Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-04-07
MUCH WORK DONE
Broadway Presbyterian Church
Has Had a Busy Year, as
Reports Show.
ANNUAL MEETING is HELD
Follows Organ Recital and Supper
i'm Sunday School ROOm-Large
Sum Spent for improvements.

The annual meeting of the congre
cations of the Broadway Presbyter-
ian church and the South Park chap
ell in connection with Broadway was
held last evening at the church. At
6 O'Clock Miss Katherine Gest, the
church orGanist, gave an organ recit-
al in the auditorium which was fol-
lowed by dinner in the Sunday
school room. Long tables were
spread and places were laid for over
800 members, the places being mark
| ed with letters each person being
seated at the table with corr esponding
initial of name. During the serving
of the dinner, music was furnished
! by Misses Josephine Schneider and
Gertrude Schmidt and Willis Weld
and Mr. Mcnamara At the close
of the supper, the business meeting
was organized with DR.. A. II. Nc
Candless, chairman and A. ID. Sperry
secretary. Phil. Mitchell, S. S. Davis
| and Charles e. Sharp were reelected
trustees to serve for three years and
| DR.. ]. w. Stewart and Fred litter
ington were reelected elders for
three years.
l. Reports Read.
Reports were then read and receiv-
ed from the various societies of the
church of which there are about 30
from the treasurer and the session
all of which showed the church in q
splendid condition, and large
amount of work undertaken and com
pleted during the past year. There
have been received by letter in the
year just passed Is members and by
confession of faith 16. making a tota
communicate membership of 600.
The church through it's variou!
organizations has given the follow
! ing sums: For home missions $1.244
for foreign missions S2,5SS (whicl
report, however. is not compiete)
:, education of students to the ministr!
SIT, Sunday school mission worl
: S179, church erection purposes S125
relief of aged ministers S62 ,worl
among the Freedmen S62, college aiC
sos, temperance cause $297, Amer
lean Bible society SIS; Y. NJ. C. 4
work $3.50, session fund $7l6, iea
conesses committee SIS. mutual ait
, fund $50 and general assembly due
$50. making total for benevolen
purposes of S6,252. The treasure
, reported that there has been pdi'
out for church expenses somethin:
, over $4,000 and that there is still ;
good balance in the treasury. In at
dition to these amounts the churcl
made additions and repairs to Soutl
Park chapel and the SundGy Schoo
. room OF Broadway am oun.ing TO be
tween Is and Ia thousand dollars
), ,ar@e amount of which mas alre;ld
been paid.
support Two Missionaries.
i The two congregations wholly SUI
port. two missionaries, Rev. Grahar
}. Lee and Rev. Robert McMurtrie, a
Pyeng Yang, Korea. These mission
aries are carrying on big work, ha'
|, ing under the supervision 246 preact
ing stations and between 5000 an
" 5000 communicant members. DIR. Mo
fit began the work in Korea in 1885,
s and there were at that time no Chri
, tians in the kingdom, SO the work ths
these jealous men have carried on
't enormous.
l. DR.. w. S. Marquis, as pastor of tt
: church, reported that during the pal
year he has performed six weddir
i ceremonies, conducted "a funerals. ba
- tized nine persons, delivered 2O1 a
ddresses on church work. and the
were eight deaths in the congregatio
u Rev. w. G. Oglevee assistant past
and in charge of the South Pa
IN chapel. officiated at five weddings al