The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-23

The work win be completed within the next month.
 Highland Park Revival.
 The series ci services conducted at the Forest Avenue Methodist Church during the past week by Rev. W. NJ. Cox, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church. will close tonight with a special service and the admin istration of the Holy Sacrament. The pastor, Rev. R. R. Ellison. will preach this morning at II o'clock and ! Mir. Cox will preach again tonight. | The weeks services have resulted in I a revival of spiritual interest among l the members of the church and in the 1 addition to the church of several mem- bers Both the morning and the evening services were well attended ! until Thursday and Friday nights when the rain interfered considerably l As a whole. the pastor and the members of the church are pleased with the result of the meeting.
 Baptist Ladies Raise Money. l The Ladies Aid Society of the High land Avenue Baptist Church have ad- ded $50 to the church building fund | A trolley ride and a lawn 'fete given on Wednesday night by the Society cleared for the ladies that amount The sixty members of the Highland Avenue Baptist Church are determined | to raise a sufficient amount of money to begin the building of their church in very short time and thoir efforts | are meeting with gratifying success. l At the close of the Sunday school this afternoon which Is held at o'clock in the Forest Avenue Metho- dist Church, the children's Missionary | Band" known as the Sunshine Socie I ty" of the church. will be re-organiz- ed.
 With the combined efforts of the church societles, the members cf the I church and their interested friends throughout the city, the congregation | expects to have a comfortable place oi I worship before the year is out.
 l Alabama Riblc Society,
 A special meeting of the Board oi 1 Directors of the Alabama BiHe Socie- I ty will be held at the Bible house al l [ l-2 Dexter Avenue next Thursday af' | ternoon at 4 o'clock.
 The meeting is called for the pur' l pose of considering the policy of th' 1 extension of the work There has | been an enormous increase in the sales | of Bibles in the State since April-tht receipts showing the sales t~ have been almost double that of the same numDer or months pTeNiuus.
 The Alabama Bible Society was es abolished tn 1858 and until last Apr! one man did the office and field work
 but since that time J. M. Greene spends his entire time in the field ant
 Rev. W. J. Elliott attends to the salei in the office on Dexter Avenue.
 The members of the Board of Dfrec
 tors who have charge of the affairs
 of the society are nr. R. J. Baldwin pr. J. A. Rice. pr. Neal L. Anderson pr. c. A. Stakely, Judge c. w. Rucs ley Rev E. F. Cobbs Rev. w. M Cox Rev. Stewart Mcqueen, Rev. E
 w Holland, F. c. Andrew, H. B Brooks, Ira Champion. Michael Cody IL. D. Dix, c. W Ellis, J. R. Kelly c. A. McDanied and J. W. Terry.
 To Open Sunday School Annex.
 A grand rally of the Sunday Schoo l of the Court Street Methodist Churcl will mark the opening of the elegan
 new Sunday school, apartment-the Lo
 max Annex-which will take place ol
 the second Sunday in October.
 The program for the occasion is be I ing arranged by the Sunday schoo
 superintendent, S. c. Starke. and hi
 two associates, C. A. Grant and HerVe
 w. Laird. It is expected to have on
 of the Bishops of the Southern Metho
 dist church deliver an address on tn l occasion and also addresses by mum
 Der of prominent out-of-town Sunda,
 school workers.
 , Mir Starke and his assistant super
 intendents and his corps of teachers
 expect to make the opening of the ne'
 occasion in the history of the Cour
 Street Church.
 Dr. J. A. Rice pastor of the Cour Il Street Methodist Church, has returne : from his vacation spent In the noun
 tains of North Carolina and will fill hi
 pulpit at both the services today. Fl will preach at II o'clock this morn
 ing and at o'clock tonight.
 The annual meeting of the Woman , Missionary Union of the East Alabam , Presbytery, will convene at the Ffrs Presbyterian Church in Montgomer Thursday and Friday, November an 9. Representative from all the Mis
 sionary Societies in the Presbyteria Churches in the East Alabama Presby tery will attend the meeting. MT
 Hale of Auburn, is the President an | Mrs. Reese of Auburn is the Secretar
 of the Union. Mrs. Robert Nixon of tn
 First Presbyterian Church. Montgom | cry is the First-Vice President of tn Union. It is expected that there wi
 be large attendance at the meeting i November.
 The regular monthly meeting of tn !. Lizzie Wimbish Foreign Missionary Sc
 ciety of the First Presbyterian Churcl will be held on the afternoon of tn first Monday In October. The societ
 will meet in the Primary Sunda ] School room of the First Church.
 The weekly meeting of the Montgom
 cry Sunday School Teachers Associa ton, will be held in the primary rooi } of the First Presbyterian Churcl
 Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tn l Senior lesson will be taught by Re-
 J. w. O'Hara, pastor of the Clayto , Street Baptist Church and the pr mary lesson will be taught by Mrs. I
 M Graves of the Court Street Methc
 dist Church. Teachers in all Sunda Schools of the city are earnestly re quested to attend the meeting Thurs day afternoon.
 Father T. T. Costello, assistant recto of St. Peters Catholic Church. left yes terday of Greenville, where he will al } tend the regular mission at the Catho
 lie Church at that place today. He wi
 return to Montgomery Monday. Tn
 regular Sunday services will be obserN ed at St. Peter's Church today. On account of the absence of tn pastor Rev Eldred NJ. Stewart, ther will be no preaching services at tn South Side Baptist Church, either thi morning or tonight. MT. Stewar
 wife and baby are spending a couple 0 weeks at his old home at Greenvill' The regular Sunday School and pray