The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
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and entertainment next Tuesday evening.
Or. Dougherty, Secretary of the Sun
day School Union. viii address the Cen
tenary Sunday School after the annual
June walk.
The members of the new choir will not
wear their surplices until tomorrow week.
Trinity Baptist.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union of
Trinity Baptist Church held its annual
May sociabie last night and it proved a
very great success. The programme in
cluded a piano solo by Miss Carrie
Stoeckle; soprano, by Miss l.. Stoeckle;
recitation, by Miss NJ. Harrison; chrystal
chimes, by Mr.. Valentine Brueckner; So
prano solo, by Miss Carrie Cope; tenor
solo, by HI. D. Barton; violin solo. by
William Duff; baritone solo, by John J.
Blick; piano solo, by Miss Anna Blick;
soprano solo, Ave Maria" by Miss
Louise Bartel: recitation, by Miss Tina
T%ledemann: tenor solo, Albert Noble; ban
jo and guitar. selections by Messrs.
Charles Stoeckle.
Y. M. G. A..
Another interesting meeting will be held
tomorrow afternoon under the auspices
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton. Mr.. A. E. Crockett. the assistant
secretary of the association. will deliver
an address entitled 1.-The Coming Hair
vest" In this address Mr.. Crockett will
undertake to give an outline Of the great
vrar1r +ha vor1nU Mop'c Chrfctian AcSn-
citation is just now entering upon for
reaching all the young men of Jersey
City. AS is very we'll known, the Y. M.
c.. A. is holding meetings and presenting
the work of the association in all the lead
ing factories of Jersey City, and the
movement is receiving the hearty CO.
operation and endorsement of the bust
ness men of the city.
The opportunities opening up in con-
nection with this aggressive policy of the
association are very many, and Mr..
Crockett has been requested in his adj
dress to tell something of this work. The
singing of the Junior Department Boy
Choir, which is under the leadership of
Mr.. 1. P. Towne, and which was a spe-
cial feature of last Sundays meeting,
will be repeated tomorrow.
Mr.. /. r. Mount, of New York City,
one Of the most popular speakers to
young men in this country, will deliver
on Sunday, IN 4, an illustrated adj
dress on Bicycles
From Everywhere
The Ecumenical Conference of Foreign
Missions, to be held in New York next
April. has at last secured a chairman for
it's Finance Committee. He is John H.
Washburn, a prominent Congregation
alist The committee as completed Is rep
~resentative of every religious body of any
considerable standing In America.
Baptists gave to missions, home and
foreign, last year s1,oSS, 6S5. but large as
this sum is the Missionary Union, the
foreign organization of the white Bap-
fists north, reports this week at San
Francisco, where the anniversaries are
holding, that its missions are suffering at
every point, and that for six years they
have been held back from all advance.
The union reports indebtedness amount
ing to $54, GOO, and is therefore almost the
only missionary organization in the
whole country of any denomination to be
seriously involved. The Home Mission
Society began the year s14 900 in debt, but
ends it quite free land a handsome
A not inconsiderable part of the tim at
the Christian Endeavor convention at De-
troit will be spent, between sessions at
any rate, in making plans for attending
the words Endeavor convention in Lon
don a year hence. The reason for this ear
ly activity is the probability that crowds
will block ocean travel next year and jill
hotels. So great are these
expected to be that unions in al
most every State rave already perfected
arrangements. and will be ready at De-
troit to present them to their respective
E~ndeavorers. Illinois expects its London
delegation to reach 300, Indiana $50, Ohio
400. Pennsylvania 500 and New York $50.
New England viii send / 600 at least.
Some State unions are hoping to be able
to charter the entire passenger accommo-
dations of a single ship. 1t is said to be
necessary that transportation
shall know six months in adj
vance how many are going in order to in
sure ocean transportation, and to secure
hotel accommodations abroad. Very few
are going abroad this year. 1t is
predicted that next year the foreign travel
will reach the enormous total of 100000.
ordinary seasons its runs 10000 to no.
900. Fares offered by the Endeavorers are
low, and yet it is claimed that
of comfort is sacrificed. The
tours cover the usual routes. The Passion
Play at Ober-Ammergau, the festivities
at Rome in connection with the Papal
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pected to add much to the interest.