Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-01-19
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HOPE TO HOLD DIR. HILLS

Magnificent Downtown Church
and any Salary He May
Name.
Divine's Novel SCENE of Mission
airy Work In9orsed.
Brooklyn Trustees Still Believe
Their Offers Will Be
Accepted.
New York, Jan. l2.-Word has
been sent to DIR Hills, of Chicago,
now in Brooklyn, that at meet
ing of the board of trustees of
Central church, Chicago, board
composed of the wealthiest men
of that city, it was decided to
build magnificent church near
the lake shore, if possible, in close
proximity to the Art Institute.
The citizens of Chicago are urg-
ing that if DR.. Hills leaves he
will cost the city a building that
would do much for the higher
civilization Of the community and,
no matter what personal interests
might be gained by his accepting
Il
the call of the Plymouth church
in Brooklyn, he should be willing
to sacrifice those in the interests of
this effort to elevate the life of
his own town.
just what this announcement
made by the board of trustees of
Central church means is not con-
veyed in the mere fact that this
board of trustees is willing to
build a church. The fact is that
the board decided to give DR.. Hill
lis any salary he might name and
to carry out any idea he might
have for the religious or lntellec-
tual development of the people of
the city.
/ Now DIR. Hills has an idea that
is known to the board of trustees.
4 tits very large in its scope and
almost Utopian in it's aim. It is a
Peoples Institute all in one, with
missions attached.
He desired to have built'a splen-
did structure in the densest part
of Chicago's population. There
was to be music hall for free mu-
sic of the highest order, a large
hall for public lectures, one to be
given every day by a man famous
in the subject in hand. There
were to be three sermons on Sun
day, in the morning, afternoon and
evening, each by different man,
and another hall was to be devot-
ed to the lectures on art, to be
given in connection with the art
museum.
| All these things this board of
trustees has practically consented
toaccomplish if DR.. Hills remains
with them, That is the situation
which. confronts him today, and
j yet there is said to be reason to
believe that DIR. Hills will come
to Brooklyn and will succeed DR..
Lyman Abbott in old Plymouth
church.
.:E. M. Phelps, vice president OF
the board of trustees of Central
church, is in New York, and it is
understood his principal object is
to induce DIR. Hills to remain in
!, Chicago, the church to carry out
all the representations contained
in the telegram from New York
, DIR. Hills went to Brooklyn to be
present at the meeting of the Ply.
mouth church league, which met
yesterday. Tonight he will lead
, prayer meeting of the league. He
) will remain over Sunday and will
preach at both morning and even
ing services of the church,
Chicago Chronicle.
Richard Croker, Jr., wearing g
suit of overalls, has begun the
practical study of electrical en-.
3 cheering at the Westinghouse
!. shops, East Pittsburg, where he
will be joined soon by his brother
5 Frank, who will also study cleo
! tricity. 1t is said that thei
8 father has made an alliance will
! the Roeblings, builders of th'
Brooklyn bridge, to engage extern
Q sively in the manufacture of irol
9 for freproof construction.
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