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REV. J. SIDNEY GOULD PREACHES HISTORICAL FAREWEUSERMONTOFREEEPORTCONGREGATION
Presbyterian Minister Declares Pul¬ pit Vacant At Coadwioo of Evening Services on Easter Son- day — Remarkable Growth of Giarch—Warns Against Over Conservatism
Freeport, .March 29,—.At Ihe end of the everting service at the Presbyterl'in Church on Easter Sunday night, the pastor .1, Sidney fJotild declared the pulpit vjirnnt and closed his loUK p'l.s torate wilh the church, '
He read the hlHtory of thf! churcti since Its Inception S2 years ago which history contains much that is of In-1 ter«st to Freaitort In Kcnerul.
The Kolng of J. Sidney Could will be a grent loss to fill of his muny friends; who have admired him for hi.t fr.ink ness, and hl.s ab«olBte sincerity. The history follows: !
RlKhtytwo yearn :igo In April, in the sehofil-house that Htood about wh4'r<' .Smith and Redill'.s drug store now stands the life of the Presbyterian church of Fn'eport ix-gan. Thero was no village organization hi^re th.'n. There were a very few stores, a s.iloon and that was about all in what h.is since grown to be the most potnilous vlllajre on th<' l.vlnnd. Down alonK the creek were .se.-ittercil the liotnes jimi fish houses of a few (Ishermen, .iml liack •from tho creek, spreading out in fan shape townrd the north^vere the well tilled aerijH of pionixToiis farmers.
There livi'il in llimpstead a doctor whose fir.ictiie extended Into this neighborhood. He wiis an earnest Cliilsti.'in man and an active mi'mlirr of the Presbyterian Church of HeniP' stead. Ah he visited this nelKhborhoml he became seriously concerned because no rellRlou.s Hervlces were held heri' and the life of the iielKltborhood .<ihoweiI It. On the oi'caslon of the celelW.TIion of the twentyflflli anniversaiy of the organization of thi' church in 1875 he wrote as follows.
"I have lived In this town for half a century and have been iicnU'iinted with every part of It and [ do not know that In uny other ivirt of the town there- wa.s so much IndirfereiU'o to the Sabbath and to leliRion Kcnerally ns there w.is '¦-' In Raynor South (That was the name then Riven to this nelKhhorhood). He further says "I was often there on th"
8»thfihth and many would be follnwiiiK
their oceuiiations as on other days"*'* This state of th" eommtinity Rave the Kood doctor much concern and he began laying plana to do something.
Th'iro was at the Hempstead cliut'trh a new minister. Rc^: Sylvester Wtxid- bridge who In Dr. D.'ivld.son's estima¬ tion was Just the man to fit Into his plan for starting services here. J le tells us that he npproaehotf him anil found him willing. The good doctor made the .-irranKement necessary, the appointing of the meeting, and se<'ur- Ing of a place to meet, and spreadiiiK the notices. ,\n(l when Sunday cnnie he brought the minister down and a.sslsted In the service by leading the singing.
The rerieptlon of Ijlie effort was very gratifying, for he tells ns that Iwii-e as many people came as could get into the small schuol house. Thus the move¬ ment began which has resulted In the development of the present Presbyter¬ ian chureli of Freeport.
These schoolhoii.se services continued to hold the interest ot the neighbor¬ hood to so Brt>ut a degree that it be¬ came necessary to secure a larger place of meeting. Anc} as there was no larger place to be .secured they determined to
Chnrcb That Once Moved to Avoid Unpleasant Surroundings Now a Powerful Influence iu Com¬ munity—Those Who Sf^d By P.emembered in the Review of Events
RKV. .1. SIDNKY (;0I l,l>
Who Retired as P.'ii^tor of (lie Froeport
Presh.>leriaii t'hurcli. IjihI Sunday
ter .Susan beeam" thf wife of fjeorge ¦W', Bergi-n of whose line there remains to my kmiwledgc. .Mrs. Fr»>cl K. Story, Mr.s. friaries ,\I. Hart. .Mrs. filadys Remsi'ii. and .Miss Klizabeth Rider, lie- sides .Mrs. t'l.-iris P.crg. ii by marriagre. It was In memory of .'Vli's. Klizai>eth Carm.'in tri whom u conti.mpor.iry iins- tor. Rev. .lames .M. .VcDoug.il referred .IS ".\ .Mothi'i- In T.sr,'i»'l and not only that but 11 mother of the Fr»'eport Cbiir' h" that her dn'ighter Susan. Mrs. Oeocge VV. 'Bergen gave, the chapel, m There are also the descendants of Mrs. y%ny Smith, wife of William Smith whose three hoi,is Klijah, (liiliert. and X'alentine, all left chihlrcn who linvi- oei'upled l.'irge tiIuccs In the life and activities of this chiireh. So wi' are directly lnterest<d in the names of those who ma'le the luicletis of that which has rinair>' formed iiitu a vi»;or- oiis organism.
The record sliow.i^ thai .John S"iily wa.s the tlrst Klder. He was iiiHlailid on the (lay of organization and llial in the summer of IX.']!!, tin- year following or- ganiz.'itiiin C.ilson Wilktt.s was installed as I'llder, also thai ,/o.l !'<Hit was in¬ stalled In January of 1S,5(). Thus at an earl.v dalo the iliiireh was maiinid ultli three slilislantl:il men as eldirs.
Tliere ari' always stand.iiils of measuring the life of an organization liesidi s by years. Sometimes it is by great events or periods of grent activi¬ ties, .Tiid sometimes by growth and de¬ velopment. Rut a church is usually measured In the terms of its pastoriitrs. Its iKtstors are the leaders of its iictlvl- tii'S, tile one.ii who sharie its life iveii as a tree registers in its rings tin I)eriods of its growth. So wc shall moi'i''- ly touch the outline of the history of this ehiirch by reviewing thu thirtii'ii jieilods of pastoral caro that havi mnrlted the aiventy-two yi:ir.s of life, Tlie First Tastor The nrst man to-'bo insialled .-i.-i p;is- tor and ministiT was Itiv. l''rankliii .Merrill who was called to tlie i hurtli very soon after ll.i^ organizalimi. He was fresh from Piincoton, and iiboiit ;il years old. His htid been a toii.'iciine way into the tmiiiistry through opiiositimi from his fatlii'i- and ill healtli and i he necessity to earn his way thiou,:;h, cJljl so It was that he was older lh.'>ij the average m.in when he leavs tlio seminary. Ills work was iilwavM cviii golistic. It does not appear that tiny-
neighborhOiMl who formed a body to b«'g!n with. These »rere dltnnlased from thLs church under date of (Jctober Slst 1K7I to tlmt church then forming. So import.mt did Mr. Burr consider the new field that hf later l)ecame the iiasi- tor of tli« new organization.
During his time there were'96 added to the memlM-rship. He was very popu¬ lar with yiiung lovers also nnd no less than 15') couples sought him lo start t lum off properly in married life. His record of ministry lo the bereaved w.is finally as extended. He must Indeed have been ii busy man covering so large a parish in .so helpfpl a way, H«r
has this reward that he livis in the
the w.ills of .Mr. Miller's stpre. The rea-j sraleful memory of many whose recol- sr;>n for moving the nh.-ipel was the dls-1 lections turn'fondly to the form.r days, turbance to worship caused by the too i After him In May 187'! Theodore elo^e proximity to a diHOrd<'rly public , Eurnham was Installed pastor and con- house. To day we woujd make the linueft until Oi tober 187X. It was dur- houso'movi' but then it was cjisier it' ing his time th.it the chiirih celebrated move the church than to suppress such It's 2.1111 anniversary of organization. n. place. i We are ehiefly Interested In the re.ord
There seems to be nothing recorded! of the program of th.'it occasion be- of the Hhort pastorate of I'ey. H. R. e.iuse of one name that we sif proml- Purr beyonit that it iH-gail in IH.1.1 and nent in the committee th:it planned and endetl in IMG.";. . carried out the affair. It Is that of .Mrs.
lie witH followed by Rev. Jami'S -Me-1 Elijah Smith who s<'rved as the chair- Doiigal who .served the chinch from ' man of the supi>er committee. Hers is IRr.r. to ist!'.'. In his sketch of his pas- the only nami' except that of D. Wesley torate he tells us th.it when he came Pine who Is now living in the^ vllIaBC to 111.' fleld^"The ehiirch was in a feeble! that ajipears in connection with that si.'iti'. not withst.inding th'ii it had event that occurred full forty-six yeal¦^ groVMi sreailily from the Inginning. The ago. It demonslrates how in Cod's ser m-mli'-rship niimb"ri'<l twenty-eight or! vie om- may rejoice in th.:> gr.ace and thirt.v. a laige jiortimi of whom were strength that is extended from year.
ditionn to the ihurch show th'- faithful-, little re«<ponfl<\ This may be due to tht
ness with which his i>er»onal work was rarrle<l on. The place he held in the life of various orKanizatlitns in the vil¬ lage b«-ars eloquent witness to his wd-
deadenlng effeei of the community life that was deacrll>ed by one of the earlier p.t8tors. quoted at length in this article. There has never been a deep sfilritual
come among the men regardless of race i a-ivakening recordeil in the .• eventy-two or cre<sh It waB indeed a day ot gloom ! years of the church's life. No minister for the « hurch snJ village when he' or missionary has ever gone nut from unexpectedly to his early | th*- church or congregation. Its mis-
came
death. : I slonary interest if gage<t by Its gifts
During his time the additions to the [ has been very small. membershlT> of the i hurch was truly ' During the last two years there his remarkable. During the five years thero, heen some increase in the gifts but not was a total of l'l!5 brought Into com-' i" comoarl.son to the wealth and ability munion. Of this numlKr far over half/of the memlx-is. It Is reluetant to make were by examin.'ition or upon profcs-1 the adjustments in its work that the slon of faith In Chirst. Such a record |'"hnmre frort a country village to a might well be envied by any minister. ¦ Popular suburban village requhi's. Yi t
women. It is strange that he ovcj-lof-ks th" pastorate of Rev. Purr entirely speaking of ".My pri'deeessor Mev. Mer¬ rill." He silso gives a striking picture of th" attitude of the eommiiiilty toward religion in the fullowing wofds:
'"I'hiTe .seetned to be powerful leagtif among th day: thi'y all undrrstood i aeh other: a common sentimint pri'vailed among Hum by whii'li they weri' bound as iii eli.iins lo It t religion alone, lo have nothing to do wilh it.*"* They wer" ri'spi'clfiil, kind, and gciieious to a nelgiilior—would attend him In sick- '"^'jcr ISg.l.
to year throughout a long and eventful life of activity.
Then followed four pastors In suc¬ cession whose work was not strikingly ev(>ntfiil. They each .servi il Coil aieord- : ing to their measure of talent and op- Ri'ciet and ; I'ortunity and remlored a good account nun of th'it "f thi'ir stewardship. Tliey were Rev. Chi'is. I'". Hoyntmi whose .sirvii" eov- er<'d three years. Rev. Chas. P.. t'hapin who was hi'te four years. Rev. fleorge S. nell. who seiv"d four years, ami Rev. .John Hutche.son. wlio.se work was brief, exteniling from February 1S92 f" NoV'
Rfiv. Ciould Takes Charge
Blit a brief interval oeeuired between Mr. Scholey's pastorate and the i)rc»- ent one. The present pastor tRev. J. Sidney riould) rame first on Sunday, Juno 4lh, 1913 to prea<:h as a supidy. He W.IS not a candidate. He was how¬ ever, urged by the elders of the church to allow himself to be jiresinted a.s such. He steadfastly refused, Imt. not tx>lng occupieif on ,Suitdays he entered mto nn agreement to supply the pitltiit IS long as it might he vacant or the irT'iiigement might bo mutually satis¬ factory to both ])arties. It proved to be so for ten months, when the church gave him a call to become Its pastor. .\rrangimenls were made in the call ind aeieptanci' for .'^i p:irt time service. So it was that he was installed Hnaily ; as pastor and servi-il seven yiars. The whole peritxl of scrviie including the ten months ns supply during which; time he .served in every way except ; ofllej.tlly as moiVraior of the session covered nearly eight years. -
Tlirei' very popular organizations of i young people were formed and for S"V ' eral years nourished but I hi- church 1 h.aving no silit:ili|e plai e in wliieh In carry on such work .is they were In¬ terested ill, :iiid the war cominp
with.il the jioople are good heartixl even If not alive to the larger demands
Ol' the C'h. islian religion. If tlw church Is to stem the present tide thai is flow¬ ing stronger here than ever towairt a low form of amusement, bordering on immorality, toward a breakirg down of the moral pnstlge oi the church it must arouse itself from this, 4.>adening conservatism and throw it.selt with an abandonment into tbe purely rclifiious activities that alone sustain morals and buttress th.' i.immunity life.
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thing stirring occurred hcrt' in Free- build one. So the llrst chapel was erect- port but a short blographii'al sketch of
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od and dedicated on the 29th of No bor 1840. It stood near the place wlierc Chubbuck's drug store Is now located. It was iledlculed by proper ceremony Rev. Sylvester Woodbridge preaching the sermon. If we may Judge by the fragment of the sermon that is pre¬ served for us he was a scholorly, earn¬ est, and zealous mlni.ster of Christ whose name should over be preserved and honored as the one whose faithful lobors through years of beginnings laid foundations of tho things that were to stand.
The work continued without organ¬ isation for about ten years before a move was made to organize. It was first proposed by the missionaries? who were laboring here and fulled of action. Soon afterward however, the peopl« moved of their own initiative and the church was duly organized on April 22, 1849. One record states that the church was org.-mi/.i'il with 25 charter metn- ber.s, but the oldest record that we have records bul i:i names as of .\prll 22nd IS'19, That it ni'-iy be preserved In our memories I am going to record here the names of those thlrti>en: John Bedell Fitnnle Bedell Thomas Carman (Rider) Joel Pettlt (Elder) Kllsabeth Seely Joseph Smith (Deacon) Harriot Smith (wife of Joseph) Amy M. Smith (Wife of William Si.;;th) Al)egall Southard Abrlgnll Southard (Wife of deorge
sourii.-ii.i)
Jane Scaly Matilda .Se:,ly
Rebekah WlKiley (Wife of Jesse Whaley)
U would lie of Interest to know Just
.=4l0W many of the present members bear
connection with these good folks who
entered Into the organisation of this
church a* charter mtmbers.
1 know only of the decenilants of I'homaa Carman, whose wife, Elizabeth, jolnett at a later date, and whose daygh-
his work that appears in the tweiil>- flfth aniiiver.s.iry of thfl^chiirch'H or(,'aii- izution. recounts sevcval great revivalK in other lields where iK- ;iftiTward labored. He died at an early age not many years after leaving this Held.
Two things mark the pi'rlod of his work here. One was the otganization of the Roslyn Presbyterian church in which he was Instrumental. He went out to Roslyn even as Rev. Woodbriilge had come down to Freeport from Hemp¬ stead, wilh the result that a church was organized there during his minis¬ try of four years here. The oi her event w.'is the moving of the fii'-t i I Miiel f.-om Its orglnal location acres.-; l;. street '^. the site of Miller's dry jiiinii store. The first chaiH'l walls now foitii i part of
ne.ss, belli him out of dilflcnlties, nml if lie died they wniilil fO to his burial wilh the utmost n-spect, bul religion thry had wi'ighed in a b.ilan found W'lnling'"*** "The Stibliitth wa;; illsreg.'irdfd. usual oceu[iatlons ol the week were carried on by many, tlu' woiiilsman's ax, the sportsman's gun were heartf. some were seen wiirkin.S in their lields otheis <:irting tish along tiic street, while many took Sunday .is the most eonveiiieiH d:iv to go lo ni:iikei. " Present Diiircli Oedicaled It was (hiring his pasiorati' that the present iliurcli building was erected and ill ilica.fed. The cornerstone wa.s laid July L'flth isri9. It W.IS coinjiletcd at a cost nf $ri.''iiiO, and .soon after entirely paid for and dedicated free of debt. On the l:tili day of .May ISt'.O tlie hell was I ling I'oi till 111 St time. The leeord runs :iK follows-
"It wa.s n. f)iiiot and beautiful sriiing morning and all nature seemed to lie 'istenlnfc to the melodious sound.s. They iwnkeni'd peculiar emotionE Of thatiki!- •^ivinc 10 (iod who had put it into our liearts tn build a houi=e for his iiralsc."
We are di.'^nppointed that in reciting the evi>nts of his work fti this village which came daring thOKa.stirrliig day.s ust prei ceding and extending into the .second year ol' the Civil War no men- tlon is made of the strife. He does not tell us of the youn'-r men that went out fo serve the c/iunlry, nor of the shadows that fell across the homes of the villagr- when word cann^ back of those who would return no more. Yet we know that friim the parish, the Sunday School and church Hhere went out seventeen of whom six made the supremo sjicriflce.
Re^-. Robert (!. Hin^alc's work was brief, covering only_ liftn>ti mnnths. His record of it is comprised In these very piodest words, "I am sorry (hat my ministry with them was so short and Ineffective." i\o further pays a higli tribute to the kindness of the people of the church to him and of the ooopcra. tlon tlist the elders ever extended.
He was followed by the one who per¬ haps has had fhc most notable oas- torate of any of those who have tlui.s far served In this field. It was Rev. Marcus Burr whose work extended over nine years and two mmiths. There i.s not so much to tell about his labors because he has had no faithful scribe lo leave a record, but the official records of the session tell a Htory that Is interesting if concise.
First of all he was Instrumental in organizing the Ocean-Side church. ; Tlierf was some of the memter.'- this church who lived over In
We come in our story to the term of pastoral service rcndereil by Rev. Kneelarid P. Ketch;im who was in- j„j1 stalled on March 8 1S9-I and continued until January 1st, I'jas. :ilnnost 14 years. His work will r\'<'V st.ind out (is that covering the longest period and lieing witluti .stable end constructive. While h'- W.IS here the present parson¬ age was built for Ills otc ii|iaucy. He fore tliat time the hoti.se- across the street had served. It was built duriiif liVie of the earliest pastorates and was ,1 inonurnent to the generosity of .Mrs Klizabeth Cirman.' So we read iu tlu record of Rev. McDoiigal conccriilni; the earlier life of the ihurch.
Reverend Ketchani's ininistiy addet a goodly number to the commiinlean membership of the cbtirt b. it w.is li that iH'iiod that Freeport beg'in tc grow In population and the natura accretions to lh«f membership from
taking the young men and diverting the young women into war camp acti-.. Itlcs tliese flouiishilic clubs had tn In abantTiined.
The (hurch siuang at once into ii vigorous supiioit of the country when war was declared and by its camiiaign nnd moral leadershi|i liecanie .in out¬ standing force in tlie community, its blessing rc^aed upon over forty of its young men who entered the service of the couiitiy. On" of the greatest d;,ys It witiiessed was on the occasion of the unveiling of the Honor R(i|l. eonttun ing the names of those who bad at the beginning \ nliinteered and three of whom were to make the supreme sacrl- flee.
The members h.'ive hrcn l:ir(,'ely idded to during ihe present pastorate. Ill all ir.7 h.ive been brought Into com munion. Rut there, has also been .i shifting that has removed a large iiutn- ber so th.il the total ."ctivc membership Is less than seven years ago. Out of the' ¦«hurch has gone the colony to form the
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tnovals from other churches vH-as l.-irg^.Ti""'"*'^'''" Presbyterian church. And In all during the fourteen .years of this «'"' I'O"'-^' "f I'lacing on the Suspend' i,
pastorate 120 were added to the ehureh. Ry many in the chureli this g0(H.I and venerable man w:ts i»*"ltt''»in highist ostecm lo the d:iy of his de;ith Which occiired in October i91S.
It seems hardly iiecess.ii y that I should attempt to cover the work of Rev, Charle.-; H. Scholey who labored In this field from May 19(i8 to the time of his d(<alh in May 191.'), ju.st five full years. And they were full years, full of labors of love ,ind Uindne.ss. I never met this servant of fJod, but from the likenesses I have seen of him :ind from tho accounts 1 have had of him I know he was-a man of rare kindness and tact and aelfeff.icement. TIkt large .id-
Roll Ihe ii'imes- of those whom th- rules of the church require to he so placiHl has been closely followed, Th.- membership now of :iriS active coinmu- nicant members is as IInc .i roll as is possible to show.
Tiie pastor has had a large ministry outside of the church in the community. The calls fin- funerals have been iiu meiotis. while no r'astor exeeiil M'lrcus Burr h'ls had the vearlv grist of Wed¬ dings that has come to bini.
In summarizing the life of the church it may be said that it sliows a lethargic con.sr^vatisin. thai n«ands in the^way of the development of re;il strength. The vital spiritu;il note finds
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