Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-09-14
NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Handsome House Of Worship has Been
Completed Opening Service
Sunday.

completed and ready for the open.
| ing service which will be held on
Sunday morning at II o'clock.
An Eagle representative had the
pleasure of looking over the build.
/ ing Yesterday morning in company /
with the pastor, Dr. J. ID. West.
IL il a frame structure with bun
brick yeneered walls, stately and
.vmmetrical in its proportions,
chaste and beautiful in finish and
furnishings. IL
The general dimensions are 6s
feet A inches by 65 feet 9 inches,
and two towers rise above the main
entrances, while a metal roof re-
llieved by hips and gables covers
the building. Concrete walks and
stone steps lead up to the entran-
ces. two out Of four OF these being
vestibuled. The interior arrange
ment is attractive and convenient,
including the auditorium, sunday
school room, ladies parlor, study
and infant class room, all Of which
may be thrown together by means
of fiexifold doors when occasion
demands, the pulpit being visible
from almost every part OF the
house.
There are seventeen art glass
windows Of beautiful design, a
number Of them being memorial,
and two Of them large sectional
windows. The memorial windows
bear the following names OF those
held dear by many people in Bry-
an and elsewhere: W. j. Bryan,
for whom the town Of Bryan was
named: Thomas Walter Hiegs,
Esther Jane Higgs, Robert John
Nicol, Mrs. Anna Nicol, DR.. aud
Mrs. J. p. Mitchell. l.. ID. Stock
ton. Mrs. L. ID. stockton, Miss
Margaret McDougAld, Mrs. Matilda
Morgan Caviti, William Shaw
Stuart; also windows presented by
the Sunday school and the West.
minister League.
The interior is finished with old
ivory tinted steel ceiling, supplied
with combination electric light and
ascetylene gas fixtures, including
number OF beautiful clusters and
electroliers. The pews and altar
furnishings are Of golden oak, and
a beautiful carpet covers the
floor. A basement room contains
hot air furnace for heat
ing the building, and ventilation
is provided for in both the ceiling
and roof. An inclined floor and
raised pulpit complete the interior
arrangements.
The total cost of the church fin
ished and furnished is approx
mately sl4,5nO.00, and it is an
edifice in which the congregation
building committee. architect and
contractor may we'll fell a pride
in which the entire community un'
reservedly joins. NJ. F. Parmale'
of Knoxville, Tenn, is the arche
teot; /. II. Newton, contractor, anc
the following members Of ,h'
building committee: DR.. j. ID
We.t, chairman; Mesdames o. II
\ Astin, J. V. Brogdon, l.. Z. Nc
< Dougald, ID. F. Dansby; Messrs
] +. B. Lomax, NJ. +. Dansby, Ed
). Derden, II. II. Henry, w. 5
< Higgs, J. II. Mawh;nney, L. l.
\ McInnis. Messrs. McInnis, Ma
! Whitney and Dansby were elected
an executive committee.
< The early records Of this churcl
4 were destroyed by fire, but iron
\ the best information obtsinabl
( from records rewritten from mem
< ory, is was organized by a Brazo
! Presbytery commission in Novem
Der, 1857, with twenty-four mem
bers. Champ Carter was the fire
K ruling elder and Alexander Allel
was made a ruling elder shoitl.
afterwards. Chas. Evans was th
y fret church clerk. The names q
the several pastors who have sery
ed the church are: Revs. ]. r
Hutchinson,' - Cochran, -
Byers. W. II. Vernon, j. Nj. Car
son (supply), j. W. Sextor
John l.. Martin, /. j. Daniel
II. A. Hall, Rev. Sexton (secon
time), and the present pastor
DR.. ]. d. West, who is serving hi
| twelfth year, the congregation haN
ing twice declined TO accept hi
resignation.
4 The present membership of tn
Il church is l4S; Sunday sohoo
H Major L. L. McInnis, superinter
II dent. membership, so; Westminl
n ter League, Z. b. LOmax, superiI
II tenden,, membership, 56. I'll
II officers Of the church and auxili
II ries are: J. F. Mitchell, Rob
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