The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-12
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Baptist.

G~reenville Branch of the Bergen Baptist
Church, No. 624 Ocean avenue, near Gator.
Preaching BY the Rev. G. J, Lyon, at
The Sunday School will meet in the Sum
day School room on Ocean avenue at $3.50
A. M, Sunday morning and VIII march
down to the Bergen Baptist Chuch, GIN
ton and Madison avenues where the
children's service will be held. Several of
the other branch schools will also take
part. Thu GIeenville Branch School VIII
hold their ehildren's day services at the
school on Ocean avenue on Sunday even
ing, June 30, at 7:3o P. M.
The Baptists' Boys Brigade is to en-
camp this year at Asbury Park, and to
name its encan1pment in honor of Sena-
tor Bradley Of New Jersey.
Protestant Episcopal.
A very interesting debate was held last
Wednesday evening in the chapel hall,
Blanc and G. n. Freeman for the affima-
tive and Rev. George S. Bennitt and Miss
Ida Sperling, for the negative. The sub
ject of the ebate was Resolved,
travel is more conducice to knowledge
than reading" The judges We're com
posed of Anton Christensen, Charles Red
fern and Miss Gertrude Burns, and their
decision was in favor of the negative.
The commencement sermon before the
graduating class of the Hasbrouek In
stitute will be preached tomorrow morn
ing in st. Johns Church, Summit ave-
nue.. Many of the undergraduates and
| alumni of the Institute are expected to be
present.
Reformed.
The Women's Auxiliary Missionary So
| ciety of the Park Reformed Church cele-
brafed its first anniversary last Tuesday
evening in the lecture room. The pastor,
Rev. j. Francis Morgan, made a very
a~ppiauded when he had finished. Mrs.
Morgan read a paper on Why We Should
Have Women's Auxiliary Societies." and
Z adef M and M Tendf msttie DY En mps. f During
the last year the society has contributed
$55 to missions.
Methodist Episcopal.
st. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church
vii Will observe the annual Floral SUNDAY sur AYR or
Gntia Service tx tie toasstoroT Rev. i. &. May
ham, will preach on THE Religious Train
ing of Children and the exercises in the
evening will be by the Sunday school I'M
der the direction of Superintendent l. N.
Martin. The church win be handsomely
| decorated with lower and flags. Special
music will be a feature of both services.
The work of building the new gym
nasium and reading room in connection
with the West Side Avenue Methodist
| Church is nearly completed, n the mem
bers expect to be in possession about the
first of July or Whereabouts The building
| which situated in the rear of the church,
is two-stories high, and besides having a
| large reading room the building will be
equipped with a large dressing room and
also a bath room, and the completion OF
the one now pelnS pulit Is dWdllSu WIFI
impotence by the young people of the
church.
other Churches.
Jenusha DAVIS Family Album will be
given in the Peoples Palace Assembly
Hall on June Is, under the auspices Of
G. 7. q. No. l. Mrs. William Vance, fSu--
hard in her efforts to instruct the chill
dren upon the subject Of TEMPERANCE,
every FRIDAY afternoon, and merits the
sympathy and help Of all.
trnde Sequine, the young people were Sc
Through the kindness of Mrs. Ger
trde Seguinel the young people were SCI
The Album as shown by Miss A. Fanny
MARBLE is an entertainment of the highest
order. Miss MARBLE takes us back many
years. witt the old fashioned dresses and
hair dressing in her pictures. These pic
lures are represented by thirty young
people of the Lafayette M. e. Church.
where this entertainment was given to a
crowded house.
The young men connected with the Peo-
pies Palace are anxious to form a new
military ompan In the fall the sub
jeet will be seriously considered.
Congregational Church intend giving a
moonlight sail this season. Subscription
books are open and names may be sent to
has not as vet been announced.
The congregations of the First Con-
gregational Church n the West SID n; e.
1 cNAkL ftAA@ SACtA @%tOA - SAktl( L 4So|
byterian Church v decided to go to
Ocean Grove and Long Branch on an ex-
cursion June rs. A special train has been
engaged for the occasion and a large
crowd is expected to go.
The young men connected with the
German Lutheran Church of this city
and who have their club rooms in the
old Y. NJ. c.. A. building on Wayne street,
adjoining the lot where their new church
will be built at a cost of $4,000, are work
ing hard to equip the new church when
finished with a fine set of bells. The re-
ception held last Tuesday evening in the
for the purpose Fully three hundred
people were present at the affair and it
made everyone of the young men happy
to see such a large attendance on a
stormy night. If it had been a clear
night, one O., the members remarked that
fully twice that number would be present.
The young men were, however, perfectly
satisfied. Ground has already been
broken for the new church and the work
will be hurried. as much as possible, as
the membe of the church are DESTROYS
Of getting into the new one soon, the old
one on Fifth street being too small to ac-
commodate the large congregation.
". NJ. &. A.
There will be an interesting service for
men and women in Hasbrouck Institute,
Crescent and Harrison avenues, tomorrow
afternoon, ait Ais o'clock when Mr.. st.
Aubyn Palriss. a native Of the Bar
BADGES, will give an address on the West
indies and the habits and forms Of wor-
ship Of the people there. His address
will be Illustrated and intensely interest
ing. He is d fluent speaker and Is high
" endorsed by the clergy. He Is In this
country at present for special study Of
trades, etc ,so he may work more intel
liaently amcflg his people. Those desir-
ing good seats must come early. Cool
room: short service; all welcome.