The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-05

the past. The society has a membership OF
thirty, and during the winter the members
make new garments ano plepaae ou schnoI
By their noble work they enable many poor
children to attend school who would other
wise be unable to do so. Last winter they
gave away over 500 pairs OF children's shoes.
ST. Johns.
Time and time again has Father Ter Woert
let loose his eloquence on the subject OF the
Church Debt Society-its relations to the
church-its objects and its benefits. Many a
day, and many a night. too, he has tramped
through the parish to personally enforce his
general remarks on this subject from the
pulpit. For a time after each visit the menu
bers would be true to their promises, but
soon that would die out, and the monthly
fare and stability of the Church Debt Society
is of the utmost Importance to the reverend
pastor of St. Johns. and he watches each
return as the months roll by, just as care
fully as he does every minute detail of the
work of the parish. So when the monthly re-
turns began to gradually dwindle to some
thing that was not by any means a pleasant
subject to dwell upon, Father Ter Woert had
a happy thought. He summoned Father Kelly
and to him he conided the revivification of
the society. This was a few weeks ago, and
since then Father Kelly has been making the
rounds of the parish. He has just finished,
and, like everything else he has undertaken
since he arrived at the rectory of st. Johns
Church, it was a success in every sense of
the word. The full returns are not yet COM
plete, Dut Wnen they are the Cnurch DEBT
Society will be again the foremost pillar of
the church.
The Rosary Society and the Young Ladies'
Sodality will go to Holy Communion in a body
at the half past seven o'clock mass tomorrow
morning.
The October devotions are now being held
morning and evening.
The work on the church is in a state of
suspense. When the windows come everyone
connected with the work on the building will
be pushed for all they are worth. The only
thing holding back the interior work is the
windows, and they. are expected at any mo-
connected with the interior decoration is now
being completed, as far as possible, but the
painting, decorating. fitting, ETC., will have
to wait until the frosty airholes are secured.
possible date of the opening of the new church,
but it looks as if a strenuous effort was going
to be put forward for a Christmas opening.
Father Ter Woert is mum on the subject.
He has had a few Disappointment and he
does not wish to name the day until he is
sure of it.
Two of the three affairs in the new church
having been donated, Father Ter Woert de-
snare in decorating the sacred edihce, so he
has decided to erect the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart by popular subscription. For this pur-
pose he has circulated books for the younp
ladies of the parish to collect money to de.
Tray the expenses of the altar. That it will
be one OF the handsomest in the city there
Is no doubt, and the young ladies are work.
ina like beavers to outvie one another in
their efforts.
The parochiaI school is now in full swing.
and the sisters are kept very busy.
When the improvements now underway are
completed the property of st. Johns Church
will be one of the most valuable and beautiful
IN the city. By the end of next spring the
trees Will be well forward, sidewalks laid and
unless the growth of the parish demands new
can be.