The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-11-23
THANKSGIVING SEASON.
st. Paul S Practitioners Hap
by at the Prospect of
a New Home.
THEIR CHURCH 70 BE REBUILT.
Special Services on Thursday in
Many Places Religious
Items.


The parishioners of St Paups NJ. =.
Church, on Third street, will attend SER
vices in their present quarters for the last
time today. Tomorrow workmen will
take possession OF the place, and in the
succeeding weeks they will improve and
enlarge the present building very much.
The improvements will also include the
parsonage now occupied by the Rey. D.
Hailorap.
The renoyating viii begin In earnest
tomorrow, although some work on the
foundations has already been done. The
front of the church will be moved for
ward about nine feet, and the walls built
ont to it. The parsonage win be moved
ont TO line even with the front OF the
church. and bag window added
The organ will be taken from over the
entrance, where III now is, and moved 10
the side OF the pulpit.
The front Of the remodelled building
will be ornamented with TWO stained
gisss Windows, and instead Of a single
large door there will be two smaller ones,
one on each side Of the present entrance.
On the right hand corner will be a tower
steep1e and bell, and on the left hand side
will be smaller tower. The interior OF
the church will be handsomely freseoed
and ornanlented IN the latest ecclesiastic
style.
On the ground floor. where the Sunday
school IS held, the present hard wood
benches will be removed and chairs sub
stdtHted. The infant class will be held
upstairs where the hall now is.
Farewell services will be held this
Lucien Clark, p. d., Of the Christian
.Adrocnte. will preach, and at hAaf-past
seven in the evening the Rev. D. Il.
Iowrie. ID. D.. will preach.
THANKSGIVING SERVICES.
All OF the churches will be very busy
this week Masking preparatious for
Thanksgiving, and extra services and fine
music will tend to add to the joyful
thankfulness OF the day. The majority
of the churches on the Heights will hold
union service, aud those that do not
unite win have services In the morning
The West Side NJ. Il, the Clagemont
avenue and the South Bergen Reformed
orats-serYire ia the West Side Methodist
Church. The Bergen Presbyterian. the
Bergen Reformed and the Westminster
will have their union service in the Ber-
gen Presbyterian, and the sermon via be
delivered by the Rev. Cornelius BRETT.
All the Baptist churches will hold their
services in the First Baptist Church ia
Grove street.
The music in all of the churches will be
unusually good and the day will be eele-
DRAFTED throughout the city most aDpr0-
pfiately. Nearly ali of the churches,
aside from the usual services, are arraug-
ing various charities and the poor OF the
churches will NOT be forgotten. Tables
will be set ia some Of the churches aud
the poor invited TO dinner, while in OTHERS
the provisions sent by the members will
be distributed
MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE GERMANS.
Today is Memorial Day in all The Ger
man Protestant churches, and services ia
memory of the dead VIII pc held. The
programme for the day in 81. J0hn's
German Church has been carefully pre-
pared and the music viii be remarkably
coed. The Rev. G.. Andreae will preach
on s'rhe Death OF Moses at the morning
service.
Another interesting church event is the
convention of the Women's Missionary
Social Union OF the Baptist churches to
be held on December 2. in the Bergen
Baptist Church. There will be delegates
from all the Baptist churches. aud PROM
inent speakers with address the conyen-
tion. The afternoon service win be de-
voted to home missions, and in the even
ing foreign missionary work will be dis
cuSsed. Particular attention Will be
gwen for the work Of the training school
IN Chicago for women who do missionary
work and the talk about this will Interest
every one Just VINO the speakers will
be has net yet been decided. bur fine
musicale programmes Is being prepared.