The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-10-20
Anniversary Services.

the presbyterian church was OBJ
served last Sunday at the morning
and evening services with appro-
pirate exercises. The church was
beautifully decorated. The choir
furnished music. The Rev. Geo.
Williams D.. D. preached the ami
versary sermon in the morning u.s.
ing the text Phil. 3:13 and IA,
Forgetting the things which are
behind, and stretching forward to
the things which are before, I press
on toward the goal unto the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus" In the evening addresses
were made by the Rev. DR.. II. P.
Carson, the first pastor of the
church, on The Beginnings Of the
Scotland Church, and by Rev. DR..
G. H. French of Huron, who serv-
ed the church as pastor from 1891
to 1898, on the Character of the
Scotland Church.
At the morning service the origi-
nal petition for the organization of
the church, which had been pre-
served by Elder Jas. Gibbon, was
read. Those who signed the petit
ton were James Gibbon, Jane Glib
bon, Mary Schantz, John Gibbon,
Isabella Gibbon, William Herbert,
Thomas Thyme, Jane Thyme, H.
Nellis, J%ennette Nellis, Hugh G..
Gum, Jessie Mum, Christian
Schantz. Of this number only five
remain as members of the church,
the others having died or moved
away.
The record of the organization
Of the church as preserved in the
minutes of the session is as follows {:
"The first sermon preached in
Scotland, D. T., by any minister
of the Presbyterian church was by
the Rev. Walter S. Peterson in the
spring of 1879. On June 20, 1879
he returned from his regular field
of labor in the Big Sioux Valley,
with headquarters at Beloit, Iowa.
On July 1879 the Rev. M. b.
Chaplin appeared in the neighbor-
hood, and five days later the Rev.
A. X. Baird, synodical missionary
of the synod of Iowa, who preach
ed to full houses the next day. Ev-
very alternate Sabbath thereafter
the Rev. NJ. E. Chaplin continued
to preach, until the arrival of the
present stated supply, the Rev. r..
2. Carson, travelling from Mitchell
d. T., a distance of fifty miles,
and after spending days in house
to house visitation, seeking the lost
sheep of the house of Israel and
praying with them.
"By Oct. II, 1879 he bad com
pleted arrangements for the organ
lzatlon of a church. On this day
at 8 a.. m /, arrived again the Rev.
A. k:~Baird, and with him Elder
I. NJ. Sinclair Of the 1st Presby-
terrain church of Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Meetings were held at II, a.. M,
and at l, p. m. when the following
named persons were organized into
the Presbyterian Church of Scot
land: John Gibbon and Isabella,
his wife, James Gibbon, Jane, his
wife, Hector Nellis and Jennette
his wife, being received by letter
from st. Johns Presbyterian church
OF W~alkerton, Canada, Thomas X.
Thyme and Jennie his wife, also
Mrs. Christian Schantz by letters
from other churches; William
tiebbert by profession of faith and
Christian Schantz by profession of
faith and baptism.
James Gibbon and Thomas X.
Thyme were chosen us ordained ell
ders. Christian Schantz, William
Hebb4rt, and George Gum of the
congregation, were elected trustees,
after which addresses were made
by the Rev. A. K. Baird and Elder
t. NJ. Sinclair"
The building in which the church
was organized was the chalk rock
school house in the eastern part of
town now occupied as q residence
by J. L. Hutchison.
The summer following the or
ganization a movement was set on