New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-13

An unusual number OF well known New
YORK churches. most OF them rankine
flrst In size. have been enriched and beau
uhed this last summer and are just now
ready for reopening. One famous place
OF worship enters on new plans. and two
great edifces, costing 10000 each, are
TO be opened. Finally, one church,
famous all over the world, will dedicate
memorial to one of the most famous
preachers America ever produced.
The Madison Avenue Reformed Church,
which Is without a pastor and concerning
whose future much has been said OF late.
reopens Tomorrow, and will change It's
hours OF worship TO correspond with the
Fifth Avenue churches. The Rev. DR..
Hugh Black, of Union Seminary, will lie
the preacher tomorrow, and during Oc-
tober and on to February. There will be
no evening service'as heretofore. but one
at 4:30 p. IN. A week from tomorrow
the preacher will be the Rev. DR.. Charles
+. Aked. Of San Francisco. and on the
succeeding Sunday the Rev. DR.. Mark a.
Matthews, of Seattle. who is here. acting
as chairman OF a committee that is
logical Seminary, TO see IL the Pres5y-
terrain Church has a legal case against it.
Arrangements have already been made
for the supply Of the pulpit for every
Sunday until the end Of June, 1914 with
the exception OF a very few services
which have yet TO be arranged for
ST. Bartholomew and the Incarnation
Episcopal churches reopen on October ..
after enrichments costing $4,000 to $4,000
each. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
and the West End Presbyterian churches
reopen on the same date, after $1,000 has
been spent In making gallery changes
and putting in new organs In the one
and $4,000 I'm building an extension and
new Sunday school building in the other.
The Rev. DR.. Leighton Parks, the Rev.
Howard G. Robbins, the Rev. Dr. John
Fl. Jowett and the Rev. DR.. A. T. Kelg-
win will return TO their pulpits on the
date named. In the case of the Episco-
pal churches named bishops In New York
attending the General Convention will be
heard on some of the Sundays.
ST. Thomass Episcopal Church, Fifth
avenue and SD street will be opened on
October ., and in It on Saturday after
noon. October II, will be said a service cf
benedction, which will be attended by
many bishops and deputies attending the
General Convention. The new St Jean
Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, one
OF the finest In Manhattan, and located at
Lexington avenue and 18th street has
Just opened It's basement for use, but has
not discontinued the use Of the smaller
church on the north side OF the same
street. The upper part Of the new church
will not be ready before Christmas. ST.
Thomas and St Jean Baptiste are two OF
the finest additions 10 Americas parish
churches that have ever been made.
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn. the Rev.
Or. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor, will ded-
icate the Beccher Memorial next month
II is one OF the the most ambitious and
costly memorials ever erected to any
Christian minister. and IS far more than
a memorial by Plymouth congregation. II
represents rather all OF Brooklyn, in some
respects all of Protestant America. II
consists Of a park. as well as buildings.
and the plan is to transfer the body q
the great preacher from Greenwood Gem
etery 10 a place in the memorial That
has been prepared for II.