The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-27
NEW HOUSE OF WORSHIP
NEW PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL
ROOM OPENED LAST NIGHT.
An Able and Interesting Address on the Church
History Of Raleigh by Rev. DR..
Eugene Daniel,

The congregation of the First Presby
terrain church last night for the first time
occupied their new Sunday School ant
session room.
>Rev. DIR. Eugene Daniel, tile pastor
conducted the service with special re
f"rcnce ITO the opening of this mode
house of worship. His address was +:
most excellent one.
The speaker referred to the service III
social rather than formal in its charac
ter. Hence, the appropriate address
would seem to be just a simple and even
conventional review of some of the NOR
important facts connected with the be
ginnings and the development of church
eS in Eastern North Carolina. and, more
especially in Raleigh.
At the outset, reference was made tC
the pleasure experienced in having read
certain historic papers recently publish
ed by DIR. Hufham, of Wilson, y. G..
giving most interesting account of tn,
early implanting of churches in the
Albemarle region. The common impress
sion that Presbyterians had originally
settled this region and lost it through
neglect, was pronounced incorrect, and
shown to be so by quotations from DIR
Independents and Baptists. fleeing from
persecution. began to settle the county
even as early as 1861, two years before
the grant was made by Charles III to
the eight proprietors.
Reference was next Amade to the ear
lier work Of the Methodist church. The
Centennial of the establishing of Meth
odiSm i'm North Carolina was celebrated
Ia, Dolo srb Nbn 1oxy
be therefore, assumed as the date of It's
organized beginnings in the State. In
the Eastern part. the MethOdistS and
Presbyterian churches do not seem to he
far apart in their early work. Methodist
preachers. it is stated upon good author
ity. were in Raleigh as early as 1894. but
there was no organization until 1907.
The Presbyterian church was organized
i'm this city i'm 1906. The Baptists. in
1913.
The question as to which denomination
is entitled to the credit of having erected
the first building in Raleigh was cOnsid-
cred with studied fairness. 1t would APP
pear that the building erected by Mr..
Glendening. known as the Bethel" was
put up in 1905 or 1906. Mr.. Glendening,
while in Raleigh, was preacher of the
A<uTlStldn ihuOhI as All ~ INtlIt
ite.) The frame building, fifty by sixty
was erected by sthe Methodists in 1911,
whtre EdentOn street church now
stands The Baptists built small house
of worship near Moore square in 1913.
The present Presbyterian church was fin
ished in 1917. The churches erected pre-
viously to this one We're small; this one
was large and permanent. Its walls.
have stood for so years. The little chapel
which is substituted by the building N
which we now meet for the first time
waAbuilt in 1925.
The speaker, having brought his hear
ers to the present occasion, dwelt upon
the varied forms Of service which the
new building is expected to render; for
prayer, for teaching Gods word to the
young, for social reunions Of the congre-
CATION. He warmly thanked all who had
co-operated in the work.
In concluding. he made the point that
Just as every faulty failure tends to
weaken, so every worthy success,
achieved through self-denyng and ener-i
getic effort, makes us stronger for new
and higher achievement The success
attained nightly enables us unto great
or success in making our work cOmpleteI
by going ON and finishing the whole
church.
1t was a splendid address, helpful and
full of historic interest.