The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-20
Sunday Services.

Services will be conducted in Trinity
church tomorrow by the Rev. r. +.
Sweet, the pastor, at 1890 a. m. 12 M.
and 7:30 p. m.
Twentieth street Evangelical Lutheran
church. the Rev. C. A. Mennicke, pastor
Text at 10 m, Phil iv:4-7. "Von der
wahren ChIistenfreude, Christenlehre at
$50 pm.
Gods Keeping Power" (1O:45 n.y.
and The Mourner Blessed q p m,) will
be preached upon, by Mr.. d. L. Clubs
buck, in the First Baptist church. Suns
day school at 9:30 a m. J. w. WEIGH, Su-
perintendent.
(Which is the Best Christmas Plesent?"
will be the subject of the Rev. J. w.
Schwietert, pastor, in the German Meth>
odist Episcopal church at 1890 m.
Preaching at Z p m, Sunday school at
$50 m, J. Ramer, superintendent.
The Rev. j. G. Hutchinson, Professor
of Natural Science in Monmouth College,
will preach in the United Presbyterian
church at at 1915 a. m. and Z D. m
Sunday school at $50 a. m, Hugh War
mock, superintendent. Young folks de-
votional meeting at $50 p m.
Christmas Meditation" Luke ii.19,
| Q045 a. ny and Moral Courage in the
Religious Life, Acts iv: 10, 20. q p m. J
will be the subjects of the Rev. w. S.
Marquis, pastor, in the Broadway Presby-
terrain church. Sunday school at 9:10 a.
M, DR.. j. W Stewart, superintendent
Young peoples meeting at $50 p. m.
"A Centennial Sermon A Brief Res
view of What Methodistism has Ac>
complished During the Hundred Years.
| Q045 a. n.y. and Suffering Versus
Glory" & p. m) will be the subjects of
the Rev. r. G. Pearce, d. D., pastor, in
the First Methodist Episcopal church.
Sunday school at 9:15 a. m. E. W.
Spencer, superintendent. Young pco>
| Piles meeting at 6:15 p III.
The sermon of last Sunday on 'Proph-
ecies Concerning the Jewish People" will
be repeated, by request, by the Rev. S
S. Cryer pastor, in the Central Presby-
terrain church at 1915 a m. "Prophe>
clos Concerning Christianity" viii be his
subje at Z p, IN. Sunday school at 9:3t
a. M, W. H. Hatch, superintendent
Young peoples meeting at p m, sub
ject word, Stand.
RELIGIOUS JOITINGs.
| 1t is thought that Messrs. Moody and
Sankey may visit Chicago in January.
The Methodists are making strenuous
exertions TO raise solid million of dol,
lars for mission work before the close o.
{ this centennial year.
Having been rebukcd by officials of The
, church for attending a circus perfor
nance, Rev. DR. A. w. Lightbourne
: pastor of the Methodist Episcopal churcl
at Easton, Md, has resigned, and goes t(
New York TO become journalist
l., A southern Episcopal bishop was din
ing in Boston recently, when a youns
clergyman wishing TO say something
agreeable asked him how his wife en-
joyed the heat down there" but polite
ly withdrew the question when the bish-
op blandly informed him that she hat
been dead two years.
Mr.. Churchpillar-Do you know wher,
little boys go 10 who play ball on tn
Sabbath day.
Small Boy-Betcher life we do De,
goes over ter HOboken. case de cops nal
!, 'em if dey play here. If yer want ter see
rattlin' good game. come over wild us, AM
be umpire.
When the late bishop of London revis
tied the University chapel at Cambridge
after long absence, he found the same
: verger there whom he remembered in hi
" college days, and said to him. You hav
much to be grateful for" II have, in
deed, my Lord, replied the old man. 'fo
l have heard every sermon that has beer
/ preached in the chapel for fifty yeara
and bless the Lord, | am Christian
still"