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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
Embezzling Church Monies.


During the past summer a Sunday
School excursion was arranged by the
Sunday School Board of the Centenary
M. E. Church in Newark, of which the
Rev. Warren l.. Hoagland, formerly of
the Lafayette Church, this city, is pastor,
for an excursion to Asbury Park. Milton
w. Hinman was put in charge of the
management of the affair and ne arranged
everything satisfactorily for a superb
days outing. The excursion came off
and was a fine success socially, but the
settling up time always comes after the
pleasure, and when that time arrived it
was found that there was a shortage of
$3.50 in the excursion fund. Mr.. Human
was looked TO as the person who could
best explain where the deficit was and
how it occurred.
1t was found that Mr.. Hinman had APP
propriated the funds of the school in pur-
suit OF personal pleasure. Mr.. Human
did not deny the charge, but he was peni-
tent and seemed to want time to make
good the shortage.
There were Il few members of the
church who were inclined to shield Mr..
Hinman, but the majority wanted to see
Justice melted out at once, and they re-
quested that Mr.. Humans name be
stricken from the roll of membership
whether he paid the shortage or not.
After considerable deliberation, at q
number of meetings, the official board of
the church took action, and on Monday
night, at the regular meeting, the Board
voted to ask Mr.. Human to sign a paper
requesting that his name be stricken from
the roll. This he will probably do if he
has not already.
About the time of the excursion the of
fetal Board also look action on another
case, the one of Benjamin 4. Mesler, of
No. 12S Stone street, whose conduct was
considered by the church board as detri-
and unbecoming in a Christian man.
Mr.. Mesler was at the time u member of
the official board Of the church, and as
that body could not ~countenance his ac-
tions he was asked to withdraw from the
church, which he did verbally, the board
accepting aud acting upon the matter ac-
AnrninClv.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07

James Smith, Jr., Of Newark, and
William /. Dayton, of Trenton, Were
yesterday named by Governor Green as
agents on the part of the State to con-
denim the Sea Girt Camp Ground tract,
so that the State can come into lawful
possession of it. This is in accordance
with a law passed last winter in which
5000 was appropriated for the purpose.
Governor Green has also appointed
Henry i. Butler, of Paterson; William
Burgess, Of the International Pottery.
Trenton; John H. Patterson, State Prison
Keeper; the Rev. Father Fidelis and M.
Weight. Of Trenton, as delegates to the
Prison Congress to be held soon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of August Henry Grunthal. deceased, Anna
Sophia Gruuthal, executrix, August Henry
Grunthal deceased, by order of the Deputy Surro-
gate OF Hudson county, dated october II, 1899. here
by gives notice to the creditors of said decedent to
bring In their debts, demands and claims against
the estate of said decedent, under oath or afir-
nation within nine months from the date of said
order. or they will be for ever barred of any action
therefor against said executric.
ANNA SOPHIA GRUNTHAL.
NOTICE OF sETTLEMENT.-NOTICE is Hereby
IN given that the account of the subscriber. Ad.
''de bonis nom with will annexed Of
John S. futile. deceased, will be audited and stated
by the Surrogate OF the County Of Hudson, and re-
ported for settlement on Saturday, the Fourth day
OF January, 1880.
Dated October 81. A. D. 1889.
JOHN D. A SAUN.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
He Resigned at once.

4 village newspaper, giving an ac'
count of a lecture by q noted lecturer
said briefly and indefinitely that 1t was
"a wonderful flow of oflanguage"-Whlch
seems to have been the idea OF the hear
ers of a certain colored minister, men
toned by an exchange, whose glftS
were rather superficial.
The length of the words he hurleo
ar his hearers was limited only by the
amount of oxygen he could take lnto
his lungs at one effort. This was al
very we'll for q time, but the Churcn
did not seem to prosper, and by and by
a change was decided upon and com
mittee of one was appointed to ask 1ol
the wordy minister's resignation. :,
When the errand had been stated
the preacher Indignantly asked what
the congregation expected for moth
ing. L.,
zent eXpect"-
"Isn's my character away up yam
above procrastination ?"
"No trouble bout dat; but sab, yel
isn't fur enuf cddicated to'-
"Kaint l talk confidently enough tel
suit de most rapashusw
"Dat's it, chile; dat's it; hold rlgh,,
on where Var now. Yo' kin talk and
vo' kin talk, but yo' doan't pint out
yo' can argyfy an yo' kin argyfy, bu'
vo' doan't show wharein."
The resignation was handed in dl'
Youths Companion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
OccupatiOn Gone.

We could scarcely imagine condi'
ton in which Paul would be more
thoroughly out of place than as the
pastor of a modern church, with all
IT'S appliances for cooking, feastlng
social and ethical culture, with its
clubs, its lyceums, its provision for the
flesh and sense. The spiritual success
sion of such a pastor rs Paul could not
readily blend with the spiritual shall
lows of our kitchen-parlor pastorates:
The intense earnestness, the zeal that
was considered beside itself, the gravl-
tv, the serious prayerfulness of ms
ministry, could hardly chime in with
our fun-loving, entertainment,seeElng ne
pietv. Our provisions for the flesh
would be too gross for the spirituality
of the man who had been etherealiz'
ed by the visions of the third heavens
The man who had to keep his body
under by the most abject slavery and
who had to beat it black and blue by
the most self-dedying disciplinary
processes would scarcely consider him
self safe in our churches where there
are so many things to pamper the DO,
DIV. Paul, the preacher, who spep'
all his force in exhorting the young
people to be sober would hardly look
with co1nplacency on all our deYlces u
make character flippant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
False Reports.

We read in Exodus, Chapter xiii
v. l, the following sentences: "Thou
shalt not spread false report" 1
My children, I cannot but again Inn
press upon you the Importance OF our
text: Never spread false report,
Man owes it to his own self-esteem and
character that he never utters a word
or states fact of the veracity OF which
reality he does not possess ample proofs.
1t is with evil reports, which have no
foundation, as it is with counterfeit
money. Every one dislikes counterfeit
money, and yet it cannot be helped
when now and then false coin passes
into our hands against our will. And
similarly is it with false reports. Eve
nv one dislikes them and yet we can
not u-event them now and then, they
each OF ears and pass into our credu-:
lous hearts. -
Be, therefore, very particular In
what you may say and be even more
particular in What you ever write
down. Think before your speak and
without measuring your words ana lay
ing them upon the scales, let them pc
always the frank expression OF your
sober and dear thoughts. And what
ever you write down, read 1t over
twice or three times before you saud IL
away. Then, I am sure, you will TOT
offend any one, but doing what is right
and acting like man of judgment and
feeling you will find friends and well,
wishers everywhere. t'-Es
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
BemOaning The Past.

1t is not unusual to meet people who
are always bcmoaning the past. Theft
are many such who spend more energy
in thinking what they ought to have
done and chiding themselves for moi
having done it, than in thinking what
they ought to do and planning how to
do it.
Life is really too short for this sort OF
thing; there Is too much to be acnleIed
IN the present and in the future to JUS
tifv continuous dwelling OH unimprov-
ed opportunities in the past. 1t Is al
ways in order and in time to turn over
a new leaf to begin again, to make
steppinc-stones of the sins and errors
and mistakes of the past, remembering
them only so much and so long as to
learn how to avoid and overcome them
in the future.
90, if 1 could live my life over
orain.u saws one, show differently l
would act.n But you can't live it over
again. The only thing you can 10 Is
TO live to-day as we'll as you can, to
straighten YOUR lines of action and see
that they all point UPWARD. away from
the wrong, toward the right. Time
spent in mere idle regret is worse than
wasted.
Even Job, that man "divulged
through heaven to all the angels" re-,
fers to the 'sins of his youth. and
begs that they be remembered not
against him. .,.
The atmosphere Of regret is delibitaa--
ting. enervating, asphyxiating. 1t
should be avoided by us as we avoid
malarial atmospheres and those satu-
rated with infection. A great purpose
will lift one out of. regrets, and falling
a great purpose many smaller ones VIII
accomplish the same end: In so,Inh sucn d
world as this there is always enough
affirmative, positive good to be done to
occupy all ones time and thought, all
ones capacity of doing and willing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15

George Washington was inaugurated
first president of the United States in
New York during the session of the
Methodist conference in that place,
and Bishop Ashbury suggested the
propriety of congratulatory address
to the new president. The suggestion
was warmly approved, and the two
bishops, Francis Ashbury and Thomas
Coke, were appointed to prepare and
present the address. The address con-
tanned the following:
ave have received the most CRATE.
full satisfaction from the humble and
entire dependence on the great Cover
nor of the universe which you have
repeatly expressed, acknowledging
Him the source of every blessing and
particularly of the most excellent con-
stitution of these States, which is at
present the admiration of the world,
and may in future become the great
exemplar for imitation, and hence we
enjoy holy expectation that you will
always prove faithful and impartial
patron of genuine vital religion, the
grand end of our creation and present
probationary existence. And we
promise you our fervent prayers to
the throne Of grace, that God AL
mighty may endue you with all the
graces of His Holy Spirit, that he may
enable you to fill your important sIa'
ton to his glory, the good oil mis-
church, the happiness and prosperity
of the United States, and the welfare
of mankind"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
I.nd nc IInNe Pence.

These are the words of Gen. Graut,
written soon after lie was nominated
for President Of the United States in
1865. They are very good and beautiful
words, and well worthy to be sincerely
adopted by every man and woman Ill
every state, city and town, andby every
church and at every tireside in our vast
country from the Atlantic to the Paclf'
ic. But how much wiser and better
it would have been for Gen. Grant
and all the American people, North
and South, to have said, years before
the war, in brave patriotic love with
unyielding perseverance, LET us have
peace" than to say it after the dread,
full war was past and all of its awful
agonies and willful wrongs beyond the
power of prevention. Well, let US all
say now, and teach our children TO
teach their children to say from gener,
alton to generation till the end OF
time, "ZeI as hare peace"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
The Heroes of Apia.

Washington, April 27.-Secretary
Tracy to-day sent long letter 10 Rear
Admiral Kimberly, commanding Inc
United States naval forces on the "a
cific station at Apia, Samoa. After
reviewing at length the official reports
and newspaper accounts OF the dlsas-
ter, and commanding and pralslng the
conduct of the United States ofhcers'
Secretary Tracy says: "ln reply 10
your request and that of Capt. Farqu-
har for a court of inquiry, the depart
ment has to say that it deems such Il
court unnecessary. 1t is satisfied mat
the officers in command of the ships
at Apia did their duty with courage,
fidelity and sound Judgment, and that
they were zealously and loyalty sec
onded by their subordinates; That the
hurricane which caused the destruc-
ton of the vessels and the loss OF SO
many lives was one ofthose visltatlons
of Providence, in the presence OF
which human efforts are of little avail
that the measures actually taken by
yourself and the officers under. you
were all that wisdom and prudence
could dictate, and that it was due TO
these measures that so large proper
ton of the crews was saved, that the
one step which might have averted
the catastrophe, namely to have put to
sea before the storm had developed,
could only have been justified, in view
of the grave responsibilities resting
upon YOU at Samoa, by the certainty
of overwhelming danger to your fleet,
which could not then be foreseen
that YOU rightly decided to remain at
vour post, and that the department,
even in the face of the terrible disaster
which is involved, approves absolutely
your decision, which has set an eNam-
ple to the navy that should never be
forgotten. TO convene Il court OF IN
quiry under these circumstances
would seem to imply il doubt on the
part of the department where no
doubt exists, and instead of ordering
an investigation it tenders to you ana
through YOU to the officers and men OF
your command, its sympathy for the
exposure and hardships you have en-
conntered, and its profound thanks 1oi
the fidelity with which you have per
formed your duties in crisis OF ap'
Dallinn danger"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
RELIGION and Business.

Tt is possible to put into ones COM
ing and going. into ones doing, a glow
of reverence for God, and to make it
evident in every transaction that one
is trying to be obedient to the divine
will. Men may be strictly honest,
true in speech and all that, and yet be
worldly. How ofteD one hears the re-
mark that business is business. Very
true. But business may be more than
business; it may be means OF grace
it may be, and ought to be, a school IN
which the soul grows in gratitude, IN
patience, in faith, in love, and IN al!
the qualities through which a soul
comes into fitness to fellowship, now
and evermore, with the Lord Jesus
Christ. 1t is pitiable sight to see
mau hard and cold in his business life,
as though this were a great section OF
his existence in which there is no pos
sbility of cultivating religious prlncl,
pie and having the grace of God. II
is refreshing sight to see a man ilv'
inc in the world and doing with his
migth what his hand finds to do, ano
vet doing all in this spirit of loyalty &c
the Master.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15

What sort of books and papers are
mothers putting into the hands OF
their little CUES, and teachers into the
hands of their pupils? Dare we take
the responsibility of allowing these
Young minds to drink in some glow
ing account of war and the bravery OF
its heroes and use no counteracting IN
fiuence? We are molding, but what is
the form we are shaping?
A colonel once said 81 felt like
taking down the swords from above
NV fireplace, and hiding them away
forever, when first called upon to eX,
plain to my little girl what they meant
and for what they were used" HoW
many of us are keeping emblems OF
war in our houses, without any eX'
planation to our children of their
dreadful use? Letting them draw
their own conclusion that they must
be something nice and for some goonG1
purpose, or father and mother Wouio
not not care to keep them. The child is
constantly seeing, constantly thlnk'
ing, constantly drawing conclusions
Are we directing it or forgetting 1t?
Love without tenderness is sunlovely
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
untiriOn ut Home.

tt is laughable to see one huhtins
bioh and low for his spectacles, wnlch
has only been showed over ms lore
head Hut it is not laughable TO see
t1Lr;st;ons hunting for what they ca'i
opportunities to honor Coo WIZ .in'.
overlooking such opportunities as ti,eS
carry with them wherever they soi;
A slovenly carpenter was once healu
at a weekly prayer-meeting 10 pray
with great fervency for the spTeaG ol
Chr;stis cause-a cause which he dis-
oraced and hindered in his sphere eve
Tv time he stood ut his workbench
when he had finished his prayer, a
hearty "Amenn came from a serFahl
WHO nut her mistress out OF temper d
%nndFed times day by her careless
ness a clerk who was there, VINO
aItbouph he taugh q class in the mis-
sion school on Sunday was always late
of his employers store on week uays'
Wbisnered "Amen," too, and meant II,
so for as he knew himself. A lady
bearar as she listened, resolved 10
;n;n The church missionary society, ana
{han vent home and found unreasona-
BILE fault with her cook. Ana oIhtar .ar
also felt warned to do something ioi
Christ who never seemed 10 nave
thought that religion-like charltE, oe,
Gins at home. The mechanic VINO j.
Powerful in class-meeting and weak al
his trade is no credit to the cause he
nrofesses. The servant who dfops,
fears feelingly at religious services, ana
drons dishes unfeelingly in the kltcheI,
has her tenderness altogether too mucn
an one side. And it is poor kind OF
religion which seeks opportunities to
set others straight, but overlook l'S
own crookedness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
What OF Maine?

AS Maine is quoted by both parties,
and made to do service in the interest
of prohibition and anti-prohibitlon, we
Introduce an unimpeachable witness
Hear him. r
The venerable DR.. Cyrus Hamiln
whose name is the synonym OF all tha'
is noble and wise, has recently eX'
pressed in the New York O6Se'pe'
his knowledge Of the operations OF con
stitutional prohibition in Maine; ne
is an expert witness, anu snouio W
given entire credencc. But he best
speaks his own strong and dlScrlmlha'
ting words:
II am q Maine man; and l know
the State, north and south, east ana
west, and the experience OF Name l.
before me and before the world
There is not distillery nor an open,
undisguised dram-shop in the state OF
Maine. What is there in this tha'
should frighten Boston believers IN 10
ta! abstinence? The farms in Maine
are generally free from mortgages, the
bonSex are painted, shade trees are cul'
tiyated, the roads are good, the Peopse
are temperate, industrious ana napMpS Ky
What is the matter with Name oll
there is drunkenness and rum-seillhs
there still, and worse than ever. a
bip lie is made out of a very SINAI
amount of truth. There is rum-sel'
ling as there is thieving in the cltieS,
But it is driven into secret places. II
is carried on by the vilest and basest OF
men and fallen woman. The grip ol
the law is not tight enough yet TO stoI
it entirely, but the State is saveo
Nineteen-twentieths are delivered
from the curse. The curse creeps ana
wriggles and Kisses in places foul ano
fostering with all moral filthlnesS;
But it should be remembered oy al. u.
the advocates of the Maine law that II
does not undertake to interdlct druhk'
enness at home. You may be a.
drunk as YOU please at home, ana, /,
Won can keep from killing wife anu
children, and from other outrages. tnt
Maine law does not concern ltseil
about YOU. 1t proposes to stop tne
manufacture and sale of intoNicantS Ia
the State of Maine. That work II haS
done gloriously, though not to the sa.' .
isfaction of certain conservative TEN,
nerance men. They must be curious
set. They are probably in harmony ,Il
with him who was, in favor OF lhe
law. but against its execution"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
Accuracy.

accurocy enters into action as well
% thought, and into speech. In action
we are apt to call it thoroughness, De, Ne
cause doing work accurately anu
nicely in every point, with notliihs
unfinished or untidy, necessarily IN,
wolves thoroughness, however small
or large the work may be.
# We allow ourselves to be inaccu-
rote in the minor details of actions
If we leave ends Of thread hanging
from our sewing, or turn the corners
diftprent ways in hemming square
Eercbief: spread the cover on the
table hastily without minding whelher
the corner hang even or not; 60 10
closet or drawer for pieces and thrust
the bundles in with the expression, II
will come and put them to rights py
ond hv-are we not haunted by 4 feel
;nr of shiftlessness, of wishing to sc
hacl, and begin over again-a lcellne
so much out OF proportion TO the aclua
carelessness that we are forced 10 con
fess that inaccuracy is not trilllhs
fault. The same conscience prlcks u
when, after telling story IN wna
we think all entertaining way ior tht
edifica,ion of friend, our small chic
saws "But, mamma, she dlden,t say
that: she said so-and-so," and forth
with proceeds to take the point or oul
tale by presenting it without the
adornment with which we had en-
deayored to make it attractive. Ih'
child can be silenced by being toid no
to Interrupt mamma when she L
speakiug, but conscience does not s.
easily excuse us, and we feel agail
that there is something wrong.
How, then, shall we set this wrons
right? We find it comparatively cas-!
to saw to ourselves 80, l have gen
eral idea of the matte, and when
have time I will think it out" 1t
not SO easy to take concrete portion
Of the general idea and think it ou
carefully; and yet by so doing IN
smaller thought becomes completed,
our own, ready for nse in any emer
pency, while the general notion is s.
large and so very general that we act
uailv never find time to think 1t out
and thus it does not become our OWL
at all.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
Storos for Oklahoma.

In the freight yards at Kansas City,
Missouri, were about thirty, trains
loaded with stores for the Oklahoma
country. There we're houses in sec;
tions, ready to be bolted together and
entered for habitation sixty minutes
after their delivery. There were com,
pleted stocks of every conceivable sor'
Of merchandise, and with each cal
load of stock was packed away the
building required to harbor It.. In tnls m
manner drug stores, dry goohs stores
boot and shoe stores, saloons and gro
ceries have been provided. The open,
ing of this Territory on the 22d instant
will be one of the most interesting
facts in the history Of this country
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15

assigned and a comparison with SINH
lar divorce statistics in Europe. In
the light of this report we may also be
called people of broken promises.
The result is appalling if the figures
afford an accurate comparison. The
aggregate of absolute divorces, in 1856,
in ali Europe, with the exception OF
Spain, was 1880. In the United
States, in the same year, there were
p, ,535 divorces. The increase in this
land of broken promises appears more
forcibly in comparison of the number
of divorces to the number of married
couples. In 1870 there occurred one
divorce to every 664 couples in 1880
there was one to every 40 couples.
The same fact appears in a comparison
by decades. From 1877 to 1887 there
were 2O6, 6,504 divorces, as against 1922
III during the preceding ten years--an
increase of So per cent; or, to show
what our laws and courts have drifted
to in period Of twenty years, there
were 9937 divorces in an estimated pop
ulation of SO, 900, 900 in 1867, while in
1856 there were 25,535 in an estimated
population of $4,000, ,00O.-M True
lOorthy, d. d., in Christian Worker.