The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1903-06-10
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
DEDICATED LAST SUNDAY
The Seating Capacity of the Church
was Taxed to its Utmost at
Both Services.


and other beautiful flowers, in all the
gorgeous tints that only the Great Artist
of the universe can produce, the beau
tiful new edifice of the Presbyterian
society of this city was last Sunday
morning solemnly and appropriately
dedicated to the service of Almighty
God. Long before the time for opening
the church was packed so that there
seemed room for no more, but extra
seats were provided, and all were COM
fortably seated in time to hear the
opening response by the choir.
1t is estimated that fully 700 people
were in attendance upon the morning
dedcatory service, while the church was
taxed to its capacity Sunday evening.
Almost everything in connection with
the church is entirely new, even to the
ones circulated among the congregation.
One hundred new bibles have also been
added to the Sunday school library.
The floor of the building is covered
entirely with new brussels carpets, an
item in itself approximating a cost o
1000.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. f. MacKinnon made
the church present of a magnificent
individual communion SET" the first
OF its kind to be introduced in this Sec
ton of the country.
As to the acoustics OF the building,
they are the very best. A whisper from
the pulpit is plainly audible in the re-
hottest corner OF the house. One of the
strong features OF the services last Sun
day was the excellent music furnished
by the choir. The solo of Miss Pru-
dence Hatfield in the morning was we'll
sung and very pretty. The only disap-
pointment. if SO it can be termed, in
connection with the exercises was the
non-arrival of the pulpit chairs, which
have been expected daily for the past
week.
The total collections for morning and
evening services amounted to $1,000.
which relieves the financial committee
for the church of all local Indebtedness,
and puts the church in position to
carry itself along in good shape.
Hon. John 2. Hartman of Seattle,
who took an active part in the evening
service, made the remark that the new
edlhce was one of the most complete
and handsomely equipped churches in the
Northwest. From every standpoint he
considers 1t as fine as any church on the
coast north of San Francisco.
The following is the report of the
financial committee: Total subscrip-
tlons paid up to Sunday, June eth, ST.
l22.57; Sunday subscription, 81 1874 81
total, s., 1924. Amount borrowed from
the Presbyterian Board of Church Free
tion in New York, s. 900. Total cost of
the new church, sll 800.
The OBLIGATORY sermon by Rev. Hay
den was mastery effort and was list
ened to with rapt attention by the large
audience. Following is the sermon in
full
To erect an enduring monument to
high and noble cause is an ambition
that may well engage the loftiest soul
BY these monuments succeeding gener.
atoms know of these ideals, the efforts
and achievements of the past. BY
these monuments both history and
pIIN dIt written. bunker Hlll
tells of how the ideal of civil liberty,
well grown under monarchial op-
preston, found place in a virgin soil
and wrought out its beauteous lines in
sacrifice and blood. Getty sburg tells
of heroism, undaunted by defeat, blaz-
ing on northern hearthstones and on
southern fields until that equality that
tlnds no discrimination in color was
wrought into the genius of our ma
tional life and institutions. The
towering walls of Yale and Harvard
of Williams and Johns Hopkins, tell
of yearning minds atliirst for knowl-
edge, of the fountains of knowledge
yelling up in great souls, bursting
their banks to reach the thirsty ones;
of great desires leaping the boundaries
of old world conventions, throw
ing aside the chains of all thralldom
and grasping and giving a culture
both broad and deep-that culture and
tone the strength of a Christian ma
ton just coming to the birth. In
every hamlet and city where our fore
fathers lived and wrought and PRAYED
for better things for their children
than they possessed or thought pos
sible for themselves, stand the churches,
built of honest stuff that has outlived
the wreck of centuries, of sun and
storm, stand beside the forests of will
low and pine that shade the ancient
sentinels of granite that guard the
homes of the longtime sleepers, stand
and tell story of faith in God and
in His Word, of fidelity tested and
crowned, of earnestness that blazed
the way of God to the untenanted
wilderness of the great West These
are monuments of history and bio