The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-04
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Interesting Exercises Yesterday

Interesting Exercises Yesterday.
Laying OF the Cornerstone of the
Zane Street AIethOLint Episcopal
Church.-AddresS by the Rev, Dr,
Martin.
The services connected with LAYING
the cornerstone of the Zane Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, now in
process of erection on the corner OF
Zane and Sixth streets, took place yes
terday forenoon.
The large audience comprised minis
tiers and members Ofditferent churches,
the Sabbath School of Zane Street
Church, officers of the State and city
government, the Free NIasonS in the
insignia of their order with Captain
McGOwan as Chief Marshal, and DR..
w. J. Bates aS Grand Master of the
State, and many beautiful ladies. The
church will be brick editice, COPIED
with stone, and of the Anglo-Italian
style. Its size will be eighty by forty
six feet. The tower projects eight feet.
The whole height of the wall is SO feet
giving clear finish of II feet for the
first story, and "a for the main audience
room. The steeple will be l2O feet
high. The whole design will unite
simplicity, economy and beauty in a
measure hard to be surpassed. 1t will
be an honor to Wheeling and a special
blessing to that part ofthe city in which
it is located. and where it has long been
greatly needed. 1t is designed to ac-
commodate from 600 to 500 people.
The services were commenced
promptly at 10 o'clock, with PRAYER
and instrumental and vocal music, A
lead box containing various books.
documents, coins, &C., was then pre-
Sented by the pastor, Rev. F. Bail, u
IIGf IF NiNtN Al,
and deposited in its appropriate recep-
tacle. Next, the stone was raised by
means of an engine prepared for the
purpose, and after earnest PRAYER was.
10 the sound of slow and solemn music
let down into its place. The principal
architect them presented the working
tools to the Grand Master, who applied
the plumb, square and level to the
stone and pronounced it to be swell
formed, true and trusty." The gold
and silver vessels were then brought
forward and the corn, wine and oil
which they contained poured on the
stone which with three strokes of the
mallet and the public honOrs of Mason
ry completed very significant and
impressive ceremony. After some re-
marks by Grand Master DIR. Bates and
the singing of a beautiful ode the fol-
lowing address was delivered by Rev,
DIR. Alex. Martin, Pastor of the Fourth
street NJ. Il. church.
ADDRESS BY DIR. MARTIN.
On the present occasion it may safely
be assumed that 1 speak to those who.
in common with myself, acknowledge
religion to be the one thing needfil.
and that, as in Joseph's dream there
WAS one sheaf to which all the rest did
reverence, so to it, all thoughts, feel
lngS and interests should bend and be
subordinate. AS the soul is more valu-
able than the body, as eternity is long
er than time, as Gods claims are high
er than all others, and as of all motives
those that gather round the Cross arc
the strongest, so should religion be to
all OF us the first and the last and the
highest and dearest interest of our
lives. To secure this pearl of great
price for ourselves, even at the cost of
all we have, is our highest duty; und
to extend its blessings TO our neiShbors.
whom we sheuld love as ourselves, is
our highest wisdom. This has been
felt by Gods people in every age, and
evidenced as in other ways, so also bv
the number, magnitude and beauty of
temples consecrmted by them TO the
Most High and the best and most en-
during interests of mankind. No man.
and especially no chistian, lives for
himself but for others, and not at his
convenience only but in the self sacri-
6cing spirit of his Master will he
empty his time, influence and means
to bless a hers. In seeking to secure
that which TO him and to them in fact,
as we'll as theory is, and is felt to be,
the chief end of man, he finds he can
be most successful when associated
with others of like aims and principles
In seeking this fellowship he obeys a
law of his being, as we'll as honors the
behest of Him who in view of the
wants and interests of that being es-
tablished the Church, and commands
his people to come out of and be seper
ate from the world.
That Church has but one head-our
Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. But as
the body is composed of many parts,
limbs and members, so may the Church
be composed of many branches, con-
gregatiOns and members. Its union
consists not in external forms or cere-
monies, nor particular localities of
assemblage-nOt in those unimportant
peculiaritieS and distinctions which
diversity of tastes, circumstances and
the unavoidable imperfection of our
minds induce, but in the inward per-
vading spirit of Christ. The Evangeli-
cal alliance has shown how large and
real is the union which exists in the
great body of Protestant Christendom
that they are substantially agreed in
the fundamental doctrines and duties
of our holy religion, while those things
lively few and relatively unimportant.
" Holding the truth in love" and
maintaing the "uIIity of the spirit in
the bonds of peace" their diversity of
organization is not schisn, nor does it
destroy the unity and efficiency OF the
Church any more than does the ar
rangment of our army into Corps, Di-
visions, Brigades, Regiments and Com
panies, and these again into Infantry,
Cavalry, Artillery, &C., destroy its uni
ty and efficiency. All true Christians
contemplate the same end, and seek for
it in the same spirit. AS in the build
ing of this house, some work in the
where 1t is to be used, some
cut and lay the stone, some furnish
the brick, others the lime, the wood,
the glass and the upholstery, so in the
spiritual temple the workmen may em-
plOy different tools and operate in diff
ferent ways, but the end is one. So it
was in the building of Solomon's Tenn
pie. OF the thousands there employed
some wrought in polishing the stones,
others in laying them, others in pre-
pairing the furniture, others overlook ed
the design, others carried the materials
others were far off in the mountains
among the quarries and timbers of
Lebanon, or conveying them by sea to
JOppa, but all their efforts tended to
prepare, and ended in the great and
beautiful building on Moriah. So it is
with the great spiritual temple and its
several parts and cOlabOratOrs on earth
while they are 'distinct as the bill
lows" they are yet lone as the sea-"
So that this enterprise is not the rival,
but the cO-adjutOr of all other like un-
dertakings, and every chrisliu of eve-
ry name has an interest in and right
to rejoice over the beginning, aud pray
for its successful prosecution and glo-
rious cOnsu nation.