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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MORRISTOWN, N. J. " THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN FOR THE GENERATION TO COME."-Psalms 102 : 18.
VOLUME V.
MAY, 1885. NUMBER 29.
[Printed with the Approval of the Session. ]
THE RECORD
Is published monthly ; terms $1.00 a year, in advance. Single numbers for any month, 10 cents each.
Subscriptions should be made to Mr. James R. Voorhees. Matters pertaining to the publication should be addressed to the
EDITOR OF THE RECORD.
Entered at the Post Office at Morristown, N. J., as second class matter.
SUPPLEMENT.
The Supplement for this month continues the Minutes of the Trustees and Parish thru the Pastorate of Mr. French, from March 25th, 1872 to March 17, 1874.
CALENDAR FOR MAY.
3. Sunday: Collection for Bible Society.
S. S. Lesson : Obedience, Eph. vi. 1-13.
7. Thursday: Religion in Business. Rom. xii. II.
10. Sunday: S. S. Lesson: Christ our Example, Phil. ii. 5-16.
II. Monday: Woman's Foreign Mission Society.
14. Thursday: Compelling them to come in, Luke xiv. 32. Missions in Siam.
17. Sunday: S. S. Lesson: Christian Contentment, Phil iv. 4-13.
21. Thursday: Free Salvation, Rev. xxii. 17.
24. Sunday: S. S. Lesson : The Faithful Saying, I. Tim. i. 15-ii. 6.
27. Wednesday: 4 P. M. Session meets to receive candidates for the Communion.
28. Thursday; Final Separation, Matt. xiii. 40-50.
31. Sunday: S. S. Lesson : Paul's Charge to Timothy, II. Tim. iii. 14-iv. 8.
EVERY WEEK.
Sunday: Church Services, 10.30 A. M. and 7.30 P. M.
Sunday: Sunday-school, 3 P. M. .. Young People's prayer meeting, 6.45 P. M.
Thursday: Young Men's prayer meeting, 7:00 P. M.
Thursday: Church Mid-week Service of Prayer, 8 P. M. . Friday: Young Ladies' Missionary Society, from 3 to 5 P. M.
Saturday: Bible-class and Teacher's meet-
ing, led by the Rev. Dr. Erdman, 4 P. M. Strangers are cordially welcomed to all of these services.
IN MEMORIAM.
At a special meeting of the Woman's For- eign Missionary Society of the First Pres- byterian Church, held on March 25th, 1885, the following resolutions were adopted in relation to the death of its late President, which occurred March 18th, 1885 :
WHEREAS, It has pleased the Heavenly Father to take to Himself so unexpectedly our beloved President and Pastor's wife, Mrs. Elisabeth S. Durant, thus giving to our Society. in its infancy, a baptism of sor- row ; therefore,
Resolved, That while we bow submissively beneath the hand thus heavily laid upon us, believing that it is in love and not in wrath, we keenly feel our loss and deeply mourn that we shall have the cheering light of her sunny smile and helpful pres- ence no more among us ; yet rejoice that the grief is ours alone- for her there is only joy.
Resolved, That we cherish most tenderly the memory of her pure and lovely Chris- tian character, her sweet resignation under trial, her ready obedience to every call of duty; her devotion to the Master's work as shown particularly by her earnest interest in the purpose and aim of this Society ; and that we strive to emulate her example, praying that the inspiration of her beauti-
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ful life and peaceful death among us may lift each of us to a higher plane of conse- cration to the cause she so dearly loved.
Resolved, That in gratitude to God for the blessed hope of eternal life, through Jesus Christ His Son, and as a memorial of her who has entered into that life, we will make a special offering to the cause of Foreign Missions, devoting it to some object here- after to be designated.
Resolved, That we tender to our bereaved pastor our heartfelt sympathy, commending him and his motherless little ones to the gracious care and comfort of Him who is infinite compassion, and whose loving pres- ence alone can fill the vacant place in his heart and home.
HAVE YOUR ANSWER READY.
If you have hope in Christ, extraordinary talents and opportunities are not required in order " to give an answer to every one that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you." (1 Peter iii, 15). The Bible itself supplies you with nearly every one of these reasons. It says, over and over again, what the Christian hope is, how it rests on Christ and his work, how it looks for divine support in this life and eternal blessedness in heaven.
If a man never studies for himself, or thru the law, a will which puts him in possession of a large property, so as to dis- cover his title, and be able to defend it ; you would say that he deserves to lose the property. But the Bible is God's will and testament, bequeathing to the believer the priceless legacy of salvation and eternal life ; therefore, search the Scriptures.
Then, as to the influence of the Christian hope upon your own life, which must al- ways be a large part of your answer to those who ask a reason "concerning the hope that is in you ;" your daily experience gives material for a ready answer. Surely you can tell some troubled soul that is seeking peace, how your Christian hope is helping you to overcome sin and the world, to bear disappointment and sorrow, to strive after more purity, and love both to God and to man ; and how it gives you a peace and joy which the world cannot take away, and more sweet than any it can give.
Some persons act as if this answer could be ready only after long Christian experi- ence, and superlative Christian attainments. It ought, indeed, to grow fuller and clearer as you get nearer to the grave and nearer to the throne. But you do not need to wait till noon in order to give a convincing reason for believing that day has followed the night. He is worse than blind, who cannot tell why he hopes the day will come, just as soon as the first glow of dawn ap- pears in the east. So the Christian is able to give this answer upon the first glimmer of gospel hope in his soul : he has no ex- cuse for not being ready always after that.
REPORT TO PRESBYTERY,
FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1885.
OFFICERS.
No. Elders, of whom 8 are active, II
No. Deacons, 2
No. Trustees,
7
COMMUNICANTS.
Added on examination.
7
Added on certificates,
12
Total number on roll 31st March, 1885, 473 BAPTISMS.
Adults Baptized,
5
Infants Baptized, .
.
IO
Baptized Infants added to Roll on Cert.,
6
Total No. Infants on Roll,
92
SUNDAY-SCHOOL.
No. Officers,
II
No. Teachers, 61
No. Scholars, .
388
Total Membership,
460
Average Attendance,
290
No. received to Communion, 5
No. Books in Library,
428
Am't of Gifts to Boards of Church, .
$305
Am't of Gifts to other objects,
.
$451
Total Gifts of Sunday-school,
$756
Westminster Helps are used; Catechism
is taught ; and Teachers' meetings are held.
BENEFICENCE.
Home Field :
Home Missions, . . $1,668
Education,
136
Publication of Christian Literature, 513
Church Erection,
116
Relief of Disabled Ministers, .
128
Missions to Freedmen,'
760
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Sustentation of Feeble Churches, 48
Aid for Colleges,
100
Miscellaneous Objects, · 3,482
Total for Home Field, 6,951
Foreign Field :
Total for Foreign Field, . 4,830
Total Beneficence, $11,781
CONGREGATIONAL.
Assessment for General Assembly, &c., $52 Support of Church services and pay- ments on Manse, 18,010
Total Contributions and Support, $29,843
A SUNDAY IN THE FIRST CHURCH. BETWEEN 1800 AND 1825.
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HISTORICAL SERMON BY THE PASTOR, PREACHED 13TH APRIL 1884. (Continued.) .
likely to explode,-nobody knows when. But the old " two-branch candle sticks " ar stil in place, at "each window below, two for the desk in front of the pulpit, and one for each pillar." Last and best of all the objects in the Meeting house, take a real- izing view of the pulpit; the pride of the congregation and the "great admiration of travelers from abroad." This, too, is new ; the old one, probably broht from the original Meeting house, having bin uzd in this til 1818, and then givn to the neighbor- ing Church at New Foundland. The splen- did work of art upon which we now gaze was bilt by Joseph Cutler, at a cost of $224.74. It is a box with high sides, having three mahogany panels archt outward in front, and is reacht by winding stairs, for the platform rests on the top of pillars nine or ten feet abov the Meeting house floor. Overhed hangs the larj and shel-like sound- ing board .*
It has takn les time to see all these things than to describe them, and the first hym is not finisht when we ar startled by a com- motion : the singing sudnly stops, every- body is looking, sum ar hastening, towards one particular pew. ¿ It is that of Miss O.,
who thankt elder M. for bracing the door open. She has bin gasping with the heat ever since she enterd, and now her fears ar realizd; she lies in a ded faint. Two or three sympathizers carry her to the breezy porch. and then return with rathful faces, determined to put out the fires in the sin- ful stoves; when the discovery is made that ther has not bin a spark of fire in them ; the temperature is down to freezing ; and it was nuthing but prejudice and imagina- tion that sent Miss O. off in her faint.
After quiet is restored, the minister rises to giv out the notices. He is a man of sliht bild, rather under than over the average hight, but looking larjer than he really is by reason of the flowing blak silk gown he wears,-a gift from the ladies of the congre- gation. His face and manner at once show spritual unction and win unusual regard even from strangers .* He reads the folo- ing :
(1). It is my painful duty to inform the congregation, that Mr. H., agenst whom ther hav bin reports in circulation for sum time, charging him with gross dishonesty, is after all not a member of this Church, as appears from his own assertion when cited before the Session, and upon an examina- tion of the Sessional Records. " After sum deliberation, the Session Resolved that they hav no authority to proceed in this business, and therefore that it be dismissed. Resolved further, that inasmuch as Mr. H. has for many years been looked upon as a member of this Church, entitled to its privileges and subject to its discipline, and in view of the Church and of the world, the Session are responsible for their faithful- ness to him as a member, Therefore they feel bound, in justice to themselves and to the cause of religion, to make a full and candid statement of his case to the Church ; that it may be known that we are not re- sponsible."
(2). A meeting for special prayer, insti- tuted by the Session, wil be held at Jona- than Ford's, Tuesday next at 2 o'clok in the afternoon ; in which the ministers and Churches of Hanover and South Hanover hav bin invited to join, as the place is con- tiguous to those congregations.
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. "Dr. Wm. A. McDowell, Pastor from 1814 to 1823. The ouly record of a gown is one given to the elder Dr. Richards.
"The remains may now be seen in the loft of the steepl, whither the pulpit was removed about 1860, to giv place to a more modern and much cheaper desk, which in its turn gave way to the present one about 1870,
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(3). A meeting wil be held at John Mills' this evening at erly candl liht.
(4). I wil make my quarterly visitation on Watnung (Morris) Plains, Thursday next; and in the evening a meeting for special prayer wil be held at Mr. Turner's, when children may be presented for bap- tism. [None this morning ; hardly a Sun- day without infant Baptisms in Dr. Johnes' pastorate of fifty years ; he baptized 2,800 and more.]
(5). The Trustees hav voted that the money collected last Sabbath be applied to the support of missionaries on the frontiers.
(6). The foloing resolutions hav bin adopted by the Session : Whereas it is the duty of the Session to assist the Pastor in catechising and instructing the children, resolved, That, in addition to the stated catechetical instruction givn by the pastor, the Session wil catechise the children in the several districts of the congregation at least twice a year ; and for the accomplish- ment of this important object, that they be classified in the foloing manner, Viz. Messrs. Vail, Cutler -and Youngs be one class to catechise the children in the district on Watnung plain, at Littleton, and near Demas Ford's ; That Z. Freeman, Mr. Pier- son, and Mr. D. Lindsley be one class to catechise the children in Green Village, Mulbery and New Vernon districts : That Mr. S. Freeman and Halsey be one class to catechise the children in the district near Jacob Goble's in Jockey Hollow and near Mr. Vincent Guering's : That Messrs. John- son and Mills be one class to catechise the children in Morristown. Resolved, That the above classes attend to the catechising of the children in their respectiv districts, in the months of March and October ; and, if providentially prevented, as soon there- after as Providence permits." [This is a measure of Dr. Fisher's pastorate, adopted a few years before the Sunday-school origi- nated.]
(7). The Rev. Samuel Whelpley has pre- sented a certificate of membership and or- dination in the Baptist denomination, and after examination by the Session he has bin received and wil enter into covenant with this Church Sabbath next.
:(8). The foloing persons appeard before the Session Thursday last, desiring to be
receivd to the full communion of the Church. After conversing with them indi- vidually, and being satisfied with their nolej, the evidence of their piety, and their views in desiring to cum to the holy ordi- nance of the Supper, The Session agreed to propound them to the congregation ; and they wil be publicly receivd to full commu- nion Sabbath next, unles sufficient reason to the contrary shal be made known to the Session in the meantime : Silas Johnson, Abigail, widow of Joseph Prudden ; Amos, son of Joseph Prudden, deceased ; Deborah Tuttle, widow ; and Anna, wife of Silas By- ram. [This is an innovation. No examin- ations by Session til 1791. Only 38 adults Baptized by Dr. Johnes, and only 3 of these on Sunday ; the 400 and odd admitted to communion in first 50 years wer granted the privilege, in virtue of their baptism in infancy, upon his approval. Propounding candidates as above appears only in records of Dr. McDowell's pastorate.]
(9). The holy ordinance of the Lord's Supper wil be administerd Sabbath next, and the Preparatory Lecture wil be held in the Meeting house Friday afternoon at 2 o'clok. [Another innovation. Previously there had bin 6 communions every year from 1743 down : the Ist Sunday in Jan. and Ist of every alternate month. After 1817 only 4 a year wer observd, falling on the Ist Sun- day in each quarter : this continued until after Sept., 1858, in the pastorate of Dr. Irv- ing ; when the present custom began, which gives 6 a year, on the Ist Sunday in Feb. and ist of every alternate month.]
(10). No person professing to belong to any sister church, can be admitted to occa- sional communion in this Church, for more than one year, without producing a certifi- cat of regular standing in the Church to which such person professedly belongs: [This last notice marks an innovation of 1808, and seems to hav bin red annually for nearly twenty-five years. While its aim is good, it is one to be souht by persuasion and not by command, to be decided by the con- science of the communicant, not by any ec- clesiastical authority in this off-hand man- ner. Ther is no such rule in force here to- day; ther never has bin any warrant in the constitution of our Church for such a rule; (To be continued.)
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MORRISTOWN, N. J. " THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN FOR THE GENERATION TO COME."-Psalms 102 : 18.
VOLUME V.
JUNE, 1885. NUMBER 30.
[Printed with the Approval of the Session. 1
THE RECORD
Is published monthly ; terms $1.00 a year, in advance. Single numbers for any month, 10 cents each.
Subscriptions should be made to Mr. James R. Voorhees.
Matters pertaining to the publication should be addressed to the
EDITOR OF THE RECORD.
Entered at the Post Office at Morristown, N. J., as second class matter.
SUPPLEMENT.
The Supplement for this month completes the Minutes of the Trustees and Parish for the pastorate of Mr. French ; covers all the Minutes for the period of the vacancy that followed; and brings the Minutes of the Session during Mr. Green's pastorate down to Nov. 7, 1878.
CALENDAR FOR JUNE.
4. Thursday : Prayer Service, 7:45 P. M.
5. Friday : Preparatory Service, 3:30 P. M. Baptism of Infants.
7. Sunday : Communion. Collection for Missions among Freedmen.
11. Thursday : " Indifference to Distress," Matt. xxV. 42, 48-Missions in Africa.
14. Sunday : Children's Day and Anni- versary.
18. Thursday : "The Great Change," II. Cor. v. 17.
24. Wednesday: Session Meeting, 7:30 P. M.
25. Thursday : " How to hear the Word," Heb. iv. 2.
EVERY WEEK,
Sunday : Church Services, 10:30 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. School of the Church, 3 P. | English version of whole Bible, but made
M. Young People's prayer meeting, 6.45 P. M.
Tuesday : Pastor at home afternoon and evening.
Thursday : Young Men's prayer meeting,
7:15 P. M. Church Mid-week service of Prayer, 7:45 P. M.
Saturday : Bible-class and Teacher's meet- ing, led by the Rev. Dr. Erdman, 4 P. M.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONS.
The regular meeting of the Home Miss'y Society will be held in the Chapel on the afternoon of Monday, June 8th, at 4 o'clock.
It is pleasant to see the increasing inter- est in this Society manifested in various ways, especially by increased contributions, thus enabling its work to be more extended and efficient.
NOTEWORTHY VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH.
CAEDMON, monk of Whitby, made met- rical parafrases of historical portions about 680.
VENERABLE BEDE (672-735) completed a translation (some say a commentary only,) of St. John's Gospel on the day of his deth, May 26, 735.
ALFRED THE GREAT (849-901) prefixt a version of the Ten Commandments to his Code of Laws : and began, but did not live to finish, a version of the Psalms.
THE ORMULUM, by Orme, or Ormin, a parafrase of the Gospels and Acts, in the latter half of 12th century.
JOHN WICLIF (1 324-1384) laid the founda- tion of liberty of conscience, by appealing to the Bible as the sole standard of truth, and began the Reformation in England, 1360. Translated Apocalypse, 1356; com- pleted N. T., 1380 ; and O. T., 1384. First from the Latin. Price of a copy equivalent to about 200 dollars in our money ; yet very many sold, at least 170 being still in exist- encs.
(Important connecting events : Invention
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of Printing with cast metal types, 1452 ; Re- vival of Learning, on dispersion of Greek refugees thru-out Europe, after capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453 ; and beginning of Luther's Reformation in Ger- many, 1517.)
WM. TYNDALE (1484-1536). the father of the Bible in present use, strangld and burnt at the stake, by order of Henry VIII., near Brussels, Oct. 6, 1536. Publisht, at various places in Europe, translations of Matt. and Mark, 1524 ; of complete N. T., 1525 or 6 ; of Pentateuch, 1531; and before deth had translated O. T. as far as II Chron., with Book of Jonah. First printed portions of Bible in English and first versions made from the original Hebrew and Greek. By order of Henry and Cardinal Wolsey copies, and some who possest them, wer burnt when found in England.
MILES COVERDALE, in 1535, publisht first version of whole Bible, using Tyndale's work as far as printed, and, for the remainder, translating from Luther's and other recent versions : dedicated to Henry VIII., and freely admitted into England.
THOMAS MATTHEWS, pseudonym of John Rogers, a friend and assistant of Tyndale, martyrd in 1555, under Mary. Publisht re- vision of Tyndale's and Coverdale's work in 1537, the first complete publication of Tyn- dale's translation, having on title-page, " set forth by the King's most gracious licence." A copy ordered to be placed in every parish Church.
GREAT BIBLE, so called from large size of book, sometimes called Cranmer's Bible ; edited by Coverdale at the direction of the government, on the basis of the Matthew's version. Source of Psalter in present Book of Common Prayer. First version to print, in different type,;words needed for English sense, but not found in the originals.
GENEVAN BIBLE, undertaken by English exiles at Geneva, Wm. Whittingham (brother-in-law of John Calvin), being chief editor ; with Tyndale's work as its basis. N. T. publisht June 10, 1557, and whole Bible in 1560. The best version with the exception of King James', and for more than half a century continued to dispute with latter the right to popular favor. First version in size small enuf to meet the want of a family Bible, to be printed in Roman type
insted of the usual black letter, and to hav the chapters divided into verses. Sometimes called the Breeches Bible, because of the word " breeches" instead of "aprons" in Gen. iii. 7. Puritan and republican tone of marginal comments made it offensiv in cer- tain quarters.
BISHOPS' BIBLE, also known as Parker's Bible, published in 1568, and so called because Archbishop Parker engaged 15 learned men, 8 of whom wer Bishops, to prepare the work. A revision of the Great Bible. Disappointed expectations as to scholarship, and never came into general favor. By appointment of King James made basis of version now in use.
CATHOLIC BIBLE: N. T. publisht at Rheims in 1528; O. T., at Douay in 1609. Translated from the Latin, in some instances so blindly as to be unintelligible ; but has many felicitous words and expressions, some of which wer adopted into King James' version.
KING JAMES' BIBLE, first publisht in 1611 ; our present version. Undertaken in 1604, on the informal order of James I., by 47 emi- nent scholars, divided into 6 classes, two sitting at Westminister, two at Oxford, and twoat Cambridge ; with oversight by " three or four most ancient and grave divines not employd in translating," and finally revisd by two delegates from each class and six others. It was never formally or truly " Au- thorized ;" but gradually won its way to general favor. Aside from the Bishops' Bible, of the previous versions in English, "that of Geneva most influenct the render- ings of our Bible, and that of Rheims and Douay the vocabulary." Changes in spelling, punctuation, italics, marginal readings and references hav been made from time to time ; but otherwise the Bible in common use to-day is the same as that publisht in 16II.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN REVISION, now completed, has for its object "to adapt King James' version to the present state of the English language, without changing the idiom and vocabulary, and to the present standard of Biblical scholarship, which has made very great advances since 1611." It originated in the Convocation of Canterbury, May 6, 1870. The American. Committee was organized in 1871, by invi-
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tation and approval of the British Revisers. The two committees have numbered 101 names. In Jan. 1879, ther wer 79 active members, 52 in England and 27 in America. It is the first "inter-national and inter-domi- national effort in the history of the transla- tion of the Bible." N. T. publisht 1881 ; O. T., 21 May 1885.
NOTES OF THE PAST.
SUPPLIED BY WILLIAM KELBY, ESQ., OF THE NEW YORK HIST. SOC.
THESE ARE TO GIVE NOTICE .- That on the third Wednesday of May next there will be Sold at publick Vendue to the high- est Bidder, the House and Plantation of John Hayward situate in Whippany, now called Hanover in the Province of New Jersey. The Conditions of Sale are to pay one third Part at the Time of making the Deed of Conveyance and the two thirds of the consideration Money, to give good Se- curity to Jonathan Crane & Nathaniel Whee- ler of Newark and John Haywood of Han- over. The Premises to be put up to Sale being about two hundred Acres of wood- land part thereof cleared, and about one hundred Acres of rich Meadow, ditched and drained, most part thereof now in English Grass for mowing, and made fit for Corn, Hemp Flax and other Things with a good bearing Orchard, Dwelling-House and Barn, and other improvements. Whoever are in- clined to purchase the same, may repair to the said Crane, Wheeler or Hayward, and be further informed of the Premisses and of the Clearness of the Title.
The New- York Gazette, April 3, 1732. New Jersey and County of Hunterdon, in Hanover Township, May 1, 1732.
you (pointing to some Horses) he said, such would sell down in Maryland for 14 or 15 Pounds a piece, and that at this Season of the year they were plenty in the Woods, being turned out to get Flesh against ploughing time; and that he would take them, and go back of the Inhabitants to Maryland, to sell them ; and if they did not sell amongst the English, he would sell them to the Indians, and there they would sell for Skins at a better Value. And that many new Plantations were settling to- wards the Head of the Potowmack River, where a great Number of Negroes was to be had, Ten or a Dozen at a Time, and take them back to the French Indian Traders to sell them. And that he would assure any one that would join with him in this Pro- ject, more than One Hundred Pounds in Three Months time; and that it should be so nicely wrought (or carried on) that none should be suspected, of doing any wrong ; And he also proposed to take this Depo- nent, as a Partner in this wicked Design who absolutely refused. And this Depo- nent further saith, That the said Burcham and Fitzrandolph, are absent from their Wives and Children, and suspected to have been persuaded to undertake the above said Project with the said Hillyard, and fur- ther saith not.
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