The old-market Mission.
The second colony sent out from this church was the
Old-Market Mission, which has now become the the strong and well-organized Hoge-Memorial Church.
This proved to be one of the most successful enterprises of
Dr. Hoge's life.
About twenty years ago he commenced services in the spacious hall over the
Old Market, and it was a success from the first.
The size of the congregation was limited only by the size of the hall; a flourishing Sabbath-school was established, Bible classes, weekly lectures, visitations from house to house, and all the agencies by which the temporal and spiritual good of the people in that part of the city could be advanced were employed.
So large did the work become that
Dr. Hoge found it impossible to continue to preach three times every Sunday, and personally to satisfy the requirements of two congregations, as he wished to do, and in consequence
the Rev. L. B. Turnbull was called as an
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assistant to
Dr. Hoge, his chief charge being the
Old-Market Hall Mission.
No better choice could have been made.
Mr. Turnbull became pastor of the
Old-Market Hall Church, after its organization, and it flourished greatly under his care.
Owing to impaired health, he was compelled to resign his charge, and
Rev. James E. Cook, one of the young ministers who grew up in the Second Presbyterian Church, and who had just completed his theological course, was ordained and installed as pastor of the
Old-Market Hall Church.
