New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-26
"The Church That Is in New York

will speak on The Reformation and Popular
Education
President Edwin NJ. Poteat Of Furman
University will deliver the commencement adj
dress at the Bible Teachers Training School
in the Swedish Bethesda Church Tuesday vt
10 80 o'clock. The graduating class Of thirty
five represents the four subordinate schools
Of the institution.
Financial reports received by the Presby-
terrain General Assembly in session in Dallas,
Tex. indicate n very large increase in financial
offerings during the year. due no doubt u
the increased demands for relief. religious
and benevolent work occasioned by the war
The total gifts from the sixty churches IN ths
Presbytery of New York City are S2.i3f,7ls
for the year ended April 1. 1917. as COM
pared with sl.72l 1903 for the preceding year
Contributions from four of the largest
churches in the city were as follows: ruin
Avenue Presbyterian. Sl.O12.O3l; Brich
Church. si3S.57l Central Presbyterian. Sl5o''
1906. and the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
SlOi .04O. The total gifts for the entire
Presbyterian denomination in the United
States as reported TO the General Assembly
last year were SIS. l22,O0o.
The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady. begin
ming Sunday and for three days thereafter.
will conduct patriotic conference IN the
Trinity Church Of New Rochelle where he
will deliver a series of addresses on The
The Ideals of Great Britain ana Inc
Ideals OF America and Her Allies
The Grace Methodist Church at its Sunday
evening service will entertain seven G.. A. K.
posts. veterans of the Spanish-American war
and a drum corps from the 109th street puo,
lie school. Several of the old soldiers VIII
speak and two reels OF Mr.. Chapins Lincoln
cycle picture will be shown. The rev. Chris-
tian F. Reisner will speak on worthy sons
Of Patriots"
At the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Brooklyn. the choir under the ieau-
ership OF John Hyatt Brewer. viii give the
following music Sunday morning and even
ing: Organ meditation, improvisation; IN
troit. ave Verlim" Mozart anthem. Lord
We Implore Thee" Franck tenor solo. Ny
Soul Is Athirst for Cod Gaul: organ post
Jude. march. Dubois organ prelude andante
Sonata u. Buck; introit, He shall Come
Down Like RAIN" Buck anthem. ROCK o. d
Ages" Buck: soprano solo, Fear NOT,
Israel" Buck; anthem. Sing Alleluia
Forth" Buck. and organ postlude. allegro
Sonata u. Buck.
The Religious Society Of Friends Liberal
or Hcksite branchl will hold its 222d session
of New York Yearly Meeting OF Friends in
the New York Meeting House. Fifteenth
Street and Rutherford Place, May q to 81
inclusive.
Lectures will be given each evening: On
Monday by ID. Leigh Colvin. president OF
the intercollegiate Prohibition Association
and Harry Guthman, superintendent OF anu,
narcotics i'm the Young Peoples Branch OF
the w. c. r. u. Tuesday. by Eunice +;
knowles. Of the Live Oak School for Colored
Children, of Baton Rouge. La. and Mrs. Ed
ward $. Van Zile. chairman Of the Woman
Suffrage party of the 18th Assembly Dis
trict of New York, on Woman Suffrage,
and Wednesday, John William Hutchinson.
superintendent of work in prison reform OF
Friends General Conference. on The Rela-
ton Of Penalties 20 Crimes
A delegation of 5000 men will march into
the Billy Sunday Tabernacle on Sunday after
noon. They will be led by officials OF the
Lords Day Alliance OF the United States.
Mr.. Sunday will preach on the Ten Com
mandments. laying special emphasis on the
Sabbath ind its application to-day. The
meeting is for men only.