The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-26
BISHOP RAISES MONEY
DEDICATION OF CENTRAL-AyENUE
CHURCH sUNDAY-sCHOOL ROOM.
The Congregation Responds Literally
to Bishop McCabe's Pleading
The Sermons.

The dedicatory services of the new Sun
day school extension of Central-avenue NJ.
E.. Church were held yesterday afternoon,
the services being conducted by Bishop
McCabe. Aside from a solo by Mrs. Flu
gate.-the reading of the dedication by the
bishop and the responses by the trustees
the meeting was entirely devoted to rails
ing the money necessary TO pay off the
debt incurred by the erection of the new
building.
The original cost of the building was
$4,000. About $4,000 of this amount had
been provided for, leaving $4,000 to be
raised. AT yesterday mornings service
Immediately following Bishop McCabe's
powerful sermon on Church Building
nearly $1,000 of the debt was raised by
voluntary subscription. When the sery-
ices began in the afternoon Bishop Nc
Cabe informed those present of the good
work that had been accomplished in the
morning and then made a strong appeal
for the rest OF the money. Said he:
az want to see if We can't dedicate this
beautiful temple to the Lord this after
noon without the grip of death upon it. 1
mean by that to dedicate this Sunday
school to the Lord without a dollar of debt
HdHSilS over IL. lie SdlO IHeTe was Jul
a trifle more than 1900 yet to be raised,
and If those present would give him half
Of 1t he would get the rest of ii at the
night meeting. He then called on Rev.
4. b. Rawls, presiding elder of the dis
trict. for a few remarks. The elder spoke
very briefly, saying he was rejoiced that
a church in the district had set an exam
pie for all the rest of the churches. He
said he did not know whether the other
churches would measure up to it. but it
would give them an incentive TO move on
ward and upward, The building OF the
Sunday school extension, he said. had been
a great undertaking, and the minister and
the officers of the church were to be heart
lily commended for their efforts. which had
been so successfully carried out.
When Elder Rawls had concluded his re-
marks Bishop McCabe appointed a num-
Der of men and women present as a COM
mittee to solicit subscriptions from the
audience. In two hours time the bishop
had succeeded i'm raising $3.50. which was
$500 more than he asked for. He then an
nounced that the rest of the money would
be collected at the evening services. Mrs.
Fugate sang a solo, ollowed by the reading
OF the dedicatory exercises by the bishop.
At the conclusion of the dedication Bishop
McCabe in response TO a number of re-
quests SANG a number of hymns In a way
that brought the tears to the eyes of many
of those who had heard him sing years ago.
One man who had evidently been q SOL
dier exclaimed. That song brings back
Chaplain McCabe of the sixties" There
were HO duuIccstS Hldut, anu at the con-
clusion of the last hymn sung by the
bishop the meeting was dismissed with the
benediction. Rev. William A. Quayle and
Rev. c. f. Bacon, who were to have been
present at the dedication, were unavoid-
ably absent. AZ
The bishops sermon in the morning on
Church Building" was of the kind to
loosen the purse strings of his congrega-
ton. His sermon was devoted almost en-
tirely to the progress of the Methodist
Church in the way of material improve
ments. He said the Methodists were build
ing four churches every day, notwith.
standing the cry of the f~ree-thinkers tina,
| Methodism was on the decline. He told OF
innumerable instances of the liberality OF
men and the good that had been accom-.
| plished by them. He said there was al.
ways a way somehow that was provided
| He said that in the olden days under the
excitement of doing a good deed men hac
oftentimes given more than they could
really afford, but they had been repaid
in other ways. He said that no man evel
did anything for the glory of God but thar
he was repaid a hundredfold.