The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-04

Mere:@Mrs. Schoheld, PresidentsMr
Thomas Vice President: Mrs. Sophie
Mrs. Rockwell. The proceeds Of the fes-
ttval will &c to the church.
Second Reformed Church of Hudson
City.
The pupils OF the parochial school con.
Church OF Hudson City, Jersey City,
CAV a Very creditable entertainment at
Prasser''s Hall, on Thursday evening.
Music, recitations and sketches made up
z very. ENJOYABLE programme. The Rev.
f.. A. Meury is very proud of these pu-
pills and has occasion TO be.
Trinity M. e.
The newly organized chorus choir at
Trinity M. e. Church, conducted by Miss
Alice Dixon, with Mrs. Bertha Mathews
as leading soprano, Is meeting with great
favor. The pastor, D. 3. E. Randolph,
row evening on bible Portraits the
first of which Will be on Prince Absa-
lom. the Fast Young Man"
Palisade Methodist.
The regular monthly communion service
will be held tomorrow at the Palsade
Methodist Church. In the evening Pastor
Blight win preach on the subject, Put
on and Putting On"
Centenary Methodist.
Messrs. John II. Ward George A.
Wilhelm were reelected members of the
Board of Trustees of Centenary Methodist
Eurch on Wednesday evening last. Mr..
edward Jones was elected as a new MEM
Der of the Board.
Trinity Baptist.
A strawberry festival will be held at
Baptist Church next Tuesday
evening under the auspices OF the church
choir.
Y. III. 6. a.
The Young Mems Christian Association
will hold an evening service tomorrow in
stead of the usual afternoon meeting.
The service will be held Jointly with the
Wayne Street Reformed Church, and
promises to be unusually interesting. The
Rev. Robert X. Wick will deliver an adj
dress On a GLADSTONE s ad the Grand md t ola
will prove exceedingly profitable to young
men. and will endeavor to get as large a
number present as possible. Mr.. Wick
will show some of the elements of char
acter that contributed to make Gladstone
the greatest and grandest man of modern
history. The excellent choir of the Wayne
Street Church will furnish he music.
From Everywhere.
T.. w. Messer, General Secretary of the
Chicago Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, is to inform the Worlds Association
privileges associations enjoy in this coun-
try. A statement showing the recent
PROGRESS OF associations In North America
8 nsahF prsR The Americas ey .he d deiesaas1nn 70
Basic will be small. Not over fifty will
A much larger number has been
booked, but have withdrawn their names
and asked the return of their deposits.
It Is proposed to erect a Gustavus Adolf
plus Memorial Church on the shores of
the Delaware, where the first Lutheran
a1ry rh IA ~ rfa 1rra IL ~ fa1 r1an rft- DIM
years ago. The plan includes a ~life-siza
statue of the hero, historic tablets, illu-
minated inscriptions and a memorial WIN
tor of the Swedish Lutheran Gustavsls
Adolphus Memorial Church, Philadelphia.
is at the head of the movement. An APP
peal has been semitic all Lutheran congre-
cations in America. including the Swedish
ones in the Northwest. in which it is re-
counted that Gustavus Adolphus was one
of the greatest of Protestant champions,
and that the republic owes much to him.
For a century and a half the Swedish
Government nursed the little American
colony of Lutherans. doing SO long after
tory. The original parish is still in ex-
istence and prosperous, thought it is now
Episcopal in form and government.
A very large representation of Congre-
gationalists is expected at Cleveland
next Tuesday to attend the annual meet
ing of the Home Missionary Society. The
feas15 Of the enes hund dreealss a n ine eelsg
Of the founding of the first American
Home Missionary Society. The open
serve in the territory of which the an
,n~iversary will be celebrated. Other not
able addresses will be One Hundred
Years of Home Missions" by Rev. Or.
Leonard w. Bacon; THE New Mormon
ism" by Eugene Young, a son of Brig
ham Young; California in ~Forty-nine,"
by DIR. Samuel H. Wiley, the missionary
pioneer, n 1.-THE Twentieth Century
City, by DR.. Josiah Strong, of New
York: Dr.. Washington GLADDEN., of Col
iumbus, and DR.. r. r. Meredith of Brook
lyn. Congregational societies, unlike Bsp-
lists and Presbyterian ones, meet at diff
ferent times of the year and in differ
.ent cities; a proposition was recently
Congregational societies, but trustees AMI
friends of the respective organizations dii
not look upon the plan with favor.