The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-03
HAPPY new YEAR,
How 1898 Was Joyously
Ushered Into Hudson
County.
STAGS IN THE CLUBS.
carteret, Palma. j. C. A. c.,
Y. M. c. A., and New Jersey
Members All Celebrate
in Their Own Par
ticular Ways.
Charity Shared The First Day Of
the Year With Revelry-NeW-
man Mission Work.
STAGS IN THE CLUBS.
ouce more. a happy Kew Yearl

Once more. happy New Yearl
And did you put on that this morn
ing? The man who can keep his letters
up to date for the first five days of the
New Year is but stranger here. Heaven
is his home 1t is the one great mistake
with which the world begins the year,
except. perhaps. the illiterate Hottentot.
who does not write letters. and the
heather Chinee, who does not reckon
time A. d.
There ought to be rustling in the air
on New Years morning, SO many new
leaves go turning over; there surely must
be a sort of cracking. crashing sound to-
day, so many lovely new cast-iron. steel
clasped resolutions get broken all out OF
shape before the evening of January 2
Good resolutions are such nice things
to have in the house They provide people
with such elevated ideals that they can't
ever reach, such lofty aspirations that
lift them above common clay and all that
SOFT of thing, and it doesn't cost any more
to make perfectly angelic set Of resolu-
lions, since you have no idea OF keeping
them anyway.
The churches kept the New Year with
love feasts and watch services, and sun
rise prayer meetings. The Methodist
Episcopal watch-nights began In almost
everv church at nine O'Clock and kept up
until midnight, yet The congregations.
somewhat sleepy-eyed, appeared at mern-
ing service. at ST. Johns Church, Mr..
John Whites choral service "The
Nativity" was given at evensong. At the
GreenvilIe Reformed Church. there was
a song service in honor of the day; In
fact every choir was on its mettle.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
The Rev. j. c. Jackson at the Hedding
NJ Z. Church on Sunday evening an
eloquent New Years sermon. In the
course OF it, he sad:-"In Lentzs's pic
ture Western Emigration in the Capitol
at Washington the emigrants have toiled
through IN arduous way and now repose
upon rocky ridge. over looking a fair
land into which they are about to enter.
In like manner we have travelled through
the passes of 1872. through the bloom of
the spring, the hervestS of summer, the
fruitage of autumn and now for thirty -one
days through the wintry crags and deso-
lutions OF December, until we are in the
borders of a new time.
eft is an hohr for recollection and antic-
ipation. for the retrospect and prospect.
We should not be saddened by the rapid
flight of time. The years are fleeting,
but Heaven is nearing. We have come
over mucn of the journey safely, and we
would not not go over it again II we
uld.
.Ac VIC stand hara and m; 20 a oct1vverd
glance, the past year seems full of happy
faces. We have lots of life left to us, and
let us resolve to spend it for God. AS we
go over into the future let us take with
us faith. The face of the coming year is
veiied from US; it is hidden in mercy.
Calamity for some of US stands there.
Death, our great hereditary enemy, will
claim one-fortteth part of the human
race this year, and may claim us or our
friends. If we have had Ill fortune
in the past year, cherish the expectations
of better times. However, help the poor
souls who has no hope todayl
"a Thousand men in this city are hop
ing to turn over a new leaf today, but in
a month they will be no better than they
are now, because they will make no
proper effort. The future effort exer-
cised under divine grace. whereby the
seven deadly sins may be transmitted
into cardinal virtues. Lay aside all the
ill grudge of '92. Whatever ills you have
suffered from your fellow men, do not
lose faith in human nature. You will
fiud those about you grow better by
trusting them more"
YOUNG CHRISTIANS NEW YEAR.
The Young Mems Christian Assucia-
tion rooms on Wayne street were deco
rated yesterday for the reception of call
ers. Owing to the kindness of the Ladies'
Auxiliary Committee, refreshments were
plentiful, and the pleasure of entertain
ing callers lasted from two o'clock in the
afternoon until ten at night, and it Is
estimated that about five hundred men,
women and children called.
In the evening the gymnasium class
gave au exhibition of swork on parallel
bars, ring swinging. horizontal bar per-
formances. A wrestling match between
r. A. Craig and G. T. Nichols afforded
entertained the guests were:-D. L.
Curtis. James W. Greig. Harry F. Bush,
Edward Cahill, r. A. Craig. C. f. Nichols,
A. Harvey, H. Schmidt, S. Ludwig, H.
Lamont, Director E. ]. Welch, Walter
Clarke. J. W. Lucss As, E: Cahill. Charles
Coe. Fred W. Esher, William Sherwood,
Fred Yerrlngton. Harvey Morris, James
Weiss. Harry Lucas.
THE TABERNACLE's RECEPTION.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Committee of the
Tabernacle Peoples Palace, gave a recep-
tion in the assembly room between five
ana ten L. M, anu SeIVeu refreshments
to many callers. The Indies of the
Auxiliary Committee are Mrs. Horace C.
Wait, President; Mrs John Ewing.
Mrs. G. w. CIerihew, Mrs.
Horace H. Farrier Mrs. Hiram H.
Lutier, Mrs. James l.. Vosburgh and the
Misses Florence E. Turner, Allenetta
Frost ard Bessie Hunt. Mrs. Lutier had
charge of the supplies. The guests were
waited upon at the refreshment tables by
the Misses Bessie and Edith M. Hunt,
Grace and Lydia Watson. Addie and
Louise DeHart, Addfe and Allie Scudder,
Addie and Emma Ivans, Florence Cleri-
hew, May Bruce and Miss Hig0inbotham.
Jessie Thompson and Ida Heniger. little
girls recited in the evening very credit
ably. Pastor John l.. Scudder and his
wife and Assistant Pastor J.. Lester Wells
and his wife were present and assisted
actively.
THE NEWMAN HOME.
The Newman Home kept open house
yesterday and received more than six
hundred callers. All of these guests
were plentifully supplied with such re-
treshments as cake, coffee, lemonade and
lruit
The guests Of the Home were received
jointly by Crusade Division, Sons Of Tenn