The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-08-26
From Thursdays Daily.
THE NEW M. L. CHURCH..


The school trustees having decided upon
dividing school hall into class rooms it will
no longer be at the service of the public even
for religious services. If it were the trustees
intention to provide the upper rooms with
old-fashioned school furniture, the primly
perpendicular desks and STRAIGHTFORWARD seats
in vogue a quarter of a century ago, the upper
story, by employing folding doors to divide
it, might still be reserved fol religious pur-
poses. But with the modern furniture of a
primary school this will be impossible. The
little seats will be the size required to assure
the comfort of the little forms to occupy them
and hence will be altogether too small to be
used by grown up people. Being so con-
structed that they must be firmly bolted to
the floor the seats and desks cannot be re-
moved at will, consequently when once fitted
up to serve as the primary rooms of our
graded school the upper story of the graded
school building will no longer be available
for the use of adults, even were it desirable
to have it so employed. Deprived in this
manner of the apartment in which their re-
ligious exercises have been conducted the
Protestant denominations of Butte find them
selves reduced to the position where they
must either temporarily abandon the observ-
ance of public worship, or else proceed at
once to finish the Methodist church, now well
advanced towards completion. The latter
course, we need scarcely say, has been de-
cided upon. The Reverend Mr.. Riggin,
Presiding Elder Of the NJ. f. Church for the
Butte district, who is about to take the matter
in hand. has decided upon a festival to be
given early next month, on a day yet to be
announced, as the best means of providing
the requisite funds. 1t is to be hoped that
not only the members of his flock but also all
others who desire that the elevating, refining
influences of religion may continue their
uninterrupted exercise in this community,
will cordially cooperate with Mr.. Riggin in
the work he IS about to undertake. The
Reverend gentleman will enter upon the
task with his usual energy it only remains
for his co-iaborers to do their share and the
end desired is easily and speedily accom-
plished. The new church is a credit to our
town. Even in its present uncompleted con-
dition it is the first object to strike the atten-
ton ofthe stranger visiting Butte all agreea-
BILE impression to- be eXerted in a much
higher degres when the handsome editice is
finished throughout. We all admit that it
will be completed; that it should be ON
pleted. Now if we but advance a step further
and say it must be completed, right now, we
shall be astonished to see how easily it can
be done. Although the property of the
Methodists, the new church is al the service
Of any other denomination, whenever they
wish to occupy 1t being reserved for Metho-
dist services only on stated days when minis
tiers Of that denomination arrive at Butte in
making their regular circuit. Besides, the
benefits proceeding from the lessons of moral
ity and religion to be taught within its sanctu-
AIRY will be confined to no sect, but will