Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-15
CORNER Stone Laid.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES MARK
ED THE FIRST DEDICATION OF
NEW BISMARCK HOSPITAL AND
a DEAcoNEss HOME. ..s

| DEACONESS HOME. II i3.
s Yesterday afternoon occurred his
tory-making event in this city which
will grow In Importance with the lapse;
Eof time and children, scarce in their
teens, in years to come, will tell to:
other children how they witnessed the
impressive ceremony of the laying of
the corner stone Of the Bismarck Hos
pital and Deaconsss Home of the Da-
kota Conference of Evangelical assoc.
citation. $ Sf
Promptly at Il o'clock began an as
semblage of citizens and visitors at
the grounds where the foundations for
the German hospital and church are
laid in the block just east of the
court house. The Commercial club
/ band, marching from the business sec
tion of the city, halted before the
temporary platform on which were
the principal speakers and rendered
1 a couple of fine selections as the OPP
i ening of the ceremony. This was fol-
lowed by prayer by Rev. Louis Magin
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
4 Mayor Smyth then stepped to the
front of the platform and gave a
short address in which he expressed
the pleasure he felt in, welcoming the
erection Of this noble structure to
the institutions of Bismarck He stat
ed there were two kinds of hospitals
one erected for the relief of those
suffering from bodily ills and where
no mercenary thought existed and
the other built to put profit into some.
body's pocket, but he felt safe in say
ing this building was built only with
the thought of the good it might do.
He voiced the best wishes of Bis.
marck citizens for the men who had
wrought out the plans for the church
4 and hospital and assured them that
they would be loyalty supported and
encouraged. III, ~
4 Rev. Louis Magin read the scripture
lesson from Luke 10:29-37, after which
Mayor Smyfh introduced Bishop S. c.
Breyfogle, DID,, of the Evangelical as
ISOLATION. ia. ,z..s -. =...... a.
| The bishop is a fine looking man
of middle age and is an impressive
4 speaker. He pictured the hospital as
following in the footsteps of Christ
and extending mercy to all of what.
ever color, caste or creed. The frs
hospital, he said, was founded BY
Buddha, two hundred years before ths
!. birth of the Saviour and there havs
been hospitals ever since. They arr
the good Samaritans.
= This association has hundreds o
them in Germany and many in othel
, lands. The bishop drew on his ex
tensive foreign travels Ito show the
grand work being done for humanit,
by the hospitals which go hand il
hand with the work of the church.
.ArchdeaJcon Jones of the Episcopa,
church, then read beautifully Psalm
11S, beginning with the 18th verse.
The corner stone used is a beauti
: full, almost white sandstone, nearly in
the form of a cube, brought from the
famous quarry at Mankato, MINI. In
to this had been cut a recess about
6 8 inches and 4 inches deep. As
Mayor Smyth called off the names OF
the various articles to be sealed ur
in the stone they were handed tc
Bishop Breyfogle by Rev VIM. Suck
!, row, president of the association, and
he placed them in the stone An ex-
PLANTATION was, made by the bishop OF
the significance of each.
The order of placing was
a. The bible. q IS +.
A hymn book. e.
Discipline
| Constitution of the hospital.
List of officers-Deaconesse sec.
rotary of the society and board OF
trustees .-
7 Shurch papers: Botschafter, Mes
senger. ~
7. City papers: Bismarck Tribune, Pal
!. ladium, Settler. H.. ~
Sa History of Bismarck. g,.~--
d Map and present census of present
I. day North Dakota = ~ N.
Brief history of movement, includ
l.s -l F4 ~
ing account of the days exercises.
4 List Of donors to go with the corner
8 stone. @ . 49,
With trowel in hand Mayor smyth
touched the stone and declared il
sealed to pass into history.
4 Led by the bishop all united in sing
1 ing the doxology and with bowed
heads listened to the benediction pro
nounced by Archdeacon Jones, 4
Thus was enacted an historic scene