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A Sermon by Park Avenue United Methodist ~- . -" .._.· :· ; ', ~ .. ( EXTRA COPY OF THE I FINAL 1 ''ANrHVERSARY DOORS" A Sermon By Phili_p A. C. Clarke Park Avenue United Methodist Church 106 East 86th Street New York, New York 10028 March 12, 2oa> PRAYER BEFORE THE SERHON "Help us, Lord, to he master of our­ selves that we may become the ser­ vants of others. Take our ltps and speak through them, our minds and think through them, and take our hearts and set them on fire. In the spirit of Christ, we pray. Amen" !'ANNIVERSARY DO<RS 11 INTRODUCTION A professor of homiletics at Boston University's School of The- ologr once offered us a bit of advice on preaching. He said, 11 Always announce a Biblical text at the beginning of your sermon" and then with a twinkle in hi.s eye, he added, "It will give the people something to think about while you're preaching". So, here it is. The text is from the Book of' Revelation, Chapter 3. Verses 20 and 23. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he with Me". "He who has an ear to hear, let him hear." DEVELOPMENT It's good to be wtth you once again! The last time I was here was last September for the Memorial Service for our beloved Lyn­ don Woodside, our Choir Director and Organist for 38 years. It's hard for me to realize that he is no longer over here behind me where he did his \otork so magnifi­ icently for so many years. Such a prodigous talent and such a gracious spirit. And this is where I did so much of my work f'or 113 years ••• right here in this space, in this beautiful pulpit which is a wooden replica of' a stone-cut pul­ pi.t in the Church of San Miniato on a hill across the River Arno just outside of Florence. Hopef'ully, Pastor BUl and his vri:f'e, Judy, trill get to climb that hill and visit the Church of San Miniato on Pastor Bill's forthcoming and well-deserved sabbatical. .Yes, it's a bit of a climb, but Hell worth it! Nearby i_s a copy of Hichaelangelo's David also by him. The hill. ••you can do it. Be sure to send me a postcard or photo of the pulpit. Promise? Another thing about this pulpit. It's supported by (and here I'm quoting) "several great timbers shaped by Philip Embury and used in the original John Street Methodist Church" (which if you know your Methodist history old John Street Church was founded in 176A). Now, I've never seen those "great timbers shaped by Philip Embury", but some things you have to accept on f'aith. Ri.ght? HONORING OUR PAST Happy Anniversary! Number 169 which accordinr, to m,y math Means that the church was founded in the year 1837. This i.s my 45th anniversary service (or birthday) to celebrate with you. Some of those services I remember quite well, especially the 125th in 1962 when Bishop Frederick Buckley Newell graced this pulpi.t with great eloquence. Oh, if only these walls could speak what they wouldn't tell us! Let me work into this sermon by first opening the anniversary door that HONORS OUR PAST and review with you some nf the interesting and helpful highlights of our history. A little book entitled King's Handbook of New York (published in the 1890's) describes the church in thts delightful fashion: ·· "An ancient society, dating its origin :from about the year 1837, when its little congregation of' five meMbers began to meet in a chamber over a rum-selling grocery store. Then :for a time it held its meetings at the house of Gilbert Bates, at 3rd Avenue and Bhth Street; and aften-1ards it bought the church of the Bowery Village and re-erected it. 11 2 We were connected by stagecoach to the "city" several miles to the f ~outh. (Numbers h, ~ and 6 ••• but no express). We celebrate this second Sunday of March each year because it's closest to the date of incorporation which was March the lOth, 1837. Also, close to Harch 17th which gave the church fathers a few extra celebrati.on And 1837 was a good year, for the most part, I think. Tf you're a DemocratJ you'll be pleased to know that was the year tnat 1Aarti.n Van B~ren, a Democrat from a small town u, the Hudson (Kinderhook) was elected the 8th president of our Untted States of which there were 26 states. Or, if you 1re a femini.st, you' 11 -vrant to know that Mount Holyoke Seminary, a college just for women was opened in South Hadley, Massachusetts. If you follow_the "UPS" and ttDCWNS" of Wall Street (and one or two of you do), you' 11 be interested to know that was the year of THE FINANCIAL CRISIS of 1837 (one of several the church survived). If your mind is open to Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution, you'll remember that was the year he published his TREE OF LIFE. And then, too, that was the yeAr that an 18 year old Queen Victoria began her reign of 63 years! So, a lot was going on in 1837. And YES ••• here in the green pasture lands of what then was called York­ ville, a small group of "believers" gathered and with ha:mJI'Ier, nail and prayer, they RE-ERECTED a small church borrowed from the Bmrery. About fifteen years later those same church fathers tore down that wooden building and this time, with brick and mortar and prayer, they built a new structure. The year was 1852 and by now word was getting around town that "Yorkville was a WAY-STATION for migrating Metho­ dists" (another direct quote). rlith the derk clouds of a civil 1rrar gathering over head, the pastor signed up to serve as a chaplain. - In 1862, a ch:tld by the name of Herbert Welch was born and by the turn of the century he was on his way to becoming a Bishop of the Methodist Church, and get this •••Bishop Herbert lr-7elch preached here on a Wednesday night during Lent in 1962 at the young and wonderful age of 100! Thirty years later that modest brick building of the eighteen-fifties was taken down and a new church, one with a STEEPLE, was butlt here on the corner of Park Avenue and A6th Street, next to some noisy railroad tracks that ran uptown and downtown. To be sure, it wasn't called Park Avenue back then, neither the avenue nor the church-. Tha.t came later, but again, quoting from King's HANDBOOK: "In 1884, its present handsome brownstone was dedicated by Bishop 1rlarren. The society has now 600 members and is flourishi.ng NOBLY, under the ministration of the Rev. Ferdinand Iglehart". Pastor Iglehart (number 35) carried on a correspondence with the Police Commissioner of NYC whose name was THEODCRE ROOSEVELT who commended in writing the efforts of the pastor on his personal crusade to close down the saloons of Yorkville! "You're the }'TAN" said Teddy Roosevelt, "One of the fel-T men in "j:.his ci_ty nhose opinion I value!" Moving now from t?e "gay nineties" over to the "roaring twenties", we find that under the leaders~ip of Pastor Peter Weyant (number hO) that that hand­ some brovmstone church with the steeple vras torn down and a llt story apartment house went up on the corner of 86th and Park and the church was moved around the corner and that's where He are today! Th :i.s church was decHca ted for vrorsh ip in January of 1927. I once came across Pastor Peter Weyant's Easter letter to the parish, dated April hth, 1928. Pastor Peter had a penchant for poetic prose and since Easter isn't that far off, let me read parts of it to you. _:· ..-:_...-· __ .: .,~ --- . - - -~ --- -·--· ~ .-:~.. - - ·- -:'- --- ·-·· PARI< AVENUE METHODIST· EPISCOPAL ¢H~RCti PARK AVENUE AND EIGHTY.SIXTH STR~;·: NEW YORK RIW. P. C. WOAKT. PAtnoll - .-·-o.:-7 --.·- fOSS PAliK AVtrNUR' Ta.trttHONR' IIUTTDtlla.D IIIIlS ·-·:..·.:· . ··· .. Dear Parishioner:- ''Make it is secure as yotl.cb." the Roman Gov~or .ad. 'imd we have felt that· he with lips denied what he 1vith heart affirmed; for he had crucified a Goci ·And so the Roman seal which represented all that men then knew of power and atien3tlt·fid r;J4tced upon the -~6~e . '!hi~ dosed the way to Joseph's tob.h.:, · .. """'-.,. ·'·. ..•. _. - - -.· ~ - --.. - - - . -· -·--ThatRo~~~t~a like tliti:"t;itli'\\?hll w~-up6ti:_~~ .. LiUnan h~·when men.,.·.· stand in the presence ol their dead. &nd an roads seem abruptly broken. ~if but .in the ·ID~~- ~-. dawn of-Easter Day. the -htest touch of~el hand was iaii~pon,ihat.~:~~d\;~'tbe_-~~:· ~::-a.Z.t:':::t=:~~:~-.:~:r~~~o ' ' -- -~-----· lean and_:~:..""::It '::Z,;:!;h;"E~~~~~=:~n$'c .. are no ends of roads, no sharp turnings which hide from us IoveJ foiniS; whlch wi '\Yould ever keep in view; no fears, no lurking shadow& The dering and bitteme.. is past. Christ is risen. May Easter Joys be yours. Your Pastor. ~· _-_. The enclosed envelope is for your Easter offering. Your gilt wiD be appreciated .by •· your church. 1929 followed and the Misery of the Great Depression threatened our well being and now, many Hethodists were mi.grating out of Yorkville.
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