The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-16
In THE NEW EDIFICE
Opening Services in the Trinity
Church Of Centerville.
NOT UNDER A LARGE DEBT
Growing Efforts OF the Resident
Pastor, Wilder MISUNDERSTANDING
Divlnes rreaoh - Eloquent
Words of Rev. M cInturff.

The opening services in the new
Trinity church at Centerville were
held yesterday and were conducted oy
Rev. David N. McInturff, d. D., Of Spo-
kane. About $4,000 has been spent In
improvements on this church and II Is
now one of the finest in the city. IL
was raised story and veneered with
brick and the interior was entirely re-
modelled. The present pastor, Kew.
Wilder n. Nutting, devoted his ener-
gies to securing better accommodations
for his congregation soon AFTER MS ar
rival here, and last November he had
the pleasure of seeing the work OF re-
modelling the church commenced. Inc
church will not seat $50 people COM
fortably and the Sunday school room
on the ground floor VIII accommodate
as many more. BY new and ingenious
arrangement the Sunday school may be
instantly divided into dozen Grass
rooms the partitions of which disap-
pear when it is desired to use the en-
tire room. The church is heated by
furnace and lighted with electricity.
Four services were held yesterday
and the church was packed each time.
DR.. McInturff preached at IL a. m.
and in the evening. Rev. Jacob NILS
led a special morning service at 9'5o
O'Clock and Presiding Elder G.. L. stun
preached in the afternoon. Thirty-nve
new members joined the church at the
forenoon service and several were re-
ceived last night. At the regular fore-
noon meeting DIR. McInturff stated that
there was an Indebtedness on the
church of 81, 900 for the improveme IT'S
which had just been completed alid
asked for subscription with whlch
to wipe IT out. The response was quite
generous and 81 900 was subscribed in
| at the service last evening and the
pastor hopes to raise the full amount
| needed by next Sunday. The church
| will not be formally dedicated until vt
is free from debt.
DIR. McInturff delivered an eloquent
sermon last evening from Matthew
XVI :16, For what is a man profted
if he gain the whole world and lose ms
own soul?" In the course OF his re-
marks he said: Suppose a man has
climbed to the top of the ladder OF
worldly ambition, how empty are his
! honors when they have cost him his
| soul Look at the four greatest rulers
| that ever sat upon an earthly throne
| Alexander. when he wept because
| there were no more worlds to conquer
| See him at last as he sets fire to a
| city and dies in debauchery. Hannibal
| who filled three bushels with gold rings
taken from his slaughtered knights
died at last by poison taken from his
| own hand in a foreign country, unwept
and unknown. Caesar, having CON
| uuered 500 cities and dyed his garment:
with the blood of one million OF hi:
| foes was stabbed by his best friend:
in the very place where he had seer
his greatst triumph. Napoleon, after
being the scourge of Europe and th'
desolator of his country, dies in ban
| ishment amid the angry thunder storm
of exile.
ITO be lost is to be banished from
God forever, and every time that tbs
clock ticks a soul goes to hell. Ever,
Joy we have comes from God. Withou
him we could have no good thing. TAX
Him from us and all is gloom"