The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-26
CHURCH REPAIRS.
Extensive Alterations Now
ii Progress at st. Paul's
and St. Trinitatis
G. E. L.
SUNDAY SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
Little Scholars to Receive a
Pleasant Surprise in Sep
tember-Among the
Churches.

During the past six weeks extensive al
ferations and repairs rave been made to
the church and Sunday-school OF st,
Paui,s German Evangelical Lutheran
Church, at st. Paurs and Summit ave-
nues. The Sunday-school especially has
reoatyed due attention. When the build
Ing was erected, a few years ago, the
parish was in a more or less m
able condition. financially. 1t was a new
parish ana the erection of q church was
q great venture. A great fair. held at
the old Oakland Rink, which was re-
gently pulled down. helped more than any
other one factor to pay for the building
Under the pastorate of the Rev. r. Hoi,
ter, the church has grown and is now a
power for good among the German resi-
dents Of the Central section Of the Hill.
But when the building was first erected.
attention was devoted mainly to the COM
fort of the church attendants. The Sum
day-school In the basement was equipped
with rude. hard, straight benches that
o i pupils and teachers who sat upon
them under restraint an hour or more in
torture. The Sunday-schooi has grown
even faster than the church Several
hundred pupils now attend, and Pastor
Hotter was planning all last year to give
them more comfortable quarters.
when the school rooms are thrown open
the first Sunday in September, those sew
erat hundred pupils will find themselves
comfortably seated in brentwood chairs
and seats. The rooms are separated by
glass, sliding doors, which can be noise
1essly slid back beyond reach of vision
and all departments thrown back into
one. The walls have been newly painted
with a tint pleasing to the eye and dec
Grated with suitable Biblical texts and
notices calculated to impress great Bibli>
cal truths in the minds of the children.
The church has also been renovated and
st. Pauls congregation and school both
will have a most comfortable place in
which to worship during the coming wins
ter.
Pastor r. Hafer, of the Evangelical
Lutheran St. Trinitatis' Church is en-
Toying a well earned two weeks vaca-
tion. He refused to take more, and even
during his vacation is experimenting the
renovation Of his church. He built the
church and is proud of it. All last sum-
mer he worked like q laborer on its re-
pairs. IL lS u Stately tuAbcS anu VA -
nainent to the Hudson City section of the
city. It was the first church in the coun-
try to fly an American flag from the
steeple when war was proclaimed against
Spain.
The church is closed during the pastors
present vacation. and an energetic COM
mittee Of ladies, headed by Mrs. Louisa
Kuhl, president of he Ladies Aid Soci-
ETY., is busy putting the church in a more
comfortable condition for worship during
the coming winter. New carpets are re-
placing the old mattings down the aisles.
New cushions will take the place of those
in the cushioned pews, and the entire
appearance Of the auditorium and altar,
which have been frightened up here and
there with paint and colors of pleasant
hue and scrubbing. has undergone an en-
tire change. The sunday-school room in
the basement has also received due at
tention. This is not closed during the
pastors vacation.