Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-09-01
r.o Completed Presbyterian Church
=, dedicated Last Evening With
Appropriate Exercises.
MIN Medication An Especial Source
&c pleasure to Members of the
Church Congregation.
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I'll. church il Dedicated.

10 every member of the Presbyterian
o0nrch especially, and to the residents
If the city, who attended, generally, was
Friday evening a pleasing one. For it
markea the dedication of the Presby-
,er;ap church, which as now completed,
L one of the handsomest edlfices of wor-
sb;, N the state. And as the dedication
marked the completion of the church, SO
also il marked it's freedom from debt,
and for these things, the members of the
church who have labored so faithfully
toward that end, whose attainment was
marked by last evenings service, rejoice
and are glad.
And in the dedication services was
that gladness and rejoicing brought out.
The opening song by the choir was a
fitting Introductory, and the verses from
Scripture appropriate and impressive.
In the sweet voice Of Miss Agnes Ander-
son was the gladness manifest. and her
solo together with that of Mrs. Porter
and the duet of the two we're sources OF
pleasure, and added to the feeling of
satisfaction and the spirit of rejoicing.
Rev. Anderson spoke briefly of the
reason the church had not been earlier
consecrated, in his dedicatory address.
|, had been but recently finished, and
for that reason it's previous dedication
would have seemed out Of place; debt
had also numbered it, and the do lica-
ton of a building not owned by those
defeating 1t would have been Likewise
Objectionable. But now all these hind
RANGES had been overcome; the debt had
been cleared away the completion of the
building had been accomplished in its
entirety, and the people of the city and
Of the state had cause to be proud of the
temple of worship. The greatness OF
cities, the fame of communities, he said,
lie in various and varied things, and
Bismarck had a source of pride and
pleasure in her churches and schools.
He then read several letters, n from
Rev. l. O. Sloan. the founder of the
church originally, who narrated the in.
cilents of the first services held here,
ana expressed the best of wishes for the
future; another from Rev. Chas. B
Austin, Rev. Anderson's predecessor,
who extended congratulations on the
completion of the church, and hoped ite
influence might be everlasting; another
from Rev. Dick of Dickinson, to the
same effect, aud a telegram from
Mesdames Asa Fisher and Gerald
Pierce, who sent words of rejoicing from
Chicago. ..
Thanks were extended to all who had
Rlded in the completion of the church
and then MI. Anderson presented to
MIR. H. G. Watson, chairman of the
building committee, a key to the com
pleted edifice, and MI. Watson expressed
The thanks of the congregation to Mr.
Anderson, for his earnestness and never
Falling energy in the work.
Rev. Beer and Rev. Cook also made
appropriate and felicitous remarks. The
congregation joined with glad voices il
hymn of praise, and a heartfelt prayer
rom Rev. Anderson, eloquent in itt
earnestness, closed the services.