The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-30
OF THE CHURCHES
The Conventions of Socie-
ties to Be Held During
October.
EPWORTa LEAGUERS IN THIS CITY
Rally Of the Ghautauqua Circles
The Christian Endeavor Con-
yenlion in Trenton.
EPWORTH LEAGUERS IN THIS CIT,

row there will be several conventions
held In this vicinity by societies auxiliary
to the church. Prominent among these
are the State Convention OF the Young
Peoples Society OF Christian L ndcavor,
to be held In Trenton, the convention Of
the Epworth League. TO be held in the
West Side ME-. Church. and the rally of
Chautauqua Circles. to be held in the
tabernacle tomorrow night.
The last named is Of general import
auce, owing to Its literary and scientific
as well as religious character. There are
several large and prosperous societies In
important the enthusiastic society at the
Tabernacle, the Circle at tn Young
Mems Christian Association, which is an
old established one. the circle made up
OF members of vario us churches
In the vicinity of Palisade aven ne.
and BIZ 10 means least in age,
numbers and interest, the well know IA
circle In the West Side Methodist Episco-
pal Church. Mr.. w. Fl. Beach. to whose
efforts tue success Of this last named
organization IL largely due. will address
the meeting. Professor Horace @. Wait,
whose curse of lectures on the Greeks,
read before the C~hautauqua Circles last
make an address. Solon Briggs, Nj. D..
ana Mrs. John H. d are also ant
nounced as speakers.
The speaker TO whose remarks the cir
Giles Iook forward with the greatest inter-
est is Bishop Vino emit, the founder of
Cnautauqua. and stlil the most earnest
worker for It's Welt are. The presence OF
this man, to whose foresight and energy
ls due this wonderful system OF mental
| and moral development. Is ex pected by
those in charge of the programme
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoRERs.
The Christian Enueavor movement Is
in Jersey City the most powerful and
widely distributed of all the church's
| auxiliary organizations. The list of
branches embraces all the principal de-
nominations of the Il evangelical Church,
| taking in several of the denominations
that support sscta rian societies OF d
similar nature. For example, QUE OF the
largest aud most enthusiastic chapters is
located in the Hedding Church, although
the Epworth League Is the recognized
| young peoples society OF The Methodist
Episcopal denomination. The Baptist
society of this type is ca lied the Baptist
Young Peoples Union. aud has many
branches in other cities. but here the
undenominatiOnal Ende avor Society
| fiourishes and has among it's most active
branches those of the Be rgen Baptist
First Baptlst. North Baptist aud Summit
Avenue Baptist, as we'll as the First
| Church OF Union Hill. First and Second
Churches of this denomination in Hobo
ken.
The Reformed Dutch Church has the
greatest lumber OF Endeayor Societies
III this city and fioboken-eleven active
branches. The Bergen Church. on Ber.
gen avenue, South B ergen. Free. Cen raj
avenue, First Refor med Of Bayonne.
First Church of Hoboken, Greenyilie,
Grove, LAT ,tyette. Wayne Street and Park
Reformed Churches are incl uded.
The Presbyterian Churches include
Church of Hoboken. John Knox, Second
Church, Scotch aud Westminster
Churches. Nearly ali of these supper
fourishing Junior Endeavor Societies.
The TaDernacle hea ds the list of Con-
gregatIonai Cnurcn--lu deed ii workinE
power, enterprise and enthusiasm count
for anything. it should stand well up TO
the head of them all. The Waverly Con-
gregational also mas n fine society.
THE JUNIOR WORK..
The Junior Eudeavor work should not
be forgotten. Much Ut its su ccess Is due
TO Mrs Alice May Scudder, whom there
is little need to introduce to any Junior
Endeayor league, as one OF the first to
carry on the. work. Mrs. Scudder's work,
Attractive Truths" has been taken as
a standard text book for Junior Endeav
or societies. Almost all the churches
having senior Eudeavor branches have
formed Junior societies, in which the
services are OF the same natu re but more
adapted in form TO their years.
From all this showing of Jersey City
churches, one may see how lifting it is
that The State convention should be held
here next year. and how muc CD cause the
Eudeavorers have toncry, Jersey City in
1884,
THE STATE ENDEAvoR CONVENTION.
As the lime rur noidlng the Seventh
Annual Stale Convention draws ou, the
pre- pa ration on the part of the commit
large proportions. The Entertainment
| COMMITTEES has been busy making the
necessary arrangements for the reception
of the delegates IN the hotels and homes
OF the people. According to the last ad-
vice the committee was meeting with the
most gratifying success; one 9 ociety has
agreed to entertain three hundred dele
gates. The Unknown Quantity. of course.
Is the number VINO will ate Id our
gathering, but In some way or other the
idea prevails. that the conve ntion will
reach the two thousand mark. The
music of the convention promises to BIO
one of the features. Edward w. Durham,
leader of the singing in the Asbury PARK
Auditorium, will conduct the singing,
A aided by the celebrated ParK Sister of
New York aud by a chorus OF one hun
bred ana fifty voices from the societies of
rhe city. The programme contains tine
names Of many Well known e~ndeavorers:
Rev. Francis e. Clark. D. D., Rev. T. H.
Lewis. President Of the Western Mary
land College, the preacher Of the c,n-
~vention sermon at Montreal; Rev.
r.. K. Dsbbins. u. D., District
Secretary Of the Baptist Union,
Philadelphia. whose topic will be,
"How t, sucs,e Socie' les Ia Missions;"
Miss Autoipesle 7. Jones, of Massachu
sstts. gu )erlnLendent OF tne Floating So
cset.es VI ChfisLian Fade ,vor. will speak
uroa her %patEteuIar dap ir tment of work;
Kew. f. l.. Young VII nll a similar
G p tcity with refereucs to the especial
teasure in which he Is fnteres ted. namely.
tue work among the life-saying stations;
thea, too, The Traveller Unipn IS TO be
Was Very Nervous