The morning times., 1896-06-05
THEIR new home READY
Fifteenth Street NJ. {. Church to
Be Dad Gated Sunday.
HANDSOME NEW EDIFICE
Interesting Program Arranged for
tho Exercises Bishop Hurst VIII
Preside in the Evening and Many
Distinguished dClergymenfromE Else
where VIII Attend.

The Fifteenth Street NJ. E. Church, Rev.
W. W. Van Arsdale, pastor, will be for
mally dedicated next Sunday. TheeXeI cises
will be appropriate and there viii be
number of distinguished Methodists from
elsewhere to participate in the ceremonies.
This is the second Methodist Episcopal
church built in this city within the last
twenty years. 1t is one of the hand
somest church edfices in The city and
stauds ON one of its most conspicuous
corners, Fifteenth and streets.
The interior OF the church is not yet
completed, but enough SO to INT
the de.licatory services The corner stone
was laid October 8, 1895, aud eleven
weeks afterward the church people were
holding services in the basement. Their
new edifice is most comfortable one
and will certainly add TO the influence
and power of that denomina ton in this
city.
The dedcatory services, it is expected,
will briug together a large congregation,
for in addition TO the interest naturally
manifested on such an occasion, program
of unusualinterest has been prepared which
embraces sermons by several epi nent diyines
and music OF decidedly attractive nature.
The exercises OF the day Will begin with
| those OF the Suuday-school in the morning,
followed at II O'Clock by u sermon by the
Rev, j. W. Hamilton, ID D., OF Cincinnati.
BISHOP HURST TO oFFICIATE.
Dr. Hamilton is the secretary of the
Freedman's Aid and Southern Educa tional
Society and was the pastor of the church
many years ago.
At $50 in the afternoon the Rev. L.
T. Townsend of Boston will preach and
at O'Clock in the evening the Rev. c. II.
Payne, ID. D., of New York, secretary OF
the board of education, will occupy the
pulpit.
Bishop Hurst will conduct the services
10 the evening. The musical program will
be especially interesting, and will be under
the direction OF Frank j. Metcalf, De.
w. f. Difenderfer, cornetiSt, and j. a.
Shade, organist. The soleists are Miss
Lillian Hunt, Miss Elizabeth Wahly, Mrs.
Metcalf, Mr.. Walter Humphrey, Mr.. Al
| pHous.. Rice and Mr.. Percy >. Foster. The
Rev. DR.. L. B. Wilson, presiding elder,
| viii he present during the day and evening.
The new ch urch building is one of the
most commodious in the city. 1t is built
| of pressed brick with brownstone trim
mings. 1t is two stories high with sub
basement and cellar and contains all the
necessary apartments for an up-to-datc
! church. The new edifice has frontage
| of sixty feet on Il street and a depth of
| ninety feet.
The K street entrance is a heavy triple
arch supported on either side by COM
| b.nat atiOns OF stone columns On either
| side of the triple arch entrance are two
| towers, the corner one being l 2 feetandthe e
! other fifty-cight feet in bei ght. The
| corner tower has a slate roof with gal
vaniZed iron cornices and oval windows.
! In the basement are located the Sunday
! school and infant class rooms so arranged
! that both can be thrown iuto one room for
! lectures or prayer meetings. This room
| ha 5 a seating capacity of50O. Thepastor' S
| ctn dt. MI fIsa ,1a aIS
| located in the basement.
DINING ROOM AND KITCHEN
In the subbasemcnt is a fine large dining
room. used, too, 10y the Toys brigade, aud
| well-a ranged kitchen. The cellar con
tains the furnace and coal bins and other
/ room for storage purposes. On the second
| floor is the main auditorium, directly over
! the Sunday y-SChcoi or lecture room. ana has
/ a seating capacity OF 500. This rotm Is
well furnished ana the interior decorations
/ comfortably arranged. The finish is in
! qUartered oak.
Fhe gallery Is located at tie south or r
street end, and one Of the finest $4,000
! organs VIII occupy the platform in the
] northeast corner Il the room. which is 'Ii-
I rcctly alongside the pulpit platform. Tie
! main auditorium is reached by three stair
| wayS-two from the fFcUt and one Oh the
/ Fifteenth street side.
There are six handsome memorial win
| dOwS already in place. -Four Of these were
! erected by Miss X. V Reedcr, a tribute TO
/ tie memory of departed relatives; Cne by
Z Mrs. Jane MCCloSky, and one by Mt W. A
( kimmcll, the builder of the church. The
building completed will cost 10000 It
will he lighted by electricity and gas ard
I heated by furnace heat.
The parsonage is directly alongside the
| church aud IS comfortable home for the
! pastor and his family. The parsonage is
| built OF pressed brick, the same as the
I church. 1t is two and a half stories high
| and commcdiCnSly arranged. 4 pathway
| leads from Il side door TO the pastors s stud Y
| i'll the church.