Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-18
CENTENARY WILL
BEGIN TOMORROW
Second Presbyterian Church to
Hold Commemorative Sery=
ices Entire Week.

The weeks special series of services
will open in the Second Presbyterian
Church, at Washington and James
streets, this city, tomorrow morning,
in commemoration of the centennial
anniversary of the historic congrega-
ton.
The celebration will begin at 10:S0
o'clock tomorrow morning with a
historical sermon by the pastor, Rev.
DR.. Pleasant Hunter In the evening
the pulpit will be filled by Rev. DR..
thomas Reed Bridges, a former pas
tor.
Monday evening. at 7:30, the Mems
League will enjoy a banquet. James
M. Cory. the president Of the league.
will preside, and the principal Address
will be made by Rev. DIR. Griffin w.
Bull, of Scranton, Pa.
Tuesday evening, a reunion of he
Sabbath school n Christian En-
deavor Society will be held at 7:46.
The assistant pastor, Rev. FRANK J..
Milman, will preside. The speakers
will include Livingston Fewsmith, son
of a former pastor; Rev. Albert c.
Fulton, of Syracuse, n. Y, a former
assistant pastor; Frank B. Crawford,
George f. Reeve, George w. Hawkes.,
James N. Gregory, Benjamin ]. Dema-
rest and Charles Van Duyne, former
school superintendent.
Wednesday evening addresses will be
made by several distinguished church
men, including Rev. DR.. John r. Car
son, moderator of h general assembly
of the Presbyterian Church, and DR..
Robert Elliot Speer. secretary of he
board of foreign missions.
Thursday at l p. m. the ladies of the
Woman's Missionary Association will
serve a luncheon to the mcmbers of the
congregation and their guests. At 7:45
p. m. there. will be an in-terdenomina-
tional fraternal session, in which the
pastors of the various churches in the
neighborhood and sister Presbyterian
parishes will extend greetings. The di-
vines who will participate in the service
will comprise the Right Rev. Bishop
Edwin S. Lines. Of the Newark Epis-
copal Diocese; Rev. DR.. David r. Fra
ger, pastor emeritus of the First Pres
byterian Church; Rev. DR.. Thomas J..
Villers, of the Peddie Memorial Baptist
Church; Rev. Lucas Boeve, assistant
pastor of the North Reformed Church;
Rev. DR.. Louis Shreve Osbor..e, of Trim
ity Episcopal Church; Rev. William Y.
Chapman, Of the Roseville Presbyte-
rian Church; Rev. DR.. Davis w Lusk.
superintendent Newark Presbytery;
Rev. DIR. James c. Howard, of the Hal
sey Street Methodist Church: Rev. John
Mcdowell. of the Park Presbyterian
Church, and Rev. Edgar C. Mason, of
the Fewsmith Memorial Church.
Friday evening a reception will be
held in the psrish-house at 8 o'clock.
On Sunday, November &c, the sermon
at the morning service will be delivered
by Rev. DR.. Paul Frederick Sutphen. a
former pastor. The anniversary cele-
bration will close with the impressive
observance Of holy communion at 4 p.
M, at which Rev. DR.. William Dawson,
the pastor. and the members of the ses-
sion of the First Church. will assist.
Rev. DIR. Pleasant Hunter, of the Sec
ond Church, will preside.
Special music will be provided at the
various Sabbath services, and the solo
lists will be Miss Helen A. Brown, So
prano; Miss Bessie T. Voickmann, con
~tralto; Paul e. Handel, tenor. and Carl
Morris, baritone.