The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-02-08
CHURCH CORNER STONE Laid
Presiding Elder DurbOraw Lays the
Corner Stone of the New Methodist
Church-Interesting Cere-
monies.

monies incident TO the laying OF the
corner stone of the new $4,000
Methodist church in this city were con.
Quoted by Presiding Elder Durboraw
at the site, corner of Madison and
Buckeye streets. Despite the cold
there was a good crowd present and
the interesting ceremonies were close
ly followed.
The choir was present and opened
the services, followed by prayer. The
presiding elder read from the Scrip
lures, hymn was sung, Rev. L. b.
Pulliam led in prayer, Psalm 1872 was
read, j. f. Henders on read from /
Corinthians, Hymn $40 was sung, a
collection for memorial window was
taken.
Then tin box was placed i'm the
hollow stone by the presiding elder,
who dedicated the house to theworship
of God and the advancement of his
will and purpose here on earth, with a
prayer that no harm should come to
anyone from its erection, including
the workman engaged upon it. In the
box were the following articles: \
Holy Bible, Methodist hymnal, Meth
odist discipline Christian Advocate,
Central Christian Advocate, Epworth
Herald, lola Daily REGISTER Feb. A.;
lola Daily Record, Southwest Devel-
oper, Historical sketch of the church
by j. f. Henderson, Copy of names of
officers of church in all departments.
Rev. ID. b. Shuey's name on slip,
Copies of other city papers.
PLANS OF THE NEW BUILDING.
The new house of worship will cost
$4,000 and will occupy a beautiful
site close to the center of town. w.
A. Cam, of St. Louis. is the architect
and his plans call for beautiful
structure.
1t will be seventy-six feet east and
west and ninety feet north and
south, with seventy foot tower at the
corner. The walls will be of cut stone
and rich red brick topped by many
gables and peaks and slate roof.
There will be handsome memorial
windows put in throughout the build
ing in time, several being figured on
now. There will be library and
class rooms in addition to the main
room. The pulpit will be in the middle
of the east side of the main building,
which will be divided by huge sliding
doors into an auditorium and sunday
school room. The auditorium will be
4sX4S feet, the seats arranged in Il
semi-circle facing the pulpit At the
right of the pulpit will be Il place for
the choir. In the sunday school room
the seats will be similarly arranged
so that when the sliding doors are put
back the two rooms will be thrown in
to one and the rows of seats corre-
spond. At the rear of both rooms
runs gallery above the lover tier of
seats.
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH ORGANI-
zATION.
Through the kindness of Mr.. j. T..
Henderson the REGISTER is permitted
to print the following sketch of the
history of the Methodist church in
lola, which is the history buried in
the corner stone of the new structure,
which is to typify the growth in num-
bers and power of the organization of
today under the pastorate of Rev.
John MacLean.
To the ofliciary of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church OF lola, Kansas
Rev. John Maclean, pastor, greeting:
Your committee appointed to look
up the early history of our church in
this city beg to submit the following:
We have searched diligently, con-
sidering the time allotted for this
work, but cannot find either list OF
the charter members or any member
ship record prior to 1888, We did
find the following: That the first SER
vices under the aspices of the Metho-
dists were held in the residence of Mr..
j. f. Colburn, before the same was
completed, conducted by Rev. NJ. NJ.
Hahn.
The Colburn family remember that
service but can only remember Mr.,
John Rutledge and wife, Mr.. Abnel
Welch and wife, Mr.. Clark and
wife and possibly Bro. |. b. Lawyer
and wife. They do remember thai
more persons were present, but cannot
recall their names, They remember
this as occurring in September of 1859.
The services were held in this same
building for two or three times wher
they were moved to the residence of j
C. Clark, now the first house west oi
the fremont Hotel, and now owned by
Mrs.J. p. McNutt. 1t is probable