The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-30
STILL IN The LEAD!
F A VI . Us |!
BOOT AND SHOE STORE.
522 Commercial St., POstoffce Block.

The sermon was by F. s. Beggs from
the text, For the love of Christ con- |
straineth u.s.
At the close of most excellent SER
mon q statement of the entire cost of !
the house and its furnishing Was read. |
Total cost s3.32l.41 upon which we
owed viz. lean $500, floating debt $685.
Al. Bro. Beggs proved to be a good |
beggar and in some fifteen or twenty |
minutes he secured pledges from the /
congregation to the amount of S545 90. /
In the evening he also went around /
among the people as they gathered |
and before services commenced. he |
had secured pledges to reduce the en-
tire debt to be paid on January 1st
1886.
There are to-day of these subscrip-
tions unoaid some $500 and we still owe |
the Church Extension Society $500.
The Ladies social circle have paid
towards this building and it's furnish
ing 1851 and have helped towards our
parsonage that is valued at $500, some
thing like $500. surely our Marys and
Marthas "haye done what they could. -
The conference of March 1884 sent
as our pastor, A. L. Scott, who labored
with us two years. Bro. Scott did a
good work.
In November of 1884 Rev p. Broad
state Evangelist of the Congregational
church assisted that church in this
/ town, and Bro. Scott and our people
attended. Their house was soon to
small to hold the people and we all
moved into our NJ. e. church building.
| Bro. Broad left at the end of two
weeks, the meetings continued six
weeks, some seVenty-ive conversions
were reported, about thirty Joined the
Nj. Z. Church.
The second year of Bro. Scott was
fruitful of great good. He is one of
Gods noblemen.
We built on TO our parsonage the ell
with two rooms at a cost of $500 to
make room for Bro. SCOTS family in
the spring of 1884, and in 1885, we
built the parsonage barn at cost OF
500. March 1856, Rev. j. +. Palmer
was sent to us, and again we had to en-
large our parsonage with cellar 16
feet square and kitchen and pantry
over it, at d cost of about 500.
Bro. Palmer being n man of eAper-
: fence he at once entered upon the
: work with determination to hold the
ground already gained by his prede-
cessors, and carry forward the work
: His sermons were of kind thai
seemed to meet the wants of the PEG
: pie, and the year closed with a series
| of meetings that awakened deep in
! terest and about twenty were added tt
l the church, ''some of whom remain
4 unto this dav."
Rev. D. F. HoItZ was stationed herr
: in March 1887. His family are among
the best, and their example in Oul
: midst was most excellent, but the fail
ure of crops, the low prices of cattle
!; and there being but little to do, many
:: of our members were obliged to leaV'
and go in search of work.
4 1t was a year our people viii lOni
remember, the church had a severe
struggle. Everything seemed to g
J. against US, we were unable to max
i the payment on our church debt; Sill
Z we felt thankful for the kind treat
y ment we received from the church eX
s tension society and we gathered a
y usual; while Bro. HoltZ cheered US b.
,. his willingness to credit on his salar
any farm products carried to the par
q I9onage. MethOdism is wonderfu
8 plant, it Is not stranger to oppositio
s from outside influence or povert
a within its membership; both ten
to keep it united, humble and useful
/. and SO long as we continue to teac
the world, what Christ taught Nice
" dennis, I'VE must be born again. an
u continue faithful. God will bless u
" and cause his face to shine upon US.
~ The spring of 1888 gave Harmon j
- Hoover as our pastor. He came to
~ 1i664 lEOiu kuc udl1o Vi 1OdI1liiA GAABl
N and alone.
It His first text was from Samut
u 1877. 500 and the Lord be with you.
1t The sermon made its impression upo
# the congregation and we all felt 1t goo
to be present. God armed him wit
l. his word. We feel he is certainl
r called to preach. The year thus ia
:. has been one of peace and proSpert.
q Our church is in good working order
e some thirty have been added To OF
x membership by letter and conversion
p Wehave paid 800 on our church del
ID andtruly feel we can sing the Do
sr ology with the spirit and the undo
er standing also.
v. 1t is nine years this month since OIL
II class organized; and five years ago t.
IS day since we dedicated this houst
ID Our twelve members of 1880 to-da
0I number 20 and also instead of four c
u probation ave now have 16 making
I'd total of 95 members.
ii Nine years AGO we had not dollar
worth of property. To-day we own
IL parsonage free from debt worth $SC
n and this church edifice that cost |
A. s., 800 upon which we still owe $500.
ro We have an intelligent congregatio
. that meet every Sunday to worsh
70 God and praise his Holy name. also
Io Sunday school with n membership
IN one hundred truly This is the Lord
of doing, it is marvellous in our eyes.
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