Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-01

Tomorrow evening the anniversary of
the Methodist Brotherhood of the con-
ference will be observed in the Centen-
airy M. e. Church. The address will be
made by the Rev. Fay /. Thompson
and NJ. r. Townley will preside.
The Rev. J. B. Koehne will begin q
special series of lectures in the Belle
vile Avenue Congregational Church
tomorrow. The services will be con-
tinued until Friday evening. A discus
sion of religious problems will be the
general theme.
On Monday the State executive COIN
mittee of the Christian Endeavor will
meet and arrange the details for the
international convention, which will be
held at Atlantic City in July. State
President John T. Sproull will preside.
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A series of Eastertide services have
been held in the Peddie Memorial
Church during the past week. The
pastor. the Rev. DR.. Willers, was the
speaker at the meetings. A song serv-
ice was also a feature. The sessions
will also be continued next week.
The Rev. Lucas Boeve, the assistant
pastor at the North Reformed Church,
delivered a special preparatory lecture
in the chapel last evening At the
morning service tomorrow the sacra-
ment of the Lords supper will be SOL
emnized and new members received.
Tomorrow evening the Rev. DR.. Henry
r. Rose. pastor of the Church of the
Redeemer, will repeat his illustrated
lecture on "Chantecler." Special quar-
tet music will be provided by a choir
of soloists.
On Wednesday evening the annual
session of the Christian Endeavor Soci-
ETY. OF the Park Presbyterian Church
will be held and new officers elected.
Those on the nominating committee
are: The Misses Susan Hummel, Flora
Bodine and Helen Blackford and
Messrs. Erwin Blauvelt, Edward Vree-
land and Walter Scheuneman.
A social and supper was held under
the auspices of the Mems League, of
the Franklin Street Methodist Church.
last evening. The tables were attrac-
lively decorated and an after-social
time was enjoyed. DR.. Richard s. Hop
kins. the president of the league pre-
sided.
Tomorrow a new innovation will go
into effect at the Forest Hill Presby-
terrain Church, consisting of free pew
seatings. The pledges to date for the
new year amount &c $500 more thar the
sum contributed last year. The con
gregation also expect to erect a new
church ediAce during the year.
The anniversary of the Board o.
Foreign Missions will be held in the
Roseville Methodist Church tomorrow
morning at 1890 o'clock. The pastor
the Rev. Dorr F. Diefendorf, will pre-
side. and the Rev. DIR. "A. B. Leonard
will make the address. The church
choir will render an appropriate pro
gram.
Tuberculosis Day. will be observed
in all the local churches on Sunday
April so. The pastors of the variou,
denominations have been requested b!
the Anti-Tuberculosis Association t.
select a theme bearing on the terrors o
the white plague and to discuss tn,
methods whereby the disease may b
stamped out.
An event in religious annals will b.
the suspicious opening of the Cathedra
of ST. John the Divine, in Manhattan
on Wednesday, April 10. three day
after Easter day. Prominent divine
and laymen from this city and variou
sections of New Jersey will attend til,
formal celebration. The edifice will b
one of the ~hapdsomest in the world Il
structural appointments and will repre-
sent an outlay Of $40, 900, 900. An elab
crate program, in which noted churcl
dignitaries will take part, will be
feature of the opening service, TIL
musical numbers will also be exempli
fed by a choir of special soloists. TIL
event promises to be the most preten
tious Standardization celebration O
the year.