New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-28
WHATA PASTOR SEESANDHEARS'
ITEMS CT PERSONAL INTEREST TO CHURCH
PEOPLE


President Andrews OF Brown University will cve
the second OF his addresses In the Fifth Avenue Bap
list Church tomorrow evening His subject will bs
" Duties OF Citizenship, on the two following Sum-
day evenings he will discuss other vital TOPICS Last
week he presented Wealth. TO this influential con.
srcgation.
The damage done by fire in the Thirteenth strect
Presbyterian Church two weeks ago was extremely
slight. and the congregation wOrshipped last week in
the main auditorium usual. The fire began lust
as the Rev. W. ID. buchanan was closing his sermon.
but he able TO control the people and prevent
panic The chances OF recurrence will certainly be
mnmlzcd IL not absolutely prevented by increased
vigilance All the Indications at this church are most
favorable the congregations are larger than they have
been I'm many years, while the financial condition n
more hopeful, IL IL said, than 1t has been In twenty.
five years. At the last communion service sixteen
members were added, and there are nearly as many
that have already indicated desire to unite n
the next communion. Mr.. BUCHANAN has not lost
a single member from the Chalmers Church through
the union that has been effected Ii Is usual sop
fire and a choir trouble 10 break out in the same
week. but It is said that the quartet and chorus are
In perfect harmony and accord, are all members Of
the church and that they and the congregation and
the pastor have had the first suggestion Of any.
thing like bitterness or strife.
II the Pastors good fortune on a recent Sunday
evening listen to address by Fanny Crosby tina
blind hymnwrlter. Although deprived OF sight from
her infancy this godly woman has done service TO
The Christian Church which It's most hcnorei members
might well covet. Her simple trust in God ami her
cheerful disposition appear in every word she sp.as
is In every hymn she writes. more pleasant hour
than one spent in listening to the incidents which are
connected with the writing Of many OF her hymns II
woad be difficult TO imagine
DR.. Edward Judson, who Is holding the dedicatory
services OF his Memorial Baptist Church In Washing.
ION square this week, Will continue the discussion
on How to Reach the Masses which the Baptist
ministers took up last Monday. Few men letter
able to handle this question than DR.. JudsOn, fr
he has studied the problem by working where the
passes are, though he lives several miles from hem
DR.. james VI. King, OF the National League for the
Protection OF American Institutions. will preach at
Vas ar College tomorrow This institution observes
tomorrow instead Of last Thursday as the college day
Of prayer owing to the final preparations for the
amnations
The sermon delivered last sunday by DR.. Henry van
Dyke, of the Brick Church, on THE Present Trouble
In the Presby terrain Church and the Way Of Peace'
Is to be printed by OF those who listened to it,
There nre many wh) will agree heartily 10 Dr. van
Dykes way OF peace who do not sympathze 80 fully
with his analysis OF the present trouble. Two Or
three year, ago the American Beard appointed CON-
mttee OF nine 10 Investigate the trouble IN that Or
with several recommendations. The report was d.
vided, the RECOMMENDATION; beng adopted almost
unanimously, and the reasoning by which they were
reached being rejected with equal unanimity.
The Christian EndcavOr Societies Of the Reformed
Churches have furnished sufficient money 10 build
Christian Endeavor Church at Edger0n, Minn and
are now asked unite In building " Christian En-
dcavOr Church No. ." The Rev. William /. Cham
berlain and his WIFE at ChitC0r. India, are 70 be
the Christian EndoavOr missionaries In the foreign
field representing the Reformed Church. Mr.. Cham
borain organized OF the first EndeavOr societies
In India.
The German Theological School OF Newark reports
forty-fvc students preparing for the ministry. The
number OF alumni far j. siXtv three. OF these,
fifteen are pastors OF German churches In New-tOrl
Brooklyn and towns Brooklyn: fifteen are settled
in Northern New-JerSey. Our IN New York state SIX
I'm Philadelphia and fhern New jersey. while Others
are a cities In Oh!O-tlrcr In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ILL.,
nOl, Kansas Missouri and New England. and one l.
foreign missionary Of The Presbyterian Board in the
German colonies Ct Africa. An increase OF $4,000
for the endowment fund is urgently needed by this
school. or this amount $4,000 is already secured
Grace Church. IN broadway, has received family!
paw from Walter II. Burns of Lond0n. In memory OF
his father aud mother. This makes the fourth pew
In the church that is 10 be " forever Free