The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-30

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Sleepy Eye parish, and called on
Rev. II. Y. Givler to speak. By way
of contrast to the building to be ded-
/ icated, DR.. Givler told of a print
tive Kansas church after the man.
ner of dugout or sod house, where
in the absence of lumber the congre-
cation worshiped on mother earth
and used bales of hay for seats and
even for the pulpit. When the rain
came too fast to be shut out by the
sod roof, the congregation climbed
upon their bales and sang, Pull for
the Shore suiting the action to the
words. Doctor Givler gave his
need of praise to his brother pas
tor for his daring in building so
large and costly church.
Rev. R. F. Chambers followed
with a jocular reference to DR.. Civ
ler's primitive church, and observed
that the latter had done well in not
putting preacher of baled hay
behind his baled hay pulpit. He
then told Of his first meeting Mr..
Nicholson in overalls at work in the
basement of the new...church, and
paid a tribute of admiration to the
work of the man who showed his
faith by great works.
County Attorney Owens congratu-
lated the pastor and congregation
Oh their achievement, and made a
pea for the people to use their
church for the instilling sof right
ideas. in regard to citizenship and
patriotism in the minds of the
young. He..was followed lby the
editors of the Reyeille and Gazette,
the latter asking the privilege of
leaving Mr.. Schmahl to present his
sentiments, while Mr.. Welles aptly
expressed his appreciation of the
work of the pastor and his people,
and Mr.. H. A. Baldwin followed
briefly in the line of congratulations.
+ The pastor TOOK occasion at this
time to call attention to the fact
that the men behind the sguns"
were entitled to the credit for car
rying out the work which all had
been commencing. Hisss..statement
that in every step forward in the
work Of planning and building the
men and women of the church had
been practically a unit in supporting
and helping the proposition is some
what remarkable, but is borne out
by the fact that this spirit has been
expressed in tangible form by many
OF them If not most of the members
having pledged a considerable larger
proportion of their possessions than
the scriptural tenth, for the church
building fund.
Austin Terryberry Of Duluth was
introduced as the man who drew the
plans for the church. Mr.. Terry
berry modestly disclaimed the credit
of designing the church, insisting
that he had merely worked out the
ideas and directions Of pastor Nichol-
son. He went into some details re-
garding the permanence and stabil-
/ ity of the building, and declared
that, barring earthquakes and phe-
nomenal catastrophes, the building
would outlast any of the builders.
Mr.. Terryberry afterwards insI &C.
ted the building in the evening,
under the strain Of an audience of
nearly 1000 people and was unatl lie
to find any DETECTION of the massive
! iron beams or any tremor from II e
movements of the audience percep-
tible from the basement beneath.
Mr.. S. NJ Waters. representing
the state governing body of the
Christian church, of which his faith
er is president, made business like
little talk, telling incidentally how
the board happened to direct Mr..
Nicholson to the church here three
years ago.
j. A. Schmahl and Oliver Stewart
concluded the speaking part of the
afternoon program, the former
speaking to the proposition that the
magnificent building was worth
much to the people of this city and
that it was right that they should
contribute toward paying for it.
1t was subsequently announced thai
Mr. Schmahl had exemplifed his
otopoont with eR0 obaol1 NJ