The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-22
its Christmas anniversary services next
Thursday evening.

its Christmas anniversary services next
Thursday evening.
HJyProtessant Episcopal.
Nolspecial services will be held in
Trinity Church, Hoboken, tomorrow.
Rev; Dr. Hougghton VIII preach in 1.-THE the
Straight Way Of the Lord"
The church has been handsomely decor
ated with holly and Christmas greens,
a rood SCREEN eighteen feet high for
the children's entertainment which will
be held Christmas night.
a set of chancel and office hymnals. in
Guiding "a priest and altar book, hand
someIy bound in Morocco leather, by
Misses Marguerite and Bella Via
as a Christmas offering to the church
in memory OF their father, the late J.
e. McWharton.
the first time on Christmas morning.
The children at the entertainment
Christmas night will each be presented
| the name and seal Of the church in
scribed upon the cover.
Baptist.
The Rev. Theo. Heisig will occupy his
own pulpit, that of the Parmly Memo
! morrow, both morning and evening. On
Sunday, December 30. he will preach his
farewell ermon
Summit Avenue Baptist Church next
| Wednesday afternoon the primary de
| partmenu of the Sunday school will
hold its. Christmas celebrations and dis
| tribution of presents. On Thursday even
ing the adults will give a cantata and
receive Christmas gifts.
The Rev. D. ]. Ellison. who has re-
signed rs pastor of the Bergen Baptist
| mon on December 80. Who will supply
his place is at present unknown. A
committee, consisting of Trustees Leake.
Pryor and Or. Smith, and Deacons Mil
Ter, Record. and Woolsey, have been ap-
pointed a pulpit committee to look for
a competent preacher.
The ladies of the church will tender
Mr.. Ellison farewell reception on
New Years eve. Deacon Record will
preside. The Rev.: DR.. Brett will be
| choir, and the Bradford Trio. and a set
of resolutions will be read.
Mr.. Arthur Preston. leader of the
tist Church, has been in the habit of CIV
ing the choiristers an evenings en-
tertainment at his house occasionally.
At. his last reception to them they sur
priSed him by presenting him with a
handsome gold plated piano lamp and
onyx table combined.
Reformed.
There will be Christmas music at the
Park Reformed Church on Sunday morn
ing and evening, with Miss R. r Clay,
Mrs. Redding and Mr.. j. w. Macy as
the s%oloists. Novela's setting of AIDES
| tie Fidelis,' Gounod's Nazareth and
Il f1olQ6n 3 new SUTlSlIldS dlNtlClL dlC
among the choral selections, The pas
toral symphony of Handel for violin
and organ will open the evening ser
y sbptata Much Of !RtS5sst IL felt to in be- the gi Rem
by the young people OF the church on
the evening of the 9th;
The Sunday school scholars of the Sec
ond Reformed Church, Central avenue
entertainment, to AXE place on Christ
mas Day. In the afternoon the little
ones will receive presents of boxes OF
| candy. A tableaux will be a feature
of the evening.
other Churches.
There will be special Christmas music
tomorrow at Central Avenue Reformed
| serve the day with Christmas sermons.
The Christmas anniversary celebrations
| will take place next Thursday evening.
tomorrow evening, in the Tabernacle, on
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Norwegian Free Church will be held
Wednesday night. Special services will
be held tomorrow night, at which an
excellent musical programme will be rem
dered.
The Rev. Charles Vail, pastor of the
First Universalist Church, will preach
Meaning of the Christmas Festival"
| He announces a course of Sunday even
ing lectures for January and February,
as follows;January 6, The Tyranny Of
Message of Modern Science; January
20, "Will Religion Become Anticipated
and Outgrown@' January q, The Story
| Evolution'; February 10, THE Evolution
| of the Trinity; February II, THE Phi
l~osophy. Of Universalism"; February 2,
Sunday night audiences continue to in
crease. His manner of looking at the
Bible and things religious is something
entirely new TO Jersey City and at pres
ent he is a star attraction. ),
Mrs. NJ. B. Mason, a prominent mem
Der of the First Universalist Church,
died Thursday afternoon. She viii be
No. II Suydam avenue.
Captain Dunlap last night ave the
soldiers of Corps 2 of the Salvation
a singing lesson preceding the regular
meeting. There will be an open ar
meeting tonight at Harrison and Month
cello avenues. Meetings all day tomor-
row.
There will be a Christmas entertain
ment and distribution Of presents next
| Church, Hancock avenue.
The Christmas festival will be celebrat-
ed as usual in an elaborate manner Oh
| Christmas Day, at St. Trinitatis' Ger
Tomorrow there will be preparatory
services. AT 1890 A. NJ. and at Il NJ.
| Christmas morning there will be the
| Lords Supper. Special music will be
given, under the direction of the organ-
list, Miss H. Lutgen. At seven o'clock
In the evening will commence the Sun
| day school festival. About three hun
dred presen- will Abe distributed among
the children and teachers, in value ac-
cording to carefully recorded faithful
ness in attendance, an improved and
very just punch card system having
| been introduced by the Rev. R. A. Hafer,
Superintendent.
. Y.N. G. A..
The usual mems meeting will be held
in the association building, No. So Wayne
street, tomorrow afternoon at four P. NJ.
The Rev. T.. j.. Kommers, pastc< of the
Lafayette Reformed Church, will \eliver
daily invited. On Christmas nighS a
merry Christmas and a Jolly good tim
may be enjoyed by any young man WIKI
will come to the building.
PARTISAN NOTEPAPER.
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