The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-02
Religious
News

symposium on sunday School:
1. outline Object and Work of the Sun
day School Teachers Meeting,
William Frisby
.. Indicate the Advantages of the In
ternational Lesson System, and the
Institutions to Be Affected Thereby,
w. b. Westlake
8. The Relation of the Sunday School
to the Benevolences... +. l.. Santee
These papers to Re followed by discussions
MONDAY EVENING, L3O O'CLOCK.
Devotional Service ...........J. w. Price
Association Address ........C. w. Surdam
TUESDAY MORNING, $50 O'CLOCK.
Devotional Service ...........,J. n. Bailey
Essays:
The Bible and Sociology ......C. Il. Mogg
How to Pronounce Revival Work in the
District ....................John bradshaw
Oratory and How Cultivated. C. f. Price
How to Make the Most of Social Meet
ings ........................... B. Sweet
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, O'CLOCK.
Devotional Service ..............F. A. King
Association Sermon ............C. NJ. Giffin
The religious department of the
Young Mems Christian association re-
ceived a decided impetus Thursday
night when, forty of the leading Chris
tian young men of Scranton met at
a conference and planned for the eX-
Ntension of the Sunday afternoon Gospel
meetings. Those present represented
nearly all the churches in the city,
many of them having been delegated
by their pastors to attend the confer
ence. Tea was served at $50, and at
Z o'clock General Secretary Mahy an
nour ed an introduction ses sion. Each
man present responded by giving his
name and church connection, and it
was found that seven denominations
were represented. a. V. Bower then
took charge of the conference. and
gave telling address on the subject
of the Needs of Young men In Scrap-
ton" They need, said he the purify
ing power Of the spirit of Christ in
their hearts, and if we have that
spirit it is our business to bring it to
them. Addresses We're also given by J.
l.. Bone, Fritz Frank, Mr.. Barnard, of
Dunmore, General Secretary Many and
others. The conference was closed
with prayer by the president of the
Young Mems Christian association, II.
c. Shafer. The first meeting of the
series which this body of men have
assumed charge of will be held next
Sunday at 3.45, and will be in charge of
Mr.. ]. NJ. Chance. The new Young
Mems Christian association orchestra
and the male quartette will lead the
music, after which twenty or thirty
men will give one minute talks. by
this meeting the association launched
out for it's winter campaign.
This conference was remarkable in
several respects. 1t was the first dele
gated gathering of the kind ever held
here, and being composed of repre-
sentative earnest men of the several
churches it means that about fifty
Wideawake workers will be looking
out for every strange young man who
comes to the city, to take hold of him
and throw safe guards of the churches
about him before the evil influences
lying in wait have him in thralI
1t may not be generally known that
the Young Mems Christian association
Boarding House Bureau" is the
means of placing a great number of
young men in homes amid good and
wholesome surroundings. There is a
larger demand than ever this year for
the services of this bureau, and by the
new scheme which will be the out
growth of Thursday nights conference,
the workers thus enlisted will take GER
tain districts in hand to bring new
cOmers within the influence of the
| churches before the ever present temb-
tation of irresponsibilty and indiffer-
ence, bred from the indifference of
Christian people, gets too firm a grasp.
There are hundreds of young men who
go up and down our streets carving
church letters and having about them
the atmosphere of a Christian home.
but who are fast going to ruin be>
cause some one did not reach ont TO
them when they first came and gently
draw them into the safer circle of relig-
! ious society and influences. This sort
| OF work is what the new committee
proposes to do, and certainly it must be
| blessed in the endeaVor.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Hoban, since his re-
| turn from Europe. has been devoting
| so much of his time to assisting RI
| Rev. Biship O'Hara in administering
| the affairs of this diocese that il has
been found necessary to give him an
! administrator for the parish of ST. Leo
at Ashley, of which Bishop Hoban has
had charge for years. Rev. j. V. Hus-
| sic, parish priest at Bentley Creek, has
| been chosen for the office. He will be
! succeeded at Bentley Creek by Rev
James Shields, of Towanda. Rev.
| John Morrison, of Sugar Notch, has
| succeeded Father Shields and Rev. ID.
| A. Mccarthy, of Minooka, goes to
| Sugar Notch, Rev. r. w. Carmody. of
the cathedral, succeeding Father Nc
| Carthy. Rev. p. ]. Cough, of Susque-
hanna, comes to the cathedral to teach
! in ST. Thomas's college and assist in
! the parish work, and Rev. j. w, Ma
| lone, of the cathedral, goes to Susque-
hanna. Rev. NJ. ]. Kelly of Archibald
has been appointed assistant at Great
! Bend.
At the Woman's Missionary conyen-
| ton held in Grace Lutheran church
the following officers were reelected:
| President. Mrs. F. II. jenkins, Blooms
| burg; vice president, Mrs. j. A. Kisner
| Selinsgrove; secretary, Miss Harriet
| Werkheised, Danville; treasurer, Mrs
| ]. II. Weber, Sunbury. At the closing
session a local society was organized
as follows: President, Mrs. r. Sturges;
| vice president, Mrs. /. Linder; re-
cording secretary, Miss Lydia Luther;
| corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ella
| Haas; treasurer Mrs. Cunningham.
Lackawanna county will have large
delegation at the State Christian En-
deavor convention, which opens in
| Easton next Tuesday. The party will
go on a special car attached to train
| leaving this city on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad at 7.5O Tuesday morn
ing and reaching Easton at 1850. by
| MaY Of the Lehigh NalleX rnad frnnn