through the three-quarters of a century
or more of its history has been dependent, proposes from this time to
be self-supporting. It is the first colored church in New Jersey to
take this step. A new and as yet tentative work among Hungarians in
Trenton has been car'f'ied on through the year by a lay missionary.
In Newark Presbytery, through the Church Extension Committee,
the First Colored Presbyterian Church, formerly worshiping on Plane
street, has exchanged its old building for the comparatively new and
splendidly equipped Wickliffe Church. As a result there has been large
increase in attendance, revenue and interest. The church proposes to
broaden its work by introducing industrial classes and other features
and to become self-supporting after January, igii.
The Deaconess Home has been furnished by the gifts of several of
the Newark churches and opened as a residence for the three women
missionaries now employed by the Committee. The new church
building for the Ruthenians and other Slavs is in process of erection.
Upper Montclair Church has assumed self-support.
In Morris and Orange Presbytery Ridgeview Chapel, on Valley Road,
West Orange, has been completed, representing an outlay of $7,500, of
which $2,400 remains to be raised. A Sunday-school of fifty members
has been started, and preaching services are proposed in the near future.
Two other new suburban sections have been carefully investigated and
warrant the starting of new enterprises. The increase of the inade-
quate salaries in weaker churches is claiming the attention of Presby-
tery.
In the Presbytery of Elizabeth the chapel at Keasbey was completed
and paid for at a cost of $2,565; it was dedicated December 21st, 1909.
The Sunday-school, made up of the children of foreigners, has grown
within the year from a single class with an average attendance of 23
and enrollment of 58 to an organized school with four officers, six
teachers, average attendance of 87 and enrollment of 168 scholars. A
Young People's Society has been organized, and six conversions are
reported. A lot has been given at Saybrook, a suburb of Elizabeth, and
the Committee has already more than $1,000 in hand for a building.
The First Church, Plainfield, has taken the oversight of the Italian
mission in that city; about forty-five persons connected with it are
reported ready for church membership.
The handsome stone church building for Italians at Bernardsville,
erected largely through the efforts and gifts of the pastor and people
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of the Basking Ridge Church at a cost of $8,500, was dedicated Sep-
tember 25th. Alien and citizen joined in gifts of money, material and
labor. The completion of the building has awakened new interest and
enthusiasm.
GENERAL MOVEMENTS.
Among the Colored Churches.
Immediately following the last Synod, the committee held an all-day
conference at Newark with the colored Presbyterian pastors and mis-
sionaries of the State, all but one of whom were present. The com-
mittee did not see its way clear, after hearing their statements and
making further independent investigations in the several Presbyteries,
to grant the request for a traveling missionary ; but the committee
recognized, with pleasure, the ambition and zeal of these ministers to
put the Presbyterian work among their own race in New Jersey upon
a larger and better footing; invited further proposals from them, and
assured them of local aid in the several Presbyteries for the advance
of work already established. The latter has been notably fulfilled in
the cases of Princeton and Newark, just reported. As an indirect
result of this conference, an association of the colored Presbyterian
ministers and churches of the State has been formed for the promotion
of fellowship and common interests, which has already held several
meetings with good results.
Among the Italians.
At the request of the Association of Italian Presbyterian Ministers
and Missionaries in New Jersey, the committee granted $105.00 from
its special fund to secure a month's services of Rev. Paolo Miraglia (an
eloquent Italian, temporarily in this country), to visit and conduct
special meetings in all the ItaHan missions of the State. These meet-
ings everywhere attracted large crowds and are believed to have given
a fresh impetus to the work in many places. The committee has
agreed to assist the Association by paying the traveling expenses of its
members to hold special evangelistic services in the several missions
of the State this fall.
Rural Churches and Federation.
Certain other features of the situation confronting us as Presbyterians
in New Jersey have been pressed anew and with increased force upon
the attention of the committee during the year.
One of these has been the present movement entered upon by our
Board of Home Missions to stimulate and develope rural churches.
By this title is meant churches in villages and in the open country,
whose constituency is largely made up of those engaged in agriculture.
52 Synodical Home Missions. Oct.,
Connected with this is the present movement of church federation so
far as it bears upon small communities that are over-churched, and
upon the possibility of finding a remedy in federation, for the apparent
waste of men, energy and money.
Inadequate Salaries.
Growing out of this, although by no means confined to rural com-
munities, has come consideration of the present inadequate salaries
paid to many of our pastors in New Jersey, some in aided and some in
unaided fields.
The figures given below are believed to be approximately correct,
although in some cases there has been ' uncertainty as to details. In-
formation has only been sought concerning charges which provide a
support less than $i,ooo and a house.
Taking first those fields in which a house is provided for the
minister, free of costs to him, fourteen charges pay $goo ; three, be-
tween $900 and $800 ; twenty-six, $800 ; four, between $800 and $700 ;
seventeen, $700; three, between $700 and $600; nine, $600; one, $500;
one, $400.
In fields where the minister must provide his own house, five pay
$1,000; five pay $900; one, $850; ten, $800; one, $750; nine, $700;
eight, $600; three, $500; one, $480; three, $400; and six pay less
than $400. There are, at least, fifty-two fields without manses in which
the salary ranges from $1,000 to less than $400.
Or, to state it .otherwise, combining both classes and taking into
account only the money payment, ten charges pay $400 or less ; fifteen
pay not more than $500 ; thirty-two do not exceed $600 ; sixty-one, not over
$700 ; one hundred and two, not over $800 ; one hundred and twenty-five
do not pay over $900, and a total of at least one hundred and forty-
seven (in some of which the exact salary is not known) fall under
$1,000 and a house. Of these thirty-six are in West Jersey Presbytery;
twenty-three in Monmouth ; twenty-two in Newton ; sixteen in Jersey
City ; fifteen in New Brunswick ; fourteen in Morris and Orange ;
twelve in Elizabeth, and nine in Newark. These form about three-
sevenths, almost one-half, the pastoral charges in the State.
The sum of $1,000 and a house has been taken, not as an ideal, but
simply as a convenient arbitrary standard from which to proceed in
securing and communicating information. While a minimum for ordi-
nary cases may be stated, no absolute and unvarying standard or scale
can be established because of the great difference in the expense of
living in different localities and in the respective needs of different
ministers and their families.
The ecclesiastical authority in the premises rests, of course, with the
Presbyteries, and the practical decision, in the last analysis, with the
church and the minister. But it is believed that a general movement
inaugurated by Synod and carried on simultaneously throughout the
State will have a moral effect that no sporadic attempts in separate
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localities could have, and that the present high cost of living demands
immediate and vigorous action.
Three steps may be taken where salaries are deemed inadequate :
1. First to determine whether it is necessary or wise to continue
the amount of ministerial service now employed upon the field. In this
the work of other denominations ought to be taken into the account,
not by way of rivalry but of co-operation.
2. If it is deemed necessary or wise to continue the service, then, that
renewed, definite effort should be put forth by the Presbytery to secure
an adequate salary from the field itself, and
3. If this is found impossible, then give adequate aid from the
Synodical fund to afford a living salary.
Groiving Suburbs.
The suburban growth, noticed in previous reports, has recently be-
come even more rapid through the opening of tunnels and trolley lines.
It requires prompt, and frequently at the start, generous action. It has
been found increasingly satisfactory and effective to have the Synodical
Horrie Missionary Committee of the Presbytery act also as a Local
Church Extension Committee. It can make a small grant of money,
if necessary, to effect the purchase of a site or towards the erection of
a building; can collect money locally for such objects, and administer
Synodical aid for missionary support.
Among the Immigrants.
The work among recent immigrants, in other tongues than English,
always difficult to direct and expensive to maintain, continues to grow
rapidly and should do so, but the busy pastors upon the committees
find it practically impossible to give it the time and attention required.
The Money Question.
To meet all these pressing calls largely increased revenues are needed
for Synodical Home Missions. The Committee believes that these
ought to be secured at once, and that it is possible to obtain them.
That, in order to do this, however, it is necessary that all our ministers
and people should be aroused to see the new, large, pressing and
promising situation; and that if adequate direct increase cannot be
immediately secured, there should be some readjustment in the dis-
tribution of home missionary contributions to meet the greatly in-
creased proportionate burden which recent immigration has put upon
this Synod.
Conference of tiie Presbyterial Committees.
A sub-committee, consisting of Rev. John T. Kerr, D.D., of Eliza-
beth, and Rev. Wendell Prime Keeler, of Morris and Orange, to whom
54 Synodical Home Missions. Oct.,
had been referred the question of what if any new steps should be
taken to meet the situation, recommended the calling of a conference
of the members of all the Presbyterial Committees. This was held
in New York, September 12th.
To this conference was submitted :
1. The recommendation of the sub-committee that a superintendent
of missions in New Jersey should be appointed, who should devote his
whole time to the oversight and assistance of the missions, especially
those among foreigners, and to keeping the churches informed upon
the missionary situation.
This suggestion was, after full consideration, approved by vote of
the conference, and Synod's committee advised to submit the recom-
mendation to Synod.
2. The question of how to increase the revenue available for New
Jersey, after full recognition of the need and consideration of plans in
debate, was referred back to Synod's committee with the suggestion
that the committee should formulate a definite plan for submission to
Synod.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions are respectfully submitted for the adoption
of Synod :
1. That the thanks of the Synod be given by a rising vote to Mr. W.
P. Stevenson for his services as Treasurer of Synodical Home Mission
funds.
2. That the Synod's Committee on Synodical Home Missions be
authorized and directed to correspond with the home missionary
agencies of other denominations at work in this State, and to co-operate
with the Inter-Church Federation of the State, if formed, in order to
obviate the over-churching of communities, and to further the unifica-
tion of Christian activities, and to communicate to the Presbyteries
any information or recommendations growing out of such correspond-
ence or conference.
3. That Synod recommends that renewed attention be given by its
Presbyteries to the quickening and development of their rural churches
by arranging for conferences and special services in such communities
or in their interest ; and that pastors and sessions of such churches are
advised to avail themselves of the growing literature upon the subject,
and to inaugurate broader and more aggressive work wherever possible.
Attention is called to the publications and other assistance provided
by the Board of Home Missions.
4. That it is the judgment of Synod that in ordinary circumstances
the salary of a pastor in New Jersey should never be less than $800 and
a house, and that Presbyteries be and hereby are directed to make
immediate effort through an appropriate committee to increase all
salaries which are now less than $1,000 and a house. It is suggested
that this may well form a part of a general movement in each Pres-
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bytery in the interest of improved financial methods and results in all
departments of every church's activity.
5. That from the balance in the Synodical Treasury, the sum of
$2,000 be set apart to the Special Fund under immediate control of
Synod's Committee.
6. That the several Presbyteries be asked to raise by apportionment
during the coming fiscal year at least the same amounts that were
asked for Synodical Home Missions last year, viz. :
Elizabeth, $3,500 00
Jersey City, 2,500 00
Monmouth, 2,300 00
Morris and Orange, 3,600 00
Newark, 7,000 00
New Brunswick, 3,200 00
Newton, ; 1,200 00
West Jersey, 2,600 00
$25,900 00
7. That in addition, because of the greatly increased demand for
home mission work in New Jersey, the Sessions of our churches be
directed to deduct from the offerings made for home missions in the
church proper an amount equal to twenty-five per cent, of the offering,
and to transmit it to the Treasurer of Synodical Home Missions to
become a part of the Special Fund.
That the Stated Clerk of Synod be directed to transmit this particular
action to the Presbyteries, with the request that they re-enact, the same
as soon as possible.
8. That there be allotted to the several Presbyteries, for use within
their bounds, the following amounts :
Elizabeth, $2,500 00
Jersey City, 3.300 00
Monmouth, 3,400 00
Morris and Orange, 2,000 00
Newark, 7,000 00
New Brunswick, 1.800 00
Newton, 1,350 00
West Jersey, 4,200 00
For Administration, 350 00
$25,900 00
9. That the Synodical Home Mission Committee be authorized to
appoint a Superintendent of Missions in New Jersey, and to fix the
amount of salary, to be paid out of the missionary funds of Synod.
This officer shall work under the direction of Synod's Committee and
in co-operation with Presbyterial Committees in the investigation of
fields either already occupied or which might be occupied, in advising
56 Synodical Home Missions. Oct..
and assisting missionaries and vacant mission congregations, and in
furnishing information to the committees and to the churches in further-
ance of the work.
Respectfully submitted by the Committee,
SAMUEL McLANAHAN,
Chairman.
Direct Gifts to Local Missions for Support, New Buildings
AND Debts.
This list is intended to show the gifts made by churches to work
in their own' cities or neighborhood, which have not passed through the
treasury of Synod or the Boards. It includes all such work reported
to and by the chairmen of the S. H. M. Committees in the several
Presbyteries. Omissions, if any, occur through the failure of the
church to report.
presbytery of ELIZABETH.
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution. Amount.
Basking Ridge, Bernardsville Italian Mission, . . . $2,812 00
Crawford Garwood Chapel, 450 00
Elizabeth, Second, Bethany Chapel, 400 00
Rescue Mission, 100 00
City Mission, , . . 50 00
First German Church, 100 00
Elizabeth, Third, Bethany Chapel, 944 00
First German Church, 75 00
Elizabeth, Greystone. First German Church, 75 00
Elizabeth, Westminster, .. .Hope Chapel, 4,778 00
Plainfield, First, Italian Mission, 198 00
Plainfield, Crescent Ave.,. .Bethel, Hope and Warren
Chapels, 5-974 00
Gifts from churches and individuals for Building Fund,
Keasbey Chapel, 415 00
Gifts from churches for debts of First German Church.
Elizabeth, besides those already included, 570 00
$16,901 00
presbytery of jersey CITY.
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution.
Jersey City, First, Lafayette Presbyterian Church,.
Armenian, West Hoboken
Jersey City, Westminster, . .Sunday-School Missionary, ...
Englewood, Bethany Chapel,
Rutherford, Lyndhurst Chapel,
Kingsland Church,
Amount.
$225
GO
120
00
100
00
100
00
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Contributing Church. Object of Contribution.
Passaic, Wallington Chapel,
Hoboken, Hoboken Mission,
Paterson, Second, St. Augustine Church,
Italian Mission,
Amount
250
00
75
00
355
oc
26
00
$1,251 00
PRESBYTERY OF MORRIS AND ORANGE.
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution. Amount.
Orange, Central, West Orange Chapel, $1,300 00
Morristown, South St., Market St. Mission,
Morristown, First, Union Chapel,
Summit, Central', Settlement House (Syrians, Jews,
Armenians, Italians, etc.),
Madison, Italian Settlement,
2,300
oc
40
00
2,040
00
25
00
$5,705 00
PRESBYTERY OF NEWARK.
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution. Amount.
Bloomfield, First Broughton Memorial Chapel, ... $857 00
Montclair, First, Italian Mission, 550 00
Montclair, First, Morningside Hospital, 65 00
Montclair, Trinity, First Italian Pres. Church, 470 00
Montclair, Trinity, Children's Home, 54 00
Montclair, Trinity, Hospital, 20 00
Newark, First, Tabernacle, 2,350 00
Italian, 2,335 00
Bethany, 807 00
Debts, buildings, etc., 10,485 00
Other local agencies, 7.777 00
Newark, Park Park Chapel, 900 00
Newark, Roseville, West, 200 00
Newark, South Park, Memorial Chapel, 1,00000
Newark, Second, Fewsmith Memorial, 900 00
$28,770 00
PRESBYTERY OF NEW BRUNSWICK.
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution. Amount.
Bound Brook, Italian Mission, $100 00
Princeton, First, Witherspoon St. Sunday-
School, $55 00
Witherspoon St. Sewing
School, 15 00
Italian Sunday-School,. . 100 00
170 00
58 Synodical Home Missions. Oct.,
Contributing Church. Object of Contribution. Amount.
Trenton, First, Church Extension, :i7s 68
Trenton, Second, Church Extension, 15 oo
Trenton, Third, Church Extension Com.
Trenton, $150 00
Bible Readers' Salary, . . 120 00
Montgomery St. Mission, 400 00
Trenton, Fourth, Church Extension,
Trenton, Fifth, Church Extension,
Trenton, Prospect St., ....Church Extension,
Trenton, Bethany, Church Extension,
Trenton, Walnut Ave., ....
East Trenton, '•.' Church Extension,
Italian Evangelical, Church Extension,
670
00
125
00
15
00
150
00
35
00
10
00
113
27
$1,776 55
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IV.— TREASURER'S REPORT— SYNODICAL HOME MISSIONS.
To the Synod of Neiv Jersey:
I present to you herewith my report as Treasurer of the Synodical
Home Mission Funds for the twenty-fourth fiscal year, beginning
October ist, 1909, and ending September 30th, 1910.
The receipts have been as follows :
To balance according to last annual report —
General work, .' $3,460 04
Van Meter Fund, 456 57
contributions from Presb. of Elizabeth $3,428 99
" " Mrs. Ralph Voorhees,
Elizabeth, 1,000 00
" " Presb. of Jersey City, 2,232 78
'•' First Church of Jersey City,
account of Italian work, . 1,291 68
" " Presb. of Monmouth, 2,470 97
" " " " Morris & Orange, 3,647 74
" " " " New Brunswick, 3,214 52
" Newton, 1,069 81
" " " " West Jersey, . . . 2,600 36
mterest on mvestment,
interest on balances in bank,
Van Meter Fund, West Jersey Presbytery,
- 20,956 85
20 00
45 09
194 00
Total receipts for the year, $25,132 55
The disbursements to Ministers and Missionaries have been as fol-
lows:
In Presbytery of Elizabeth, $2,524 69
" " " Jersey City, 3,202 00
" " " " " Italian work, 1,291 68
" " " Monmouth, 3,386 90
" " " Morris and Orange, 2,010 00
" " " New Brunswick, 1,681 63
" " " Newton, 1,267 40
" " " Wiest Jersey, 4,17039
For administrative expenses, 407 10
*$i9,94i 79
See note next page.
6o Treasurer's Report — Home Missions. Oct.,
Out of the balance on hand October 1st, 1909, there has
been expended for special work :
In the Presbytery of Elizabeth, $450 00
" " " " Jersey City, 780 00
" " " " Morris and Orange, 5000
" " " " New Brunswick, 700 00
" " " " Newton, 255 00
Payment account Van Meter Fund, 184 00
$2,419 00
Investment, 200 00
Balance to be carried to next year's work, 2,105 i^
" " credit of Van Meter Fund, 466 57
$25,132 55
The following schedules are annexed to and form a part of this
report :
Schedule I. Showing the payments made to aid-receiving churches,
the contributions received from congregations, Sabbath-schools, soci-
eties and individuals, and the total contributions received from each
church.
Schedule II. Showing the total contributions received from the re-
spective Presbyteries.
Schedule III. Showing the amounts which the various Presbyteries
were asked to contribute, and the amounts received from them re-
spectively.
Schedule IV. Showing the appropriations to the different Presby-
teries, the amounts paid for services during the year, and the unused
balances of appropriations which have fallen into the General, Fund
under the provisions of Article VI, Section 6, of the plan revised Octo-
ber 17th, 1900. Respectfully submitted,
W. P. STEVENSON,
Dated RosELLE, N. J., October loth, 1910. Treasurer.
Note — Contributions in the Presbytery of Newark are now made directly to the
Church Extension Committee of that Presbytery, which gives aid both for church
buildings and for the support of missionaries.
* These figures only show what passed through the hands of Synod's Treasurer.
By concurrent action of Synod and the Presbytery of Newark, the receipts and
expenditures within that Presbytery for the support of missionaries are to be re-
ported with and regarded as an integral part of Synodical Home Missions. The
report of the Treasurer of the Church Extension Committee of Newark Presbytery
appears on page 9.
The combined contributions to S. H. M. work for the year are:
Through Synods's Treasury, $20,936 85
In Newark Presbytery for Missionary support, S,o55 55
$26,012 40'
Total expenditures for the year are:
From General Fund, $i9.94i 79
From Special Fund 2,419 00
By Newark Committee, 5,055 S5
$27,416 34
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Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
6i
Schedule i.
Showing the payments made to aid-receiving churches, the contribu-
tions received from congregations, Sabbath-schools, societies and indi-
viduals, and the total contributions received from each church.
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
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WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF ELIZABETH.
Basking Ridge,
Bernardsville, Italian,
Bethlehem,
Carteret,
Clarksville (Glen Gardner),..
Clinton
Cokesbury,
Connecticut Farms,
Cranford,
Dunellen,
Elizabeth, ist,
2d
3d,
" ist German
" Greystone,
" Madison Avenue,
" Siloam,
" Westminster,
" Bethany,
" German,
" Italian
Garwood,
Keasby
Lamington
Liberty Corner, .
Lower Valley, Califon,
Maurer, ist German
Metuchen. ist
Perth Amboy
Plainfield, ist,
" Crescent Avenue,
" Bethel
" Hope,
" Warren,
" Italian,
Pluckamin
Rahway, ist
" 2d
" German,
Roselle
Springfield,
Westfield,
Woodbridge ,
Saybrook,
Rev. Ezra F. Mundy,
Mrs. Ralph Voorhees
$250 00
153 00
150 00
10 00
879 14
450 00
325 00
$115 00
Totals,
8 00
$5 00
60
160
60
173
00 1 .
^5 92
280 00
32 751.
255
3
56 00
40
5
80
129
151
348
27
118
33
55
195
7
116
65
175
62
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4 39!-
60 00 1
$•29-4 69 $2997 88|$40i II $25 00 $1005 00 $4428 99
$115 00
8 00
8 00
IS 00
80 00
20 00
60 00
160 00
60 00
199 21
.300 00
179 09
20 00
82 75
12 00
2 00
255 00
3 82
2 00
56 00
20 00
40 00
5 00
80 00
135 63
151 50
348 50
27 30
118 50
80 70
38 18
55 00
195 00
7 30
176 51
C5 00
180 00
62 00
5 00
62
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Oct.
Schedule i — (Continued).
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WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF JERSEY CITY.
$25 00
$2S 00
470 so
26 12
470 SO
" West Side,
Garfield,
$36 66
$3 00
39 66
75 00
25 00
75 00
5 00
2 00
18 00
$150 00
320 00
37 00
IIS 00
IIS 00
320 00
37 00
IIS 00
IIS 00
SO 00
700 00
12 15
12 15
100 00
100 00
25 00
69 76
2S 00
69 76
200 00
100 00
200 00
180 00
10 00
2 00
51 99
184 05
30 00
81 99
184 OS
" 2d,
3d,
10 00
20 00
ISO 00
8s 00
13 25
IS 00
" Church of the Redeemer, . , . >
150 00
8s 00
18 25
IS oa
" East Side, i
5 00
" St. Augustine, | loo oo
200 00
" Totowa,
200 00
140 00
600 00
50 00
3 00
3 00.
** Italian,
::::::
2S 00
S8 48
6 00
25 00
108 48
SO 00
150 00
Tenafly,
n S^
5 00
33 82
200 00
'
IDS 00
los 00
237 00
100 00
200 00
West Milford
20 00
25 00
Totals
$3982 00
$2073 30
$128 48
$31 00
$2232 7&
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Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Schedule i — {Continued).
63
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
i B
u
•5$
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WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF MONMOUTH.
Allentown,
Asbury Park, ist, ,
Atlantic Highlands, .
Barnegat and
Forked River
Belmar,
Beverly,
Bordentown,
Burlington,
" Italian
Columbus ,
Cream Ridge
Cranbury, ist
" 2d
Delanco
Englishtown,
Farmingdale, and
Oak Glen
Freehold, ist
Hightstown,
Holmanville,
Jacksonville and
Providence,
Tamesburg
Keyport,
I^akehurst,
Lakewood, ist,
" Hope
Long Branch
" Italian, . . . .
Manalapan
Manasquan
Matawan,
Moorestown
Mt. Holly
New Gretna,
Oceanic
Perrineville
Plattsburg,
Plumstead (New Egypt),
Point Pleasant,
Red Bank,
" Italian,
Riverton, Calvary,
Sayreville, German
Shrewsburj', ist,
South Amboy
South River, German, . . .
" Hungarian,
Tennent
Toms River,
Tuckerton
West Mantoloking
Yardville
Supplies
Rev. John E. Parmly, . . .
Totais, .
t>205 00
25 00
156 00
328
60 00
240 00
150 00
180 00
262 so
250 00
100 00
250 00
272 50
200 00
204 92
177 00
SO 00
$3386 90
$■70 00
97 20
36 30
9 26
6 84
25 00
67 06
32 70
70 00
$16 00
10 9;
150 00
61 88
38 57
22 91
99 56
55 00
II 70
10 88
16 20
151 68
6 72
27 00
69 80
7 20
25 71
28 80
S6 70
58 37
20 00
42 30
40 38
29 40
14 50
24 00
63 30
64 18
39 60
56 00
38 00
27 30
222 55
45 00
24 90
6 60
$2081 97
$63 00
$4 00
2 00
$300 00
$26 00 $300 00 $2470 97
$70 00
97 20
36 30
13 26
8 84
25 00
103 06
32 70
70 00
10 92
150 00
61 88
38 57
22 91
99 56
70 00
II 70
10 88
16 20
151 68
6 72
27 00
76 80
7 20
25 71
28 80
56 70
58 37
30 00
57 30
40 38
29 40
14 50
24 00
63 30
64 18
39 60
56 00
38 00
27 30
222 55
45 00
24 go
6 60
64
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Schedule i — (Continued).
Oct.,
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF MORRIS AND
ORANGE.
Berkshire Valley,
Mine Hill, and
Luxemburg
Boonton, ist,
Chatham Ogden Memorial,.
Chester, • • • •.
Dover Memorial,
East Orange, ist,
" Elmwood,
Arlington Ave.,
Bethel,
Brick
Fairmount,
Flanders,
German Valley,
Hanover,
Madison,
Mendham,
Morris Plains
Morristown, ist,
" South Street,
Mt. Freedom,
Mt. Olive,
Myersville, German,
New Providence,
New Vernon,
Orange, ist
" ■ Central,
" German ist
Hillside,
" St. Cloud,
Orange Valley, German,..
Parsippany
Pleasant Valley
Pleasantdale, German, . .
Pleasant Grove
Rockaway
Schooley's Mountain, . . . .
South Orange, ist
" " Trinity, .,
Stirling,
Succasunna,
Summit, Central
N. Chapel,
Whippany, _.
Wharton, Hungarian, . . ,
Wyoming,
West Orange Chapel,
Edw. L. Cook
U
$450 00
C-J
$8 00
8 00
4 GO
100 00
121 17
8 62
120 00
300 00
31 50
100 00
105 00
225 00
17 00
280 00
480 00
300 00
Totals $2060 00 $3568 741 $62 00 $17 00
10 00
90
160
120
300
275
10
IS
5
IS
27
250
300
46
180
41
00
7 55
64 so
5
125 00
27 73
12 00
40 00
200 00
12 25
u
$50 00
10 00
10 00
15 00
$10 00
$3647 74
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Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
65
Schedule i — {Continued.)
Contributions for both Sustentation and Church Extension.
Stat>ctncnt of Treasurer of Neii'ark Presbytery Church Extension
Committee.
RECEIPTS FROM CHURCHES.
Caldwell $66 50
Roseland, 10 00
Bloomfield, i st, 45000
" Westminster, 156 00
Montclair, ist 50 00
" Trinity 148 01
" Cedar Avenue 10 00
" Grace, 581
Kearney, Kno.x Memorial, 70 00
Newark, Bethany, 30 00
Calvary, i99 97
" Central
" Fewsmith, 10 67
" Fifth Avenue, 241 77
" Clinton Avenue, 31 72
" Hungarian, 5 00
" German, 3d 70 75
1st, 1,900 00
ist Tabernacle 41 19
" ist Italian, 10 00
'' High Street, 168 80
Memorial, 100 00
" Manhattan Park, 35 00
North Park
" Olivet, 8 00
" Park, 800 00
" Plane Street i.S 00
Roseville 926 20
2d, 1,030 00
.; 6tji 133 41
3d 1,-ioy 68
South Park 281 00
[] West 55 00
Wickliffe 70 00
" Forest Hill, 112 so
" Woodside
" Weequahie, 25 00
Hill Temple 10 14
Verona, 25 00
Individual Legacies, . . 690 95
$9,301 07
PAYMENTS TO AID-RECEIVING CHURCHES
FOR MISSIONARY SUPPORT.
Emanuel, German, $150 00
First Italian, 1,026 60
Hungarian 528 00
Italian Board 200 00
Manhattan Park 350 00
Park View, 699 g(
Plane Street, 285 00
N'erona, 250 00
West Church, 250 00
Deaconesses 573 95
Miscellaneous 742 04
$5 055 55
Balance for Church Extension
purposes and cash 4,245 52
;>9,3oi 07
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Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Oct.,
Schedule i — {Continued).
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF NEW
BRUNSWICK.
Bound Brook,
Dayton,
Dutch Neck
Ewing,
Flemington,
Frenchtown,
Hamilton Square
Holland
Hopewell,
Kingston
Kingwood
Lambertville,
Lawrenceville
Milford ._
Monmouth Junction,
Mt. Airy, Amwell, 2d
Mt. Pleasant, Alexandria, ist,...
New Brunswick, ist,
" " Hungarian, . . .
Pennington
Plainsboro,
Princeton, ist,
2d,
" Witherspoon Street, .
" Italian,
Reaville, Amwell, ist _ —
Ringoes, Kirkpatrick Memorial,
" Amwell United, ist, .
Stockton,
Titusville,
Trenton, ist
2d,
:: 3d
" 4th,
5th,
" Bethany,
" East Trenton,
" Prospect Street,
" Westminster,
" Italian
" Hungarian,
" Pilgrim,
Italian Evangelist,
Anonymous,
"G,"
Totals,
$50 00
90 00
180 00
845 00
516 66
150 00
25 00
>I00 00
50 00
60 00
37 00
165 00
35 00
80 00
4 00
31 61
41 70
5 00
139 27
90 02
58 18
8 =,0
10 00
185 00
75 00
15 00
550 84
SO 00
20 00
7 75
25
293
29
158
98
19
60
26
250
17
16
$■3 39
42 77
13 7(>
70 00
13 35
8 34
$2381 63 $2864 47 $159 05 $16 00
o «
$5 00
$25 00
150 00
/p/0.
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
67
Schedule 1 — {Continued).
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
C-~
i «
i: 3
o ti
WITHIN PRESBYTERY OP NEWTON.
Alpha
Andover
Asbury
Beattystown and
2d Mansfield, . . .
Beemerville,
Belvidere, ist
2d
Blairstown,
Bloomsbury
Branchville,
Danville,
Deckertown,
Delaware,
Franklin Furnace, ...
Greenwich
Hackettstown,
Hamburg,
Harmony,
Knowlton,
Lafayette,
Marksboro,
Musconetcong Valley,
Newton, ist,
North Hardyston
Ogdensburg,
Oxford, ist
2d,
Phillipsburg, ist.
$575 90
$7 00
5 25
10 00
16 GO
S 20
11 00
100 00
25 00
40 GO
$34 06
12 00
14 00
35 OG
6 78
2G 40
ID 00
110 GO
20 00
9 GO
6 00 1
17 ool
3 00
5 00'
ISO ool
46 50
Sparta, .
Stanhope, . . . .
Stillwater, . . . ,
Stewartsville, .
Wantage, . . . .
Washington,
Yellow Frame,
Cash, ,
Westminster,
25 00
5 00
13 98
24 87
23 80
13 00
14 6s
76 55
8 87
$10 00
5 00
150 GO
12 40
Totals, .
WITHIN PRE.SBYTERY OF WEST JERSEY.
Absecon and _
Leeds Point,
Albion,
Atco ,
Atlantic City, ist
" " German, . . . .
" " Chelsea ,
Olivet,
" " Westminster,
I '■ " Immanuel, . .
Audubon, Logan Memorial,
Barrington,
Berlin
Billingsport and
Swedesboro, ,
$1522 40 $996 88
$14 GO
10 00
>i99 00
119 17
160 00
:6 00
ISO 00
89 00
147 SO
18 00
no 00
10 00
20 00
100 00
$5 00
$7 00
5 25
10 00
16 GO
S 20
11 00
100 GO
25 00
74 06
12 GO
14 GO
35 00
6 78
20 40
10 00
120 00
20 GO
9 00
6 00
17 00
3 00
5 00
150 00
25 00
5 00
32 85
29 87
23 80
13 00
14 65
76 55
150 00
12 40
5 00
$52 93
$15 GO
$5 00 $1069 8i
$14 00
10 00
2 00
18 00
no 00
10 GO
20 00
100 00
I 00
23 ool
10 ool
8 00
6 45
25 60 1
I 00
23 GO
10 GO
8 00
6 45
25 60
68
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Schedule i — (Continued).
Oct.
NAMES OF CHURCHES.
WITHIN PRESBYTERY OF WEST
JERSEY — (Con.)
Blackwood, i.st,
Bridgetcn, ipt,
2d
4th
" Irving Avenue
West
Bunker Hill, and
Glassboro,
Camden, i st,
2d,
3d
" Calvary,
" Woodland Avenue, . .
4th,
" Grace,
" Westminster,
Cape May City,
Cedarville, i st,
" Osborne Memorial,
Clayton,
Cold Spring,
Collingswood
Daretown, Pittsgrove,
Deerfield,
Elmer,
Elwood, Brainerd,
Fairfield, Fairton,
Gloucester City,
Green Creek and
Tuckahoe
Greenwich,
Grenloch
Haddonfield, ist,
Haddon Heights
Hammonton, ist
" Italian,
Holly Beach,
Janvier,
Jericho,
Laurel Springs,
Mays Landing,
Merchantville,
Millville,^
Ocean Citv
Pleasantville,
Salem, ist,
Vineland, ist,
" Italian,
Waterford
Wenonah Memorial,
Williamstown,
Woodbury, . ._
Woodbury Heights,
Woodstown,
Supplies,
Presbyterial Missionary
Italian Work
Rev. Samuel H. Potter
Totals, .
in C
G-s
242 so
215 00
$35 00
125 00
140 00
15
90
13
13
17s
125
26
40
15
17
104
35
5
55
6 00
160 00
15 00
76 so
220 00
25
153
18
41
5
30
50
35
12
60
45
$15 00
6 00
761
001
19 72
5 00
225 OQ
182 89
662 50
I 001 .
56 60I
29 00 I
76 04 1 .
5 oo' .
20 ool
I.
$1 00
S 00
29 70
6 00 1
30 ool
P70 39l$2388 59l$i43 77\ $66 00
$2 ooi$26oo 36
I9I0.
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
69
Schedule 2.
Being a summary of columns 2, j, 4, 5 and 6 of Schedule i.
PRESBYTERIES.
O r^
3 O t
•^2 lU
C Ih U
O
3.5 oi
u S 3
•t: o-c
C !-■■-•
O"" >
U
.S 3
Elizabeth
Jersey City
Monmouth
Morris and Orange,
New Brunswick
Newton,
West Jersey
Total Synod's Treasury,
Ch. Extension Com., Newark
P2,997 88
2,073 30
2,081 97
3.568 74
2,864 47
991 88
2,388 59
$401 II
128 48
63 00
62 00
IS9 OS
52 93
143 77
P2S 00
31 00
26 00
17 00
16 00
IS 00
66 00
pi6,97i 83
9,288 93
$1010 34
12 14
$196 00
>ioo5 00
300 00
17s 00
5 00
2 00
$4,428 99
2,232 78
2,470 97
3,647 74
3,214 52
1,069 81
2,600 36
$1487 00
$19, 66s 17
9,301 07
Schedule 3.
Showing tlic amounts tvhich the respective Presbyteries were asked to
contribute, the amounts received, and the excess or deficiency.
PRESBYTERIES.
Elizabeth,
Jersey City,
Monmouth,
Morris and Orange,
New Brunswick, . .
Newton,
West Jersey,
3 C
O O
<
$3,Soo 00
2,500 00
2,300 00
3,600 00
3,200 00
1,200 00
2,600 00
$3,428 99
2,232 78
2,470 97
3,647 74
3,214 52
1,069 81
2,600 36
$
170
97
47
74
14
52
36
$71 01
267 22
130 19
^o
Treasurer's Report — Home Missions.
Oct.,
Schedule 4.
Showing the appropriations to the respective Presbyteries, the amounts
paid for services therein, and the unused balances.
Elizabeth,
Jersey City,
Monmouth,
Morris and Orange,
Newark, . . . ._
New Brunswick,
Newton,
West Jersey,
Administration Expenses,
iQio. Home Missions. 71
v.— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON HOME
MISSIONS.
We have read with the greatest interest the one hundred and eighth
annual report of the Board of Home Missions. No matter how much
interest we may take in our own State or in the work of the whole
foreign field, there will always probably be given by every patriotic.
Christian citizen of the United States the first place to home missions
in the nation. The early history of the home missionary pioneers, who,
like Whitman, saved a great cause, unites with the work of men like
"Lumberjack Higgins" to increase the interest we all have when the
flag of home missions goes up beside "Old Glory" and they wave to-
gether as the hope of the world. Whatever else we do, we must save
America for Christ and the world. The notion that the work of home
missions is decreasing in scope and therefore in needs is not warranted.
We call special attention to the fact that by reason of the enlarged
work of the Board and the falling off in legacies it has been compelled
for two years in succession to draw upon its reserve funds to meet
current expenses. This fund and the steadying of the income imder
the budget plan has kept the Board out of debt. Whatever actions
are taken by Synod and its Presbyteries tending to diminish the offer-
ings to the Board will undoubtedly disarrange the apportionments of
the budget plan and create a new confusion. If anything of this kind
is contemplated there ought, in our opinion, to be first established a
working agreement between the Board and the Synod, by which the
amount needed for the Synod's work might be allowed for in the Home
Mission Board's budget, after which the drafts by the Synod would
properly fall under the head of the appropriation duly provided for. It
would be eminently proper for this Synod to overture the General As-
sembly to establish some such arrangement as soon as possible.
We also report that we have read with great interest the thirty-third
report of the woman's work for home missions in this Synod. We sub-
mit a resolution upon the same, and we offer the following recom-
mendations for adoption :
1. That we early call the attention of all our pastors and sessions
to the increasing needs of the work of the Board of Home Missions
and the need of having all our churches meet their full apportion-
ments as assigned to them under the budget plan sent down by the
General Assembly.
2. That this Synod does hereby commend the work of our noble
band of women in New Jersey in behalf of home missions, as seen in
their thirty-third annual report, and that we approve of the said re-
port as submitted to us, and bid them Godspeed in their work.
72 Home Missions. Oct.,
3. That this Synod hereby express its appreciation of the address
of Rev. John Dixon, D.D., associate secretary of the Board of Home
Missions, and hope that his work may receive the blessing of God.
HUGH B. MacCAULEY,
Chairman.
igio. Woman's Work for Home Missions. 73
VI.— THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WOMAN'S
SYNODICAL SOCIETY OF HOME MISSIONS IN THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
The annual report of the Woman's Synodical Society varies little
from year to year, but a comparison at any time with the work of
several years previous proves that great advance has been made. Two
of our Presbyterial Societies — -Jersey City and West Jersey — have this
year celebrated their silver anniversaries. The historical sketches given
at each meeting are a story of constant progress made by the bands of
consecrated workers.
We have been fortunate in having the annual meeting of the
Woman's Board held within the bounds of our State this year. Many
of our New Jersey women were in Atlantic City in May and received
great help from the inspiring meetings, the messages of the mission-
aries and the officers of the Board. Our Synodical Society presented a
registration book to the Woman's Board to be used to enroll the dele-
gates and visitors to the annual meeting each year. Over six hundred
names were enrolled at Atlantic City.
In reviewing the reports of our eight Presbyterial Societies, we note
the following:
Elizabeth Presbyterial Society reports faithful and stead}^ contrib-
utors and a better knowledge of the work. The importance of the Fall
District meetings, held each September, has been emphasized. These
meetings, held in small towns, and far from the busy centers, are
greatly appreciated. The blessings of personal contact with officers
from the Board and with missionaries go far in encouraging and in-
spiring the smaller auxiliaries to feel that their work and gifts are
quite as necessary and acceptable as those of the strong city churches.
In her annual letter the President urges loyalty to the recommendations
of the Woman's Board as presented by the Synodical Society for the
regular Home Mission objects and for the general fund.
Jersey City Presbyterial met in the Second Church of Paterson, in
March, where the first meeting was held twenty-five years ago. There
have been but four presidents in this Society, and these were all present
at the anniversary meeting and had a part in it. Originally there were
eight auxiliaries, with a membership of two hundred, now twenty-five,
with one thousand and ninety-two members.
Monmouth Presbyterial Society is thoroughly organizing the study
class work. In the past ten years this society has doubled its organiza-
tion, now numbering thirty-six auxiliaries. These figures show the
earnest efforts of the officers of the society.
Morris and Orange Presbyterial has made an increase in gifts and in
interest in all the auxiliaries. The president in her visiting has been
impressed by the devotional spirit pervading the meetings. The Secre-
74 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct.,
tary of the Interdenominational Study Class in Orange has been
secured as Presbyterial Study Class secretary. Three classes are re-
ported, while nine local churches were represented in the Orange Inter-
denominational Study Class, which used as a text-book the "Call of the
Waters."
Newark Presbyterial reports one Westminster Guild. After studying-
Alaska through the winter, the members of the chapter took charge of
the Alaska meeting for the Woman's Society. At the beginning of the
year the president of Newark Presbyterial asked the president of each
local society to attend one of the third Tuesday meetings of the
Woman's Board, and as far as possible have one representative from
her society at each of the meetings in order that the societies might have
a more intelligent and, .sympathetic comprehension of the work being
done, and come into closer touch with the officers of the Woman's
Board. This representative is called the "New York Reporter."
New Brunswick Presbyterial is divided into districts, with district
presidents. The district meetings last all day, one session being de-
voted to Home Mission work, the other to Foreign. The societies
have been greatly interested in the letters from Elm Spring, which are
t3'pewritten each quarter and sent throughout the Presbytery.
Newton Presbyterial has elected a new president this year, Mrs,
Clarence Rouse, of Newton. She has been encouraged by the work
done through the year, anci hopes for gain in members and gifts
another year.
West Jersey Presbyterial reports the twenty-fifth anniversary held in
the Salem Church, where the organization was effected twenty-five
years ago. Then five churches were represented, now twenty-six.
The record of progress in our Presbyterial Societies is most grati-
fying. We have the same number of auxiliaries as last year, two
hundred and thirty-five, although there has been a loss of one each in
Monmouth, Newton and Newark. Elizabeth, New Brunswick and West
Jersey remain unchanged, while Morris and Orange has gained one,
'and Jersey City two new auxiliaries. The total membership this year
is 10,290, a gain of forty-two members.
In practically every organization there has been an increase in gifts —
in the Sunday School, Young Women's Societies, Young People's
Societies and the women's organizations. It is interesting to compare
the amounts given for 1909 and 1910.
1909. 1910.
Elizabeth, $7,024 20 $6,914 33
Jersey City, 2,627 60 3,32i 75
Monmouth, 2,518 40 2,394 57
Morris and Orange 6,668 72 7,288 05
Newark, 4,342 52 5,042 80
New Brunswick 2,472 54 2,843 21
Newton, i,579 52 1,51852
West Jersey, 2,181 29 2,528 19
$29,414 79 $31,851 -12
igio. Woman's Work for Home Missions. 75
The total gain has been almost $2,500, and we call particular attention
to the fact that we contributed $1,836.90 to the debt.
While an increase of almost two hundred subscriptions to the Home
Mission Monthly indicates that our women are reading more and more
about our great mission fields, the reports from the various Presbyterial
societies as to the definite study of any one field are not encouraging.
New Brunswick leads with eleven Study Classes, but several report
only two. Let us the coming year strive to improve this most im-
portant branch of our work.
The work of the year s^hows progress. By whom has this advance
been made? By the Synodical officers? Each in her place lias striven
to do her part. By the Presbyterial officers? Too much praise can not
be given them for their efficient service and the promptness with which
they respond to every request from the Synodical officers. By the
officers of the local societies? Their work has strengthened the work
of the whole. To every officer filling her place to the best of her
ability must be attributed the success of the year, but the real progress,
the real forward step, has been made by each one of us as an individual
member of a local auxiliary, who has been faithful in her attendance
at the regular meetings of her society, in her reading and her study, in
her giving of her time, her prayers and her means to this work to
which we have pledged our allegiance — the extending the knowledge
of the love of the Lord Je.sus Christ throughout our own beloved
country.
GRACE PETRIE WILLL/VMS,
Corresponding Secretary.
76 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct.,
VII.-THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S
SYNODICAL SOCIETY FOR HOME MISSIONS IN THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
The thirty-third annual meeting of the Woman's Society of Home
Missions in the Synod of New Jersey was held in the Second Presby-
terian Church of Elizabeth, October 13th, 1910, the president, Mrs.
Honeyman, presiding.
After the opening hymn and a responsive reading, Mrs. H. C. StuU
led in prayer.
Roll call was responded to by representatives from all Presbyterial
societies.
The report of the treasurer of the Contingent Fund, Mrs. W. D.
Valentine, showed a balance on hand of $62.85. This report, on motion,
"was accepted.
The report of the Freedmen's secretary, Mrs. George Macloskie,
showed that contributions had been received from Presbyteries, as fol-
lows: Elizabeth, %72,7-79', Jersey City, $228; Monmouth, $219.50; Mor-
ris and Orange, $215.50; Newark, $470; New Brunswick, $262; Newton,
$125; West Jersey, $187.30.
Harbison College, which was destroyed so wantonly by fire last year,
is to be" rebuilt, and New Jersey is asked to help in the rebuilding, to
continue scholarships and to aid in the general burden-bearing. A
new site will be selected away from the white hoodlum element, so
jealous of advance among the negro race. Harbison has done great
and good work and is New Jersey's special charge.
It was announced that Committees on Nomination, Place of Meeting,
and Resolutions, which were appointed at the morning meeting, would
report at the close of the afternoon meeting.
The report of Young People's Work, given by the secretary. Miss
Anna Woodward, showed that there had been a falling off instead of
increase in contributions from young people. This loss is due to
change of time in closing the Board's books, to universal lack of re-
sponse to letters, to lack of contact with presbyterial societies and to
lack of leaders. The detailed report of the Presbyteries showed, how-
ever, many good records as well as the reasons for the general falling
off. The closing appeal was for mission study classes.
The secretary of literature, Mrs. Wilbur LaRoe, reported 2,787 Home
Mission Monthlies taken, an increase of 564 subscriptions, due in large
part to the Sitka Builder's movement. The secretary made plain the
plan for equipment of the Home Mission Monthly Sitka Building, which
is to be undertaken this year through still greater increase of the
subscription list. A regrettable falling off of Over Sea and Land
subscriptions is reported and loyal support asked. New literature was
brought to our attention, especially the Thanksgiving program for Sun-
day Schools and a particularly attractive accompanying booklet.
I9I0. Woman's Work for Home Missions. yj
The report of the year's work of the Synodical Society was pre-
sented by Mrs. E. W. WiUiams, corresponding secretary. Upon motion
this report was accepted and ordered sent, with the minutes of this
meeting, to the Synod of New Jersey.
The president, Mrs. Honeyman, in her annual address, spoke of the
year to come as an open door— a door of opportunity. The blessings
and successes of the past increase our obligations for the future. The
Freedmen's Board ask an increase of gifts so that they may have
$2,SOO for equipment of Harbison College, salaries, scholarships, etc.,
and an additional sum (after pledges have been met) which may be
used for the building.
Pledged work calls for $i,ooo for Farm School, North Carolina;
$500 for Alaska; $500 for Good Will Mission, South Dakota; $1,000
for scholarships, Logan, Utah; $500 for repairs at San Juan Hospital,
Porto Rico ; $600 for foreigners in Jersey City. An advance is asked
of $1,000 for work in Cuba and $1,000 for General Fund.
Mrs. Honeyman urged that local and presbyterial officers place em-
phasis upon the meeting of all pledges to regular work, and also gave
detailed items of interest in connection with several of the fields listed
as regular synodical work.
For the Emergency Fund $1 is again asked from each society. At-
tention was called to the use of the Thanksgiving program in Sunday
Schools, the offering to be for general Home Mission work.
■ Particular emphasis was laid upon increase of work among young
people. The young people's secretary will furnish all information
concerning such work. The support of the Rev. John Gass, D.D., in
New Mexico, is the special object. Yoimg women's societies will also
have special objects for contribution. Inauguration of study classes,
stimulation of bands and forward movement in all lines among the
young is urged.
In closing, the president asked whether it would be considered too
great an aim for each of the 10,290 members of the Synodical Society
to secure one new member, thereby doubling our inembership.
Organization was the subject of a brief address by Mrs. Delos E.
Finks, editor of the Home Mission Monthly, who, with the aid of an
accompanying diagram, made the subject very clear. Beginning with
the organization of the Woman's Board of Home Missions at the call
of the ministers on the field, and of the need itself as presented through
the repeated request of General Assembly, Mrs. Finks told of the de-
velopment of the complete organization as it soon came about and still
remains. The local, presbyterial and sj^nodical societies in turn re-
porting to the Home Board, and through it to General Assembly, form
a perfect working body with wonderful strength. This organization,
though well understood by the older workers, is now presented for the
benefit of the newer workers that they as individuals may understand
the body of which they are a part and w-ork the more earnestly and
loyally in the future.
An offering was taken, amounting to $32.41.
78 Woman's Work for Home Missions. Oct.,
This meeting being Mrs. Honeyman's twenty-fifth anniversary as
synodical president, Mrs. Owens came to the platform and offered con-
gratulations in behalf of the society, speaking of her wonderful devo-
tion, earnestness and loyalty during all these years. In response the
audience gave the Chautauqua salute and Mrs. Honeyman made heart-
felt acknowledgment.
The address given by the Rev. Edgar Whitaker Work of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church of New York City was a continuation of the theme
of the open door. "For a great door and effectual is open to me, and
there are many adversaries." Obligation stands at the open door, and
the adversaries, making the struggle harder, but urge us to greater
work and greater effort toward evangelization. Dr. Work developed
the idea that there is romance, however, in Home Missions from the
fact that we are not' only looking at the great design, but are near
enough to be in close touch. Home Missions is no longer confined to
the West. More than all we are interested because we are dealing with
a new America wherein is wonderful opportunity.
Mrs. Honeyman asked, and consent was granted, that the appro-
priation for work among foreigners in New Jersey be increased to
$i,ooo.
Mrs. Seibert, superintendent of the foreign work in Montclair, gave
a brief but interesting report of New Jersey's work in that place. The
Italian women and children are the problem of this work.
Prayer was offered by Mrs. Frazer. Mrs. Finks was called to the
chair and the report of the Nominating Committee was presented b>
the chairman, Mrs. J. H. Peters. On motion the secretary was in-
structed to cast an affirmative ballot for the officers nominated, as
follows :
President — Mrs. W. E. Honeyman, Plainfield.
Vice-Presidents — Mrs. J. H. Owens, Paterson.
Mrs. Harvey C. Olin, East Orange.
Mrs. John Hutchison, Arlington.
Mrs. Clarence Rouse, Newton.
Mrs. H. C. Stull, Trenton.
Mrs. H. D. Zandt, Jamesburg.
Mrs. M. J. Paulding, Daretown.
Mrs. a. S. Crane, Elizabeth.
Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. E. W. Williams, Plainfield.
Recording Secretary — Misg Theodora Finks, East Orange.
Secretary of Literature — Mrs. Wilbur LaRoe, Perth Amboy.
Secretary of Young People's Work —
Secretary for Preedmen — Mrs. George Macloskie, Princeton.
Treasurer of Contingent Fund— Mas. Daniel W. Valentine, Engle-
wood.
The Committee on Place of Meeting, Mrs. F. J. Collier, chairman,
reported an invitation to meet in the Presbyterian Church of Haddon-
field, in West Jersey Presbytery, in the fall of 191 1, which, on motion,
was accepted.
igio. Woman's Work for Home Missions. 79
Resolutions were presented by the chairman of the Resolutions Com-
mittee, Miss Lucy N. Morris, and accepted, as follows :
Be it Resolved, That the Woman's Synodical Societies of Home and
Foreign Missions in the Synod of New Jersey take this opportunity
of expressing their appreciation of the warm welcome and generous
entertainment provided by the EHzabeth members.
Resolved, That we especially appreciate the privilege of meeting with
the church that has a record for missionary activities, which will be
an inspiration to the many churches represented here.
Resolved, That we gratefully recognize our great indebtedness to
the speakers of to-day, who have brought us so much of interest and
incentive.
Resolved, That we commend the untiring devotion of our presi-
dents. Home and Foreign, and their executive committees, who bear
so wisely and so steadfastly the responsibihties of their ofifice.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to those who have added interest
to the meeting by their music, and to the press, who have extended
the knowledge of the synodical work through their papers.
Resolved, That we express our deep regret at the loss, by death, of
Miss Allthea Carter, for thirty-eight years president of the Newark
Foreign Presbyterial Society and vice-president of the Foreign Synod-
ical Board. We also desire to express our regret at the loss of the
faithful and efficient workers in the various societies, whose names
we do not know, but which are written in the Book of Life.
Resolved, That we will return to our several auxiliaries with re-
newed encouragement and inspiration, thanking our Heavenly Father
for the advancement that has been made in Home and Foreign Mis-
sions, and with an increased desire to meet faithfully the present op-
portunities and obligations for extending the Master's influence.
The minutes of the meeting were read and approved.
The president requested that the present Nominating Committee
serve another year.
After a closing hymn the benediction was pronounced by the Rev.
Kben B. Cobb, D.D., pastor of the church, and the meeting stood
adjourned.
THEORDORA FINKS,
Recording Secretary.
8o Foreign Missions. Oct.).
VIII.— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The past year has been unquestionably the most notable and the most
inspiring in the history of missions. Never before have the doors of
opportunity upon the foreign field been thrown open so wide ; never
has there been such a united summons to the Christian church from the
whole non-Christian world, and never has the response of Christendom
been so remarkable as during the past twelve months. To the Chris-
tian, opportunity^ to ad;ifance the kingdom of God constitutes a divine .
call and therefore we may say that just as truly as Macedon was God's
voice to the apostle Paul, has there come to the modern church the
divine summons from non-Christian lands to bring to them the redeem-
ing gospel of the Christ.
This call has come from Japan whose progress, economically, in-
dustrially and intellectually, during the past half century has been
unparalleled and whose aspirations toward the leadership of Asia make
all the more pressing her need of the moral and spiritual leadership
of Jesus Christ. There is no measuring the influence which a Christian
Japan would exert in moulding the destinies of the entire Orient.
There could not, therefore, be a more direct appeal to the Christian
church than that which the opportunities, set in God's providence be-
fore the empire of Japan, certainly constitute.
From Korea, also, in no less certain tones comes a similar challenge
to Christendom. Formerly the Hermit Kingdom, it is now probably
the most hospitable land to the gospel of Christ in all the non-Christian
world. The familiar story of the romantic progress of Christianity in
this land during the past quarter of a century need not be recounted
now, let it merely be said that this people who are trammeled neither
by the caste system of India nor by the extreme conservatism of China,
nor by the self-sufficiency of Japan, have welcomed the message of
salvation with open hearts and by the very cordiality of their accept-
ance of Christian truth and their sincere and self-sacrificing entrance
upon the^ life of Christian service, have challenged the Church of
America to complete her divinely-appointed task in that land and
gather in, before it is too late, the whitened harvest of Korea, thereby
not only redeeming the lives of the Koreans themselves, but constitut-
ing them into a missionary power-house of vast efficiency, whose in-
fluence will be felt throughout the Orient.
From China comes the same summons to the Christian church to
press forward to the conquest of that great empire which will unques-
tionably hold a position of such vast importance in the future develop-
ment of the Orient. The amazing educational revolution which has
taken place in that land during these past few years is known to all,
and when one realizes that the leader in China is not the soldier nor
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the merchant nor the man of affairs, but the scholar, the tremendous
significance of this revolution and its immense value to the work of
the Christian missionaries appears perfectly obvious. While formerly
it was difficult to secure the attendance of any, save the lowest classes,
at their schools and colleges, these are now thronged with the best
young men and women of China, demanding a western education and
giving to the Christian teacher, therefore, an opportunity to serve
China and to serve Christ that seems almost without a parallel in the
world to-da}^ Is there anywhere on the face of the earth a work for
the Christian church to do more thrilling in its stupendous significance
than that of Chinese education? With gratitude to God we chronicle
the fact that not only has the present situation given the church re-
markable opportunities to teach the youth of China the fundamentals
of Christian civilization, but the Spirit of God has revealed Himself in
unusual power in some of these institutions, leading many young men,
at great personal sacrifice, to dedicate themselves to the work of the
Christian ministry, and here surely lies the hope for the evangelization
of that great multitude who dwell within the limits of, the Chinese
empire. In the Shantung Union College, at Wei Hsien, under the
quiet spiritual leadership of that great evangelist, himself a graduate
of the college, the Rev. Ding Lee May, no young men were led to
consecrate their lives to the service of Christ in the gospel ministry.
But, oh ! how few are they among so many and how importunate a call
do facts like these over against China's immense need, constitute to the
church of to-day !
In Africa, need and opportunity again combine in summoning us to
service. There comes a call to stand against the advance of Islam,
where the emissaries of Mohammed are showing greater vitalit}' than
in any other part of the world, while in Pagan Africa the stories of
the triumphs of the Cross parallel those of Korea. Says Dr. Halsey,
"When Adolphus Good, not twenty-five years ago, with unerring
instinct, picked out Elat as a suitable place for mission work in Kame-
run. West Africa, the Bulu people were low, ignorant, immoral savages.
When Good's son, this year, went to Elat, he found forty-two self-
supporting town schools, with 3,400 pupils, and a station school with 650
pupils, 4,000 men and women, young and old, under the teaching of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, and at a single communion season more
than 3,700 persons gathered in and around the station at Elat." A year
ago our missionary, the Rev. Wm. C. Johnston, of Batanga, told us of
the earnestness and self-sacrificing devotion of these West African
Christians. Surely such triumphs of the gospel, placed side by side
with the dire need of great areas still untouched by its saving power,
constitute a call to which the Christian church, if she is to be in any
measure loyal to the spirit of her Master, must give heed.
From Turkey, also, and Persia, where recent political upheavals have
taken place resulting largely from the introduction of new ideas of
civil liberty, which are the inevitable concomitant of a Christian teach-
ing, there comes a similar summons to the ambassadors of Christ to
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take advantage of their present opportunity and press forward to the
completion of their great task. And thus as we turn from one nation
to another in the whole non-Christian world, there comes a united
voice of extraordinary directness and importunity which we of the
Home Church have no right to interpret as other than the call of God
to complete the world-wide program of Christian conquest which Jesus
Christ has entrusted to His Church.
And at this time we can, with joy, record the fact also that Chris-
tendom has been more responsive to this call than ever before in her
history. The year has been one in which the church at home has
seemed to grasp more fully the meaning of the Master's commission or
rather to be grasped by it. and united and inspired to renewed prayer,
devotion and service. Notable among the expressions of this fact was
the great Student Voltinteer Convention held in the city of Rochester,
from December 29tli, 1909, to January 2d, 1910, assembling no less than
2,500 student delegates, more than 400 presidents and members of col-
lege faculties, representing no less than 735 institutions and having a
total enrollment of 3,747. It has borne, in all our institutions of learn-
ing and indeed throughout the church of our country, its thrilling
testimony to the duty of consecrating life and the best life of America
to the world-wide service of the world's Redeemer.
Another remarkable indication of the Church's awakening recognition
of her share in the evangelization of the world is indicated by the
remarkable growth of the Laymen's Missionary Movement and the
extraordinary efficiency which it has demonstrated in arousing the men
of America to a renewed realization of the duty and power of prayer
for the kingdom. It has also quickened the desire of many thousands
for missionary information and has caused an immense advance in
missionary giving. In more than seventy-five centers of influence
throughout the entire breadth of our country, it has carried on its
splendid campaign and in many places has resulted in an entire change
of sentiment regarding pre-eminent value of foreign missions.
But most wonderful of all the indications of the missionary activity
of the Home Church during the past year was the great Edinburgh
Conference, assembling 1,200 official delegates and several times as
many other friends of missions, representing 20,000 missionaries,
100,000 native helpers, 37,000 stations and out stations on the mission
field, 31,500 educational institutions, 1,567 hospitals and dispensaries,
treating 7,500,000 patients annually, 566 orphanages, asylums, opium
refuges and leper homes ; in other words, representative of practically
all the missionary agencies of all denominations American, British and
European, which are fulfilling the many-sided ministry of Christ in
almost the whole world. It was the most extraordinary Church
Council, so one cf the Anglican archbishops called it, since the
apostolic days. It was significant of a Christendom which, though
divided by many denominational cleavages, is yet conscious of its
oneness in Christian service, and however impossible it may find it,
for the present at least, to form organic union at home, is yet strug-
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gling towards a fulfillment of the Master's prayer for his disciples,
"that they all may be one that the world may believe." The Confer-
ence was significant in the immense volume and variety of the work
which it accomplished. Its eight great commis^ons, international and
interdenominational in their personnel, and assembling the most eminent
missionary authorities in the whole world, after two years of ex-
haustive investigation of the special phases of the missionary problem
assigned to each, brought in their well-ordered reports, which con-
stitute, as the Archbishop of York truly said, the most extraordinary
missionary library in the world. It was also significant that the Con-
ference, in spite of the immense amount of work which had to be
crowded into ten days, felt the absolute necessity each day of pausing
in the very midst of its activities for an hour of devotion and of
intercession, realizing, as Dr. James L. Barton in his report said,
"that its problem was one not of machinery but of life," and that the
source of all spiritual life and power is God. The Conference was
significant also in its recognition of itself, not as an end but as a
point of departure, a new beginning in Christian conquest ; and the
appointment of the Continuation Committee will, it is hoped, keep
definitely before the Church all that the Edinburgh Conference stood
for and continue to inspire her to renewed devotion, to fuller co-
operation, to more importunate prayer and to larger self-sacrifice in
bringing to its completion the fulfillment of the Master's great com-
mission.
We, members of the Synod of New Jersey, do unitedly rejoice
in these wonderful indications, both at home and abroad, that God's
Spirit is marvellously revealing His power, and must feel that there
rests upon us an obligation to fulfill our part in the great service for
which He is now so wonderfully inspiring the whole Church. Let us
recognize the fact, however, that although great progress has been
made, and although the Church comes nearer to measuring aright her
responsibility for the evangelization of the world, yet we have fallen
far short and are still far from what we ought to be as earnest fol-
lowers of the world's Redeemer, who has unquestionably given the
place of central importance in His Church to the work of world-wide
evangelization.
In view of all these facts, it is our earnest desire to make this coming
year the most significant in all the history of our Synod, and we desire,
therefore, in so far as possible, to bring to bear upon the individual
church, and ultimately' upon individual church members, the great
fund of missionary information and enthusiasm which has been mani-
fested both at home and abroad.
I. We recommend to the Committees on Foreign Missions of our
various Presbyteries the advisability of so systematizing their work as
to make each church feel, and feel strongly, their helpful influence.
Some Presbyteries have already adopted the plan of assigning to each
member of the committee a certain group of churches in the Presby-
tery, for which that member shall be especially responsible, holding
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conferences with pastors and sessions and making missionary addresses
when it is deemed expedient, thus striving to bring each individual
church up to its highest point of missionary efficiency. In some Pres-
byteries, we trust, it will be possible during this year to supplement tht
work of committees with the able assistance of returned missionaries,
who not only bring the story of missions to the individual churches,
but embody their gospel in their lives in a way that makes their
message especially persuasive and forceful.
2. We recommend, secondly, the appointment in each church of a
Missionary Committee, which ordinarily should be representative of
the session and the various organizations of the church which are
related to the missionary movement, and in particular the Sunday-
school. We feel increasingly the importance of missionary instruction
in connection with thS' Sunday-school work, and recommend that our
Sunday-schools avail themselves of the facilities which our Boards of
Sunday-school Work, Home Missions and Foreign Missions are ready
to place at their disposal.
3. We recommend further the advisability of systematizing and
universalizing missionary benevolence in each church, and to this end
urge, where feasible, the conduct of an every-member canvass of the
congregation in the interests of systematic missionary giving.
4. And, finally, we do most earnestly and solemnly call upon the
members of our churches to unite in daily prayer for our representa-
tives in non-Christian lands, using, if they will, the Year Book of
Prayer for Foreign Missions published by our Board, and to implore
the Father of us all to hasten the day when His Kingdom shall come in
all its completeness and glory and His will be done on earth as it is
done in Heaven.
MINOT C. MORGAN,
Chainnan.
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IX.— THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WOMAN'S
SYNODICAL SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS IN THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
To you, dear friends, fully engaged in this work so near to the heart
of God, to you who have wrought with mind and heart to promote the
cause and Kingdom of Christ through foreign missions, the following
statistics will be of real interest :
Auxil- Mem- Contri-
Prcsbytcrics. Clis. iaries. bers. butions. Gain. Loss.
Elizabeth ;i;i 30 2,000 $6,071 30 $219 20
Jersey City, 41 27 1,140 3,143 02 30202
Monmouth 48 32 829 2,213 00 $453 80
Morris and Orange,... 45 40 2,129 8,051 50 452 50
^"'ewark 42 33 1.733 5,798 50 125 75
New Brunswick, 39 35 1,800 4,162 80 117 00
Newton, 36 27 775 1,478 59 57 39
West Jersey, 68 37 1,245 2,21835 25237
Totals, 352 216 11,651 $33,13706 $773 59 $1,20644
Total loss, $859.26.
Newark has sent $150 directly to the Assembly's Board through
Mr. Day, its treasurer. If this sum were included in the figures above
tabulated the net result for this year for Newark would be a gain
of $24.25.
Are these figures what you hoped for? You will not be content to
stand still, but will press on to deeper if not broader work. If j'ou
have fallen short of your expectation the disappointment will but spur
you to greater earnestness and more zealous endeavor through the
coming year. Columns of fig'ures alone can never tell the missionary
story. We have forty-five missionaries working in twelve different
countries. Many of our missionaries work while we sleep and sleep
while we work, 30 that the round of effort is a continual worship
of service.
Our work in China goes on through six of our Presbyterial societies,
and fifteen missionaries. In India seven missionaries are working in
connection with .Ax of our Presbyterial societies. Of the twelve coun-
tries perhaps the most needy are Chili, Colombia, the Philippines and
Siam. In each of these one Presbyterial and one missionary represent
our interest and our zeal.
Let us mark the coming year by a deeper and more spiritual interest.
Let us so apprehend the love of Christ that His longings for these
"other sheep" will become our longings. Are we giving intercession
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direct and personal, the essential place it must have if we would do
our work according to the "Mind of Christ"? Do we realize the
smallness of our largest efforts when compared with the magnitude
of the task? And do we realize the power of our God to make our
"handful of corn shake like Lebanon" ?
A new name is added to our list of missionaries. Miss Mabel I. Skil-
ton, of Ratnagiri, India, has been adopted by Park Church, Newark.
Miss Sarah Alexander has been transferred to another synodical
society. Dr. Frances F. Cattell has returned to China with a new
name, and as Mrs. Benjamin L. Ancell will do good work in the same
great army under the Protestant Episcopal banner.
God is calling us to a renewed consecration through the silent elo-
quence of our dead. ..-Mrs. Thorp, the loved and honored president
of the Philadelphia Board, has gone to her great reward. Her ring-
ing words of courage and admonition are still sounding in our ears and
will be a cherished memory. Miss Althea Carter, president of New-
ark Presbyterial Society, and who was expected to preside here to-day,
is not, for God called her. Miss Carter loved her charge with a
mother's deep brooding love. Through our tears we rejoice because
she is "satisfied, for she has awaked in His likeness."
Jersey City loves the memory of Mrs. Ladd, who went to South
America from them and returned to die among them.
From Morris and Orange, Mrs. Wilson Phraner, the mother of
missionaries, has gone home.
"Oh, blest communion, fellowship divine!
We feebly struggle ; they in glory shine !
Yet all are one in Thee, for all are Thine,
Hallelujah!"
To-day we welcome Miss Margaret E. Hodge, president of the Phila-
delphia Board. We tender her our love and loyalty. Our prayer for
her is : "The Lord bless thee, anad make thee a blessing."
MRS. WALTER CONDICT, Sr.,
Corresponding Secretary.
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X.— THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S
SYNODICAL SOCIETY OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE
SYNOD OF NEW JERSEY.
The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Woman's Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Synod of New Jersey was held on Thursday,
October 13th, in the Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. The
meeting was opened at ten o'clock, Mrs. J. T. Kerr presiding in the
absence of the president, Mrs. Gushing. After the singing of a hymn,
a cordial welcome was extended to the society by the pastor of the
church. Dr. E. B. Cobb.
The record of the year was given by Mrs. Walter Condict. A few
words of testimony as to character of Miss Carter were given by Mrs.
Young, from the floor. Mrs. Samuel McLanahan reported for the
Literature Department. Two thousand copies of Woman's Work are
taken in the Sj'nod of New Jersey. The report of the work of the
Young People was given by Miss Stelle. In all Presbyteries she re-
ported an increase in intelligent interest and money; also the organiza-
tion of new bands. Young People's Societies and Westminster Guilds.
She emphasized the need for more of these organizations.
Miss Hallowaj', elected to her oflfice one year ago, reported for the
Mission Study Work. Four Presbyteries have secured mission study
secretaries during the year — Jersey City, Morris and Orange, Newark
and Elizabeth. Nine Normal classes and fifty-three study classes have
been held. Twenty delegates were sent to the conference at Lake
George.
Miss VanMeter reported for the contingent fund a balance of $37.99.
On motion this surplus fund, and a sufficient amount from the morning's
collection to bring the amount up to $50 was voted to be sent to Rev.
Mr. Allison, at Gautemala, to pay the salary of an assistant to help in
the work of the printing press. The collection amounted to $48.47.
The missionary address of the morning was given by Dr. Wanless
of Miraj, Western India. After twenty years' experience in hospital
work there he told of the tremendous physical needs of the Indian
people.
When he first went to India there was no physician in the western
part of that land. Work was begun in a small room in a school. A
nearby field was used as a waiting room. Tl-je bath room in his own
house served as an operating room, and native huts as hospital wards.
Through the gift of Mr. Converse a hospital has been built accom-
modating eighty patients. At first only low caste people applied for
treatment, to-day patients from all castes are to be found in its beds.
Many of the nurses and physicians have been taken from the lowest
classes and trained for their work, and are waiting on patients from
the highest castes. Patients apply for aid from seven to eight hundred
villages.
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Every worker in the hospital is a Christian. Every Sabbath, classes are
formed about the beds of patients, their friends are allowed to be
present; nurses and doctors act as teachers. Two dispensaries have
been started within the last five years. These dispensaries cost one
thousand dollars each to install and three hundred a year to maintain.
The hospital has become an immense evangelizing force throughout a
large region in western India. The idea of self-support is growing
among the patients, and it is hoped that the institution will soon be
entirely supported on the field. Its present expense to the Board is
eight hundred dollars a year. The great need to-day is the foundation
of an interdenominational medical college connected with the hospital,
which shall train native physicians for the use of all Indian hospitals.
The final word of Dr, Wanless was a word of encouragement to the
women of the church. A great change has taken place in the attitude
and condition of the women of India. To-day high caste women are
holding meetings to consider the needs of the poorer classes. This
change is due mostly to the work of women missionaries.
Resolutions framed by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, with reference to the death
of Miss Alethia Carter, were adopted by the Synodical Society as
voicing their sorrow and sense of loss. The resolutions were as
follows :
Whereas, Our God, in His transcendent wisdom, has taken His
child and our friend to be with Him in that home prepared before the
foundation of the world for those who love Him; be it
Resolved, That we endeavor by these resolutions to show our appre-
ciation of the life and work of Alethia Carter, for many years a worker
for Christ in the Third Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey.
We know that the salvation of unbelievers at home and abroad was
the problem to which she devoted her life. We believe that the
kingdom of God was materially advanced by her works, and that many
souls from many countries are now enjoying, some the eternal some
the temporal blessings -of our Christian religion, secured to them
through the faithful and untiring endeavors of Alethia M. Carter in
the name of the One she owned as a Master. We believe that a life
spent like hers for the purpose of uplifting mankind must have resulted
in the world becoming a better and a happier place by reason thereof.
We remember her kindly intercourse with us as members of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and the faithful performance of
her duties for thirty-eight years as its secretary. It was therefore
ordered by a motion of the Society that a copy of these resolutions
be published in the Weekly Calendar of the Third Presbyterian Church,
and that a page of the book of minutes of the society be set apart for
placing them thereon, to the efifect that memories occasioned by read-
ing thereof may inspire us and those who follow us with a further
realization of a life given like that of Alethia M. Carter to- the service
of God will make the world better and happier and cannot be lived in
vain. .
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Mrs. E. Boyd Weitzel, Synodical Secretary of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, Philadelphia, brought cordial greetings from her
Board, with the special message of admonition — that we allow no letter
form our missionaries to go unanswered. Mrs. Weitzel conducted a
conference in monologue — herself giving and answering her own ques-
tions. She gave much information on such subjects as the Westminster
Guild, Study Books, Study Classes, etc. The present year being the
fiftieth anniversary of organized work among American women for
Foreign Missions, it is to be emphasized by special meetings in a num-
ber of large cities. It is suggested that individual members of societies
<:elebrate by gaining one new member each for their societies.
The following committees were appointed :
Nomi)tating Coiiuiiittee.
1910.
Mrs. O. E. Condict, Chairman.
1911.
Mrs. Alexander INIarcy, Chairman.
Mrs. E. B. Allen, New Brunswick.
Mrs. William H. Barry, Jersey City.
Miss E. V. Miller, Newark.
Mrs. L. H. Morris, Newton.
Mrs. Charles Dannenhower, West Jersey.
Mrs. R. W. Cissel, Elizabeth.
Mrs. O. E. Condict, Morris and Orange.
Committee on Place of Meeting.
Mrs. F. J. Collier, Chairman, Collingswood.
Mrs. W. J. Rusling, Newark.
Mrs. J. Hugh Peters, Englewood.
Committee on Resolutions.
Miss Lucy Morris. Chairman, ^lorristown.
Miss S. P. Miller, Princeton.
Mrs. L. H. Morris, Newton.
The Nominating Committee presented their nominations for the
ensuing year. Their recommendations were accepted, and the following
■officers elected :
President — Mrs. G. W. B. Gushing, East Orange.
ELIZABETH PRESBYTERY.
Vice-Presidents — Mrs. J. T. Kerr, Elizabeth.
Mrs. W. P. Stevenson, Roselle.
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JERSEY CITY PRESBYTERY.
Mrs. William Nelson,, Paterson.
Miss Caroline S. Pudney, Passaic.
MONMOUTH PRESBYTERY.
Miss Ella Stults, Cranbury.
Mrs. G. D. Mcllvaine, Beverly.
MORRIS AND ORANGE PRESBYTERY.
Mrs. H. C. Olin, East Orange.
Miss K. Storrs, Orange.
NEWARK PRESBYTERY.
Mrs. W. J. Rusling, Newark.
NEW BRUNSWICK PRESBYTERY.
Miss Katherine Joline, Princeton.
Mrs. Walter B. Harris, Princeton.
NEWTON PRESBYTERY.
Mrs. Clarence W. Rouse, Newton.
Mrs. Levi N. Morris, Newton
WEST JERSEY PRESBYTERY.
Mrs. J. F. Collier, Collingswood.
Mrs. R. H. Gage, Wenonah.
Recording Secretary — Miss M. R. Tooker, East Orange.
Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. Walter Condict, Madison.
Treasurer of Contingent Fund — Miss H. Van Meter, Salem.
Secretary of Literature — Mrs. S. McLanahan, Lawrenceville.
Secretary of Young People's Work — Miss May Stelle, Lawrenceville.
Secretary of Mission Study Classes — Miss Harriet H. Halloway,
Plainfield.
The following resolutions were prepared by the Committee (5n
Resolutions :
Resolved, That the Woman's Synodical Societies of Home and
Foreign Missions in the Synod of New Jersey take this opportunity of
expressing their appreciation of the warm welcome and generous en-
tertainment provided by the Elizabeth members.
Resolved, That we especially appreciate the privilege of meeting with
the church that has a record for missionary activities which will be an
inspiration to the many churche? represented here.
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Resolved, That we gratefully recognize our great indebtedness to the
speakers of to-day who have brought u? so much of interest and in-
centive.
Resolved, That we comment the untiring devotion of our presidents
(Home and Foreign) and their executive committees, who bear so
wisely and so steadfastly the responsibilities of their office.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to those who have added interest
to the meeting by their music, and to the members of the press who
have extended the knowledge of the Synodical work through their
papers.
Resolved, That we express our deep regret at the loss by death of
Miss Alethia Carter, for thirty-eight j^ears the president of the Newark
Presbyterial Society, and vice-president of the Foreign Synodical Board.
We "also desire to express our regret at the loss of the faithful and
efficient workers in the various societies whose names we do not know,
but which are written in the Book of Life.
Resolved, That we will return to our several auxiliaries with renewed
encouragement and inspiration, thanking our Heavenly Father for the
advancement that has been made in Home and Foreign Missions, and
with an increased desire to meet faithfully the present opportunities
and obligations for extending the Master's influence.
Respectfully submitted.
Miss Lucy N. Morris, Chairman, Morristown.
Miss Susan P. Miller, Princeton.
Mrs. L. H. Morris, Newton.
The minutes of the meeting were read and accepted. A very cordial
invitation was extended by Dr. Cobb to everyone present at the morning
session to partake of the luncheon generously prepared for them in the
Sabbath school rooms.
The meeting closed with the benediction by Dr. Cobb.
MARY ROBERTS TOOKER,
Recording Secretary
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XL— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON
SABBATH SCHOOL WORK.
The seventy-second annual report of the Board of Publication and
Sabbath School Work shows good progress in all directions. The
volume of business done by the Board has been greater than in any
previous year. Contributions to missionary work received from
churches, Sunday-schools and individuals, amounted to upwards of
$170,000, which is over $14,000 more than the contributions of the
previous year.
A member of our Synod, the Rev. E- Morris Fergusson, has been
chosen to develop the work of the missionaries, and is now Educational
Superintendent of Sunday-School Missions.
The publication of the Adult Bible Class Monthly is a sign of prog-
ress, and supplies a need created by the fast-growing adult Bible classes.
This movement reports a membership of nearly 100,000, showing an
increase in membership of 1,154 over last year.
It is with pardonable pride that we call attention to the wisdom of
our Church in its selection of men for service, and in its practice ol
being abreast with the best educational and spiritual movements of
the day.
The annual report is up-to-date and interesting, as showing what our
great Church is doing for the young in the Sunday-schools, and outside
of them, in the way of the best teaching, the most practical publications,
and efforts to reach those outside the Sunday-school. The day of the
old-fashioned Sunday-school building is fast passing away, and the best
is not too good if the children and youth of our land are to be in-
terested and kept in the Sunday-school. Having this in view, it is
proposed to publish floor plans for the proper housing of schools of
various enrollment from the five-class to the six-department school.
In conjunction with the Board of Church Erection, such plans will be
given the widest publicity. First-class work needs first-class tools.
The Board has carried on the work among foreigners with its ac-
customed wisdom and vigor, twenty-two colporteurs having been at
work most of the year among many nationalities. Our schools and
churches at large appreciate this work, as witness the Rally Day Gifts
for this work, which approximate $15,000, an increase of about $1,500
over the year 1909.
Five years ago your Committee reported to Synod 52.776 scholars ;
this year we report 68,154, an advance of 15.378- The long view is
perhaps the best, as years vary considerably. Last year we reported
465 schools ; this year 457, a falling off of eight ; but there has been an
increase in officers, teachers and scholars. Last year 8,742 officers and
teachers were reported ; this year, 8,865 ; last year 68,047 scholars ;
this year 70,387, a gain of 2,340, just seven less than last. The average
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attendance has been 49.375. We report a gain in tlie Home Department
of 2.915, the total being 10,368. This is an encouraging sign. The
Church will be stronger in proportion to the solid growth of the Home
Department. If the pastor and superintendent would enter the homes
of the people through an ever-open door, let them cultivate the Cradle
Roll, getting acquainted with the parfents. It is a point of contact not
to be neglected. We now have 4,994 members on the Cradle Roll.
The Church is still being increased by additions from the Sunday-
school. Last year we reported 700 received into fellowship of the
Church ; this year, 2,193. It looks as if Christian nurture was not
neglected.
Teacher training is taken hold of successfully, as we report 157 aadi-
tional classes. A slight increase in teaching of the Shorter Catechism
is noted, 245 schools as against 232 schools last year. Fewer West-
minster Lesson Helps are used.
Figures show that we have given less to the Board as Churches and
Sunday-Schools by $2,252. the total last j'ear being $11,941. May we
not do better? The earnest reminder of a falling off in gifts by the
schools to Boards of the Church has borne good fruit. Last year's
report shows $13,688 contributed; this year $19,338. an increase of
$5,650. Which shows "we can if we will.'' For their own support the
schools have raised $42,813, making the total amount given to all ob-
jects $83,910, being $20,412 more than last year. Our churches and
schools are to be congratulated. Our aim should be even higher —
"Not as though we had already attained, either were already perfect."
We would recommend, where possible, the use of the graded lessons
as published by our Board for Beginners, Primary and Junior Depart-
ments of the Sunday-school, as better than the International Series in
developing the spiritual life of the young child.
If there is inspiration in numbers, it is worthy of note that Marion
Lawrence, General Secretary, says there are 15,000,000 enrolled in
North American Sunday-schools, but as this Sunday-school leader
figures it, there are 94,000,000 of remaining population "not in Sunday-
school." The modern Sunday-school does not recognize an age limit.
There is no "dead line" at fifty. It has always been a problem how to
keep scholars in their teens in the Sunday-school. It is being solved
by the forming of adult classes. The ancient cry, "I am too old to go
to Sunday-school," is answered by the adult Bible class. A thrill went
through the onlookers when they saw more than 5.000 men marching
through the principal avenues of Washington, D. C, at the time of the
World's Sunday- School Convention. They belonged to adult Bible
classes. During the past year local Bible classes have put 4.500 men in
line at Boston, 5,000 at Richmond. 7.000 at Harrisburg. and 12,000 at
Cleveland. It is the "Divine right" of men to be in the Sunday-school
and the Church. This is work for the pastor, the church officer, the
Sunday-school superintendent. We must have the men in the church.
The Sunday-school is often the vestibule to the church for many a
young man.
94 Sabbath-School Work. Oct.,
This has been a good year, spiritually, numerically and financially.
But "there is more beyond." Better service may be rendered. The
pastor must not neglect his opportunity to mingle much with the young
people in the Sunday-school. It is a field in which to harvest souls —
the field of the church. This fall and winter should be big with
possibilities.
More than ever is it necessary that the best teaching be given our
scholars ; the best accommodations for the work be furnished, and
an ever-increasing realization of the fact that Jesus has "set a little
child in the midst" to be nurtured, to be led to him, to be trained for
Christian service. Do not belittle the work of the Sunday-school by
neglect. Encourage it. Our Synod has done well. May we not be
optimistic enough to say "The best is yet to be"?
WM. B. HAMILTON.
HENRY C. CRONIN, Chm.
jgio. Young People's Societies. gS
XII.— REPORT OF PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON YOUNG
PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES.
In presenting to you in summarized and tabulated form the figures
which tr}' to show the condition of our Synod in Young People's work
we would warn you again that such a summary is apt to be partial and
unreliable, because the returns from the churches and Presbyteries are
not complete. Adding up the reports of Presbyteries as we have
them, we find a total of 523 societies of young people in our churches,
with 16,451 members. These societies' have contributed $5,600 to
Home Missions, $5,018 to Foreign Missions and $12,000 to the local
church and self-support, which, together with gifts to other benevo-
lent objects, amount to the splendid total of $27,000.
As for study classes and reading courses, 75 have been reported.
You may learn the details for each Presbytery by consulting the
table which goes with this report. (See next page.)
We ought to feel that the work done by these societies in our
churches is splendid in every way. And yet it is evident, and the im-
pression is very deep in the mind of this committee, that this depart-
ment of our church work is not being shepherded as it should be, and
is not being utilized as it might be.
Once again we plead for a lifting of this department of work
higher up. Once again we contend that it is of the utmost import-
ance. The Sunday-school has been called the "pastor's opportunity."
It is so no less in this work. It deals not only with young children
but with more advanced children. It concerns not only Bible knowl-
edge but Bible life. It is the logical corollary of the Sunday-school
and its necessary outcome.
There is no good reason why Christian Endeavor should not flourish
in the future as it has in the past. We believe it will do better work.
There may not be so much fuss and froth in conventions as there used
to be, but there will be more wisdom and more work.
Our Department of Young People's work received answers from
pastors to three questions. To the first one, "What is the present con-
dition of young people's work in your parish?" the large majority replied,
"good." To the second, "How does the present situation compare with
that of five years ago?" the same majority said, "better." And to the
third, "Are you optimistic about the future of Christian Endeavor, or
do you believe that something else will take its place?" the reply was
overwhelmingly in favor of the well-known organization. In addition
to this, we hear from the United Society headquarters that there were
474 new societies formed in the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., in the
last year. This kind of work has not "seen its day." It is pressing on
to greater usefulness in the church. Everything depends upon what
the pastor makes of it. We strongly urge that pastors shall take up
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the concerns of the societies as never before, being always present at
their meetings and speaking on the topic with careful preparation,
making it a veritable campaign of spiritual education for the youth.
What better chance is there to indoctrinate and edify? Is it not in the
field of the young people's societies that the pastor finds the material
he can most easily mold by personal contact? Is it not here that he
will tind solution of the pressing problems of religious education?
Is it not here that he will find the needed link between the Sunday-
school and the church service? Let the pastors, at least once a year,
give to these societies definite instruction on the work of the various
boards so as to develop and systematize their intelligent giving. Or
they may be looked upon as large communicants' classes, ready and
waiting for pastoral instruction. We urge pastors and sessions to
push the matter of study classes and reading courses with prayerful
insistence and holy love. If a pastor cannot get a study class, he can
at least go to definite men and women with the books in his hands
and the direct question on his lips, "Will you read this book within
the next six months?" But, more than anything else, we desire that
the pastor shall pour the power of his life into these societies that the
Christian experience of our young people shall be deepened. There is
too much spiritual ignorance, too much formal religion.
We urge a "Forward Movement" indeed, as our Young People's
Department urges, that it may be forward in knowledge of the cross,
forward in the service of the church, forward in doing things rather
than in saying things, forward in a saner, steadier devotion to the
normal work of the gospel in every parish.
We ask for a listening ear to the two requests of this department
that our societies join with zeal in the "international increase cam-
paign" of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, and that they
get in touch with the young people's departments of our two great
missionary boards. And, finally, we call attention to two other helps
that are at hand : first, the excellent conferences that are conducted by
Mr. Gelston at Pocono Pines every summer, and, second, to the fact
that the next international Christian Endeavor Convention will be
held in July, 191 1, at Atlantic Cit}'. Being within the bounds of this
Synod, we ought to reap the chief benefit from it.
In the name of this great host of impressionable youth, in the name
of the prayer meeting and all that stands close to the very heart of the
church work, and in the name of the future of the church, we appeal
for a worthier conception and a wiser conduct of this work.
In conclusion, we announce that in accord with Synod's wish that
our permanent committees rotate from year to year in presenting their
reports so that representatives of each Presbytery may appear before
Synod, the report of this committee will be presented next year by the
Rev. Wm. B. Hamilton, of the Presbytery of Elizabeth.
FRANK LUKENS,
Chairman.
7S
Sabbath Observance. . Oct.,
XIIL— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
Rest upon one day in seven is a lav^ of nature and as absolutely
necessary as food and water for the well-being of every working man
or animal. Iron bridges and beasts of burden will retain strength and
usefulness longer by having one rest day in seven. Physicians say
that many of the sick whose treatment is that of absolute rest are
only getting the days of rest they should have had in former years by
observing the law of the Christian Sabbath.
A NATIONAL SABBATH.
The Pilgrim Fathers established a strict observance of the Christian
Sabbath. Their philanthropic successors have endeavored to preserve
a national Sabbath of rest for all who toil. Many lawless people have
sought to deprive others of the Sabbath, but have failed. The Govern-
ment of the United States has reduced Sunday work in its depart-
ments to the amount required by absolute necessity. Ships of war for-
merly inspected on Sunday are now inspected on a week day. Post-
office work is greatly reduced. Railways this year have reduced Sun-
day work so that 30,000 Sunday workers are allowed to rest. Mr. John
Mitchell and other great labor leaders have been eloquent in demand-
ing a day of rest in every seven for the toiling multitude. Great in-
dustries doing a national business have stopped Sunday work. Penn-
sylvania leads all the States for having the best Sunday laws, and this
year granted permission for a $1,000,000 trolley line to do business on
the condition that no cars should run on Sunday.
IN FOREIGN NATIONS.
In foreign nations Canada leads the world for the most stringent
national laws regarding Sabbath observance. Field games and pleasure
excursions are prohibited on Sunday ; stores of all kinds except drug
stores are closed ; the publication, importation, sale or delivery of news-
papers is prevented by law.
France, so long without a Sabbath, now stands second among the
nations in the enforcement of Sabbath laws. Within the last three
years many industries, stores and places of business have kept their
doors closed on Sunday morning and give their workers a day of rest.
In heathen lands converts to Christianity, who never had a weekly day
of rest, hail the Christian Sabbath with joy and observe the Sabbath
more strictly than many Christians in more civilized countries.
igoi. Sabbath Observance. 99
IN THIS STATE.
Through a desire to make more money the men engaged in the liquor
business of this State have for years striven to take from the toiling
multitude the day of rest and secure a law by which they might be
protected in carrying on their business on the Sabbath. Very justly
the people of this State have refused to deprive the working people of
the Christian Sabbath by making it lawful for any money-making busi-
ness to be carried on during the hours of the Sabbath day.
The Sabbath dawn brings rest for the weary, ringing of bells, sing-
ing of choirs, sermons on divinity and morality and the social inter-
course of all nationalities engaged in Christianizing and educating
the human race.
We recommend the following resolutions for adoption :
1. That the Synod of New Jersey recognizes the observance of the
Christian Sabbath law as a necessity for the highest welfare of the
human race, and does urge upon all ministers and members of the
Presbyterian Church in this Synod to use their time, talents and in-
fluence in securing obedience to this humane law.
2. That the inhabitants of our State should have one day's rest in
seven, and labor, except that which is absolutely unavoidable, on the
Sabbath should be prevented in all our industries.
3. That the publishing, buying and selling of the Sunday newspaper,
being a violation of the Sabbath laws, is hereby condemned and all
members of our church are requested to refuse purchasing or reading
the Sunday newspaper which is so detrimental to the proper observance
of the Sabbath and the religious life of the people.
4. That all Sunday excursions, secular entertainments, games, sports
and worldly pleasures are disapproved and out of harmony with divine
law w'hich says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," "not doing
thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine
own words. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord."
5. That all public officials are requested to fulfill their obligations to
the State and its people by compelling obedience to the laws which
have been made to secure one day of rest in seven for all our people.
6. That we most heartily approve of the work done by "The Lord's
Day AlHance of New Jersey," and recommend it to the moral and ma-
terial support of our churches.
7. That we endorse the recommendations of the General Assembly
in setting apart the first and second Sundays of April with the inter-
vening week as a time of prayer for the preservation of the Lord's
Day, and that every pastor of our church preach a sermon on Sabbath
Observance during the month of April or some more convenient time.
JOSHUA B. GALLAWAY.
SAMUEL D. PRICE, Clirn.
Temperance. Oct.,
XIV.— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON
TEMPERANCE.
"Booze, Boodle and Bloodshed in the Middle West," is the headline
of an article in a popular magazine. It is the description of a battle
of law against lawlessness in Newark, Ohio. One incident of that
conflict was the lynching of Carl Etherington, one of the men who
were exposing violations of law by the saloons in that city. The writer
tells us that this local battle is representative of the irrepressible con-
test going on all over the country and "the end is by no means in sight.
The question involvelj is so broad and so far reaching that the end is
hard to predict. It is the great American issue."
Political leaders and parties fear and are truculent. We have gone
to Trenton and asked the representatives of the people for a local
option law, by which the popular voice might be heard. The reply
has been, "Not now; we were not elected on that issue." Some have
said, "The common people are not qualified to determine this question."
Others that there is no general demand for the local option law. We
know why we have been denied. It is the political fear of the liquor
power arrayed on that side of the great American issue. Nevertheless,
the issue is in public view and pressing. Oti the other side of it is a
united Christian church, the leader of the upward and onward move-
ment of humanity. Great advance has been made throughout the
world. Governments and investigations of science and Christian
workers are facing it everywhere. In all parts of our own country the
agitation is increasing and the forces are multiplying. The faith and
courage of the church accumulate. We are confident of the final out-
come— the universal abolition of the saloons. We have almost passed
beyond the need of argument, the conclusion is reached. We are ask-
ing and waiting for the opportunity of the people, in this State espe-
cially, to give the verdict. We know the liquor traffic and the drink
habit are standing against all good in church and State. It is clearer
in the mind of the church to-day that we are not separating ourselves
from spiritual work when we vote and demand righteous laws and
their enforcement. The saloon must cease; the united church is full
of great expectation.
This is increased by the movements among the nations of the earth
and by the cumulative temperance progress in our own land. It is
also increased by the attitude and policy of great business corpora-
tions. The commercial aspects of temperance are made more apparent
to-day. Employers want and demand sober employes. The avenues
to employment and advancement are largely closed to those v/ho use
intoxicants. This statute of Michigan is significant and representative:
"No person shall be employed as engineer, train dispatcher, fireman,
baggagemaster, conductor or other servant upon any railroad who
igio. Temperance. ioi
uses intoxicating drinks as a beverage." Also the words of labor
leaders are very liignificant. Says Powderly : "The damning curse to
the laborer is that which gurgles from the neck of the bottle." Says
Lennon, treasurer cf the American Federation of Labor : "The liquor
business lowers the standard of efficiency of the working man." John
Mitchell says : "If a brewery is closed down, in its place springs up
a factory. If a saloon is closed, in its place comes a store. Almost
every disturbance in the ranks of organized labor can be traced back
to some connection with the saloon." And our own worker, Charles
Stelzle, says from his observation of the trend among laboring men:
"The day is coming when every labor leader will be a total abstainer."
The same may be said of our political leaders. Then science is utter-
ing its warning of wisdom. It is saying with greater emphasis to-day
"that alcohol is unfitted in every particular for a beverage in any
quantity or in any form. It is unsuitable for habitual use even in so-
called moderation. Whether as beer, wine or spirits — therapeutically it
is a dangerous drug, of doubtful or limited value at the best, and its
supposed virtues as a medicine are readily supplied by other and safer
drugs which do not produce such physical, mental and moral degen-
eracy." Our boys and girls are signing total abstinence pledges. Our
Sabbath Schools and public schools are giving instruction as to the
evil nature and effects of alcohol. So all the forces of civilization are
massing on this side of the issue for the destruction of the saloon. We
are agreed that it must be done. The only question is. How is it to
be done? It is to he done by spiritual power, by education and by
legislation.
Our first work is the cultivation and use of spiritual power. A
worldly church is a dead church. A live church can save the drunkard.
The power of conversion is a spiritual power. The saloon makes the
man radically bad — a drunkard. The church must make him radically
good.
There is need of temperance knowledge and the cultivation of public
opinion. This is a large part of the work of the church.
Then, too, there must be legislation for the formulation of public
opinion into law. Then we are responsible for the laws and their en-
forcement. In this the church of America cannot stand apart from
the State. The minister, the elder, the member of the church is a
citizen of the State, and especially in all moral issues must be a prac-
tical part of the State. The people of this land must rule in righteous-
ness. It is the business of the church to see that this end is accom-
plished. The church in our own State cannot cease its civic activities
until a local option law is enacted, nor even then until, through the
vote of the people, the abolition of the saloon is gained.
These three, spiritual, educational and legislative (or civic), activi-
ties must go forward in mutual support. It is said that the amount of
intoxicating liquor consumed in this country has increased faster than
the population for more than a generation. If this is true it certainly
indicates that new effort is needed to increase the spiritual, educational
I02 Temperance. Oct.,
and civic power. We must continue our efforts for legislation, for
the cultivation of sentiment, for the enforcement of law, remembering
that the saloon is ever lawless under all laws. The rebelHon of At-
lantic City saloons continues while the government at Trenton is in-
active.
In the engagement of temperance work there are two agencies which
have been helpful. The first one is our General Assembly's perma-
nent committee on temperance. It has aided us in our work by the
distribution of temperance literature and the supply of lecturers. Every
congregation can have temperance day programs, tracts and the Ame-
thyst, our monthly church temperance organ, which has a circulation
of 40,000. It has cooperated with other denominations. An actual and
active church temperance federation has been formed largely by the
influence of our committee. Its lecturers are in great demand. In
States now voting on the temperance issue lecturers and literature are
freely given. We have in Oklahoma a Spanish worker, in Florida,
Prof. Scanlon, in Missouri, Dr. Fulton, in Oregon, Miss Brehm.
About the present work in these fields Prof. Scanlon writes : ''The
work in these four States is essentially missionary. Legislation is
important and I shall continue to work for it, with might and main,
but there will have to be more emphasis laid upon fundamental edu-
cation or we will lose niuch that we have gained." The receipts of
the committee last year from the whole church amounted to $21,531.84.
It is to be noted that the total contribution from this Synod of $1,057
was $56.63 less than that of the preceding year.
The other agency with which we have worked is the State Anti-
Saloon League. This is practically the agency of the united church
to cultivate temperance sentiment and to furnish leadership in our
civic efforts for the overthrow of the saloons. We are persuaded that
the one first thing needed in New Jersey is the enactment of a local
option law in order that the people may have the veto on the license
of the liquor traffic. The church is opposed to license and is committed
to the final prohibition of the saloon, but local option is the first step
in our own State. The church has rallied strongly to the support of
the League. We know the Church of Christ stands face to face with
an aggressive, vicious and unscrupulous opponent. That opponent is
entrenched in our antiquated license laws and it is helped by corrupt
politics. We therefore welcome and support such safe and successful
leadership in our civic activities as is given by the League. The church
has shown its growing confidence in it by giving during the past year
forty-one per cent, increase over the offering of the preceding year. At
the beginning of the year, September i, 1909, there was a balance of
$365.54- The amount of contributions up to September ist, 1910, is
$43,513.73. The total disbursements during this period have been $43,-
663.44, leaving a balance of $215.82. We have seen the items of dis-
bursements and believe that they have been wisely made. Able speak-
ers have been sent throughout the State. Twelve hundred meetings
have been held; over two million pages of literature have been scat-
igio. Temperance. X03
tered : twelve thousand homes have received "The Issue" ; one thou-
sand pastors concertedly on a single Sabbath spoke in their own pulpits
advocating local option. Last fall in selected counties in the legislative
campaign the issue was well tested. In Sussex county local option
polled nearly twenty per cent, of the total votes. It is at least encour-
ing that the result alarmed the liquor dealers' organ. In Hunterdon
county a strong campaign was carried on. Senator Gebhardt, who
championed local option, was returned to the Senate by the largest
majority given to any candidate in the last fifty years. In the same
campaign the brewer senator from Passaic was defeated. Every man
who announced himself for local option ran ahead of his ticket. No
man who voted for the local option bill and stood for re-election was
defeated. In the recent primary election good men have been willing
to stand lor the issue; twenty-seven to forty-three per cent, of the
total vote was polled for the local option candidates. The results are
highly encouraging. The liquor dealers' organ, "Justice," comment-
ing on these results, said : "We have no hesitation in saying that the
situation (for our trade) was never more menacing." The League has
proved its value in the great work already done. It is, however, only
preparation work.
Your committee offers the following resolutions :
1. That we rejoice in the enlarging usefulness of our General As-
sembly's Permanent Committee on Temperance, and commend it to
all our churches for their more liberal financial support.
2. That we urge our pastors and churches to wisely use its litera-
ture and especially that the Amethyst be sent into every home, and that
new emphasis be put upon spiritual temperance work in all our con-
gregations, that the lost may be saved and the young be better pro-
tected from the influence of the saloon.
3. That we appreciate the sane and efficient work of the New Jersey
Anti-Saloon League during the past year and renew our commenda-
tion of it to the confidence and support of all our people.
4. That we commend the action of Senator Gebhardt and other
senators who supported the local option bill presented in the Senate
last winter. We rejoice in the increased public sentiment in favor of
local option, especially in Hunterdon county, which returned Senator
Gebliardt with such a large majority.
5. We deplore the continued defiance of law by the liquor sellers of
Atlantic City and the failure of the Legislature and the Governor to
take such action as would suppress the rebellion there.
6. We commend the efforts of all judges and other legal officers in
the State to enforce the laws against the evils of the saloon.
7. That we give our sympathy and cooperation to all who are wisely
seeking the overthrow of the liquor power.
8. That we re-emphasize the historic position of our church as
voiced by the action of our General Assembly : "That the Presby-
terian Church in the United States of America declares itself unal-
terably opposed to the liquor traffic and in favor of complete prohibi-
104 Te;mperance. Oct.,
tion by the State and nation of the manufacture, importation, exporta-
tion, transportation, sale or gift of intoxicating beverages and the use
of every Christian legitimate method of obtaining this final goal."
"The Presbyterian Church believes that the saloon must go, and by
God's help proposes to have it go, and go soon."
g. That we recommend the observance of Temperance Day appointed
by our General Assembly for the last Sabbath of October for prayer,
special instruction and offering, to further total abstinence from the use
of intoxicating drinks and the destruction of the liquor traffic by the
strong arm of the law.
10. That we earnestly petition our State Legislature to enact a local
option law which will give the people the power by vote to abolish the
saloon, and we direct' onr moderator and stated clerk to send this
petition to the Governor and the Legislature.
11. That we use our influence and best endeavor to secure such ac-
tion by Congress and State Legislature as will protect no-license terri-
tory from invasion by outside liquor dealers and which will leave to
prohibition States the entire control of the liquor traffic within their
bounds.
JAMES G. MASON.
WILLIAM V. LOUDERBOUGH,
Cliair)imn.
igio. Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence. 105
XV.— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON PRO-
PORTIONATE AND SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
Your Committee will endeavor to present some statement of the
stewardship of the talents and pounds entrusted to the Synod of New
Jersey. The grand total of the amounts reported in the columns of
the Minutes of General Assembly is $1,720,813.79, which is $2,856.70
less than the preceding year. For congregational expenses $46,972
more were contributed during 1910 than 1909; for Home Missions,
$5,856 more; for Foreign Missions, $3,625 less; for Education, $1,066
more; for Sabbath-school missionary work, $1,156 less; for Church
Erection, $5,694 more ; for Ministerial Relief, $4,239 less ; for Freed-
men, $3,232 less; for College Aid, $27,575 less; for Temperance, $512
less; for General Assembly, $237.30 less; for miscellaneous, $29,011
less in 1910 than 1909.
The per capita for the S3-nod on the above basis is $20.28 for 1910;
for 1909 it was $20.77 and for 1908 $21.18, a loss of .90 in two years.
A comparison of the Synods whose per capita of contributions were
above $4.00 to the agencies under the headings of the Boards and
General Assembly's Committee on Temperance as given in the min-
utes gives the following order: Minnesota, $7.20; New York, $4,417;
New Jersey, $4.38; Baltimore, $4,366; North Dakota, $4,297; Illinois,
$4.24. New Jersey thus occupies third place, as she did last year,
though there is a decrease of .43 per capita.
The eight home Presbyteries occupy the following positions :
Boards, Con- Miscel-
pcr gi'cga- lane-
Membership. Capita. Rank, tional. Rank. otis. Rank. Total. Rank.
2 Morris and Orange, .. $8.04 i $30.33 i $1,107 i $^9-477 i
46 2 15.00 6 .70 5 22.16 3
27 3 17.16 2 .935 2 23.365 2
48 4 15.318 5 .75 3 19.548 5
22 5 17.016 3 .74 4 20.976 4
71S 6 12.45 7 -26 7 15.425 7
66 7 15.476 6 .586 6 18.72 6
95 8 10.25 8 .178 8 12.378 8
3 Elizabeth 6
I Newark, 5
4 New Brunswick 3
5 Jersey City 3
7 Monmouth, 2
6 West Jersey 2
8 Xewton, i
The computation of the standing of the same Presbj'teries based on
the reports of the Boards, including Temperance, results as follows :
Morris and Orange, first, $5.20 per capita ; Elizabeth, second, $3,978
per capita; Newark, third, $3,155 per capita; New Brunswick, fourth,
$2,515 per capita ; Jersey City, fifth, $2.35 per capita ; Monmouth, sixth,
$2.22 per capita ; West Jersey, seventh, $2.07 per capita ; Newton,
eighth, $1.51 per capita. Morris and Orange gave .257 less per capita
during 1910 than 1909; Elizabeth, .007 less; New Brunswick, .19 less;
Jersey City, .48 less ; Monmouth, .057 less, and Newton, .20 less.
io6 Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence. Oct.,
Newark gave .225 per capita more during 1910 than 1909, and West
Jersey .04 more. Average per capita for eight home Presbyteries for
1910, according to reports of the Boards, $2,875 J for IQOQ it was $3,003,
a loss of .128 per capita. Doubtless we can attribute the losses to the
fact that the receipts of the Foreign Board were for eleven months,
and also in the rigid adherence to the rule of closing the books of all
the Boards on the last day of March.
The contributions to the Foreign Board are very generally taken as
an index of the beneficence of a church. Four churches within our
Synod equal and exceed the Omaha standard of $5.00 per member,
viz., Orange, Central, $10.09; Montclair, Trinity, $6.97; Englewood,
First, $6.23; Elizabeth, Second, $5.27; other churches in our Synod
giving to the Foreign-'Board more than $3.00 per member are as fol-
lows : East Orange, First, $4.945 ; Princeton, First, $4.72 ; Plainfield,
Crescent Avenue, $4,568; Wenonah, Memorial, $4.56; Newark, First,
$4.37; Montclair, First, $3,736; Upper Montclair, $3.64; Blairstown,
$3.54; Monmouth Junction, $3.45; Bloomfield, Westminster, $3,345;
Orange, First, $3.32; Bridgeton, West, $3.31; Elizabeth, Westminster,
$3.24; East Orange, Brick, $3.20; Roselle, $3.09; Basking Ridge, $3.01;
Orange, Hillside, $3.01 ; twenty-one in all. It is noteworthy that the
Upper Montclair church has only 78 members, while the Monmouth
Junction church has only 29 members, and both are young churches.
This schedule is based on the report of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions.
The contributions reported from Corisco, Africa, Presbytery were
$71, all for the Board of Education; last year $54 were reported for
the Board of Foreign Missions. But there has been an increase of
more than 50 per cent, in contributions for congregational expenses,
which in that country means evangelization.
The church at Sancti Spiritus, Presbj'tery of Havana, again filled
all the spaces in the columns of the Minutes of General Assembly and
made an increase of fifty per cent, on the total. The church at Guines,
the same Presbytery, missed only one of the spaces, but made a gain
of nearly fifty per cent, on the total. The total for the Presbytery to the
Boards is $14 less than last year, but there has been an increase of
nearly 250 per cent, in contributions for congregational purposes, which
again implies evangelization.
The appropriation of $25 for the educational work of the Committee
was used in sending literature, principally the leaflet entitled "Young
People and Scriptural Giving," to the ministers and elders of Synod.
At least four times the amount of the appropriation could have been
well used.
Manifestly the Presbyterian part of the Church of Christ in New
Jersey, and throughout the world, has not returned to the Master the
minimum of ten per cent, required by the Scriptures. And it is only
too true that the same must be said of every other branch of the Church.
It ill becomes us to denounce the tithe principle for the purpose of
affirming that we live under a dispensation whose standard is higher,
while yet we do not attain to the so-called lower standard.
igio. Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence. 107
During the past year, the Rev. F. Pearl Sigler, tithe evangelist of the
Twentieth Century Tithe Covenant Association, obtained 1,500 signa-
tures to the Tithe Covenant in churches in the middle west ; in a num-
ber of them spiritual revivals followed. Is not Jehovah still waiting
for the Presbyterian churches of New Jersey and many more to fulfill
the promises of Malachi 3 : 10 if the officers and members of them
will put him to the test? The payment of tithes and the presentation
of offerings in addition is God's least apportionment for the financial
needs of His kingdom, and the day that the members of the church
follow that plan will ensure the evangelization of the foreigners and
every one else in this countrj^, and the evangelization of the entire
population of the earth.
We recommend the appropriation of $25 for tlie educational work
of the Committee for the ensuing year.
W. W. CASSELBERRY,
Chairman.
io8 Presbyterian Brotherhood. Oct.^
XVI.— REPORT OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BROTHERHOOD OF
NEW JERSEY.
The Executive Council of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of this Synod
begs leave to submit its Fourth Annual Report. In so doing we
devoutly -wish, it were possible to report that in every church, large and
small, there exists a men's organization of some kind. This we regret
cannot be truthfully said, but we look forward to the time when the
men of the church will have become so deeply interested in the* vital
things of the kingdom-' that they will not permit the women to pre-
dominate in the activities which mean so much for advance in the
Master's service.
It is felt, however, that some progress has been made during the
past year.
The Fourth Annual Convention was held February 12th, 1910, at the
First Presbyterian Church of Trenton. Inspiring addresses were made
by the Rev. Parley E. Zartmann, D.D., Assistant Secretary of the
Evangelistic Committee, and Rev. John McDowell, D.D., of Newark.
A discussion upon live topics was a feature of the convention and was
participated in by many of the laymen.
The Enrollment Committee's report showed twenty-four pastors and
sixty-nine laymen in attendance — a total of ninety-three.
The Convention was preceded by a banquet held on the evening of
February nth, attended by 130 men. Mr. J. F. Tatem, President of
the Brotherhood, acted as toastmaster, and the occasion was honored
by the presence of Hon. John Franklin Fort, Governor of New Jersey;
Honorable Edward C. Stokes, former Governor, and Rev. John F.
Carson, D.D., of Brooklyn, each of whom delivered a most excellent
address.
The following officers and members of the Executive Council were
elected for the ensuing year :
President — Mr. Harvey C. Olin, of East Orange, N. J.
Vice-President — Mr. Wm. A. Arnold, of Paterson, N. J.
Vice-President — Judge John A. Rellstab, of Trenton. N. J.
Vice-President— Mr. J. F. Tateni, of Haddonfield, N. J.
Treasurer— Mr. David S. South, of Trenton, N. J.
Secretary — Mr. Waldo C. Genung, of Newark, N. J.
MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
From the Presbytery of Elizabeth— Rev. W. F. Whitaker, D.D., Mr.
C. J. Buzby.
From the Presbytery of Monmouth — Rev. Jas. H. Dunham, Mr. John
C. Allen.
From the Presbytery of Jersey City — Rev. Jas. D. Steele.
iQio. Presbyterian Brotherhood. 109
From the Presbytery of Morris and Orange — Rev. Minot C. Morgan,
Mr. Wm. O. Ludlow.
From the Presbytery of Newark — Rev. John AIcDowell, D.D., Mr.
Joseph Weber, Jr.
From the Presbytery of New Brunswick — Rev. L. L. Strock, Mr.
Calvin Solliday.
From the Presbytery of Newton — Rev. James Moore, Mr. William
W. Woodward.
From the Presbytery of West Jersey — Rev. Wm. Louderbough, Mr.
T. W. Synnott.
The vacancy in the Council from the Presbytery of Jersey City was
filled subsequently by the Council through the election of Mr. William
H. Marion.
The Executive Coimcil has held three meetings since the last Annual
Report : November 15th, 1909, April 4th, 1910, June 13th, 1910.
It is considered that an advance step has been taken by the Brother-
hood in the systematic organization of its work into nine committees,
with the following chairmen :
1. Organization of Men's Societies — Mr. W. O. Ludlow, chairman.
2. Business Methods in Churches, including the matters of systematic
beneficence and church expenses — Mr. T. W. Synnott, chairman.
3. Bible Study and Devotional Meetings — Rev. W. F. Whitaker, D.D.,
chairman.
4. Missions — Rev. Minot C. Morgan, chairman.
5. Church Attendance — Rev. J. D. Steele, Ph.D., chairman.
6. Social Service — Rev. John McDowell, chairman.
7. Fraternal Relations with Other Men's Clubs, Denominational and
Interdenominational, and Work in Such Relations — Mr. J. Fithian
Tatem, chairman.
8. The Country Church — Mr. John C. Allen, chairman.
9. Distribution of Literature — Mr. C. J. Buzby, chairman.
In connection with the ofificers of the National Brotherhood, the
Council, through its ofificers, arranged for the successful popular meet-
ing at the last Assembly, which was presided over by Chas. L. Thomp-
son, Esq., Treasurer of the National Brotherhood, and was addressed
by Rev. John Douglas Adam, D.D., of East Orange, N. J., and Chas.
Young, Esq., of Kansas City, Mo. This meeting was attended by more
than fifteen hundred people, consisting of many of the Commissioners
and visitors to the Assembly and the people of Atlantic City.
The Brotherhood will hold its Fifth Annual Convention at the East
Side Presbyterian Church, of Paterson, N. J., on Alonday, February
13th, 191 1, and it is hoped that we may have the largest attendance in
the history of our synodical organization.
The National Brotherhood has, through its ofificers, urgently requested
us to co-operate with them in preparation for the National Convention,
which will be held at St. Louis, February 21-23, 191 1- President Holt
and his co-workers desire to make this a great Convention, and we
no Presbyterian Brotherhood. Oct.,
trust that the men of our Synod will not only make it a point to rally
at our own State Convention, but that they will see to it that a large
delegation is organized for attendance at the St. Louis Convention in
February.
We believe that the men's movement in this Synod has already
demonstrated its power, but that power can be very greatly augmented
by the formation of clubs in churches where they do not now exist,
provided the spiritual ideal is constantly given pre-eminence. The day
has come when the men of our church are awaking to the realization
of their duty in the advancement of the Master's kingdom. As one
of the four Synodical organizations of the Brotherhood we are in a
position to be in the van of this movement. Let us not fail of doing
our full duty.
There is a feeling in the Executive Council that the majority of
our pastors are not giving the work of the Brotherhood the largest
possible support. One indication of this was in the exceedingly small
attendance of ministers at the last Convention. While we believe that
this movement is and should be distinctly a laymen's movement, we uX.
the same time deeply regret the apparent lack of interest on the part
of many of our ministers, whose help and sympathy in our general
work, and whose presence at the annual conventions would be most
helpful, and are very earnestly desired.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
October 17th, 1910.
The Presbyterian Brotherhood of New Jersey".
HARVEY C. OLIN,
Presiden t.
WALDO C. GENUNG,
Secretary.
igio. Historical jNIaterial. hi
XVII.— REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON HIS-
TORICAL MATERIAL.
Your committee during the past year has been given no special task
in the line of historical research or commemoration. Your committee,
however, is active, and has alw^ays in mind its great purpose of pre-
serving the records of the past and using them from time to time in
the service of God and our country. Churches and individuals are
reminded of the importance of preserving historical materials of every
character which relate to the history of our denomination in New
Jersey, and also to the United States generally.
It has been conveyed to the committee that in the course of a recent
examination of old papers in the possession of the Presbytery of New
Brunswick, some papers of interest to particular churches within the
Synod have been found. Among these is the original request for the
organization of a church at Hightstown and also the original sub-
scription book for the erection of the church building at that place.
Similar papers relating to the history of other churches in the New
Brunswick and other presbyteries have been found, and such will be
gladly turned over to those churches or presbyteries having the greatest
interest in them. Otherwise these papers may properly be placed in
the archives of t\\z Synod at Princeton.
Your committee would call attention to the interesting fact that dur-
ing this week a great celebration is taking place at Jersey City, to
commemorate the settlement of the town of Bergen, two hundred and
fifty years ago. This anniversary is of particular interest to this Synod
in that it marks the beginning of the Christian church in New Jersey,
and of a denomination, the Dutch Reformed, very closely allied in
spirit and doctrine with our own.
The Bergen church was the first Christian organization formed on
New Jersey soil. It had its beginning in 1660, and the same organiza-
tion is still in existence, the congregation worshipping in the same lo-
cality, though in a different edifice, as that occupied in those early
days. The present fine old edifice is the third building erected by the
church. The pastor is Rev. Cornelius Brett, D.D.
A recent anniversary of much significance is that of the Second Ger-
man Presbyterian Church of Newark. This is one of the earliest of
the German Presbyterian churches of the Synod of New Jersey. It
was established fifty years ago. It has always been closely related
through its pastors with the German Theological Seminary at Bloom-
field since the founding of that institution.
Your committee has suffered a real loss in the removal by death of
one of its members. Rev. Frederic R. Brace, D.D., of Blackwood,
Presbytery of West Jersey. Dr. Brace has been an efficient member of
your committee and last year spoke before Synod in connection with
112 Historical Mate;rial. Oct.,
the report of the committee. His good work in connection with the
rearing of the Cohansey monument, near Fairton, will not soon be
forgotten. Dr. Brace's pamphlet on "New Jersey Chaplains of the
Revolution" was a valuable contribution to the historical literature
of the Revolution, as well as to New Jersey church history.
The committee recommends that churches or persons interested in
such old papers as may probably be in the custody of the Presbytery of
New Brunswick communicate with the Stated Clerk of that Presbytery
as to the disposal to be made of such papers.
JOSEPH F. FOLSOM,
Chairman.
igio. Report of Treasurer. 113
XVIIL— REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF TRUSTEES.
Eben B. Cobb, Treasurer, in Account with the Trustees of the
Synod of New Jersey.
Dr.
To cash on hand September 30th, 1909, $432 29
To interest on bonds, 70 00
To interest on Barnegat mortgage, 36 25
To interest on funds in bank, 8 97
Received from S. H. M. for investment, 200 00
Total, $747 51
Cr.
By purchase of bond, $500 00
By payment to Forked River Church 36 25
By payment to S. H. M., 20 00
By cash on hand September 30th, 1910 191 26
Total, $747 51
The Trustees of the Synod of New Jersey, on September 30th, 19 10,
have in their possession the following :
(i) A bond and mortgage of the Presbyterian Church of Barnegat,
N. J., for $725.00, dated October loth, 1899, bearing interest at the rate
of five per cent. This represents what is known as the "Holmes Fund,"
which was given to the Trustees for the benefit of the Presbyterian
Church at Forked River, N. J. This mortgage is in the custody of Mr.
Elwood C. Harris, 732 Prudential Building, Newark, N. J., who is one
of the Trustees of Synod.
(2) One Elizabeth, N. J., "School Bond" for $1,000, bearing interest
at four per cent., which bond represents the money held in trust by the
Trustees for the "Monumental Fund," and two Elizabeth, N. J., "Ad-
justment Bonds," each for $500, bearing interest at four per cent.,
which bonds represent the sum of $1,000, held in trust by Trustees for
Synodical Home Missions. These three bonds are in safe deposit box
No. 113, National State Bank, Elizabeth, X. J., which city is the home
of the Treasurer.
(3) Cash on deposit in the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Com-
pany, bearing interest at three per cent., and amounting to $191.26.
8s
114
Report of Treasurer.
Oct.
This monej^ belongs $181.14 to the "Monumental Fund" and $10.12 to
the "General Fund."
EBEN B. COBB,
Treasurer of Board of Trustees.
Elizabeth, N. J., October ist, 1910.
Examined and approved.
Nelson B. Chester,
Ed. M. Fithian,
Wm. R. Conover,
Finance Committee.
igio. Report of Treasurer. 115
XIX.— REPORT OF TREASURER.
Eben B. Cobb, Treasurer, in Account With the Synod of New
Jersey.
Dr.
To balance from previous account, $642 66
To apportionments from eight Presbyteries, 700 00
To advertising, 25 00
To interest on deposits, 7 36
Total, $1,375 02
Cr.
By janitor's bill (Atlantic City), $1000
By salaries for year ending Sept. 30th, 1910, 210 00
By expenses of officers of Synod, 27 65
By expenses of Board of Trustees, 712
By expenses of Committees on Boundaries of
Presbyteries, $8 70
Auditing account of Treasurer of S. H. M. i 00
Temperance, 5 00
Executive Commission, 3 00
Evangelism, 3 85
Interdenominational cooperation, ........ 8 50
Systematic Beneficence, 25 00
55 05
By printing minutes, 321 68
By binding minutes, 3 75
By bond of Treasurer of S. H. M., 25 00
B}^ cash on hand September 30th, 1910, 714 77
Total, $1,375 02
Elizabeth, N. J., October ist, 1910.
EBEN B. COBB,
Treasurer.
Examined and found correct.
Nelson B. Chester,
Ed. M. Fithian,
Wm. R. Conover
Finance Committee.
no Statisticai. Reports. Oct.,
XX.— STATISTICAL REPORTS.
I. — The Presbytery of Corisco consists of seventeen ministers and
fifteen churches, and has under its care one local evangelist and nine-
teen candidates.
Frank D. P. Hickman,
Stated Clerk.
II. — The Presbytery, oe Elizabeth consists of forty-five ministers and
thirty-three churches, and has under its care three candidates for the
ministry.
Received —
January i8th, 1910, Rev. Gordon M. Russell, from the Presbytery of
Nassau.
April 19th, 1910, Rev. Lewis Bond, from the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia.
April 19th, 1910, Rev. Louis B. Crane, from the Presbytery of Lehigh..
June 21, 191 0, Rev. Loyal Y. Graham, Jr., from the Presbytery of
Philadelphia North.
Dismissed —
December 6th, 1909, Rev. John E. Stuchell, to the Presbytery of
Oakland.
Ordained sine titulo —
February 3d, 19 lO, George G. Dunshee.
Installed —
April 26th, 1910, Rev. Louis B. Crane, Westminster, Elizabeth.
June 24th, 1910, Rev. Loyal Y. Graham, Jr., Rahway First.
Dissolved pastoral relation —
April 19th, 1910, Rev. Charles F. A. Klein, D.D., and First German
Church, Rahway, to take effect June 26th, 1910.
Received candidate —
April 19th, 1910, Mr. William A. R. Russum, a member of the First
Church, Elizabeth.
Deceased —
June 6th, 1910, Rev. Robert M. Craig, aged 56.
SamueIv Parry,
Stated Clerk..
igio. Statisticai, Reports. 117
III. — The Presbytery of Havana consists of sixteen ministers and
sixteen churches, and has under its care four licentiates and six candi-
dates.
Henry B. Someillan,
Stated Clerk.
IV. — The Presbytery of Jersey City consists of fifty-two ministers
and thirty-nine churches, and has under its care four licentiates and
six candidates.
Ministers received —
December 6th, 1909, Robert Davis, from West Sufifolk Congrega-
tional Association of Massachusetts.
February 7th, 1910, Gostan Moomjian, from the Central Turkey
Evangelical Union of the Congregational Church.
April 19th, 1910, George H. Wallace, from the Presbytery of North
River.
June 6th, 1910, J. Prentice Taylor, from the Presbytery of Mon-
mouth.
October 4th, 1910, Archibald S. Van Orden, from the Presbytery of
Monmouth.
Min isters dism issed —
June 6th, 1910, S. R. MacClements, to the Presbytery of Monmouth.
October 4th, 1910, Thomas Houston, to the Presbytery of Newton.
October 4th, 1910, George J. Becker, to the Presbytery of Newark.
October 4th, 1910, Gostan Moomjian, to the Presbytery of Troy.
Licentiates received —
October 4th, 1910, Carlo Altarelli, from the Presbytery of Newark.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
January 2d, 1910, Rev. George O. Tamblyn and the Leonia Church.
January 2d, 1910, Rev. Herbert H. Brown and the Ramsey Church.
January 3d, 1910, Rev. F. Stanley Van Eps and the Grace Church,
Passaic.
June I2th, 1910, Rev. Fisher Howe Booth and the Tenafly Church.
Installations —
October 21st, 1909, H. W. J. Schulz, as pastor of the First German.
Paterson.
January 13th, 1910, Herbert H. Brown, as pastor of the First Church,
Ridgewood.
March 2d, 1910, Herbert B. Howe, as pastor of the Second Church,
Paterson.
May 19th, 1910, Robert Davis, as pastor of the Englewood Church.
June 17th, 1910, J. Prentice Taylor, as pastor of the Leonia Church.
October 13th, 1910, Archibald S. Van Orden, as pastor of the Ramsey
Church.
ii8 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
Licensed —
February 7th, 1910, Hermes Cavarocchi.
April 19th, 1910, Herman Beck.
June 6th, 1910, Albert Craig Baird.
Candidates received —
February 7th, 1910, Albert Craig Baird, from the Presbytery of
Crawfordsville, Indiana.
October 4th, 1910, Nicholas Nanassy.
October 4th, 1910, John Karchut.
October 4th, 1910, Robert Maclaren Browne.
Church dropped froin,.the roll because united with another —
October 4th, 1910, Grace Church, Passaic, consolidated with tne First
Church, Passaic.
Deceased —
November 12th, 1909, Rev. Charles D. Shaw, at Paterson, N. J., in his
7Sth year.
April 15th, 1910, Rev. Darius D. Lindsley, at White Lake, N. J., in his
8ist year.
September 2d, 1910, Rev. S. Fielder Palmer, at Paterson, N. J., in his
62A year.
October 3d, 1910, Rev. David Magie, at New York City, N. Y., in his
73d year.
James Scott Young,
Stated Clerk.
V. — The Presbytery oe Monmouth consists of fifty-three ministers
and forty-nine churches, and has under its care two licentiates and seven
candidates.
Ministers deceased —
June 29th, 1910, Rev. Benjamin S. Everitt, D.D.
Ministers dismissed —
May sth, 1910, Rev. J. Prentice Taylor, to Presbytery of Jerb>jy City.
June 28th, 1910, Rev. Archibald S. Van Orden, to Presbytery of
Jersey City.
September 27th, 1910, Rev. Henry T. Graham, to Presbytery of White
Water.
Ministers received —
November 22d, 1909, Rev. Edwin I. Stearns, from the Presbytery of
Philadelphia, North.
April I2th, 1910, Rev. Julius F. Wolff, from the Presbytery of Otsego.
May 5th, 1910, Rev. W. Y. Jones, D.D., from the Presbytery of Kansas
City.
19 10. Statistical Reports. 119
June 28th, 1910. Rev. S. Ross MacClements, from Presbytery of
Jersey City.
September 27th, 1910, Rev. Charles McKee Cantrall, from Presbytery
of Nebraska City.
Installations —
December 7th, 1909, Rev. Edwin I. Stearns, as pastor at Matawan.
December 13th, 1909, Rev. Charles J. Pendleton, as pastor at New
Gretna.
April 25th, 1910, Rev. Julius F. Wolff, as pastor at Manalapan.
May 5th, 1910, Rev. W. Y. Jones, D.D., as pastor at Point Pleasant.
July isth, 1910, Rev. S. Ross MacClements, as pastor at Asbury Park.
t
Pastoral relations dissolved — -
November 22d, 1909, Rev. J. Prentice Taylor, with the church at
Point Pleasant.
May loth, 1910, Rev. William P. Finney, D.D., with church at
Moorestown.
July I St, 1910, Rev. Arthur W. Remington, with the church at Free-
hold.
July 1st, 1910, Rev. Frank Diehl, with the church at Oceanic.
October ist, 1910, Rev. Henry T. Graham, with the church at English-
town.
Candidates received —
January 25th, X910, Ross S. McCown.
September 27th, 1910, Ralph A. Waggoner, from Presbytery of
Kansas City.
Candidates licensed —
April I2th, 1910, George A. Leukel.
June 28th, 1910, Fred A. Kullmar.
September 27th, 1910, Ralph A. Waggoner.
Licentiates dismissed —
September 27th, 1910, Fred A. Kullmar. to Presb3'tery of Baltimore.
Church organized —
June 3d, 1910, The First Magyar Presbyterian Church of South River,
Joseph Monus, Clerk of Session.
Frank R. Symmes.
Stated Clerk ( Acting).
VI. — The Presbytery of Morris and Orange consists of sixty-two
ministers and forty-five churches, and has under its care three candi-
dates.
Ministers received —
January i8th, 1910, Irving P. Emerick, from the Presbytery of Long
Island.
I20 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
March loth, 1910, Peter McMillan, from the Worcester Central Min-
isterial Association (Congregational).
April I2th, 1910, F. Boyd Edwards, from the Manhattan Ministerial
Association (Congregational).
Licentiates received —
June 2ist, 1910, Reid Stuart Dickson, from the Presbytery of Phila-
delphia.
InstaUahions —
February 17th, 1910, Irving P. Emerick, over the church at Stirling.
March loth, 1910, Peter McMillan, over the Hoagland Memorial
Church of Dover.
June 1st, 1910, F. Boyd Edwards, over the Hillside Church of Orange.
June 2ist, 1910, Reid Stuart Dickson, over the church at New Provi-
dence.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
January i8th, 1910, W. W. Halloway and the Hoagland Memorial
Church of Dover.
September 20th, 1910, Gottlieb Ruesch and the German church at
Myersville.
April I2th 1910, R. H. Nichols and the Trinity Church of South
Orange.
Ministers dismissed —
January i8th, 1910, G. P. Payson, to the Presbyter}^ of Westchester.
January i8th, 1910, G. H. Smyth, to the Presbytery of New York.
September 20th, 1910, Gottlieb Ruesch, to the German Maryland
Classis, German Synod of the East of the Reformed Church in the
United States.
September 20th, 1910, E. C. Ra}^ to the Presbytery of Santa Barbara.
Ordination —
June 21 st, 1910, Reid Stuart Dickson.
Licentiate dismissed —
June 2ist, 1910, Ernest Housel, to the Presbj'tery of Hudson.
Deaths —
April, 1910, Theodore F. White.
John F. Patterson,
Stated Clerk.
VH. — The Presbytery of Newark consists of eighty-one ministers,
and has under its care forty-one churches, one licentiate and thirty-one
candidates.
Ministers received —
November 8th, 1909, Rev. Fred. W. Lewis, from the Presbytery of
Saginaw.
jgio. Statistical Reports. 121
January 13th, 1910, Rev. Robert R. Littell, from the Presbytery of
New Jersey (U. P. Ch.).
April 13th, 1910, Rev. Albert W. Grigg, from the Presbytery of At-
lanta (P. Ch. U. S.). Rev. Albert C. Fulton, from Pascataqua
Association (Congr. Ch.). Rev. Phillipe E. Ghigo, from the Pres-
bytery of Lackawanna.
June 2ist, 1910, Rev. W. Douglas Buchanan, from the Presbytery of
Alton.
October 5th, 1910, Rev. William Coombe, from the Presbytery of
North River. Rev. George J. Becker, from the Presbyterv of Jersev
City.
Ordinations sine titnlo — •
April 19th, 1910, Basil Kusiw.
May 24th, 1 910, Thomas F. Carter.
Ministers dismissed —
January iith, 1910, Rev. Rudolph Pompe, to the Presbytery of New-
ton.
April 13th, 1910, Rev. Percy E. Erickson, to the Presbytery of New
York.
May II, 1910, Rev. Arthur A. Fellstrom, to the Classis of New York
(Ref. Ch. in America).
September ist, 1910, Rev. Samuel T. Graham, to the Presbytery of
Philadelphia.
September 30th, 1910, Rev. C. Everest Granger, to the Presbytery
of Washington City.
Minister dropped from roll —
December 6th. 1909, Rev. Henry K. Denlinger, D.D. (having entered
the Protestant Episcopal Church).
Pastoral relations dissolved —
December 6th, 1909, Rev. Henry K. Denlinger, D.D., with the High
Street Church, Newark.
January nth, 1910, Rev. John Hutchison, with the Arlington Church.
April 13th, 1910, Rev. Edward P. Payson, with the Grace Church;
Montclair.
September i. 1910, Rev. Samuel T. Graham, with the Elizabeth Ave-
nue Church, Newark.
September 30th, 1910, Rev. C. Everett Granger, with the Central
Church, Newark.
Installations —
December loth, 1909, Rev. Fred. W. Lewis, over the Forest Hill
Church, Newark.
January 13th, 1910, Rev. Robert R. Littell, over the Sixth Church
Newark.
122 Statisticai, Reports. Oct.,
April isth, 1910, Rev. Sherman H. Marcy, over the Weequahic
Church, Newark.
Candidates licensed —
February 2d, igio, Thomas F. Carter.
April 13th, 1910, Carlo Altarelli and Basil Kusiw.
Licentiates dismissed —
June 2ist, 1910, Carlo Altarelli, to the Presbytery of Jersey City.
October 5th, 1910, Charles F. Aue, to Congregational Association
(Oregon).
Candidates received — -'
February 2d, 1910, Thomas F. Carter, from the Presbytery of New
York.
October sth, 1910, on examination, John Salastin, Louis R. Patmont,
Karl F. Heldner, Michael Kozma, Mehran H. Losloian, Frank
Pastore.
Candidates dismissed —
November Sth, 1909, Stanislaus Simkow, to the Presbytery of Hunt-
ingdon.
June 2ist, 1910, Max Schaff, to Pleasant Prairie Classis (Reformed
Church).
Church organized —
March 7th, 1910, the Weequahic Church, Newark.
Church dissolved —
June 21 St, 1910, the Wickliffe Church, Newark.
Julius H. Wolff,
Stated Clerk.
VIII. — The Presbytery oe New Brunswick consists of sixty-two
ministers and has under its care thirty-eight churches, besides the
Italian Evangelical Congregation of Trenton, one licentiate and eight
candidates.
Ministers received from other Presbyteries —
November 30th, 1909, Rev. Albert C. 'Busch, from the Presbytery of
North River.
December 3d, 19C9, Rev. Edward S. Brearley, from the Presbytery
of Bismarck.
January 25th, 1910, Rev. J. Alexander Vinton, from the Presbytery
of Philadelphia.
April i2th, 1910, Rev. Wilson R. Buxton, from the Menden Asso-
ciation of Congregational Ministers.
iQio. Statisticai- Reports. 123
Ministers dismissed to other Presbyteries —
February 15th, 1910, Rev. M. C. Gabrielian, M.D., to the Presbytery
of Philadelphia North.
February 21st, 1910, Rev. William I. Campbell, to the Presbytery of
Chillicothe.
April I2th, 1910, Rev. James Leishman, to the Presbytery of Lacka-
wamia.
April 25th, 1910, Rev. Frederic Z. Browne, to the Presbytery of
Washington City; Rev. Claude K. Davis, to the Presbytery of Salt
Lake; Rev. Joseph H. Wolf, to the Presbytery of Carlisle.
Pastoral relations constituted —
December 3d, 1909, Rev. Albert C. Busch, installed pastor of Second
Church, Trenton.
December 14th, 1909, Rev. Edward S. Brearley, installed pastor of
Hopewell Church.
February 3d, 1910, Rev. J. Alexander Vinton, installed pastor of Mil-
ford and Holland churches.
May iith, 1910, Rev. Wilson R. Buxton, installed pastor of Kirk-
patrick Memorial Church.
Pastoral relation dissolved —
February 21st, 1910, Rev. William I. Campbell, with Princeton Second
Church.
Candidate received from another Presbytery —
January 2Sth, 1910, Claude K. Davis, from the Presbj-tery of
Wichita.
Candidates t^ken under care of Presbytery —
April 25th, 1910, Clarence Sidney Hoffman.
September 27th, 1910, Andrew Kiss.
Candidates dropped from the roll —
October 19th, 1909, Giuseppe Quattroni, Ludovico Ciletti.
Licensures —
April 25th, 1910, Kalil Asaph Bishara, Frederic Z. Browne, Clarence
Sidney Hoffman.
May nth, 1910, Claude K. Davis, Joseph H. Wolf.
Ordinations sine Htulo —
May nth, 1910, Frederic Z. Browne, Claude K. Davis, Clarence S
Hoffman, Joseph H. Wolf.
Name of church changed —
April 25th, 1910, Walnut Avenue, Trenton, to Westminster.
Walter A. Brooks,
Stated Clerk.
124 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
IX. — The Presbytery of Newton consists of forty-five ministers and
has under its care thirty-six churches and one candidate.
Ministers received from otiier Presbyteries —
November 4th, 1909, Rev. John H. Aughey, Ph.D., from the Pres-
bytery of Indiana.
April I2th, 1910, Rev. Rudolph H. Pompl, from the Presbytery of
Newark.
June 28th, 1910, Rev. Francis M. Line, from the Presbytery of Blairs-
vihe. #
September 21st, loiOj Rev. Augustus C. Kellogg, from the Presbytery
of Long Island.
Ministers received from other Denominations —
April I2th, 1910, Rev. Edwin C. Holman, from the Congregational
Association of Denmark, Iowa.
June 28th, 1910, Rev. Frank B. Schoonover, from the East Maine
Conference of the M. E. Church.
Ordination as an evangelist —
June 28th, 1910, Mr. Charles Lynch Phillips.
Ministers dismissed to other Presbyteries —
November 4th, 1909, Rev. George R. Merrill, to the Presbytery of
Binghamton.
January 25th, 1910, Rev. John C. Chapman, to the Presbytery of
New York.
September 20th, 1910, Rev. John K. Baillie, D.D., to the Presbytery
of Southern Oregon.
September 20th, 1910, Rev. Robert A. Bryant, to the Presbytery of
Boston.
September 20th, 1910, Rev. Rudolph H. Pompl, to the Presbytery of
Huntingdon.
Installations —
November 3d, 1909, Rev. Joseph D. Hillman, as pastor of the Church
of Stillwater.
April 21 St, 1910, Rev. Edwin C. Holman, as pastor of the Church
of Franklin Furnace.
July 13th, 1910, Rev. Frank B. Schoonover, as pastor of the Second
Church of Oxford.
October 5th, 1910, Rev. Francis M. Line, as pastor of the Church of
Hamburg.
October 13th, 1910, Rev. Augustus- C. Kellogg, as pastor of the
Churches of Delaware and Knowlton.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
November 4th, 1909, Rev. George R. Merrill, with the Second Church
of Oxford, to take effect on November 8th, 1910.
/p/o. StatisticaIv Reports. 125
April i2th, 1910, Rev. John K. Baillie, D.D., with the Church of
Hamburg, to take efifect on May ist, 1910.
September 21st, 1910, Rev. Edward Snyder, with the Church of
Harmony, to take effect on January ist, 191 1.
Licensure —
June 28th, 1910, Mr. Charles Lynch Phillips.
Minister deceased —
April 14th, 1910, Rev. Sylvanus Nye Hutchison, at Belvidere, N. J.,
in the eighty-fifth year of his age.
E. Ct.^RKE Cline,
Stated Clerk.
X. — The Presbytery op West Jersey consists of seventy-five min-
isters and sixty-eight churches and has under its care three candidates.
Ministers received —
December 30th, 1909, Rev. John D. Countermine, D.D., from Pres-
bytery of Philadelphia.
April 2'oth, 1909, Rev. Samuel A. Harker, from the Protestant Meth-
odist Conference of New Jersey.
April 20th, 1909, Rev. Addison B. Collins, D.-D., from Presbytery of
Philadelphia.
June 21 St, 1909, Rev. Joseph Vitelli, from Baptist Church, formerly
of Newark Presbytery.
July 20th, 1910, Rev. William Tatlock, from Presbytery of Phila-
delphia North.
July 20th, 1910, Rev. John F. Nicholas, D.D., from Presbytery of
Lehigh.
Candidates received —
January i8th, 1910, Pio Armati, from Presbytery of New York.
April 20th, 1910, Carl Hansen Bischoff, upon examination.
Licentiates received —
April 20th, 1910, James Doughert\^ from Lfnited Presbyterian Pres-
bytery of Philadelphia.
Ministers installed —
November 9th, 1909, Rev. Charles A. Walker, pastor of Grace
Church, Camden.
December 30th, 1909, Rev. John D. Countermine, D.D., pastor of
Church of Hammonton.
May 4th, 1910, Rev. Samuel A. Harker, pastor of Church of Holly
Beach.
April 26th, 1910, Rev. James Dougherty, pastor of Osborn Memorial
Church, Cedarville.
126 Statistical Reports. Oct.,
May 29th, 1910, Rev. Addison B. Collins, D.D., pastor of Bridgeton
First Church.
July 20th, 1910, Rev. William Tatlock, pastor of Church of Woods-
town.
August 5th, 1910, Rev. John F. Nicholas, D.D., pastor of Church of
Haddon Heights.
September ist, 1910, Rev. J. Calvin Krause, pastor of Church of
Greenwich.
Ministers dismissed —
December ist, 1909, Rev. Joseph Anastasi, to Presbytery of Lake
Superior.
January i8th, 1910,' Rev. William C. McKnight, to Presbytery of
Chester.
January i8th, 1910, Rev. John W. Lowden, to Presbytery of New
Castle.
January iSth, 1910, Rev. Louis C. Wainwright, to Presbytery of
Carlisle.
February 9th, 1910, Rev. William Carlos Perez, to Presbytery of
Huntingdon.
February 9th, 1910, Rev. John W. Kellar, to Presbytery of Beaver.
April 19th, 1910, Rev. Benjamin P. Johnson, to Presbytery of New
York.
September 20th, 1910, Rev. Pio Armati, to Presbytery of Chicago.
Pastoral relations dissolved —
January i8th, 1910, Rev. William C. McKnight, with the Church of
Deerfield.
January 18th, T910, Rev. Louis C. Wainwright, with the Church of
Greenwich.
January 18th, 1910, Rev. John W. Lowden, with the Church of Cold
Spring.
April 20th, 1910, Rev. Charles B. Mitchell, Avith the Church of
Haddon Heights.
April 20th, 1910, Rev. William L. Squier, with the Church of Atco.
June 2ist, 1910, Rev. J. Calvin Krause, with the Church of Williams-
town.
September 20th, 1910, Rev. John W. Bischoff, with Logan Memorial,
Audubon, to take effect October i6th, 1910. ,
Church organi::ed —
July I2th, 1910, The First Presbyterian Church of Woodbury Heights.
Licensures granted —
January i8th, 1910, William Carlos Perez.
January 18th, 1910, Pio Armati.
April 20th, 1 910, Hugo F. Muller.
April 2Dth, 1910, Daniel R. Rosston, temporary license.
jQio. Statisticai, Reports. 127
Churches dissolved —
June 2ist, 1910, The Church of Albion.
Ministers ordained —
January 25th, 1910, Pio Armati.
February 9th, 1910, William Carlos Perez.
April 26th, 1910, James Dougherty.
May i8th, 1910, Hugo F. Muller.
Deaths —
November 15th, 1909, Rev. Luther A. Gates.
January 2d, 1910, Rev. William H. Johns.
May 5th, 1910, Rev. Frederick R. Brace, D.D., Ph.D.
Al,FRED p. BOTSFORD,
Stated Clerk.
•^"'
Standing Rules of the Synod*
I. — The Synod shall meet annifally, on the third Monday of October,
at 8 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 the longest without having a representative in the
Moderator's chair shall be called first. The Clerks and Treas-
urer 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 preserve 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 Assem-
bly 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
church,- 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 materials for publica-
tion 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
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 officer.
9S (129)
130 Standing Rules of the Synod. Oct.,
VI. — The Recording Clerk shall make the minutes of the proceedings
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 officer.
VII. — The compensation of the Stated Clerk shall be one hundred and
fifty 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. The Treasurer is authorized to pay the neces-
sary expenses of the several committees of Synod, said bills to
be forwarded to the Treasurer of Synod on or before October
1st of each year.
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 Moderator
at each annual meeting, shall be as follows :
1. On Bills and Overtures, seven members — four Ministers,
of whom one shall be the retiring Moderator, and three Ruling
Elders.
2. On Judicial Business, seven members — four Ministers and
three Ruling Elders.
3. On Records of Presbyteries, three members for each Pres-
bytery— two Ministers and one Ruling Elder.
4. On Minutes oe General Assembly, three members — two
Ministers and one Ruling Elder.
5. On Narrative oe Christian Life and Work — three mem-
bers of the Synod, being two Ministers and one Ruling Elder,
besides the Moderator and Stated Clerk ex oMcio, which t'hree
members shall be appointed by the Moderator, and be arranged
in three classes of one each, and shall serve for three years,
beginning with the close of the Synod at which they are ap-
pointed ; and one class shall retire each year, and be ineligible
to succeed itself until after an interval of at least one year, and
the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Moderator.
The Committee shall select its own chairman, and may appoint
the Stated Clerk to be its secretary.
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, except the Synod-
ical Home Mission Fund ; and arrange the apportionment of the
amount required from each Presbytery for contingent expenses.
7. On Synodical Home Mission Accounts, a Special Finance
Committee, two members — one Minister and one Ruling Elder,
neither of whom shall be a member of the Permanent Committee
i'P-fO. Standing Rules of the Synod.
131
of Synodical Home Missions, who shall examine and audit the
accounts of the Treasurer of the Synodical Home Mission Fund,
between the first day of October and the third Tuesday of Oc-
tober next ensuing their appointment, and who shall report to the
Synod immediately after such examination, and whose necessary
traveling expenses shall be defrayed by the Treasurer of Synod.
X.— The Committee of Arrangements shall consist of all the Presby-
terian 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 hear-
ing representatives of all our Boards each year that may desire
a hearing, the representatives of the Boards of Home and For-
eign Missions to have thirty minutes each, and the representa-
tives of the other Boards to have twenty minutes each.
PERMANENT COMMITTEES.
XL— The Permanent Committees of the Synod shall be as follows:
1. On Synodical Home Missions, eight members — one for
each home Presbytery.
2. On Home Missions, eight members; the chairman of the
Committee on Home Missions in each home Presbytery.
3. On Foreign Missions, one member from the Presbytery of
Corisco ; the chairman of the Presbyterial Committee on Foreign
Missions and one Ruling Elder, from each home Presbytery.
4. On Historical Materials^ ten members— onp for each
Presbytery.
5._ On Sabbath-school Work, eight members ; the chairman
of the Committee on Sabbath-school Work in each home Pres-
bytery.
6. On Sabbath Observance, eight members; the chairman of
the Committee on Sabbath Observance in each home Presby-
tery.
7. On Temperance, nine members — one from each home Pres-
bytery, besides the chairman.
8. On Necrology, three members— two Ministers and one
Ruling Elder.
9. On Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence, eight
members — one from each home Presbytery.
10. On Young People's Societies, a chairman appointed by
Synod and the chairman of each Presbyterial Committee on
Young People's Societies.
11. On Presbyterian Brotherhood, a chairman appointed by
Synod, the same to be a layman, together with the chairman on
the same work in the respective Presbyteries.
12. On Evangelistic Work, the chairman of the Evangelistic
Committees of the various Presbyteries.
132 Standing Rules of the; Synod. Oct., igio.
XII. — The Permanent Committees shall each report to Synod annually
upon the matters assigned to them, and recommend suitable
action to be taken by Synod in relation thereto.
XIII.- — The Necrological Committee shall present, at the annual meet-
ing, 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 Christian Life and Work within its bounds to the
Stated Clerk of Synod on or before October ist of each year, by
whom the same shall be promptly forwarded to the Standing
Committee on Narrative.
XV. — The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper shall be administered at
each stated mee.feing of the Synod, under the superintendence of
the retiring Moderator, or the Minister presiding in his place,
immediately following the Moderator's sermon, and Synod shall
be constituted at the conclusion of this administration.
XVI. — 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 sub-
jects 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.
XVII. — To facilitate the transaction of business, the following order
shall commonly be followed, subject to such exchanges as may
be made between chairmen of committees in consultation with
the Committee of Arrangements :
1. The sessions of the Synod shall begin at 9 A.M., recess to
be taken from 12 -.30 to 2 -.30 P.M., and from 5 to 8 :oo P.M. ;
devotional exercises to occupy the last half hour of each morn-
ing session.
2. Permanent committees shall report in the following order :
Tuesday morning, Foreign Missions, Synodical Home Missions,
Narrative; Tuesday afternoon. Historical Materials, Home Mis-
sions, Sabbath-school Work, Young People's Societies ; Wednes-
day morning, Systematic Beneficence, Sabbath Observance, Tem-
perance, Necrology; Wednesday afternoon, Presbyterian Bro-
therhood, Evangelistic Work.
XVIII. — All notices of, or calls for, meetings of Presbyteries or Com-
mittees, and all resolutions, shall be in writing and read by the
Clerk.
XIX. — The rules for Judicatories adopted by the General Assembly
shall be the rules of the Synod, so far as they apply.
XX. — 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. SAMUEL McLANAHAN, Chairman.
REV. JOHN T. KF.RR. D.D.. REV. FISHER HOWE BOOTH,
REV. THOMAS TYACK, D.D., REV. WENDELL PRIME KEELER,
REV. DAVIS W. LUSK, D.D., REV. ROBERT ROBINSON,
REV. RAYMOND HILLIARD GAGE. Clerk.
HOME MISSIONS.
REV. HUGH B. MacCAULEY, D.D., Chairman.
REV. JOHN S. ZELIE, D. D., REV. CALVIN W. LAUFER,
REV. S. ROSS MacCLEMENTS, REV. F. BOYD EDWARDS.
REV. ROBERT S. INGLIS, D.D., REV. GEORGE H. HEMINGWAY, D.D.
REV. EDGAR A. HAMILTON.*
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. MINOT C. MORGAN, Chairman.
REV. WILLIAM C. JOHNSTON, ELDER F. L. COLVER.
REV. WILLIAM I. STEANS, D.D., ELDER WM. P. STEVENSON,
REV. COURTLANDT P. BUTLER, ELDER DAVID B. PERRINE,
REV. CLARENCE E. MACARTNEY, ELDER F. S. PHRANER,
REV. ALBERT J. WEISLEY, D.D., ELDER JOSEPH M. WILLIAMS,
REV. CLARENCE W. ROUSE, ELDER JOHN RELLSTAB,
REV. EUGENE H. MATEER, ELDER AARON McCAMMON,
REV. ORVILLE REED, Ph.D..* ELDER EDWARD M. FITIIIAN,
HISTORICAL MATERIALS.
REV. JOSEPH F. FOLSOM. Chairman.
REV. FRANK D. P. HICKMAN, REV. EBEN B. COBB, D.D.,
REV. CHARLES HERR. D.D., REV. FRANK R. SYMMES,
REV. ROBERT H. NICHOLS, Ph.D., REV. WALTER A. BROOKS. D.D..
REV. HENRY B. SOMEILLAN, REV. HEBER H. BEADLE,
REV. JOHN C. CLYDE, D.D.*
SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK.
REV. HENRY C. CRONIN, Chairman.
REV. WILLIAM B. HAMILTON, REV. FRANCIS J. COLLIER. D.D.,
REV. ROBERT R. WICKS, REV. JAMES W. MARTIN, Ph.D.
REV. FRED B. NEWMAN. RE\'. WILLIAM MOORE.*
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
REV. SAMUEL D. PRICE, Chairman.
REV. J. B. FERGUSON. REV. JACOB A. FREY.
REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, REV. THOMAS B. IRONSIDE.
REV. HUGH WALKER, REV. JAMES B. CLARK,
REV. ARTHUR PHILLIPS,' REV. F. \V. JOHNSON D.D.
* To prepare report 191 1.
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134 Permanent Committees. Oct., 1910.
TEMPERANCE.
REV. WILLI.\M V. LOUDERBOUGH, Chairman.
REV. JAMES G. MASON, D.D . REV. CHARLES E. HOYT,
REV. JOSEPH E. CURRY, REV. THOMAS B. IRONSIDE,
REV. LLEWELLYN S. FL'LMER, D.D.,REV. HERBERT R. RUNDALL,
REV. RICHARDSON GRAY, M.D., REV. JOSEPH HOWELL.*
NECROLOGY,
REV. WILLIAM W. KNOX, D.D.. rEV. JAMES DALLAS STEELE. Ph.D.
ELDER WILLIAM P. STEVENSON.
PROPORTIONATE AND SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
REV. JOSEPH LYONS E^^■ING, Chainimn.
REV. JAMES D. STEELE Ph.D.. REV. ORMOND W. WRIGHT,
REV. GEORGE L. RICHMOND, D.D., REV. HAROLD C. HARMON,
ELDER EBENEZER MACKEY, REV. WM. S. C. WEBSTER, D.D.,
REV. ALMER W. KARNELL.*
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES.
REV. FRANK LUKENS, Chairman.
REV. WILLIAM B. HA:\IILT0N.* REV. WALTER B. GREENWAY,
REV. R. H. M. AUGUSTINE, REV. A. S. ZIMMERMAN,
REV. HENRY A. MacKUBBIN, REV. J. NEWTON ARMSTRONG,
REV. DAVID H. KING, REV. CHARLES H. WIIITAKER.
PRESBYTERIAN BROTHERHOOD.
ELDER J. FITHIAN TATEM, Chairman.
REV. WM. FORCE WLIITAKER, D.D.,* REV. DeWITT C. SNYDER.
ELDER DATIS REED, REV. GEO. S. M. DOREMUS,
ELDER WALDO C. GENUNG, ELDER JOSEPH H. WRIGHT,
REV. JAMES MOORE, REV. NELSON B. CHESTER.
EVANGELISTIC WORK.
REV. CALVIN W. LAUFER, Chairman.
REV. LINIUS L. STROCK.* REV. ROBERT S. INGLIS. D.D.,
REV. WILLIAM T. STUCHELL. REV. GEORGE K. NEWELL,
REV. U. FRANKLIN SMILEY, REV. F. W. JOHNSON, D.D.,
REV. JOHN E. PARMLY.
TRUSTEES OF SYNOD.
Class of 1911. ■ Class of 1912. ■
REV. EBEN B. COBB, D.D., REV. SAMUEL McLANAHAN,
President and Treasurer. REV. ROBERT ROBINSON,
REV. R. HILLIARD GAGE, ELDER ELWOOD C. HARRIS.
ELDER JOSEPH P. LLOYD,
Class of IQIS-
REV. FISHER HOWE BOOTH.
REV. COURTLANDT P. BUTLER,
REV. STANLEY WHITE, D.D.
CUSTODIANS OF HISTORICAL MATERIAL.
REV. WALTER A. BROOKS, D.D., Stated Clerk, Trenton, N. J.
REV. JOSEPH H. DULLES, Librarian Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J.
To prepare report 191 1.
Special Committees.
INTER-CHURCH FEDERATION.
REV. HENRY COLLIN MINTON, D.D.,
REV. HUGH 15. MacCAULEY, D.D., REV. WILLIAM V. LOUDERBOUGH,
REV. W. F. JOHNSON, D.D., REV. JOHN McDOWELL,
ELDER BARTON B. HUTCHINSON, ELDER THOMAS W. SYNNOTT.
MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.
REV. SAMUEL McLANAHAN, REV. HUGH B. MacCAULEY, D.D.
REV. MINOT C. MORGAN.
NEXT PLACE OF MEETING.
THE CLERKS.
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Moderators Since the Reunion,
PLACE OF
MEETING.
June 21, 1870 Elizabeth, ...
Oct. 18, i870iMorristown, .
Oct. 17, 1871 Bloomfield, ..
Oct. 15, 1872 Trenton,
Oct. 21, 1873 Washington, .
Oct. 20, 1874 Camden,
Oct. 19, 1875 Orange,
Oct. 17, 1876 Elizabeth, . . .
Oct. 16, 1877 Newark,
Oct. 15, 1878 Morristown, .
Oct. 21, 1879 Trenton, . . . .
Oct. 19, 1880 Bridgeton, ...
Oct. 18, 1881 Asbury Park,
Oct. 17, 1882 Hackettstown,
Oct. 16, 1883 Orange,
Oct. 21, 1884 Elizabeth, ...
Oct. 20, 1885 Atlantic City,
Oct. 18, 1886 Camden,
Oct. 17, i887j Asbury Park,
Oct. 15, 1888 Asbury Park,
Oct. 21, 1889 Asbury Park,
Oct. 20, 1890 Atlantic City,
Oct. 20, 1891 Long Branch,
Oct. 18, 1892 Belvidere, . . .
Oct. 17, 1893 Bridgeton, . ..
Oct. 16, 1894 Trenton
Oct. 15, 1895 N. Brunswick,
Oct. 27, 1896 Atlantic City,.
Oct. 19, 1897 Plainfield. . . .
Oct. 18, 1898 Asbury Park, .
Oct. 17, 1899 Asbury Park,
Oct. 16, 1900 Atlantic City,
Oct. 15, 1901 Atlantic City,
Oct. 21, 1902 Asbury Park,
Oct. 20, 1903 Lakewood, . .
Oct. 18, 1904 Atlantic City,
Oct. 16, 1905 Cape May, . . .
Oct. 15, 1906 Asbury Park,.
Oct. 21, 1907 i Atlantic City,.
Oct. 19, 1908 j Atlantic City,.
Oct. 18, 1909 Atlantic City,.
Oct. 17, 1909 : Lakewood, . .
* Deceased.
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. Macdonald, D.D.,...
*Rev. William C. Roberts, D.D.,
*Rev. Thomas McCauIey,
*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., . ,
*Rev. Frederic R. Brace, D.D., .
Rev. Henry S. Butler, D.D
*Rev. Benjamin S. Everitt. D.D.
*Rev. John A. Liggett, D.D., . . .
Rev. Albert Erdman, D.D.,
*Rev. A. Nelson Hollifield, D.D.,
Rev. Melvin Eraser,
Rev. Charles Herr, D.D.,
Rev. Walter A. Brooks, D.D., .
Rev. William V. Louderbough,.
Rev. James De Hart Bruen,. .. ,
Rev. George Swain, D.D.,
Rev. I. Alstyne Blauvelt, D.D.,
Rev. Wm. W. Halloway, D.D.,.
Rev. Davis W. Lusk, D.D.,
Rev. C. Rudolph Kuebler, D.D.,
Rev. William W. Knox, D.D., .
PRESBYTERY.
Newark.
Jersey City.
Morris and Orange.
Monmouth.
Newark.
New Brunswick.
Elizabeth.
Newton.
Elizabeth.
West Jersey.
New Brunswick.
Newark.
Monmouth.
Morris and Orange.
Jersey City.
New Brunswick.
West Jersey.
Newton.
Monmouth.
Elizabeth.
Morris and Orange
Newark.
Jersey City.
Corisco.
New Brunswick.
West Jersey.
Newton.
Monmouth.
Elizabeth.
Morris and Orange.
Newark.
Corisco.
Jersey City.
New Brunswick.
West Jersey.
Newton.
Monmouth.
Elizabeth.
Morris and Orange.
Newark.
Jersey City.
New Brunswick.
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Ministers of the Synod of New Jersey.
Abbott, Justin E., Bombay, India. J. C.
Adam, John Douglas, D.D., East Orange.
M. & O.
Adams, James Bailie, Ehvood. W. J.
Allen, Adolos, Cranbury. Mon.
Allen, Lyman VV., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Allen, William, Jr., Haddonfield. W. J.
Amos, Thomas H., D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Armstrong, Amzi L,., Dutch Neck. N. B.
Armstrong, J. Newton, Blairstown. Newt.
Armstrong, William P., Princeton. N. B.
Aughey, John H., Ph.D., Newton. Newt.
Augustine, R. Howard M., Hanover.
M. & O.
Austin, Chas. B., D.D., Toms River. Mon.
Baldwin, Albert G., Shrewsbury, Mon.
Baldwin, Caleb C, D.D., Glen Ridge.
Newark.
Baldwin, Theodore A., Broussa, Turkey.
Newark.
Banncrman, William S., Titusville. N. B.
Barbour, Robert, Montclair. N'rk.
Barrett, Charles S., Laurel Springs. W. J.
Beach, Svlvester W., Princeton. N. B.
Beadle, Heber H., Bridgeton. W. J.
Beatty, Henry T., Ph.D.. Hoboken. J. C.
Beaumont, James B., Morristown. M. & O.
Becker. Ceorsje J.. Montclair. N'rk.
Bennett, Wm. Russell, Morristown. M. & O.
Berger, William A., Bloomfield. N'rk.
BischotT, John W.. ncerticld. W. T.
Blaschke. Herman, Elizabeth. Eliz.
Blair, William P., Camden. W. J.
Blaiivelt, I. Alstyne. D.D., Roselle. Eliz.
Boardman, Samuel W., D.D., LL.D.,
Bloomfield. N'rk.
Bond. Lewis. Plainfield. Fliz.
Bonfield, Oravia M., Newark. N'k.
Booth, Fisher Howe, Tenafly. T. C.
Botsford. Alfred P., D.D., Woodbury.
W. T.
Boyd, James Oscar, B.D., Ph.D., Prince-
ton. N. B.
Brearlev. Edward S., Honewell. N P.
Brooks, Walter A., D.D.. Trenton. N. B.
Brown, Ernest R.. Dunellen. Eliz.
Brown, Herbert H., Ridgewood. J. C.
Brown, John H., Budds Lake. M. & O.
Brown, Josiah J., Newark. N'rk.
Brown, Nathan Thomas, Ph.D., Dutch
Neck. N. B.
Bruen, Henry Munro, Taiku, Korea.
Newt.
Bruen, James DeHart. Belvidere. Newt.
Buchanan. W. Douglas, Newark. N'rk.
Bucher, George H.. Pennington. N. B.
Bullard, Chas. B., East Orange. M. & O.
Burrell, David DeF.. South Orange. M. & O.
Eusch. Albert C, Trenton. N. B.
Butler, Courtlandt P., Lakewood. Mon.
Buttinghausen. Remi J., Bloomfield. N'rk.
Buxton, Wilson R., Ringoes. N. R.
Buyers, John McC, Tuckerton. Mon.
Cadwell, Newton W., D.D., Atlantic City.
W. J.
Cantafio, Aurelio, Elizabeth. Eliz.
Cantrall. Charles McKee, Farmingdalc.
Mon.
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Carlile, Samuel, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Newt.
Carter, Thomas F., China. N'rk.
Casanowicz. Immanuel M., Ph.D., Wash-
ington, D. C. N'rk.
Casselberry, Harvey T., Ocean City. W. J.
Casselberry, Wm. W., Collingswood. W. J.
Castro, Francisco, Havana, Cuba. Hav.
Chamberlain, Pierce. Verona. X'rk.
Chambers, I. Mench, Merchantville. W. J.
Chambers, Theodore F., Dover. M. & O.
Chapman, Wm. Y., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Chester, Nelson B., Caldwell. N'rk.
Clark, James B., Dayton. N. B.
Cline, E. Clarke, Phillipsburg. Newt.
Clyde, John C, D.D., Easton, Pa. Newt.
Cobb, Eben B., D.D., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Cockins, James M., Baltimore. Md. W. J.
Colclough. Joseph H., Phillipsburg. Newt.
Collazo, Evaristo P., Guira de Melena,
Cuba. Hav.
Collier, Francis J., D.D., Collingswood.
W. J.
Collins, Addison B., D.D., Bridgeton.
\V. J.
Coltorti, Bismarck J., Newark. N'rk.
Condit, Isaac H., Newton, R. F. D. Newt.
Coombe, William, .\rlington. X'rk.
Corum, Tesse !Ma.xwell. Jr., Orange.
M. & O.
Coulson, George, Paterson. J. C.
Countermine, John D., D.D., Hammonton.
\\'. T.
Cowan, Perez D., Summit. M. & O.
Craig, David Anderson, Parsippany.
M. & O.
Crane, Louis P.., Elizabet'i. Eliz.
Crist, Roland E., German Valley. M. &• O.
Cronin, Henry C, Jersey City. J. C.
Crouse, Nathaniel P., Stanhope. Newt.
Crozier, William A., Palisades. T. C.
Gulp. Cordie J., Bound Brook. N. B.
Cunningham, James S., Batanga, W. Afr.,
Cor.
Curry, Joseph E.. Cranbury. Mon.
Curtis, Geo. L., Bloomfield. N'rk.
Dager, William M., Batanga, W. Afr.
Cor.
Dare, Jos. B.. Califon. Eliz.
Davies, John M., D.D., Gloucester City.
W. T.
Davis, John D., D.D., LL.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Davis, Robert, Englewood. J. C.
Dawson, Rowland S., Kearney. N'rk.
DeBarritt, Alfred Cienfuegos. Cuba.
Hav.
Demcott, Orey Mason, Paterson. J. C.
Dennis, James S., D.D., 156 Fifth Ave.^
New York. N'rk.
DeWitt, John, D.D., LL.D., Princeton.
N.B.
Diaz, .\l])erto J., TTav.
Dick. Robert J.. Elizabeth. Mon.
Dickson. Reid S.. New Providence.
^\. K: O.
Diehl, Frank, Oceanic. Mon.
Dikovics. John, Newark. N'rk.
Dillon, Edward, Woodbury. W. J.
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Ministers of the Synod of New Jersey.
Oct.,
Dixon, John, D.D., Trenton. N. P..
Dodd, William S., M.D., Caesarea, Turkey.
M. & O.
Donaldson, George, Ph.D., Cliffside. J. C.
Doremus, Geo. S. Mott, Rockaway. M. &
O.
Dougherty, James, Cedarville. W. J.
Duarte, Pedro, Hav.
Dulles, Joseph H., Princeton. N. B.
Dunham, James H., Mt. Holly. Mon.
Dunlop, John G., Fukui. Japan. W. J.
Dunshee, George G., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Eby, Christian B., Blackwood. W. J.
Edmondson, John B., Belvidere. Newt.
Edwards, F. Boyd, Orange. M. & O.
Eggleston, Edward F., D.D., Newark. 'N'rk.
Elmer, Theo. A., Marsovan, Turkey. W. J.
Emerick, Irving P., Stirling. M. &• O.
Emerson, Frank O., Batanga, W. Afr.
Cor.
England, Elias B., Asbury.-'-'Newt.
Erdman, Albert, D.D., Morristown.
M. & O.
Erdman, Charles R., Princeton. N. B.
Erdman, John Pinney, Honolulu, H. I.
M. & O.
Erdman. Paul, Zahleh. Syria. M. & O.
Evans, Chas. A., Ph.D., New York. J. C.
Evans, Roland Hill, Batanga, W. Africa.
Cor.
Everett, Charles, D.D., Belmar. Mon.
Ewing, Joseph E., Bridgeton. W. J.
Faivre, Jos. Z., Bridgeton. W. J.
Ferguson, James, Stewartsville. Newt.
Ferguson, Joseph B., Elizabeth. Eliz.
Fergusson, E. Morris, Swarthmore, Pa.
N'rk.
Finks, Delos E., East Orange. M. & O.
Finney, William P., D.D., Lincoln Univ.,
Pa. Mon.
Fisher, John R., Newark. N'rk.
Folsom, Joseph F., Newark. N'rk.
Foster, Daniel R., Trenton. N. B.
Eraser, Melvin, Batanga, W. Afr. Cor.
Fray, John E., Whippany. M. & O.
Frazer. David R.. D.D.. Klonmfield. X'rk.
French, John Calvin, Frenchtown. N. B.
Frey, Jacob A., Paterson. J. C.
Frissell, Hollis B., D.D., Hampton, Va.
N'rk.
Frith, William B., Reaville. N. B.
Fullerton, John Q. A., Ringoes. N. B.
Fulmer, Elewellyn S., D.D., Montclair.
N'rk.
Fulton. A. C, Newark. N'rk.
Furnajieff, Demeter N., Philippopolis, Bul-
garia. N. B.
Gage, Raymond Hilliard, Wenonah. W. J.
Gallaway, Joshua R., D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Gardner, Edward P., D.D., Chester.
M. & O.
Garretson, Ferdinand V. D., Newark.
Npwt.
Gay, Wm. Alfred, D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Gesner, Herbert M., Atlantic City. W. J.
Ghigo, Phillipe E., Newark. N'rk.
Giardina. Joseph, Montclair. N'rk.
Good, Albert J., Batange, W. Africa. Cor.
Graliam, Robert F., Newark. N'rk.
Graham, Loyal Y., Jr., Rah way. Eliz.
Gray, Richardson, M. D., Beattystown.
Newt. W. J.
Greene, George F., D.D., Cranford. Eliz.
■Greene. J. Milton, D.D., Havana, Cuba.
Hav.
■Greene, Wm. Brenton, D.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Greenleaf, Jonathan, Branchville. Newt.
Green way, Walter B., Jersey City. J. C.
Griffin, William E.. Englewood. J. C.
Grigg, Albert N., Newark. N'rk.
Gruhnert, Herman Carl, Orange. M. & O.
Gwynn, Edmund J., D.D., Elmer. W. J.
Hall, Henry R., Lewes, Del. Mon.
Halloway, William W., D.D., Dover. M.
& O
Hamborszky, Paul F. B., New Brunswick.
N. B.
Hamilton, Edgar A., Sussex. Newt.
Hamilton, Samuel M., D.D., New York.
J. C.
Hamilton, William B., E.lizabeth. Eliz.
Hammond, Walter W., D.D., Morris Plains.
M. &. O.
Hardin, Oscar J., Abieh, Syria. Newt.
Harker, Samuel A., Holly Reach. W. J.
Harmon, Harold C, Newark. N'rk.
Harris, Henry, Roseland. N'rk.
Harvey, Joseph C, LL.D., Camden. W. J.
Hauser, George, Ph.D., Newark. N'rk.
Heminger, Lon D., Batanga, W. Afr. Cor.
Hemingway, George H., D.D., Camden.
W. J.
Herr, Charles, D.D., Jersey City. J. C.
Herrick, Edward P., Jvlatanzas. Cuba. ITav.
Herring, Charles E., Ph.D., Plainfield. Eliz.
Hickman, Frank D. P., Libreville, Gaboon,
W. Afr. Cor.
Hill, Horace P., Camden. W. T.
Hinsdale, Horace G., D.D., Lakewood,
Mon.
Hock, Carl T., Ph.D., Bloomfield. N'rk.
Hock, Frederick W., Ph.D., Newark. N'rk.
Hodge, Caspar Wistar, Ph.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Hodge, Samuel C, Trenton. N. B.
Hoffman. Clarence Sidney, Gratz, Pa.
N. B.
Hollinshed, William, Sparta. Mon.
Holman, Edwin C, Franklin Furnace.
Newt.
Honeyman, William E., Plainfield. Eliz.
Hoops, Henry H., Newark. N'rk.
Hoppaugh, William, Springfield. Eliz.
Hopwood, Isaiah B., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Horn, James F., Newark. M. & O.
Houghtaling, Paul A., Riverton. Mon.
Houston, Thomas, Newtnn. Newt.
Howard, Lawrence R., Plainfield. Eliz.
Howe, Herbert Barber. Paterson. J. C.
Howell, Joseph, Hamilton Square. N. B. >
Howie, Robert P., Pleasant Grove. M. & O.
Hovt. Charles E.. Lvndhurst. T. C.
Hummel. R. R., Ratan^a W, Africa. Cor.
Hunt, Theodore W., L.H.D., Princeton.
Eliz.
Hunter, Joseph, Newark. N'rk.
Hunter, Pleasant, D.D.. Newark. N'rk.
Huntting, James M., Glassboro. W. J.
Hutchinson, David W., Paterson. J. C.
Hutchison, John, Arlington. N'rk.
Ibiya, Bodumba, Batanga. W. Afr. Cor.
Inglis, Robert S.. D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Ingram, George H., Trenton. N. B.
Ironside, Thomas B., Morristown. M. &
O.
Irving, David O., East Orange. M. & O.
Iserman. Harvev. New Hyde Park, L. I.,
N. Y. J. C.
Jackson, Frederick W., Glen Ridge. N'rk.
Jamison, Archibald B., Lafayette. Newt.
Janeway, Harry L., New Brighton, N. Y.
W. J.
igio.
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Johnson, Alfred \ . C, Dinsmore, I'la.
M. & O.
Johnson, Eugene A., Atlantic City. W. J.
Johnson, Frederick W., D.D., Washington.
Newt.
Johnston, William, Dundee Lake. J. C.
Johnston, William C, Batanga, W. Africa.
Cor.
Jones, B. Canfield, D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Tones, W. Y., D.D.. Point Pleasant. Mon.
Jung, August, Passaic. J. C.
Kane, George, South Amboy. Mon.
Karnell, Aimer W., Union. EHz.
Keeler, Wendell Prime, Madison. M. & O.
Kellogg. Augustus C, Delaware. Newt.
Kelly, Bernardino Domas \ .. Alquizar,
Cuba. Hav.
Kern, John F., Orange. M. & O.
Kern, William J., South River. Mon.
Kerr, John T., D.D., F.lizabeth. Hliz.
Kerr, Oliver A., Bordentown. Mon.
Kerr, William C, Chai Ryong, Korea. N'rk.
King, David H., D.D.. Vineland. W. J.
Klein, Chas- F. A.. D.D., Rahway. Eliz.
Kliefken. John W., Atlantic City. W. J.
Kline, Nelson B., Fairton. W. J.
Klose, Otto R. W., Gt. Meadows. Newt.
Knipe, Samuel W., Phoenix, Arizona. Mon.
Knox, William W., D.D., New Brunswick.
N. B.
Kohler, Ferdinand N., Carlstadt. J. C.
Krause. T. Calvin. Green wic'.i ^^'. T.
Kuebler. C. Rudolph, D.D., Hackensack.
J. C.
Kugler, John B., Clinton. N. B.
Kussiw, Basil, New York. N'rk.
Landis, John L,.. Eldridge. W. J.
Landis, Henry M., Tokio, Japan. N. B.
Laufer, Calvin W., Jersey City. J. C.
LaVelle, James, New London, Conn.
M. & O.
Leeper, James L., D.D., Summit. N'rk.
Lewis, Fred Wheeler, Newark, N'rk.
Line. Francis M., Hamburg. X'cwt.
Littell. Robert R., Newark. N'rk.
Locke, Richard E., Rutherford. J. C.
Lott, Albert F., Marksboro. Newt.
Louderbough, William V., Salem. W. J.
Lovell, John G., Long Branch. Mon.
Ludlow, James M., D.D., East Orange.
M. & O.
Lukens, Frank, Burlington. Mon.
Lusk, Davis W., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Lyle, Albert F., LL.D., Newark. N'rk.
Macartney, Clarence Edward, Paterson.
J. C.
MacCauley, Hugh B., D.D., Trenton. N. B.
McClellan, Charles H., D.D., Lakewood.
Mon.
McClelland, Hugh R., Ph.D., Pleasantville.
W. J.
MacClemcnts. Samuel R., Ph.D.. Asburv
Park. Mon.
McClenaghan, Samuel J., Jamesburg, Mon.
MacColl, Alexander, Morristown. M. & O.
McCready, Robert H., Ph.D., Ridgewood.
J. C.
Macdonald, Alex. Oren, Trenton. N. B.
McDonald, John A., Camden. W. J.
McDowell, John, Newark. N'rk.
McGilvray, Henrv. Clinton. Eliz.
McKelvey, Joseph O., Plainfield. Eliz.
McKinney, .'Mcxander H.. Ph.D.. New
York. N'rk.
MacKubbin, Henry A., Lambertville. N. B.
McLanahan, Samuel. Lawrenceville. N. B.
McLeod, James, D.D., Cape May. W. J.
Macloskie, George, LL-D., Princeton. N. B.
McMillan, John, B.D., Atlantic City. VV. J.
McMillan, Peter, Dover. ^[. & ( ).
Macnaughtan, John, D.D., Chatham.
M. & O.
McNaughton, James P., Smyrna, Turkey.
J. C.
Malone, Joseph S., Camden. W. J.
Marcy, Sherman H., Newark. N'rk.
Mark, Robert W., Woodbridge. Eliz.
Martin, James W., Ph.D., Hackettstown.
Newt.
Martin, Paul, Princeton. N. B.
Martinez, Gregorio. Havana, Cuba. Hav.
Mason, Edgar C, Newark. N'rk.
Mason, James G.. D.D., Metuchen. Eliz.
Mateer, Eugene H., Daretown. W. J.
Maugeri, Giacomo, Susa, Italy. N. B.
Mazzorana, Antonio, Havana, Cuba. Hav.
Metzler, Carl P., New York, N. Y. M. &
O.
Miller, Franklin J., Delanco. Mon.
Minton, Henry Collin, D.D., LL-D., Tren-
ton. N. B.
Mitchell. Charles B., Philadelnhia. W. T.
Mix, Eldridge, D.D., Grand Rapids, Mich.
M. & 0.
Moore, James, Phillipsburg. Newt.
Moore, William, Lakehurst. Mon.
Morgan, J. Francis, Ph.D., Jersey City.
J. C.
Morgan, Minot C, Summit. M. & O.
Morgan, Minot S., El wood. W. J.
Morgan, Thomas, Montclair. N'rk.
Mott, Henry Elliott, D.D., Falls Church,
Va. Eliz.
Muller. Hugo F., i=,6 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
^^^ j.
Mundy, Ezra F., Lawrence, Kas. Eliz.
Murgatroyd, Edwin R.. New Vernon.
M. & O.
Musombani, Eduma, Batanga, W. Afr. Cor.
Myongo, Frank S., Batanga, W. Africa.
Cor.
Nassau, Robert Hamill. S. T. D., Ambler,
Pa. N. B.
Nesbit, Harry, Bayonne. Eliz.
Newell, George Kennedy, West Orange.
M. & O.
Newman, Fred B., Trenton. N. B.
Ngubi. Mbula, Batanga, W. Africa. Cor.
Nicholas. John, F., D.D., Haddon Heights.
^^^ j.
Nichols. Robert H., Ph.D.. Auburn. N. Y.
M. & O.
Nixton, T. M., Camden. W. J.
Noordewier, John D., Riverton. Mon.
Northrup, James H., Perth Amboy. Eliz.
O'Brien, John Howard, Clarksboro. W. J.
Oliver. \\'illiam Loveridge. Oak Ridge
.T. C.
Owens, James H., D.D., Paterson. J. C.
Palmer. Francis, Trenton. N. B.
Pannell, William T., Cedarville. W. J.
Parnily. John E.. Newark. AT. in.
Parry, Samuel, Somerville. Eliz.
Parsons, Dwight L., Shrewsbury. Mon.
Patterson, Isaac M., Trenton. N. B.
Patterson, John F., D.D., Orange. M. & O.
Patton, Francis L., D.D., LL.D., Prince-
ton. N. B.
Paull. George A.. D.D., LTpper Montclair.
N'rk.
Payson, Edward P., Montclair. N'rk.
Peabody, Ward C, Hampton. Newt.
Pendleton, Charles J., New Gretna. Mon.
142
Ministers of the Synod of New Jersey.
Oct.,
Penfield. Thornton P.., EnKlewood. T. C.
Peters, John E., Sc.D., Camden. W. J.
Phillips, Arthur, Beverly. Men.
Phillips, Charles L., Korea. Newt.
Pipa, Ndenga, Batanga, W. Afr. Cor.
Potter, Samuel H., Camden. W. J.
Pratt, Henry B., Hackensack. J. C.
Price, Samuel D., Camden. W. J.
Prugh, Harry C. Mt. Pleasant. N. B.
Pyndykowski, Waldimir, Newark. N'rk.
Raymond, George L,-, L.H.D., Washington,
D. C. N. B.
Reed, Orville, Ph.D., Montclair. N'rk.
Reeve, John T., Basking Ridge. Eliz.
Reis, Tacob A.. Batanga. \\'. Africa. Cor.
Remington, Arthur W., Freehold. Men.
Richmond, Geo. L., D.D., Boonton.
M. &: O.
Riggs, James P., D.D., East Orange. M.
& O.
Ripoli, Jose.Xueva Paz, CuM. Hav.
Robinson, Albert B., New York. N'rk.
Robinson, Robert, B.D., Belvidere, R. F. D.
Newt.
Rogan, James W., D.D., Red Bank. Mon.
Rommel, William C, Elizabeth. Eliz.
Rouse, Clarence W., Newton. Newt.
Rowland, Samuel J., D.D., Clinton. Eliz.
Rundall. Herbert R., Atlantic City. W. J.
Rush, Tillman S., D.D., Stratford. W. J.
Russell, Gordon X., Cranfnrd. Eliz.
Rutherford, J. Marshall, Manasquan. Mon.
Salvado, Tose Fortuny Y., Guanajay, Cuba.
Hav."
Sassaman, Horace D., Easton, Pa. Newt.
Scarborough, John C, D.D., Asbury Park.
Mon.
Schaeffer, Joseph H., Atlantic Highlands.
Mon.
Scheld, Louis W., Pleasantdale. M. & O.
Schelly, Percy Y., Philadelphia. Newt.
Schenck, I. V. W., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Schoonmaker, Robert D., Brindletown,
N. C. Eliz.
Schoonover, Frank B., Oxford. Newt.
Schultz, Herman W. J., Paterson. J. C.
Scott, John T., Somerville, R. F. D. 3.
Eliz.
Seibert, Henry W., Ph.D., Newark. N'rk.
Serafini, Vincent, Trenton. N. B.
Shannon, Thomas B., Newark. N'rk.
Sharpe, John C, D.D., Blairstown. Newt.
Sharpe, Robert H., Hammonton. W. J.
Sharpless, Albert S., Tioga, Pa. W. J.
Sheddan, William Boyd, Princeton. Newt.
Sherman, E. F., Pitman. W. J.
Shields, Edward P.. D.D., Bridgeton. W. J.
Shurts, Jacob V. D., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Smiley, U. Franklin, D.D.. Car'den. W. T.
Smith, Baker, D.D., Califon, R. F. D. 2.
M. & O.
Smith, Chas. Ellis, Englewood. J. C.
Smith, George Gardner. Princeton. N. B.
Smith, George E-, Cedarville. W. J.
Smith, Herbert G., Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Hav.
Smith. W. Everitt, Fusan. Korea. W. J.
Snowden, Samuel Guy, Elizabeth. Eliz.
Snyder, Alfred J.. Bridgeton. W. J.
Snyder, DeWitt C, Paterson. J. C.
Snyder, Edward, Harmony. Newt.
Someillan, Henry B., Cienfucgos, Cuba.
Hav.
Spining, Geo. L-, D.D., South Orange.
M. & O.
Squier, William L., Atco. W. J.
Stark, George S., Princeton. N. B.
Steans, William I., D.D., Westfield. Eliz.
Stearns, Edwin I., Matawan. Mon.
Steele, James D., Ph.D., Passaic. J. C.
Steen, William S., Philadelphia, Pa. Mon.
Stevenson, A. Waldo, Guines, Cuba. Hav.
Stier, Richard R., Sayreville. Mon.
Stoddard, Elijah W., D.D., Succasunna.
M. & O.
Stonelake, Chas. A.. Newark. N'rk.
Streubcl, Clarence E., Flanders. M. & O.
Strock, Linius L,-, Trenton. N. B.
Strong, Charles R., Plainfield. N. B.
Stubblebine, Albert N., Newark. N'rk.
Stubblebine, William H., Ph.D., Newark,
N'rk.
Stuchell, William Torrence, Rahway. EHz.
Sutherland, John R., D.D., Philadelphia.
Eliz.
Swain, George, D.D., Allentown. Mon.
Symmes, Frank R., 'Tennent. Mon.
Symmes, Jos. G., Mendham. M. & O.
Tamblvn. George O., New Brighton, N. Y.
J."C.
Tatlock, \\ illiam, \\ oodstown. \\ . J.
Taylor, J. Prentice. Leonia. J. C.
Thomson, Robert, Samakov, Bulgaria.
N'rk.
Thomson, William, Easton, Pa. Newt.
Tildon, Frederick D., Plainfield. Eliz.
Tomic, Franz, Bloomfield. N'rk.
Toms, T. U. S., Taiku. Korea. W. T.
Tower, William Hogarth, Newark. N'rk.
Townsend. Charles, D.D., Orange. M. & O.
Trimble, William J., D.D., Camden. W. J.
Triplett, John Edwin, Woodbury. W. J.
Trusty, Charles H., D.D., Jersey City.
^ J- C-
Tyack, Thomas, D.D., Hightstown. Mon.
Underwood, Horace G., D.D., Seoul,
Korea. J. C.
Updike, Hartley T., Trenton. N. B.
Van Allen, Charles E-, Coolbaugh, Pa.
Newt.
Vanderheek. Henry C Tenafly. N'rk.
van Dyke, Henry, D.D., LE-D., Princeton.
N. B.
Van Dyke, James W., Cranbury. Mon.
Van Dyke, Joseph S., D.D., Hightstown.
Mon.
van Dyke, Paul, Princeton. N. B.
VanEns. F. Stanlev. New 'S'ork. J. C.
Van Orden, Archibald S., Ramsey. J. C.
Van Syckel, Phineas B., Irvington, N. Y.
N. B.
Ventosa, Cesar S., Havana, Cuba. Hav.
Vinton, T. Alexander, Milford. X. P>.
\'itelli. Josenh. A^ineland. W. J.
Voegelin, Chas. F. N., Paterson. J. C.
Voegelin, F. E., Newark. N'rk.
Vos, Geerhardus, D.D., Ph.D., Princeton.
N. B.
Walker, Charles A., Camden. W. J.
Walker, Hurt, Stewartsville, R. F. D.
Newt.
Wall, Edward, South Orange. M. & O.
Wallace. George TL. New York. J. C.
Wanderer, Adolphus E., Paterson. J. C.
Warfield, Benjamin B., D.D., LL.D.,
Princeton. N. B.
Warne, D. Ruby, Trenton. N. B.
Wav. Chas. P.. Phil-idelphi.i. M. >K- O.
Webb, Samuel G., Lakewood. Mon.
Weber, Henry J., Ph.D., D.D., Bloomfield.
N'rk.
Webster, Wm. S. C, D.D., Andover. Newt.
igio.
Ministers of the Synod of New Jersey.
143
Weisley, Albert J., D.D., Trenton. N. B.
Wells, John A., Jersey City. Eliz.
Werner, Frank, Liberty Corner. Eliz.
Wesley, Thomas D., Pluckemin. Eliz.
Westervelt, William G., Beemerville. Newt
Whitaker, Charles H., Bordentown. Moii.
VVhitaker, William F., D.D., Elizabeth.
Eliz.
White, Henry Kirke, Millington, R. F. L). i.
M. & O.
White, Israel L., South Orange. N'rk.
White, Robert, Newton. Newt.
White, Stanley, D.D., New York. M. & O.
Whiteside, Thomas, Ringoes. N. B.
Wicks, Robert Russell, East Orange.
M. & O.
Wilcox, William T., Bloomfield, N'rk.
Williamson, Albert B., Bloomsbury. Newt.
Willits, Alphonso A., D.D., Spring Eake.
Mon.
Wolff, Tulius F. Manalapan. Mon.
Wolff, Julius H., D.D., Newark. N'rk.
Woolverton, William H., Stockton. M. & O.
Wright, John, Batanga. W. Africa. Cor.
Wright, Ormond W., Barnegat. Mon.
Wynkoop. Asa, Albany, N. Y. M. & O.
Young, Alexander H., D.D., Binghamton.
N. Y. Mon.
Young, James S., Garfield. J. C.
Zelie, John Sheridan, D.D. Plainfield. Eliz.
Zimmerman, Andrew 8., Newark, N'rk.
Total number of Ministers, 504.
INDBX.
PAGE.
Allotments and apportionments, S\-nodical Home Missions, . . 14
American Bible Society, 24
American Tract Society, 15
Anti-Saloon League, 12
Apportionments, 1910-1911 18
Arrangements, 6, 7, 16
Attendance at Synod, 31
Auditing Committee, 191 1, 9
Bills and Overtures, 8, 9, 1 1, 15
Bills to be paid 2;^
Brotherhood, 27, loS
Colored Ministers' Association, 28
Committees, Permanent, 28, 29, 133
Evangelistic Work, 22
Foreign Missions, 10, 14, 16, 80
Home Missions, 20, 71
Historical Materials, 28, ill
Necrology, 24, 40
Presbyterian Brotherhood, 27, 108
Proportionate and Systematic Beneficence, 24, 105
Sabbath Observance, 26, 98
Sabbath-school Work, 18, 92
Synodical Home Missions, 12, 27, 47, 59
Temperance, 22, 100
Young People's Societies, 26, 95
Committees, Standing, 8
Arrangements, 6, 7
Bills and Overtures, 8. 9, 11, 15
Judicial Business, 8, 28
Minutes of General Assembly, .■ 8, 28
Narrative, 191 1, 8, 27
Finance, 8, 1 1, 18
Presbyterial Records, 9, 30
Synodical Home Mission Accounts, 9, 12
Committees, Special, 135
On Evangelistic Work, 22
On Boundaries of Presbyteries, 17
On Executive Commission, 15
IDS (145)
146 Index. Oct., 1910.
PAGE.
Conference on Missions, u, 25
Custodians, Historical Materials, 28
Docket and Order of Business, 132
Education, 15
Evangelistic Work, 22
Executive Commission, 15
Family Altar League, 25
German Seminary, ." 28
Ministerial Sustentation, 18
Minutes of Synod, 7,9, ^7, 33
Moderator, 4, 6
Narrative 8, 21, 27, 34
Necrology, 24
Overture, Jersey City, 12, 30
Place of Next Meeting, 33
Presbyterial Records 9, 30
Roll of Synod, 4, 6, 139
Standing Rules 21, 25, 27, 129
Stated Clerk, 9
Synodical Home Missions, 12, 13, 47
Treasurer's Report, 12, 59
Thanks, Resolutions of, 10, 3c
Treasurer's Report, ro, 18. 1 15
Treasurer of Trustees, 10, 18, 1 13
Treasurer Synodical Home Missions, 12, 59
I'rustees of Synod, 17
Vice-Moderator, 8
Woman's Home Missions, 21, 73, 76
Woman's Foreign Missions 15, 85, 87
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