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CHURCH NEWS.
TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH.
Trinity Reformed Church, situated
on the north-east corner of Third and
Iron streets, is one of the oldest con
gregations in the Town of Blooms
burg. From the time of its organiza
tion it has kept pace with the other
churches of the town, but some years
ago elements became potent, which
was very disastrous to its progress. It
suffered greatly in every department
of its work. Not only were many of
its members alienated, but it failed to
add its quota of new ones. However,
within the last three years, all this
has been overcome. During this time
a fair proportion of its former mem
bers have returned to the fold, and
new ones have been added until more
than one-third of its present member
ship is made tip of the latter class.
Likewise during this time the congre
gation has met all its obligations, and,
in addition thereto, has paid off nearly
the whole of a debt of over $1100,
so that now it is one of the few
churches in Bloomsburg which is not
burdened with a heavy debt. The
Sunday school has made the same
progress during this time. Both the
enrolled membership and the average
attendance has been trebled. To
such an extent has the Sabbath school
grown that additional room had to be
provided to accommodate the new
comers. Peace and harmony and
united activity prevail throughout the
congregation, and as these insure a
continuous and healthy growth, it will
soon be one of the strong and influ
ential churches of this place. Rev.
C. H. Brandt is the pastor, and A. N.
Yost, Esq., is the superintendent of
the Sunday school.
The Holy Communion will be ob
served next Sunday both morning
and evening. The services will be
gin at 10:30 and 7:30 respectively.
Preparatory services will be held on
Saturday evening at 7:30. All mem
bers anil friends are urged to be pres
ent. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
The Baptist Church, in Bloomsburg,
is approaching the close of the thirty
sixth year of its history, having been
organized in November, 1859. While
the past year has not been the most
prosperous in its history, yet the mem
bership is steadily increasing, and is
larger now than it has ever been be
fore. The pastor, Rev. George E. Weeks,
came to the church in April, 1892,
and is, therefore, in the fourth year
of his pastorate. This is the longest
pastorate the church has ever had,
except that of Rev. J. P. Tustin.
The annual meeting of the North
umberland Association, to which the
church belongs, has just been held in
Jersey Shore. The delegates in at
tendance from Bloomsburg were Rev.
Mr. Weeks, Paul Tustin, Mrs. L. Mc
pherson, and Mrs. M. Hazeldine.
The Association comprises the
churches in the vicinity of the two
branches of the Susquehanna, from
Berwick on the north, to Lock Haven
on the west. It has no control over
the churches whatever, but meets for
conference and stimulation in religious
work. The meeting last week was the
seventy-fifth annual gathering, and was
of unusual interest. About 180 dele
gates and visitors were present.
All the members of the church
here who love the church will be very
busy for the next, two weeks, as the
ladies have charge of the dining hall
on the Fair Grounds this year. They
hope to secure funds sufficient to pay
off the whole indebtedness of the
church.
The Sunday School has a very
iaithuil and successful superintendent
in the person of Mr. H. G. Supplee.
One great difficulty with which he has
to contend is the CDnstant loss of
teachers. Only five teachers are now
serving, who were in the work three
years ago. At the present time the
membership of the Sunday school is
exactly the same as the membership
of the church. The Sunday school
roll is revised so as to include only
tnose who are in actual attendance.
The attention of members is called
to the fact that the annual business
meetings will probably be held a little
later than usual this year. The Sun
day school meeting will probably be
held October 16th, and the church
meeting October 23d. All officers
for the coming year will be elected at
these meetings.
st. taul's.
Rev. John Rockwell, rector of St,
Gabriel's Church, Cole's Creek, as
sisted Rev. D. N. Kirkby in the ser
, vices at St. Paul's church last Sunday
During Mr. Kitkby's absence of two
weeks the latter part of this month,
Mr. Rockwell will officiate for him.
A souvenir containing views of the
exterior and interior of the church is
in preparation, and will be sold for
the benefit of the organ fund.
The first year's subscription to the
Diocesan paper has expired, and
subscribers are requested to renew
for the coming year. The price is
fifty cents, and can be paid to the
rector, or gent direct to the editor,
Rev. T. B. Angell, Harrisburg, Pa.
Three ladies with either alto or
soprano voices, and four boys between
the ages of ten and fourteen years of
age are needed in the choir. Will
any one volunteer ?
The Rev. Archdeacon Kirkby, of
Rye, New York, is expected to visit
his son, the rector, some time this
fall.
The Sunday School will give an
entertainment in the Parish House
soon. The proceeds will be used in
procuring a carpet for the chapel.
1 he program will consist of an oper
etta by the children, a Brownie
March, music &c. The date in No
vember has not yet been fixed.
The Circle of Kings Daughters
will meet in the Farish House next
Monday evening at the usual hour.
The Vestry meeting, postponed
from last Tuesday, will be held next
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Bishop Simpson in his Cyclopedia
of Methodism says: " In 1831 Rev.
George Lane occasionally preached
in Bloomsburg which was then a
small village. A few persons had at
tended services at a distant appoint
ment and had united with the church,
prominent among whom was Dr.
Gearheart who was a popular physi
cian, l hey applied to be a regular
appointment on the Berwick circuit
and so continued for some years.
The first class consisting of nine per
sons, was organized September 30th,
1832. They worshipped for a time
in the village school house and then
in a wagon shop fitted up for their
accommodation." Who the original
nine members were we can not state
with certainty but the following
were probably eight of the nine :
Jesse Shannon, Moses Coffman, De
lilah Creveling the late Mrs. Caleb
Barton, Thomas Bennett, a colored
man, Dr. Gearhart, Mrs. Dr. Gear
hart, Ziba Ruggels, Joseph Stoufer.
December 17th, 1836 a subscrip
tion was started for the purpose of
securing money with which to buy a
lot and erect a house of worship.
This effort proved unsuccessful. But
on January 9,1837 they started out
again and were this time successful.
The original subscription book is still
extant and it is quite interesting to
look over the names of the subscri
bers and the amounts they gave. The
largest amount given was $30.00.
The lot then purchased was the
one on which the present Methodist
Church now stands. The building
was small and of frame structure
This served the purpose for twenty
years. In 1857 it was torn down and
the present brick church was erected
instead.
In recent years Bloomsburg has
grown rapidly and the membership of
the Methodist church has of course
largely increased. The present build-
ng is entirely too small to comforta
bly accommodate the members of the
church and Sunday School, to say
nothing about the friends of the
church. For some time there has
been talk of erecting a new church
building. At the first Quarterly Con
ference of this present conference
year a committee on church plans
was appointed. During the past five
months this committee has been busy
in securing plans for a church that
would meet the present and future
needs of the congregation. Mr.
Thos. P. Lonsdale of Philadelphia
has been selected as the architect
and he has submitted plans that have
been accepted by the committee and
been unanimously adopted by the
official members. Blue prints of
these plans have been framed and are
now hanging in the vestibule of the
church.
It is proposed to erect the new
church of stone. It will consist of a
main audience room located on the
vacant lot corner of Third and Mar
ket Street, which with the gallery will
have a seating capacity of 1200 per
sons. Adjoining this and communi
eating with it and located where the
present church now stands will be the
lecture room or Sunday School room.
This room will have galleries on three
sides divided into class rooms for
Sunday " School purposes and will
I have a seating capacity of 800. As
indicated, the two rooms can be
thrown into one. thus furnishinc
iittings for 2000. It is confidently
believed that at least 1 700 of those
can both see and hear the speaker
who occupies the mil nit ulatform of
the main audience room.
In planning the church the com.
mittee has considered the needs of
the future as well as the present.
They have also tried to provide mod
ern conveniences fpr the Sunday
School.
To build this church according to
the plans adopted will be quite an
11 ulcrtaking, but the membership is
large and united in the oroicct and
with faith and works they surely will
succeed.
It is expected that this fall the
cellar will be dug and the cellar walls
of the main building put up. It is
hoped during the winter to get every
thing in readiness so the building
may be pushed along rapidly with the
opening of the Spring. Such an en
terprise as this claims the attention
and interest and co-operation not
only of the Methodists but of all per
sons interested in the town of Blooms
burg and in the moral and relicious
welfare of the community, and we
leel confident that many persons of
other churches and of no churches
will gladly help in such a laudable un
dertaking.
THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN 20 YEARS.
The changes in the Lutheran
Church of Bloomsburg have all been
progressive changes. Twenty years
ago Rev. John McCron, D. . D., was
pastor. After two years' service he
resigned. Rev. O. D. S. Marclay suc
ceeded him, in March, 1878. He
died January 10, 18S1. Rev. F. P.
Manhart succeeded him, and served
for eight years- The present pastor,
Rev. P. A. Heilman, will finish his
sixth year with 1895. The church
has been repaired and improved from
time to time, the most costly of which
was made three years ago. A hand
some new parsonage was erected five
yqars ago at a cost of more than
$6,000.00, including the lot. The
church is in splendid working condi
tion, large congregations attending the
regular services, and all the current
obligations promptly met.
A number of prominent citizens,
who were members of this church,
have passed away in the past twenty
years, among the more recent ones
who will be well remembered, are
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Unangst, New
ton Boone, I. S. Kuhn, Mrs. W. R.
Tubbs, Mr. and Mrs. David Stroup,
Mr. John Kressler, and many more.
Ths church has a membership now of
about 500, with a Sunday school of
about 450. There are about ten dif
ferent departments of church work,
and every member is interested in
one or more of these. If the town
continues its growth it will be neces
sary in the near future to enlarge the
building. A few months ago the pri
mary department was compelled to
make more room and a new study
was built for the Pastor at the parson
age, and the room given to this thriv
ing organization, in charge of Misses
Florence Wirt and Edith Weiss. The
Sunday school has just added about
200 new books to the library, with a
new black board. Other improve
ments are being talked of. A new
piano will be placed in the parlors,
likely before the Winter is past.
The annual Harvest Home services
will be held next Sunday. The
church and Sunday school room will
be handsomely decorated with grains,
fruits and vegetables. The Sunday
school will give up the morning to a
Harvest Home service. The com
munion will be administered in the
church both morning and evening.
YOUNO MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
The Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation was founded by Sir George
Williams, of London, England, in
1844, and at the present day its influ
ence and work is felt in all the earth.
Associations exist on the continents
of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
South America. Little did Mr. Will
iams dream when he, a clerk in one
of London's great dry goods stores,
called together his fellow clerks and
organized the first Christian Associa
tion of young men, for the purpose
of mutual help in the Christian life,
and leading young men into a saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ, that in 50
years his example of faith and zeal In
the Master's work would result in the
great brotherhood known as the Young
Men's Christian Association. Clearly
the organization was of Divine insti
tution, and God is in the movement
to-day.
The seed was planted in American
soil in iSjji, the fust Associaf'on be
ing organized in the city of Boston
Since then it has swept this country
from ocean to ocean, and from the
lakes to the gulf. The United States
of America is distinguished as having
the greatest number of Associations
of any country in the world. The
Association idea took root in Penn
sylvania e arly in the sixties, the first
State Convention being held in Phila
delphia in 1866, when an organization
was effected At the International Con
vention, held in Portland, Me., in
1869, the work was re-Organized.
In 1871 Pennsylvania had two Asso
ciations employing general secretaries,
and one Association owning its own
building. To-day there are 146 As
sociations, as follows : City and town,
79, Railroad, 16, German, 2, Colored,
3, Indian, 1, College, 49, entrusted
with property worth $1,881,214, and
expending for current expenses, about
$250,000 a year.
The first Young Men's Christian
Association was organized in Blooms
burg in 1876. The present organiza
tion was effected in 1891, and is nicely
housed at 42 West Main street. The
work is organized under four depart
ments, viz: Religious, Social, Educa
tional and Physical. The Association
is not equipped to do the complete
work to which it is called, for lack of
a building of its own, with all the
necessary furniture, but it is hoped
this need will be met by the people of
Bloomsburg in the near future. Not
withstanding its lack of means, the
local Association has performed it?
mission in the community. Some
idea of the extent of the enterprise
may be gathered from the work of the
different departments. Under the re
ligious, which is the chief work of the
Association, are the gospel meetings,
cottage and jail meetings, special
evangelistic services, Bible classes,
evening prayers, and visitation of the
sick. Under the social, the holding
of socials, receptions and the giving
of concerts, lectures and entertain
ments. The educational department
provides for the reading rooms and ar
ranges for evening classes and practi
cal talks. The physical department
instructs in the care of the body and
its relation to the higher nature. Be
side these the Association conducts a
boarding house register and employ
ment bureau.
The year 1895 has been a pros
perous one for the local Association.
It has won its way into the hearts of
the people, and we have faith that
they will not suffer it to lack any ne
cessity, when its needs become known.
About $700 will be needed to carry
the work through to the close of the
year. Let everybody help, contribut
ing what they ean, if only a mite, and
God will smile upon both giver and
worker. He has blessed the effort of
the workers abundantly this year, the
Association occupying a position at
tained by very few, if any, Associa
tions, that of having three-fourths an
attendance at the religious meetings,
of the daily attendance at the rooms
The record for the first three-quarters
of 1895 is as follows :
84 raeetlnirs. former). At. Ate. 90fl 7M4
Attendance at various religious meetings. 10,400
Totnl (lttonclnnce at all 17,474
Pally attnndance 8(1,141
l'rotosst'd conversions. iw
The officers for 1895 are: Presi
dent, b. C Creasy; Vice Presidents,
Prof. G. E. Wilbur, Dr. Andrew Gray-
don; .Recording Secretary, A. N. Yost;
Acting Treasurer, W. R. Kocher; Di
rectors, E. B. Tustin, M. I. Low, W,
II. Brooke, W. B. Cummings, Prof.
C. H. Albert, W. R. Kocher; General
Secretary, F. Freeman Boas; Super
intendent ot Building, Robert Moore.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION.
The Eighth Bi-County Convention
of the Christian Endeavor Societies
of Columbia and Montour counties
will be held in the United Evangeli
cal church at Light Street on Thurs
day October 31st, 1885. A full pro
gramme has been prepared. Further
notice will be given later.
Those who visit the Opera House
Monday night will get more than
their money s worth in the splendid
acting of a splendid play. It may
seem odd, alter so many non-dividend-paying
shows, to witness one like this,
which pays amusement profits like
Bell Telephone used to. Romeo
and Juliet is the play, and as fine a
one for a woman kind has never been
seen in this vicinage. But evan such
a moving, soul and heart-stirring play,
would come to nothing, were it not
acted in the fashion it merits. This
will be done. Charles B. Hanford,
Elihis R. Spencer, and Nora O'Brien,
are the stars. They appear as Mer
cutio, Romeo and Juliet. The fif
teen remaining parts are in the hands
of first-class actors, and the scenery
is superb.
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To tell you all about our goods
and prices is going over ground
well covered. 'lis therefore
useless to do any talking. Our
reputation for honest, reliable,
well-made goods and reason
able prices is a just and well
earned one, and all we have to
say is that our mammoth stock
awaits you.
ROCHESTER
CLOTHIWG SALE !
Saturday, October 5th, one of the largest stocks of cloth
ing ever brought to Bloomsburg will be on sale rt Lown
berg's. The surplus stock of Rochester manufacturers bought
for spot cash, will be sold at way below the regular price.
Remember this no fake sale of shoddy clothing, but agenuke
sale of fine
HoeJiestcE
at lower prices than you pay for cheap goods. Brings the
prices of fine clothing down so low that it is within the reah
of the smallest purse. Here are a few items which will brig
crowds of people to our store:
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FIE
sum in hvmbats,
$5.00, $6.75 and $7.50. Finest dress suits and overcoats, the
long cut blue overcoats that were $15 and $18 are $10, $12
and $13. Big boys' wool suits, $3, Children's woolen suits
and overcoats, $2, $2.50, $3.00.
CLOTHING, HATS k FURN1SHINES
at Bloomsburg's Grand Old Stand,
The D. Lowenteg
CLOTHING STORE.
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