The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-25
LOCAL CHURCH MATTERS.

Holy Week and GOOD Friday.
The musicale under the auspices of the
ladies of Simpson NJ. E. Church has been
postponed I'm til after Easter. The date
was originally March %.
The rite Of confirmation will be a adj
ministered Wednesday evening. in Ho ly
Week, March 90, at ST. job ms Free
Church, Summit avenue.
The Rev. II. j. Kommers, Pastor of the
Lafayette Reformed Church, has issued
book-mark cards bearing dates OF meet
ings and ten rules for church mem 9ers:
The Rev. Henry G. Cronin OF Kansas
City will preach for the first time as the
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
of this city on Sunday morning, April 23.
Services in st. Mary's F. E. Church.
Hoboken avenue. will be held every day
next week, at ten A.. M. and four r. M;
There will be the Three Hours Agony
services on Good Friday. and also service
In the evening at eight O'Clock.
Beginning with next Monday, daily
services will be held in Grace Church,
Second street, until Friday at half past
ten A. M. On Good Friday. services at
hall past ten A. Al. and eight P. M.
Easter Even services at half past ten A.
NJ. and half past four p. M.
Next Monday, Tuesday and Saturday
there will be service and sermon at half
past three P. NJ. at Christ Church. Ar
lington and Claremont avenues. Wednes-
day and Thursday at eight p. NJ, and
Good Friday at ten A. M. The services
will be held in the chapel, Clerk street
and Claremont venue The service on
Good Friday will have a sad interest to
the parishioners, as on that day the late
Rev. S. H. Baitin was to have delivered
the discourse.
The Rev: q: G. Tiffany, d; D., Rector
emeritus Of the Church of Zion and st.
Timothy, New York City. will preach to-
morrow evening at St. PauIs p. E.
Church. Duncan avenue. Holy week
services will be on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday at five P. NJ. and Good
Friday at eleven A. NJ. and eight P. NJ.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
the Bergen Reformed Church. Bergen
avenue, at eleven A. NJ. There will be Il
Good Friday service at eight z. NJ.
The Sociological Society of the Peoples
Palace met last Thursday night to dis
cuss the subject. What is Wealth."
On Good Friday evening the topic for
the meeting at the Tabernacle will be
1.-The Suffering and Death of Christ"
A concert for ths benefit of the Lafay-
cite NJ. E. Church will be held in the
church building April II.
ST. Mary's Guild of st. Johns Free
Church will give a reception after Easter,
by which time it is expected that the
funds necessary to enlarge the church
will have been raised.
Two Salvation Army lasses conducted a
revival meeting at the John Knox Pres
byterian Church. Manning avenue, last
night.
tonight IN the parlors of the First Presby-
terrain Church, Emory street, from half
past seven to niue O'Clock, under the
direction of DR.. s. Austen Pearce. The
chorus will be trained in taking intervals,
complex time beating, breath taking,
voice production and proper enunciation.
Instruction is free and singers will be
| accepted until the number lou to
one hundred.
The next menu of Miss Harriet Ponds
| cookery class at the Tabernacle, under
the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary. will
be fish chowder, hot cross buns and apple
custard pudding.
St. Peters Sodality Lyceum will pro-
duce Handy Andy" April 3. 4 and 5, ut
The Rev. d. J. Ellison will lecture in
the Bergen Baptist Church on Tuesday
evening, April 4, on "A Thousand Miles
Down the Danube"
The fourth gospel temperance meeting
at the Newman Mission will be held to-
morrow at four P. NJ, under the auspices
of the w. c.. r. u. the hev. j. L. Wells
and Rev. VIM. Morgan will speak. Good
music is promised.
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In the First German Evangelical
Church. Monmouth street. Rev. Matthew
| Miller, Pastor, the rite Of confirmation
will be administered tomorrow morning.
| (Palm Sunday. There will be special
singing and a violin solo by Mr., Theodore
| Arnheiter. The church issues each month
| a paper called the ChTistticher HdnS-be.
sotcher. The first number appeared this
month and contained, besides all the
church news, some very Interesting read
ing matter. The editor is the Pastor of
the church. On April 10 the willing
| Workers." consisting of one of the classes
of boys of the Sunday school, will hold
| an entertainment to procure money for
some new banners for anniversary DAY
and other occasions.
An aggressive rescne service will be
held In the Tabernacle tomorrow even
| ing. Little Jessie the Gypsy Girl. a con-
verified circus rider, will take part.
Superintendent Charles E. Bellon of Nc
Auley Cremorne Mission will be in
Rev. John l.. Scndder and Mrs. M. NJ.
Guidon of New York. Mrs. Guidon will
sing aud play several selections on the
autoharD.
Mr., Glen Taylor of New York will con-
duct the service at che Second Presoy-
terrain Church. Third street near Jersey
avenue, tomorrow evening. Mr.. Joseph
A. Dear will speak on Industry as q Re-
forming Agency" Mr.. D. v. Bergen.
President of The Newman Mission ana
Rescue Home, will also speak. The
Newman Rescue Circle, under the leader
ship of Thomas II. McMahan, will give
brief testimonies.
The pulpit of the Rev. William Eakins,
at ST. Paul's M. E. Church, will be filed
tomorrow evening by a clergyman from
Iowa. In the morning there will be
communion service.
The Ladies' Friendly League of Church
Workers will hold a sale of linens and
fancy articles April IS and IA In the La
fayette Reformed chapel.
There will be u Teachers Institute next
Thursday evening, March 80, in which
the teachers of the Lafayette Sunday
schools will unite. The exercises will be
held in the CHI APPEL of the Lafayette M. E
Church, beginning at seven O'Clock with
a tea, continuing with addresses and
discussion.
AT the vesper services at the Church OF
Our Lady of Grace. Hoboken, tomorrow
evening, Miss Katie Quirk, aud Messrs.
Gallagher and Moran of the Choral Union
will sing 20 Salutarus."
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