The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-30

the congregation was an unpretentious
building of the regulation type in the
DOWNTOWN district, but one Sunday
their then new pastor, Rev. HI. II. Bar
lleur who, since he changed from the
profession of the law to the ministry.
has been instrumental in the erection
u several church buildings, preaching
Il sermon from the text, speak unto
the children of Israel that they go for
ward" urged change of location and
y new edifice Everybody about Column
bus to-day agrees that the congrega-
tiCn applied the text to ITSELF for there
has been a forward movement that.
INTELLECTUALLY at least, has placed the
church ahead of any other in the
country.
The temple stands out on Broad
street fine thoroughfare we'll deserv-
ing the name three-quarters of a mile
from the state capitol from which
everything is reckoned in Columbus;
it is placed sixty feet back from the
street line and has a twelve-foot drive
way on the west and thirty feet of lawn
to the east. The lot was filed in and
terraced, SO that it is two feet above
the street, and a row of handsome lamp
pillars adorn, and by night illuminate,
the front line.
The open space about the building
has been transformed into a miniature
park, in which the eye is delighted by
flower beds, mammoth urns filled with
choicest plants, a large fountain of
unique design, and grass of deepest
green. From the outset the pastor,
who was chairman of the building COM
mittee, and under whose supervision
the entire work was done, announced
that there should be one church build
ing that should not crowd upon the
street or upon it's neighbors as if fight
ing for the last inch that belonged to
1t. But the chief novelty in the new
church is that in its new building it
has gone beyond anything heretofore
attempted and has given to the world
a style of church architecture in which
novelty, utility, attractivenesS and
beauty are united to "a surprising de-
gree.
The temple is built of whitish-gray
limestone from the Bedford, Ind, quar-
ries, and might be taken for a public
library, club house or theater as nat
urally as for a church. I'VE have no
money for useless steeples; we are
not going to inflict the public with
bell; let every dollar tell for utility and
comfort" said Mr. Barbour to the arch
itect, to whom, also, he gave a rough
sketch of the interior arrangement as
he desired it to be and as it now is.
Entering the low but massive arch
doorway, which reminds one of the an
cient monasteries of the old world
the visitor finds himself in a long.
wide mosaic fioored, marble wainscot-
ted and richly decorated corridor, or
lobby, from which the social rooms of
the church open on the right and left,
at the far end of which is the entrance
to the main auditorium, and from which
also hard wood and marble stairways,
wide and imposing, lead to the floor
above, and a smaller stairway to the
basement.
The room on the right is for the
young people, with the pastors study
opening from it; the ROOM or double
apartment, on the left is the ladies'
reception room, furnished richly and
tastefully. Doors open from this ROOM
and also from the study, as well as
from the lobby into the auditorium or
rather into the foyer, for across the
end of the church proper there is the
feature of the modern theater. Spa
cious, wainscotted with marble, and
broken by graceful arches, it is alike
useful and ornamental Upon its walls.
as also in the corridor and social
rooms, are hung numerous pictures IL
Illustrating scenes In the life of Christ,
and, indeed, the temple gives promise
of becoming a fine picture gallery in
time.
Looking through the arched openings
by which the foyer is connected with
the auditorium one sees, first, circular
rows of quarter-sawed oak pews di-
vided by aisles in which new and
striking curve has been introduced, and
then the minister's platform, immedi-
ately back of which is the great organ
and the space occupied by the choir Of
forty voices which leads in the singing
that Is so much feature in the temple
services The platform, which is bare
of anything resembling the old-fash-
toned pulpit. its furniture being COM
Portable tete-a-tete, small ebony table
and an onyx stand for flowers, is sur
mounted by an unmistakable proscen-
ium arch and has what appears to be
boxes at the right and left. These are
really Ietiring ro0ms, furnished to cor