St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-05
IN THE CHURCHES,
Holiday Festivities, Receptions
and Annual Meetings by the

Holiday Festivities, Receptions
and Annual Meetings by the
Score.
The annual meeting of the First Con-
gregatlOnal church was held last Tues
cay evening in the church parlors. Pres
ldenJ Cyrus NOrthrOp presided and j.
". Perkins filled the secretary'S chair.
Inc trustees submitted their report.
showing receipts for the year amount
ing to $7.769.S6. OF this amount So, 957. O4
came from subscriptions, and S2,5O5 was
borrowed money. The disbursements
were 81, 1872 "A. leaving cash balance of
S227.75. The treaSurer's report for the
year showed disbursements amounting
to S9,96l.44, and balance of S3,6l3.61.
Considerable time was taken up dis
cuSsing the deficit of $4,000 in funds
needed to pay off the indebtedness on
the church building. Finally F. w.
Campbell was appointed to secure sub
scription. A lengthy and somewhat
live discussion was had on the question
of renting pewS. The advocates finally
carried their point The election of
SWEET as president, j. w. Perkins sec
rotary and Hon. John S. Pillsbury trustee
for three years. After the business
meeting the ladies served supper in the
dining rooms.
The Central Baptist church held its
annual meeting Tuesday evening. The
treaSurer's report showed the current
expenses for the past year to have been
S5,585.03, and with the missionary con-
tributions and other expenses added
total OF SS.450.U was expended. The
treasurer asked for an appropriation of
$500 to meet the current expenses of
the coming year. The money is raised
by the system of voluntary pledges. The
pastors salary will have siCO added to
1t this year. The report of @. S. Chap
man. clerk. showed membership of 366,
so being added during the year. The
following Ulcers were elected: Three
year trustees, John t. Barnum, George
n. Naylor; tWo-year trustees, T. B.
Lindsay, William H. Morse: One-year
trustee. D. NJ. Runyon; three-year dea-
cons, j. b. Croker, t. E. Hughes: one
year deacon, f. L. barrow: three-year
deac0nesS, Laura Amy; clerk, c. S.
Chapman; Sunday school superintend-
ent, John L. Barnum. A supper was
served at p. m. in the church.
BY invitation of the pastor, DR.. D. FL.
Tiffany, the congregations of Westmin-
| Ster, Plymouth and Centenary churches
| joined that of the Hennepin Avenue
Methodist last Tuesday evening in hold
ing an old-fashiOned watch meeting.
The services began at 80 and closed
shortly after midnight. DR.. Tiffany
was in charge, and addresses were
made by DR.. D. j. Burrell, Dr. G. +.
Thwing, Rev. II. FL. French and Bishop
Fitzgerald. About five minutes before
IL hymn was given out. While the
audience was singing, bell struck the
hour of midnight. As the first stroke
fell upon the ear, every voice was
| hushed and every head bowed in silent
| prayer. The audience then sang the
doX0logy and dismissed. A special mu-
steal programme was rendered under
the direction of Thomas Taylor Drill.
New Years day was observed In the
Scandinavian churches as Christmas
was. Services or social gatherings were
| held during the day or evening at all
| the churches. AT 1880 a. m. the follow
| ing churches held services: Swedish
| Augustana, Rev. G. j. Peti, pastor;
| Nazareth, Rev. Dr. Jansen, pastor:
| Norwegian Trinity, Prof. Blegen, act
ing pastor: Hauge's, Rev. j. Eistensen,
| pastor; st. Paul's Swedish, Rev. John
Ternstadt, pastor; Bethlehem Swedish
Lutheran, North Minneapolis, Rev. A.
). EnStarn, pastor: Swedish Mission
| Tabernacle. Rev. A. E. Skogsberg. pas
tor; Our Savior'S Norwegian Lutheran,
| Kew. q. i. FangSnesS, pastor; st. Olaf'S,
| North Minneapolis, Prof. Oftedal. act
| ing pastor; Swedish Baptist, Rev. Frank
| Peterson, pastor.
The large Bible class of D. C. Bell
! was entertained at his residence, 22l5
Park avenue, last Wednesday, and en-
| loyed a most pleasant evening. Mr..
| Bell has been i'll charge of the class for
| tWenty-SlX years, during which time it
has so grown in size that it now has a
membership of IT'S. About 100 were
present. and presented Mr.. Bell with
an album containing pictures of his en-
| tire class. A programme rendered by
the young people, which included piano
solos by Miss Fannie Strom and Stephen
vocal duet by Mrs. Charles ii. Fowler
and Charles Page, vocal solo by w. l..
Stephen. and recitation by Samuel
Chambers.
The last of the eight Christmas fes-
| rivals which have taken place this
year at the Plymouth Congregational
church was held last evening by the
Scandinavian Sunday school. The ex-
erclses consisted of addresses by Rev.
DR.. G. f. Thwing, John Goldsbury and
Y. L. Leonard, the assistant Superinten-
dent of the school. paper on Bethle-
hem by A. L. Sa mpSOn, song by Mrs.
Chapman and number of hymns.
The Christmas then unlOaded, and eau
ely, popcorn, apples and various mys-
FERROUS and Christmas-ltke bundles
were distributed to the members of the
school. The Scandinavian Sunday
school at Plymouth church has been
established seventeen years.
The Swedish Augustana Lutheran
| church held its twenty-fourth annual
meeting New Years day. Rev. o. J.
Petri'S report showed that this is one of
the most tiourishlug Lutheran churches
in the city. He stated that the church
had at present 92l regular members, the
total number enrolled Oh the books be-
ing 1882. During the year 142 have been
received into the church, and % have
died. The $4,000 debt on the church
had been paid off by the subscription of
individual members. The treasurer'S
report showed that S14, 544.25 had been
paid out and Sl4,670.9S received, leaving
balance of S12l.73.
1t is said that there is trouble in the
congregation OF the Emmanuel Baptist
church, which will be brought to a crisis
next Tuesday evening when the quar-
terly meeting will be held. The church.
it is claimed. is divided, part being
against the pastor while a large ma
jority is with the pastor. w. KHicks,
who an evening paper has classed
among the ants, says that ne is unaware
of any division in the church. That
Rev. ID. ID. MacLaurin has in contemp-
latiOn change of pulpits has probably
had good deal to do With the report of
trouble.
Another event of note was the Bap-
fist missionary conference, which took
place from Jan. to inclusive. The
committee in charge consisted of w