The Jersey City news., 1902-04-24
Rev. w. G.. Puddefoot Tells
the Congregationalists
How to Remedy
Evils.
MEETING ENDS
Memorial Services for Rev. B.
F. Bradford = Thanks
Voted All Around.

The annual session of the New Jersey
Congregational Association, when mas
been holding meetings for two days at the
First CONGREGATIONAL Church, Bergen and
Boyd avenues, came to a close last night.
The Rev. William G. Puddefoot, Of south
Framingham, Mass, had the pastors ana
delegates laughing for over half an hour
with his address on National Perils and
Their Cure In truth it must be said
that he dwelt very little on his subject,
but instead told numerous stories which
provoked much merriment.
Among other things. he said:-"The
country is in great peril from the thou
sands of emigrants who are focking over
here now They are of far different
class than those of years ago. In two
generations these people will have ac-
quired power and become our masters.
We can't run the country through Con-
gress for we get tripped up by that body
usually. We send these men there, but
they do as they please except before cleo
tion. and they fool us even then.
The speaker quoted figures on the sui
cides murders and other crimes that took
place each year and said that it cost from
thirty to forty thousand dollars to break
a mans neck while one thousand or less
was spent in converting man. He drift
ed over to the work done by newspapers,
taking a decided fling at the sensational
papers of New York.
..Who can resist the temptation of
purchasing the twenty-second edition OF
New York evening paper, printed in blood
and ink? l know there is nothing in these
papers, but yet l buy them to get rid of
the little urchins who beset me from all
sides when I am in that great city. l
know of places where these papers reach
a week after they are published. Perhaps
the people cannot read them, yet they
paper the walls of their houses with the
comic supplements, which goes to prove
that they are getting way up in the fine
arts Cannot the house Of the Lord get
a rush on 1t like the enterprising news
paper and spread the word Of God
throughout the world as the papers tell
of the daily happenings?
Il tell you, friends, there is a terrible
disease for money that no Christian Sci
ence can Tease. But money cannot be
taken with you when you die. We all will
F, have the same space allotted to each.
/ There will be no six room apartments for
! the rich, and many rich man would
! be pleased if he knew that when he died
he could shake hands with a
washwoman in the other world. Church
women are very generous, so much so
| that they let one woman do the work of
/ nine, and then send a pie, thinking to
make it square, and say that they are
sorry they could not come to help"
The speaker told of the money spent
| foolishly by the wealthy and said he did
when they saw the deceit and hypocrisy
that goes with all tht pomp and finery.
The Rev. James L. Barton, D. D., of
Boston, who spent many years in India,
spoke on "Hindooism.' He told of their
so-called religion and of the castles exist
i ing there.
At the afternoon session Mrs. c. E.
! Grice, president of the New Jersey
Mothers Congress, spoke on Mothers
Meetings in Church. She emphasized the
! necessity of having a law passed creating
courts where juvenile offenders should be
tried. She said that these persons of teal-
der years should not be brought in contact
| with hardened criminals The association
took vote on the matter and endorsed
the views Of Mrs Grice.
Addresses were also made as follows:-
1.-The Evolution of Hymnology,' Rev c.
H Richards D. D.: "The Bedouin of the
Euphrates," Mrs. Cassandra A. Haynes
and "Organic Union Between Denomina-
tons" Rev. S. NJ. Newman. D. D.
Fifteen minutes of the afternoon session
was taken up with memorial services in
honor of the late Rev. B. r. Bradford
D. D., of Cedar Grove. Resolutions touch
ing on his death were also passed. Reso-
lutions were passed thanking the Rev
and Mrs Scudder and their daughters and
the ladies of the church for the hospital
fly extended and the choir and organist OF
the church.