The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

EVANGELIST e. II. RANTON,
Services at Clinton Avenue M. E.
Church.
sisters who will sing and furnish treir
own female Accomplishments on guitar
and harp.
Mr. Ranton is one of the eminent men
of his calling. DR.. Illif, of Minneapolis,
will conduct pentecostal meeting in the
same church at $3.50 D. m.
Grace NJ E. church, corner Burr and
Minnehaha, has had a remarkable year.
Rev. Mr.. Sherman, now of Faribault, was
minister for five years, and left a vigor-
Gus membership and we'll organized
church. Rev. DR.. Asheraft, of Indiana,
took charge last October. The member
ship, at the beginning of the year, was
unanimous for the raising of the So, 900
debt, which had greatly hindered the ex-
tention of the work. This was provided
for and through the energy of D. r. Ell
lott the treasurer. Fully $1,000 has been
paid. all the current expenses met, $500
repairs made on church's exterior, the
pastor overpaid, and the benevolences
aggregating more than for many years.
The enrolment of active scholars in the
Sunday school numbers 225; average at
tendance for the year, $50. The Ladies
Aid society has grown from twenty-nine
to sixty eight members, the Womans
Foreign society has had net gain of
eighty members. Fifty-ene have united
with the church this year. There has
been substantial increase in Epworth
league membership. At the last quarterly
conference the official board asked unani-
mously for the return Of DR.. Ashcraft for
another year, and the committee on pas
tors salary has notified Rev. Ashcraft
that his salary has been increased 5000 for
the new year. Grace is no longer a strug-
Cling society. but takes it's place among
the leading Methodist churches of the
city.
There will me mems mass meeting at
the Y. NJ. c. A auditorium this afternoon
at 4 O'Clock. Rev. s. G. Smith, D. D., will
speak on the subject, THE Chcristian
Citizen"
Rev. Alexander McGregor, of Park Con-
gregational church, will this evening be-
gin a series of Sunday evening sermons
on the foundations of Faith Based Upon
the Apostles Creed"
The Church Sunday School Association
of the Diocese of Minnesota will hold its
dIlIlud1 Institute III Lie NuuTCn VI IIl6
Messiah, Fuller and Kent streets, on
Thursday, Oct 5, beginning with the cele-
bration of the holy communion at $50 a.
m. Bishop Gilbert will preside, and B1sh-
OPP Edsall, of North Dakota, will make
the principal address at the evening ses-
sion at I: 80 p. m. During the morning
session the question How to make the
Sunday school scholar an active church
worker" will be discussed. In the after
noon the topics include How to Grade
a School" Child Study Infant Class
ou Dlf Of Sunday School Si reach5
er" will be discussed.
The programme for the national con-
gress fthe Episcopal church, which
meets in St. Paul Oct. Ii, 12, ID, has been
prepared:
On Tuesday morning, Oct 10. holy COM
munion will be celebrated in Christ
1890 a. m, and the Ri, Rev. John Hazen
White, D. D., bishop of Michigan City,
Ind, will deliver an address. Tuesday
evening, at 1870 O'CLOCK, the first session
of the congress will be held, in the Peo-
pies church, Pleasant avenue, near Third
street. and viii lbe opened by an address
Of welcome from the Rt; Rev. Henry ,.
lowing his address, the question, Does
National Expansion Involve Imperial
ism?" will be discussed by RI. Rev. Henry
Gotham Potter. D. d, LII D.. bishop OF
Detroit; Robert B. Bowler. of Cfncinati,
and the Ri Rev. David Sessums. D. D..
bishop Of Louisiana. The first two par
Elephants mentioned will take part
through written papers only, the last two
in oral debate.
on Wednesday, Oct II, at 1890 a; M,
The SUNDAY "a school Ques IS. 41 VII be
bell Fair, D. D.. Of Omaha: Rev. Henry
Tatlock. of Ann Arbor. Mich, and by
speeches from Rev w. s. Rainsford: d.
Of Chicago, and Rev. Beverly p: Warner
D. D., of New Orleans. Wednesday
evening. 1.-The Bearing of the Newspaper
discussed by such writers as Rev. Cam;
eron Mann, D. D., of Kansas City. and
Rev. Alexander Maekaysmith. D; D.. of
Washington D. c.. and such speakers as
Col R. NJ Kelley, of Louisville and Rev.
Flavel S. Luther, Phi. D., of Hartford,
Conn.
tian'' will be discussed by Rev. F'reder-
seph Hutcheson,. of New York; Rev.
Frank Woods Baker Sha p: II q 6lm msM hs
James Wood W Of York. Pa, In the even
ing Lessons Of the Ritual &c Contest IN the
by Rev John II Elliot. S. T. D.. Of
Washington. D. c.; Rev: FRANCIS J. Hall,
D. D., of Chicago; Rev. Louis s. Osborne,
Jr., Of Springfield Mass. and Rev. Lewis
Cameron, of South Orange, N. ].
The last session of the congress, on
Friday morning Oct 10, will be given up
to a discussion of 1.-The PRAYER Book in
the Life of the People" by Rev. Afford
L. Butler, of Faribauit; Rev: B. ". r.
Tayler, of Los Angeles, Cal: Rev. H. w.
Jones. D. p, of Gambler, O.. Rev. Ma
thaniel s. Thomas. of Wheeling. w. Va;
and Rev. Reginald N. Starr, D. D., of
| Sewanee, Tenn.
At the King Street M. r. church, corner
King and Orleans. the Sabbath evening
service will be gospel temperance serv-
| ice Principal address by State Secretary
| Calderwood, of Minneapolis, male quar-
| tette.
Miss Mary Burnett, of Aberdeen, Scot
| land, will sing Eternal Rest" by Pic
| eolomini for offertory at Plymouth Con-
i ereeationa1 church, Summit avenue and
| Wabasha street: at the morning services.
beginning at 1890 a. m.
A social service in the interests of