Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-20
CORNER STONE LAID.
Impressive Exercises at the East
 Side M. E. Church-Bishop Good

Impressive Exercises at the East Side M. E. Church-Bishop Good sell Has Charge of the Exerciscs.
 Yesterday at 8 p. m. the corner stone of the East Side A E. church was laid with imposing services. About 500 persons were present and all were interested in the impressive exercises.
 It was red letter day for the people of the church. All the indications are hope full for this society, whose inauguration was so modest. Begun as small chapel, the parish has grown until there is pros- pect of big church. The completion of the electric road will result in an in- creased population in the neighborhood and this being the only church on the ground, it promises to rapidly augment in membership and become a great power for good. The parish have the sympathy and the cooperation of the other parishes of the city and their future will be watched with great deal of interest.
 The platform where the clergy sat was the continuation of the veranda of the passage on Forbes avenue, within fifty feet of the church site. In the vicinity was crowd of people, 500 or 600, and the street was crowded with carriages in which sat many others. The services began with singing of the hymn
 "My hope is built on nothing less
 Than Jesus blood and righteousness, Which was announced by the Rev. A. O.. Abbott and sung by the congregation and the male quartette of the East Pearl street M E. church. The Rev. D. W. Clark of the East Haven Congregational church | gave the invocation, and there was hymn rendered by "The Children's Army" of | the Epworth church read the Sixty | second Psalm and there was another | hymn by the male choir, "Praise Him, Praise Him." The Rev. Wm. Arbuckle of the Howard avenue NJ. E. church offered prayer and another hymn was announced by the Rev. A. B. R. Abbott of West Ha- ven aud was sung by the assembly. | The address was by Bishop D. A. Good sell He likened the corner stone of the earthly church to Christ the head of the corner. He counseled the church to per. severe in it's undertaking and commended those who had borne the heat and burden church of the people and one in whict everyone felt personal responsibility, al making sacrifices to carry on the most ex cellent work.
 A free will offering was then taken fol the church enterprise. Bishop GOodsel then laid the corner stone according to thu ritual of the M. E. church. The stone if from the East Haven quarry and bears thu
 year 1892. In lead box placed in thu
 stone were the following articles: Copie
 of Christian Advocate, Sunday Schoo
 Journal, Children's Lesson Story, Tn
 Password and the city papers; names O
 the official board, stewards and trustees
 superintendent of Sunday school, loca
 preachers and teacher of infant class; his
 tory of East Side church, copy of minute
 of New York East conference, new silve
 coin, names of builders, architect an' superintendent. After these exercise
 the benediction was pronounced by tn bishop. Among the clergy present were: Dr. A . D: Vail, Dr. William Kelley, Rev. E: A Scofeld, Rev. J. H. Hand, Rev. Williar
 L. Hill, Rev. D. Griffin and Rev. Thoma Gilbert. The exercises were successful a conducted and very interesting.