St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-28
ANNIyERsARY REUNION.
The Second Days Exercises at the
jackson Street M. f.. Church.

Another gathering was held at the jack
son Street NJ. E. church for the purpose of
continuing the exercises of the thirty-sixth
anniversary of the Methodist Episcopal
church in st. Paul last evening. Owing to
other entertainments in the city the attend
ance was not as large as it other
wise would have been. Mr.. G. ID.
Strong presided and kept matters
moving in quite lively manner. The
whole tendency Of what was said was to
elucidate and explain the foundation OF the
church in st. Paul and more particularly
the Jackson Street church; also to hurry
the society forward to build new church.
Elder Brooks, on being called upon,
explained how the Jackson Street church
came to be located where it is. At that
time the International hotel was
located, or about to be located, on the
northeast corner of Jackson and Seventh
streets, and it was thought that if the Jack
son Street church was located where it is it
would catch many young men. That was
one of the principal considerations that
determined the location of the church where
it now is.
Elder Chaffee, after briefly referring to
his relationship with the Jackson Street
church, said that the transfer was not all
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some animals that propagate themselves by
cutting themselves in two, this church trans
ferred Itself He spoke of his connection
with the Jackson Street church, its indebt-
edness of $12, 600 and the efforts made to
remove it.
IN A HUMOROUS WAY
he referred to his returning to the Jackson
Street church about six years ago, and said
he did not think he would ever forget the
warm" reception the members of the con-
gregation gave him when he came. This
caused Brother Brooks, Strong and every
boey else to smile loudly. 1t was warm, and
some thought red-hot. He should always
feel a great interest in that church, and in his
opinion they ought to have new one. He
urged the members to dip in and have one
right away, and counselled them not to be
afraid but to go right ahead, He was anx-
ious to have them have a new church, and
he said he would not mind if Brother Forbes
was the pastor when the new church was
built. He would congratulate Brother
Forbes just as quickly as he would any one
else. ....
Mr.. C. D. Strong exhibited deed, dated
1S49, from Fl. NJ. Rice and John w. Irvine.
of the county of ST. CroiX. and Territory of
Minnesota, to Benjamin F. Hoyt, John A.
Wakefield, n. Barbour, William Freedom
and John II. Murphy, as trustees of the
Methodist church, and caused a good deal
of merriment by reading the following as
one of the conditions of the deed:
The parties of the first part hereby ex
press1y reserving the right to convey any
stream or spring of water through or from
said lots, or either or any part of them, ac-
cording to the discipline and regulations of
the Methodist Episcopal church of the United
States of America.
The reading of the above set the whole
house in roar of laughter, and DR.. Muir
ply, who was one of the trustees named in
the deed, was called upon to explain what
was meant by that clause in the deed rum
ming the water around according to the
discipline of the church," The doctor did
not know for certain, but suspected
it was an effort to commit the
church to the cause of temperance.
Mr.. Murray, in resposne to the request of
Mr.. Strong, gave an explanation of the
changing from the Market Street church to
Jackson Street and the breaking of the bell,
which was stolen out of the belfry. This
was denied, and it was asserted that the
bell was taken away from the church all
right and performed service for the Jackson
Street church until one frosty morning it
was cracked.
FOR NEW CHURCH.
Mr.. Espy read paper which he said
stated his views. The substance of this
paper is that the time is suspicious for the
construction of new church, and in his
opinion the church ought to go right ahead
as fast as possible. This was followed by a
lengthy report by Mrs. Parker Paine, Civ
ing brief account of what the ladies' So
ciety of the church had done for it.
MI. J. F. Tostevin gave his remembrance
of the early days of the church. He said
it was located where it now is for the pur-
pose of booming the lower part of town.
| The International was placed on the corner
of Jackson and Seventh streets.
Some further "reminiscences were given,
when Elder Brooks pronounced the bene-
diction.