The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-30
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.


A Congregational CIergyman's Quaint
~Notice-Asbury Parks New Church.
The pastor of a Congregational church at
Gomerville, Mass. distributes a neatly printed
sheet containing the church notices in the pc VS.,
in lieu of reading them. This was one or the re-
cent notices: 1T may not be inappropriate to
call attention of the audience to the bad habit
they have fallen into of watching people W o
come in late, especially those who have new
clothes. These late corners are modest people,
and it must be a serious annoyance to have their
raiment a subject If remark. They wear it un-
consciously, and prefer that you would not no.
tice them. The Sunday services are at 10. 30 and
7.30, for the benefit OF all who desire to spend an
hour in worship; but for all those who have re-
Gently visited the tailor, and milliner, and dress
MAKER, the service begii $ anywhere from 1890
to II. and the evening service ten minutes before
8. For the benefit of the very tardy ones the
announce ment is hereby made that the benedic-
tion will be the only portion of the service In
which they are respectfully invited to particl-
pate"
At the close of the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Omaha, Neb. ar
rangements have been made TO. an excursion to
California at reduced rates of fare.
Extensive preparations ars being made by the
Bridgeton Presbyterians to celebrate the Tooth
anniversary of the laying OF the cornerstone of
tie old Presbyterian Church.
A movement has been started3 to get all the
ings Sunday, May %, in every city, protesting
against The wrongs imposed on the colored
people. especially the lynching, shooting and
burning of negroes in the South.
Sweden is the most Protestant country, for
out of q population of 4.174,409 only $40 are
Roman Catholics, or sixteen out OF every 100000.
Next to it in this respect is Norway, which is
under the same sovereign, and has only 502
Roman Catholics out of 1878, s53 Inhabitants, or
twenty-seven out of every 100000. in both of
these untri les the mass of the population ad-
here to the Lutheran Protestant Church.
Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, has been invited to serve as chaplain at
the Worlds Fair opening services in Chicago
next October.
Messrs. Moody and 'Sankey have received a
largely signed and urgent requisition from Aus
tralia to come there. They say:-'Never were
these colonies so ripe for blessing or Christians
so really in earnest. We have had two years of
much prayer all around :"
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
closed its books for the year on April 30. In
order to avoid debt it will need to receive during
the present month $3.50, Egg. 80. The amount re-
ceived during April, lSeA, was S230,S0a 81, so
that there will have to be an advance Of ST.
TIA. IS upon that sum if the obligations of the
Board entered upon in accordance with the in
structions of the General Assembly are to be
met.
Plans have been completed by a New York
architect for the new Baptist church at Asbury
Park, which it is proposed TO build next fall.
The church will be built Of gray stone, will have
a seating capacity OF ], coo, and w II cost S25, 600.
Work will not be begun until rs per cent. of the
amount has been secured in pledges.