The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-07

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Park Reformed.
AT the Park Reformed Church, the
Week OF Prayer has been well attended.
On Thursday evening a cottage prayer
meeting was held at the residence Of the
pastor, the Rev. DR.. Morgan. Special
services will be held on next Wednesday
and Friday evenings. Another cottage
prayer meeting will be held next Thurs
day evening, but the place has not yet
been decided upon.
The regular weekly meetings of the
Junior Endeavor Society. which were
adjourned during the holidays, We're re-
sumed yesterday afternoon, and despite
the terrible weather, yesterdays meet
ing was well attended. 1t is proposed TO
introduce some new ideas into the work
of the association and a profitable years
work is looked forward to.
Grace p. E. Van Worst.
The members of the Young Peoples
Guild at their last meeting, elected the
following officers for tne year. The Rev.
George S. Bennitt, President; George T.
LIE Blanc. Vice-President, and Elizabeth
Smith, Treasurer. The different commits
tees will be composed of the following
young people:-visitIng Committee, Ed
ward Hauck, Chairman; Walter Young,
Eta Wedell and Elizabeth Smith. Social,
Robert Farrier, Chairman; George Parson,
Elizabeth PfotZer and Lucie Lampman.
Entertainment, William Redfearn, Chair
man; Robert Farrier, Samuel Erickson
and Louise Morris.
The annual Suppe Of.the guild Will take
place February / in the chapel hall.
st. Paul Methodist
The revival meetings will be continued
in st. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church,
Third street, near Erie street. Tomorrow
morning the pastor, the Rev. L. z. May
ham, will preach to Sunday school teach
the front pews in the Church. In the
evening Mr.. Samuel Sherwood, a promi,,
nent business man OF VIII
preach. MI; She e SG IN add h',sina 70
interests, finds time to do much charitable
and religious work. Meetings will be
held each evening next week.
Centenary M. E.
The regular services will be CONDUCTED
at Centenary Church tomorrow. Pastor
Goodman will preach morning and even
ing. There will be special religious SER
vices on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings. A revival is hope
fully looked for.
Zion Evangelical Lutheran.
h Presiding Elder of the District will
preach tomorrow morning at the Zion
Evangelical Church., Charles street, near.
the Boulevard. Pastor Charles H. Bens-
eler will occupy the pulpit in the evening.
James Methodist.
h choir of the James Methodist
Church is arranging for the holding of
a concert and entertainment in the early
part of next month.
Y NJ. G. A. Notes.
The Young Mems Christian Association
will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon
in Hasbrouck Institute of intense interest
to younlg men. A. K. MacRae, a very
youngn and popular evangelist. will be
the speaker. and deliver one of his char
acteristic actresses, entitled tndefa, "3 fgpa}9,re M
the meeting will be several musical at
fractions of a novel character, INCLUDING
mandolin and guitar solos by MI; Sama niue
ence will be present on this occasion.
Every man in the city ought to hear
young MacRae.
From Everywhere.
The recent meeting of representatives Of
different branches of American Luther
anisn is another step in the effort by
ung members OF this denomination to
bridge over he difficulties which have SO
long kept Lutherans apart here. The first
step was last year, when fraternal dele
gates from the General Council and the
General Synod attended their respective
meetings. The change is in nj small de-
gree due 10 the work of the Luther
League. Another force that is working
is the English language. AS nationaA-
ties brought across the pecan disappear in
Americanism union begins 10 be discussed.
The orN q p70no l.JfffPr3Ts * that "A c0E1-
mon education VIII make a common
priesthood ard that d common priesthood
means a conrno Church in place Of the
present much divided one. Delegates at
the Philadelphia meeting report a pleas
ant s~ojourn, but are unable to say
whether or not union is much nearer than
before.
The American Baptist Publication So
ciety has asked for a confereS on the
matter of the controversy nov raging in
Baptist newspapers regarding the rela-
lions between that society and ire Bap-
fist Home Mission Society. The latter
will take action OH the conference request
at its next meeting. The points at issue
are readily understood by q brief sum-
present conditions. IN 1924 the Baptists
organized a society whose sole object was
declared by its charter to be the publi-l
cation Of tracts. t9 which sole purpose
years, or until 1s4e. IN 1852 the Baptists
organized another society for the special
purpose of preaching the gospel and or
ganizing churches n Sunday-schoOls,
and now for ~sixty-seyen years the AM
erican Baptist Home Mission Society has
been prosecuting this church extension
work. 1t has organized more than 5000
churches. among them scores of the most
influential Baptist congregations in Chi
cago. st. Paul, Omaha, Denver, San
Francico, Indianapolis, st. Louis and
other cities.
In 1910 the Baptist Tract Society changed
its charter and incorporated Sunday
school work. In 1871, 1t again changed it's
allowing it to enlarge the scope
of its effort. In 1890 1t began to employ
chapel cars and to do distinctively mis-
organizing churches, thus coming into di-
rect rivalry with the Home Mission So
ciety and appealing to the churches for
contributions. In 1888 it sent DIR. Diaz to
Mexico as general missionary against the
protest of the Home Mission Society,
which was already carrying on an extern
sive missionary work In that republic.
Last November. at the Baptist Congress,
DIR. Horr, editor of The Watchman,' and
one of the vice presidents of the Pub
LEGATION Society, called attention to this
overlapping and suggested an adjustment
of work to avoid friction.
To this suggestion DIR. Rowland, the
secretary of the Publication Society, re-
piled that his body was a co-opera-
tive and not a rival society; that two
are better than n for doing
the same work; that his society is older
than the Home Mission Society; had been
a missionary society from the beginning,
and hat probably it could do the home
cheaper than the Home Mission. Society
oo,4Id dn ~ bu raasnr of prafifc made