The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-13
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follows: First session. 3 p m. conduct
ed by Rev R. A. Torrey OF Chicago. AT |
Rev. Benjamin +. Livingstone OF Bos-
ton will conduct Quiet Hour service |
for men. and Mrs. IA. II. Gibbud of
Springfield VIII conduct a similar SER
vice for ladies. From TO 6 p. m. a
general service Will be held. after which
the people will adjourn 20 the Central
Falls Congregational church where re-
freshments will be served. n business
session will be held at O'Clock and the
closing address at will be given by
Rev Mr.. Torrey.
Rev. James NJ Gray Of Boston, who
has been taking Mr.. Torrey's place ln
Chicago this summer has been securen
by the Sunday school association OIL
PawtuclIet and vicinity 10 conduct 9
Bible study class this winter. His hr5t
address will be at the Y. NJ. {. n on
Friday evening. Oct. 20. subject: ne
English Bible and How To Use IT,
Miss Lena T. Payne OF the centrai
Falls Congregational society conducted
a very interesting exercise with the ju-
niors OF that church. September -.
called "The Missionary Ladder Each
Junior was furnished a ladder and PEN
ell.
Nearly all the societies I'm the Paw
luGktl ullbil lldNN ah'bNNN
cycle"
Al tho Broad Street Baptist society
| Pawtucket rhe regular toplc Tor the
month OF october IS to be set aside ana
Prayer" considered instead. The pas
! tor will meet all committees. one at
| lime and plan with them the winters
work.
Mr.. w. G. Bourne Of the Park Place
| Senior society has spent the month OF
| September with Mr.. II. Il. Gibbud oI
| Springfield among the hop plckers or
| Central New York Their work was
] purely evangelistic. Some excellent PIC
lures were taken bY Mr.. Bourne, show
| ing the work and the people. These
We're made into lantern slides and on
| October Mr. Bourne gave a talk on
| the work illustrated by the stereopti-
con. al the SUNDAY session OF Park
| Place church.
EVANGELISTIC WORK.
The w. c. T.. t. has i'm Es evangelis-
| tic department during the year just
! closed secured speakers for temperance
| Sunday: held regular services In Wash
| ington county tail; three unions have
| held out OF doors meetings through the
| summer and in every case "a larger at
| tendance is reDOrted than, could De
| found I'm the churches; Bible readings
| have been given at the state and dis
| trict conventions and AT the regular
! meetings OF the unions: public Gospel
| temperance meetings have been held in
| the churches in many towns addressed
| by Jessie Ackerman. Edith Hill Book
| er. Mrs. ]. *. Barney. Mrs. Deborah
! Knox Livingstone. Mrs. L. B. Burdick,
| Mrs. Mary \. Babcock end the corre-
! spending secretaries. A number OF pull
| pits have been supplied by members or
the w. G. II. u. Members have Joined
the communion c.rcle. which has for
! it's object PRAYER and Bible study from
| to $3.50 a. IN. each daY. I'm Newport
| the work OF THE Beacon Mission" has
| been sustained and a special series OF
| meetings have been conducted by Miss
! Della Rees. Miss Swtzer OF Boston and
| others. In WoOnsocket members are
| active i'm rescue mission work. Days
for PRAYER and meetings for prayer and
| conservation have been held. \ large
! number OF Christian Endeavor meet
| ings have been addressed by w. &. T.
| L. speakers and much interest I'm the
| cause has been aroused Nearly every
| union has held q memorial service for
| Miss Willard Visits have been paid TO
the hospitals asd flowers. fruits and
iellies have heen distributed. The sick
have been visited and clothing given to
poor families. Cottage meetings have
been held and much appreciated. In
some rural towns the w. G. T. L. MEM
bers are the chief workers i'm tho
churches and through their efforts
preaching services and prayer meetings
are sustained
PRAYER MEETING TOPIC.
The Prayer meeting topic for En-
deavorers this week is: Lost Opportu-
mites" Jer. $50: Matt. 23:37-S9; Heb.
1217:
We let opportunities slip by FOR many
|
l. We do not recognize them.
.. We persuade ourselves that there
is plenty Of time.
5. We look I'm the wrong place for
them
Examples 4 young Woman. a Chris
tian. was lamenting that I'm her place
a keeper of the home that she was
ltrying to fiji left har no opportunity
for what she called doing good And
I vet she had almost boundless oppOrt Il 70
nifty for those of her own household IN
filing the place well who're God had
put lar she was meeting her opportu-
nifty. How many home servers think of
! that?
A young Christian invited MARI IN
! the house of God without success At
last SHE thought why didn't beg ..
home" and invited her father. He said:
II have wondered all along hdt kind
of religion il was that discounted home
folks" He went with her. There Is
something teafful anoOt loSt lfnitu-
nifty. when IL is an opportunity 10 con
sequences Of which reach into eternity.
who. looking backward from his man
hoods prime.
Sees not the shadow OF the misspent
timer
DO YOU not see tonight the people
who once crossed your path. and whom
, YOU might have saved. n YOU had only
made the effort? They have gona out of
the world Of opportunity. God pity Us
, for our neglect. and help us TO profit by
| what We have learfs H.
The Rhode Island sunday School AS
| sociation is an interdenominatOnal as
s1ciation Of the Sunday Schools OF tho
state. organized 90 stimulate and en-
. courage the workers 10 do more and
: ! better work.
" seeks to do this by. bringing to-
gether the workers In district and an
nual state conventions: by cndeavor-
ing to secure tho use ~ the best meth
: Ods: by introducing the home depart
I ment and the normal class into every
J | school N poss Bile. and by securing sta.