The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-08-26
AMONG OUR CHURCHES.
THE DEDICATION OF THE METHO-
DIST PROTESTANT CHURCH.

Laying the Corner Stone of the Center
Vile Chapel-Ihe Ordination ola
New aHoeavian Minister. /
Last Sunday being the day set apart by
the members of the Methodist Protestant
Church, of this city, for the dedication of |
their house Of worship, at eleven o'clock
the church was filled to its utmost capacity {
with people of every denomination to see,
listen, and we, trust to be edited by the in /
teresting as well as instructive services +
which were conducted by President 7. J. |,
Ogburn.
The dedheaaory exercises were opened |
with beautiful and we'll rendered Volun-
tary-"Rasl to the Brightness" After an
effective prayer, offered by the President,
hymn No. 4O0-"I Love Thy Kingdom
Lord was sung by the Congregation. Mr..
Ogburn then arose and after reading sew
eral appropriate verses from End and 3rd
chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, took
his text from Ezekiel, xxxIv chapter and
10Th verse. "And will make them and
the places round about my hill a blessing
and will cause the shower to come down
| in his season; there shall be showers of
blessing"
The reverend gentlemen spoke of the
great number of sermons that had been de-
| livered upon similar occasions. How the
Church represented great hill, aud how
significant i. was to many, and stood upon
plane higher than all things else. Its d.
vine origin being the spiritual welfare of
the people, as it was above this world, and
should be and was the privilege of being
blessing to all. That the Christian should
shine as "candle set upon HILL" and
should ever keep their lamp trimmed and
burning. He spoke of the man who had
been bountifully blessed with this worlds
goods and who withheld everything in his
possession from the church and benevolent
causes. Ee beautifully illustrated Gods
love in words of practical thought and
power of the vast amount of good that had
and might yet be accomplished through the
influence and Jealous labors of a single per
son, in the way of saving souls. That
good man would pray and work Away,
though he be placed in prison like Paul
and Silas his goodness would be eyerlast-
ing as that of Daniel and the Hebrew Chill
dren. He pointedly alluded to love and
benevolence, of which the church was a
great power and benefactor 'Love thy
neighbor as tbyself," a glorious command
ment and beautiful motto. That the
Christian made better patriot, statesman,
citizen, etc. He said it was the duty of the
church to 20 among the poor, low and de-
graded and lift up the broken-hearted. He
mentioned the wars and blood-shed of the
past and ofthose being rumored to-day. He
touched briefly on the great good that mi ght
be set forth through kind words from the
employer to the employee; that there were
, no organized stock companies, such as rail-
roads, banking houses, &C., but where the
Bible would be found, and without which we
would ere long be living in heathern ma
ton, as 1t was the great power of strength and
enlightenment. How the church had led the
people to build Schools, Orphan Asylums nd
Hospitals, and by its industry had left a
mark for all historians. The church was
the best society, though sometimes not the
: richest. That the rich and poor should sit
together in heavenly places. He spoke
briefly of the labor troubles, strikes, etc.
that had and were yet disturbing the minds
of the people, and nothing short of the Cos
pei would ever put them to an end. That
men who had everyday" religion, were
the ones who accomplished the greatest good
His remarks were closed by congratu1atine
the members of the Church who had la
bored izealouslv and successfully for the
payment of their church debt, and besouyht
Gods blessings upon all of them.
Mr.. L. 1. Hine, in behalf of the Trustees,
presented the Church for dedication which
was conducted according to their usual
Church government. The exercises closed
with the doxology and ben ediction
At o'clock in the evening, Communion
and Baptismal services were conducted by
President Ogburn, and at night another
by him.
Sunday was duly observed by the Mora
vians ''Children's Day." and many inter-
esting exercises were held. The morning
service was conducted by Rev. Samuel Blum,
of the Fifth Moravian t'hurch, Philadel-
phia, and his sermon has illicited much IA
vorable comment. At p o'clock, in the
evening, the Children's Annual Love- Feast
was held and were very interesting At
o'clock the Corner Stone of the new Cen
terville Chapel WIS laid with impressive
ceremonies, conducted by Bishop Edmund
DeSchweinitz, of Bethlehem, Pa Among
the periodicals placed in the corner stone
were the Bible, Moravian Hymn Book, the
Acudeny, The Moravian, Salem Press, and
a history of the Sunday School.