The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-09-16
CHURCH DEDICATION.

The Christian church of this city dedicas
ted their new house of worship on last Stunt
day. This beautiful new structure, which
mas seating capacity of about four huns
dred, was crowded to its utmost capacity
by an attentive and apprecative audience,
Elder VIM. f. Cowden, Of Tacoma, Wash,
general evangelist for the northwest. had
charge OF the services, and preached an i'm:
PressIve sermon on ''Consecration" front
Rom. II, l. A splendid musical program
by select choir, under the direction of
Miss Lulu Burnett contributed largely I'd
the enjoyment and success of the occasion.
Pres. Bloss, of the state agricultural college,
read the scriptures; Rev. Kantner, of tha
Congregational church, offered the openinG
prayer; and DR.. Thompson of the Presbyter.
Ian church, dedicatory prayer. At the close
OF the sermon financial statement was
made by Judge W. S. McFadden. showing
| 1he entire cost of the new edifice, with all
It's furniture and equipments to be about
SZ|oo, of which amount about $3.50 re:
NAMED unpaid. Of this deficit $500 had
already been assured, by the church ex.
tension board, leaving $3.50 to be prov;ded
ior: AN appeal was made by Mr.. Cow,len,
assisted by State Supt. E. B. McElrov Of
oaienl' IN response to which $500 was soon
pledged. 1t should be stated that tbs
brethren, specially interested in the church,
mad already made large donations, VARYING
from $t0O to $780, A number of liberal
citizens, who had already promised to aid !,
the enterprise were absent tfrom the c;tv,
and it is expected that the remaining s25d
Will soon be made up; thus leaving the
church practically free from debt
AT the close of the services hymn was
sung by the great congregation; and DR..
thompson, in touching, impressive
prayer, solemnly set apart and dedicated
the beautiful temple to the worship and
| service of God
Ihe services from beginning to end, were
solemn and impressive, and will long BID
remembered, by all who participated therein.
as a bright and joyful day spent in tho
house of God. Particularly was it a dav
OF great gadness to the faithful little band
who had struggled so long and earnestly
ior this delightful consummation. Nor
should 1t be forgotten that the success of
OF this enterprise is largely due to the wise
and faithful labors of their recent pastor.
Brother Mercer.
we congratulate the citizens of Corvallis
on this new and promising adjunct to the
moral and religious forces of this city.
The beautiful bible and hymn book
which graced the desk, were the gift of
Mrs. fE. B. McElroy, of Salem, whose
labors IN years past together with those Of
the lamented Mrs. Judge McFadden had
hhuch 20 90 with the success of the work.
MALICIOUS TREssPAssING.-An number Of
our citizens ara owners of young orchards
outside OF the city and recently several of
them have suffered quite heavy losses
through the sometimes thoughtless-bu i'm
some cases malicious-mischief done by
tresspassers. large amount of the dam.
age has been done by hunters, who have in
Jured great many young trees by shot; we
have been shown some trees which were
nearly shot to pieces and totally ruined by
this means. A great many people, too,
when passing an orchard do not hesitate I'd
enter it and help themselves to the fruit;
they are not always content with taking
the fruit, either, but-and there is absog
lutely no excuse for this vandalism-in
many cases they haye broken the trees and
injured them otherwise. One gentleman,
who is the owner of a fine young orchard in
| Linn county, short distance from this
city, discovered, on visiting his property a
few days ago, that sonbody had entered it
with wagon and helped themselves to cut
tings from the trees all over the place!
without being at all careful about the oper-
alton, and consequently several of the trees
are likely to die. person who would be-
guilty of such robbery would do worse if
they had the opportunity, and if discovered
they may expect little mercy from the
owner, who has already set inquiries ot
foot and proposes to 'fix" the perpetrators
of the wrong if he can discover them. It
seems strange to us that any rational being
would willfully destroy property in this
manner, when reason would tell them that
it merely caused a loss to the owner with
out corresponding gain to anybody. All
such parties should be made to suffer the
heaviest legal penalties. An organization
is being effected among the fruit growers to
prosecute persons guilty of malicious tres.
passing.
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