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CHURCH NOTES,


Many New Members Received Yester-
day-Rev. DIR. Smyth-The Foreign |
Missionary Society Meeting-A New |
ChOir-A New Episcopal Church. |
Money Raised-Rosary sunday at the |
Catholic Churches.
The cool bracing October weather yester- |
day was promotive of church attendance and
the churches were we'll filed.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
This church, which is worshipping in the
old Third church, is prospecting, and many
| citizens drop in at the preaching services
| now that they are being held in the large
| audience room, which is one of the finest in
| the city. Yesterday six more new members
| were admitted on confession of faith and
nineteen by letter from other churches. At
the evening service Rev. Mr.. Rodgers, the
pastor, preached an impressive sermon, TAX
| ing for his text Romans. 4th- 9Th.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
Yesterday was day of special interest at
| the First M. E. church, marked and nota-
| BILE change in the choir and music being in
augurated For long period the vocal mu-
sic has been rendered by boy choir, and
this was the first boy choir, according to
| some authorities, ever known in the city.
Lately, however, it was decided to change,
and quartette choir was engaged, consisting
of Mr.. Bonney, tenor, Miss Southworth,
soprano, both of whom formerly sang
at Trinity church, Mr.. Cook, basso,
| and Miss Banker, contIalto. The new
| choir sang for the first time yesterday
| morning and evening and the change is re-
garded great improvement. The general
| verdict of the congregations yesterday was
| one of high satisfaction at the change. The
choir yesterday in addition to the hymns
| mir
Southworth, and Gloria of Buck, by the
quartette, and ''Whate'er My God Ordains
Is Right a composition by Sheppard of this
| city. with duet by Miss Banker and Mr..
Miss Southworth, was heard to great advan-
| tage. Miss Banker, the contralto, was also
| in excellent voice. At the communion SER
| vice in the morning number of new mem
bers were added. In the evening the
| pastor, Rev Dr. Goodsell, preached an able
discourse permeated with strong and elo-
quent appeal. His general subject was
s'Denying Christ" In these times of great
| business strain, or when ambition spurs on
| to reach some glittering prize or goal. Chris
tians may neglect their Christian duties, but
| in SO doing they deny their master. So when
| to gain any worldly object duty is neglected,
| Christ is denied. The pastor was believer
in strong, disinterested, unsullied friendships.
| Even in these days of overweening ambition
| or business pressure there were friendships
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selfish friendship, Christ was the great exam
| pie. He lived for others. He died for 9TH
ers. Even those who deny his divinity OK
| claim that his was the most lofty, the most
| noble and inspiring example, and by far the
| grandest moral force ever exerted upon hu-
| manity.
A NEW EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
| At. St. Paul's yesterday Rev. Mr.. Lines
| made announcement that his appeal to his
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| as their share toward the purchase money
| for lot for the site of the coming new
| Episcopal church had been responded to.
| The sum had been contributed during
the past week. The new Episcopal church
| has been bought and is on the corner of
Howard avenue and Lamberton street, 70 feet
| front on the avenue and about 10 deep. The
| Episcopal mission conducted in the neigh
borhood for two or three years past is grow
| ing and prospecting SO well that church is
to be built for it at an early day on the lot in
| question.
THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth at Center church
Yesterday during the morning
vice announced that he should be
absent next Sunday in attendance
upon the Foreign Missionary society meeting
| to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, and that his
| pulpit would be occupied by Rev. Mr.. Hume.
Mr.. Hume is the young returned missionary
of this city who seeks to retu1n to his mis-
sionary work in India, and over whose case
and that of others there will be highly in
| teresting discussion before the foreign board,
Mr.. Hume having adopted the so-called new
| theology, relative to possible probation IN
| the future life. Rev. DR.. Smyth leaves for
| Des Moines to-day. At the Foreign Mission
airy societys meeting the petition from the
| United church that Mr. Hume be allowed to
| return to missionary labors will come up.
UNITED CHURCH-REv. DR.. MUNGER.
During the past summer many voices have
been heard in the pulpit of the above church.
| 1t is quite safe to say, however. that none
| have been heard with SO much pleasure or
deeper interest than the familiar voice of
| their pastor, in whose family affection the
congregation sincerely sympathize. DR..
Munger yesterday morning took for the
basis of his sermon Acts, i, 6. Lord wilt
thou at this time restore again the kingdom
of Israel?' He commenced by saying that
all knowledge is not desirable. This is not
only SO of many real facts. but refers
also to our own minds, which
may sometimes be in an abnormal and unre
liable condition. There are many things of
course which ought to be and may be safely
known The time alluded to in the text, if
distinctly known, would have destroyed the
spirituality of Christ's kingdom. Christ re-
proved his apostles by saying, ut Is not for
you to know the times or the seasons; this
knowledge belongs to God" He keeps these
| things to himself, and so with many of the
| most important events of our lives. The
veil that hides futurity is woven by the
hand of infinite wisdom. IT'S not SO
much the thing that is done, but the
| spirit in which it is done God Is spirit
and thew that worship him must worship in
spirit and truth. It was the constant effort
Of Christ to raise the thoughts of his follow
| ers above the natural and physical, ''the
| times and the seasons" The church has
made the best progress; not-when it welded
l Al Sc 11x77o Init han
| walked in the path indicated by its head
simplicity, benevolence and charity. In the
| religion of Christ faith and feeling must
predominant Logic and reason must aid and
assist. Instead of asking, where is heaven?
we should ask, what is heaven? Trust is the
most beautiful act of the human mind.
'tThough he slay me yet will I trust him. "
| The congregation joined heartily in singing
"C4od is my own interpreter,
And he will make it plain"
DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH.
The pastor preached yesterday from the
text,
But ye beloved keep yourselves in the love of
Among other things he said: ''In this
passage the emphasis is l think on the word
| keep and implies a responsibility on the
part of each one of us which is ever present.
| Obedience to the divine spirit is the rule by
| which We may keep ourselves in that
| love. I believe that after once yield
| ing ourselves to God his spirit ex-
ercises over us spiritual guardianship and
| guidance and that by his holy spirit setting
| in motion thoughts and motives to which we
yield. Family worship will keep us in that
love. 1t is one of the instruments of God
| given US that we may keep ourselves in his
| love. Faithful attendance on public wor-
ship and the prayer meeting is another. As
| sumo this individual responsibility and faith
fully attend to these duties and you will be
| kept in the love of God" About ten new
members wereRadded to the church, two of
whom were admitted upon confession of
| faith, the others by letter.
| In the evening the pastor repeated, by re-
| quest, the first sermon which he preached in
| the church, from the text "God is love-"
TRINITY M z. CHURCH.
At the service of holy communion at
Trinity M. E. church yesterday morning there
were ffty-three additions to the membership
of the church. Of this number forty-three
| were those whose probationary term had ex-
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