The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21
DEDICATION SERVICES.
THE MULBERRY METHODIST
CHURCH DEDICATED
SUNDAY.
IT IS AN ELEGANT STRUCTURE
AND THE CEREMONIES WERE
IMPOSING.

Sunday, at ITO o'clock, the Mulberry
Methodist church, south, was dedicated
with imposing ceremonies, conducted by
Bishop Key, of Georgia, assisted by Revs.
Brooks, Goodwin, Heidi, DR.. Sheppard
and Rev. W. W. Pinson, the present pas
tor. The editice is commodious and
elegant one, and through the efforts of
Col. L. w. Folts it has been completed and
well furnished. The floor is handsomely
carpeted, and the seats of walnut, cush-
Toned and arranged in
CIRCULAR ROWS,
are models of comfort. The platform is
an elevated dais IN a vast arch in the rear
of the church, and projects forward on
the main floor. 1t is provided with three
elegant pulpit chairs, mahogany Bible
stand, and has a semi-circle of walnut
railing about it for the convenience of
communicates. The windows, some of
which are to be eventually stained for
memorials, are large and numerous. The
roofing is is of open truss work of
ORNAMENTAL ARCHING
supported by iron bracing, and the whole
building is constructed, as the test of the
music and speaking proved, with perfect
success as to its acoustic properties.
The interior symmetry is as perfect as
could be obtained under the necessity of
constructing the towers within the main
editice for want of outside area. The
organ loft is large one, adapted to a
GRAND ORGAN
which has not yet been provided, but is
contemplated. Its place was supplied
Sunday by the one formerly used in the
Sundayschool, another being kindly
loaned for the school by Mr.. H. H. Haz,
zard. The chandeliers, too, not having
arrived, temporary gas fixtures FOR the use
of the church had been kindly provided
by Mr.. George Brush.
The cost of the building and fixtures
was $25,000, all of which has been paid,
An audience of about 800 persons, in
Guiding a good many from other churches,
were present at the dedicatory ceremo
MES, the excess of seating room required
being met by large number of chairs.
Mrs. j. j. Lane presided at the organ,
and was assisted by a fine choir, consisting
of Messrs. Crane, Stacy, Cummings, Con-
dit, Willis and Hotchkiss, and Mrs. Thad
Thomson, Miss Alice Denton, Miss Della
Shepard, Miss Eugene Collett ard Miss
Madge Stacy. The trio, by Mrs. Thorn
son and Messrs. Crane and Stacy, was par
ticularly grand. Messrs. Folts, Doom,
Murrah, Brush and Lane acted as ushers
to seat the huge audience. After the vol
untary by the choir, the 7S4th hymn,
selected by the bishop, was sung, and
a prayer was offered by Rev. A. E. Good
wyn, former pastor of the church. Rev.
DIR. Heidi, president of the Georgetown
college, read an appropriate selection
from the 2Sth chapter of Genesis, and a
second lesson was read by Rev. DR..
Brooks, presiding elder of his district.
Bishop Key read from the second chap
ter of Acts, beginning Sand when the day
of Pentecost was fully come, they were all
with one accord in the same place." and
selecting suitable text, preached
FINE DISCOURSE,
eminently appropriate to the services,
and highly instructive, as bishops should
be in their duties of the church. Bishop
Key is man of fine presence and fluent
speaker with earnest delivery. His ap-
pearance indicates affability, and firm
ness properly combined for the admins
tration of the affairs of the church, and
generally he has made most
favorable impression upon those
who have met him in Austin
At the request of Colonel Foltz the
trustees of the church then came forward
in answer to their names as follows: John
H. Pope, W. M. Wilson, Frank Brown,
Gustave johnson, E. 7. Moore, j. H. Col
lett, R. T. Hill and Tom Murrah, and
through Mr.. Moore formerly rendered the
building to the bishop, who accepted, as
a temple for future worship in the terms
prescribed in the discipline.
Colonel Pope stated that the building
and furnishing cost about $4,000. which
had all been paid for by subscription and
the Ladies' Furnishing association of the
church. The music, by Mrs. Lane and
the choir, the finest ever heard in Austin.
added no little to the impressiveness of
the occasion,