The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-07
SEA SIDE RELIGION
Undenominational Parlia-
ment to Be Held at Long
Beach.
MRS. JOHN L. sCUDDER TO SPEAK.
Ministers OFF on Their Vacation
News of the Churches.
MRS. JOHN L. sCUDDER TO SPEAK.

A summer religious Parliament will be
held during the summer at Long Beach,
Long Island. 1t will extend oyer"seyen
weeks, and in the preparation OF the pro-
gramme all denominational lines have been
ost sight of in the endeavor to secure lead
ers of thought in the various departments OF
activity in the moral and religious world.
There will be three sessions each day, at
eleven, three and eight o'clock, and the
evening sessions will be devoted entirely to
lectures, concerts and entertainments.
The Parliament will open tomorrow morn
ing with a sermon by the Rev. James
Burrell. DID,, and at seven p. M. there VIII
be a children's hour. Three days will be de-
voted to the Boys Brigade with battalion
drill and dress parade every evening at five
o'clock, and addresses by prominent speak
ers. The last three days of the week will be
given to the Kings daughters. Mrs. Mar
garet Bottofne, President of the Central
Council and founder of the order, will be
present and make an address. Among the
other speakers will be Mrs. Isabella c. Davis,
Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. M. L.
Dickinson, General Secretary of the Central
Council of the Daughters.
YOUNG PEOPLES
AYoung Peoples Congress under the di-
rection of the Rev. DR.. B.. B. Tyler will
occupy the third week. A sermon to young
women by the Rev. DR.. James Burrell in the
morning and Young Peoples Hour in the
evening will constitute Sundays services.
Monday, July rs, will be given up to the
Baptist Young Peoples Union. The Rev. w.
II. Main of Buffalo will speak in the morn
ing and the Rev. DR.. John humpstone OF
Brooklyn and Frank Harvey Field, Presi-
dent of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of
the State OF New York, will make addresses
in the afternoon. III, the evening the Rev.
Dr.. Peter Stryker will lecture on "a Glimpse
of Six Italian Cities.
Tuesday will be a day with the Epworth
League with three sessions addressed by
prom inent speakers. Two days OF CHRISTIAN
Endeavor will follow and on Wednesday
afternoon Mrs. John L. Scudder of this city
will deliver an address on Junior En-
deavor.' The other speakers will be the Rev.
DR.. Francis Clark, President of the
United Society; Rev. c.. H.. Tyndau, ON
"Christiau Endeaver and the Problem OF
the Union,n and the Rev. H. 7. McEwan,
DID,, on siGood citizenship" On Thursday
evening Mr.. L. D. Wishard. Foreign Secre-
tary of the international Committee of the
Y. NJ. c. As, will speak on Christian
Movements Among. Young People in For
eign Mission Lands.
The Young men will nave Friday to
themselves, and will be addressed by such
excellent speakers as Mr.. F. S. Goodman,
Associate State Secretary of the New York
Y. NJ. C. A.; Mr.. John w. Wood, Secre-
tary of the Brotherhood of ST. Andrew,
and tile Rev. Rufus w. Miller. In the
evening the Rev. Peter Stryker, DID,, will
lecture on The Funny Side of a Pastors
Life"
WEEK.
The week from duly % to IS will belong to
the Chautauquans and the exercises Will be
under the direction of the Rev. DR.. Jesse [.
Hurlbut. A great deal of work will be
crowded into this week. There VIII be I'VE
services on Sunday including Bible readings
illustrated with stereopticon views, a Sun
day school study and q sermon by Dr.. Hurl
but. Lectures, discussions and considera-
ton of various Chautauquan subjects
win occupy each day of the week.
DR.. Hurlbut will conduct another busy
week Immediately following the Chautau-
uuan. which will he devoted to considering
Sunday school work. In this he will be as
sisted by such we'll known Sunday school
workers as Mrs. j. H. Ostrander, DR.. Thomas
T. Gulick and Mrs. Samuel w. Clark. On
Tuesday evening the Rev. Dr.. John l.. Scud-
der win lecture on "Sweet Sixteen, and
Robert R: Doherty, Ph.D., of this city, one
If the best known Sunday school workers in
the Methodist Church, will address several
of the sessions.
JOSEPH COOK IN CHARGE.
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Cook will be the spec |
ial lecturer at the Congress of Religions
which will follow the Sunday School week,
and will preach and deliver several lectures
during the week. This will be followed by
a temperance Convention under the direc-
ton Of Mr.. J.. N. Stearns, Corresponding
Secretary of the National Temperance. So
ciety. ~
A stForum of Reforms conducted by the
Rev. DIR. Wilbur F.. Crafts will bring the
Parliament to a close. s4M w
The Forum proposes a free, frank and full
discussion of tho whole circle Of reforms
from a Christian standpoint. After the
lectures and addresses each day,there will
be an open forum for discussion in brief ad;
dresses, with questions FROM and to the
speaker and director. The opening addresses
will be limited to fifteen minutes. During
the forum a vote will be taken by printed
ballot on a hundred current reforms.