The Newtown bee., 1901-06-21

A4ouSCAoluo IudC CO-udy dCCcIlu ChC services, and are connected with the various organizations of the Chapel, being helped and helping others, will tomorrow move far away to some other | quarter of the city. And yet, by re- cent published report, the population of this district has increased seventeen thousand during the past five years.
 Notwithstanding such hinderances, our work is, by Gods blessing, growing in every branch, and deeper religious feeling is everywhere manifest
 During the past year 2,720 pastoral visits were made, 245 sermons and addresses were delivered, thirteen adults and sixty-eight children re- ceived the sacrament of baptism, twenty-eight funerals were attended, twenty-twO marriages were sOlem-
 nized, and sixty-one persons received
 the laying on of hands in Confirmation,
 making total of POP confirmed within
 two years, of which about one-half
 were men and boys.
 A Sunday school of more than seven
 hundred children, with band of
 faithful teachers, fills the space avail
 able at the Chapel. There are one
 hundred and thirty-seven girls attend
 ing the different branches of the
 Girls Friendly Society.
 The attendance at the Mothers
 Meetings has more than doubled in the
 past year. There are at present
 eighty Six members.
 We have a well trained vested choir,
 made up from the congregation, num-
 bering thirty-s voices, doing work in
 its important department, under the
 experienced management of MT H. R.
 Brown, choirmaster, and his wife,
 organist.
 An Industrial School, under the
 superintendence of Mrs James Black,
 has 1855 pupils and sixteen teachers.
 The school, to which only children be-
 longing to the Sunday school are
 eligible, is in a prosperous condition,
 and has become self-sustaining from
 the penny contributions each week.
 During the year 48O articles were made
 and kept by the children as specimens
 of their handiwork.
 The Daughters of the King, a most
 valuable aid to the vicar, have been
 busy during the past year, teaching in
 the Sunday and Industrial schools,
 attending to the altar and chancel
 duties, keeping in repair the choil . vestments, and in bringing children tt baptism, where on many occasions they , acted as sponsors. The first week ir June they conducted party of more Chapel to the great north meadow o : Central Park, where most enjoyable day was spent, refreshments being serv ed through the generosity of those wht find pleasure in ministering unto "ont
 of the least of these." The Daugh ters also had charge of decorating the Chapel at Thanksgiving, Christ mas and Easter. One hundred anC sixty sick calls were made by them and flowers and nourishment, such a! the more prosperous of the poor car provide from their Scant means, were given with tender, loving care to the sick and dying. This work for the Master extended through the intense
 heat of last summer. The Chapter has
 met with an trreparable loss in the re- cent sudden death of their president. She taught the Bible class of older girls and was foremost in every undertaking It can be truly said of Mrs Carroll, "she died in harness" for, two day. previous to her death, she was busy 1T the Chapel, which she dearly loved and where she had been wise and de voted guide and helper from the yer. . beginning of this work. When tn summons came she was found watch
 ing, and now, being dead, she ye speaketh.
 Much needed improvements have jus been completed in the repainting and lighting up of the basement, office robing-room, vestibule, library room and all the exterior iron and woodworl of the Chapel. We are most gratefu for this long-desired, thorough restora tion W hich will add, not little, tn | p1OoCCuUIOuO Ol OuA WOAh h. Anu yCo3 LOe withstanding the present appearance } of the basement in it new garb, white and clean, it is still from eight to 1( below the surface of the ground de pendent, even in the daytime, on ar tificial light, with imperfect ventila latlon. This is the only place for ou main Sunday school and the variou organizations connected with ou work. Hence the difficulty, not hay . ing suitable quarters, of gathering ir the men and boys that ought to be more etfectually reached and helped and otherwise extending our work.
 hope and pray that the day is not fal distant Iwhen the suggestion of ou } superintendent, the Rev Dr Nelson will be responded to, and the Chape of the Messiah will have the "greatl. : needed" mission house.
 The City Mission Fresh Air Fun' never before reached so many of tn } jaded, overworked people of this com munity as during the past summe } when 2,476 received outings varying il duration from one to 21 days. A day recreation was given in a sail up tn Sound to all of our fathers, mother and children with their friends wh could avail themselves of it. Partie
 of boys, girls and women, tired an( 1uoro cort to VI riouc ,>. ri