The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-24

Primitive Methodist church, of East
Market street. on Monday afternoon
will discuss the question of Ladies
Wearing Hats in Church"
A big bush meeting will be held un-
der the auspices of Shiloh Baptist
| church and pastor, Rev. Bell, at 3 p. m.
Sunday. Rev. II. IL. Harris, Thomas de
Gruchey, Captain George Totten and
others have been invited
The Methodist Ministers association
| Of Scranton and vicinity will meet in
| Elm Park church Monday morning,
June 26, at 1890. The speaker will be
Rev. II. NJ. Pascoe, A. NJ, of Avoca,
and his subject will be The Supreme
Lesson of History"
At the Baptist Ministers conference
next Monday morning the last session
| of the conference year will be held.
| New officers will be elected and a place
| determined upon in which to hold the
next annual meetings of the Arlington
association and Sunday School conven-
| tion in September All members should
be present.
The members of the Sunday schools
connected with the Second Presbyter-
| ian church expect to have a fine time
| on their excursion, Monday, June 26,
to Lake Ariel. The schools number
about 500. Tickets have been furnished
to all the members. Any friends wish
| ing to go along can buy tickets on the
! train. Train time is $50.
The Central Young Women's Chris
| tian association will hold union SER
! vice with the West Scranton branch in
! the Welsh Baptist church on South
| Main avenue at 3.4j y. M Mrs. Med
| ley, the evangelist, will speak to girls
and women. Service at the North
! Scranton branch, 2O4S North Main ave-
nue.. at 3.45 p. m. All girls and women
| are invited
Mrs William Scott, the noted Afro
| American missionary and lecturer, will
| be the speaker at the missionary rally
| held tomorrow evening in the Jackson
| Street Baptist church. Mrs Scott was
| born slave in Clinton county, Mo-,
January 81, 1865. and received her free
dom in 1865. She is II noble and able
representative of her race, the lover
| and defender of her people, a woman
who is highly cultured and possesses
a rare oratorical talent, fluent and
| polished i'm her address, creating a gen.
uine enthusiasm and pleasure in the
minds of her hearers. A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all. Church door
| will he opened at $50.
The Sunday school of St Luke's par
! ish including that of ST. Marks. Dun
! more, and St. Georges, Olyphant, as
! we'll as the three in the city, together
with the Sunday school of st. David's
| parish in West Scranton, have Joined
! in arranging for an excursion to Lake
Ariel and a picnic there on Wednes-
day next, June 2S. They hope, as usual,
to have large number of the adult
! members of the two parishes with
them. There will be music during the
day in the pavilion and games for the
children have been arranged. There
is every promise of most enjoyable
| day.
G. A Brown, one of the elders of
Calvary Reformed church since its cs-
| tablishment and who was also fore
| man in the blacksmith shop of the
| Dickson works, will leave the city for
Laramie, Wyoming, where he will take
! charge of a large shop. His faithful
| and continued work and advice will
be much missed by pastor ana people.
Mrs. William Scott, "Mssouri's
Daughter" the noted Afro American
| lecturer, will give an address at the
| Penn Avenue Baptist church Sunday
morning in the interest of the Ameri-
! can Baptist Publication society. In
| the evening there will be a special SER
vice of sacred song and the pastor will
| give a brief sermon on Songs in the
| Night"