New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-07
WHATAPASTORS EESANDHEARS
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO CHURCH
PEOPLE

PEOPLE.
The New-York Presbvtery. which meets reXt Mon
day In the scotch Church. has busy day In prospect
Among other important things will be paper pre-
pared BY committee appointed TO consider the NOr
in the recent heresy trial ara TO express the juG.
ment Of the court In view of the decision As the
vote was In DR.. Briggss favor the committee wa,
chosen from those who voted TO acquit HIM The
three members, DR.. George Alexander. Dr. Henry
van Dyke and Robert Jaf:ray may be trusted 10
submit report which will be just and conciliatory,
but their task Is not enviable one ana II IS
almost too much 10 hope that the result will be-
entirely salts factory to the extreme men In either
party Another topic OF interest on Monday viii be
the report of the Committee the Suiritual Needs
OF the CITY
Dr. Il. s. Macarthur, of the Calvary Baptist
Church. presided at the meetings Of the American
Institute Of Christian Philosophy this week. and re-
ferred with deep emotion 10 DR.. {. F. Deems the
president OF the institute and the pastor OF the Church
of the strangers, who Is suffering from paraly tic
shoch II was thought ut first that Dr. Deems had
writer's cramp but subsequent developments Show
that his right side Is parayzed. lie Is reported TO
bo more comfortable this week than last. however.
Dr. Macarthur paid a glowing tribute TO his friend,
dwelling upon his work preacher and pastor IN
the interests of both RELIGION and science and in the
cause of humanity throughout the world Dr. Mac
Arthur seemingly one 'of the busiest Of city pastors,
has a sermon every week In The Christian Herald
DR.. Talmages paper, filling the page occulieu 81
long BY hpurgeOn's sermons.
DR. A. ii. Bradford of Montclalr enters the
editorial staf Of The Christian Union this week
His department is entitled c. The Religious w6rld''
and the current religious topics at home and abroad
are discussed in interesting manner. Or. BRAD
ford Is live man THEORETICALLY and Intellectually, and
his accession TO the stan Of DR.. Lyman Abbotts
paper cannot fail to strengthen one of the best
rel gious wccklics in the country.
The preachers Will again Monday morning,
having rested from their weekly conferences during
the holiday season. The PresbyteTians will discuss
SUNDAY school Teaching. and the MetiodstS Iehny-
son as a Christian Poet"
Three Christian Endeavor meetings Of interest are
announced a. This evening the Executive Committee
Of the New York Local Union will meet in the Grace
Reformed Church in West F1fty-fourthst. Dr. D. ID.
TYLER viii lead the meetings. CO on Monday, at =
D. H. the Christian Endesvcr Workers frJm the Re
formed Churches will hi Id conference AT the Church
House. No. 20 East Twenty secondst.. 10 consider how
they can best work together for missions. CD Tie
PRESBYTERIAN societies will send representatives, TO
conference at the Pres5y terrain House. No. 50 Fifth
ave- on January II. The Rev. il. I. McEwen VIII
preside and addresses will be made by DR.. D. j. Nc
Milan secretary of the b, ard OF Home Missions and
Robert T. speer SECRETARY Of The Board of Foreign Mis-
slons.
OF all the interesting symposums that "The lnde
pendent" has published during the last wear no one has
been mor practical than that presented this week ON
"Unchlrched Classes" The articles hl eight pages
and the writer's include the Rev. Drs. Edward JudS)n
Josiah Strong. G. L. Thompson II. A SchocAier ana
:. l.. Baldwin Joseph "A. Ris tie author of " How the
Other Half Live; Anthony Coms.ock. Father hunting
ton Commander Booth, the Rev. j. l.. Scudder tls
Rev Henry Wilson,. Henry Rood. A. 5 Hatch, Com
missioner Porter and II. c. BEDFORD The religious
ruhllc is under heavy debt t. Mr.. Bowen Tor pro
curing this representation of helpful articles from
practical
The managers Of the PRESBYTERIAN Hospital have
made TN appeal the friends Of the suffering Tor IN
creased aid in conducting the work OF the hospital
A. least 600, they say IL addition to the present
Income will be required for the current expenses OF
The yeur and at any less amount the work no"
accomplished must be diminished. They report that
l37S2 persons benefited By the hospital'servlce
during the last year. James LenoX the president
I'm opening the hospital twenty-five years ago de-
clared that 1t WAS Presbyterian In its burdens
because founded by Presbyterians; undenominationa
in its benefits, because for the reception Of patients
irrespective Of creea, nationality or color Dr.
Tufield at recent meeting OF the Presbytery SAID
that Of the patients treated last year so per cent
were free patients and Of the entire number 30
Ter cent Roman Catholics and only 10 per cent
Presbyterians