The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-02

of many other privileges. including
games, etc.
The educational classes are larger this
year thar at any other time, one hundred
students being enrolled in the different
classes. On last Wednesday evening the
shorthand class opened with much inter
est being manifested. Glasses in English
and arithmetic were also recently opened
with a good attendance in each.
The physical department, under the di-
rection OF Prof. Adams, is constantly
growing. Glasses are held on Monday,
"Wednesday and Friday evenings of each
week. Hereafter Friday evening viii be
especially devoted to business men. Elk
| ercise suitable for a class of this kind
viii then be given, also a similar class
will be conducted on Saturday afternoons.
The Religious Work Committee of the
Young Mems Christian Association has
decided to continue the down town meet
ings in Humboldt Hall, No. 1856 Newark
avenue These meetings have already
been productive of much good. The young
men who do not attend church services
are reached. A committee of the Asso-
| citation young men do personal invitation
work among other young men in the
down town streets each Sabbath after
noon in advance OF the meeting. Next
A. J. Lyon will address the meeting.
which is for men only. The subject OF
Mr.. Lyons address will be Success
strumental music. All men are cordially
invited to this meeting, lasting for one
hour.
From Everywhere.
Bnitarians have selected the Rev. DR..
| Edward Everett Hale, of Boston. to I'M
| dertake propaganda work. The Rev. DR..
Hale resigned his pastorate not long since.
The argument is frankly made that he is
better known in most parts of the country
than is Unitarianism. and that therefore
4 one who goes solely as a Unitarian. The
American Unitarian Association will pay
expenses, and his own Boston Church will
/ give some help on the funds.
On the West African coast, where the
Buiu troubles are, Presbyterians have
about th~irty-five missionaries, all resi-
dent when at home in various parts of
the United States. A cable message just
to hand by the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions indicates that all are
| safe. but there have been uprisings, and a
letter received from the Rev. DIR. Cox, at
Batanga. on Wednesday, declares that the
difficulty will not end until the Bnlus are
given a good ~thrashing by the German
Government. A Roman Catholic school
was sacked and burned. and a PresbyteI-
ian chapel. built wholly by natives and
dedicated last July, was destroyed A
reign of terror lasted for three days, n
the arrival of some ships alone prevented
it from lasting longer. The Bu1us are dis
satisfied with some trade relations. The
region is around the mission stations of
! ga, about two hundred miles north, OF the
equator, on the western coast of Africa
Acceptances OF Invitations to the ECU
menfcal Conference On Foreign Missions
next April are coming In great numbers
1t is already certain that the Conference
viii be the greatest gathering of foreign
mission workers the world ever saw. Not
only is every missionary organization In
America united as hosts, but almost ey-
erythiDg abroad had promised to send
! delegates, among the latter the most ia
nous and successful of iaborers on the
fields. The whole story of missions to
the heather will be told, and new fea-
| lures presented for the future. AT the
head OF the foreign acceptances stand
the London Missionary Society and the
| Church Missionary Society, one the great
| organization of the Free Church people,
| Other societies to accept are the Friends,
the South American, the Free Church of
Scotland, the British Bible Society, the
Baptist Missionary Society, the Swedish
Missionary Society, the Nether1and Mis-
| sionary Society, the Dutch Student Vol
unteers, the Berlin Missionary Society
and the organizations of the Lutheran,
Danish, Swiss IN other churches of the
Continent.