New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-08
WHAT A CITY PASTOR SEES
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST tn
CHURCH PEOPLE.

milo nav was generally observed In this city In
accordance with the suggestion Of the New-fork
Hiblc Society More than twenty-five hundred
copies Of the reports Of the society were placed IN
the ts of the churches IN many Shur ry The
seconJ SUNDAY in November In each year Is now re-
arde B6c sunday The animal repHT' he OF sen
made mad at the Office No. 6S Bible House
Cbris,ian Tndeavorcrs who have planned to at
,end tho next annual convention at Washington
Will be pleased 10 know that 1.-THE committee OF
o. are holding weekly meetings and preparing 10
give the great international host National we'-
come The following are the names OF ihe c TavIor
vice-chairman; J: ID. Moran secretary. y: roS
s ser; W. A. H. Church hall: A. s
Clark. music: the Rev r. r. Bagby' receptiyVVl'
raS s,owe rrgistraion: headquarters, No. li25
Newly ork-ave.. Washington. d. {.
At tho communion in the Marble Collegiate Church
last sunday thirty-three persons received
into membership twelve OF them made confessions
of their faith, and twenty-one had letters from
other churches When Dr. Burreil became pastor
of the Marble Church he sounded the Keynote OF
bis ministry by saying: Welcome is the shibooleth
that viii win the people So lone as there Is a
vacant seat in the sanctuary no person Nlouh , De
kent waiting in the vestibule. Welcome TO lolty
and lowly! Welcome to old and young! Welcome
TO capital and labor! Welcome 10 me WISE ,, anu
house,"
.Rr,ther" Morehouse il the ideal Methodist MIN
is,er TO put into the downtown churches There
ought to be a time limit in regard to his work. nov"
ever for he accomplshes so much in one year that
all the churches below the dead line ought 10
have share in his activities. The Forsyth street
Church instead of suffering from the financial en-
barrassment under which It labored some years ago
is now enjoying a fair degree of prosperity, ana
Brother" Morehouse is responsible for THIS IA
yorabe change Last spring he was rs ap2Tin,en e
of the Bowery in part OF the cry e wns go
Mr. Morehouse has undertaken 10 pay of the
mortgage OF 81 500 on the church. ana men 10 en-
tober pledges were secured TO the amount of $500
ana an appeal is now made to the friends OF ne
have been reconstructed on condition that t, ne
mortgage is paid off so that the properly snaiI ne
are cordially commended by Bishops Andrews. war
Foster and fitzgerald VINO say pasr seu
enterprise"
The annual meeting Of the New-York City Mis-
sion and Tract Society will be held tomorrow In
the afternoon there will he gathering in the Brck
PRESBYTERIAN Church at 49, and another In the
evening In the West Presbyterian Church at I:to.
Al each of the meetings reports will be made OF the
work carried during the year The society mas
seventy or eighty workers. and reports WI be even
by some Of the missionaries regarding their methods
and results.
The Woman's National Sabbath Alliance has been
organized with three objects in view: % To arouse
the women of America TO realization Of the exist
ing perils which threaten the Christian Sabbath or
the Lords Day; CO. to enlist all women In definite
efforts to counteract the perils. especially In the
home and in social life: go to assist the American
Sabbath Union by the formation of womans SAP
bath committees which shall be in harmony win
existing Sabbath associations that are IN ANIMATION
with the Union by the distribution of Sabbath
literature by procuring funds for the National WORK
of the Union and by all other means practcaole
Mrs Darwin r. James. of Brooklyn. is the presi-
dent Of the alliance Mrs Theodore Weston its first
vice-president and the following women represent
Mrs II. T. McEwen. Presbyterian: Mrs j. n.
formed Mrs. H. c. Stmson, Congregationaiist; Mrs.
j. Noble Stearns Episcopalian; Mrs; w. NJ isaacs'
Baptist: Mrs. H. r. strodach Lutheran; Mrs 4.
Alexander, Reformed Presbyterian; Mrs. NJ. Phi!-
putt, Church of Disciples, and Miss +. s. Hamilton,
urer Of the Alliance is Miss NJ. Kay, of No D3
organizing secretary. and it is hoped that the neces-
sary income can be raised by securing 125 sustaining
year for three years. meeting will be held on
December Is. in the Madison Avenue Reformed
Church Or, kittredges); when the objects o. the
Alliance will be explained more fully. The follow
Ing Is the pledge which the members OF the ALI
ance have taken in order to secure better Sunday
observance: We women of America recognizing
the American Christian Sabbath our rghtfu in
hertance, beQueathed to us by our forefathers. as
the foundation of our National prosperity. as the
as the conservator OF the rights of the wage
do hereby pledge ourselves to resist by pre-
Sunday as day OF rest and worship such a thH
Sunday secular newspaper. Sunday social entertain
ments and Sunday driving and travelling for gain or
pleasure and we further pledge ourselves TO use our
influence 10 create right sentiment on all respects
of the Sunday question especially in reference to
traffic of every kind on that day.