Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-12
CHURCH PLANS
FOR CAMPAIGN
Bishop to Make Mhiri Wind
Tour of District.
tFrom the NEWS Correspondent


Trenton, Oct. 12.-Basing their
plans upon the efforts of the politi-
cal parties in their campaign, the
Methodist Episcopal churches of the
New Brunswick district of the New
Jersey Conference, are going to bring
Bishop Joseph f. Berry into the dis
trict Thanksgiving week and conduct
a two days automobile religious cam
paign covering the entire district.
The program for the strenuous dis
trict-wide automobile tour was work.
ed out by the Rev. DR.. John Hand
ley, of Ocean Grove. superintendent
of the New Brunswick District, and
has been endorsed by Bishop Berry.
The plan was also confirmed by the
ministers of the district at a special
conference held at Ocean Grove on
Twenty-fourth Annual Convention of
THE Epworth League of the district.
DR.. Handley presided at this con-
ference and the details Of the spe-,
cial endeavor were arranged
There are two Purposes back of
the DR.. Handley said, the
prlnclpalo one being t. bring about a
revival in the churches OF the dis
trict and the other n being to pro-
vide a way through which the Bishop
may visit the smaller churches, I'm
der the Methodist Episcopal economy
with the district superintendents as
the immediate supervisors of the To-
| cal churches, many of the smaller
churches never receive visits from
the Bishop, but through the plan in
augurated by DR.. Handley, practical
ly every Methodist in the New Bruins
wick district, which includes sixty
churches extending from New Bruins
wick to Toms River, will be able to
meet Bishop Berry In the same man
ner In which a political candidate for
Governor shall swing around the
state in a whirlwind automobile cam
paign. 1t is believed that the pro-
posed religious campaign is absolute
ly unique in the history Of Metho-
dism, If not in any church organi-
zation.
The dates for the movement are
Monday, November rs, and Tuesday,
November rs. Bishop Berry will
leave his headquarters in Philadel-
phia and proceed to Hightstown,
where he will be met by DR.. Hand
ley, two men who will be gospel sing
ers and others Of the committee In
charge. Services will be conducted
in the Hightstown church from $3.50
to 1920 a. m. Then the automobiles
will be entered and a quick trip
made to Freehold, where IL to II
O'Clock there will be services, follow
ling which dinner will Az be served.
1.-THE next point reached will be Lake
wood, where the meeting VIII be held
from 2 to 3 o'clock. The religious
campaigners will then drive their
cars to New Brunswick, where Mon
day evening a union service OF the
methodist churches will be held, af-
ter which a reception will be ten
dered to Bishop Berry. This will be
in charge of the Methodist Pastors
of New Brunswick.
Tuesday morning the.party will
leave New Brunswick, and the first
stop will be Matawan, where ser
vices will be conducted from $3.50 to
|1O:3O. Keyport will be the next
point with the meeting from IL to
IL o'clock, and the party will-then
proceed to Red Bank, where dinner
will be served. The services here
will be from 2 to 3 o'clock. Then
the cars will be driven to Long
Branch with a service from a to 5
o'clock and the tour will end IN
Ocean Grove. Here there will be
services from 1880 to 500 p. M, fol-
lowed by a reception to the Bishop.
Each stopping place has been cho-
sen because it is a sort of a hub OF
a group of Methodist churches and
the congregations of the outlying
churches will be brought into the
central church where the service is
to be conducted. so. that each service
conducted by the Bishop will be a
union meeting Of a number of Meth
odist congregations. Arrangements
are being made at Red Bank for a
special feature, which will be that
all the officials of each church in the
group of which the Red Bank church
es are the center will be asked to
dine with the Bishop.