The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-22
WORK OF THE BAPYIS7S.
Reports Submitted to the Last
Days Session Of the North
New Jersey Convention.
IBy cable to The Aaaoclated Press. |

49, IL SYLVAN
days session Of the North New Jersey
Baptist Association began at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning in the First Baptist
Church, Arlington. and a large number
of additional delegates attended. Rev.
William Z. Chalmers, of Jersey City, led
the devotional meeting. The reports of the
standing committees were read and the
Committee on Nominating Management
Board presented these names: For MEM
hers of the board, Revs. w. w. Case. of
Rutherford; D. d. Read. Hackensack, J.
w. Dudley, Union Hill; n M. Grenelle.
Glenwood; w. j. Swafield. Jersey City; F.
Knoor. Hoboken; r. F. McMichael, Ar
lington; c. o. Maltby. Paterson, and E. R.
Croft, .Bayonne. The ministers thus Sc
| lected were elected.
The Auditing Committee reported that it
found the ceounts of the treasurer cor
rect. The committee on the next anniver-
sary presented the following programme.
| which was adopted: Annual sermon. to be
delivered by Rev. w. ]. Sholer. and alter
nate, Rev. William L. Wardell; doctrinal
sermon, Rev. R.. f. McMiehael, of Airing
ton. and alternate, Rev. Thomas G.
Denchield, of Bayonne: place of meeting
of the sessions. to be held during the
month of June, at Echo Lake; if in Oc-
tober, at the Summit Avenue Baptist
| Church. Jersey City.
The Committee on Obituaries reported
the death rate this year as very high.
Out of the ~forty-four churches in the as
| sociation, twenty-six reported eighty-one
! deaths in a membership of 6.613, or about
eight per cent. OF the deaths. twenty
nine were of males and forty-nine fe-
| males. For three neither sex nor names
had been given The youngest to die was
eleven years, the oldest lightweight
years. Three were ordained ministers and
eight were deacons.
Mrs. Kate Thompson, treasurer of the
| New Jersey Baptist Home at Newark,
addressed the delegates n requested
| them to assist the home in its work. Rev.
E. E. Valentine, of Paterson, preached
the doctrinal sermon, after which Rev.
E. 3. Morris, of Bloomingdale, addressed
the delegates on "Church Councils
At yesterday afternoons session Rev.
A. S. Thompson, of Hamburg, led the
devotional meeting. Treasurer Latham's
| report showed a small balance in the
treasury. The Moderator then appointed
| the following standing committees
Obituaries-Revs. E. Absolute, John
Campbell and DIR. Bernard Claussen.
Nomination of Board Of Managers.
Resolutions-Revs. Joseph Sullivan. D.
D. Read and James L. HASTE.
Application of ChurcheS-Reys. j. w.
Brougher, Hervey Wood and r. F. Tag
CART.
Treasures Accounts-E. E. BAH and
George H. Atwood.
Digest of Lettefs-William A. May, Il.
| D IL invade md pnx- p "A Johnson
Enrollment-W. H. Latham, T. Willard
| and Grace Pierson.
On 1898 Meeting-C. e Lathaff, w. ).
! Swaffield and E. H. Shivin.
THE Duty of Churches to Retire Pas-
tors was the subject OF an address de-
lvered by Rev. J. P. Hunter Of Hoboken.
reading of the paper. A resolution that
the paper be printed in full in the minutes
was adopted.
dia, delivered an address on
Work for Heathen Women, and de-
| seribed the customs Of the women in In
| Training School of Chicago. spoke on the
work now being done by the training
school in that city.
| G. Denchtield, d. d. Read and J. W.
Brougqler, was appointed by the Moder-
ator to examine the application of the
to the association. Calvary Baptist
Church of Hackensack was admitted and
| the hand OF was EXTENDED 10
the pastor, Rev. J. K. Folwell.
Rev. w. w. Pratt, Of Passaic, addressed
the delegates on Comfy Between Bap-
fist Churches. of the Same Town-City As
| ISOLATION The session closed with an ad-
dress by Rev. DR.. NJ. H. Payson, of New
| York. who spoke about the Ministers
| Home, at West Farms, N. Y.
The night sessions began at $50 O'Clock
and a devotional meeting was led by
| Rev. r. A. Motley, of Jersey City. A SER
vice of song was led by ". H.. Latham, OF
Arlington. Rev. w. W. Case, of Ruther-
ford, addressed the delegates on System
attic Beneficence," and Rev. William J.
| Sholar. of Bayonne, spoke on Systematic
| Soul Saving in the Sunday-school."
The convention will end late this after
noon. Addresses will be made by Rev.
Theodore Hersey, of Freehold; Rev. p. D..
Read, of Hackensack, and Rev. J. l..
Campbell, D. D.. of New York. Tonight
| there will be a Baptist young peoples
| meeting in the church. Moderator Wood
appointed a special committee, consisting
of j. w. Brougher, of Paterson; w. J:
Swaffield, of Jersey City; ]. P. Hunter. of
Hoboken; William A. May, of Montclair;
r. G.. Denchfield, of Bayonne: Joseph
Sullivan, of Paterson, and w. W, Pratt,
of Passaic, to consider paragraph 46. page
| Is. of the digest in the report of the Union