The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-10
work is not entirely finished and the bills
not all received:


Insurance CbuHders' permit) ........... 30 90
Hoyt & Woolley, Pulpit. so 90
Pulpit Bible % 90
| Fountain (for s. $. Room Tank and
plumbing 125 90
Expense Of resetting and tuning Organ. IS 90
| Sundries (partially estimated) . 100 90
Total s17, ,145 10
Under the pastorate of Rev. N. s. Al
bright, and largely by his efforts, a sub
scription was taken and put into notes
amounting to $9,45o.OO, drawing interest
at 8 per cent. 1t was expected to reach
| 10000, but the canvas was neglected and
the matter allowed to rest at the first men,
toned amount. On this there was no
shrinkage, the interest more than making
good any loss by poor subscriptions. To
this amount the Ladies' Society have
added $685., which went toward carpets,
cushions and furniture. The Young Folks
talent, contributed $175, which went
toward the fountain, tank, and the expense
of resetting and tuning the organ. The
pulpit was a donation from Messrs. Hoyt
& Woolley, and the elegant pulpit Bible
was present from lady of the congrega-
ton who desires her name to be Withheld.
Various other articles, and an untold
amount of labor by both ladies and gentle
men, have been gratuitously given, which,
if estimated in. dollars and cents, would
make no inconsiderable sum, and would,
of course, increase, the total given above
as the cost of this improvement.
At the beginning of the week previous
to dedication it was found the balance of
Indebtedness unprovided for amounted to
about $1,000, and canvas was begun,
with the purpose, if possible, TO secure it
before the next Sabbath, and so avoid 60
ing before the public with an effort to raise
money on that day. The committee were
so successful that on the following Satur-
day the amount had been subscribed to
within less than $500, with several men
who had given assurance that they would
subscribe, yet to see Having so nearly
secured the debt, the committee decided to
take the chances on the balance being
raised subsequently, and so the congrega-
tion on the Sabbath was spared.
1t may be added that through all the
effort of raising the funds and conducting
the improvements, the membership have
exhibited a unanimity of feeling and har-
mony never surpassed. Nearly all have
paid iberally-some lavishly-but the
Church has made no such sacrifices as
were made by our older members. With
perhaps one exception, not one of the pres
ent membership has paid one-half as much
as was paid by dozen or more toward the
original building, and if it should appear
to the younger portion of the Church that
there is any disproportion in the amounts
subscribed, it may be explained by the
fact that large number paid in the for
mer instance twice, and almost three times
as much as the largest subscriptions made
to the recent building, and that the sacri
fee any one makes now bears no just pro
portion to that made by them. Some who
paid literally before, by change in circum-
stances, advancement in years. and rever-
ses in fortune have been unable to do
much, and some nothing at all, who have
shown themselves in the past 10 be most
generous givers. But they can afford TO
rest on their laurels, and their children
may well emulate their example.
THE DECORATIONS.
A fountain, though not one of the strictly
necessary accompaniment of the Sunday
/ School or Church, is, however, suitable in
q place of worship. Plenty, constancy
and purity are associated with running
water, and in ancient times fountains were
intimately connected with religious belief,
and in Greece were dedicated to gods and
goddesses, nymphs and heroes, and fire.
quently were placed in or near their tenn
Piles. Later, Christians utilized the old
superstition concerning them, changing
their form and direction by dedicating
them to the Virgin and the saints
The young people of the Church, chiefly
through the proceeds of the concert given
by home talent, placed this very attractive
feature in the new Sunday School Room
The cost was 1925. With its singing spray
soft-tinted and pearly shells in its limpid
basins shining, and rank, succulent plant:
native to its moistened air, it was a won
derful magnet to the children, Sunday
the center-piece and most charming of al
the accessories. Many children have the
instinct of poetical and artistic apprecia
ton who have in their homes and sur
roundings little TO minister to this senst
of beauty as expressed in sound, form o.
color. How delightful, then, TO such Il
have this hunger satisfied, if only once ,
week, and associated with the benefcenc'
of God and the teachings of his Word
The harmonious and beautiful in architec
tural proportions; the use Of form anC
color in the decoration of walls and cell
kings, and especially the bringing in o
; flowers to embellish our places of worship
all minister to legitimate though no
often recognized want, and healthily in
Efuence and cultivate human beings.
Bouquets, blooming. plants, baskets o
flowers or masses of ornamental foliage anC
blossoms, were grouped about the pulpi
and altar, and filed suitable space else
where about the church and Sunday Schoo
room, and the tenderly nursed and gentl,
forced
aDsriings Of June and brides OF summer sun "
! were brought in from the bay-window
r and private Conservatives Of many homes
Most prominent and lovely of all were tn
callas, stately and unsoiled-
"Fair in the silvery light,
Like sanity vestals, pale in prayer"
, Some one has said that
1 "The great ocean hath no tone of power
Mightier to reach the soul in thoughts hushed hou
Than yours, ye lilies, chosen thus and graced."
|. And certainly nothing is more soothin
and restful, or more. suggestive Of the ger