The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-29

The primary teaehers will meet next Tues
day afternoon in the Sunday school room.
Y IA. g. A. Notes.
Practical addresses. by several promi-
nent business men, will be a feature at to-
morrow's meeting Of the Young Mems
Christian Association in Hasbrouck Hail.
Mr. L. -. Gilbert, an excellent tenor Sc
loist, will render several selections. The
meeting win be Of exceptional interest.
Each speaker will ave a different sub
ject, but all will have a bearing on
What brings success to a young man"
Last Sunday nearly 400 people attended
the X. M. G. a. meeting. General Secre-
tary Brown is trying very hard to induce
Henry Marley, the great English Evangei-
list, to give an address to men only in
this city at an carly date.
A meeting viii be held in Hasbrouck In
stittgte this evening, under the auspices of
the Y. M. G. A.. OF all the men in Jersey
City and vicinity interested in electricity.
Prof. +. w. Lindsley, the well known
TRICKY, and a class will be formed for all
those Interested on this subject. So far
many requests have come to the Z. NJ. G.
A. from all parts of the city that it is be-
lieved that over one hundred men may
possibly take up this study. The x. M. G.
A. a.ad has ma esn the Gost SO s}rd low u fha iain every eay
class. The very best of apparatus will
be used to demonstrate the tests, etc,
and the class will be arranged for both
elementary and advanced studies.
From Everywhere.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has
succeeded, during the last fiscal year and
in spite OF the war excitement. in wiping
out a debt Of s1SS, 600 resting on its GEN
eral Missionary Society. Within a few
days the final payments have been pledg-
ed, and the meeting Of the General Mis-
| sionary Committee at Providence, On No
vember 8, will hear the report of a So
eiety wholly free from debt for the first
time IN several years. The only great
mission board now remaining among the
| evangelical denominations that is burden
ed with debt is the Presbyterian Home
Board. and efforts are under way to free
that one. Its receipts are steadily in
creasing. Methodists have cleared their
I society by a general retrenchn1ent cover
ing a period Of four years and amounting
to about fifteen per cent. The Board of
Managers of the Missionary Society,
which meets at Providence early next
month, is composed of all laymen. Plans
for the year beginning next January will
be mapped out, and the division of 81, 1885,
900 in missionary funds will be made The
Methodists have but one society, and di-
vide mission funds in the proportion Of
ffty-fve per cent. for foreign to forty
five for home work.
Indications point to stress being laid
during the coming winter upon mission
work. These indications appear in all
churches. Apparently missions are to be
the topic uppermost in religious effort.
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home missions will not be excluded. In-
deed, the argument is beginning to be
made that a denomination ought to have
one missionary society only, and that to-
separate missions into home and foreign
is to go contrary to the spirit Of Christ
and HIS teaching. Several mission boards
are discussing the election of several sec
retarfes in order to have men speaking
for them in churches of the whole de-
nomination at all times. A new plan,
tina of populations, is also under consid-
! Grafton. This latter plan c~ontemplates
the dfstricting Of the country. All min
listers resident in the district are to be
asked to give a week each. Literature
is furnished them, and each one studies
up the special characteristics Of a par
ticuiar field, home or abroad. Some four
are chosen to comprise a deputation. A
route covering every night in the week
is arranged. For other weeks other dep
utations are thus formed, and as the
Whole country is distrieted every church
III the denomination is thus visited dur
ing tie year, and told in a way not pos
sihle through printed matter about home
and foreign mission efforts OF the de,
nomination. NO one has yet put the plar.
into operation IL this country but it
is in successful operation in England. and
at least two denominations here have 1t
under consideration at this time.
Prominent members of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, who are responsible
for the safe keeping of diocesan and other
funds, are endeayoring to bring about a
change Of method in all dioceses, and
have issued & plan, still in tentative shape
upon which they desire to receive sug-
gestiens. An example of these funds IS
the Episcopal. The salaries of Episcopal
Bishops are paid from income from in
| vested funds and contributions from
churches. These Invested funds run from
$50, coo in the weaker jurisdictions to 5000,
600 i'll the irpnger ones. Then there IS
the fund for aged and infrm clergy. and
moneys belf nglIg g Inherent ehurehes m
the managers of these funds shall ar
range with trust companies IT assured
standing, both tc hold existing securities
and to advise concerning the investment
Of accommodations. 1t is pointed out that
in many cases treasurerS Of these finds
are not business men, or If they are busl-
ness men they are extremely busy Where
a trust company is the holder OF the
funds. or the treasurer of the fund the
money OF the church Is in touch with
the financial world, and in its invest
ment receives the counsel of hnaneiers in
control of the company There has been
talk Of establishing d church trust com
pany to do a national business in church
funds, with perhaps branches in large
cities. The plan had progressed to some
extent when it was found that existing
companies are willing to take church
funds at rates lower than mercantile
business, and so the organization of a
separate company is now being held in
allegiance, pending the development of the
plan and the action of existing companies
1t is stated that not only would Epis-
copal funds be better cared~for by such
an arrangement, but that other denomi-
nations holding such funds will adopt the
idea. There is at least $4,000 000 of such
money held by churches in the country.
and this outside of hospitals, asylums and
the like. The funds to be affected are
only those for which a church ~organiza-
ton of any kind is directly or indirectly
responsible.
The Women Auxiliary Missionary So
ciety of the South Chassis Of Bergen will
meet in the First Reformed Church, in
Bayonne, next Thursday, at 1880 A. M.
and 2 p M.
TWO MARRIAGES BY MR.. MEURY.