The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-04-03

| $500; New Foundland, S55; Port Jerv1ss W.
900, with $4,000 in subscribed pledges;
| Ridgewood $4,000, a total Of s29.26s
sThe committee on the forward move
ment work in connection with the Ho-
boken Church has started two new mis-
| sions during the present year. One at
| Weehawken and the other In the parks
on the Heights. Arrangements are now
being perfected for the organization OF
| two Methodist societies, one on the
/ Heights and the other in GrantWood; /;
these two to constitute d new charge.
ssAll of these points are important,
growing centres upon the Palisades north
of Hoboken I know of no place where
a few hundred dollars will secure so
great a return to the church as in these
rapidly growing centres. The property
| in these boroughs is restricted for resi-
dent purposes, and many own their own
homes.
1.-THE City Evangelization Union and
| the Home Missionary Committee are N
| full sympathy with these advanced
movements. They are enlarging their
| plans for carrying the Gospel to the
| strangers who are coming to our bor-
ders A committee of laymen has been
/ selected TO present the importance OF this
| work at each one of the churches en-
braced in this union and to aid in secur-
ing liberal contributions for this work.
'"The Deaconesses are rendering valu-
| able service in connection with Simpson
and Trinity, where the Sunday school ae-
commcdations are over-crowded: at Cen
| tenary and Hedding, and also at Steuben
rect and Constable Hook Missions, where
, the work is largely among children OF
| foreign parentage. The Deaconess nurse,
which is a new work in connection witt
our home, is meeting with favor. 1t is my
hope that some literally disposed person
may be led to provide more suitable &C
/ commodations for our Deaconness Home
/ and work so that through special train
ing classes the young people may be
| brought in and directed to the church cen
eres nearest them.
Improvements on Church and Parson-
| age roperty-Allendale Alpine. Barry
vile, Pearl River, Garnerville, Port
! Jervis and Thiels have each paid 800;
Campgaw, $40; Bloomingdale, $3.50 in en-
larging aud beautifying their church,
! which was reopened March 80; Bergen
Point. $780, Bayonne, $500; Forty-fourtlh
lNtreet, Bayonne, s7OO; Greenville, $3.50;
Dingman's, $s5; Deckertown, SIS; Engle-
wood, $50; Hoboken. $500; Hackensack,
First Church. the interior of the church
frescoed. painted, carpeted and cushioned
/ at a cost of $1l5, and the parsonage reno
waited at a cos of $3.50; Hasbrouck
Heights. $685. Haverstraw, the church re-
modelled in Colonial style, painted fres-
coed, carpeted, the lecture room reseated
i and beautified, ali at a cost of $5,o55, and
| all bills paid or provided for; Grace and
Lafayette, each $3.50 on their parsonage;
1 Milford, $500; M3dvale, s175; Otisyille, $40;
j Linden Avenue. $4o0; Munsey Church
being completely renovated, cost not
known; st. PauHs, $500; Union Place, SIS;
West Side Avenue, s40o; Midland Park,
$3.50; Palisades, $215; Stony Point and Suf-
fern. each $50; First Church, Stony
Point, $50; West Town, $s5, and Trinity,
800 Total sl75l2.
"The new work upon the district Is very
encouraging AT Ridgewood modern
conmodious stone church, with Sunday
school rooms and handsome pipe organ
completed and ready for dedication April
( 13. Bishop Andrews will preach the morn
/ ing sermon and dedicate the church. A
new parsonage has also been erected with
all the modern improvements and COM
uletely furnished The pastor and his
j family have occupied the same since oc-
tober, the entire cost being $4,000.
'The young society at Browne Memorial
has outgrown its present accommodations.
! A board of trustees was recently elected
and incorporated and the property trans
ferred to the board A building committee
/ was appointed at the Fourth Quarterly
Conference and is now considering plans
for the building and methods for raising
. funds. The committee already has $500
in bank for this purpose and it is hoped
that very soon ground will be broken for
the new building.
''I record with pleasure the growing IN
terest in the care of the children OF our
church. More children are attending
preaching services, greater care is given
TO the training of children in spiritual
life. more interest manifested in the Ju-
nior Leagues and classes of baptized
children.
"Our Sunday Schools are busy centres
of intelligent study of the word of God,
and the forming of habits of Christian
giving.
"The Missionary Society is organized
in almost every school in the district and
it offering is frequently larger than that
of the church congregation.
+ zone embarrassing feature of their
work is the want in some places of suit
able accommodations for the different de-
partments.
1.-THE District Epworth League, the Jer-
sey City Union and the group system now
organized throughout the district are
movements for the promotion of closer
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