New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-29
WHAT 4 CITY PASTOR SEES
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO
CHURCH PEOPLE.

With President Cleveland. DR.. Talmage. Booker
T. Washington and Sheldon Jackson as the speak
ers II is not surprising that the committee In charge
OF the Presbyterian Home Missions rally In the
Carnegie Music Hall next Tuesday evening should
be unable to fill third OF the requests for tickets
which have been received Applications for boxes
have come from every part OF the country east OF
the Mississippi River. and one order came from
Kansas. Ii is intended that the officers OF the
churches and their families shall have the best seats
the hall and the arrangements are complete. not
only for seating the audience quickly. but also for
receiving their Offering in behalf OF the Board OF
Home Missions. for 1t Is intended that an heroic
effort shall be made TO reduce materially the deDt
resting The meetings-for series of meetings IS
contemplated in the campaign-wii begin TINS AFTER
noon, when 1t is expected that William f. Dodge
will preside at prayer meeting, to be held az 3
M in the chapel OF hhe mns Sa'g
preach In his own church in the morning, as there
ton Of Our country as the theme in every Pres
byterian pulpit in the city Then w come ' , tho
Hall, president Of the Board OF Home MISSIONS, Will
preside.
The death of Henry c. Bowen. the Editor Of THE
independent" removes from the religious press one of
the men whose names have been known by religious
readers for nearly half century. THE lndepen-
dent" having been started In lSiS. Before engaging
in Journalism. and for some time aiterward. MI
Bowen associated in business with Theodore
McNamee Three or four years ago Mr.. Bowen
showed the Writer a scrapbOOk wnich contained
card published in 1850 by his fl whose members
had refused TO sign a call with some five thou
sand others for a great meeting In Castle Gar
den the special object Of which was TO Endorse
the Fugitive Slave Law" the new movement TO
help catch runaway nggers' on their way 10
Canada and also to help save the Union ana the
Southern trade particularly. Mr.. Bowen shovel
that independence of character at that time which
trait of his life. when In answer 10 me ae
reply. in part as follows AS lndividuas we entrl
and political questions OF the day, whch we are
neither afraid nor ashamed TO declare on All proper
OCCASIONS But we Wish 1t distinctly uhders!pou ti,a'
our goods. and not our principles are on the mar
the exercise Of our liberty citizens we leave
to the Judgment OF the community ASIDE ron ON
columns Of THE Independent. Mr. Bowen mas uone
MOI than almost any other man In this country to
the bar and politics every Fourth OF July .or
more than quarter OF century al ms Deauu,u t
home in Woodstock. Conn. the town OF ms prtn I
From this little NewEngand village far back from
the railroad have gone forth patrotc lhnuehces 10
every part OF the country year after year IL ~
TO be hoped that these National meetings VIII not
cease now that the man that Instituted them and
carried them on successfully has Iaid down MS
work.
series Of addresses 1.-The Worlds Debt to
the Churches" will be given on successive Sunday
evenings by DR.. b. b. Tyler, in the Church OF the
Disciples in West Fifty sxth-st. The subject ioT
Tomorrow evening VIII be: Inc "orI' y Deo' ~
the Roman Catholic Church.
"Denomnational Enterprises Will be the topic
Of the BAPTIST Ministers Meeting heSe on az
Society. No 1872 Fifth-ave: Nothing Is said In the
which is said to have been somewhat animated. last
Monday morning.