The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-04-04
CONF FERENCE TO MEET.
Congregationalists Will Hold
Their Annual Meeting In
East Orange.

The Congregational Association of New
Jersey which will hold its thirty-second
annual meeting on April IT and is. in the
First Congregational Church, East Or
ange includes the churches of that de-
nomination in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington in addition to those in this
State.
The first session on Tuesday afternoon
April II, will open with a devotional SER
vice. conducted by Rev. DR.. Fritz w.
Baldwin, of Trinity Congregational
Church, East Orange, and the election of
moderator and committee will follow.
Rev. Ambrose w. Vernon, pastor of the
East Orange First Congregational Church,
will give the address of welcome. The re-
ports of the corresponding secretary, Rev.
J. Owen Jones, of Bound Brook, and the
treasurer, James H. Noyes, of Orange, will
be followed by report of the churches
in New Jersey, presented by Rev. Ellis
worth Bonfils Rev. Claude NJ Severance,
of Washington, will tell of the state of the
churches at Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington. An address on Our Asso-
ciation," by the retiring moderator, Will
liam H. Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, will
conclude the afternoon session.
Rev. Dr. c. H. Richards, of Plainfield,
will conduct the devotional exercises at
the evening service. A communion SER
vice will be conducted by Rev. Frank w.
Hodgdon, of Orange Valley, and Rev.
Elliott w. Brown, of Glen Ridge; the SER
mon being preached by Rev. Oliver Huck-
ell, of Baltimore.
The devotional exercises on Wednesday
morning will be conducted by Rev. How
ard S. Bliss, of Upper Montclair. Com
mittee reports will be presented and an
address on "The Modern Sunday School,
will be made by Rev. Louis f. Berry. This
will be followed by discussion led by
Rev Dr. John L. Scudder, of Jersey City.
Rev M. Ross Fishburn will give an adj
dress on 1.-THE Presence of God as an
Experience, and the following discus
sion will be conducted by Rev. DR.. James
R. Danforth.
Three addresses will be made at the
afternoon session, after the devotional
service led by Rev. Charles G. Clark
Miss Alice Gordon Gulich, of the mission
in Spain. will speak on "a Message to the
Children of the Kingdom; Rev. DR..
James H Ecob, of New York, on "a Mes
sage of Nature to the Children of the
Kingdom and Rev. James A. Farley, Of
Nutley. on 'tThe Message of History to
the Children of the Kingdom Rev. DR..
James NJ Whiton, of the Outlook" will
conduct an open discussion on these
topics, each speaker to be limited to three
minutes.
AT the closing session at night, two ad-
dresses will be made on missions. Rev.
Dr. William G. Puddeford, of the Com
gregational Home Missionary Society, will
speak on the s'Work at Home" and Pro-
fessor George William Knox, of Union
Theological Seminary, on Work Abroad. .
Each of the forty churches in the as
ISOLATION is entitled to be represented by
its pastor and two delegates.
The churches in this State included In
the association are. as follows
Bound Brook. Cedar Grove. Chatam,
Chester, Closter, Coytesville. Dover,
Swedish; East Orange, First Trinity and
Swedish: Elizabeth, Glen Ridge, Gutten-
berg, Haworth, Hoboken, Jersey city,
First and Waverly; Montclair, Upper
Montclair. Morristown, Newark, First,
Believilie Avenue and Bethlehem; Nutley.
Orange. Park Ridge. Passaic, Paterson,
Perth Amboy, Plainheld, Short Hi.
Warrenviile. Westfield and Woodbridge.
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