Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-02-18

COMPLETION OF TRINITY CHURCH
SABBATH SCHooL-THE HANDsoMEsr
SABBATH SCHOOL IN THE SrATE.-The
Sabbath School building erected by the
Congregation Of Trinity Episcopal Church,
Of which Rev. w. @. Hullihen is rector,
has just been completed and will be occu-
pied at Easter, and during Easter week a
festival will be given the Sabbath School
children within its walls. The building
is of Gothic style, brick, two stories high,
and the roof slated. Approaching from
the Church yard the entrance is through
portico, and entering there is library
room on the right, and the PASTORS study
on the left, both lighted with stained glass
windows. Entering the main audience
room, which has capacity for seating $50
people, you see at the further end a semi
circular platform raised three steps, on
which is the Superintendent desk. The
roof is supported by arches. The light
comes in through richly stained glass at
Gothic windows on each side, and in the
rear, and massive one in the front. They
are memorial windows. The large window
in the. front is presented bys Maj. H. M.
Bells class. and has on it, in white letters,
'sTo the Triune God" The eight memo
rial windows on either side bear the fol-
lowing Inscriptions: "Mrs. Lavinia A.
Fisher, died April 18th. 1874" ''Wm. H.
Tams, died Aug. End, 1885," Harrington
Taylor, died Oct. 18th, 1852 ION this is an
anchor in white, on blue ground) Mary
Lea Ker, died May End, 1922 ION this is
I. H. S., in white, on blue Sround);
"Janette Taylor Bell. died Jan. LIST, 1897
ION this is white dove, on blue
ground); david R. -Ackerman, born July
10Th 1850, died May 31st $780," ION
this is an open bible in viii tie on red
ground); s'Thos. J. Niche. died July 18th.
1875" "Geo. P. Donaghe, born March 3rd,
1867, died Nov. LIST, 1875" 'Michael G.
Hartman, born Sept. 9th, 1866, died May
22nd, 1872" Besides these, are five win
dows presented by COL James H. Skinner,
Capt. Geo. E. Price, Judge Hugh w. Shelf
fey, Capt. T. D. Ransom and Judge Jno.
N. Hendren-the surname of each donor
being in white letters on the bottom of
the window. The benches of this room have
iron frames, and the windows have con-
venient and novel iron attachment for
opening and closing them.
Gong down the spiral stairway from the
right of the superintendent platform you
enter the infants class room. The seats
for the children rise one above another in
a semi-circle some eight or ten feet in
height, and this room, which is half the
size of the upper room, is lighted also by
stained glass windows, of which there are
the immense heating apparatus. All the
woodwork is painted rich brown and the
ceiling of the main room represents the
sky yelled by feecy clouds.
The entire building is the handsomest
edlfice used for the same purpose in Vir-
ginia, and cost about $4,000. The work
was done by the following gentlemen:
brick-Bagby and Earman; wood-Lush-
baugh & Bro; plastering-Sam'l LUSH
daugh; painting Croope; heating
apparatus-A. A. Grubert, and the win
dows were manufactured by VIM. Coulter
& Son, Of Cincinnati.
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PROGRESS OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH.
AT the Lutheran church last Sunday
morning, the pastor, Rev. M. R. Minnich,
preached from the text ''Let me go for the
day is breaking" In the course of his
most excellent sermon he gave some inter-
esting facts about the success Of the church
in this city. The first Lutheran service
eyer held in Stauntpn, was held in an old
log house, standing where the Episcopal
church now stands. 1t was when the
country was first being settled and the ser
vice was conducted by an old German
minister who preached in English. The
beginning of the present church organiza-
ton was made many years ago by little
congregation of about ten assembling in a
in the old Bell Tavern, the building
occupied by the INDICATOR, to hear
IVY. DR.. Bittle, now President of Roanoke
College, who was then stationed at Mt.
Tabor in this county where he had school,
which was the first beginning Of what is
now Roanoke College. A pastor was af-
forwards called in the person of Rev. Mr..
Davis, now President Of North Carolina
College at Point Pleasant, N. G.. The
present church building was erected in
1856. After stating the struggles the
church had passed through, likening them
to Jacob whose tolls were the subject Of
the sermon, the pastor stated that the day
was liter ally breaking for it. AS he cast
his eye over the large congregation filling
the church, he saw it was composed Of
Lutherans, and the Sabbath school was
now being enlarged to accommodate the
increased numbers Of children. In the new
year of which only six weeks had passed,
there had been thirteen additions to the
membership of the church. Four hundred
dollars was every cent it owed in the world.
The interior of the church is to be touched
up preparatory to the assembling of the
Lutheran General Synod South, which
meets here on the 26th of May next.
FRENCH PRovERB AT THE SEMINARY.
On Friday evening last a soiree was CIV
en- at the Augusta Female Seminary,
opening with some Calisthenic exercises
by Miss Magill's smallest class, and two re-
citations by Misses Annie Saff0ld and De-
liza Armstrong. The feature of the even
ing, was, OF course, the proverb which was
the nice little one by Countess de Segur
of "They do not catch flies with vinegar"
This is the cast:
Nine. D'Ulsac, .................F. Taylor.
Nine D'Atale,. .................L. Wood.
Nine D'Embrun ,...........L.H Harris.
Mathilde D'Ulsac, .............. "A. Reid.
Clemence D'Ulsac. M, Huck.