The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-22

be far more extensive this year than
they have been heretofore.
Next Monday evening the Sunday
school Of the Scranton Street Baptist
church will celebrate their Christmas
festivities.
The Sunday school of the Tabernacle
Congregational church will conduct
their Christmas exercises Monday even
ing next.
The Sunday school of the Jackson
Street Baptist church will hold Christ
mas exercises next Tuesday evening.
On Monday evening next the Sunday
school and infant department of the
First Congregational church on South
Main avenue will render a Christmas
programme.
The Sunday school of the Plymouth
Congregational church will render
Christmas exercises on Tuesday even
ing next.
Next Thursday afternoon the primary
department of the Penn Avenue Bap-
tist Sunday school will celebrate their
Christmas festivities, and in the even
ing of the same day the intermediate
and adult departments will enjoy the
same. Refreshments will be served
and gifts given.
The Sunday school of the First Presby-
terian church will hold their Christmas
exercises on Friday afternoon of next
week. An elaborate progremme has been
prepared by Tallie Morgan.
The Sunday school of the Elm Park
church will hold their Christmas festivi-
ties on Tuesday evening of next week, and
nm hn Of Df fnllnuyinU
from 2 to 8, the teachers and officers will
give a Christmas party to the children.
The New York street mission will hold
Christmas festivities next Friday even
ing and the West Lackawana avenue
mission will do so on Thursday evening.
Special Programmes.
Rev. A. f. Chaffee of the Asbury Meth
odist Episcopal church, will preach
Christmas sermon and appropriate music
will be rendered by the choir.
A service of song will be given in the
Green Ridge Primitive Methodist church
tomorrow evening, when the children of
the Sunday school will render Christ
Our King" programme of song and
rectations.
Tomorrow evening the choir of the Pro-
vidence Methodist Episcopal church will
give a special programme of Christmas
music ana TeclldllOnS.
Rev. George w. Guild, of the Provi-
dence Presbyterian church, will preach
Christmas sermons tomorrow, and the
choir will render appropriate music at
both services.
The Sunday school scholars of the
Welsh Congregational church on West
Market street, will render special eXer-
cises tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Rev. A. +, Ferris, of the Puritan church,
on West Market street, will preach spe-
cial sermons tomorrow; the choir will
render Christmas music.
Rev. w. G. Watkins, of the North Main
Avenue Baptist church, will preach to-
morrow morning on Christ in Prophecy"
and in the evening, Christ in History"
Special music by the choir
On the West Side Christmas sermons
will be preached by Rev. T. j. Collins in
Rec. d. c. Hughes, DID, in the Jackson
Street Baptist church, and by Rev.
Thomas Bell in the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church.
Tomorrow evening the Sunday school
children of the First Welsh Congrega-
tional church will render the "Story of
the Ages" under the leadership of Mrs.
George w. Powell
| Rev. ID. r. Jones, of the Tabernacle
church, South Hyde Park avenue, will
preach special sermon tomorrow even
ing to the children.
| Tomorrow morning the Sunday school
of the Green Ridge Presbyterian church
will conduct missionary service, when
Rev. Henry Jessup, DID, of Syria, will
deliver an address. Special music will be
rendered by the choir.
| Tomorrow Rev. w. G. Partridge will
preach in the morning on "The Incarna-
tlon of Christ" and In the evening, "The
Christ Child" The church will be dec
GRATED and an elaborate programme of
appropriate music will be rendered by a
| choir of thirty voices. In the afternoon
at 2 o'clock special programme of
Christmas music and Rotations will be
rendered in the auditorium by the Sun
day school under the direction of Charles
f. Whitimore.
Rev. James Mcleod, DID,, will preach
Advent sermons tomorrow in the First
Presbyterian church. Special music will
be rendered by the choir.
Rev. w. II. Pearce, DID,, of the Elm
Park church, will preach tomorrow on
"The Supremacy Of Christ" and in the
evening on 1.-THE Joy of the New Birth"
Professor Carter will play the Messiah
| as prelude to the services, and selections
from the oratorio will be sung by the
quartette.
Miscellaneous.
4 The Ladies' Aid society of the Asbury
Methodist Episcopal church will serve
New Years dinner in the parlors of the
church.
| On New Years evening the self-denial
committee of the Green Ridge Primitive
| Methodist church will hold social, when
| all those holding self-denial cards will
make their returns.
Last Tuesday evening class leaders were
elected in the Green Ridg Primitive Meth
odlst church. William Brown was chosen
leader and Aaron Powell assistant.
The Band of Hope of the Welsh Bap-
tist church on West Market street will
render the sacred cantata, "The King In
Zion," on Jan. H. 1895. 1t is an excellent
composition and the young people do Ii
justice by their good singing and perform
ing. Their efforts will be appreciated by
the public, and If rumor be a prognos-
ticator, they will be greeted with a full
house.
Rev. w. G. Watkins, of the North End
and Rev, j. r. Ellis, of Blakely were at
Factoryville yesterday evening adjudicat-
ing in an oratorical contest.
Rev. D. c. Hughes, DID,. Of the West
Side, will read paper next Monday
morning on the "Dispensation of the
Logos." before the Baptist Minlsterium
The st. Davids kindergarten will give a
free entertainment this afternoon at $50
In the school rooms, to which the public
Is cordially invited.
Last Wednesday evening Rev. d. c.
Hughes, DID, delivered lecture on So
ciology at Dalton. on Wednesday of next
week he will leave for New York city to
attend the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bible union, of which he is secretary.
Rev. d. NJ. Kinter, of the North End, at
tended a special meeting Of the Wilkes
Barre Rescue mission last Monday even
ing.
Special services will be held Christmas
morning at 1890 in the Grace Reformed
church, when sermon will be preached
by the pastor, Rev. George L. Alrich and
holy communion will be celebrated. Spe-
cial music will be rendered by the choir.
| SUNDAYS CHURCH SERVICES.
All Souls Church-Pine street, near