Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-07-26
LaYinG CONFESSIONS.

at 5 o'clock. The services were held
III the old church building, which was
filled with carl"eoers. An equal
number of latecomers were unable to
get in.
Bishop Paret was prevented by Ill
ness from attending. Rev. Clarence
Buell., of Cumberland, was therefore
deputized to officiate in his stead.
This gentleman was aided by Rev's
A. C. Haverstick, of this place j. W.
Mott, of Mt. Savage, and l.. B. Browne,
of Westernport.
Professional hymn No. POP was sung,
after which Psalm cxxxil was read.
The Creed followed, then prayer. A
selection from Ezra iii, 10 and II, was
read as follows
And when the builders LAID the foundation
of the temple of the Lord, they set the priests
in their apparel with trumpets, and the Le-
vites, the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
praise the Lord, after the ordinance Of Da-
vid, King of Israel And they sang together
by course in praising and giving thanks unto
the Lord, because he is good, for his mercy
endureth for ever towards Israel. And all
the people shouted with great shout when
they praised the Lord, because the foun-
dation of the house of the Lord was laid.
This was succeeded by a portion of
Psalm cXXXvi.
1t was here announced that the de-
post in the stone comprised 1.-The
Baltimore daily papers of July %,
the Order of Service used on this oc-
casion, the Church papers of New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore ard
Chicago, copy of st. Johns Record,
an Account of the Church, and a few
inexpensive coins of the year 1890"
Then the four priests, clad in white
robes, passed out of the church to the
cornerstone.
Mr.. Haverstick deposited tho tin
box in the receptacle, and Mr.. Buell.,
striking the stone thee times with
mallet, repeated meanwhile the follow
ing:
In the name of the Father, and Of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost, lay the cornerstone
of an edifice to be here erected by the name
of ST. John, to be devoted to the service of
Almighty God, according to the doctrine,
discipline, and worship of the Holy Catholic
Church commonly called the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States of
America.
Other foundation can no man lay than
that which is laid, even Jesus Christ /; who is
God over all, blessed for evermore, in whom
we have redemption through his blood, even
the forgiveness of sin. Amen.
The priests returned in same order
to the church and the service was re-
sumed and concluded by singing hymn
No. 275. and Recessional hymn No.
30.
During the exercises it was stated
that the Cornerstone was put on the
bottom course to symbolic the fact
that the Church is built upon Christ as
the Rock. 1t was placed at the june
ton of the chancel and body of the
church to symbolic that priest and
people are united in one holy temple
so Christ unites Jew and Gentle in
one Church. 1t was placed at the
north side, east end. because the
north is the dark corner of the earth
and needs the illumination of Him
who gives Eight to those who sit in
darkness and the shadow of death by
the Sun of Righteousness arising in
the east with healing in his wings"
The proposed edifce will be cruel
form in shape and constructed and
finished in the Gothic style of archi-
lecture. Its size, as indicated by the
excavations. will be SO by 26 feet. 1t
will be built of sandstone and cost not
less than $1,000.
The Rector, Rev. A. C. Haverstick,
is pushing the work with commendable
vlgor. He is determined to signalize
his labor here with a monument which
will at once add an ornament to the
town and furnish his growing congre-
CATION with worshipping home.
The New Water Works.