New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-15
IN CHURCH CIRCLES.
PASTORS AND THEIR CONGREc AT1oNs

The main audience-room Of the new Calvary Baptist
Church' al oumheraVe and Decuturst, will be opened
today and special services will be held. II Is
pleasant room, capable of holding about 900 persons
and hnished In ash gallery extends on three sides,
and over the pulpit IS the organ loft and chorgallerv
Large stained glass windows fill the four gables y, ,
building ard amply light the interior In the first
story Of the structure is the Sunday room sndcr
the name OF The Herkmer Street Baptist Church the
society formerly occupied an edihce at IIerkmer-st
and TrOy-ave. When the new ediGce was started the
name was changed. DR.. John IIumpstone Will reach
at the morning service today and Dr. " f.. Wood In
the evening. IN the afternoon Drs Mac Arthur and
BIahlin VIII make addresses, DR.. X. r. Meredith will
preach on Monday evening" Dr. c. DIV Bridgman on
Tuesday evening and the Rev. Willard IT, Robinson on
Wednesday evening. The dedcatOry service Will be
conducted by Dr. Armltage Thursday evening"
Plans had been made TO dedicate the new German
Evangelical Church I'm Schcrmerhom- to-day. but
the organ has not been completed and the service
will be deferred for a fortnight successful fair has
been in progress In the Sundays hall the last ten
days.
The scafoldlng which has stood around the spre
of the Church of the Holy Trinity, at Montague and
Clinton sts for the last five months while the stone
WORK has been undergoing repairs has finally been
moved. \ largo number Of pieces of crumbllng stone
have been taken out OF the pe and their places filled
with cement, and the cracks have been plastered up.
~ pi''O'p hiV etOHc-"oIh IL WdS HldlN treated 10
coat of boiled oil and turpentne, which has con
sdeably darkened lis color. The spre was escted
about twenty-five years ago and has already been
repaired several times. The reason given for the
crumblng OF the brOwnstone is that was taken from
part Of the quarry too the surface. The spire
is the loftiest and estpopOroned in the city.
The Rev. Dr.. George Lansing Taylor read a paper
upon The Mission Movement in the Light of Modern
History before the Brooklyn Auxiliary OF the
WOmens Foreign Missionary Society in the Fleet Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, on Wednesday.
The Rev. DR.. a. stewart Walsh, a Baptist minister,
real estate agent and novel writer, has been on
gagged to fill the pulpit of the Bushwick Avenue Con-
gre gational Church temporarily
The Rev. c. WOefkln, of Hackensack, n. j., has
boon called 10 the pulpit Of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, which has been vacant since Dr. Frank Rogers
Morse resigned 10 become assistant mister Of Ca vary
Baptist Church, In Newiork.
Dr. Wesley Reid Davis will deliver an Advent
lecture upon Christ. the Desire of All Nations in
the Reformed Church, the Heights. this evening. /
The edihce of the Greenpoint Universalist
Church, 10 be erected in North lcnryst near the new
Winthrop Park. will cost 1000 II VIII be thirty
four by seyenty-One feet In Size, and Will have a
spire eighty feet high.
Shawmut congregational Church in Boston and author
Of The MIkadOs Empirc.' will preach to-day to the
brooklyn Tabernacle congregation In the Academy OF
Music The excavation for the foundation OF the new
Tabernacle, at Greene and Clinton ayes. Is under
way
i considerable addition to st. Georges Episcopal
Church al Gates and Marcy aveS., Is building for
chapel and sunday school hall.
The Rev. George X. Kramer has accepted the call
given him by the tni0n Avenue Baptist Chufch.
10 succeed the Rev G.. W. Folwell, who has gone
10 Petersburg. ". Va Mr.. Kramer was formerly
pastor Of the Church of the BLESSED Hope, in Adelph
ST. and became a Baptist recently.
Tn, first Of the series of NcighbOrhOOd SOcals.
undcr the auspices Of Plymouth League, 10 promote
the better acquaintance Of the members was held
on Wednesday evening al the house of Dr. George
" Brush No = spencer Place. About 100 Of the
uptown members of Plymouth Church were present.
and they met Mrs. Beecher, Dr. and Mrs Abbott,
and Mrs X. II. Bosw9rh The occasion was a
thoroughly enjoyable one. II is designed to hold
similar meetings i'm various parts OF tho city at
intervals throughout the winter
DR.. Edward Bccchcr has sufficiently recovered
from the injury he recently, received by
by the slipping of hi, crltch to resume his pulpit
In fine Parlville Congregational Church lie has de-
cldcd 10 give up his plans Of removing TO a farm in
New Jersey. and will Dman IN Brooklyn.
Tho semi centennial anniversary OF the East New
York Reformed Church will be celebrated today.
The pastor. the Rev. Jesse W. BROOKS viii preach
nnon Lessons of Half Century in tho evening.
Dr W J. Il. TAYLOR viii preach tomorrow evening.
and on wednesday evening tho Rev T. Il. Mcleod
will deliver a sermon.
The Rev Arthur b. Kinsovng. recently of War
eav- Va will enter upon the rcctOrship of Christ
Fniscopal Church in south Brooklyn to-day, succeed.
Ing DR. Lucius W. Bancroft, who resigned from ILL
The Rev 4. S. Gumbart OF the Noble Street
pantst Church has received call to the Dudley Street
naptsf Church Of RoNbury. Mass.
The BROOKLYN PreSbN tory Will continue ITS discus
sion of the form that the revision of the West
CAV afternoon I'm the Franklin Avenue Church
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