RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Emanation Emigrants
EMBOLISMUS ("Thrown in" or "Intercalated"): The name of the prayer following the Lord's Prayer in the mass, Libera nos, qucesumus, domine, ab omnibus mails, etc. (" Free us, we beseech thee, O Lord, from all evils," etc.).
EMBURY, PHILIP: The first Methodist preacher in America; b. at Ballygaran near Ruthkeale (16 m. s.w. of Limerick), Ireland, c. Sept. 1, 1728; d. at Camden, Washington Co., N. Y., Aug., 1775. His parents were members of a colony of Palatines who settled in Ireland. He learned the carpenter's trade, was converted under Wesley's preaching in 1752, and began to preach soon afterward. Accompanied by Peter Sweitser, Paul and Barbara Heck, and others, he emigrated to America, landing at New York Aug. 10, 1760. Here he followed his trade and did not begin preaching again till 1766, being moved to do so then by the reproaches of his cousin Barbara Heck. The first services were held in his own house in Burrack Street, now Park Place. In 1768 the meetings were transferred to the famous " rigging loft " in what is now William Street. This was the first Methodist congregation in the United States of which there is record. In 1768, under Embury's direction, the first Methodist church was built on the site of the present John Street church. It was a stone structure forty-two by sixty feet. Embury himself worked on the building as a carpenter, and preached the dedicatory sermon Oct. 30, 1768. After serving the church gratuitously as pastor, trustee, and treasurer, Embury removed to Camden in the spring of 1770, shortly after the arrival in New York of the first missionaries sent out by Wesley. Here he continued to follow his trade during the week and preach every Sunday. At Ashgrove, near Camden, he organized the first Methodist society in what is now the Troy conference. His remains were first interred on a farm near Camden, then at Ashgrove, and finally (1866) in Woodland Cemetery, Cambridge, N. Y., where a monument to him was unveiled by Bishop Simpson in 1873.
Bibliography: N. Bangs, History of the Methodist Episcopal Church, vol. i., New York, 1832; W B. Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit, vii. 1-3, ib. 1861; J. M. Buckley, History of Methodists in the United States, passim, ib. 1896.
EMERTON, EPHRAIM: Unitarian; b. at Salem, Mass., Feb. 18, 1851. He studied at Harvard (B.A., 1871) and the universities of Berlin and Leipsic (Ph.D., 1877), and became instructor in history and German in Harvard University (1876), instructor in history (1878), and (1882) Winn professor of ecclesiastical history. He has written Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages (Boston, 1888); Mediceval Europe, 814-1300 (1894); and Desiderius Erasmus (New York, 1899).
EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS, MISSION WORK AMONG.— I. In Germany: Both the Evangelical and the Roman Catholic Churches in Germany have established missions whose twofold object is to provide emigrants with the means of spiritual improvement in the harbors of departure and arrival, and to protect them against unscrupu-
lous agents and lodging-house keepers on both sides of the ocean. Aid rendered in European ports takes the form of assistance in making purchases, exchange of money, the care of baggage, etc., as well as the furnishing of cards of recommendation to those in charge of the mission work in the cities to which emigrants are going. Before departure religious services are held, communion being administered to those who desire it. Bibles and works of devotion are distributed. Aid in the form of money loans for the purpose of securing passage is invariably refused. In Hamburg a harbor mission was established some time after 1870, and the work in its present form was organized in 1882. It is carried on under the authority of all the German Lutheran Churches, without regard to the internal divisions within the Evangelical Church in the United States. Bremen has a general mission for all Lutheran emigrants and a minor organization for adherents of the Missouri Synod. There are other missions at Stettin, Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.
Work among Roman Catholic emigrants is carried on by the St. Raphael Society, organized in 1868, through the efforts of Peter Paul Cahensly, a merchant of Limburg on the Lahn, where the society has its headquarters. It has obtained wide influence and has its agents among the Roman Catholic clergy and laity in many American seaports. Its organ is the St. Raphaels- Blatt, published at Limburg. It also has an Italian branch the organ of which is L'Emigranto Italiano, published at Treviso. (Theodor Schafer.)
II. In the United States: Provision for the welcome, protection, and guidance of foreigners arriving in the United States, has grown with the growing volume of immigration. At New York, the chief port of entry, more than thirty religious societies and homes are represented at Ellis Island by devoted agents and missionaries who are present on the arrival of every immigrant steamship. The following list of these agencies has been prepared by Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Secretary of the Federation of Churches and Christian Organizations in New York City.
Austrian Society, 170 East Eightieth Street; Bulgarian Society; American Bible Society, Bible House; Clara de Hirsch Home for Immigrant Girls, 375 East Tenth Street; Danish Mission Home, 130 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn; Danish Church, 195 Ninth Street, Brooklyn; German Baptist Home Mission, Brooklyn; German Society, 13 Broadway; Deutsches Lutherisches Emigranten-Haus, 4 State Street; Greek Society, 8 Oak Street; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, 232 East Broadway; Hungarian Home, 3 State Street; Irish Emigrant Society, 51 Chambers Street; Immigrant Girls' Home (Methodist Episcopal Church), 9 State Street; Lutheran Pilger House, 8 State Street; Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary (Irish immigrant girls), 7 State Street; Norsk Lutherescke Church, 216 Twentyseventh Street, Brooklyn; Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue; Protestant Episcopal Church Mission, 29 Vesey Street; Polish Society, 117 Broad Street; Reformed Church of North America, Ellis Island; Swedish Missionary, 24 Greenwich Street; St. Raphael Italian Society, 8-10 Charlton Street; Swedish Baptist Home Missionary, 22 Greenwich Street; Scandinavian Immigrant Home, 22 Greenwich Street; Svenska Lutheran Immigration Hemmett, 5 Water Street; St. Raphael Society, Leo House, 6 State Street; Society for Protection of Italian Immigrants, 17 Pearl Street; American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street; United Hebrew Charities, 356 Second Avenue; Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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