The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-04-07
PRESIDING ELDER.
APPEALS FOR AID.
Lafayette and Linden Ave-
nue. M. E. Churches
Should Be Methodist
RELYING Points.
EpWORTH UNION WORK
What the League Has Done
This Year in Hudson
Evangelization Unions
Great Progress
EPWORTH UNION WORK
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Especial TO The Jersey City Newss'l
NEWARK, April Z. Rev. DR..
Charles NJ Anderson, presiding elder Of
the Jersey City District, paid d glowing
tribute to the work accomplished by the
Jersey City churches during the past
year in his annual report which he sub
mitted yesterday TO the Methodist Con-
ference in session at the Halsey Street
NJ E. Church, this city
Regarding the Lafayette NJ &. Church.
he stated:
This courageous society and its pas
tor deserve great credit. They have paid
for floating debt and Improvements
$2,057, and report thirteen conversions.
This is one of the churches about which
Jersey City Methodism ought to rally,
and with lever of the purest gold lift it
from the financial slough Of despondency,
in which it has so long been struggling,
to a firm foundation Of hope and en-
larged usefulness. Theirs is property
valued at $4,000, with Protestant
population with its bounds sufficiently
large TO fill the auditorium over and over
again. Lafayette should not be surren-
dered to Catholicism. but ought and
must be saved to and for Methodism.
Linden Avenue has paid S400 on old in
debtedness, and reports four conversions.
This church and Lafayette. in some par
ticulars are similar
'.For beauty of situation and possibil-
tiles, under favorable conditions, Linden
Avenue can hardly be surpassed by any
Methodist church in Jersey City. The
heroes and heroines composing the men,
bership have struggled long and hard, in
what has seemed TO be losing battle
The friends Of Methodism in that region
and elsewhere, ought not to be satisfied
until this loyal, struggling church is f.
nancially assisted to a position where it
can command the attention and attend
ance Of its quota of the newcomers to
that community, and at the same time
church the unchurched, and save the un-
saved
Jersey City Epworth Union is an or
ganization whose object is to form bond
of union between the Epworth League
chapters of the city and adjoining vicin-
tiles, and to afford them the means for
larger usefulness by combined effort in
the effort of soul winning, Christian cul-
ture and sociahility. The Union con-
tributes 500 year to the support Of
mission work in the city.
THE membership Of the league num-
bers above three thousand with two thou
sand Juniors. The work Of the league
has been ably and faithfully managed by
the cabinet under the wise direction of
the president, Frank Wright. of Ridge
wood. One of the most successful con-
yentions ever held in the district took
place at Ridgewood last October, with a
splendid array Of talent. The upper
part of the district cannot be worked
satisfactorily on the group plan. because
of its unfavorable Typography. Our
young people are intelligent, pious and
consecrated, having for ther aim the
four objects of the old Oxford Club
more Bible knowledge more literary cul-
ture, more personal piety, more pra .tical
service.
's'The Evangelization Onion Of Jersey
City, Hoboken and Bayonne, has Just
closed very prosperous year. For the
first ti~e Il has employed d snperintsn-
dent. il the person Of the Rev. Dir. r. X.
Boyd, pastor of Trinity Church. The
$500 paid for his services has been
splendid Investment The new plan by
which the union joins Ia the manage
ment Of the Deaconess Home has worked
we'll. giving a much stronger financial
support to the home, and enabling tho
un;on III etnnlov tlpacol4..ss,ssss In liz work