The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-26

and Bloomfield streets, Hoboken, gave a
strawberry festival last evening in the
tendance and after refreshments were
served the party was entertained with
songs and recitations by members OF the
completed by the Sunday School for a
trolley ride to Coytesville on July /.
The Presbyterian Of the Atlantic sea-
.cision BY the General Assembly to meet
again at Winona next year. They had set
their hearts OF a great celebration in the
new Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia,
to commemorate the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of
the Presbyterian Standard. While moth
ing very definite had been done in the
been much in the minds of prominent
Presbyterians in New York, Princeton,
Philadelphia and other Presbyterian
General Assembly of '9S, if it had been
held in Philadelphia, would have been OF
extraordinary interest. There is an added
sting to this feeling Ct disappolntment
authority and prestige of the Church to
a local speculation. There Is no reason,
either, in the history OF the Church or
in the geographical location of Winona,
why it should be made a site for hold
ing the great gathering of the Church..
Up to this time the assembly has met
at Saratoga; not that this city has any
special claim on the denomination, but
from its special attractiveness as a wa
tering place and a sanitarinm. me fact
thatfnext year the Assembly will meet
neither at Philadelphia nor Saratoga, and
that 1t lends Its name to an amDitlous
new summer resort in Indiana is one
that makes P~reSbyter1anS IN the East
very Indifferent to the proposed gather
ing. Probably independent celebrations
win be held in both New York and Phila..
delphia. and the anniversary feature OF
next years convention will be apt to suf-
fer in consequence.
Baptist.
The American Baptist Home Missionary
Society has expended in Georgia for edu-
cational work among the 1oo.oVo negroes
important schools, Spelman Seminary ana
the Baptist College, are located at Allan
ia. The negro Baptists Of the State have
tons, known as the Old and New Conven-
ticns. The Old Convention has not been
working in harmony with the Home Mis-
sionary Society, but has, rather. antdg-
onized it in its educational work. The
convention last year resolved 10 enter
upon the founding Of a college to be
owned and controlled exclusively by me-
groes, During the past year something
more than LOGO has been raised Tor mat
purpose. When the convention assem-
bled a few days ago in the city OF augusta
they were met by DR.. McVicar, Superin-
tenGent for the Home Missionary Society,
who bore a letter from theC Corresponding
Secretary of the society, submitting to
the BdpIlSlS OIL Georgia Tie qu5Sltujl VI
forming an education society to cooper
ate with the society in it's educational
work, and saying to them that ii they de-
sired a college of their own they need not
be at the expense of establishing it, but
thai the one which had been built up by
the Home Mission Society during thirty
years Of labor and which has a property
valued at $4,000, would be turned over
to them at a nominal rental of 81 per
year, if they would take it, manage it
and a its expenses. The proposition
no mo 90 q oront cr1nrjcn to them uraS
discussed for many hours, and finally by
| a vote, which was unanimous, with one
exception, the convention appointed a
| mittee to be appointed by the New Con-
| v~ention, looking toward the organization
of an educational society to cooperate
| with the Home Missionary Society in its
educational work. This movement is re-
garded as a very significant one by those
who have the interests Of the colored
much for their educational Advancement
Methodist Episcopal.
The Senior Epworth League of the
Emory M. r. Church, will hold its clos
ing entertainment n sociable on Mon
day evening next. 1t will be in the ma
ture OF a souvenir sociable. Each person
will be permitted to keep the cup and
| saucer in which his coffee is served.
Other Churches.
The Rev. T.. Lester Wells, assistant
pastor of the consolidated Congregational
1 OIlQItIl6o, ID OllRdieScG1l. go He mas DSe0
seriously i'll with bronchitis. His ply
sisian says he will be sufficiently well to
/ go away in another week.
The Young Mems Lutheran Association
| of the German Lutheran Church will hold
its annual excursion to Rockland Lake
on Sunday, August s. The members will
and proceed to the West Shore Railroad,
at the foot of the Newark avenue hill
where a train will be in readiness to con-
vey them to their destination. The CON-
L rrriffnn in o. of fhn ON feU IAi,,
all in its power to make the affair a great
success
Universalist young people meet this
| year at Detroit. which city is preparing
to give them a hearty welcome. The
dates are July 6-13, and it is possible thai
Unitarian young people will IN some con.
siderable numbers meet with them.
One of the most venerable ecclesiastical
bodies in the country is the General As
ISOLATION of Connecticut Congregations
Ministers. AT its one hundred and eighty
eighth annual meeting just held a com.
mittee was named consisting of Professor
+ George P. Fisher, Newman Smythe, D. d.
and Professor Williston Walker, to see
what notifications. if n.y., were desirable
for providing vacant churches With pas
tors. This action grows out of the feeling
that it woul be helpful both to churches
looking for pastors and ministers seeking
parishes. if arrangements could be made
by which from some recognized office
correspondence and helpful guidance
the polity Of the Co~ngregational CHURCHES
will understand that this suggestion i
carried out would introduce a semi-epis-
copal supervision that would be a grea1
| departure from past usage. In these days
of frequent pastoral change the convic.
ton, however, is growing that some
arrangement of this kin is needed ane
helpful.
Salvation Army.
Captain Gray, in charge of Corps No. 8
OF the Salvation Army, who has beer
without a hall of his own for sever
weeks. and has been holding open ali
meetings in the vicinity of the Court
House, conducted the meeting at the Cos
pei Temperance Mission, No. sos Newark
avenue, last night. The Salvation Army
will be in charge of the meetings at thu
Mission tomorrow. Major Edith Mar
shall will conduct a holiness meeting at l.
O'Clock tomorrow morning.
Y. N. C. A.
Tomorrow afternoon, at Ais O'Clock, Di
rector P. M. Doane will conduct a Bibl'
Glass, taking UP prominent Bible char
acters. All men invited. The association
is contemplating a series of mid-sunmel
night festivals and soirees musicales. TIL,
first will be on July g.. Music by Y. M
C. a. Philharmonic Orchestra. phone
graph and vocal music, and fireworks
decorations, etc.
FUNERAL OF MRS. YOUNG.