The Jersey City news., 1889-08-26
HOBOKEN P. E. CHURCHES.
MORE FIGURES FROM THE LAST
DIOCESAN JOURNAL.
They Are All Shown to BE in Prosperous
Condition-The Attendance at Them,
and Their Receipts and Expendi-


They Are All Shown to Be in Prosperous
Condition-The Attendance at Them,
and Their Receipts and Expendi-
lures.
Space could not permit the publication
in yesterdays SUNDAY MORNING NEWS of
the reports of the Hoboken churches sub
mitted at the late Newark Episcopal Con,
vention. and they are given today. The
first of the reports in the Diocesan jour
nal" is that of the
CHURCH OF THE HOLY INN0CENTS.
THE REV. G. H. MoFFETT, RECTOR.
The Rev. J. W. Williams and the Rev. e. N.
Webber assistant priests.
Baptisms: infants, 10; adults, 6; total,
76 confirmed, So; marriages, 9; burials,
81; communicates: number last reported,
287; received from other Parishes. s; ad-
ded by confirmation, 50; otherwise, q;
death, 6; otherwie, 16; total loss, SO; MUM
Der who have communicated during
the last year at least once, 32l !;
public services Sundays, 299: Holy
Days, III; other days, $40; total, 1,4l9;
Holy Communion: public, 507 private, .;
Sunday school: officers and teachers, "a;
scholars, 375; public catechisings: num-
Der of times, rs; Bible classes: teachers,
2; members, 16 Parish school: teachers,
2; scholars, 58; other Parish agencies, viz. !;
Mothers Meeting, teachers, 5; members,
30; Sewing school, teachers, IA; mem
bers, III; Guilds: Iron Cross (for men
and boys), Girls Friendly, Holy Child, S.
Dorcas, S. Raphael; Drum and Fife
Corps; Church: number of sittings, 300;
number of free sittings, all; school build
ings, L; Sisters house, l; Clergy
house, l.
REsoURcEs-Of Offertory at Holy Com
munion, $391.00; collections in church,
s., 1910; subscriptions, etc.. 81, 46O. Is;
Christ Hospital, S7,1S1.54; total, $40, $50. 48.
Expenditures Aims for chari-
table purposes, S342.42: Sunday school,
1856. SO; repairs and improvements, $94s. 81;
current expenses, 81, ,654. 81; other objects
within the parish, viz: for Mothers
Meeting, S14523; for Sewing school,
1896; for Parish school, $l56.99; for
So, 1899. Diocesan: Convention expenses,
5000; Diocesan Missions, gem
eral, 5000; special, $500; total
S55. 90: Christ Hospital, Jersey
City, building fund, S7,17o 76; Christ
Hospital, current expenses, S72,44; for
Bishops European visit. $50; for Bishops
Fund, $50; for Arthur's Home, Summit,
General: Missions, foreign (Wu Chang,
China), S11693; colored people in the
South, $40; Jews, sa.76; American Church
Building Fund, $40; other objects without
the Diocese, viz: for House of Mercy, New
York, ,S11. So; for deaf mutes, 5000; for special
objects, 500; for S. Mary's, Kansas City,
$40; for Orphanage, South Amboy N. j.,
$40; for S. Martha's Home, New York. $40;
total for general objects, $2S7.57. Sum-
mary:-For Parochial objects, SO, ,1399 80;
for Diocesan objects, 81, ,39S.20; for general
objects, s2S7.57; total OF offerings, $l0,-
1926. rs.
The All Saints Sisters of the Poor have
charge of Holy Innocents' Mission house;
they visit in the Parish, have charge OF
Girls Guilds, and Parish-school, ETC. The
Trustees during the past year have built
Clergy house on the Church grounds.
Two beds in Christ Horpital have
been endowed by members of the
congregation, the right Of nomination
to be in the hands of the Rector and
Trustees, one in the mems ward, to be
known as "Holy Innocents Bed"; the
other in the Daisy Ward, to be known as
"Holy Innocents' Memorial Bed" in
memory of the departed little ones, whose
families have been members of the Par
teh