The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-04-14

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DUMBARTON AVENUE NJ. E. CHURCH.
years, had made the mistake of calling
Dumbarton hospital Bombarden hos
pital. Upon mere guess, the record of
Dumbarton hospital was searched, and
really love one another, we will see that
time of poetic prophecy:
When the war drum throbs no longer
And the battle flags are furled
In the parliament of man
The federation of the world.
When Ninian Beall, the rich Scotch
man, sailed up the Potomac to it's head
waters, and arrived at the eminence
which constituted the central portion
of the domain which had been granted
to him by his sovereign, he saw a re-
markable likeness to the Rock of Dunn
berton, which William Wallace cap
tured, with his trusty Lanarkmen, at
the beginning of his campaign of re-
venge for the death of Lady Marion
and for the freedom of Scotland. There
fore Ninian Beall, the Scotchman, called
the place Dumbarton.
Upon that eminence grew the town of
Georgetown, which was named after
the first son of Ninian Beall; and it
was quite shipping port long before
the city of Washington was dreamed of,
or before the colonies rebelled and
fought for independence. The princi-
pal street of that ancient town (Which
is now part of the national capital)
was called Dumbarton avenue. Many
people still called the colonial village by
its original name of Dumbarton, but
old Ninian Beall, the Scotchman, who
still wore kits, called it Georgetown,
after his beloved son, and he preserved
the original name of the place by giving
it to the principal street, where all of
the business was transacted with the
original farmers, and with the ships
coming into the port.
This is depression, but you will be
interested in the story. The writer, al
most 20 years ago, was clerk in the Of
fee of the surgeon general of the army;
and his duty was to search the records
of soldiers applying for pensions. The
books would show whether or not pen
sion applicant was wounded or sick, as
alleged in his application for pension.
One old soldier claimed that he had
been wounded at Bull Run, and had
been treated in the 'Bombarden hos
pital, in Washington
There was great deal of lombard
ing during the civil war, but there was
no Bombarding or Bombarden hospital
in this city. All of the clerks in the Of
fee tried to find some record in the
case, but all gave it up. The clerk then
gave the case to the clerk who is now
newspaper writer. He kept the case
on his desk for several days, and one
morning, by chance, it occurred to him
that maybe the old soldier, after many
there was recorded the name Of the old
soldier, with a diagnosis of the wound
for which ne claimed to have been treat
ed in Bombarden hospital. He got his
pension, and the clerk who helped him
to it has ever since been proud of the
inspiration which led to that search.
In 1S49 a church was erected by Meth
odists upon Dumbarton avenue, and
during the civil war it was used as
hospital, and that church was called
Dumbarton hospital. There is where
the soldier was taken after the battle
OF Bull Run, and there, by careful
nursing, he recovered.
And now, growing in numbers as we'll
as in grace during all these years, after
nearly half century, magnificent
edifice has been erected on the original
site, by the Dumbarton Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal church. It is probably
the most commodious church building
in Georgetown, which, by the way, is
now officially known as West Washing
ton, for it is part of the corporate of
the capital city. 1t is worthy of men,
ton and description.
On recent Sunday the new church
was dedicated, and all day long there
were jubilee meetings. There was a
Sunday school rally at nine o'clock in
the morning, and at IL o'clock there
was delivered an earnest, affecting and
effective sermon by Rev. DR.. Elliott, a
former pastor under whose ministra-
tons the congregation thrived and
many conversions were hopefully re-
corded. In the afternoon and even
ing there were Epworth league meet
ings, love feasts, sermons by the pre-
siding elder and pastor, and addresses
by some of the venerable and sancti-
fled men and women who have wor-
SHIPPED on that site during their entire
ifetimes. + .
In fact, all Georgetown participated.
People of every Protestant denomina-
ton joined with the members of that
church in all Of their devotions. For,
although the; hospital church, as it
has been called, was not erected until
1849, the original congregation was
formed in 1772, and often did they lis
ten Bishop Asbury and other leaders
of those early days of Methodism in:
this country. There is a tradition that
on one occasion Barbara Heck came
there, and at a prayer meeting astound-s
ed the little congregation by praying
that the time might speedily come when
this entire new world would be freed
from European domination.
That was before Patrick Henry had
sloquently acclaimed: Give me lib