The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-16
CHURCH NOTES..
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derstood that he has been selected, The
Reception Committee will wear costumes
of colonial times, and the menu Will con-
tain ancient and well known dishes.
The Peoples Palace idea is spreading
rapidly, and the leaders OF the Tabernacle
movement are in constant receipt or let
tiers from many of our larger cities, whose
lar enterprises. Pastor j. l.. Scudder de-
votes a large portion of his time, already
filled to OVERLOOKING. to addressing meet
ings in interested churches out of this
city on the subject Of PEOPLES Palace
Work"
The meeting day of the Circle of Kings
Daughters, Bergen Reformed Church,
Miss Drummer. President, has been
changed from Monday to Wednesday.
The Christmas Club. composed Of the
members of Glass No, Is OF the Lafayette
Reformed Sunday School. has elected the
following officers:-Vice President, Flo
renee Wilkinson; Treasurer, Nellie Win
tiers; each member acting in turn as sec
rotary. Th motto is. Peace on earth,
goodwill toward men," and the object TO
provide a Christmas festival for destitute
children of the Roosevelt Street Medical
Mission Sunday School. Each member
is pledged TO spend five minutes q day in
work with the hands for the society. and
meetings are held on alternate Thurs
lays at which half al hour is spent in
miscellaneous exercises and half an nour
in sowing. Among the members are
Annie McDougall, Florence Wilkinson,
Bessie Wilkinson, Annie Waters, Nellie
Winters, Georgia Struble and Lillian
I'routen.
A week of privilege will be held at the
First Presbyterian Church the week be-
ginning January "a. The speakers Will
be the Rev. Pleasant Hunter. Jr., OF
Ne wark; the Rev. A. N. Hollifield, y. D.,
of Newark, and the Kew. Prol. M. w.
Jacobus of Hartford.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Bergen
Reformed Church, has been accustomed
until the present season TO meet in the
tvestry every other Thursday af-
s~ernoon, each member providing
Tome article for II luncheon. For
his season, however, anorher method
ings are now held at the members house $.
The last meeting was held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Apgar, when, after the
business of the meeting was conclude d,
an afternoon tea WAS held. Next s.
day afternoon. January 81. the society
will be entertained by Mrs. John j. Tof-
fey, of Magnolia avenue.
New York churches have proved a
strong Sunday night attraction for the
young people of Lafayette. Every sun
day evening a party of four young men
and four young ladies attend service at
some church over the river. The lls5 al
ready comprises St. Bartholomaw's, DR..
Paxton's, Old st. Johns, on Varick
street: ST. Paul's and DR.. Plrkhurst's.
The Rev. Henry A. Westall will tomor-
row evening deliver the second of a course
OF sermous on WHAT Liberal Christians
Believe" at the First Universalist
Church, Summit avenue. near Grand
street. The special topic is, What Lib
eral Christians Believe About God"
Tile Holland Society held its seventh
annual dinner ut the Manhattan Club
building, F~orty-fith street and Madison
avenue, New York city, on Thursday
evening. A novel feature of the occasion
was that ~cieraymen responded to all the
toasts. Jersey City was well represented.
The Rev. Cornelius Brett and the Rev.
Dir. William r. Duryee of New Bruins
wick, for twenty.seven years a Jersey
City pastor, are prominent members OF
this society.
Rev. p. d. Van Cleef of the Wayne
Street Reformed Church delivered mot