History of Scranton and Its People Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...Russell Fern, Mrs. Frank Williams, Mrs. William Jones, Mrs. John R. James, Miss Nellie Raif, Miss Geraldine Shuman, Miss Esther Fritz, Miss Rachael James; tenors, Mr. Thomas Abraham, Mr. Thomas Thomas, Mr. Reese Evans, Mr. Harry Denvers; basses, Mr. Harry A. Wrigley, Mr. Harry K. Acker, Mr. Samuel Bevan, Dr. Bryant, Mr. Russell Fern, Mr. James Davis. Court Street Methodist Episcopal Church--This prosperous church, like the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, is a child of the Young Men's Christian Association. Both grew out of suburban devotional meetings held and sustained by the association. The young men of the association, like the disciples of old, were sent out two and two, sometimes more, into the outlying villages or sections of the community to conduct devotional meetings, principally on the Lord's day. Park Piace school house, the depot of the Delaware and Hudson Company at Green Ridge, the school house on the back road at Hyde Park, and in a house on the South Side, and on what was then known as the "Flats," down South Washington avenue, were some of the places where these meetings were held. This work was specially active during the winter of 1874. The writer, then president of the association, with Charles W. Kirkpatrick, an earnest member, and Henry H. Chapin, acting secretary, were assigned to hold a series of meetings in the little school house at Park Piace that winter. This school house stood a little above the present Court Street Church. We were zealous and earnest. Our first meeting found the school house crowded, and after an interesting service the "net was cast," with an immediate and to us most surprising response. In fact we found ourselves in the midst of a revival, a manifest work of grace. As laymen we felt ou...