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==Misc Help==
* [[Thomas Edgar Chambers]] 1980's-1990's (b. 1922 Belfast, [[Northern Ireland|N.I.]]-'''2021''' Wyckoff, [[New Jersey|N.J.]]) Treasurer
* Ruth Batterson Chambers 1980's-1990's
* Mrs. Frank D'Augustino 1984-1990 (1909-1990)
* Mrs. Mary Graham +1965 (1889-1965)
===1951===
* Bella Aitken 1948-1950 (1855-1951)
** Feb. AA: '''Philadelphia, [[Pennsylvania|PA]]''': "Mrs. Bella Aitken passed into the presence of the Lord on Jan. 13, at the advanced age of 95 years. She was saved in [[Scotland]] over 80 years ago and was one of the first Christians in the Philadelphia Assemblies, with her husband, the late George Aitken. She was in fellowship with the Mascher Street Gospel Hall for many years. Her home was always open to the Lord's servants and for any Christians passing through. The last year and a half of her life was spent at the Home in Longport, [[New Jersey]] where she was very happy with the aged saints there. Mr. Paul Plubell spoke words of comfort at the funeral services."
===1954===
===1963===
* John Mackay +1963 (1874-1963)
** Oct. LOI: "On Aug. 21, just four days before his 89th birthday, John Mackay passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord from the Longport Gospel Hall Home for Aged Christians, Longport, N.J. He had known the Lord for over 70 years. Associated with assemblies all his Christian life, he was known to many who enjoyed the hospitality of his home in Galt, [[Ontario|Ont]]., [[Canada]]. For many years he was an elder in the Galt assembly and served as treasurer. His later years held a great deal of sickness and suffering, but he left a fragrant testimony for patient contentment with the will of God. He is survived by his son, Harold G. Mackay of Greensboro, [[North Carolina|N.C.]]"
===1964===
"To have the title of "labourer" one must earn it and we believe it fitting that it should be applied to our departed brother in his labors for His Lord for many years."
<div style='"text-align: center;'">'''The Labourer's Vision'''</div>
"The words of our Lord in John 4:35,38 remind us that the true labourer "looks on the fields". There is the field of the evangelist as he casts his eyes on the immediate need of the lost and certain districts or a district where he hopes to labour for the Lord of the harvest. We think of some honored names when we think of those who have opened up territory for the Gospel and have seen God's hand with them and a work established to this day.
Still another field opens to our view. In Galatians 2 when Paul and Barnabas went up to Jerusalem to consult the elders of the Assembly there with a difficult question, they were commended to the grace of God by James, Cephas (Peter) and John, who seemed to be pillars, verse 9 and we read in verse 10... "Only they would that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was forward to do," Paul writes. This was a vision which our dear brother Moon envisaged many years ago. He thought of those who, in later years, would be deprived of home and comfort. There were along the Main Line outside of Philadelphia, as well as in New York City district, many girls and women working for the rich in days past. In these magnificent homes and mansions they worked and had their provision but, when through age or being released from service, they would be without a home. Mr. Moon thought of this angle to the problem and, coupled with the desire to help aged widows and others, he thought of this way of meeting a distinct need. The result was the Gospel Hall Home for Aged Christians in Longport, [[New Jersey|N.J.]] here by the seaside. this was the inception, or primary cause, for the Home and with many helpers and the fellowship and godly care of many of the Assemblies gathered to the Name of the Lord, the work has progressed to its present state. One can only thank God for this and our departed brother constantly gave thanks to God for the privilege of being a channel of help thus to God's aged ones."
<div style='"text-align: center;'">'''The Labourer's Call'''</div>"In Matthew 20:8 we read, "So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, 'call the labourers, etc.' The even has come and the labourer is called home. It seems God is calling many of His labourers home in this our day. God does not duplicate His servants and we shall not readily see another like our dear brother, but "God buries His workmen and carries on His work" is a trite statement. The call has been heard and answered and we feel our loss but our resource is God Himself. This our brother Greer brought before us last evening, speaking of Moses and Joshua as Moses was about to lay down the staff of shepherding. Our God is too wise to make mistakes and, though often wondering at His dispensations, we cannot murmur or find fault. He doeth all things well and the trusting heart can safely rest there."
<div style='"text-align: center;'">'''The Labourer's Rest'''</div>"Revelation 14:13 states, "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them." Mr. Moon was a busy executive, with heavy responsibilities, yet he was found at the Home for the Aged from early morning until time to go to the Office in Atlantic City, then upon arriving home, his heart and soul was in the work of the Home and there he was until late hours. Since his retirement some few years ago, he was in constant attendance there and through his efforts, in association with the Directors of the Home, who served with him, things went quite smoothly as they could with so many aged ones, quite a number of them hospitalized cases, dependent upon this leadership. Now he is "at rest". Wonderful to know that there is a "Sabbatismos - Hebrews 4:9" for the people of God. Earth has its trials, difficulties, its oppositions (and our brother had his share of such) but never a ripple shall disturb the eternal quiet of God's presence. It is indeed "a sea of glass": stable, not liable to storm or disturbance, but like God's throne, immovable. The souls of the redeemed thus are in the quiet of heaven, awaiting the clothed state when, at the shout of the Lord, 1 Thess. 4:16, they in association with the living saints, changed and glorified, shall have the resurrection body "fashioned like unto His glorious body." Phil. 3:21
<div style='"text-align: center;'">'''The Labourer's Reward'''</div>"Verily there is a reward for the righteous." Psalm 58:11. And "To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward." Prov. 11:18. There is a principle enunciated in 1 Cor. 3:8... "Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." Thus we can safely leave all to a coming day when the Lord, Himself, at His judgment Seat shall make the proper evaluation and grant the suitable reward. The exercised Christian and labourer is content to leave all until that time and meantime, spending himself, or herself, for the work of the Lord in various fields, the labourer works on and on. Doubtless such is kept looking for the Day Star to arise. It cannot be long now and this should nerve our faint endeavor for Jesus is coming soon. Our beloved brother and his wife gave freely of time, talents, labour to this work unstintingly and it was an incentive to many other of the Lord's people to do the same and many have had a hand in the work of the Home, in its maintenance of its emergencies (such as the late hurricane which did so much damage to the property) and its needs. To all such, doubtless the Lord will say... "Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren (or sisters), ye have done it UNTO ME." Matthew 25:40.
<div style='"text-align: center;'">'''A Closing Word'''</div>"Our dear brother passed away from the hospital section of the home, as have others of the saints who have gone home. His body lay here in this auditorium where the saints have met and where others have lain and he was laid to rest in the same plot as the many others of the saints he loved and worked for willingly in Laurel Memorial Park."
"At the graveside, 1 Cor. 15:44, 58 was read and all were commended to the Lord by that open grave to return to the duties and tasks of the present."
"The two hymns chosen by our dear sister, Mrs. Moon, No. 353 and 356 in our Believers Hymn Book were sung at both services by the congregation, without accompaniment."
* Alice MacLachlan Ramirez +1966 (d. 1966)
** Jan., The Fields: "Mrs. Alice MacLachlan Ramirez passed away on Oct. 28, 1966 at the Longport Home, Longport, [[New Jersey]]. Mrs. Ramirez served the Lord in Argentina from 1939 until illness obliged her to return to the U.S.A. She is survived by her sister, Miss Mildred MacLachlan of the Congo."
* Ada Blanch Shively Slick ?-1966 (b. 1882 Flora, [[Indiana|IN]] - d. 1966 Longport, N.J.)
===1982===
* Elwood A. Zander +1982 (1891-1982) Vice-President
** Jul./Aug. LOI: "Elwood A. Zander, 91, of Boca Raton, [[Florida]], on April 14. He was saved 64 years ago and was put out of his home when he announced to his father that he would be baptized and received into assembly fellowship. Over the years he has served as correspondent for assemblies in Bryn Mawr, [[Pennsylvania]]; Richmond, [[Virginia]]; and Key West, [[Florida]]. For the past ten years he was in fellowship in Boca Raton. He was Vice President of the Gospel Hall Home for the Aged in Longport, [[New Jersey]], and for several years did pioneer work in [[Nevada]]. A son, Ray, is in the Lord's work in [[Florida]]."
* John E. Bottke 1979-1982 (1892-1982)
* Martha McCahon +1983 (d. 1983)
** Dec. LOI: "Martha McCahon, of Longport, [[New Jersey]], on Oct. 2. She was in fellowship at Brookline, [[Massachusetts]], for 60 years before moving to the Longport Christian Home."
===1985===