Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-14
CONGREGATION To
CELEBRATE OATH
BIRTHDAY WEEK
RosevilIe M. E. Church Will Be-
gin a Five-Day Serys
ice Tomorrow.

With a special series of services, be-
tinuing throughout the week, he o n
gregation of the Roseville M. K.
Church, at Orange street and Bathgate
place, will impressively celebrate the
fifty-fourth anniversary of the found
ing of the parish.
At the morning service tomorrow the
anniversary sermon will be preached by
Rev. DR.. J. M. Meeker, a former pastor
of the church, who Is now president or
Hackettstown Seminary. The present
officiating divine, Rev. Dorr Frank
Disfendorf, will preside at the service.
The musical program will also be OF
q special character, n the soloists
will be Cornelius Jackson, violinist,
and Henry Jordan, jr., 'cellist. Roy j.
Cregar will preside at the organ n
Miss Burgyes will assist at the piano.
The Sabbath school will assemble at
$3.50 D. M. and conduct special ami
versary exercises, led by the superin-
tendent, Elwood S. MacNabb. An ad-
dress will be made by David B. Corson,
the assistant superintendent OF the
local public schools.
In the evening III service will be
held under the auspices of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement ana
the principal speaker will be Frederick
ID. Tasker. president of he Methodist
Brotherhood of New York City.
John Barnes Wells. the noted tenor,
will sing at this service.
Tuesday evening the Epworth
League, led by its president, Morris
S. Daniels, will conduct an anniversary
prayer service.
The feature on Wednesday evening
will consist of a progressive supper"
which will be given by the ladies of
the congregation in the parish hall,
and the proceeds will be devoted to the
building fund.
Thursday evening the anniversary
sessions will come to a close with a
musicale. The program will be espe-
cially attractive, and the talent will
include Mrs. Ida Ball Burnett, soprano
soiotst at Trinity Church; John Barnes
Wells, tenor; Cornelius Jackson, violin
list, and Roy J. Cregar, accompanist. A
silver offering will be received.
During the several years pdSlOTaIe
of the Rev. MI. Diefendorf, the men,
bership OF the church has steadily
grown and every department is in a
f1ourishing condition.
The various societies of the church,
which will play an active part in the
weeks celebration, and their respec-
tive presidents and t%reasurers are the
Women's Parsonage Association, Mrs.
R. 8. Gage and Mrs. J.. B. Frazee;
the wcmen's Home Missionary Society,
Mrs. 8. Doan Prettyman and Miss
Elizabeth Arndt; the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society. Mrs. B. F. Edsall,
Mrs. w. J. Banister: the Cooperative
Missionary Society, DR.. Alice M, Con-
ger, Miss Lulu Congleton; the Epworth
League, Morris S. Daniels, r. NJ. Jaco-
bus; the Mems Club, I. Woodruff
Faulks, William r. Haggerty; the
Junior Epworth League. Mrs. G, r.
Munroe, Miss Helen Edsall; the Utility
Mission Circle, Miss Esther M. Mac
Nabb, Miss Ethel Harrington; the
Ushers' Association, Arthur p. Dickin-
son. Frank Conger and the Sunday
school board. DR.. Charles Pullin,
treasurer.
The president of the board of trus-
tees is William Fairlie. and the treas
urer. W. ], Banister.