Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-24

noble standard OF its founders-meu and
women of lofty faith, earnest purpose and
rare christian experience, many OF them the
fruits of The powerful REVEALS attending the
preaching of the late Charles G.. Finncy in
central New York more than half u century
ago. To have successfully met the require
ncuts and expectations Of such a church
through twelve eveutful years was no COM
mon achievement. a church, too, than
which, perhaps, no other Of the dcnOmina.
ton IN Illinois is more widespread and far
reaching in its influence through the multi
tude of home and foreign missionaries and
active christian laymcn II has sent out
through the length and breadth Of this land
and To many foreign lands.
It has been the lot Of DR.. THAN to be the
spiritual guide and teacher of hundreds of
students attending Knox college, aad while
generally beloved and respected, 10 no class
has he moro endearcd himself than TO the
young people of his recent charge. An eN-
preston Of the general esteem in which he
is held, was the lmncns congregation which
assembled last sunday to hear his farewell
discourse. Rev. Mr.. THAN breaches IN his
new pulpit to-day.
The training class for christian workers
which was organized last Sunday afternoon,
VIII hold its meetings at 3 o'clock in the fu-
ture, and the place of meeting viii be the
lecture room of the First Congregations
church. All are welcome. Please come
promptly. The leader can not well remain
after 1 O'Clock, and one full hour is very
short for this work, Bring a pencil and note
book with you.
south Tenth Street NJ. Il. church, corner
Tenth and Pierce streets. Childrens hour,
10 a. m; preaching. 800 a. IN. Subject,
"Thc Shepherd and His Flock" Glass
meetings, Il m. Sunday school, 3 y. IN, j. Il.
Cucr superintendent, No evening services
on account of union meeting at Trinity Nj. f..
church. Union revival services at this
church this week, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday afternoon and evening.
AT Hanscom Park NJ. T.. church, corner
Woodwork avenue and ~Twenty-ninth street,
The pastor. Rev, G.. M. Brown, will preach
in the morning at l0:45 about "Thc Way of
the Cross The evening subject will be
"Fidelity to the Gospel" Young peoples
meeting AT 6 ;45 y. ~. subject, promises
Chorus choir in the evening, All are wei
come. Seats free.
First Baptist, A. w. Lamar, pastor.
Preaching at II 30 n. m. and 7;3O =. IN.
Evening subject, TROUBLES of Home Lifc.n
a sermon for women. PRAYER meetings.
Wednesday and Friday evenings. All are
invited.
Rev. Paul Martin, pastor of the Knox
Presbyterian church of this city, has re
signed. The Presbytery will press upon mis-
request for the dissolution OF his pastoral re-
latIons later.
The congregation of the First United
Presbyterian church at Eighteenth and Cali
fornia streets, will erect "A new ana Commo
dious church near the corner of Twenty
second and Grace streets the coming sum-
mer. The present church is incapable of ac-
commodating the congregation and a
majority of the attendants of the church re-
side in the northern portion of the city. This
is the reason that they want the location
near Twenty-second and Grace.
A meeting of the Omaha United Presby-
terry will be held this afternoon at their
church, on the corner of Eighteenth and
California streets, for the purpose of for
warding the formal call to the Rev. j. Nj.
French, of Cleveland, O.. He accepted the
call extended him about a month ago, and is
expected here about April L. MIR. French IS
said to be an elegant, refined and cultured
gentleman, and will be an important ad-
junct to Presbyterian society of the city.
At the First United Presbyterian church
Thursday night the Ladies' Missionary So
ciety gave its annual bazaar and supper.
There were about one hundred and fifty at
PENDANTS. The bazaar and art gallery were
quite unique and amusing. Miss Hattie
Boyden, of Washington city, recited
''Pyamus and Thlsbyn to a delighted and
pleased audience. The recitation was one Of
the features of the entertainment. The pro-
ceeds of the evening went to the church.
In discussing the question of the general
prayer meeting the Midland, the organ of the
United Presbyterian church, states that tho
proposition Is meeting with great approval.
1t believes that the pastors and christians of
Omaha will endorse the scheme to MAKE the
place of meeting IN this city. They will eX-
tend a cheerful welcome to all religious peo-
pie of the west, and will do everything to
make the meeting pleasant and profitable.
The Midland suggests March Il or 10 for the
time of holding it, and urges the appoint
ment of a committee on arrangements I'M
mediately.
Rev. E. A. Fogelstrom, late pastor of the
Swedish Lutheran church, and now man
ager of the Memorial hospital and deacon
css' institute returned from Holdrege, Neb",
last Tuesday, IN which place he had been in
the interests of the new hospital. In a few
days he will leave for Il three months trip in
the east.
Evangelists Potter and Miller have closed
their season of revival meeting at the Arm
DRY. The last service was held there Friday
evening. The crowds have been tremendous
and the evangelists accomplished a remark
able success. Tonight they begin a series
of meeting at the various Methodist churches
in the city. The circuit is as follows: This
morning, afternoon and evening and Monday
| night at Trinity Methodist, Kount2e Place;
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights,
at the Tenth Street Methodist church; Fri
day night at Hanscome Park Methodist
church. The meeting at Hanscom Park
| church will be the farewell of Potter and
Miller. Mir. Potter will leave at once for
Chicago. MIR. Miller will go To Plattsmouth
for a two weeks service. An effort will be
made by the Hanscom park Mcthodists to re-
tain the vocalist IA couple of weeks longer
during their revival, which has been in pro-
gress for the past few weeks. Messrs, Pot
ter aud Miller have been in Omaha three
weeks. They opened at the Davenport
street FIRST NJ. r. church. After being in
that house of worship IA week they
were compelled to seek more commodious
| quarters in order to accommodate the multi
tude that iiocked TO hear them every night.
Accordingly they secured Armory hall, Dur
ing the three weeks they have been holding
the ~revivals there have been about five hun
dred sinners converted. They considered
this fair work, although in Kansas City they
saved l,500 souls, but they were in that place
nine weeks.
Plans for the new First Methodist Episco-
pal church, which will be located at the cor
ner of Twentieth and Davenport streets, have
Just been completed by the architects. Bids
for letting the contract for building the edi-
| flee will be received within three weeks. 1t
is expected that the work of construction
will commence within sixty days time, ana
that the structure will be completed by Jan
uary / next. The committee on plans of the
building is composed of S.. II. Josselyn, J. II.
Mcconnell, Erastus Young, II. M. House and
| l.. O. Jones. The estimated cost of the new
| church is S75, 900. The congregation has al
ready received $50, 900 by subscription with
which to pay for the structure, aside
from the old property on Davenport and Sey-
| enteenth. This is valued at $3.50 OO. 1t is
| believed that the remaining Sl5, 900 required
to build the church will be subscribed by the
time the structure is up. The style of the
| building will be of the Spanish Iiomanesque,
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