The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-20
Services ior the Awakening
Of Religious Interest in
New Jersey Begaa Yes
-terday.
EviNaELIsTs' Busy SUNDAY
ExHoaTERs or NATIONAL RE-
PUTE ADDRESSED LARGE con
GREGATIoNs AT ALL THE
UNION SERVICES.

The great religious revival for which
preparations have been in progress for
some time by the fifty Protestant pas
tors and congregations of Hudson County
commenced yesterday. The services are
to last three weeks. All the union ser
vices were largely attended and the re-
suR of even the first nights work of the
re .:.ious campaign was highly satisfac-
tory. to all concerned in its success.
Evangelists and gospel singers of nation-
al reputation are to take PROMINENT
part. 1t is part of plan to evalgelize
the nation aud the principal leader is
the Rev. j.. Wilbur Chapman, d. D., the
most noted evangelist in the country he
is at the head of the movement. He came
here from Minneapolis, after stirring up
a big religious wave throughout the
West. The campaign is to be conducted
with yigor throughout the State. Not
only in this city, but in other large cit
les Of the State big union meetings were
conducted.
The opening Of the campaign in this
city really started at Hasbrouck's Hail
yesterday afternoon at mass meeting
for men, under the auspices of the Young
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similar meeting for women in the First
Presbyterian Church. AT the Hasbrouck
Hall meeting selections We're rendered by
an orchestra o. II. Pugh, who secured
first prize at the Welsh singing contest
al the Worlds Fair, rendered number
OF sogos and an address was made by the
Rev. DIR. E. 4. Walton, on the subject
Of Il Coed Fellow Al the women's
meeting il the FIRST Presbyterian Church
an intensely interesting address was
made by the Rev. Dr. H. W. Slough.
In all the churches where the union
services were held last night, there were
large choirs who have been practising
for the big revival and the choruses are
big features of the meetings. The
downtown union services were held last
night in the Park Reformed Church and
the Parmley Memorial Church. The
Rev. ]. B. Pratt, well-known Western
evangelist, led at the Park Reformed
Church. The evangelistic vocal solos
ist was Mr. Ralph T. Fulton
The auditorium and galleries were
crUwded and the address of DR.. Pratt
deeply impressed the audience.
The other union meeting below the
Hill was held at the Parmly Memorial
Church The address, or sermon vas
delivered by the Rev. John A. Earl,
D. D. He halls from Iowa, and is one
of the most noted evangeists of the
West. The church would scarcely hold
the vast congregation. The eyangehstic
singer was Mr. w S. Weeden, whose
rendering of Gospel songs aroused the
congregation along with the religious en-
thusiasm of the stirring words of the
Rev. DR.. Earl.
In all the other churches regular SER
5 vices were held and the congregations in
many of them We're addressed by the
visiting evangelists, several of whom
come from as far as the Pacific coast.
Union services are to be held in other
churches during the progress of the cam
paign.
The Rev. Charles stetzle, the nark-
ingman's evangelist, is to hold three
noon-day meetings in the factories of
Jersey City. He is to hold similar meet
ings in Hoboken and Bayonne.
The Rev. Tillman Hobson, an evan
gelist of national repute, is to join the
corps Of eyangelists already in the field.
He will be accompanied by Mr.. A. L.
Miller, singer and harpist, who Is
known all over the country.