The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-11

! M. C. A. is in a very fl%ourishing condition;
| so many members are taking advantages
of the superior instruction OF Prof.
Thomas G. Adams, that the floor Of the
| gymnasium is now taxed to its utmost
| capacity to allow the class that assem-
| bles three nights per week.
| The Junior Department of the Assoeta-
ton continues to flourish, and the direc-
| tors and secretaries are more than pleased
with the response that has been given to
this new movement, and in starting the
| same the fathers and mothers are more
than pleased to have their boys under the
trained supervision of the secretar1al
force of the Y. M. C. A.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of this city has taken
advance steps along membership lines by
| visiting at the noon hour Systematically
all the principal factories and manufac-
| turing concerns in the city. Thus far Sec
| rotary Brown and Assistant Crockett
have visited five important manu-
| featuring establishments, and have adj
/ dressed from four to five hundred men.
In each case the educational work of the
association is emphasized, as we'll as the
privileges of the gymnasium, baths, to-
gether with reading rooms and social
functions. In every case the representa-
tives of the association have been receiv-
ed very kindly.
From Everywhere.
The Rev. DR.. A. B. Leonard, senior Sec
rotary of the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church., returned last Monday
from a tour of investigation in Cuba and
Porto Rico. Havana, he ia is the nat
ural distributing point for the north, and
Santiago for the south, shore of the ISL
and. Any American religious body UNDER
taking work in these sections would re-
quire to nave headquarters, or at least,
representative churches in the cities nam
ed. In the smaller cities and villages the
Rev. DIR. Leonard believes comfy should
and will obtain between his own and
other denominations. He heard of one
Baptist congregation in Santa Clara, the
capital of the province of that name,
where congregations of 1000 persons are
not uncommon where the Mayor loane
the theatre for meetings, and where q
church had been organized.
The new secretary of the Methodist
twentieth century fund, the Rev. DR.. E.
NJ. Mills, formerly presiding elder of the
Elmira district, Central New York Con-
ference, has a comprehensive plan by
which he hopes to organize contributions
by the Methodists of the North. The plan
is copied in part from the English Meth
odists, where the idea of an end-of-the-
century fund originated. 1t contemplates
getting Methodists. young and old, and in
all walks of life, to contribute definite
sums. In England the cry is. zone man.
one guinea" and something of that sort
is likely to be heard among American
Methodists as soon as Secretary Mills be-
gins work. A great many congregations
will try to pay off their debts; the Ann
erican University at Washington is to
try to raise 1000, 000, Syracuse University
wants $4,000. 900, and so on.
President Clark and Secretary Baer, of
the Society for Christian Endeavor. are to
attempt several innovations at the inter-
national convention, which is to meet this
summer in Detroit. On t~he.opening night
following the formal opening and the adj
dresses of welcome there will be an i'm
mense reception. The convention sermon
is to come on the first morning. On
Thursday and Friday evenings there Will
be mass meetings in two tents, with two
speakers at each. On Friday ~afternooon
there will be held a school of methods in
both tents. The social Saturday night
will be retained, but on Saturday night
conservation meetings are to take place IN
at least twenty churches. On the clos
ing day there are to be two junior rallies.
The outing of the convention is to be a
trip to Belle Isle.
The Society of the Holy Ghost. whlcn Is
to send two missionaries to his country
next month, is one of the great, II little
known. societies of the Church of Eng
and it is affected by the Broad Church
element only. h two missionaries
about to visit this country. the Rev. hill
ip Norton and the Rev. j.. Worrhington
Atkin, will preach in Episcopal churches
in Buffalo. Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis
and in others il invited by rectors 20 do
so. -
The Presbyterian Board of Home Mis-
sions received last week a check for S9,0OV
for work in the Philippines: It has aps-
pointed another missionary for that heid,
and two or three more are TO be named,
The man just sent out is the Rev; l.
| Hibbud. formerly pastor of u small con.
? gregation in Kansas.