New-York tribune., 1906-02-03
GENERAL ITEMS OF THE WEEK.


The old chapel of the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church. at S1st-st, will be torn down next month
TO make room for the five story parish house
to be erected this It will be 4s feet wide and
q feet in depth OF the Sl5o0oo needed $4,000 has
he the annual meeting & Of the Young womens Chris
address.
Although it is now more than two months since
the Interchurch Conference on Federation met in
New-York, there is still going on an active dis
cussion in religious circles to the probability
OF the permanent organization which the conference
voted for being consummated. Something like
thirty Of the evangelical denominations took part
In the conference. being represented by officially
appointed delegates. and the delegations left the
conference with the intention OF asking their sew
eral denominations to appoint delegates to the
feaeTal Council and is TO meet for the first time
lions and powers of this permanent council. end
interest is especially revived at this time because
OF the recent conference that the volume contain
sions is about TO be issued. The subject was pre-
pared for publication by an editorial committed, OF
chairman Of the conferences. and the Rev DR. h.
B. Sanford. secretary OF the executive committee
members.
The Rev, DR.. David G. wyle. OF the Scotch
Presbyterian Church. and Mrs. Wylie will sail
for Palestine. Egypt and Europe Thursday for
q trip Of some weeks. This trip is in recognition
OF the fifteen years Of pastoral service of Dr. Wylie
10 the Scotch Church. During DR.. Wylie's absence
LIE; 1iT tN re :, .~h ]rpeIs wa" De IN cnarse NM anu
Wednesday evening after the devotional meeting
the congregation will give DR.. and Mrs Wylie a
reception.
In Calvary Baptist Church at p. m. tomorrow
the Rev William Spurgeon, of Cardiff. England,
sllsin Of the late Charles H Spurgeon, will preach
He possesses many Of the gifts OF his distinguished
reIatlve. lie mas come TO America to preach and
md l1r r1Uff
Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, OF Cornell Univer
sity, will lecture before the Society for Ethical
Culture at CaTnegie Hall tomorrow at Ii g. m,
The Ethical Sgnticance OF Ztonism"
The February meeting ot the Collegiate Club viii
be held Monday evening. at $3.50 p. m The
speaker will be the Rev DR.. Howard Duf1eld. pas
city. In accordance with the announcement made
club viii be taken at this meeting.
A report from T3ogota, South America, sent by a
missionary Of the Board Of Foreign Missions Of
the Presbyterian Church TO the officials, indicates
the dire necessities TO which the labortng classes
Of the country put because OF the depreciation
OF the government currency. The Rev. T. II.
Candor sends the report in the course OF which
he says:
after We question them, that they are in very
that We can or will supply their temporal wants
If they Will become members of our church In
their only motive. and will say that they know We
vices This belief is quite general among the poor
eT people and & we 6h16 she ,nePne TePGr mas Deen
The Rev. DR.. Adolf G1 viii be the preacher at
the afternoon servicA at $3.50 o'clock. IN Chrtst's
Mission, No I42 West 21st-st DR.. GIL is e native
Of Colombia South ApsrIos ne HIS subject VII BE-
The Rev. James A OConnor will conduct the
service.
The Corporation Counsel OF Jersey City, George
L. Record. will speak with P Fulton Cutting at
the mems mass meeting IN the Majestic Theatre.
Broadway and 59th-st-. on Sunday, at $3.50. There
will be music by Victors band.
On February s. at the Baptist Temple. sd-ave
and Schermerhorn-st. Brooklyn, the Arton Singing
Society Of Brooklyn. Arthur C1aassen, conductor
lyn Society for Relief and Defence Of the Jews.
Professor Edward Morris Bowman, who has had
charge OF the music in the Baptist Temple for the
last ten years. has offer from Calvary Baptist
Church TO take charge Of the music there and
Baptist Temple His daughter, Miss Bessie May
Bowman. solo contralto, has also been asked for.
The choir OF Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights.
will gfv. its annual musical festival. under the d-
rection OF Frank Wright. Mus. B., organist and
choirnaster Of Grace Church and St Johns Church
a ged 6H the ah45 of ST. It. oRn m and ST. M
phen's churches and an orchestra Of thirty-two
men.
The pupils OF Z Warren Andrews will give their
first recital at the Church Of the Divine Pa
ternity Thursday afternoon. February s, at I
o'clock. De Witt Garretson, organist OF ST Peter
Church, Perth Arnboy, y. J., will be assisted by
Miss Florence La Sale F1ske. contralto.
One of the greatest occasions IN this church's
history Will take place in Calvary Methodist Epis-
copal Church. 12sth-st. and 7th-ave DIR. Charles l.
Gooden pastor. tomorrow morning, when between
three hundred and four hundred persons will be
received into the membership OF the church. This
church IS now largest Methodist Church in the
world IN point OF membership. One thousand mem
bers have been received IN two years lncludng one
hundred from seventeen different churches. Bishop
Andrews, DIT. y. NJ North, DR.. Germond and other
well known clergymen will attend the service.
At st. Paurs Methodist Episcopal Church West
End-ave. and S5th-st, DR.. George P. Eckman is
conducting q series OF informal discussions on
sociological subjects from the standpoint OF Chris
tian religion His topic last Wednesday was ''Pov-
erenine viii be ''T1he Criminal Glasses and Our
Dutv'F Other subjects to be considered on subse-
ouent Wednesday evenings will be oppressed
Childhood" The War Of the workingman' Social
vices and other Industrial and social problems
The Rev. DR.. Henry Marsh Warren conducts his
,s,,al Sunday night hotel service at the Hotel Re
-. poo dwav and 70th-st tomorrow evening at
go He will be assisted by the Countess Won I3oos
r. @4-ar-er Nine Delina Peckharn, Miss Georgia wager
and others
waiting in the interest OF shorter hours for
I ,n,ovvn clerks on Saturday night will be held by
~ C.hrob Association for the Advancement OF the
rr+erests of Labor at Madison Hail. NO. lS4I MAD
.-or-sy. on February 9. at O'clock. The Rev.
/ '0'N ,,ce-nresident OF the Booiety, viii