The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-18

FLOURISHING ST. JOHNS
Pleasant Reading in the
Great Hill Free Church
Year Book.
ST. AGNES'S INVASION.
Rector Stoddard Aggrieyed at the
Action of the Bishop and a
Sister Church.
AGNES'S INVASION.

! The parish Year BoOh lor 1899, pN"
lished by st. Johns Free Church. sum
NIT avenue, makes interesting reading,
even the statistics, which have not the
reputation of being absorbing. Inc
| Sunday school has a total enrolment OF
73t. CTS pupils and 46 teachers. and has
raised 81, 1890 during the past year by
offerings. The St. Cecilia, otherwise
known as the main choir of the church,
mas an active membership of 80, IA So
pranos, 6 contraltos, Z tenors, 5 basses.
with Mr.. John White as musical director
and Mr.. Moritz Schwarz, assistant organ
ist. There is in addition a vested choir
| of eighteen voices, with ten in training,
and a Junior choir, which sings in the
Sunday schco! and numbers twenty girls
voices.
Tne rector announces that there has
never been a difference which has ap-
preached the dignity of a quarrel" which
indicates q praise worthy desirs to let by
cones be by-gones.
THE GUILDS.
st. Andrews Association is comp osed
of workinCmen, started in 1877 with hYe
| and now numbers one hundred members.
rOE IWo 1ttiiS ~ tltp Oio ACOL'S
junction for chapel II reading room;
| St. Andrews Sewing Guild is composed
of members wives, and meets for work
on Thursday at two z. M. MIR. A. l.,
| Clements conducts the mems society,
and Miss NJ. e. Ready of the sewing
guild.
The Woman's Auxiliary numbers forty
| three MEMBERS, and hnsraist d during iht
year $237. 16, of which $72. so was from SUI
| scriptions. Ii has sent one box and three
| packages to Southern Missions. The
The Altar and CHARITY Guild. com snstd
of young married ladies vi the CT urch..
has furnished the altar with flowers
through the year, and given various
articles of clothing, ETC., worth Sl4S. The
Visiting and Relief Committee, a truly
| prais eWorthy organization reports an ex-
peudlLure OF $405 .0S for necessaries to
| different poor families. Mrs. Collerd,
Miss Ready, Miss M. G. Stotdard. Mrs.
Stoddard, Miss Collerd, Miss Van Gelder.
| and Mrs. Mallory present subsidiary re-
ports.
The Guild of the Holy Cross hns 81
mem bers aud nine commlttees. jhe
| Committee on Sick made IA visits to SICK
members, 25 members OF the Hospital
Committee visited the, hospital; the Com
| mittee on Church Periodical CLUB sent 8
books or PAPERS regularly and 3o7 at dill
ferent times to missionaries: the Commit
tee on Hospitality reports s visits; ON
| WOfk, 2HTiiltuGS klNcu w bhG FdANO VI
| $685. and the Entertainment Committee,
the results of the recent Authors Carni-
val, from which 500. OF was received. h
Treasurer reports Il balance OF 500 So.
The Industrial School also reports a
prosperous year, and IA considerable sum
as the result of the annualf far.
The Guild Of ST. Mary is composed of
younger girls. has 25 members, mas held
10 meetings, and sent out work to the
value of $50. st Mary's Guild has 2S
members. and has held "a meetings: with
IN average ~tendanc of 20. The Iron
Cross has a large active membership, has
given two entertainments and several
sociables, and will o o enlarge Its GYM
nasium. The Rev. Mr.. Trimmer is in
charge. The IL Amt Afraid Society" Is
more attentive TO the rules Of good con-
| duct than its name 10 the rules OF gram
mar. Their first rule is to occupy the
| temporary seats in the aisles, giving up
| The seats In the pews to others. The
Mems Guild sleeps quietly through the
year and wakes promptly when there is
anything to be done.
A MISSION INVASION.
1t appears from the Year BOOK that
the parish has been unjustly treated by
the Bishop and another church In this
city. The Rev. Mr.. Sloddard explains In
his chapter on 1.-The Coming of st. Agnes
into the Parish" how another rector
came iuto his precincts and erected n
| Cuapel pOb WOTt lUdu udil u iull6 lEOHi
his church without so much as letting
him know. lie wrote to the Bishop
about it and the Bishop replied that the
Rev. Mr.. Stoddard had been asked for
permission to plant q mission in thai
spot some years before, and that he had
refused, and that any way, he (the Key:
MIR. Stoddard) was tho last in the world
to throw stones, for his own church had
been built in precisely the same way.
The Rev. Mr. Stodfard adults the
truth of these statements but doesn't
see, how that affects the unpleas-
ant fact that st. Johns has lost
a large number of desirable members,
who, instead of taking the long, M hill
walk every Sunday, have taken up their
church nome at St. Agnes's Chapel. He
evidently tries hard to keep up his spirit
of Christian ~forbearance, but toward the
end the situation becomes too much for
him and lie relieves himself as follows;-
II regret, not that the church is spread
Ing in Lafayette, but that In coming here
st. Agnes should not have shown herself
u little more familiar with the Canons of
the Diocese, though that is perhaps not so
strange, for as far as / know her, she is
not much at home in our church.
81 regret, which ia q saint of her stand
ing and antiquity is singular, that her
coming should have been wanting Ia
courtesy.
II regret still more, for the other regrets