The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-22


system and mutual cooperation and
assistance. The scope of its benevo-
fences includes the entire city. and is
especially effective through the Oak
Hill branch of the church.
The president of the society, Mrs. E.
5. Ongley, is assisted by an able corps
Of officers and under her leadership
the society is now looking forward to
one of the most successful years in its
history. Every month the society holds
a meeting and sociable during which
there Is supper provided. The pro-
ceeds of these monthly events are very
satisfactory and furnish the means for
carrying on the larger part of the or
ganization's benevolent labors.
In the missionary iield, the church
takes leading part among the re-
lls1ous bodies of the city. Its Home
Missionary Society does an immense
amount of effective work in the city
among the poorer classes of the peo-
pie and the church has in the foreign
field one missionary. Miss Lawrence,
who is stationed in Burma, and in the
home field, another, the we'll known
evangelist Rev. John H. I.ingley, who
Is at present accomplishing excellent
results in revival work in ST. Adams,
Vt. The Ladies Home Missionary So
clety is under the presidency of Miss
Rebecca Davie, while the Foreign Mis-
slonary Society is presided over by
Mrs. r. d. Tatman.
The discussion of the missionary ac-
tivities of the church attains its most
interesting phase, however, when con-
sideration is given to that portion of
the church, which. although part of
the original body, is in itself mission
airy branch pure and simple. This is
the Oak hill mission, which is one of
the most notably effective Christianiz-
ing influences in its peculiar sphere in
the city. This branch of the church
was founded as before stated, a num-
Der of years ago, and is under the
charge of the assistant pastor of the
church, Rev. Arthur st. James who is
a remarkably successful apostle of the
faith in the section of the city where
he Is stationed. The mission is located
at 531 Park avenue, in the midst of a
most decidedly cosmopolitan population
and the influence that il exerts over
a large population, that but for it would
be almost wholly without the benefits
of attendance on religious service, can
hardly be over estimated Rev. Mr. ST.
James is very earnest worker along
evangelical lines, and his success in his
peculiar field has won for him the well
merited regard and esteem of all the
friends of religion and morality in
Worcester. He has been engaged in his
present work for about six years. He
is assisted in his work by members of
the church, who go out to the mission
each Sunday to help the work that is
being carried on there.
The Y. P. S. c. E. of the church is
an organization that is very widely ex-
tended in its activities. and has divided
itself into senior and a Junior branch
for the better carrying on of its work.
The officers and committees of the So
ciety for the ensuing yeac are as fol-
lows:
President-F. A. Perkins.
Vice president-Fred Foster.
Secretary and treasurer-Miss Sadie E.
Seaver.
Corresponding secretary - Miss c. L.
Thompson.
Prayer meeting committee-Miss Winnie
E. Mayors, Mrs. E. L. Lowell, Mrs. Annie
Lookout committee = Miss Carrie L.
Thompson, Miss Grace B. Rawson, Chas.
R. Lingley. L.. R: Parker, Miss Edna
Temperance committee - e. I. Lowell,
George N. Barrows, A. H. Ferrier,.
Social committee Miss Della NJ. Seaver.
Mrs May Manning, Miss Flora Stacy.
Music committee = Mrs. Bradbury, Miss
Lillian Brooks, Miss Mabel Batcheller,
Good literature committee-Miss Annie
D. W. Pearce, Mrs. II. e. King, Miss
Missionary committee Miss Miriam
skinner, f. H. Howe, Miss Lydia Saun-
ders.
Sunday school committee - Miss Sadie
Saunders, Miss L. J. Keith, Miss Gertrude
M. Cheney Deacon G. #. Brooks, A, F.
Mayors, Miss Ethel Barrows, Miss Beulah
Fellows.
Reporter-L r. Parker.
The junior society is presided over by
Mrs. A. Mclean. The Sunday school of
the church is a very active one, which
has very large attendance and is
thoroughly up-to- date in its methods
of teaching and interesting the children
in the work of the courses. The officers
of the school are as follows: Super
intendent, G. F. Brooks; assistant sup
erintendent, Charles n. Smedley; sec
rotary, Carrie F. H. Thompson; treas
urer, George B. Rand; superintendent
of the Oak hill mission school, Charles
n. Smedley.
Among the other societies of the
church should not be forgotten the
Lawrence Mission Band, which is com
posed of active workers in the Come
department of the foreign missionary
field.
The musical portions of the service
at the Pleasant Street Baptist Church
are especially worthy of notice. The
choir of the church consists of the fol-
lowing: Soprano, Mrs. William Reed ;
director, Mr. Walter s. Bliss; bass, Mr..
Herbert Midgley; organist, Mrs. W. A.
Calden. They are assisted on Sunday
evenings and on special occasions by
the following second quartet: Miss
Winnie Mayors, Mrs. Fred Smester,
Frank L. Rawson and Fred L. Wood.
The pastor of the church, Rev. Wood
man Bradbury, is a comparatively
young man. but he has already en-
biTnGalf w T1ar-
sonality not only to his congregation
but to the people of the city at large,
who have mad the pleasure of coming
in contact with him. He is a pulpit
orator of no mean ability. He is also
man of admitted executive ability,
and during his two years pastorate,
has greatly increased the spiritual and
material prosperity of his church.
Rev. Woodnlan Bradbury was born
in Bangor Me-, in 1866, and was grad
uated from Colby in 49, and from the
Newton Theological Institute in 81. His
first passionate was in Laconia, N. H..
where he remained six years. He came
to Worcester in April, 1897. Mr.
Bradbury's home is in Melrose in this
state. 1t was only few months after
his arrival in this city that he was
married to Miss Mary E. Farr who was
graduate of Colby a year after her
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradbury are
being congratulated on the birth of
their first child, daughter, Elizabeth
Farr Bradbury, which event took place
the 18th of the present month
Mr.. Bradbury, aside from being a
preacher of great power is also a very
interesting taller on subjects of secu-
lar interest and is in much demand for
the delivery of several lectures which
he gives on recent trips abroad which
he has taken. Among these, his
'Rambles in Sunny Italy" is one of the
most popular. He is also planning a