Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-19
AT THE CHURCHES.

A Pretty Harvest Festival Last Even-
 ing at Edwards Street M. E. Church -ZiOn Church Harvest Home and
 Features of the vveeIk-The Baptist
 Convention-Sermon by the Rev.Mr.
 Brown.
 A very pretty harvest festival was given last evening at Edwards street M. E. Church, and the sanctuary was filled to overhowing, the attendance including many members of the Sunday school and visitors from other denominations. The audience room was very tastefully deco rated for the occasion with autumnal flow CTS and fruits and trophies of the harvest from the fields of the agriculturist. The following program was rendered:
 4reeune Song. .Scnoo. sessgsaIs i iRssdiasmfsaim ss5sS5 ssssa Hymn-Tune, Biumenthal. ........ Congregation Recilation-Need of Reapers. ...... Edith Beers Reeitation.Freely ,:-y Ye Have Received 1u,un song@Where Arc the Harvesters School so ,nIs Exercises g by the primary class. s,noo, eetation-Thanfs for ii National Pros; ~ ,s for fTos ws'eF 0sf
 perity. Hattie Todd, Irene Robinson Hymn 1087-Tune, Olvet. ......... Congregation Recitation. Harvest Master: .Adde sisson eons-one 0y ons Cancellation o'no0'
 Much interest centers in the state Bap- tist convention which convenes here to- morrow. The ministers meet this after noon. Tonight the sermon will be preached by Rev. W. P. Elsdon. The pub lie are invited. The services will be held at the First Baptist church, where also the convention sessions will be held. The full program is given in another part of this paper.
 The annual harvest home services at A. M. E. Zion church began yesterday morn ing at 10:3O with thanksgiving praise service. There was preaching last evening by Rev. G. w. Clinton of Pittsburg, Penn. He will also lecture this evening. Special literary exercises will be held every even ing during the week. The church will be appropriately decorated, and large varie- ty of farm and garden produce will be on exhibition. Wednesday evening MT. J. R. Sturgeon of the Yale law school will lec- ture on "Frederick Douglass" The pub lie invited.
 Yesterday morning at 1O:3O in the Pres byterian chapel on Elm street, near Orange, the Rev. L. A. M. Brown preached from Genesis, 18th chapter, IS verses. He discussed as general subject the for giving disposition God showed to Abram in rewarding him after he had broken Gods explicit commands. He said, in the course of his remarks: ''The further we go back, the purer we find religion. The people of that time had deep reverence l for one God. A man, in order to come in harmony with God, must have & revolution of feeling. The first oppor- 1 tunities of life are the best; don't wait fol
 better, take them as they come. When you have once accepted an opportunity
 to do good the opportunities will become ! stronger, better and more frequent 1 The critical time in mans life is wheI l God calls him to take 8 position, on one | side or other, for Christ or against him 1 Then it is he meets the gravest tempta tions, if he will but hold his ground ano not go back, God will come to him anc
 help him. If one man insulted another, ,as
 Abraham insulted and sinned against God the insulted man would never even thinl 1 of speaking to the other or even recogniz 1 ing him, but God said in effect to Abraham 1 as he.says to us: "Come unto me; I vii
 forgive.
 Rev. Mir. Puddefort preached last nigh
 at tho United church "A home missio,
 sermon.'
 The Rev. Dr. Phillips, pastor of th I Church of the Redeemer, will deliver tn
 popular lecture, ''Enthusiasm vs
 Fanaticism," at the Howard avenue NJ. B
 church, Wednesday evening, October 21
 at o'clock An "Ariosa tea'' will b given at the close of the lecture.