The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-12
GREAT CHURCH EVENTS.
B. Fay Mills Makes Both
Talk and Work Among
the Pi0uS.

Three important events have been
4 engrossing the church people during
the week and quite everything else
has been put in the background.
First was the attention given the
Week of Prayer, which was celebrated
this week, and in all the churches
extra services of prayer have been
held every evening, which have been
of much interest to churchgoers.
Many of the churches have arranged
to continue these special services DUR
ing the coming week, and this will
put aside anything in the way of en-
tertainments.
The grippe has made itself percep-
tibly felt in the churches, and the
congregations have become conspicu-
ously thin Clergymen OF all denomi-
nations are kept pretty busy calling
on the sick, and the Catholic clergy
especially have more to attend to in
this respect than they can really do.
READY FOR B. FAY MILLS.
But what is eliciting more attention
! than ANYTHING Just now in the
churches is the preparation for and
arrival of B. Fay Mills, the evangelist,
who, it is expected, will convert half of
the city. His coming has been
definitely settled for February 6, and
suitable churches or other buildings
are being looked at and selected for
! the meetings. An effort has been
made to have him visit each of the
churches instrumental in his coming,
but some think they will prove too
small for the large audiences, and a
large building will be engaged if a
suitable one is found.
While the religious work of B. Fay
Mills is said by some to be short lived,
only lasting while he is with the peo-
pie, others claim that this impression
arises from the fact that the work be-
gun by him at the revivals is not
properly followed up by the pastors of
| the churches he visits. and eonse-
| quently for their neglect he has to
bear the blame. Be that as it may, he
| will spend ten days in eyangelistic
work, the result of which will neces-
sarily decide this question. The Hill
| churches have no part in the move
ment, but nevertheless have done no
small amount of talking about it, and
it is expected that their congregations
will be largely represented at the
meetings.
ANNUAL CHURCH MEETING.
The Lafayette Reformed Church
had its annual meeting on Wednesday
at which the material and spiritual
condition of the church was reported.
1t was found that the church was be-
ginning its new year entirely free of
debt although considerable repairs
had been made upon the church
property during the year. The cleo
tion of elders and deacons for the en-
suing year was held. The elders were
reelected. They are t. P. Sherwood,
Jacob Van Horn, James p Zabriskie
The deacons for the year are Harry
Londebough. William Booth, Ander-
son Mcknight.
THE WORK PROGRESSING.
The people and pastor Of the South
Bergen Reformed Church are working
very diligently to fill their treasury
with a sufficient sum to permit them
to proceed with the building of their
new church. They are negotiating
for the property at the corner of Ber-
gen and Boyd avenues, which is a
very fine site for church The sum
| to be expended on the building has
been limited to $40, 000 and, while the
church will probably be plain, it will
at the same time be handsome. Plans
are now being submitted to the COM
mittee, but as yet none of them have
been selected. Particular attention
will be given to the Sunday school
room and church parlor.
What the Churches Have Been Doing
This Week.
Tuesday evening X. S. Basmajian
and family, natives of Adrianople
will speak at the Bergen Reformed
Church. Mr.. Basmajian will lecture
about Constantinople, and his wife
will tell about the women of Turkey
The entertainment is for their benefit
They return soon to Turkey, where
| they will be missionaries.
The Young Ladies' Society of the
Bergen Baptist Church have engaged
| the Rutgers College Glee Club for the
evening of January 81. The enter
tainment will no doubt be fine one.
There has been number of applica-
| tions for baptism in the Bergen Bap-
fist Church, and tins rite will probably
be celebrated on next Sunday night.
January 80 is a day set apart in the
churches for prayers for colleges. 1t
will be observed in the Bergen Re-
| formed Church with interesting SER
vices
The Women's Home Mission of the
Lafayette Reformed Church sent a
Christmas gift to the society of $40.
The Rev p g. Blight, of the La
fayette Methodist Church, has recov-
cred sufficiently from his illness to
preach this morning. In the evening
Mr. Blight will deliver a sermon at the
union service of the Lafayette Re-
formed and Methodist Churches in the
Lafayette Reformed Church. These
union services have been for the pnr-
pose of showing the Christian unity
which exists between the churches.
! Tonight will be the last one.
! The Ladies' Aid Society of tbe
Lafayette N. E. Church, will soon
hold a social in the chapel.
The Rev. John Crawford. of Trinity
M. L. Church, will preach a chart ser
mon this morning on the epistle to the
Ephesians.
Mr.. Hill will be ordained in Grace
Episcopal Church next Sunday.
The Rev. George Stephen Bennitt
has gone to Norfolk, Va, to remain
ten days.
The Rev. L. c. Mueller. of Emory
! Nj. Il. Church will haoin toniobr q