So observed the Rev. James Weston Miller, the pastor, in his diary for that day. Miller had arrived in this rugged frontier town of Houston some 6 months earlier. Constructed of pine and painted white, it was lighted with whale-oil lamps.
Thick forests are in the neighborhood.
The Rev. William States Jacobs was pastor during much of that first quarter of this century. Over that same period of time, our church sent out the first of its many missionaries, Dr. Allen Hutcheson, as a medical missionary to China, and in the great tradition of adult education which defines this congregation, we started a Sunday School class for students attending Rice University. In 1932, Dr. Charles L. King arrived. Within a few years, Dr. King would preside over our Centennial Celebration of 1939. The first worship in the new building took place on May 2nd, 1948.