Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-09-27


for the treasury, from which the sum
of $500 had been promised to the
Board of Trustees for the support OF
the church, to which each organization
pledges sum during the year.
Mr.. Schomber. the superintendent,
was in charge, and the teachers acted
as chairmen of the various committees
and took charge of the tables.
Mrs n. c. Cause, wife of the pastor,
had charge of the candy table; Mrs.
! Ullrich, her mother. took care of the
domestic table; the grocery table was
presided over by Mrs. Sheffield, Mr.
Sears had the fable of books and tools
and Mrs. Clark was the Rebekah at
the Well, with lemonade as the bev-
erage
The leftover goods were auctioned
off amid great fun on Friday evening
by Mr.. Leeger.
The annual meeting and supper of
the church will take place as usual on
the first Tuesday in October and will
meeting of the congregation after the
church service on Sunday morning it
was finally decided, after much lively
discussion, that the men would furnish
the supper.
Exactly how they will do it is not
yet known, but they are going to have
meeting for men only" and no
doubt wonderful plans will be evolved,
but thus far all they have asked of the
women is that they provide the candles
for the tables. for they want their sup
per Ito be as pretty as the women's."
The reason for this new departure
is that not only have the women work.
ed hard over the bazaar, but also the
church is to extend its hospitality in
November to all the Congregational
churches of the Northern New Jersey
Conference at the annual fall meeting,
and that will mean a very special occa-
sion calling for the best efforts of the
women of the church.
The people of the church had real
treat on Sunday, when, by the courtesy
of Mr.. G. b. Heln and Mr.. S. n. Sewars,
with their automobiles, a number We're
taken to the fall conference of the
Bergen county Congregational church
es at "The Little White Church" at
Haworth. A program of attractive ma
ture was presented with national and
neighborhOod speakers. Rev. Mr..
Cause, pastor of the GrantwOOd
Church. gave Il practical address on
the efficient Sunday School," full of
good suggestions.
He emphasized, first of all, punctu-
ality as Il necessity, in addition to reg
ularity III attendance, conservation of
teachers and the best kind of equip
ment for the lessons, from the primary
department, with its sand tables, maps,
modelling, etc, up through the graded
classes, where there should be real
home work and the Old fashioned study
of the great Bible chapters should be
a part of the course.
In fact, he believes that the study
of the Bible should be an important
part of the life of the church and that
the school should be no longer called
the Sunday School," but the Church
School," for in it should be not only
the young people, but the older men,
berS Of the church for this study for
which there is no time i'll the regular
church service.
The other speakers We're Rev Mr..
Wilson of Ridgefied Park, who spoke
on what the church could do for the
Workingman and who found the rene
dy in Socialism, as he is called the So
cialist minister; Rev Mr.. Smith of
CresSkill, who spoke on The Praying
Church - Rev. DR.. Hood, the new pas
tor of the River Edge Church, who
spoke on Emissions" quite surprising
some Of his hearers with his statistics
of the illteracy and lack of knowledge
of the English language in Louisiana
and Maryland, for ii shows ii very
high percentage and lays the founda
tons for labor unrest and revolution.
w. *. Bloom of New York, secretary
of the Congregational Board, gave an
account of the mission work in Dakota,
where the missionary has from 600 to
1000 miles in his parish.
A delicious supper was served by
the ladies of the church and the speak
er of the evening was Rev. W. w.
Scudder, ID. d., who addressed the au-
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