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THIS Is NONE OTHER THAN THE HOUSE
OF GOD"
The Formal Ceremony Of the Dedica.
ton of the New Church.

tiOn of the New Church.
At the conclusion of the sermon, Bishop
Duncan announced that he was ready to pro-
csed with the dedication. The trustees,
Messrs. ]. G. Edwards. VIM. E. Bell, G. ".
Hammond, G. w. Syfan, J. Fuller Lyon, j. G..
Klugh, and j. s. Hammond, then appeared
before the altar, when Captain Edwards,
chairman of the Board of Trustees said to the
Bishop:
We present to you this house to be set apart
from all unhallowed or common uses, for the
worship Of Almighty God.
The Bishop responding said:
Forasmuch as God has put 1t into the hearts
of his people to build this house for his wor-
ship, and has blessed them in their undertake
ing, we solemnly dedicate 1t to his service, for
the reading and expounding OF his holy word
the admin istation of his ordinances, and for all
other acts OF religious worship. That he may
graclously accept this labor OF our hands, lei
Almighty and everlasting God, the heaven,
and the heavens, cannot, contain thee, much
less this house which we have built, yet thou
dost humble thyself to behold the inhabitants
Of the earth, and dost promise that In all
wilt meet with thy people, and bless them
Let thy name be recorded In this place. AND
here let thine honor dwell: Preserve this
house, which we set apart 70 my service, from u
which shall be here offered to tiny name
Let thy Holy Spirit accompany thy ordinan-
ces. which shall be here administered, so that
they may prove means Of grace TO all who
shall receive the same May many sons ana
daughters be here born to the Lorn AImighty.
Let thy people be abundantly satisfied with
fatness OF thy house, and make them drink
1.-THE river Of thy pleasure. Let their Children
be here fed with food convenient for tnem,
and be brought up In the nurture and admon-
ition OF the Lord. Let living waters 60 forth
from this sanctuary, carrying life and Joy TO
all around. Let thy work appear unto my
servants, and thy glory unto their children
and let the beauty of the Lord our God be
upon us; and establish thou the u,v work. m @ OF
our hands upon us; yea, the work or our
hands establish thou II. Now therefore,
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members of this church walk closer with
their God.
We humbly pray for thy blessing on thy ser.
want as he breaches the sermon dedicating
this house to thy service.
We ask thy blessing upon all the people
here assembled.
The preacher then concluded with the
Lords prayer, the people repeating after
him. the words as he said 1t.
THE LESSONS.
Bishop Duncan read rs the first lesson
part of the twenty-eight chapter Of Genesis
beginning with the tenth verse. being the
same cha pter from which the Rev. Joseph Fl
Wheeler in 1910, took his text when the Ole
church was dedicated: "This Is none Other
than the house OF God" We presume thai
Bishop Duncan did not know this fact, ant
that his reading Of the same chapter in which
was found the text for the dedicatory sermon
In 1910 was one of those condolences which
happen. almost as If by poetic fancy. The
second lesson was read from st. Paul's Epistl'
to the Hebrews, beginning at the nineteenth
verse and ending with the twenty-flfth verse
of the tenth chapter
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arise o Lord God, into thy resting-place-
thou and the ark of thy strength etthy min
listers he clothed with salvation, and let thy
o Lord, to overlook our unworthiness, forgive
our sins, and make us habitation Of God
through the Spirit. We offer all our offerings
through the ever-blessed name OF oui Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ TO whom, with thee,
and the Holy Spirit, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever.
Amen.
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ABBEVILLE. 3. @.
Wednesday, March IL. 1888.
To the Reader.

Owing to circumstances the makeup Of the
Press and Banner for this week is somewhat
out OF the usual way.
Tho first page is filed with advertisements,
and whatever Of reading matter we may have
outside OF the account OF the dedication Of
the Methodist church, will be found on the
eighth page.
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Prayer OIL Kew. henry ID. moore, D' -.
Almighty God, we praise thee that we have
lived to see this hour. We praise thee Tor thy
manifested to us in our past history. We
thank thee that we have shared In the oless-
ings connected with thy church. We thank
thee that we have been permitted 70 enter IN
such blessings as thou hast bestowed upon US
In answer to our prayers. We bow at
the beginning OF this service, that we may
power, inl all that We may undertake In
thy name. And for thy glory, we thank thee
that thou hast put. it into the hearts Of this
he2 0pa SaEo ns
success Of their plans, and all that they have
thee that they are today permitted to enter s
presence be in this place OF prayer, may
thy servants be encouraged to expect
greater dispensation Of thy power, that the
glory OF the latter house may be greater than
We beseech thee our Father, to grant our
prayer and supplication, that we may look
up this day ana as do we claim a audience with
We thank thee that thou hast founded the
Church in this world: we pray that this
the world. may bring men to proper rela-
tionship with thee.
We beg thee to prosper thy church in all Its
bring ali the sons Of men to the kingdom OF
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We thank thee for every house Of worship
that may be built.
We humbly beg thee to grant that this
house which is to be consecrated this day TO
thy service may tend to the growth and
spread of the gospel Of Jesus Christ our Lord.
May the conviction OF the truth OF thy COS
pei be impressed upon thy servants as they
Worship thee in this house; and oh grant
thou, that thy spirit may be present always
with thy people.
May thy blessings rest upon this enterprise
of thy people. the most important In their
christian lives.
May they make deeper and wider con-
secration Of themselves TO thy service.
May these thy servants who constitute the
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The old CHURCH.
IT IS ROLLED TO THE REAR TO GIVE
PLACE TO THE NEW CHURCH.
The Names OF Some OF Those Who
Built it, and WOrshipped In It-..
Roll OF 1910. a.-
DEDICATION OF THE SEC

MEMBERSHIP AT DEDICATION OF THE SEC
OND CHURCH. = 5ss
Owing to the fact that no record OF the
membership Of the church at this time can be
found, the following list is necessarily imper-
ed TO ascertain the membe rship in 1910. the
time at which the second church was dedi-
Gated. .
All of those who composed the membership
then have either died or moved away, except
Mrs. Dendy, widow OF Charles Dendy, and
Miss Lsontlna Moore, now the widow OF II. 8.
Karr -, L
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THE LESSONS.
The choir then sang as follows:

Glorious things Of thee are spoken,
Zion. city OF our God
He, whose word can ne'er be broken,
Formed thee for his own abode:
On the Rock Of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure reposef
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.
See! the streems OF living waters,
Springing from eternal love,
Well supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear Of want remove:
Who can faint while such river
Ever flows their thirst t. assuage?
Grace which, like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age TO age.
Round each habitation hov'rlng,
See the cloud and fire appear,
For q glory and cov'ring-
Showing that the Lord Is near:
Glorious things Of thee ore spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
He, whose word can ne'er be broken,
Chose thee for his own abode.
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The water Of the Sag>!cnly appears to lie
as black tar until air bubbles are mixed
with ii, Us IN breaking seas or t!c wake Of a
steamboat: it then -i!ow, its real color tp be-
that of brandy. 1t receives lis colon. from
filled with mu>s and pti!cr highly roiultl
roots and vegetable matter. Nrari. all the
rivers am; Lake, north Of tic 81. Lawrence
present Til" SAINT appearance y waterfall
III the sunshine seems 10 bs.l sheet uf ii,,ul
amber
In padding about the slinilo~rr haN~ and
reefs the bun"hrs "f olive er"ti' >.;."o"'}. III"
reddish rocks, tic gray 4. hbi"~, no" and then
suggested painter la!ctt' ll!n, ina basin
Of golden wife; a,l,l IL" ;tig bubbles drawn
downward at the end Of the paddle seem to
fringe it with anlher c"lolrd gems. In tho
shadow, and tn reflections of rocks and trees
the water has remarkably lluck strtace:
"i!cn Il ripple there catches the light of the
sky it is intensely luminous hy contrast: and
if a smok, air happens to give the sunset Il
ridly hue while t; breeze blows. then the
Slllen current hooks like Cllrli molten metal
stirred into rilplcS Of nt,me-C H. Farnham
in Harpers Magazine.
!arrots are again fashionable l,c >. and enc
Of the bellies of RittcnhcY,e ,q,,.,rc may lie
seen almost any Afternoon. CUT driving with
her parrot lay her sid, in ,,ia carriage giving
Ii an airing. Another la,ly has n plumascd
PCT namcl Dude. Who >nlulns gentlemen Wis.
itors by shouting ont: Hello, chappje,'-
Philadelphia TimaS
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Business hours are from . to j. in tir
larger establishments but little is done after
i o'cio"!:, except in certain seasons. During
these seven OF eight hol;.s the work Of TWEEN
ty-four is done. Ever: l"lve. every muscle.
every power and faculty of Iiol:- and mind
is taxed to the utmost tp discharge the duty
of IKE day. Go into any Of tie larg.. e,ta1-
li-nnlents of the city dul'in Li,sie;ss hours.
az. .ou will lie aMa2e, ut TIE cc:.sl4ss rush
AID l,ilaii of clerks AMI Customers
it is one uncsdng drive.
Every thing mus: he fuieAnl up TO til. clos
in- hour. SO that the morrow may be begun
viii! u serip, az new and clear transactions.
.icrci!aats from other cities. COMM; into
Tics. establishments to make purchases, fiui
themselves caught Ill Til, whi If work. and
are carried along and na,in to decide uucS-
iipn, and :ahc purchases with i'anitlitv Ut
tarl. unknown to them in their own home.
..c grind. grind at "!:r tr"a'milis all day,
I'D ,.illl too hard. We lu.; orr meals in
fourth ot the time We should give TO them:
we rush back home at night ;s furious!v as
We lett il the morning. and our evenings are
sl cft il: an effort to keep UP the excitement
Of ihe day. We are living too fast. too hard.
We break down long before we should
This haste, this furious pace at which we
4!e going. at business, at pleasure, ut every
thing. is the great curse of New York life
Joe Howard in New York Graphic.
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Hl. Lincoln was never liall. to sudden
excitement or sudden activity Through all
his life aud through all the unexpected and
stirring events of the rebellion. his Irrsonal
manner Was on" OF St"ulinrss of word and
act. IL was this quality which. in the earlier
stages of the war, conveyed To many uf his
visitors the false impression of his inditIcr.
cncc His sa@aritN CAV" him n markell adj
vantage over other men in enabling him tu
forecast probable events; and when they
took place, his great caution restrained lil
comments and controlled hi, outward bear
ing. Oftcn,imcs, when men came to him in
the rage and transport of IL first Indignation
oHcrsomr lLntowarl incident, they were sur-
prise'l to find him quiet, even scrcnr-pcr-
haps with smile on his face and Il lest on
his lips-cnSaged in routine works. and prone
to talk of other AMI more romnlouplace
matters
or all things the strut and STACEY vrXhihito ion
ot mock hrroism were foreign to hi, nature
Generally it happened th,t wien other, in
this mood soueh, linn his own spri, had
already been through the fiery irialur ro sent
ment-hut giving 10 olil ward sign, except AZ
times with lowered cyr'l"w, Il slight no,l,lins
and shaking of the h"ad. II ,nuilrriiIg motion
or hard compression Of ih" lips. and, rarely
an emphatic downward gesture with the
renrhed right hnnd. Hi, Judgment like his
perception. far ouilnn the average mind
Whilc others funnel am! frrt,rl at Ihu4,
that We're, all his inner consciousness wa,
abroad i'll the wide realm al Iossibil;irs
buslly searching out the dim and difficult
path toward things To be-. Hi, r;.? and
natural attention tn ordinary occupations
afforded 10 Indication uf the double mental
process which was lnlitual with him-Ihc
Century.
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And now soniethinS Of tho society OF Cal
cutta. Tho Europeans iYc ia considerable
style. own fair horses, aa'! tie ladies are
finely dressed. All Lave 4 lar:.o ;.rraj- of SER
wants. whose .lemeanor toward their employ
ers is far more scrvil.. than was ever that of
the slaves of our southern states. This, how
ever. is entirely outward. AMI i.;rc has chap
ac.erizcd for ages the deport!M2... Of all in
fcrlors toward their superiors. Tie foreign
ers look in good heal:ll, Int az ;.uGr,icd to
lHalie but little violent bodily csertion. and
none ii tie sunshine. The children arc
fairly rudy up to or 5 years Of ar After
that it is not safe to att"iM:t to rear them
here. They become debilita;e' and painfully
lacking III vital energy All live amid too
great exposure to the sun, even at this sea-
son. We are constantly ''arl!cd on this
point.-Carter Harrison i,4CLicaso Mail
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"A very quick method of making play
and very satisfactory one TO those VIII
&hplt it, is to steal it. IT foreign play. trans
late 1t or get some one to translate il for YOU,
t'icii change its title, clap yoi'r name to it
,.l call 1t your own. We co,.d easily men
.oil several we'll known dranatists who have
:,nr this ali along. Few persons think the
as of them for it, and most managers don't
i.l" what the history Of II play is 50 that it
o-i draw. If you make Sio,oo0 or s15, 900
the theft, and your conscience hurts you,
nd the original author, If living, check
oi 800. That Will make you feel better
.d him feel worse You will think that
ga have done a noble action, and he will
nash his teeth at having had insult added
10 injury.
Ii you wish to write a farce in three or
~. acts, take two or three old English or
.onch farces and alter them sufficiently to
irow them into one. This Will require
thought and tact, but this is tht. way orig
al plays are sometimes made. Or you
may ,iranatize book by cutting ont the
Conversations, an Old and clumsy method,
yu ii has almost gone o,t of vogue. Or
-,i mas extract the eiltii'e skeleton Of some
:. sol novel plbii,ilcl! twenty Ecars ago,
,.'..:.-e ali tho narn-> add some new incl
,rn,e suppress others, re.ai, all the strong
,tla,loi.s and give t;ie happy ending"
l.c.i managers 50 much love. and then de-
l,i, That you Icver reaA. saw or heard Of
o novel in question. %ofod: will believe
y - especially your brother o!anatiats, but
H., docs not matter. if tho !ay is & success.
.'q.o4:' can prose thae i. similarity is not
t, "',i c.lene= except yourself, and Of course
,"ou Won't stand in Your own lislt.-Sew
lurk Herald.
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grown Independent through their trade, and
may grow wealthy. Let such man secure
an artist of the first rank in the United
will transform his ceiling into II vast work of
art, or series of works, which shall delight
the eye and can only be viewed with comfort
be a false one if desired, placed over the
original and made portable, i'll order that it
may be trallsplanted 10 another sphere if the
rent is raised i'll consequence.
why do men go calmly to sleep the mo-
nent they strike Il BARRIERS chair. Because
they are sleepy. Not mt all. 1t is because
ably figured wall paper spread out above
them for fifteen minutes would in time make
of them nervous wrecks unless they closed
their eyes. and by closing their eyes they in
dure s!nmhcr. II. instead Of this ordeal a
man realized that he could enter a certain
barber shop as he enters the National Aca.l-
OF Art lie would so To that shop every time:
while the large percentage of male popula-
tlon which persists in shaving itself would in
sist i'll having its hair cut once or twice a
week at least. Indeed. the cause of temper
''ii'e i''N!i iHoiit ii"iE i''f II lit" pooil Iof
many men Who n"w drop in for drink
would in time come to drop in for shave ia
s',a'I. Aud IT'S the price is about the same
for each. lather would not he hamperc,l in
the contest with rum.
AN humble barber i'll the Bowcry has al
ready caught the idea in IL crude way, and
has set his aristocr;ilic brethren an example
hN covering his ceiling Unfortunately with
attractive figures from theatrical posters and
then vanishing OYER tine whole until it has
the appearance of an artists dream after IL
rarehit. 1t: rrulc. lut the idea is there, and
is bound TO he heard from sooner or later
New York sun
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forgetting His Bride at the Appointed
II0ur-IiiS second Wife.

lioUi-t1IS SECOND NlLe.
The first Mrs. Edison was an operator in
the Newark factory where Edison was max
ins the machines In fill his first order for the
stock indicator, which brought him into
notice and formed the basis of his fortune
She wa, Il tail. Tin" looking sirl-one of II
dozen sitting at !, bench winding magnets
One day IL, Edison wu> walking down the
line, that girl spoke up and ba,lc him good
morning without raising her eyes from her
work
Good morning. said the inventor "lIow
did you know il was !
'Oh can ALWAYS tell when you're near
was the reply.
"Sre here said tine man OF inventions,
1--WE noticed you a good deal of late Sup
pose y"u and get murriedI'
I'm ready"
"Whcn shall it be-
''liirec weeks from tonight"
"All right. and the inventor Went on his
rounds while his intended bride merrly
wound away upon her bobbin of wire
On the wedding day the first consignment
of stock indicators came back from the pllr-
chaser, imperative. When Mr.. Batchclor,
who has always been EdiSons right hand
man, went down tn the shop after supper he
found the inventor there in his (lirlicst shop
clothes tnkerinS away ut the machines.
Didn't hc rcIucmbcr that it was his wedding
nightt No, Ecl forgotten all about it.
Batclielor dragged the tagging groom to tho
nearest clothing store, got him into u new
suit, then to barber shop and finally put
him on Il car and shipped him off to the
house of the bride. Then he went back to
the shop to work, supposing that was the
last of Edison for that night. In an hour or
two, however, Edison rushed in again, threw
his new coat down on Il greasy lathe, hung
his waistcoat upon the gas pipe, kicked his
shoes under the bench. seized file and went
at the defective stock Indicator as if there
We're no such thing as marriage and giving
in marriage, and there he stayed with his
faithful lieutenant till the morning sun
looked in on two weary toilcrs and an cleo
trical stock indicator that worked like II
charm.
When wealth came To them. Mrs Edison
No. BETRAYED tendency to branch out in
the social world. Int it had no effect on the
inventors habits. One of the largest enter
tainnents Newark ever saw was given at
her house. All the leading men of the Edi-
son works We're there. hut lie was nowhere to
be seen. His subor'lnates grew little un-
easy. y committee of them went over to his
iai'"fatorN about MltlNlShtu ana lnerc was tile
inventor, tipped back in IL rickety old chair
iii his shirt sleeves, his shoclcss feet high up
on the workbench singing away into his
phonograph at the top of his voice, happy as
a caln at high tide.
The present Mrs. Edison sticks to her hus-
band like n shadow. She is always at his
elbow in working hours, with book and pen
c.. taking down his ideas and experiments
she is in fnct n hr!unlut,. in rynry .ynv
worthy If his abilities New York Tribune
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SAVED BY A PoRcuPlNE.
An Entertaining Volt story, tho rrutE, OF
Which is Nuuc!cd for


One day George Starr and Bert Name
We're doing the lumber camps on the north
shore. They li,.l been hooliny ii on snowsllocs
all day, and darkness hal settled over the
wilderness. \ little animal ram arloss their
track and stopped When they got up to it
1t suddenly increased enormously in size and
turned out to hr IL purcupinr. As it would
not sc, ont of the way Bert sho, il. and from
sudden and provilrntial, i, attrrwa,u
turned out. instinct lie tied Il string To its
tail and attached tic other end lo his belt
and started off again. The party had not
gone far when they were startled lay the vclp-
Ing of Il dozen wolves on their trail, and MS
the wolves were fast gaining on them they
decided that the hest way would I've to shin
upa tree and sce if the wolves would not
leave, and they lost no time in putting the
idea into execution.
In getting up the tree they los, their To-
NolrerS amt We're in II pretty iiX. They knew
not what To do, as the wolves had su,rlttcd
on their haunrhcs around the tree, and seemed
bent ON making Il nigh, of it, Starr WHO
has mouth that led the small boys at the
baseball ground last summer to s;lrc;lS, icaly
remark: "This way for III. mammoth
cave. whenever George got enthusiast icover
good play by our club and yelled tried
his vocal powers on the wolves, hut they only
prlckca up their ears and did not move off IL
foot. Finally George saw the porcupine and
said: Pass np that animal and Iii tix EN-
Very carefully the hedgehog was passed up
and George would pull out IL quill, bend it
up III big chew of tobbuco, and throw 1t to
the wolves, which seemed to he very hungry
and snapped up the morScls and swallowed
them without tasting, like old land sharks as
they We're.
After Il few minute, half he wolves had
swallowed huge chcws of tobacco, which ap.
parrntiv made them draihly sick, and as
they tried tothrow up tho stuff the poisonous
quill, We're released and caught in their
throat or stomach. Then they got frantic
and pitched into each other. suny to i'll
credible fcrority 10y the PAINS tlrs suffered.
and i'll half an hour inscadul IL dozen wolves
there was only one left and a quantity Of fun
AMI bones. Then George Toll out of the tree
laughing and rs he tumtvl he uttered II
blood cur'ling Yell OF series OF ycl!s which
for Il moment unsettled the wolfs nerve and
hef"r" he could rally George got his revolver
and put an end la the beast 1t was !; clus,.
shave. Chcboygau tMirh.) Democrat
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An examination of the water ,"t New York
lariur has been undertaken for tao purpose
of determining its character, and how long
ii "culd support life of the different micro
organisms. more especially that of ,Asatic
cholera. Specimens were obtained at differ
ent places, the first at the Narrows. TIE
second alongside the steamship Britannia
dying in quarantinel; the third at Hotlman'-
island and the fourth at Swinturnc island.
The results pf the chemical and microscopic
tests We're such that the investigator, As
siStamt Surgeon j. j. kinyoun. NJ. J. -.
says: After closely studying the curltnt,
OF the upper bay, am led to believe that if
t!ejccta from cholera patients should Ike
thrown into the lower bay, cholera could gain
a foothold on the contiguous shores, where
every condition favorable TO its development
and propagation sometimes exists s"-Chicago
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