The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-01
CHURCH DOINGS
AND RELIGIOUS NEWS
ChrO niclings Of Particular Interest to
Church.GOing People.
PASTORS ON THEIR VACATIONS
There Is No Activity in Church
Societies, the EndeavOrers Ex-
cepted..Preparing for the Big
state Convention in OctOber..Next
Weeks EndeavOr Day mt Lake
Ariel..TOmOrrow's Services.

This Is truly the season of church in
activity. Pastors are absent on their
vacations: church and Sabbath school
officers are either out of town for the
summer or are journeying between city
and country SO often that they get but
little opportunity for official work. and
there is practically none of the social
and church organization pleasure and
work that really has so much to do with
religious activity in the cooler and win
ter months. To the Christian Endeav-
orecs. it seems, has been left al! there
Is to do outside of regular Sunday SER
vice and weekly prayer meetings; and
just now the Endeavorers' work i'm pre-
pairing for the mammoth October state
convention necessarily smacks more
strongly of business than religion.
The real big gun and the opening gun
Of tho immediate preparation for the
convention was fired at Thursday
nights rally" in the Second Presbyter-
ian church, when, in addition to reports
of the Washington national convention,
the programme for the gathering here
was first made public. 1t provides for
services and meetings in Elm Park
church, the rockingham theater and
the Academy of Music
"Endeavorers' Day" at Farview will
be on Thursday next, when societies of
Wayne, Susquehanna, Luzerne, Wyom-
Ing and Lackawanna county to the
number Of several thousand will take
part in the outing. The fare for the
round trip from Scranton will be IS
cents. A splendid feature for that day
will be the singing of the United choir,
the organization which will sing during
the October convention. 1t is made up
OF three large and separate choirs from
the North End. West Side and central
city.
\ cool place to rest awhile is at the
Young Women's Christian association
rooms. 2Oh-2O9 Washington avenue. Sun
day, Aug. 2. from 3.45 to Ala o'clock
All young women will receive a hearty
welcome. Miss Abbie Hancock will
have charge of the meeting, and num-
ber of the young women who attended
Northfield conference will tell all about
IL and how they were helped in various
ways. Wednesday. Aug. 3. party will
leave Young Women's Christian asso-
ciation rooms at a. IN. and p. IN. to
go to Mountain Lake. Any young wo-
men who can go with the party will be
most welcome.
Most Of the West Side ministers are
on vacation. Rev. J. +. Moffatt, or the
Washburn Street Presbyterian church,
left Tuesday for the west. Mrs Mof-
fatt is at her former home, Wcatherly,
Pa. Rev. d. p. Jones, of the Taber-
nacle Congregational church, is visit
ing at Chicago. Mr.. Jones has been CIV
ell a six weeks leave of absence by his
church. He Is in i'll healh, ana the
western trip he is taking is for both
recuperation and pleasure. Rev. D.
Jones. of the Welsh Calvinistic Method
ist church, with his family. is spending
the summer at Lake WinOla. Rev. NJ. II.
Mill. of st. David's Episcopal church. is
visiting in the western part of the state.
Rev. r. Bell of the Plymouth Congre-
gational church, left this week for his
annual rest. Rev. w. s. Jones, of the
First Welsh Baptist church, is on a
several months visit to Wales. Among
the ministers visiting in the city are
Rev. Thomas Griffiths, of the Baptist
church at New Philadelphia. o.: Rev.
Gambler w. Evans, of the Congregations
al church at Given, Ia. and Rev. John
Evans, of Brooklyn, n. Y.
"The United States in Bible Proph-
ecy," will be the subject to be discussed
by the evangelists i'm the Gospel Tab
ernacle on South Main avenue, between
Eynon and Elm streets. Sunday at go
p. m. All those desirious of becom-
ing acquainted with the rise and pro-
gress of our own nation as revealed in
the prophetic word of God should be
present at this meeting. Subject for
Sunday evening, at AS, "a Union of
Church and State i'm America. or His
tory Repeating Itself" will be thor
oughly treated. The evangelists are
much encouraged in their work, as they
note the growing interest that is man.
ifest by their steadily increasing
crowds Of people who gather at the
Tabernacle from night to night.