The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-06-21
CHRISTIAN BNDHATOR.
The Mid Summer Meeting at
the Westminster Pres
DYterian Church.
GOING TO HE HOLY LAND.
Extension Of the Holy Rosary Italian
Church Religious News,
Local and General.

The Hudson County Local Union Chris
tan Endeavor Convention VIII meet on
Thursday night in the Westminster
Churcn on Summit avenue. Every SO
ciety throughout the county will be rep
resented by large delegation The Com
mittee OF Arrangements. composed of
Richard Morrison and John rrunbland,
are making every effort to have the affair
great success. A larger attendance is
expected at this meeting than was pres
ent last year and although Westminster
Church has not as large a seating capa
city as the Tabernacle. where the last
midsummer meeting was held, the visit
tors will. as far as possible, be
accommodated with good seats and made
comfortable. There viii be an elaborate
programme of music rendered by num-
Der Of artists from different parts OF The
country. The convention will open at
haif-past seven with devotional exercises.
followed by the reading of the report by
the secretary, Edgar S. CorAeld. John
Coleman. the president, will make an adj
Dress and other speakers nave been in
vited to make addresses. among whom are
the Rev. !. w. Hathaway, the pastor Of
the Westminster Church, and the Rev.
Francis ,McLaily. Aside from the regu-
lar routine conventional work there will
be nothing special laid before the union.
The election of delegates to The General
Convention, which will be held on July
z, has already taken place. They are
John Coleman and Richard Morrison.
SPECIAL SERVICES AT BERGEN BAPTIST.
There will be special services In the
Bergen Baptist Church today, on account
OF the departure of the Rev D. j. Ellison,
the pastor. to the Holy Land. The church
will hn haudsnfuafv dacnra fsad with ca0fc,a
flowers and ferns. In honor Of the occa-
son there will be at the morning service
a special celebration of the Holy Com
munion. The pastor will baptize four
persons and receive sixteen new members
into the church. At night there will be
a farewell song service. A choir OF
seventy-five voices has been renearsing for
the event for several weeks and they will
render programme OF excellent music.
The pastor will make an address taking
duced Me TO Go to the Holy Land" A
reception will be rendered TO the pastor
on Monday night. &C which O handsome
presentation will be made to him. The
church will be open all summer, whe
the pulpit will be occupied by proinine mt
clergymen, some OF whom are:--Dr. Pog-
son. Of New York; DIR. Henry Crost, Of
Manasqnan; Rev. Henry Smith, OF Long
Island; Rev. ChaisleY NJ. Davis. of New
YORK. Rev j. K. F0lweii, of Westheld;
:
ner w Stevens, of Newport, and Frank
Fletcher. OF the West Hoboken Baptist
Church.
DEDICATION IN THE PRESBYTERIANC CHAPEL.
About three years ago church was
organized in the Presbyterian Chapel on
Paterson street, on the Heights, by Henry
Stuhr and a number of the Jealous adher-
ents of the Evangelical Association de-
nomtuation OF North America, and known
as the lions Church of that faith and
= I. GOD T4.
membership and vigor SO as to become a
prosperous organization. Il has Just flu
ished its substantial and neat chapel on
Charles street, midway between Nelson
aud Summit avenues. Il Is frame
structure occupying three full lots, is In
dimensions thirty-Iive by seventy feet,
has a neat little tower at one corner
which constitutes the pleasant entrance,
and the front is made peculiarly attrac-
tive by q large and ornamental window.
The interior Is admirably planned. aud
quite inviting IN its general appearance.
The pulpit is set IN q deep alcoye, the
windows are broad and light, the seating
arrangements will accommodate 800 audi
tors, ana the rear end OF the church has
portable doors that can be 80 closed as TO
form cosy little parlor for social occa-
sions. The total cost Of lots and build
ing will figure near 5000.
Tomorrow the congregation Will have
season of rejoicing on the occasion OF
the u6dlCdtlQnT cGLE&trcs 0WAIk w tho
unavoidable absence of tho Bishop, Pre-
siding Elder E. Hurst of Brooklyn win
officiate as the master of ceremonies, ana
at half past ten in the morning will
preach the usual dedication sermon. At
three O'Clock in the afternoon there will
he special service of dedication and
iubiIant congratnlation, at which short
addresses will be made by the Rev. DR..
K. Egbert of West Hoboken, the Rev. e.
Hurst, the pastor, the Rev A. Beck OF
Union Hill, Richard r. Green Of Hoboken
and Henry Stuhr, one OF the founders OF
the enterprise.
Al the evening service the Rev. E.
Hurst will again preach, several pastors
will speak, and there will be the Holy
Communion at the termination of the
exercises.
THE ITALIAN CHURCH.
The Italian Church, known as the
Church of the Most Holy Rosary, on
Sfxth street. pear Monmouth, is to be re-
built Work will begin on u early ~
july. the plans being now in the hands Of
the contractor. The church, which u at
nrasent q low. frame structure. will be
nnilt out and considerably enlarged on
the east side. and the gothic style OF
architecture in the old s enurcn WIN pe
rnurcb when completed will be neat and
pretty There will be three affairs
two of them being new ones, When the
building is finished Rev Father Mazzi-
Otti intends having pdfoCtsaf SCnook ~
tba old cbnreh. which will be shut off
from the new By folding onsa x Par
Side Sid Of, Of the church a pretty little house
will be built and in It Father Mazziotti
viii reside. The entire cost will not
exceed eight thousand dollars The par
ish which is scattered all oyer the city y
has over two thousand Italians 10 1t, ana
400 @' ahsIdrsn hetween the ages of six and
swese Among them MI Fa. a anr Msz zea4a
aS ~ T. dna IA his success In parish
work Wnu that the Bishop has given him
permission to build the addition ea,in9ai
Mere nv BY the late Father Hanly
and for three years had strnggs,liIn s !, ex-
Mazzio. II came to it. 1t is now in flour
ishinr condition. The present church
seats three hundred people, and the new
go s, III ss.t six hundred The laying OF
tie corner stone, which VIII be .,, about the
1st OF July, will be attended wlen insef-