The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-29
4 MANIA FOR GUILDS.
More of Them Than Ever
Was Known in Jersey
City.
FINANCE, MISSIONS, PATCHWORK.
What They Are Doing and the
Workers Among Them
General Church Notes
in City and State.

"Of making many societies there is no
end"--so the preacher might have said
had he CLAN ced oyer the records of mod
ern church in ersey City. Guilds for sew
ing and singing, for study and church
history and piecing Of patchwork quilts;
for literary improvement. financial inn
provement and the enlightment OF the
heathen-guiids, guilds and guilds.
The church societies of Jersey City take
a very wide range, and include every age,
sort and condition of men and women.
Watch some tiny tot as she proudly
marches home ciut,hing scrap of purple
ribbon or a tiny silver cross. She may yet
be President of the United States, if the
laws are changed in time; but DOUBT if
she will feel half so much impressed with
her position IN the world as she does at
this moment, for she just joined q Junio
Ten of the Kings Daughters. She will
count the days between meetings until
the novelty wears off, and work for "our
ten" like a little galley slave, if she can
fiud the slightest possible excuse for SO
doing.
THE CHRISTMAS CLUB.
In the Sunday School of the Lafayette
Reformed Church a class of ten little
girls, with their teacher, formed the
Christmas Club, whose object is TO pro-
vide Christmas gifts for destitute chill
flren in the Roosevelt Street Medical
Mission, New YORK City. Last Christmas
their work resulted in large box OF
toys, games and books, with various
areicles of clothing, and from the prep
aratons already going on at their weekly
meetings the work this>Christmas will be
yet more successful.
1t would never do to pass over that
unique, though ungrammatical club
called the II Amt Afraid Society" The
Sunday School of st. Jonn's Free Church
has grown 80 large that pupils cannot all
be accommodated with seats on the
benches provided, and it has been found
necessary to place chairs in the aisles to
supply deficiencies, The children who
regularly occupy these chairs constitute
the II Amt Afraid Society,"" signifying
that the members have sufficient courage
to sit anywhere. These members hold
regular meetings and enjoy certain
special privileges, such as free tickets to
all church entertainments.
The guilds Of st. Hilda and ST. Mary,
also connected with ST. Johns Free
Church, are already well known for their
faithful labors. Miss l.. Pitcher presides
over the former, while the latter has for
its president Miss Susie Watson. ST.
Mary's Guild Is now engaged in preparing
n box OF articles to be sent to Kansas
City.
Among the well known literary societies
of Jersey City churches Is the Christian
Culture Society of the North Baptist
Church. Organized six years ago, it has
ing attention of the public, notably in the
excellent productions of tableaux from
Ben Hur. In these tabeaux, which to-
gether with readings, gave the main incl
dents of Wallace's wonderful work. the
company produced truly admin able scenic
- xrv,r, trrstf nr-
tertainment, either at the Tabernacle or
on the Heights, remember the &c. G. S"
with pleasure. It's line of work is mainly
literary, and meetings are held every
Tuesday evening at the rooms furnished
by the society in the North Baptist
Church. Prominent among the mem
bers are Miss Lulu McKernan, tho eff
cient president; Miss Agnes Record, Mrs.
Clara Wakefield and Miss Ella Villa ms.
FLoURIsHING SOCIETIES.
Almost every church has its Ladies'
Missionary Society, each working stead
lily and in the aggregate accomplishing
remarkable results. Among the Oldest
aud most prosperous of the bands OF
young ladies who work for foreign mis-
sions is the Memorial Mission Band OF
the Lafayette Reformed Church. 1t was
organized in 1855, in memory of Mrs.
Charlotte Nutinan Duryee. for many
years an earnest and sympathetic friend
of foreign missions. Six young ladies',
members of Mrs. Duryee's Sunday school
class, with Miss Lily Duryee as President.
then made up the roll, which now num-
bers more than twenty. The band SUP
ports bed in Dr. Otte's Hospital in Sio
Khe, Cnina sends periodical boxes to
various foreign missions stations and
accomplishes much other mission work.
Among the members are Miss Jean Nc
Bride, President; Miss Dorothea Hill,
Secretary; Miss Louise Doremus, Treas
MisSaa Eannar RiEgcbar
Kimball, Lamberton, Vernon, Clark.
Whitaker. Scott. Baker. Bahr. Harris
and Mexican.
Among societies for older church MEM
bers must be mentioned st. Andrews
Workingmen's Guild. On Sunday after
moons the memb bers hold meetings in the
Guild rooms of St. Johns Free Church,
while their wives and children meet on
Thursdays and spend the afternoon in
sewing. The Rev. DR.. Stoddard an
nounced recently that the latter as
sociation covers more sewing work than
all other guilds of The church combined.
These are but very few OF the church
societies that play SO important part in
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