The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-22
FOR THANKSGIVING DAY
ALI the Churches Are Max
ing Elaborate Prep
arations.
THE FEAST OF ST. CECILIA.
Events of Note in Different Par
ishes in Hudson - Reminis-
cences Concerning Leo XIII.

Churches are making elaborate prepar-
ations for THANKSGIVING Day. Services
will be held in all of them at eleven
o'clock, several holding union services.
The Tabernacle, Wayne Street Reformed,
Park Reformed and the Second Presby-
terrain Churches will mite. holding SER
vice in the Scotch Presbyterian Church.
Rev. DIR. Walter T. Griffin, the pastor of
Park Reformed Church, will preach the
sermon.
The First Baptist Church will join the
North Baptist in a service, the Rev.
Theodore Heisig preaching the Thanks
giving sermon.
The Centenary M. e. Church. Hedding
and st. Paul will unite, holding q service
in he Trinity M. e. Church. A sermon
will be preached by Rev. DR.. Lowrie.
The churches on the Hill to unite are
the First Presbyterian, Westminster and
the Bergen Reformed. the services being
held in the latter.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES.
The Episcopal churches will have indi-
vidual services and full choral celebra-
lions and sermons by the rectors. Not
only by church services will ~Thanksgiy-
ing be observed, for many of the churches
are arranging a great deal for sweet
charity's sake. As usual, st. Johns Free
Church will be open all day and poultry.
vegetables, fruit and groceries will be
distributed among the poor. Another
church to remember the poor generously
is the Centenary. On Thanksgiving Eve
provisions will be carried there to be dis
Ntributed among the pool THANKSGIVING
morning. Hedding Church will make a
large number of donations u the North
Baptist will remember everyone IN need
turkey. The Kings Daughters belonging
to every church are earnestly working
for the day, and they intend to make
their annual visit to the hospitals, with
their abundance of preserves, jellies and
goodies for the sick. Nearly all the col
lections taken in churches will be used in
aid OF the hospitals. Thus. year after
year. these faithful workers strive more
and more to add a ray Of sunshine to
cherries homes and desolate sick rooms.
ST. JosEPH's HOME.
The laying OF the corner stone CT st.
Joseph's Home for Orphans, on York
street, between Washington n Greene
streets. will take place today at half-past
three O'Clock. A procession, formed
ants, VIII leave the present
Home, No. Is Grand street, and proceed
to the site of the proposed building,
where the stone will be laid by The RI.
WIZ 0OeOAb
will be delivered by the Rev. John j.
Tighe OF the Church of Our l. tdy OF
Grace. Hoboken. There will be addresses
by Governor Albeit and other eminent
speakers. All the societies belonging to
the Catholic Church will be largely repre-
scented.
FEAST OF ST. CECILIA.
Today is the feast OF st. Cecilia, and
there will be an elaborate celebration OF
it fuSt. Matthew's p. E. Church tonight
at half past seven Tn service consists
of a choral celebration by thirty.
five vested men and boys under the
direction of Mr.. Charles BaieI
the organist and leader. The music will
be Of the highest order, from such com
poser as Mozart, HAYDEN n Gounod.
The sermon will be preached by the elo-
uuent Rev. Thomas Richey, D.. D., OF
New York. Every year St. Cecilia's
Day is observed IN St. Matthew's by the
Rector, the Rev. Joseph A. Mock, by CIV
ing this choral festival even song, but the
programme this year exceeds those OF
previous years.