The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-14
NOTED AMONG THE
CHURCH WORKERS
Circulars Issued By Wemen's Christian
Temperance Upion to City Pastors.
MEETING OF MISSION SOCIETY

Nv husucuuu NuuGCussSto S".s" :"
Hunter to Have Charge Of the Sal.
walton Army in This Part Of the
State..Serviccs in City Churches.
The following circular has been sent
to the pastors of the various churches
of the city:
Central W. e. T. L..
Scranton, Pa.
UNIVERSAL TEMPERANCE SUNDAY.
! A Call for Its Observance.
An effort Is being made by the Christian
temperance people to establish the fourth
! Sunday of November as Annual Iempsr-
| ance Sunday. to be universally observed
The movement oricinated in the London
Sunday School union, has been taken up
| by the leading temperance and sunday
| school workers of America, ana has the
| endorsement OF bishops and clergymen OF
nearly all denominations The general as
| sembly of the Presbyterian church. the
| United Presbyterian church. the national
triennial council of comgrssnuohail 1no az
! the Methodist Episcopal church nave
adopted the day and urge the annual OBJ
| servance. The executive committee OF the
| International Sunday school convention
| also call for "a special observance of the
| day. In view of these facts and with Il
| desire to aid this movement. which COM
| mends itself TO Christian people every.
|
all churches in our city to observe Nov.
22nd. We recommend the preaching of Il
temperance sermon in the morning, that
| special attention be given to teaching II
| Bible temperance lesson in the Sunday
| schools and ask the Young Peoples socie-
ties to make it Il subject of prayer in their
| meetings. We further suggest that IN the
evening union temperance or Christian
citizenship meetings be held wherever
| practicable. This call is made that Chris
| tian temperance sentiment may be
| aroused and that the Christian churches
| take their rightful place AS leaders In
'''0 ~'' " ' +. b. b. Chase
state. Supt S. S. Work. W. c. 7. u;
! Mrs j. T.. Chandler
| Local Supt. s. 5. Work, W. e. T. L.
The first annual convention Of the
WOmans Foreign and Home Mission
ary society of the Wilkes Barre con-
ference of the Evangelical Lutheran
Ministerium of Pennsylvania was held
! Thursday i'm Trinity Lutheran church.
corner of Adams avenue and Mulberry
| street. There were three sessions.
| The morning was devoted to business
matters. In the afternoon, after de-
votioLal period and continuation of
| business, papers We're read by Mrs. j.
| ii. Longacre, of WeissDort: Miss
| Clara SchmaltZ, of Pittston, and Mrs.
| Calvin +. Kuder. of RAjahmundry, In
| dia. In the evening after VeSper SER
| vice papers We're read by Mrs. kuder.
Miss Emma Schuler, of Scranton, and
! Rev. j. T.. Whitteker, superintendent
of home missions.
'"The Salvation Army is having a big
boom just now" says the Wilkes Barre
News-Dealer, "and the North Wash
ington street barracks are crowded at
! every meeting. Brigadier William
Evans. of Philadelphia, was present at
Tuesday nights meeting accompanied
by the officers and corps of the Army
from Scranton, Berwick and other
places. The meeting was an enthusiasts
tic one and everybody took great inter-
est In the affair. Brigadier Evans
chief object I'm coming here was for the
purpose of introducing Staff Captain
W. q. Hunter. to the assemblage as the
new officer of this district He comes
well recommended from Philadelphia.
| his last station and has seen fourteen
years service. He is gray haired and
very active. Special services were held
Tuesday night to celebrate the estab-
fishing and opening of new district.
which includes all the corps of the Sal
| walton Army In the territory included
between Easton, Allentown, Reading.
Pottsville, Shenandoah, Shamokin.
Great Bend. Oil City. Pittsburg and
| WiliamSpOrt. The headquarters for
this district will be at Wilkes Barre
and of this rev district STAFF Captain
Hunter has been made commanding
officer. He intends 10 boom salvation
| In great shape
The following programme will be
rendered at the Young Mems Christian
association gospel service on Sunday
at 34j D. m. Ivy the Second Presbyterian
Church choir, under the direction Of
J. NJ. Chance:
| ]. Cornet solo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Schubert
MIR. Stanton.
2. Anthem, "Jubilate'' .......Dudley Buck
3. Qnartettc; Prayer Is the Souls
Misses Black and Garagan. Messrs Bey-
non and Morgan.
T. Anthem. ''Te Deum'' Churchill
s. Selection for mems voices, selected.
6. Quartettc. Just As | Am" 500. .Cramcr
| 7. Duet Misses Black and Glragan
| s. Anthem, "Will You Not Gomez
This will he the first service of the
winter series to Se held in the audito-
rum.
The Epworth league of the Elm Park
church devotional meetings continue to
increase in interest. The attendance
at present is unusually large. The
| leader for Sunday evening is Ralph
+. Weeks The subject is Christ Tes-
! timOny to the Holy Spirit" ON Tues
day evening the league chorus will
render at the Carbondalc Methodist
/ Episcopal church the beautiful sacred
| cantata, Saul of Tarsus," which they
/ gave in this city last spring. The cho-
! rus under the vigorous leadership of
| Chorister Whttemore. has been great
ly strengthened recently. The narra-
| tive of the cantata will be given by
| II. II. Beidleman. a number of
Scrantonians will accompany the cho-
| rus to Carbondale.
| The West Side churches will unite i'm
service Thanksgiving Day in the Ply
! mouth COngregG GtiOnal church as fol-
! lows: Jackson street Bantist. Sinp-
| son Methodist. Scranton street Bap-
/ tst, Washhurn Street Presbyterian
and Plymouth Congregational. The
service will begir at 1870 o'clock. To
| the West Side Hospital fund will be
applied the Offering. Rev. S. +. Mat
! thews. of the Scranton Street Baptist
! church. will preach the sermon: the
scripture reading will be by Rev. J. Il.
| Sweet of the Simpson Methodist church,
| and prayer Will be offered by Rev. j.
Moffat. of the Washburn Presbyterian
| church.
| Al n meeting Of the Epworth League
union of Scranton and vicinity Thurs
day evening in the Hampton Street
church the following officers were elect
ed as follows: G.. +. Whittemore,
president: Rev. William Edgar. Provi-
| dcnce Methodist church. William 4.
| Chase. Simpson Methodist church. B.
r. Stone. Hampton Street Methodist
church, executive committee; Miss