New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-05
THE DEDICATION OF TWO CHURCHES.
SERVICES IN THIS CITY AND BRooKLYN-CoLLEc'
TONS OF OVER $4,000.

TONS OF OVER $4,000
The new building of the stanton Street Baptist
Church WA dedicated yesterday. IL occupies a
piot of ground 30 by 10 feet on the northwest cor
ner of Twenty-third.st ana NAY anu i
has a seating capacity OF 600. IL ~ buIt IN the
Romanesdue style of architecture In the Da'ei1ehI
are the lecture aud Sunday-school rooms. Inc
main audiOrIum is IN the form OF an anlpnlthraIc'
ana * finished In California red wood. The WIN
dows are OF stained glass The eos OF the Duiidlhg'
including the last, was about @SIOoo.
Every seat was filed when the morning services
were bepun at IL o'clock The pas or, the Rev. H.
o. Hiscox, introduced the Rev. Dr. Thomas aImi-
tage, of the Fifth Avenue Baptis ChuIcIi " Arni
tage prefaced his sermon by speaking oi me Stanton
Street Church as a prolific mother OF churches,
his the Fiith-ave.D being the oldest daughter ~
was very pleasant for the children 10 v,si, to
mother churcn more especially when she was NOV
ING into new home. The subject OF hls dlscourse
was THE True Temple OF God" and II text was was
Paups First EpIste to the corinthians XVII, D. Inc
central thought of the sermon was the necessity Oh
keeping the body pure aud undehled, or lhe oouy
of pure man was the true teInple OF "ou' II.
After the sermon the Rev. MI. HlscoA sai1 th so
the church was In debt T3J, 900, and That 3lOoOO
must lee raised in the present week cOIecton
was taken up resu ting III the raising OF upward
of 80 300 In the afternoon the Rev. Dr. Mac Ar
thur paso OF of the Calvary Baptist Chuch anOtheI
oifshoot of the st .nton street Church, conducted
Crosby and the Rev. Mr.. Hughes, Of the GTeenpOiht
Baptist Church. DIR. Macarthur preached rom
Amos xiii, 8. In his sermon The preacher pald
glowing tribute to William Il. Dodge as the lore
mos i9yman of this country. Ooly the Earl OF
! Shaftesbnry in England, could compete with hum
| for the palm as the foremost layman Of The whole
| world. Another collection Of over $1,000 was
| taken up Mr.. IIscOx read letter from he pastor
of the North Baptist Church, OF this city, Incosng
/ MS regular Sunday coll ctiOn as contI BUTTON.
| The Eighteenth Street N. T.. Church, OF brooklyn
was dedicated by Bishop s. Bowman last evening
! and nearly 81 600 was subscribed toward the pay
ment of the debt incurred on the new
building The OLD church was dedicated forty
wears ago. The congregation Is one OF the
largest among the Methodist churches III south
ives, BROOKLYN. The old building was torn Gown
last summer and the new church was built al a cost
/ of S27 900 Nine thousand dollars were subscribed
before the work began, and the subscription OF yes
| terday leaves debt of $4,000
The services yesterday were largely attended, In
| the morning Bishop Bowman selected his text from
HaVQa H. g. THE glory of this latter house shall be
greater than OF the former" The Bishop held that
| there was no reason for depriving the church OF
tasteful display iii ornament as IN the early days OF
! Methodism The houses of God, he thought, should
be made as comfortable and Attractive as the houses
! in which we lived. He hal dedicated between 800
| and |. 900 Methodist churches, and none OF them
was more pleasing to the eye than the one III men
| he was. The Rev. DR.. W. w. clark, pastor OF the
church. insisted in the services during the day. aud
! the Rev DIR. George +. Kettell. the Rev. y: ID.
I Gulck w. J. Preston and the Rev. DR.. :. l.. Upham
participated in the services of the afternoon ana
evening.