The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-29
LOCAL CHURCH MATTERS.

Pulpit Changes for the Month of August
MANY Churches Closed.
Praise services are held on Sunday evening in
the lecture room of the Bergen Baptist Church,
while the main building is closed for the sum
mer.
The Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Faulks of Summit
avenue are at Ocean Grove for the summer.
The Rev. H. @. Cronin leaves next week for
Asbury Park. where he will spend his vaca-
lion.
Tomorrow will be the last Sunday on which
the Rev. Mir. Trimmer, assistant to the rector of
st. Johns Free Church, Summit avenue, will
be at the church. He leaves the following
Tuesday for Heimetta. to take charge of a par
ish there.
The Lafayette Reformed Church is closed for
the sumner. Extensive repairs will be made
during the month Of August.
The Rev. Gotriiet Audreas will take leave of
the Third Reformed Church, Bayonne, on Sun
day, August 0. He has for several years con
Quoted this church, as we'll asAhiS own.
The Bergen Reformed Church is closed for the
summer.
The Epworth League Prayer Meeting topic for
tomorrow evening, at the West Side M. E
Church, will be Receiving the Holy Ghost y
Mr.. John f. Murch will lead the meeting.
The union vacation services of the down town
morning, at 10. 80, in the Second Presbyterian
Church, Third street. Services will be held
twice each Sunday. morning and evening, to
and including the first Sunday In September.
Music will be by a volunteer choir.
Mr.. Lester Lewis, a rising young musician of
GreeDviile, will preside at the organ of the La
fayette NJ. =. Church IN the absence of the
| regular organist, Miss Sarah L. Culver, who
leaves next Tuesday for Saratoga. Mr.. Lewis
Is a musician of much promise.
The congregation of the First Reformed
Church, Bayonne. are TO lose their popular Pas
tor. the Rev. John Knox, who has accepted a
call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian
Church, New Brunswick. Mr.. Knox leaves q
host of friends and a church which is now en-
loving the h6Y0avS OF itq DrOsDarity
The officials of the Grove Reformed Church,
New Durham, are negotiating for the purchase
OF the old Baptist Chapel on the Hackensack
Plank road and Church lane, New Durham.
This is one of the Oldest church edifices in the
vicinity. The Grove Church congregation will
maintain it as a mission branch.
The Rev. DR.. Houghton of -Hoboken liz at Pine
Hill in the Ca.skiiis, for a three months So
journ in charge of the Church of the Transfigra-
tion. DR.. Houghton was Instrumental in build
ing this church In the summer of 1892 and
breaches in it during the summer months, the
congregatio n being mostly summer borders.
Tue exte fior of the Ascension Episcopal
Church on New York avenue has been neatly
renovated.
The new Ell fee of the Pilgrim Baptist Church
on Charles stree t viii be ready for occupation
by the middle Of next month.
During the recrorate of Rev. DR.. Houghton OF
tho Trinity Episcopal Church, Hoboken, which
commenced in 1878, bis parish has in increased to
1000 souls and has ooo communicants When be
took charge of the church the list only included
rs communicate. The church has ten active
and useful auxiliaries aud its property is valued
at $1,000
The Presbyterian Mission under the vigorous
impetus of its fiue new building is RAPIDLY in-
creasing in membership. superintendent
Condit expects that the renewed exertions of
the mission work of the fall will produce great
results ia building up its growth and usefulness.
The First M e. Sunday school of Bayonne has
fine Sunday school choir and orchestra Super
intendent James Coward Is making this one of
the most succe ssful Sunday schools of South
Hudson County.
The St. Johns Lutheran congregation. Union
Hill intend to raise their church, Construct a
new Sunday school room underneath aud make
extensive alterations Ia the front OF the edihce.
The contemplated improvements with cost nearly
5000.
s&The Rev, j. c. Jackson. PHI. D., will preach In
the Holding N. e. Church, Mont gomery street.
tomorrow evening. on the timely topic, "Why /
Believe in Early Closing of the Stores.
AT ST. Paufs II. e. Church, between Grove
and Erie streets. the Rev. William Eakins, Pastor.
will preach tomorrow night on the topic, ..1he
I Old Folks at Homs.'' This is the last OF a
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