Service Commemorating The One Hundred And Twenty Fifth Anniversary Of The Sound Avenue Congregational Church Of Riverhead New York

Author : Lewis S. Judd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666787224
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book The Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1901-1915 written by Lewis S. Judd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Broadway Tabernacle Church, 1901-1915: A Historical Sketch Commemorative of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Church, October, 1915 The Broadway Tabernacle Church was organized with 79 members in 1840. The Society of the church was in corporated January 4, 1841, and the first pastor, Rev. E. W. Andrews, was installed on January 31. It was the first Congregational church on Manhattan Island, and is one of the oldest in Greater New York. It came into existence as the result of a series of movements following the evangelistic preaching of Rev. Charles G. Finney in 1829 - 1835, and its name was first borne by an organiza tion consisting of a union of the Sixth Free Church, founded in 1836, and the older First Free Church. This organization was disbanded in 1840, following a series of controversies with the Presbytery and General Assem bly, whose authority over them the united Free Churches refused to recognize. The Tabernacle edifice at Broad way and Worth Street, built in 1836 for the new disbanded churches, was offered for sale, and was purchased by David Hale. Mr. Hale gathered a new church out of the membership of the disbanded Free churches, and thus became the real founder of the present Broadway Taber nacle Church, which adopted formally and fully the Con gregational principles and polity, installed Mr. Andrews as its pastor, and leased the Tabernacle from Mr. Hale. A flourishing Sunday School was established, revival services conducted under Rev. E. N. Kirk, and five years later (march 4, 1845) the meeting-house was purchased outright. Meanwhile, however, Mr. Andrews had re signed, and the church had called, and soon after the pur chase had installed as its pastor an energetic young cler gyman from New Haven, Rev. Joseph P. Thompson (april 15. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.