The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-30
$4,000 of Them Subscribed il
One Evening
To Clear Up the 100000 Debt
of Trinity Church.
MIR. PASSWORDS VOICE
Is Raised in Condemnation of
Bishop Warren.
Says the Church Is in League
With Vicious Element.

Denver, June 30.-Trinity church has
cleared up its 100000 debt.
In fact it more than cleared it up.
The last dollar was pledged at II
o'clock Sunday night when the whole
congregation Joined in singing, as they
had already sung many times, the do7-
oIogy, while the church was white with
handkerchiefs. waving the Chautauqua
salute.
There were number of big subscrip-
tons. A fund of 81. 900 was subscribed
in honor of Mrs. Mcintyre and another
for Mrs. CObern by the Ladies' Aid so
ciety. The same organization gave $500
more Funds of 81 600 were raised in
honor of DR.. Cobern, DR.. Mcintyre and
DR.. BuchteI, the present and the two
Pennsylvania Mutual company gave
S1,75O. The Epworth League gave 81
900 and the Sunday school $500. The
official board made up the last 81, 900 in
In all, SIS, 900 were pledged.
Denver, with her little silver dollar,
has done what few cities in the Union
can boast of having accomplished since
the reign of the panic.
Joy reigned supreme when the great
feat was accomplished. The big debt
has hung over the church so long, par
alyzing every energy 50 completely that
at first the people could hardly realize
that the end had come, ana the burden
was gone. A very large amount of the
So being the favorite figure.
1t is a nota BILE fact that 400 members
of the church subscribed nothing, and
that the whole amount was subscribed
by the other 500 with the aid of a few
outside friends DR.. Wilson addressed
the congregation, referring to the gift
of S25, 900 to the university of Denver
made by Bishop and Mrs. Warren dur
ing the preceding week. He assured
the bishop, who was present, that Trim
ity, now that the incubus which had
II W.
come to the aid of the university.
Then the congregation sang God Be
With You Till We Meet Again in
honor of DR.. Cobern. who goes for his
stay Of three months in Europe. While
there he completes his two cOmmentar-
les on Old Testament books, arrange
ments for the translation of which in
Hindoo and Chinese have already been
made.
After all was over, and the people
had risen to dispense, the scene ended
with a sensa ton which bade fair at
one time to become dramatic. The Rev.
F. +. PaSSmOre, who had been sitting
quietly, watching the raising of the
DEBT, rose suddenly to his feet upon
one of the front seats a the people be
gan to file out. His gigantic frame
doomed up in startling height, and his
deep voice, almost tragic in it's intensi-
ty, rang out over the church. The peO-
pie stopped in amaze and began to look
at him. The official board, the tellers,
the ministers, the bishop and all the
other gentlemen who had been occupied
in obtaining the pledges, stared at each
other in CONSERVATION. It was the
ghost of BanquO at the banquet
One rushed to the organist, and in 2
second the thunders of the great in
strument went rolling and crashing
with deafening tumu1t through the
church. Mr.PasSmOre'S voice was COM
pletely drowned, but he was totally IN
aware of the fact, as he is entirely deaf
The people, with the exception of a few
who stood quite close to him, could not
hear a word he said. but they watched
him with curious interest His long
arms swung like a windmill His face
was white and set in rigid lines He
was evidently laboring under strong
feeling. He poured forth torrent of
words which seemed to be a TRADE
against Bishop Warren.
There's more than $50, 900 needed to
save the Methodist church." he said
Methodist beer wagons are running in
this city. Methodist saloons are run
ming in this city, $50 of them, carrying
the city to hell. Does single Method
ist minister raise his voice against
them? Is not the church and the bisn-
Op in lea que with the element that runs
them? Don't they support It at the
polls? Do they do anything to uproot
it? The bishop has been unfaithfuI to
US. He silently condones and indorses
the vicious elements that are DESTROY
ing society. God has printed this mes
sage on my soul and must give it
FORTH
Here number of gentlemen gathered
around Mr.. Passmore and tried to drag