Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-06
FERRr STREET oHURon.

| nifceace of Hiram Camp, Esq, was dedi-
 cated with appropriate exsrcises last evening. | The church; which has seating capacity of about four hundred, is plain but neat | structure and admirably adapted for church purposes. The audience room is differently arranged from most churches, the preacher's | platform being in front instead of the rear of ! the church so that 8 person in entering faces the entire congregation. The pews are of ash and very comfortable. and the room
 is carpeted throughout with handsome in- grain carpet, red and black being the pre- vailing colors. The preachers desk is of | black walnut and the chairs are of similar \ wood trimmed with maruon-eolored leather. \ The singers gallery is back of and above the platform. The walls are tinted 6 light blue | color, giving pleasing effect to the eye. Seven chandeliers suspended from the ceiling ! give an abundance of light. Everything ! about the church is plain, neat and comforta- ! ble, beside having most substantial appear ! ance. Last evening the audience room was 1 tastefully decorated about the preachers | platform with a profusion of tropical plants | and various hued chrysanthemums, which | added to the pleasing effect. The church was well filed there being many present | from the center of the city and the Fair Ha- ven-waIds.
 The dedicatory exercises opened with the doxology anthem by volunteer choir. MT John Rose presided at the organ. Then fol- lowed an invocation by Rev. MT. Meserve of the Davenport church. The choir then sang an anthem commencing, 'I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord.n Rev. MT. Blass then gave out the twenty-sixth hymn, commencing, "My soul how lovely is the place." After the singing Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, pastor of the Second church. Fair Haven East, read the
 scripture lesson from the Psalms Rev. MT. Small of the Bethany mission followed by an
 nouncing the thirty-ffth hymn, commencing,
 ''I love thy kingdom, Lord, the house of
 thine abode"
 Rev. Dr. Todd of the Church of the Re- deemer then preached the dedicatory sermon,
 taking for his text the words found in Luke,
 4, 16: ''And he came to Nazareth, where he
 was brought up; and as his custom was, he
 went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day
 and stood up for to read" Dr. Todd spoke in substance as follows: It is always an interesting and profitable
 employment to trace causes and find out
 their source The distinguishing qualities of
 almost any man may be traced to early form
 ing influences Christ was made under the
 law; made, formed and developed as man
 just as other men are. There is nothing in I his history to explain his sinlessness and l
 fatits sZessness. It is beyond question that the ! early influence of his mother must have had
 a character. The social philosopher discovers 8 natural cause for the peculiar character ! of Jesus of Nazareth. On one side of his na- ture Christ was 8 man in all things. It was the custom of Christ to attend public wor
 ship on the Sabbath day, fact full of sug- culture find no profit in attending church I on the Sabbath. When public worship | is neglected there is occasion for putting on better appearance than usu- al. We distinctly desire to appear becoming | in the presence of others. Hence the | church is designed to promote carefulness, taste and care among the people and a love | of neatness and beauty about their homes. It has higher tendency, namely, to elevate l and snlarge tEe mind. We are lifted to those grand ideas to which the human mind | desires to attain. Under any circumstances | public worship enlarges thoughts and ideas. | The most intellectual part of any community l are those that worship. Public worship has a tendency to elevate the moral nature. The | mere withdrawal of the mind from the world | has a softening, exalting influence over it. | Where there are no churches there infamy pers who are not saved, but this does not af- feet the general truth of the beneficial inf u ences of the church. Were revival to com mence in this city to-day we would expect | that a much larger number would be brought ! to Christ from church -goers than from per | sons who habitually stay away from church. | It may be said that Christ had no need of | chuchr services, but this is not positively true. Would the disciples have been faithful had | he not maintained the custom of going into | the synagogue on the Sabbath day? That | professor who neglects the services of the | sanctuary is not walking in the light Of | @ho are nesseGne p pu6c Worship rehscs shesf only thing that would ever take people to church is custom. Pufs in newspapers and sensational sermons are not what take hold | on the people and keep them after the attractions gone. The only way is to tom. Of ali habits, the nsglecting of the house of God and public worship is one of the hardest to break Christ's custom of entering into the syna- gogue on the Sabbath day was acquired in childhood. Children are not now trained to go to the church of God. know that chil- think, and sometimes more than the old peo- pie do. In olden times children knew that they were just as much expected to go to church as they were to appear at the dinner table. It is only within 8 few years that parents have become neglectful in requiring their children to go to church. believe parents who neglect this doing to the church and to tue country and to themselves 1 an irrepaTable wrong. Those parents are laying up for themselves stores of bitter re- gret. The time may come when they will not thank you, fathers and mothers, but if you lead them to the house of God in their youth they will rise up and bless yon. Let me congratulate you on having this church so accessible. Let me urge you to come reg ularly to it and bring your children with you, knowing that you and I must give &C., count of our stewardship to Almighty God.
 On the conclusion of Dr. Todd's sermon dedicatory service followed by the dedicatory prayer was read by Rev. MT. Cunningham of the East Pearl street M. E. church.
 Rev. MT. Blass, pastor of the new church, then read brief statement of the work lead ing up to the building of the new edifce. Among other things he said: The work of forming & church in this neighborhood com menced with the opening of Sunday school February 16, 1879. A prayer meeting serv- ice was established the following March in the old Atwater place, which was the site of the chapel afterward erected. The Sunday school, which was opened with twenty five members increased until now there are sev- enty-six members. The first preaching was in October, 1880. The pulpit has been supplied with preachers from the Yale theo- logical department and the aid received from city pastors. A young peoples meeting has recently been established from which great results are expected; also @ ladies and chil- dren's society. Since the formation of the church $3,5O0 have been expended in the work, or yearly average of $500. There
 
 bers and there has never been a time when there has been so great an interest in the welfare of the church as at the present time, although it is not yet fully organized as a. local church. Our glory is yet to come. We cannot but think great future is before us. Mir. Blass stated that those l who worship there had provided for the ex- pensss for one year, which was one of the conditions on which the church was built and given to them. They had also assumed the cost of furnishing the church, which was about $500, small portion of which had been raised. He then made an appeal to the congregation for liberal collection in aid of l. this fund and with apparent good success. After the collection was taken the hymn was sung commencing;
 Glorious things of thee are spoken,
 Zion, city of our God.
 The interesting exercises were closed with the benediction by Rev. Dr. Todd. Breaking Tricycle. Records.