The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-08

sen and Thomas E. Jones, from st
Lukes; J. NJ. Everhart, II. w. Kings
bury, Samuel Hines, A. d. Holland
Charles McMullen, James w. Oakford
and w. T. Smith. The convention opens
on Tuesday.
The Dunmore mission has been given
| the name of st. Marks. Proposals fol
| building a parish house and rectory
are being advertised for. The plans
and specifications have been adopted.
st. Luke's will run their free excur.
sion some time in August.
Elm Park NJ. Z. Church.
Floral Sunday or children's day will
| be observed in the Elm Park church to-
morrow by specially prepared pro-
gramme. Floral Sunday will be uni
versally observed tomorrow by all
| Methodist Episcopal churches.
Children and flowers will have pos
session Of Elm Park church Sunday
morningat 1870, it being children's day.
Recitations and songs will mingle with
sweet odors from roses and lilies. The
decorations are in charge of Misses G.
A. Norton and Sophia Schlager, Mrs.
j. s. McAnulty, r. Ernest Comegys, j.
c. Surdam, and B. i. Hicks. The chill
dren will meet in the church at $50
a. m.
Rev. w. II. Pearce will deliver the
Baccalaureate sermonat Cazenovia COL
lege Sunday, June 16. DR.. Pearce's
brother, Rev. L. H. Pearce, Of Cortland,
N. Y. Will preach at Elm Park on that
day.
Says the Epworth Herald: Rev. w.
II. Pearce, d. D., pastor of the Elm
Park church, Scranton, Pa, gave ut
terance to some plain old-fashioned
Methodist sentiments at the recent ses-
sion Of the Wyoming conference, which
oughb to be read and pondered by every
member Of the Epworth league. The
point under discussion was "The
Church Building a Social Need"
"Where shall we go?" is the cry Of
millions. Some say to the club-room;
but It's delights are only temporary,
they only touch the surface of the great
deep wanting of our social nature, and
very many of them are only gilded
ways leading down to perdition
through easy, stages. Others say go to
the lodges Of the various fraternfties;
but somehow they, at least, are only
conventional, and an endless routine
of paraphernalia; and, while we have
nothing but words of commendation for
many of them, yet there are expert
ences in our daily life, and realms
of loneliness in our souls, that lie far
beyond their temporary reliefs and ex-
pediencies." Then after plea
for q church that shall touch
and help the man on every
side of his nature he diagnoses the
church ailment everywhere as follows:
"The trouble with the church today
in all of our communities Is Its formal
ity, its exclusiveness, and its half
heartedness." The magnificent church
Of which DR.. Pearce is pastor comes as
near refutlng his argument as any
single church can. Alas, we fear 1t is
one of the few exceptions. The Ep-
worth league ought to see that
churches of the class described by DR..
Pearce are the exception and not the
rule ten years from now.
Penn Avenue Baptist.
Large audiences attend the summer
popular Sunday evening services at
the Penn Avenue Baptist church. The
service lasts but one hour--from 7.30
to $50. Sermons with earnestness Of
purpose in them. and special music by
a large chorus choir and solo quartette
are what draw large meetings down
on, Penn avenue.