Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-22
CARR MEMORIAL
 DEDICATION Bishop Seth Ward of Hous ton, Texas, Delivered the Dedication Sermon at Festivities Yesterday
ARTICLES DEPOSITED
New House Of Worship Will Take Place of the One Destroyed in the East End Fire Last February-The Exercises.

MOSt impressive was the corner stone laying of the Carr Memorial church yesterday by Bishop Seth Ward of Houston, Texas, one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. This is to be a brick edifice, to talk the place of the frame structure that was destroyed in the great fire on East Second avenue in the early part of the year.
 An interesting feature of the occa- sion Monday afternoon was present. ed by two hundred children of the First Ward school. They marched from the school and took position in lines on the platform, or floor, of the church building, now in course of construction, and, being led by the principal nof the school, sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee''
 The congregation sang How firm 8 foundation, ye saints of the Lord,'' af- ter which the bishop led in prayer, and Reverend T. Y. Ramsey read the Scriptural selections as arranged in the ritualistic services. Reverend w.. w. Christie read the list of deposts in the cornerstone, which were as fol- lows: Copy of the Bible, the hymn book, the discipline, the Christian Ad- vocate, Western Methodist, Epworth Era, GO Forward" Woman's Mission ary Advocate, Our Homes, school pe- riodicals and Epworth League liter- ature, copy of each of the Pine Bluff papers, a document setting forth the name of the church, with the names of the pastor, officials and members of the church, also a document con- taining the memoir of Reverend John F. Carr to whose memory the church has been named, minutes of the Little Rock conference, sealed document by T. Thompson, card by w. P. Will son, other deposits by Mrs. c. M. Vogal, R. H. M. Mills and Reverend o. H. Keadle.
 After this the bishop concluded this part of the service by placing his hand upon the stone and making the following pronouncement: We lay this cornerstone of house to be built and set apart, from all worldly uses, for divine worship, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen"
 Bishop Ward then delivered very eloquent and impressive address. The address was altogether extem- poraneous, but well adapted to the oc casion. Some of his friends thought that after his preaching three times in the city Sunday in addition to his continuous travel and preaching through Georgia for several days, au- so a slight cold, he would be too hoarse for the open air exercises. But as he progressed in his subject and warmed up to the occasion it was dis covered that he possessed the happy faculty of adjusting his voice and ora torical capacities to platform occa- SlOnS III the open dlT as we'll as clSe- where.
 His theme was not confined merely to the ordinary eccesiastical hemis pheres, but embraced municipal, state and national provinces. The faith of the people at large is expressed in the enormous expenditures in the con- tinual erection of churches from one end of the country to the other. Ev- cry where, in the cities, in the towns and all over the country, they .s> building churches more tuan e7er be- fore
 Bishop Ward is one of the bishops elected to that office at the general conference at Birmingham last year, and is the youngest bishop in the | cabinet of bishops in the Southern Methodist church. The Methodist peo- pie of Pine Bluff are elated over him and his three days sojourn in the : city. He preached very eloquent and ,, edifying sermons at First and Lake side churches last Sunday.