The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-29

somest in the State. The congregation has been worshipping In the Y. M. c. A. hall for two years. the time required to complete the building.
 The new building has cost in round numbers $33, ,612. The congregation lacked s coo of having that much money. so a congregational meeting was hold in the new building yesterday morning and hve thousand dollars of that amount was raised. The following was the rrcgram at yesterday mornings services. at which the 5000 was rais d:
 800 a. m. Sunday School Celebration
 Hon. A. l.. Mcleod. Superintendent. l0:30 a. m. Baptism of children. LOO a. m. Organ editation.
 Capocci; Impromptu, Parker. Anthem by the Choir. Come Let us
 Sing" Willard.
 Hymn No. 132.
 Prayer by Dr. A. H. Mitchell. Scripture reading.
 offertory, The Glad TidinE," Brewer
 Miss Loula Rhea Wise.
 Hymn No. sos.
 Reception of members.
 Statement of Finance Building Commit
 tee. followed by short talk from the
 pastor and others.
 Prayer.
 Doxology and benediction.
 Postlude--Lefebure-W Wely.
 400 p. m. Lovefeast.
 Dr. Mitchell. who led in prayer is up- ward Of % years of age, and Is. perhaps. the oldest Methodist minister in Ala bama, and is looked up to in his section as one of the patriarchs of the church.
 The lot on which the building is erected Is worth $400O: the organ is worth 5000. and the memorial windows cost SS.2OO; 50 1t will be seen that the church Is worth over $400Oo. not including the parsonage which adjoins the church edi- flee. Then there is the organ and the furniture of the Epworth League. which are worth over $1.000, so 1t might be said that the entire property of the congrega- ton on the property owned by the Church Street Methodist Church, will run up into the neighborhood of $45,00O. The carpet cost $SS7. The ladies of the con gregation, with a devotion and heroism that has always characterized the sex, since the women were first at the tomb of the Savior, raised $5,50O of the amount that 1t took to build the church, hand some sum-, indeed. to be raised by them in little over two years by church sup ptrs, and many other legitimate means that they resorted to-
 Last night all of the congregations of
 
 i've houses of worship and went to the new church and joined with the congre- gation in singing and praising God for his many mercies and to return grateful thanks to him for permitting the temple to be completed in His name. The seat ing capacity of the church and the Sun day School room and all, which were thrown into one, Is about 1.500. Every seat was occupied and chairs. were placed in the aisles. and still there were hundreds in the doors and vestibules and hundreds more were turned away because they could not get standing room outside It was a magnificent assemblage. and yet. when they went to leave the building, with all of those chairs in the aisles, 1t took just two and half minutes for the church to be emptied. there being so many different ways of ingress and egress. The Christian spirit of brother hood was evinced as nothing else could have shown 1t by all of the denominations in the city coming together in that vast audience all worshiping. as pr. Levy truthfully said, the one great and living God.
 Every denomination in the city was represented. pr. Crosby of St. Paul 6 wrote letter full of tender love and sympathy and said that he was debarred the pleasure of being present by me- morial service that was to be held to the late Bishop Barnwell m his own church that night.
 The program was an elaborate one and lasted an hour and half and during all that time only one man left the church and he was a railroad conductor, who was called out to an extra run. It was one of the finest congregations ever as- sembIed in Alabama and spoke in thun- der tones of the unity of spirit and ac- ton among the religious denominations of this city. The following Is the pro- gram that was carried out at the night 's service:
 ID. m.-DevotionaI meeting of Epworth League, R. L. Sommerville, President.
 SD. morgan Prelude-Batiste.
 Anthem by Choir-"Glorla in Excelsis' Willard. Scripture reading by Rev. C. A. Williams. Prayer by Rev. J. L. Jack son.
 Vocal solo-"A Dream of Paradlse"- H. Grey-Mss Estelle Marshall.
 Introductory remarks by the pastor Rev W. P. Hurt.
 Address by Hon. A. L. Mcleod.
 Anthem by the choir-"Sanctus and Benedictus" "-Millard.
 Five minute talks from Rev. A A. Lit tie, Hon. H. S. D. Mallory, Rev. w. T. Swain, MT. B. F. Bland. Rev. T. R. Rest and Rev. T. J. Crosby. Vocal Solo-The Song 1 Heard In Heaven''-Baer-Mr.J John Creagh. Five minute talks by Dr. I. L. Levy, Rev Ira M. Boswell MT. Foote Hooper. Anthem by the choir-"Credo '-Millard. Prayer and benediction. Postlude-Flagler.
 The following well known voices com nose the choir: Messrs. Otto Erhart, JO- seph Rosser, John Creagh, William Wool say. Dan Brisiin and William Lapsley; Misses Lula Wise, Annie Bill, Louise Donner, Estelle Marshall. Edith VauRhan, Mary Moore, Clara Galloway and Aleen Dansbv; Mrs. James Kennedy Mrs. c. c. Ritter and Mrs. West Thomas. OrRanist, Miss Bessie Groves.
 Every speech made was most appro- priate and a feeling of brotherly love and tende, nes of on. denomination for the other ptrvaded the entire service. Dr. Hurt, the beloved pastor of the church looked supr ,mely happy, as he acted as master of ceremonies. Tie stated, though as every member of the congregation had | A program, he would not announce tho sneakers, but each one would come for | ward as his place on the program was reached. Your correspondent never heard a more appjropriate lot of talks All were to the point and at the conclusion of eacf short talk the speaker would sit dowI 1NsNN AFae fEdiHa