The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-29
DEDICATION OF A CHURCH.
Hall-Place NJ. E. Congregation Lifts All
of the Remainder of Its Debt.
Generous Responses Of the Members of the
Church to the Appeals of DR.. Sims and
Rev. Duncan for Subscriptions.

Four hundred and fifty persons attended the
services at Ha-place Methodist Episcopal
/ Church yesterday forenoon, DR.. c. n. Sims,
chancellor of Syracuse University, preaching
the fdedicatory sermon. Occupying the pulpit
with him were Rev. DR.. Lynch. Rev. j. V. r.
Miller, Rev. w. r. Jordan, and the pastor, Rev.
j. w. Duncan. DIR. Sims took as his text:
If forget thee o Jerusalem. let my right hand
| forget her cunning
| If do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to
| the roof of my MOUTH if | prefer not Jerusalem
above my chief joy.-Psalm cxxxvii, 5, g.
| He said the church is Gods own organization
in this world for saving men. 1t is God-ap
pointed, not of human origin. The church. In
its essential features is born of heaven, and has
not thing in it but was sent down from
above-the word upon which it is founded
every hope, every expectation, warning, every
| revealed truth, born in heaven, and with no soil
of this lower sinful world upon her. The church
of God is different from anything else in the
world. Every effort that men make 20 abolish
drunkenness, every society that has for Its OBJ
| ject the care of the widow, the orphan. TO bury
the dead-all these single lines of good.
| The church takes up all lines. When all the
world casts human being off the church will
under all circumstances.
Il remember, in Evansville poor abandoned
| woman from the street came in weeping in her
| shame, and the wife of banker, the richest
man in the city, came to her to point the way OF
| life. There is not a good thing being done In
! this world but the church has part in it.
SAT Thorntown began my married life in a
| little quiet home. Almost my first visitor was
| Father Sparks, eighty years old or more. He
| sat with us at table. After the meal he sat in
Silanca w heal / ed n
| know why he wep. He said: was remember
| ing sixty years ago when began life you be
GIN it now They are all gone-wife and chill
| dren, all l loved. And am remembering that
every household, no matter how it begins will
end III tears Yes. there will be heartbreak and
| tears. That is earth There is nothing belong
ing to this world that endures except the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The inscription nailed
upon the cross was in three languageS-Greek,
Hebrew and Latin-three languages now dead,
| three civilizations that have passed away, but
Jesus Christ and Christianity endure. The ma
| lions of that day are gone Let me live then,
as an immortal soul that shall endure forever.
"The church has been the best friend of intel
ligence this world has ever known. In the great
libraries nine ont of ten of the books are written
by Christian men and women 1t is the friend
of rest. There would be Sabbath in the
world il il were not for Christianity. Pleasure,
business and sinful pursuits would crowd your
Sabbath out Let every man who loves to gather
one day in the week with his wife and children,
in his home, and looks to the world beyond. love
the church. 1t is the best friend of morality, and
makes man his own policeman. There are two
books in Indiana that treat on morals-the Bible
and the Statutes Did you ever see q man sit
down and take out the Statutes and teach them
to his children as a protection against wrong
doing and immortality Certainly not; he takes
the Bible a guide to make them good citizens
How the Bible breaks down the barriers between
the rich and poor. nothing else does, reaching
to tho ends of the earth, binding men together
everywhere in common bonds In this world of
selhshness let us cherish this one institution
Christianity takes the worthless man and estab
fishes in him the elements that will make him
self-supporting and self-sustaining. Building up
this church is your work-planting the immortal
Make this church charity that shall open the
gates of heaven to many souls"
After the service subscriptions were asked to
meet the balance owed upon the church. The
new church and the ground cost. complete,
7.500 on which debt remains of So, 700. The
following subscriptions were made
One Hundred Dollars-W D. Wiles J. w Duncan
A III. GLADDEN., G. w. Miller, T. ]. Hart, Sabbath
school. J. NJ Sims and wife.
Fifty Doars-Mrs. j. E. Sims, Franklin Hall, and
Twenty-Five Doars-J G. Shoemaker, William
Henderson. j. ": Armstrong, 0. T. Bowen, Mrs A.
A. Heller. and n. S. Byram
Twenty Dollars-H. Fl. Hall.
Ten Dollars-Mrs. Wilson Morrow, Mrs. DIR. Carey,
Mrs Jason Carey 8. D. Crane. M. j. Thomas. Mrs.
Florence skinner Mrs Phebe Rodebaugh, Mrs Van
bergen, Mrs. E. S. Todhunter, Mrs. Sarah Lynch w.
$. Marsh, Mrs. Rawls, E. Z. Heller Mrs. s. D.
| Crane. Louis Hammel, Mrs. L. D. Robinson, Miss
Matte Robinson. Charles Green Charles E. Sims, L.
| A. Hall, Mrs H. l.. Sperry, ]. B. McNeey, Robert
Grubbs, Mrs. James E. Franklin. o. T. Byram, and E.
| n. Wolever.
! Five Dollars-J. A. Victor VIM. Bower, John s.
Smith. Louis Robinson, q. E. Talbert. Mrs Hail. w.
| r. Jordan, w. III. Fisher, Frank Tempeton, Edward
Rexford, NJ. R: Dinlan, P: s. Prentiss, Charles
| Luther James Due, VIM. DeSanno. J. De Sanno P.
| A. Lynn, Miss Maggie Talbot, W. T. Fugate H. L.
Burt and wife, Miss Jennie T. Mason Miss Mamie
Enigood Miss Sadie Shock. Mrs. Givenss three boys
4 Mrs. Bushnell, o. W. GLADDEN.. John Ferry Mrs. O.
1 T. Brown Mrs. A. K Guyon, John Stephens, o. Glad
den. j. N. Shallenberger, A II. Yorke, Mrs. @. F.
Darne and T. j. Cook.
Three Dollars-Mrs. Burke.
Friends, $780, total 81, 658.
At 2:30 in the afternoon there was a general
meeting of the Sunday school and congregation,
| at which addresses were made by DIR. Sims, DR.
Lynch. Mr.. Rawls. Mr. Haford and others Sub
| scrptions to the church debt fund to the amount
| of 1925 were raised.
| The services last evening were attended by
| fully many people were present in the
morning. DR.. Sims delivered a sermon of much
| interest the subject, 'Our Work in the
World and How to Find It." After which the
| remainder of the amount required to liquidate
1 the church indebtedness was raiseC the sub
| scriptions aggreeating 1866. A number of those
| who had subscribed at the morning serv-
| ice responded to the call for
| additional contributions in the evening. Mrs j.
| M. Sims gave 800, in addition to her previous
/ subscription of the same amount Enough was
| also raised to pay the interest on the temporary
| loan of the church for six months There was
| much rejoicing among the members of the con-
| gregation over the success of the days work in
lifting the debt and the PASTOR Rev Duncan,
| and DR.. Sims were warmly congratulated on the
result of their efforts.
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