The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-08

ers VIII take part in the services. Inc
title of the service is Histories of the
Sunday school and other church or
ganizatiCns."
Morning-History of the Sunday
school, Mrs. J. Il. Smith; History of
the Senior Endeavor society, ii. IL. NC
Keehan; history of the Junior EndeaV-
or society, Mrs. +. A. Reynolds.
Eyening-History of the Ladies' Aid
society, Mrs. Thomas Gillespie; history
Of the Ladies' Foreign Missionary soci-
ETY.. Mrs. J. r. Peck; history of the
Ladies' Home Missionary society, Mrs.
Thomas S. Morgan; history of the
Guild Mission band, Miss Jennie Zieg-
Ter; history of the Kings Daughters,
Miss Cora Farnham. Music for the
morning will be:
!. Anthem, aye Shall Come Down Like
Rain Observation-Disclosures. Stalher
.. Quartette, THE Lord Is My Shep-
herd" NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Porter
EVENING.
]. Anthem, Let My Soul BE Subject"
SLainer
2 Solo, ave Maria" violin obligato,
Mrs. Heckel
3. Quartette "The Radiant Morn. Davis
Leader, Mrs. j. Il. Heckel.
Organise, Mrs. William Mcdonald.
Vionist, John Wolkenshaw.
At o'clock tomorrow afternoon and
at 7.30 tomorrow evening Rev. DR.. Bird
will speak in Fuller's hall on Lacka-
wanna avenue. His afternoon subject
will be The Times We Live ln,' and
in the evening he win speak on THE
Right Gospel for the Times" DR.. Bird
says: This will be the initial preach
ing growing out of the late prohibition
conference held in this city. There
will be service every Sabbath for sew
eral weeks if enough of people can be
found who believe in a gospel with
out aduteration and preaching with
out fear favor or compromise to sup
port it. There is no intention to an
tagonize the churches of the city or
the members who belong to them, but
to provide a church home foi the peo-
pie who believe that a ballot box sin
is as great as any other sin and Will
not knowingly be party tc the legal
ized crimes of the day"
The Mems guild of ST. Iukes Epis-
copal church is employing a sorce of
workmen on the Guilds summer home
for conValescents near Cresco and 1t
will be opened in about three weeks.
The home was the summer Mansion of
Loring Andrews. Several acres are
attached to the property. For the pur-
poses of the guild it has not been
found necessary to make very extern
tive changes in the building. During
the hot summer months the home will
be occupied by poor, sick, weary or
convalescent women and children.
The tenth anniversary of the pastor
ate of Rev, d. =. Jones, of the Welsh
Tabernacle church Of the West Side,
was celebrated Thursday evening. The
pastor and his wife were presented a
handsome china tea set and a set of
silver knives. forks and spoons. An
entertainment programme was rem
dered by the younger members under
the direction of Hugh Jones. Richard
T.. Thomas was chairman.
The Primitive Methodist state con-
ference has been in session nearly all
the week in the Primitive Methodist
church on East Market street and will
probably not adjourn until some time
during next Wednesday, on Thursday
the following were elected officers: Pres
ident, Rev. w. II. Acornly Wilkes
Barre, Pa; vice president, Hon. Rob-
ert Dudley, Irwin Pa; recording Sec
retary, Rev. II. j. buckingham, New
Castle, Pa; general secretary, Rev. ].
Bath, Plymouth; Rev. j. Bath succeeds
himself as general secretary. The new
ly elected vice president, Hon. Robert
Dudley, of Irwin, is an eX-member of
the state legislature. He attends the
conference as lay delegate of the Irwin
First church.
At the Rescue mission next week,
meetings will be conducted by the fol-
lowing: Monday evening, May 10,
Miss Weir; Tuesday evening, May IL,
Mrs L. NJ. Gates; Thursday evening,
May 49, Miss Doersam, assistant secre-
tary Young Women's Christian asso-
citation; Friday evening, May IA, Miss
Van Mort, secretary South Side Young
Women's Christian association: Satur-
day evening, May Is, Miss McGaughey.
The Luther league of st. Marks
church will give a musicale and social
at the home Of Miss Emma Krager,
376 North Hyde Park avenue, on
Thursday, May 20. An elaborate pro-
gramme has been arranged both of
musical and literary parts,
The Wilkes-B Barre conference of the
Lutheran church will hold it's semi
annual convention at WeisspOrt, Pa,
the coming week. The convention will
open on Monday evening, when the
president, Rev. Lindenstruth. will de-
liver the opening sermon, followed by
the celebration of the holy communion.
The business session of the conference
will begin on Tuesday morning. On
Tuesday evening the Rev. DR.. Ramer
of st. Marks church, of this city will
deliver an address on The Congrega-
ton's Share in the General Beneficence
of the Church" The conference will
continue probably until Thursday.
The programme of the missionary
service to be held i'm the First Baptist
church, Scranton street, Sunday even
ing, is as follows: Song service by
congregation; scripture and prayer;
special music by choir; paper by Rev
Leroy Stephens, on the work of the
Educational society, recitation, 1.-THE
Message" by Viola Roderick; reading
by Miss Ruth Beddoe, special music
by choir; paper mot Interested" by
Miss Frances Race; singing by choir;
recitation, Keep us Sweet" by Anna
Thomas; recitation, "How to Spend &
Penny" by Edna Ainey; address by
pastor; singing by choir; collection;
dismission.
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