The Sunday morning news., 1889-12-29
AFTER CHRISTMAS.
Churches Settling Down to
Earnest Routine Work.
THE WEEK OF PRAYER.
Watch Night Services on New Years
Eve---General Church Notes,

celebrations OF the day are among the
things of the past, the churches are
now able to settle back again into the
usual routine and to make plans for
the coming year. The first week in
January. that is the week. beginning
with January 6, is the Week of Prayer,
and all over the world the denomi-
national churches will celebrate it.
Meetings will be held in nearly all of
the churches in this city in the even
ings and one or two will have services
through the day.
For the Week of Prayer the Wayne.
Street Reformed Church and the
Scotch Presbyterian Church will unite
in the services. On Monday and
Wednesday the services will be in the
Wayne Street Reformed Church ands
on Tuesday and Thursday nights th,p
meetings will be in the Scotch Church. :.
The Monday night service will be es-
pecialIy for the Society of Christian
Endeavor connected with these
churches, and an invitation is also ex-
tended to any of the Christian En-
deavor Societies that may care to
attend. AT all of these union meetings
Rev. Mr.. Houston will make an
address and everything indicates in
teresting services.
SERVICES ON NEW YEAR.
New Years will be celebrated in
many of the churches and suitable
services have been arranged. The
Summit Avenue Baptist Church will
have prayer meeting at sunrise on
New Years morning, at which the
Rev. Irving Davis will officiate.
The night before New Years Trim
ity NJ. E. Church will have a watch
meeting. The services will begin at
ten o'clock and continue until after
midnight, and those who attend will
see the Old Year out and the New
Year in.
On New Years Day at nine o'clock
there will be union services in the
First Baptist Church for the churches
south of the railroad and in the North
Baptist Church for the churches
north of the railroad. This is a sort of
preliminary meeting before an Evan
gelical movement among the churches
is undertaken, and although the
meeting is for every one, the churches
that are particularly interested in this
latter work will be well represented.
A large number of the down town
churches are working to bring about
a religious revival which they hope to
be very successful. The work will be-
ginasolne time in March and will be
conducted by B. Fay Mills, whom it is
expected will be assisted by Mr.. Chap
man, of Albany. The Congregations
Presbyterian, Reformed and Method
ist denominations are represented in
the general committee who have the
arrangements in charge. e
CATHOLIC CELEBRATIoNs.
New Years Day the Feast of the
Circumcision will be celebrated in all
the Catholic churches. Masses will
be celebrated the same as on Sunday
In st. Mary's solemn High Mass will
be celebrated at fifteen minutes to
seven O'Clock. and the Christmas
music will be repeated. In st. Peters
High Mass will be celebrated at nine
o'clock
A special service will be held in st.
Peters Church ON the evening of
December 81 to ask pardon of God
for the faults and shortcomings OF the
departing year, and to return thanks
for it's favors and blessings. The
service will consist of prayer, singing
and a short instruction with Bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament
FORTY YEARS IN ONE CHURCH.
On the first Sunday in January DIR.
Van Cleef will preach sermon in
honor of This fortieth anniversary as
pastor of the Wayne Street Reformed
Church. DR.. Van Cleef has pursued
his ministerial duties in this church
and in this city longer than any
clergyman now here and has seen the
city undergo many and great changes.
1t had a population of ten thousand
when DR.. Van Cleef came to the
Wayne Street Church, and he has
watched it increase to two hundred
thousand, and those who made up the
young part of his congregation then
are grandparents now. DR.. Van Cleef
is dearly beloved by his congregation
and his forty years in this church
have been spent in earnest and Jealous
work.
General News from All the Churches.
During the Week of Prayer a union
meeting of the Woman's Missionary
Society will be held on Friday.
On Friday afternoon all the poor
children in the parish of ST. Peters
Church were made happy with many
good and substantial gifts. which
We're given them at the church.
The missiono of the Scotch Presbyter-
ian Church will give an entertainment
on Friday night.
On Sunday evening an Armenian
family named Baswajian will be at
the Bergen Baptist Church. The
father and mother will deliver adj
dresses relative to the life in Turkey
and the children will sing in four
different languages.
The Mission Band of the Bergen
Baptist Church have just sent bar
rel valned at $75 to a missionary in
Nebraska.
The usual Wednesday night prayer
meeting in the Bergen Baptist Church
will be held this week on New Years
eve
Tonight there will be a grand iubi-
lee service in the Tabernacle. To-
morrow night the ceremony of burn
ing the mortgage will be celebrated
Hedding M. K. Church and the
Second Presbyterian Church willhave
their Christmas music today.
The excellent musical service which
was rendered at st. Matthews Church
on Christmas Day will he rpneafed at