Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-03
c.arIrlp MEMORIAL CHURCH.
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Addresses.
WASHINGTON, July 2.IThs corner CT. sI io;S
:. ~ Garfeld Memorial Church was laia,
OF tne ,tarnonT. on the site OF the iorme.
tnis trame structure, on Vermont avenus,
snian &c the .,Christian Church, WnIcn
iu W. President and his family attenoeo.
the Sd ,a the hour appointed for tine 9eg.ns
.pe i EXERCISES. the church GROUNDS aIu
s,reets adjacent were occupied oy
500 people. ucoronstion,"
in which nearly all present )olnsu, Sn,;n.
e Butler read a selection from 1no n X
lures, and prayer was oiiereuo! nsI,;more.
CiarI of the Christian Church, baitnlo,.t
S Dnn I'd "a n Power, pastor of the Vermont
avsnne Christian Church, made tne ~
dress He said: while this anniversary
r. a cad one. IL is also an occasion Oh gta.e,,
s,,i ;nv Here our children have gathered
20 AZ honor TO the holy child Jesus; neIe
vonng people have confessed their iaitu
in the son OF man; here many have joined IN
our PRAYERS and praise with VOICES t .'
mo longer blend with ours IN songs " .ue
sanctuary, but have been added TO tue an'
thems OF our Fathers heavenly n9us1
There is still another association, whicn
Ives 10 this day pathetic significance, anu
Gbich is indissolubIy bound up with the
wort which we have here begun. 1t Is that
connected with the lamented leader OF the
neonJe whose familiar form, crossing TINS
Street to the little frame church, with MS
mother on his arm and his wife at MS side,
rises before us to-day, and whose constans
nresence here is the best recollection OF
his life long looked for crown OF
many labors. To this work since lS4S,
a handful of people, known simply as
Christians, have met weekly. First from
house TO house and finally in little frame
church which recently stood on this spot.
From a dozen they have grown to four
hundred souls. Rich in faith, bpt not in
Gold. they have worked and waited, with
anxious and prayerful hope They have
anticipated this hour. When one OF their
number was raised by the people TO the
highest dignity OF the nation, aud the eyes
of all men were in some measure turned
upon them, rs his brethren, they felt their
Irnp cherished wish about to be realized.
SO was the work begun, and help came in
from many who felt with u.s. But our day
of increased blessings seemed only to dawn
when its sun was clouded, and that which
was TO have been reared with rejoicing
must have a history like all histories, with
its elements of sadness. President Garfield
was trustee of this church, and within the
past three days, another COMMUNICATE OF
this body, Hon. Mr.; HAWK, OIL liihois.
man Oh DuTt ohN tSs 49, ~'~--' -"
Mem thus come and 60, but Gods work
continues. Thus far We have seemed 10
have divine favor. This ground is ours,
and 500 600 are ready to 60 into these walls.
Eipbteen thousand dollars more are needed
N complete the structure. We will 60 for
ward faithfully, discharging our trust, and
asking and expecting great things from our
God" -, A.,
stone. This ceremony was ioilowed Dy an
address from Rev. b. A. Hinsdale, Presi-
dent of Hiram College, who gave sketch
nj the origin and history OF the people
known as Christians, and Of the Church to
which they belong. In closing his address
President i,insdale said
This church is memorial to the late
lamented Garfield. Its corner stone is
laid upon the first anniversary Of his
assassination, and this makes 1t an object
of wider and tenderer sympathy, to his
host of personal frienda to his religious
bretbcrn. nay, to the vastly larger world,
which was so deeply impressed by his
great career, and so deeply stirred by his cruel
fate. This Christian temple will be shrine
around which will cluster the tendrils
of the heart, while brick nan and stone AM. and
walls TO be laid upon them and spire that
they viii lift toward the sky, will speak
of the widows house in the woods of Ohio,
OF Hiram school, and Of William
College, of the army, of the halls of
legislation and OF the Chief Magistrates
chair. They will speak OF the Inaugural.
ton, of the last letter to the te-haired
mother, of eighty days Of accomplishing
anguish, of the death at Elberon, and Of
the majestic funeral march which bore the
mortal which had lost the immortal to its
resting place at Lake View. DO yen ask
me to say more? In the language Of Aenas
TO the Carthagenian queen, You ask me
to recall unutterable sorrow Not often
do men build structure which commerce ,
rates so much at the church whose corner J
stone we lay to-day"
Addresses were then made by RepreSen:
tive A. II. Pettibone and A. ). Willis, OF
Kentucky, and the exercises closed with
bcncdiction by Rev W. H. Schcll.