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Centennial historical souvenir, Old First
1809
1909
CENTENNIAL
HISTORICAL SOUVENIR
OLD FIRST
METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
WEST LONG BRANCH NEW JERSEY
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Preface.
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Sunday Services : 10:30 A. M .; 7:30 P. M.
Sunday School :
2:30 P. M.
Prayer Meeting :
Thursdays, 7:30 P. M.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
221 Monmouth Ave. Long Branch, N. J.
Rev. Curwen Bartine' Fisher, A. M., Pastor.
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Inside View of Old First Church.
Old Parsonage, Built in 1830
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Special Attention Given to the Renovating of Old Plumbing and Drainage
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HISTORICAL SERMON BY REV. GEORGE REED-JULY 26, 1974
Y OUR CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE feel that we honor the Church and ourselves in placing before you first in order a Historical Sermon delivered by that much beloved pastor. the REV. GEORGE REED, thirty-five years ago, within the original old Church just before the work of reconstruction was begun.
SERMON
Preached at Long Branch, by Rev. George Reed, on July 26th, 1874
Psalms, CXLV : 4.
What the Psalmist sang in the ancient time is what we propose to do this morning. There have been scenes of power and blessing in this old sanctuary, which well deserve to be recounted, and which call for praise to the God of our fathers.
In the ark of Israel was preserved a testimony of the wonderful doings of Jehovah among his people of old-so in the record of this Church, we would treasure up the story of its greatly favored past.
But there is a common saying that "no time is like the old time, no place like the old place, etc ", and there is dan- ger of greatly exaggerating the glory of the "auld lang syne," and of depreciating the present. When the children of to-day are grown, they will think precisely the same of these times as we did of those. Because the earliest im- pressions' are the deepest, and memory recalling the new strange days of long ago, will declare there is no place so dear as the old place, and no time like the old time. Per- haps, religiously, the earlier times were noisier than we find in many of the churches of the present; and yet are not
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All calls answered promptly at any hour of day or night.
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OFFICIAL BOARD
Bishop-Luther B. Wilson, D.D., L.L.D.
District Superintendent-John Handley, D. D. Pastor-Curwen Bartine Fisher, A. M. Resident Superanuate-Samuel S. Weatherby.
S. S. Superintendents-James Atcheson, Isaac B. White. President Epworth League-James A. Fisher. Superintendent Junior League-Selina Atcheson. President Ladies' Aid Society-Selina Atcheson. President Usher's Union-James Atcheson. Recording Secretary-William R. Slocum. Financial Secretary-Willis A. Woolley.
Church Treasurer-James Atcheson.
District Steward-Lewis Lane.
Class Leader-Rev. S. S. Weatherby.
Trustees-Augustus Thomas, William M. Golden, Frark Sherman, George A Hulick; J: D. Van Note, George Soffel, Monroe V. Poole, R. R. Hughes. C. A. Poole. Stewards-Augustus Thomas, William R. Slocum, Warren D. Brand, A. R. Chinery, Lewis R. Lane, William E. Norton, James Atcheson, Willis A. Woolley, Charles A. Poole, Charles H. Stillwagon, James W. Heyer, Thomas E. Taylor, James Belshow, Christopher Gramman, William F, Woolley.
Chorister-Charles A. Poole.
Organist-Grace M. Atcheson.
Sexton-A. R. Chinery.
Centennial Committee-William M. Golden, A, R: Chinery, R. R. Hughes, James Atcheson, C. B Fisher. Bazaar Committee-President, Mary Cornell; Vice Presi- dent, Mary White ; Secretary, J. Ida Heyer; Treas- urer, Selina Atcheson. Alberta Sherman, Mary D. Poole, Mrs. Richard Deeves, Mrs. J. H. Parker, Grace M. Atcheson; Jeannette Woolley, Laura M. Beach, Josephine Soffel, Annie V, Hughes, Cordelia Hulick, Florence Soffel ..
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FRANK F. KRUG
CARPENTER and BUILDER
Jobbing Promptly Attended To LEAKS A SPECIALTY
Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, N. J. P. O. Box 73
C. A. Poole
J. D. Van Note
POOLE & VAN NOTE
Painters and Decorators
West Long Branch
New Jersey
P. O. Box 36
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the same God and the same blessings still with us? We hope they are. We fail to see) the defects of the distant past, and only look upon its true grandeur. There is an en- chantment in the distance. If you wish to comprehend all. the design and beauty of a painting, you must be a little re- moved from it So we can never see the beauty and design of the times in which we live. They are too near us. Why, the Israelites, after they had journeyed for days toward their own liberty and their own land, even longed for Egypt again. The flesh-pots and servitude were more attractive in memory than Jehovah's promise and all his blessing. Thus we are wont to dwell upon the past as times of spirit- ual life and power such as will never again be known. They appear to have been such glorious times! And so they were. And we almost wish we had lived in the grand days of Luther, Bunyan or Wesley, as though there were no sin or trials then. , Why it is the very darkness of those days which makes them shine so. The sun never seems to blaze so brightly upon us as after weeks of overhanging cloud. In the days of Wesley the preachers came to Conference on one occasion and asked ; "what shall we do? a spirit of pride and worldliness is creeping in among us," etc. And on another occasion Mr. Wesley expelled from the London societies some 700 members in one year-(which could hard- ly be done in Long Branch if we desired). How many vain- ly wish themselves "a child again." But if they were, they would be as the boys and girls of to-day are-only wishing for sweet sixteen and twenty-one.
In briefly reviewing the history of this old Church, we almost desire the return of just such times and scenes; but we find that in every age there have been blemishes, and christians have had to watch and pray and strive as we do now. I present this thought, that none of us may wish we were dead, or that we had lived a hundred years ago.
Some years prior to 1809 the Methodist Society in this
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CENTENNIAL JUBILEE
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1909
ORDER OF EXERCISES
9. A. M. OLD TIME LOVEFEAST.
Conducted by the Rev. B. C. Lippincott, D.D. and the Rev. Willis Reeves. (Admission by ticket).
10:30 A. M. CENTENNIAL SERMON.
By the Rev. John Krautz, D.D., of New York. Bishop Luther B. Wilson, D.D., L.L.D .. will also be present, if possible.
2:30 P. M. OLD FIRST, PAST AND PRESENT.
Addresses by former Pastors, Lippincott, Reeves, Cor- son, Manchester, Mitchell and Gifford. -
7:45 P. M. CENTENNIAL SERMON.
By District-Superintendent Rev. John Handley. D.D.
Reunion and Harvest Home
Wednesday, August 18, 1909
BOARD OF MANAGERS
President-Rebecca Hulick. Vice Pres .- Mary D. Poole. Sec'y-Elizabeth M. Norton. Treasurer-Mary D. Poole. Clara Clayton, Laura Lane, Nettie White, Mrs. J. H. Parker Laura M. Beach, Ella Van Huel, Selina Atcheson.
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section worshiped in the old Church which is now used as a barn upon the premises of Mr. Kurrus, between this place and Oceanville. In that old barn, in the beginning of this century, resounded the voice of such men as Bishop Asbury and Benjamin Abbott, with holy eloquence.
In 1807 a Quarterly Meeting was held in the grove just west of where Mr. Antonides' carriage factory now stands- the preacher mounted a farm wagon for a pulpit-as the church could not accommodate the vast number which thronged to it on those occasions. It was about this time that great camp-meetings were held in Benjamin West's woods at Wolf Hill.
In the year 1808 there arose a discussion between Rev. Samuel Budd and Rev. Zenas Congor, which resulted in the division of the Society; that part which retained possession of the old Church, styling themselves "Independent Meth- odists." For some years they continued to worship there, under the leadership of Matthias Barkalow; but as one has remarked "little attention was paid to the children, and, re- ceiving no young members. the society long since disband- ed." The only surviving member, so far as I am aware, is the widow of Joseph Tallman.
In 1809, under the pastorate of Samuel Budd and John Woolson, with perfect harmony among the noble brethren who then composed the official board, the M. E. Society be- gan the erection of this heaven honored place we now occupy.
Fancy a continuous woods of tall oak timber from Mr. Hoey's little paradise upon the shore, up through here into the interior. Just in the corner of the new cemetery, ad- joining our grave-yard on the West, stood the school-house of Alexander McGregor. There was an old house where the Scriven monument now stands. There were also houses where Mr. Fulton, Jesse Stillwell, John Mount, Montillian Woolley, Jr., Montgomery Cook and Sarah Maps now reside.
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On this hill a place was cleared in the woods as the site of this church. Alexander McGregor, the A. T. Stewart of this section at that time, gave the land and part of the tim- ber for building. Obediah Lang (whose remains rest in this old church-yard) and he, were intimate friends. They were both staunch Freemasons, and by profession nothing more. Mr. McGregor had often expressed a desire to rest at last in the same burial-ground, and beside his old friend Lang; but his brother gaining control of him in his imbecility, and of his wealth, carried him, notwithstanding his unwillingness and protesting tears, off toward his native Scotland. Whether he ever reached there is not known.
We must admire the religious manner in which your fathers proceeded in their enterprise. They did not wait for the completion of the church to worship God, but fre- quent meetings were held upon the frame by placing boards around upon it. A Quarterly Meeting was held upon the frame on one occasion, when Bishop Asbury preached, just seven years before he preached his last sermon on earth in 1816.
./. Brother Joel Potter, who yet survives, with undimmed memory and brightening faith, informs me that Bishop As- bury said : " Brethren, you have a beautiful spot on which to build, and you have a good frame. but"-pausing and look- ing around awhile, that man of profound forethought said, - "there is one thing you have not, and that is, it is not near large enough."
After the Quarterly Meeting preaching upon the frame, the members retired to the barn of Mr. McGregor (here on John Mount's corner) to hold their love feast, where none could be admitted without the ticket. And as late as the time of Brother Lenhart, I find in the minutes of a Quarter- ly Conference, "It was resolved that in the opinion of this meeting it is deemed expedient that in future our preacher attend to that part of his duty relative to the distribution of
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Orders Delivered Promptly WEST LONG BRANCH
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Grading, Sodding and Graveling
The Care of Lawns and Hedges a Specialty P. O. Box 43 West Long Branch, N. J.
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Compliments of
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Telephone 58
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Residence 58
Long Branch, N. J.
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love-feast tickets, etc., according to Discipline," etc A mild hint to Brother L., with a strong edge to it.
These Quarterly meetings were high days in our earlier Methodism. Early on Quarterly Meeting Sabbath, you would see them coming from Freehold, Middletown Point, Keyport, the Bay Shore and from Squan-coming in open farm wagons. on horse back, and with ox-teams. Carriages were scarce in those days; but what was lacking in carriage- tops the sisters made up in the length of their bonnets- much more sensible than the diminutive daintiness pre- scribed by the present fashion.
There are those among us to day, who made their "first appearance" as a happy couple, at this church, in open farm wagons and on horse-back. Some are too ready to as- cribe all this to their humility of heart; as though they could have had a finer style if they desired it, and as though carriages were as plenty then as now ! But it is very easy to be humble when there is no pride in the market. It is strange that some of the very fathers who decry the increas- ing pride of the day, have so far back-slidden themselves in their old age, as to be among those who drive the hand- somest horses and neatest carriages. Now I am not referr- ing to any in this community, but to whom I have known elsewhere, by way of apology for us who are younger. But if the appearance of our fathers was unique, so were the blessings which attended their services They proved to the world that Christ was with them, and they knew His presence, and rejoiced in a conscious salvation from sin.
On the day in which this building was raised, a meeting was held within the frame. Every move, you see, had re- ligion in it. All was done as unto God and for the salvation of men. Brother Solomon Maps, who is almost youthful in his 73rd year of age, distinctly remembers their commenc- ing this service by singing " Jesus My All To Heaven Is Gone." etc.
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The carpenters employed in the erection of this build- ing were Michael Maps, Samuel Lane, Jacob Lane, Montil- lion Woolly, Hendrick White. Messrs. Maps, Lane and Woolly were working upon a scaffold near the peak of the roof, when down came the scaffolding with a crash to the ground. Mr. Maps rushed down to the store, so much ex- cited that he had not observed the blood marking his foot- prints. Meeting Mr. McGregor. he exclaimed : "O, Mr. Mc., we are all dead; we are all killed !" Said Mr. Mc., "I guess not quite so bad." "Well, Jake and Till are, any- how !" It was not so bad. but they were seriously injured.
At length the day of dedication arrived. This was to be an extraordinary day for Long Branch-for this place is the original and proper Long Branch, Services began early. Just as the sun came up from old Atlantic on that cool, beautiful morning, "Billy Smith" preached to the multitude that had already assembled. Sister Hannah Chasey, who was then a young woman of twenty-three, still lingers, though quite feeble, a member of this church.
The people remained after the first morning service, till the second dedicatory sermon, which, upon good authority it is thought, was preached by Samuel Budd, who then lived in the house adjoining the post-office in Long Branch City. This house of God, was dedicated in 1809, but it was not finished until about 1819, some ten years afterwards. The wainscoating was on, as it now is, but there was no lath or plastering upon the walls or ceiling, and the seating was not complete. Tin candlesticks with reflectors were nailed upon the sides of the building. Think of the first sexton, Solomon Gardner, passing around during the sermon, "snuffers" in hand, clipping the candles to keep them bright, and occasionally "clipping " them out !
The first Sunday-school Superintendent of whom I am informed, was Michael Maps, in 1840: then followed the names of George Griggs, W. R. Maps, John Woolly, and so
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on down to later times. It is also worthy of note that the first to "take its chamber in the silent halls of death," the first to rest in this densely-peopled "city of the dead," was a little girl-Sybil Maps, sister to W. R. Maps-whose head- stone you will see just North of the church.
At the North-East corner of the church, you find the tomb of Brother Wainwright, who, as a local preacher, often traveled from Tinton Falls to Shark River on foot, with his coat upon his arm, to hold meetings and call men to repent- ance and faith in Christ. Next to him lies Rev. Mr. Mills, who suddenly passed away one Sabbath morning while the congregation were awaiting his arrival. And among this solemn, silent population, sleep those of all classes and na- tionalities. There are those who moulder in elegantly orna- mented caskets, and those in rude pine box, who went alone to die. You will note the significant cross of the French- man; an in the South corner, the large mound of the three hundred Germans from the ill-fated ship NEW ERA; and the shreded flags where recently we heard the Indian mother wail " yeaw, yeaw, yeowa !"
In 1809, Samuel Budd and John Woolson were traveling upon this Freehold circuit-a six-weeks circuit which ex- tended some four hundred miles, Once while Mr. Budd was conducting service in the old church, a man intoxicated slipped through the gallery railing and fell down among the sisters, when the preacher exclaimed : "There is another old sinner converted !"
In 1810, John Woolson and William Smith were appoint- ed to this circuit. Wm. Smith settled in Long Branch in 1830, after a ministry of thirty years. And here on April 8, 1853, "without a struggle, he fell asleep, saying. 'my hope is full of immortality; my way is clear,'" etc.
In 1812, J. C. Totten and colleague were here.
In 1815. David Bartine and others were traveling this circuit. This remarkable self-made man passed to his re- ward in 1832.
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In 1816, Thomas Neal and Peter Vannest were appoint- ed to Freehold (as it was called). Thomas Neal, "who, whatever impression his ministry made in other respects, never failed to carry the conviction that he was a good man," spent his last years in the city of Burlington, N. J. There, respected and honored by all who knew him, with bright views of the heavenly country, ascended he to its enjoyment in 1859.
In 1819, Daniel Fidler and others were on this circuit, under whose pastorate the original building was first ccm- pleted, Since 1831 his remains have been resting in the old church-yard at Pemberton. which was then called New Mills.
In 1821-2, Bartholomew Weed and Eliphalet Reed were "in charge." At this time, fifty-two years ago, Sister Mary Cook gave her heart to God. for whom the last service will be held in this church (as it now is) on Tuesday next. Dur- ing their pastorate the congregation was startled one morn- ing by the cracking of the gallery, which, however, settled but a part of an inch.
In 1823-4, William Lummis and John Walker were on this circuit. It was at this time that the old Rumson Church was built; which is now occupied as the store by Mr. B. F. King. During that year Samuel Throckmorton was recom- mended by the Quarterly Conference in this Church for li- cense to preach. He was eldest brother to Sydney and Wm.
Throckmorton. We understand it was his last fervent ap- peal which under grace, brought one of those brothers to that Christ in whom he lives to this day. Samuel was re- garded as a young man of great promise. Brother Lummis, the senior preacher, died in 1843, saying: "I shall die, and I am ready and willing at any time the Lord shall say the word, and call me to Himself. Of J. Walker, his colleague, it is said he remarked to Brother Shaw, "I would like to give the devil's kingdom one more stroke;" and after a pause
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