New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
OUTDOOR SERVICES
WILL BEGIN SOON
EvangelistiC Committee of
New York to Open About
Fifty Centres.

Summer outdoor religious work will
start next Monday in New York at
nearly full force. For a short time the
Evangelistic Committee OF New York
has had about twenty centres in OPP
Grafton, including Wall Street. So
marked is the response that the COM
mittee will inaugurate its full work on
Monday, which means about fifty CEN
tres This is the whole list for the
summer. unless larger support is forth
coming, in which case additional CEN
tres will be opened. In Wall Street
the Rev. DR.. R. +. Y. Pierce will en-
ploy an automobile and give illustrated
talks, but two other downtown centres
will be maintained. One of these will
be at Bowling Green and the other at
Broadway and Cedar ST.
II has been decided that the tent on
the Cathedral grounds will be pitched
at the corner of Amsterdam av. and
18th ST., between the Cathedral nave
and the hospital. II will seat 1900. 1t
is declared to be one of the finest ever
pitched in New York for Christian ser
vices. II is new, and made expressly
for this location and work. The COM
mittee provided it complete, but the
services in il are to be conducted by a
committee of the Churchman'S Associa-
ton, of which the Rev. Melville X.
Bailey is president and the Rev. DR..
G. A. Christensen committee chairman.
1t is to open on July 6.
For three months the Evangelistic
Committee will maintain a tent at 67th
st. and First av. for Bohemians, and
will make much of the John Huss ami
versary that is being observed through
out the Christian world. Other centres
are to be for Hungarians, Italians,
Savs, the French, Russians and ne
groes. The French centre. which is
new, will be at Seventh av. and 26th
St; the Russian at I'd st. and Avenue
A, and that for negroes at 99th st. and
central fark west.
The committee finds effective work
ers to be young women possessed OF
good voices and able to sing and play
on the cornet or violin familiar Chris
tian hymns. Many men are attracted
and held by music, who remain later
TO hear addresses. The cornetists are
college men paying their way through
on summer earnings, and most of the
speakers are theological students from
Union, General, Drew and Princeton
seminaries. A few are professional
evangelists and some are ministers just
now out of charges.
This spring unusual crowds have
been attracted daily to the southeast
corner Of Madison Square. Often as
many as two thousand men are held
there from IL to 3 o'clock. One of the
speakers has been known to talk for
an hour and thirty minutes, his crowd
changing, but always reaching seven
hundred to a thousand men. or the
many subjects heard there-they cover
almost everything in the list of human
endeavor-the religious speakers draw
largest numbers and hold them longest.
and the most orthodox of all, the one
who oftenest quotes the Bible. and
quotes it in most orthodox doctrinal
fashion, has often numbers before him
as large as all other four TO six speak
ers together. The place is declared to
rival in numbers, and in time may, IN
reputation, Boston Common and its
summer attractions.
The practice of churches holding out
door singing services, TO be followed
later by services within their churches.
will be continued this summer.
Churches already announcing them in
clude Calvary Episcopal. Second Ave-
nue. and Thirty-third Street Baptist.
the Labor Temple, the Old First and
the Fourth Presbyterian. The National
Bible Institute will, besides its rescue
hall, maintain its speaking centres in
parks and streets as last season. With
the Evangelistic Committee these in
clude Union and Madison Squares. At
times Stuyvesant, Tompkins. Mount
Morris and some of the Bronx squares
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