Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-31
CHURCH NOTES.


CHURCH NOTES.
The Rev. Charles P~rettyman, the
local evangelist, will conduct the
w~atch-night services this evening at
the Peoples Temple. in clinton street.
The speaker at the mems meeting at
the Y. NJ. c. A. tomorrow afternoon
will be the Rev. B. H. Mccoy, of East
Orange. Music by j. Franklin Thomas
and the Y. M. C. A. Orchestra.
The annual dinner and Christmas
treat OF the Young women's Mission
Band of the Elizabeth Avenue Presby-
terrain Church will be held on next
Wednesday evening.
The official board of the Roseville
Baptist Church, at Warren street and
Gould avenue. met on Thursday eve
ming and discussed plans for adding
extensive improvements to the church.
The pastor, the Rev. Albert Foster.
was also present. .
The Rev. Albert C. Fulton, who re-
signed as assistant pastor Of the Second
Presbyterian Church, this city, to &C
cept a call to Syracuse. Is preparing
to leave for his new field. IN next
Wednesday the Newark Presbytery
will meet in the First Church and DR..
Fulton will be formally dismissed to
the pr~esbytery of Syracuse.
At the B'nai Abraham Synagogue to-
morrow afternoon the children will
celebrate the Hanukkeh. REGULATIONS
and singing will be he features. The
children will light the Hanukkah
lights and conduct a special service.
Rabbi julius Silberfeld will make an
address. At the close of the session
presents and candy will be distrib-
uted.
The entertainment and Christmas
treat of the Franklin Street M. Z. Sab
bath school was held last evening. An
attractive program was given by the
scholars and Santa Claus distributed
the presents OF toys and candy to the
children. The pastor, the Rev. Mel
Vile Y. Boyard, assisted in the festiy-
ities.
On Monday evening the Yuletide en-
tertainment Of the scholars of the Chill
dren's Temple will be held in the Fifth
Baptist Church, In Prospect street. An
exercise program Will be rendered. The
children viii also be the recipients Of
presents.
The Rev. Dean M. Dobson, OF Belle
wood, Pa, who accepted the call to the
Elizabeth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
this city, will take up his duties on
January Is. He succeeds the Rev. Sam
uel r. Graham. His salary will be
81, 800 q year n the parsonage. The
call was rendered him o. November %.
The plans for the new Emmanuel
Baptist Church being erected at Mont
clair and Clifton avenues. this city, as
submitted by the architect, F. Y. Par
sons, calls for a one-story building of
concrete and frame construction. Its
dimensions will be 81 by 95 feet and
the estimated cost is s2S, S42.
Watch-night services will be held in
several of tbs local churches tonight
and the old custom of Seeing the old
year out and the new year in will be
observed with the usual service of song
and prayerful thanksgiving. At st
Johns Methodist Episcopal Church a
testimonial love-feast win be held, with
a roll-call and an altar conservation
service. AT the stroke of midnight and
the dawn of the new year the members
will hold a handwriting reunion and
pass along the HAPPY New Year" It'd
ings.
With the exception OF the scandal al
the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, the
nearly 200 churches in this city and
the thousands of members OF the con-
gregstions IA point to a year that has
been most gratifying, both in spiritua.
and financial results. The church rolls
have added several thousand new mem.
bers and the Sabbath schools nave had
one of those exceptional years, wher
the parents forget the purely secular
pastimes and feel it incumbent upor
them to start the children along the
highway OF well doing by getting then
within the beneficent influence of the
Sunday school. The church and The
school stand for the definite uplift Of
our civic pride. through the i~nculcatior
of q clean mind and O wholesome de
sire to appear at our best, both moral
~ and spiritually. The staff of the
church department. sincerely apprecia-
tive Of the assistance rendered thi:
page by the many pastors and scores
of laymen. watch has enabled us te
meet our task with renewed energs
during the past year. wishes one and
: Fear.