New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-15
General Items of the Week.

The Rev. DR.. ]. Stuart Holden, rec
tor of st. Pauls Church, Portman
Square, London, returned TO England
this week impelled by spirit of duty
to be with his parish during these
troublous days, cancelling all his en-
gagements in this country. Conse-
quently the Carnegie Hall meetings ar
ranged by the Mortified Bible Confer
ence and the Evangelistic Committee Of
New York City have necessarily been
discontinued. Open air meetings held
by the Evangelistic Committee on sun
DAY evenings in cooperation with many
churches throughout the city continue,
as well as the noon meetings on week,
days at Battery Park, Broadway and
Thames ST., Washington Square, Madi-
son and Union Squares, upper Broad
way and in many other centres, also
several tents for various classes OF at
tendants.
The Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, Of Edin-
burgh, Scotland, who has been conduct
ing a midsummer Bible conference I'M
der the auspices of the National Bible
Institute at pa West 35th St, sailed
for homo this week. DR.. Kemp felt that
his place at this time was with ms
own people. At s p. m. tomorrow
Miss Adelaide Pollard, the American
hvmn writer. will be the speaker at the
gospel service held in McAuley Gre.
morne Mission under the auspices OF
the National Bible Institute at PIG
West 35th st. The outdoor work Of the
institute goes steadily on despite the
hot wave.
The Rev. A. c. Dixon, pastor of Spur
geon's Tabernacle. London, the largest
Baptist Church in the world, will
preach in Tent Evangel, West 121th
ST., near Morningside av., at il a. m.
and 4 and p. m. tomorrow; also on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Of
next week at p. m. He will tell IN
the Tent Evangel of the war as viewed
by the English people. The Rev. +. B..
Meyer, of London, will speak in Tent
Evangel on next Thursday night. The
Rev, DR.. II. VI. Wharton, of Baltimore,
will be the preacher in this tent on
Sunday, August %, at IL a. q. and A
and 8 p. m. and nightly up to the 2Sth.
The Rev. Bob" Jones, "the Billy Sum
day of the South" will return to Tent
Evangel for the closing week OF this
summers work, commencing on sun
day, August 80, at II a. m.
Professor c. T. Everson will speak at
the Big Tent, 1S0th st. and Amsterdam
av., tomorrow at p. m. on "A Great
Vital Truth on Which the Whole World
Has Gone Wrong" The subjects for
the rest of the week follow: Monday,
a stereopticon lecture on "The Canni-
balls of the South Sea Islands; Tues
day. what Day of the Week Did
Christ and His Disciples Observe as
Their Rest Day"; Wednesday,
"Who and What Brought About the
Change of the Sabbath from Saturday
to Sunday?"; Thursday, "The Woman
Clothed with the Sum-" and Friday,
"Will All the World Again Pay HON.
age to the Papacy"
At the Broadway Tabernacle, Broad
way and 56th ST., the Rev. DR.. Charles
E. jefferson, pastor, the services at IL
a. m. and p. m. tomorrow will be
conducted by the Rev. William A. Kirk
wood, assistant pastor.
A service in memory of Edward
Sketchley, for many years president of
the Rescue Society and one of New
York's best known slum workers, will
be held in the Mission Hall, and z
Doyers ST., Chinatown, at 10 a. m. to-
day. Mr. Sketchley died at Montclair,
August 8.
All men are cordially invited to at
tend the meetings in the Twenty-third
Street Y. NJ. C. A., near 7th av., on
Sunday afternoon. At o'clock, Row
land c. Sheldon, general secretary Big
Brother Movement, will address the
men on the subject: "Big Brothers and
Little" and following this the Rev.
Ralph L. Peterson will give a short
talk at 6:15 o'clock.
Arthur Woods, Police Commissioner
of the city of New York, is to speak
to the New York local assembly of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew on Tuesday
evening at st. Bartholomew Roof
Garden, 209 East 42d st. The subject
is to be "The Useful Citizen" The an
nual convention, to be held at Atlanta,
October 14-1S, will be the twenty
ninth.
The subject of the lesson sermon in
the Christian Science churches to-mor-
row will be "Soul." and the golden
text Psalms xxvii:D "The Lord is My
Light and Ny Salvation; Whom Shall
| Fear"
The Divine Science summer school
Of the Church of the Healing Christ,
the Rev. Dr. w. John Murray, pastor,