Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-02-12
The Churches and sunday Schools.
sERyIcEs. YEsrERpAY.

At the Central Presbyterian Church Rev VIM
NJ. Baker, Of Zanesville, Ohio, preached to large
audiences both morning and eveHing. In the
morning Mr.. Baker preached from the words
" For so an entrance shall be minisered unto
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom Of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I'D Peter
lat chapter, lth verse. The sermon was preached
throughout in manner at once interesting com
prelIensible, and forcible. Mr.. Baker was also
present at the evening prayer meeting when he
made brief but deeply interesting address, full
Of hope and encouragement to all present.
At st, Pauls NJ. Il. Church, the several ser
vices during the day were well attended. The
regular monthly missionary meeting Of the Sun
day School was held in the afternoon, at which
about 300 were raised for the missionary cause
This amount was in excess OF the usual coec-
tions. The Sunday School anniversary Of this
Church will be held on Wednesday evening.
which occasion is expected to be very interest
ing one
At Union NJ. T. Church, there was preaching
both morning and evening, by the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Lightbourn. The attendance, as usual
was worry large. The protracted meetings which
have been held at this church for several weeks
| past, closed on Friday evening last The Tenn
| perance and Anti-Tobacco Society, which meets
the second Sunday Of each month, held a very
interesting meeting yesterday committee re-
Gently appointed to draft all anti tobacco peti-
tion, TO be signed by the scholars Of the Sunday
School, and to be presented to President Grant.
reported the petition ready for the signers. 1t
was then signed by about three hundred OF the
| scholars, and will be presented to the President
| in few days. Interesting addresses were then
made by Messrs. Lightbourn, Hersey, Wells and
! Others
| The Missionary Anniversary Of the Sunday
| Schools OF Asbury NJ L. Church. was held yes
| terday afternoon. The exercises consisted Of
| singing and addresses by Rev. Il. W. Todd and
several others The pastor OF the church was
| presented with very handsome cross ornament
ed with lilies OF the valley by Lily Of the Valley
class Mr.. J. n, Clemmers class presented the r
missionary Offering in a way both peculiar and
| Illustrative. The OiTeEing was made by way OF
! presenting a full rugged bark, the rigging Of
whlcL was literally covered with money. in small
and large notes, while the deck was strewn with
| silver coins representing officers and deck hands,
the whole illustrative of relief bound for the
| foreign missionaries The amount presented by
the different classes to this cause, was $500. .25
Rev. Geo A. Latimer pastor Of Calvary p. L.
Church. preached sermon to the members OF
The Or. o. u. A. NJ, yesterday morning, from
the text " The glory of young men is in their
strength. He described the strength which
yeung men are, or should be possessed Of as OF
four kinds, viz Physical, Intellectual, Moral
and Spiritual. He described each in its turn
illustrating lis remarks with iDtel esting exam.
pies from present and past history, and closed
with an earnest exhortation to the young men tc
strive to cultivate Spiritual strength, without
which all other strength il Of no avail.
The Missionary Anniversary of the Sabbath
School of Mt. Salem VI. E. Church was held yes.
terday afternoon, the Sabbath School OF Riddle.
Chapel joining in the exercises. The occasion
was very interesting one to all concerned.
Miss Fenton presided at the organ and sang
very beautiful solo " Glory to God!" The sing
ing by the schools was an important feature ,anC
was finely done.
Addresses were made by Rev i. NJ. Chatham
OF Scott NJ Z. Church, and Rev. G d. D.Watson, til,
] pastor Of Mt. Salem. The exercises concluded
with the offerings Of the various classes for the
Mission Cause
COLLECTIONS TAKEN Up Yesterday being til,
last day OF the school year, collection wa
taken at Grace Church for the morning and af
ternoon Sabbath schools amounting to about L
> about SlO4O. $1,000 had been previously col
lected.
collection was also taken up from the chill
dren Of the 2nd Baptist Sunday school. amount
ing to slOS for the purpose of purchasing neV
instrument OF music.