New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-03

ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO CHURCH
PEOPLE

Several churches which have been closed during
July and August will reopen tomorrow, and Others,
which have held single services Sunday, will resume
the second service. For the first time in several
wears the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church has
had two services on sunday during August. Dr.
Arthur T. Person has had large audiences at every
service: last Sunday many Obliged 10 stand In
the morning, and in the evening tho church was well
flied. Tomorrow evening he will begin series OK
after meetings, when he will answer letters which
have been received during the week relating to per-
sonal religion.
Among the pastors who will met thor people to-
morrow for the first time after their Vacations is the
Rev. L. offecker, of the Church OF the Saviour in
One hundred and ninthst., near Madson.avc.
In spite Of special orders given by the Street
Cleaning Department, due TO the cholera one
doSs have to travel far on the East side to see
quantities filth left In the streets, and vile looking
fruit lying carts and stands. 1t is true that
the condition has been improved very much Of late
but stil sees many places that seem to be simply
waiting for the cholera to get foothOld here; es
peciay is this true where piles of dirt heaped together
by the sweepers remain for hours. emitting foul
odors before the to remove them. The
garbage cans overhauled by the searchers for rags
and bones, soon litter the streets again after the
sweepers have passed, and apparently nothing Is
done to prevent refuse being cast into the street
DR.. Van Dyke, Of the Brick Church, who went
abroad early In the summer is expected home soon.
In June he visited the hghhll cities OF Tuscany and
Umbra, in July he explored the Tyro and last month
he was at Innsbruck q part of the time. The first
person he entering the Hotel Tyrol was Bishop
Brooks. Dr. Van Dyke Will miss very much his
efficient elder John c. Tucker member OF the BncK
Church than generation, who died last week
DR.. George F. Pentccost's statement regarding the
P,ndita Ramabai of India, is severely criticised by
writer to "The Christian UDion," who calls IL "a
tissue Of misstatemelts." DR.. Penecost Is reported
to have said that Ramabai went back TO India com
missioned by the Untarans of America to establish
school for Hindu widows that she forbidden to
pray where the widows could hear her, 10 speak
TO them on the subject OF Christ Christianity that
Ramabai, though member Of the Episcopal Church,
had never been q Christian till she heard him preach
for fortytwo consecutive nights In India when she
declared her conversion 1t is probable that Dr.
Pentecost will have word to say in reply to this
denial of his statement.
Within a month after the Christian Endcavor Con-
vention held In this city fully 1000 societies
were added. The New York societies are TO have
moonlight excursion up the Hudson this month This
evening the executive committee of the local union
will meet in the First Union Presbyterian Church. at
Eighty -sixth-st. and LeXingop-aye, when brief ad
dresses on &" Our society," will be given.
Special interest centres about the opening of the
Union Seminary this year, DR.. Philip Schaf the
Professor Of Church History who was announced to
deliver the annual address September 90 has had
paralytc shock since the seminary closed He Is
so much better however that 1t is expected he will
be able to fulfil this duty. On the following Monday
the Of Professor Briggs will begin before the Pres
bytery.
In recent sermon DR.. Lyman Abbott, Of Pym-
outh Church. Brooklyn had this reference TO the com
ing Briggs trial The PresbyteIians gather In the
West to try DR.. Briggs. DR.. Briggs is on trial. but
the Presbyte General Assembly is also on trial,
one as much as the other and the world looks TO
see. Christ has told Christians how they are TO try
another. They are to 90 quietly to the man VINO
Is wrong; they TO tell him his wrong, to invite
him to take different course; and if they cannot
succeed they are to take another witness and
finally, they to go TO the Church and place the
matter before the Church; and when they put 1t be-
fore the Church they TO do 1t in spirit OF love
and charity. They to look for the best In the
man. not for the worst. Now the world Is look
ing how this Church tries Its members. What
sits in the judgment seat? Is ii prejudice. and
passion, wrath. and bltteness7 Or is 1t charity,
and love- and gcnteness and patience and judicial
temper, and great desire only for righteousness In
the kingdom Of God9 DO not answer the question
] only ask it. But the Church is its trial. and
Gods fan is in His hand"
writer to The Independent makes q remarkably
practical suggestion In regard To foolish customs at
weddings and funerals. She says: g II society would
use the money expended for wedding presents In
proper tenemenhouses, free baths for the poor or
public parks, to send boys and girls to college the
results in happiness would be increased a thousand
argued that the making of these
costly things gives work to the poor. IS 900 clock
may give work to the poor, but it Is scarcely an open
question whether 5000 used in the making Of nails
or ploughs would not give much more work, and I'm a
much more useful way. 5000 dress might help
somebody, but the results OF the 5000 I'm sending
two boys or girls college, with their consequent
usefulness or the building Of three houses for hard
working poor people, above comparison with the
dress
Not long ago a widow died who for several years
had been q church pensoner, often going for two or
three days at time without food because she had no
money, and ashamed 10 let her wants become
known, because she said there were poor people
I'm the church who really needed the money! After
her death it found that relative had insured
her life time before, and from her miserable
attic room In a tenement house her body was
taken to Greenwood the expense of the funeral being
S31. Could part Of the money thus wickedly wasted
have been used for her comfort while living she would
have been happier then, and now, 100 If possible.