The Conshohocken Recorder, May 11, 1915

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$1206.83 THE OFFERING
TO REV. McKINNEY
ATTENDANCE SUNDAY NIGHT
WAS LARGEST DURING THE
CAMPAIGN.- EVANGELIST GIV-EN
GREAT OVATION.— WEEK
END SERVICE BROUGHT 64
CONVERTS.- PROOFS GIVEN OF
WHAT CAMPAIGN IS DOING..
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Offering.
To Rev. T. \V. MeKinncy
Sunday Afternoon ....1810.69
Sunday e\ ening 896.26
11206.88
Attendance
Previously announced .. 45,051
Friday 1,000
Saturday 2,200
Sunday afternoon 1,600
Sunday evening 2,600
I Total 52,461
Convert*.
Previously announced .... 786
Friday 0
Saturday 1".
Sunday afternoon ">
Sunday evening 40
846
Reconsecrated.
Previously announced 698
Sunday afternoon -
i 700
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The tabernacle campaign closed its
fourth week Sunday night with the
largest congregation that has yet at-tended
the services. The people an-ticipated
that it would be a big night
and all the seats were occupied early.
Seats from automobile busses were
commandeered and placed near the
platform extra chairs were se«-ured
and placed in the aisles, and the
night being cool, the people sat close
together and made room for others,
very available space was occupied and
many stood through the entire ser-vice.
There were 2600 persons in the
audience.
I Every one was imbued with the
Eplrit that the service was to be a
reat one, and of all the fine musical
iaervices, Sunday evening's was the
test. Tho familiar hymns were sung
•tand the big building was filled with
melody which floated out the open
windows and could be heard a couple
of blocks distant. Never before did
the choir better respond to Mr. Mad-den's
directions. When sections of
the big audience sang responses to the
choir, the voices would float through
the big building with a pipe organ ef-fect.
A free will offering was taken for
Rev. Mr. MeKinncy at both the Sun-day
services and amounted to $120(1-
.83. The afternoon offering amount..I
to *810..V7 and the night offering,
$395.20. These amounts include the
offerings from the various churches
and from various organizations. Rev.
J. F. Sheppard asked for an offerings
of $1000 at the afternoon service. He
told the work the tabernacle is doing.
He said there is a story going about
that one man contributed $1000 to the
tabernacle and that another gave Mr.
McKinney $500, neither of these stor-ies
are true. Mr. Sheppard told of
the interest the campaign has aroused
in the churches and that it has brought
about a better community spirit. He
also said a saloon keeper said he was
glad the tabernacdle was coming as
it would improve business, but he was
mistaken as the other night a friend
stopped in this man's placo and during
the half hour he was there not a cus-tomer
appeared.
At the evening service Rev. E. L,
Hyde paid a line tribute to Mr. McKin-ney's
services and asked that the peo-ple
express their appreciation in a
substantial manner, life received of-ferings
of $5 from the W. C. T. U., $30
from the oflicers and directors of the
People's Bank, of West Conahadiocken,
and $22.70 from the St. MarOT Luther-an
Bible Class. Mr Hyde asao recit-ed
instances where the campaign has
brought such joy Irito homes that Its
value cannot be estimated In money.
He told of a case where a woman told
him the revival has been the means
of banishing drunkenness from her
home and he said there are many such
cases In town.
After the afternoon service a num-ber
of singers went to the Silk home
where the evangelistic party Is stay-ing
and sang several hymns. They
then went to several homes In the
upper end of town and sang hymns, in
the open air, for those who have bean
prevented from attending the taber-nacle
by reason of illness.
Mr. MeKinncy announced thai some
evening thla weak Mr. and Mrs. Lind-say,
talented musicians, would be
present. He said he was unable to
name the day as they could not till
him when they would be free to come.
N'I \l Saturday evening will be Bible
Class night and the service will be
for men only. At the same time a
WOOMn'a inc.'ting will be held in the
Piaabyti rian church and will be ad-dressed
by an eminent woman preach-er.
Evening Sermon.
The evening sermon was preached
from the text from Isaiah, 1:18—
■■ Some now, and let us reason together,
sail!', the I.ord: through your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crim-son,
they ,-hall be as wool."
The terribleness of sin and the
promise that we can be cleansed of it
was the 'Jieine of the sermon. The
preacher said: "Sin is a terrible tiling
but our text tells us it may be cleans-ed
It is false that the church faith
is divorced from reason it is not so;
it lias a most reasonable foundation.
It is sin and self indulgence that puts
out the light and makes us take the
journey through life in darkness. Kin
sold the soul of the beggar and mil-lionaire
alike, it is not like dust on
a garment that can easily be brushed
away, it is like dye in tile warp and
woof of the fabric.
"If you beheld the hideousness of
sin. you would flee as from a pesti-lence;
but as sin presents itself in a
fascinating light, wc clasp It to our
bosoms. Sin and serpents are usually
compared, and I would that every man
and women would hate and fear sin
as I do a snake. The bite of sin is
deadly to happiness and the soul and
the trail of the serpent of sin is every-where."
The preacher told of a Christmas
service he conducted at the House of
Correction and said it is wonderful
how those two thousand men and one
thousand women sang the hymns. It
showed that sin had led them to
where they were. Those people had
at one time sung in Sunday School.
No one is free from the trail of the
serpent.
Sin Cannot be Outgrown.
"There are those who say that sin
can be outgrown. To perdition with
such a doctrine! If you prefer Moth-er
Kddy, Howie, Russell and Sanford,
take them and go to perdition with
them! The ultimate judgment of
such doctrines belongs to the devil
rather than to God!
"What did it mean when Jesus
littered the last cry? It meant that
the sins of the human race had been
atoned. Sin is the most degrading,
defacing, debauching and devastating
thing in the world, and yet some of
you nurse It and say sin is a little
thing! Go to the house of sorrow and
see if sin is a little thing; it Is at the
bottom of most sorrow!
Will be Forgiven.
"A startling and helpful truth is
that sin at its worst may be cleansed,
no matter how deep the stain. If
you have committed every crime, bro-ken
every commandment, God can and
will forgive you. He will do more
than that if you will confess your sins.
He 1B faithful and Just and will
cleanse you! Unless you confess, you
will go to hell!
Will Take Chancet
"We come here with the great sal-vation
and we can take it into the
worst places and teach it and bring
men to the purity or living. The
text is a good one for the harlot and
the libertine and I would be willing
to take my chances with them at the
bar of God against those of you here
who tell the personal workers, you
have done nothing God will not ov-erlook
It! There are more scarlet
men and women than you think, and
the scarlet man is more reprehensible
than the scarlet woman! Tell it to
the tombstone or in the insane asy-lums
that sin is a little tiling! Sin is
a little thing? The devil told you
that!
"If aesthetic souls can rage over the
blood shed at Gettysburg, Bhilo, Chat-tanooga
and other battlefields where
great patriotism was shown, why not
over the cross of Jesus."
When the invitation was extended
the great audience arose and forty
persons professed conversion.
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SOLDIERS PREPARING
FOR MEMORIAL DAY
SERVICES WILL BE HELD ON SUN-DAY,
MAY 23, IN LITTLE'S OP-ERA
HOUSE.- GRAVES WILL BE
DECORATED SATURDAY, THE
29th—UNIFORMED O. OF I. A.
WILL ASSIST THE VETER-ANS.
George Smith Post No. 7!), ('.. A. It.
baa completed arrangements for mem-orial
services to be held in memory of
their departed comrades, with the ex-ception
of selecting the orator for the
sc rvices to be held in Little's Opera
House on Sunday evening, May 23.
Sunday afternoon, May :!::, the Vet-
BIG BIBLE CLASS PARADE
Parade Will be in Two Divisions and
Escorted by Several Bands.
If the predictions of J. Rufus Barr.
leader oi the Men's Bible Class of the
M. E. church and chairman of the
committee or arrangements for Bible
Class night at the tabernacle, Satur-day
night, are cornet, the greatest
parade of llible Class men ever held
in this county will be held here on Sat-urday
evening
The Bible Classes from Plymouth,
Barren Hill, NorrUtown, Gulf Mills,
West Conahohooken and this borough
will participate and Mr. Barr expects
there will be several bands in line.
The members of the local classes
are requested to assemble at their
various churches at 6.30 P. M. The
classes of the Baptist, Calvary and St.
Mark's churches will be known as the
eastern division and the M. K. and
Presbyterian classes will be the wes-tern
division. Both divisions will
march to Tenth avenue and Fayette
street where they will be joined by
the division composed of the out of
town classes and a line of parade will
be formed.
The full details of the parade will be
printed in this paper on Friday next.
HENRY J. HARROLD
Adjutant of the Post.
WOMEN'S CLUBS MEETING
The Federation of Women'.; Clubs
of Montgomery County are holding a
i meeting in the Baptist church in Ilat-boro,
today. A business meeting was
held at 10.30. The afternoon session
will be an open meeting to which all
members of the club are Invited.
Mrs. Jean K. Foulke will address the
meeting. She will be remembered as
a very pleasant speaker by those who
heard her on a previous visit to the
club.
erans assisted by Conshohocken Coun-cil,
O. of I. A., the latter act|ng as a
firing squad, will go to Merlon Square
and decorate the graves of all Onion
soldiers buried there and will hold
the regular Grand Army service for
the dead. In the evening, a memorial
service will be held in the Opera
House. A number of singers have
volunteered their services assuring
good music. The following ministers
have consented to take 'part in the
service: Rev. H. T. Houf, Rev. R N.
Musselman, Rev. II. 1). S. Coate3, Rev.
James P. Parker, Rev. A. J. Davles,
Rev. J. T. Fox, Rev. T. A. Armour and
Rev. J. F. Sheppard.
The services will be held in mem-ory
of tho following Comrades:
THOMAS G. ARNOLD.
Private, Co. I, 43 Regt Pa. Vol. M.
Died, Nov. 1, 1914.
EPWIN KIOLLICIINER
Private, Co. A, BlSt Pa. Vole.
Died, August !), 1914.
JAMBS V. STEWART
Private. Co. C, Pp.. Vol. M.
Died, February 6,, 1015.
HENRY DeHAVBN
Private, Co. I, 2nd Pa. H .A.
Died, January 17, 1915.
BLLERY CHANNING POTTS
Private, Co. B, Ind. Cavalry.
Died February 19, 1915.
GBORGH II. LOGAN
Private Co. A, 7th Del. Vols.
Died, April 7, 1915.
As Memorial Day falls on Sunday,
the Post will celebrate it on Saturday
the 20th. The Comrades will meet at
the Post room at seven o'clock that
morning and accompanied by the O.
of I. A. will march to St. Matthew".*
cemetery where the graves will be
decorated, the G. A. II. service Will
be held and an address will be mado
by Rev. James P. Parker. The vet-erans
will then go by coaches to St.
Matthew's new cemetery, Plymouth
Meeting, Cold Point and Barren Hill
and hold services at each cemetery.
They will return to their hall at noon
where the Women's Relief Corps will
serve dinner.
Tho afternoon service will be held
at Gulf cemetery. This will be the
largest service of the day &-a there are
many soldiers buried there. J. Bur-nett
Holland Esq., of this borough,
will be the orator. The Citizens' band
and a company from the O. of I. A.
will escort the veterans.
Killed by Gas.
Alexander Neill, an aged resident
Of Bridgeport, was found dead seated
in the kitchen of his home with gas
pouring from an open jet.
GEORGE CLYMER BROOKE.
\fter an illness of several years,
Which became acute two weks ago,
George Clymer Ilrooke, retired finan-ce
r. died Friday at his home, Ereezy-brow,
Ardmore.
He was ill years old, and formerly
was a member of the banking llrm of
Drexel &' Co. He retired recently on
account of ill health. He was a di-rector
of the Central National Bank,
Philadelphia, and before joining Drex-el
& Co. was associated in the broker-age
firm of George S. Fox J Son.
Mr. Brooke is survived by a widow,
who was Miss Rhoda F. Morris, daugh-ter
of E. li. Morris, president of Glrard
Trust Company, Philadelphia: His
father was John Edward Brooke, weal-thy
iron and steel producer, of Uirds-boro.
TESTING NEW LIGHTS
See If You Notice Any Greater Bril-liancy
at Hector and Fayette
Street After Tonight.
Advertise In "THE RECORDER"
Chairman Richard Bate of the Po-lice,
Fire and Water Committee of
Town Council has been In conference
with the officials of the Counties Gas
and Electric 'Company many times
during the past year, using his efforts
to have the company use a better arc
lamp for the street lighting. The
company has made a number of tests
of lamps and now believes It has
one that will give entire satisfaction.
For the >pcst week two arc lamps, of a
new and improved type, have been
burning at Tenth avenue and Wells
street and Tenth avenue and Jones
street. The light given is more pow-erful
than from the old lamps. To-day
the company will place one of the
new lamps at Hector and Fayette
street and another at Spring Mill
avenue and Harry street, that the pub-lic
may judge of the new lamp.
The advantages of the new lamp
are that they will burn for two hun-dred
hours without trimming and the
carbons are so adjusted that the light
is steady and constant
Date Stone Bids Ruled Out
Because Frank Nash put an extra
charge for a date stone in his bid for
extensive repairs to the Spring Valley
bridge in Abington, it may lose him
the contract, for otherwise he was low
bidder. The Commissioners hove de-cided
to "cut out" the date Btones.
JANE CAMPBELL PLEADS
FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE
NOTED SUFFRAGIST ADDRESSED
A LARGE COMPANY AT "COL-LINIA"
LAST EVENING.-USED
ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE
CAUSE FOR IT.—MR. DIX ALSO
SPEAKS FOR THE SUFFRAGE
CAUSE.
A large and enthusiastic meeting
in the Interest of Woman Suffrage
was held at Collinia, the home of Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Collins, Second avenue
and Forrest street, lost evening. Nu-merous
well known Conshohockenites
were present at the invitation of the
hostess, to hear Miss Jane Campbell,
the prominent Suffrage leader of
Germantown, who lias been one of the-most
enthusiastic advocates of Votes
for Women for a nupber of years.
She explained freely and frankly that
the main reason why she and other
women wanted the vote was for the
same reason that men wanted It, viz.,
To have something to say regarding
the government which governs both
men and women. She gave many
practical answers to the various ob-jections
which are being forwarded by
those opposed to equal suffrage and
showed that many of the questions
asked by such people were in them-selves
answered by other objections
made. For instance, some persons
claim In one breatli that the difference
of opinion between man and wife
^would cause dissensions in the home,
and in the next breath say that there
is no use of women voting, as they
would only vote as their husbands
did.
Following Miss Campbell a brief
talk was made by James II. Dix, of
Plymouth township, the husband of
Mrs. Caroline Ludy Dix, leader of the
Woman Suffrage Party in this district.
He Urged those who already saw the
undeniable justice and advantage of
Equal Suffrage to not be satisfied to
simply believe in the cause them-selves,
but to do all they possibly
could to interest others, especially the
men who, by voting for the amend-ment
next November, could bring vic-tory
for the cause.
Mrs. Dix and Miss illovenden, Secre-tary
of the Plyiwuth Meeting Woman
Suffrage Association, assisted by oth-ers,
secured numerous signatures to
the party membership blanks, and
plans were laid for organizing the
Woman Suffrage Party In Conshohock-en.
FRANK MELLOR
Former Resident Died Yesterday
Philadelphia.
at
Right at the Tabernacle. WIDL'S
GARAGE. The place where your auto
service is right.—Adv.
Frank Mellor, husband of Ellen Mel-lor
(nee Herron), aged 66 years, died
yesterday, at his home, 3301 N. Twen-ty-
second street, Philadelphia.
Mr. Mellor was a brother-in-law to
Robert (Herron, of this borough, and
resided here for many years. While
here, he was employed as on engineer
nt the Schuylklll Iron Works and
other mills. He removed, with his
family, to Philadelphia a number of
years ago and entered the employ of
the Electric Storage Battery Com-pany.
Mr. Mellor became ill about a year
ago and had an operation performed
to give him relief but he never regain-ed
robust health. Six weeks ago, he
was compelled to give up work and
ten days ago his illness became worse
and he took to his bed.
The funeral will be held from his
late residence on Friday afternoon at
one o'clock. The funeral will arrive
at Barren Hill at 2.30 o'clock and ser-vices
will be held in St. Peter's Lu-theran
church and the body may be
viewed there.
Presbytery North to Unveil Tablet
A memorial tablet to the Rev. Dr.
Joseph Beggs, pastor and pastor emer-itus
of the Falls Presbyterlon Church
for forty years, will be unveiled in
that church Tuesday night at the
spring meeting of the presbytery of
Philadelphia, North. Sessions of the
presbytery will be held throughout the
day.
Woman loves a clear, rosy complex-ion.
Burdock Blood Bitters is splen-did
for purifying the blood, clearing
the skin, restoring sound digestion.
All druggists sell it. Price, $1.00.
Advt.
VALLEY FORGE CHAPTER, D. A. R.
On Friday the members of Valley
Forge Chapter D. A. It. held their
monthly meeting at the home of Mrs.
J. Kennedy Moorhouse, No. 317 Fay-ette
street, this borough. There were
30 members present. Mrs. Irwin Fish-er,
the regent, presided.
Mrs. Charlotte Kilpatrick, chairman
of the marker committee, speaking in
her report of the ten graves of Revo-lutionary
soldiers to be marked the
coming summer with the permanent
D. A. R. marker, said that email Unit-ed
States Hags would be placed on
these graves and those previously
marked prior to Decoration Day.
Mrs. Wilfred L. Stauffer, chairman
of the committee appointed to devise
means to increase the chapter funds,
reported that arrangements for an en-tertainment
to be held June 1st in.the
Norrlstown Opera House, were almost
completed. The proceeds from this
affair are to be used for a memorial
to Mrs. William II. IHolstein, who or-ganized
the Valley Forge Chapter,
gave It its name and was its first re-gent.
This patriotic woman, besl lea
her work for I'nion soldiers of the civ-il
war and her interest and work in
the preservation of Mount Verfton,
was also Instrumental in the preserva-tion
of Washington's headquarters at
Valley Forge, being, until her death,
president of a society she had estab-lished
for that purpose. At the close
of business the chapter was treated to
a most entertaining report by the re-gent,
Mrs. Irwin Fisher, or her at-tenance
at the N. S. I). A. R. Congress
in Washington, D. C, in April. Miss
Mary Evans represented the chapter
then as delegate. Mrs. Hugh Mclnues
and Mrs. P. Y. Elsenberg as alter-nates,
and several other members
were In attendance, viz: Mrs. Reese
P. Davis, Mrs. M. E. B. I.ane, MM. C.
O. Pparrwort, Mrs. H. S. Righter, Miss
Marie Yost, Mrs. Joseph Fornance and
Miss Lois Fornance.
Mrs. C. Howard Harry entertained
the chapter by reading several inter-esting
extracts from a Savannah Kia.i
paper, regarding the unveilng of a
memorial shaft at Midway, Ga, to two
famous Revolutionary officers—Gener-al
James Sereven and General Dan-iel
Stewart. It was of especial inter-est,
as General Sereven was the great-great-
grandfather of Mrs. Harry, and
General Stewart was the great-grand-father
of ex-President Roosevelt.
The chapter adjourned to enjoy a
social hour and delightful vocal and
instrumental music, together with re-freshments,
provided by the hospit-able
hostess. Lilies-ofthe-valley add-ed
to the beauty of the refreshment
table and every one present had an
enjoyable time.
STRASSBURGER HONORED
Ex-Consul General Elected to Navy
League National Committee.
Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd
Valley, was elected to the National
Committee of the United States Navy
league at a meeting of that body held
In Washington yesterday. .Mr. Strass-burger
is the second Philadelphian
elected to the Navy league National
Committee within the last few
months, the other being Alexander
Van Rensselaer. Mr. Strassburger
has a spendid record of Government
service both in the navy and as a
member of the diplomatic corps. He
was a member of the class of 1906 at
Annapolis, and a star member of sev-eral
Naval Academy football teams.
In 1909 he retired from the navy and
entered the diplomatic service, receiv-ing
the appointment as Consul Gen-eral
In Bucharest at tho time of the
Balkan war. Two years ago he re-turned
to this country, and last spring
he caused a political sensation by
running for the nomination for Con-gress
from the Hueks-Moulogmery dis-trict
on the Republican ticket at the
primaries, losing by a narrow margin.
TEMPERANCE WORKERS
TO MEET
The regular meeting of the W. C.
T. U. will be held at the home of Mrs
Thomas Murray, 112 West Ninth ave-nue,
on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'-
clock. Business of vital importance
to all is to be transacted and it is urg-ed
that all of the members be present
and bring a friend. The regular dues
will be received at this meeting.
Advertise in "THE RECORDER"
FIREMEN MAP OUT
A FIRE DISTRICT
WASHINGTON COMPANY SETS A
DISTRICT IN WHICH IT WILL
RESPOND TO ALARMS-WILL
ONLY RESPOND TO FACTORY
AND SECOND ALARMS FROM
WEST SIDE.—ZONE IS A LARGE
ONE.
The Washington Fire ' ompany has
mapped eat a district in which it will
respond to all alarms of lire. The
company baa taken this action t>e-
Iteving in practice i( will work out for
the In ner protection of the district
and Conshohocken especially. Here-tofore
alarms have been coming in
from distant places and both the local
companies and the George Clay Com-pany
have responded, leaving . both
boroughs without protection.
Tin district mapped out which the
Washington Companv will cover is
as follows: .Marble Hall. Plymouth
Meeting and west on the Germantown
pike to Uveaey'a store (the Trenton
Cut-off bridge i and all the territory
lying between these points and Cotr
ahohocken. On the east, the covered
territory will extend to the Hamilton
paper mills at Lafayette.
All alarms from factories In Weal
'orisholiocken will be n sponded to
but other alarms will only be responded
to on second call; that is, if the
George Clay Company needs assist-ance,
the Wasliingtons will render it.
It is believed the announcement of
the district the Washington Company
will cover will lie a great benefit to
the Bremen and to properly owners in
that the hitter instead of sending in a
general alarm will only summon one
company and both the boroughs will
always he protected.
It is also suggested to property own-ers
having property without the pro-tection
of fire plugs that they ouild
Small dams in the many creeks in the
district that would enable-a »tuinpiir.(
engine to go into service. At the fire
at Spring Mill lust week, it was ob-served
that Spring Mill village could
be given fair protection by th« build-ing
of a small dam in the creek near
1-entz's hotel. The cost would be
small and the work might be done
by property owners or the township
supervisors.
The Washington Company has act-ed
in the hope that the other fire com-panies
will also adopt fire zones thus
saving many needless runs and the
consequent needless wear on appar-atus
and an expense to the compan-ies
RUMMAGE SALE
The Women's Club hopes to have
the School Board authorize the leach-ing
of Domestic Scienci- in the High
School, and has offered to contribute
towards the expense.
In order to raise money the members
of the club will give a Rummage Sale
In the Bummers Building at Fayette
and Kim streets on Friday and Sat-ur
lay of this week.
Any one who desires to contribute
to tills sale can send their contribu-tions
to Mrs. If. P. I'avis 128 East
Fourth avenue.
Will Operate an Auto Bus.
Charles Slavin, of this borough, has
purchased another automobile truck
for use in bis hauling business. The
new truck will be fitted with an up-holstered
bus body with a seating ca-pacity
for fifteen persons. Mr. Sla-vin's
trade slogan is "We go uny-where
at 'any time." The new truck
will arrive May 29th. Mr. Slavin will
make a specialty of tnking parties to
Willow drove. Valley Forge, Atlantis
city and other trips.
LESE MAJESTY.
Pennaburg Town and Country.
The minister who presumes to
know the very number of the room
this or that person will occupy in
the sweet-bye-and-bye, should him-self
be consigned to number 18,
Umbrellas repaired and covered at
KEHOES —Advt.
MANHEIM SPORT SHIRTS
ON SALE AT
KATZ'S
53 FAYETTE ST.,
CONSHOHOCKEN, PA.
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