The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-23
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TOO WARM TO WORSHIP.
Even the Christian Soldiers
Call a Halt During the
Dog Days.
EPWORTHS Al CAMP TABOR
Salyationists at Prohibition Park
Church Notes and,
lettings.

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melts way In summer heat. People
who last January considered themselves
on the broad road to ruin if thev did not
| go to church at least twice per Sunday,
now heal the morning bell ring without
the faiutest twinge of conscience. or at
best, only a ha sty mental review OF vari-
Gus and a clutch at the most
| plausible. Hot weather also encourages
| a sinful pride on the part of people who
have been strong-miuded enough not to
| stay at home, and who look up to the
| windows of laxer neighbors with an air
Of superior virtue highly trying to those
| inside. Ministers who believe in stere-
optIcons produce them at this time OF
year; ministers. who do not, select i'm
| pressiye titles for their m and deal
| much In practical talks to young people
at the evening service. Choirs sing with
that Ianguid manner in which choirs al
ways sing with vacation only a week
ahead. In fact, the church workers need
u rest just as much as any other workers
need one, and they propose to take 1t
soon.
Camp Tabor, in Morris county, Is. as
everyone hereabout5 Knows, a. good
Methodist stronghold. where camp--
meetings reign supreme. end the voice or
the temperance lecturer Is heard 9tn the
laud. There are several members OF
| Jersey City churches now at Camp Tabor.
notably the Misses Ward of Fifth street,
who are staying at their pretty cottage,
and Mrs. 4. A. CampbelI. There will
4 Q an Invasion of jersey City young FOLKS
just one month from today. when all the
chapters of the EDworth tLeasue con-
nected with churches IN the Newark
conference will celebrate "Epworth
League Day. on a large scaieG There
will be an address by the President OF
Wesleyan University. good q py a
selected choir and refreshments. Several
meetings wild be held during the dny.
1t is exuected that quite an excursion
party will go down from This C tV. There
are not so many chapters Of the Ep-
worth League IN the city as the church
authorities would wish to see, but what
there are are large n fouTishing. The
| Centenary Church and the West Side in
narticular. have promised to send dele
gates.
PROHIBITION PARK.
The summer school of methods OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
which will hold forth during the summer
at Prohibition Park, will probably dia
to it many of the order from this vicinity.
The meetings now in progress at the
PARK have proved attractive to numbers
of Jersey City people who have gone to
hear the Silver Lake. Quartette or Mr..
Anram Graham during tbs past week,
returning the same day. Prohibition
Park would be more of q success II The
mosquitoes did not have such an attach
mentf r it. As it is, Prohibitionists in
that locality do not like to hear the name
of this bird mentioned.
There will be an excursion from this
city to Ocean Grove iate in August to at
tend the Methodist Episcopal camp meet
ing there, Trinity NJ. e. Church will be
OF church workers already staying at the
Grove.
sALvAT1oNIsTs IN CONVENTION.
The Salvation Army lads and lassies
will 90 down in great numbers TO the
convention at Prohibition Park. which
will begin next tuesday. COMMANDER
I Booth will deliver the same address that
he is giving today at C~hautauqua, and
there will be hallelujah meetings aud
~.sp'rades." This closes on Friday and
after that the warriors will Settle down
at home until the fall.
From the Salvation Army to the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church is a far cry, so
far as methods are concerned. This
denomination will have no meetings dur
ing the summer until the General Con-
vention In Baltimore, Wednesday. Oc-
ltober 5, for which the churches are even
now preparing. 1t Will be the trlennlal
convention of the whole Protestant Epis-
copal Church of the United States.
The Rev. William Eakins of st. Panrs
M. E. Church may go to Martha's Vine
yard to attend the meetings there, al
though he has not fully decided. M. w.
e. Marvin of the First Universalist
Church viii spend his time in the SCHOOLS
of C~hautauuua. There are several other
scattered church workers at different
summer schools, but no large delega-
lions. US
The fact is, jersey City is taking her
annual nap of two months, and The
churches are inducing In the general
siesta. So far as heard from, only two.
Hedding and Centenary, W no to hav-
ing large congregations at this time Of
year. BY September. the pastors will re-
turn and things will go on all the better
for a little rest, but until that time church
news will be very uninteresting. go, "a