The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-28
Large Church is Almost Completed and
the Congregation viii Dedicate
on Second Sunday in
February.
BEAUTIFUL WINDOWS
Organ Has Been Renewed and the Sun
day School Rooms Are Almost
completed-Frescoins
Finished.

The Baptists will dedicate their fine
new church, Sunday February IA.
This was the announcement of Rev.
Jas. F. Sanders of that church this
morning, who stated that by that date
all work on the large church would
be completed and ready for occupancy
by the congregation.
The work of buila.Ig has gone along
smoothly from the start and on the
second Sunday of next month. the con-
gregation, which has been using the
Jewish synagogue, through the cour-
tesy of the church board of directors,
will occupy their own beautiful church.
The windows of the church are all
in and everything about the new edi-
flee is completed with the exception
of completing the installment of the
organ and the placing of the pews after
the carpet has been laid. The pipe
organ. which was sent back to the
factory at Muscatine when the old
church was r-Zed, has been over
hauled and new casing and two sets
of new pipes have been added to the
/ instrument, making 1t almost all new.
! The organ and choir loft are d.
roctly above the baptistry which is
on the Seventh street side of the
church and directly back of the pulpit.
In the rear of the baptistry is beau
tiful memorial window presented by
several members of the church.
The frescoing, which was done by
L.. Syberkrop & Sons of Creston, is
/ the finest work of the artist, Louis
/ Syberkrop, having been the decorator
of 301 churches, including the Baptist
/ church which he and his assistants
have just finished. One cannot help
| but notice the Cross of Calvary which
is one of the masterpieces of the fres-
coer's art and is painted in the center
of the church in one of the large con-
/ caves. There are five concaves in the
/ ceiling including the large one in
which the organ is placed. The color
scheme of the entire interior Of the
church Including the chapel and Sun
/ day school rooms, is green and gold,
making very pretty effect and stand
! ing out beautifully.
! The wood work is Of oak and the
choir loft of light quarter sawed oak
4 The lighting system is one of the best
of any of the city's public buildings
electric chandeliers being suspended
/ from each of the concaves and a large
/! central chandelier with many mean
descent light Illuminating the entire
auditorium.
The church is heated by three fur
naces, two being steam and the other
hot water. The large kitchen is di-
rectly above the furnace rooms and is
a large and fine one. A long hall runs
through from the rear of the church
and enters each of the class rooms to
the left The arrangement of class
rooms for the individual classes is
above the main on the second floor,
there being about twelve large indi-
beautiful electric and gas chandeliers.
Large rails run around the entire front
of the rooms on the second floor.
The windows of the church are many
] and beautiful The following me-
mortal and those presented by mem
i.bers are the following:
Elizabeth Cochrane and Charles Ed
gar Cochrane large window fronting
ION Blonde {: J. T. Griffey. Francis w.
! Griffey, M. f. King, Margaret ]. King,
Townsend memorial; Lydia A. Pond,
Eckstein N. Huiskamp, Linquist me-
mortal; Emily ]. Wright. Burk me-
morial Edith, Atwilda and John De-
Young, Jas. A. Hirst, T. F. Richards.
Mrs Illusions boys, large side window
fronting on Eighth street, Helen Mer-
riam memorial; James memorial, Mrs
Sarah V. Jones, Ella Duncan, Rev.
James F. Sanders