The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-02
CHURCH NEWS NOTES.

May Ia
A literary entertainment will be given next
Friday evening at the Second Methodist Protes-
tant church.
The chapel car Evange. leaves West Seattle
for Philadelphia this morning via the Northern
Pacific railway.
Rev. David Claiborne Garrett. rector of st.
Marks, last evening discussed the question,
"where il Heaven?'
The regular bi-monthly communion service
was held yesterday at the Battery street Method
list Episcopal church
The women's Guild OF st Marks Episcopal
church will meet at the .ectory Wednesday af.
ternoon at o'clock
Rev. s. Alonzo Bright has been unwell for sew.
eral days, but was in his pulpit as usual yester-
day morning and evening.
The Ladies' Aid society OF the Market street
Baptist church have made arrangements to hold
dime social Friday evening.
The Junior Epworth League will hold q
flower social at the Battery street Methodist
Episcopal church next Friday night
The Epworth League society OF the Battery
Methodist Episcopal church will hold q special
meeting in the church parlors this evening
A social wilibe given BY the members of st.
Marks church at the residence of James 7.
Lentxy, No. 2,224 Second street, Thursday even
ing.
Inc reguldr monthly meeting OF the CITY
League Cabinet Council will be held at the
First Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow
evening.
The Woman's Missionary meeting of tbs Ply
mouth Congregational church society will be
deferred one week owing to the meeting at
Coupeville.
The Methodist ministers will meet at the First
NJ E. church parlors this afternoon and listen
to paper on Methodist Unity" by Rev. Z. s.
etockweil
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Grace Metho-
the church parlors last Friday evening. A good
sum was raised.
The Young Peoples society OF the North
Seattle Baptist church,will give game tourna-
ment at the L o. o. F. hall in North Seattle
next Wednesday evening.
Rev. A. J. Bailey, superintendent OF the Con-
gregational home mission work In the state of
Washington, has located permanently in the
Holyoke building on Front street
The trustees of the North Seattle Baptist
church will hold a meeting in the church
vestry Tuesday evening Thursday evening the
election of trustees will be held.
Rev. Thomas Baldwin occupied the pulpit OF
the Market street Baptist church yesterday
morning. In the absence of Rev. I. W. Read. and
spoke on the subject: "Zion Travelling"
At the communion service OF the Plymouth
new members were received. The membership
OF the church now numbers upwards Of 500.
At the regular monthly meeting Of the Sum
day-school board Of the Iattery street Methodist
Episcopal church yesterday afternoon Miss
Sadie Hazard was chosen assistant secretary.
The continued Increase In the congregations
Of the Plymouth Congregational church has
necessitated the ordering OF Leo folding seats,
which will be attached to the ends Of the pews.
Mrs. W. W. Ferrier. wife Of Rev. W. W. Fer
rier. the pastor OF the Brooklyn Congregational
| church, has gone East for q few months visit,
| and Mr.. Ferrier has taken rooms at ia Fourth
| street.
Rev. Alfred Inwood, pastor OF the Battery
street Methodist Episcopal church, delivered
yesterday morning the annual missionary
sermon. In the evening his subject was: "Set-
| Ting Ones Accounts With God"
The special praise music service to have been
held At the Plymouth Congregational church
last evening was postponed, owing to the sick
| ness OF one of the members of the choir. In
stead, Rev Wallace Nutting, the pastor, spoke
on Living by Bread Alone"
The Congregational sunday-school and Pub
| fishing Society expended about 5000 last year
in establishing and caring for the Sunday
schools of Washington and Northern Idaho.
| These schools today number more than 200, and
| have membership OF more than 5000.
Rev. ]. w. Read, pastor of the Market street
Baptist church, who is on his way East to attend
the national anniversary held In Philadelphia,
commencing May Is, Is at present in Lincoln,
| Neb., and writes that he has encountered storms
of all descriptions and that he has suffered from
Q severe cold
Mrs. Lydia Tichenor Bailey, wife of the Rev.
| A. j. Bailey, the new supsriu tendent of the Con-
| gregational Home Missionary Society for Wash
| ingtou. started East last week to attend the
| meeting of the Indiana Association of Churches
| and the Home Missionary Society annual meet
| ing at Washington City.
Five hundred meetings have been held since
| December and $40 persons have been convert
| ed. and ten churches aud seven Sunday schools
| have been organized in the chapel car Evangel.
Conductor" Wheeler goes TO the national
| meeting OF the Baptists this month to ask for g
car exclusively for the Pacific coast
Deacon and Mrs C. l. Mitchell for many years
active workers in the First Baptist church have
| been granted letters TO unite with the Duwamish
church. The First Baptist Church Greetings
SAYS: after having b>en faithful workers with
| us 80 long they now become pioneers in a new
church. We trust their testimony and counsel
may prove as helpful in their new field as they
have been 10 u.s."
There will be q meeting OF the entire congre-
CATION of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church, corner of Kentucky and Mercer streets,
next Thursday evening TO consider the scvisa-
biiity OF constructing 4 new temple this sum
ner Mrs d. T. Denny has decided TO the
church, as a gift, the two lots now occupied by
the temporary building. valued az s. 900.
Presiding Elder T. B. Ford and D. 7. Denny,
the leading lay delegate TO the general Metho-
dist Episcopal conference, now in session at
Omaha, will have to confront the opposition OF
both spokane snd Portland in the selection of a
location for the Episcopal residence which VIII
probably be granted to the Northwest Reports
from spokane indicate that the citizens OF that
place have bonded a suitable residence and will
state TO the conference that they are ready to
receive the bishop when appointed. AT Port
| land an active canvass is being made in hopes
| that that place will be chosen.
The Ministerial Alliance meets at the Cham
| Der OF Commerce this morning al 1890 o'clock.
One of the most pleasant features of the ser
vices at the First Baptist church is the music of
| the choir under the leadership Of organist Pro-
| lessor Dickinson. The membership OF the choir
| is as follows: organlst and leader, Professor
| W. G. Dickinson: organ blower, Robbie cald-
| well: soprano. Miss Helena MeRae, Miss Helen
| Adams, Miss Mabel Ward and Miss Florence
| Mutt; alto, Miss Florence Adams. Misc Maggie
| Upper and Miss Edith Mutt; tenor, A. G Ward
| and Leroy c. Hooker; bass, A X King, H. 5,
| Ryder and Frank Aust.
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