The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1913-11-27
CHURCH DEDICATED
AT FULLERTON
Especial Correspondence From Fuller
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During the years of 19O4-1906, Ger
man Reformed people, whose homes
Originally were in South Russia, came
from Sutton, Neb., to establish new
farm home in the neighborhood OF
Oakes, Glover, Guelph and Fullerton.
The most of them settled in the neigh
borhood of Fullerton, Dickey county.
|Hardships are the usual experience OF
new settlers. Some of the young folks
had to begin with little capital, but
even the older people, who had ac-
quired some capital and stock during
their sojourn in Nebraska, felt the pri-
vations of a new country.
Nearly all of these new settlers were
accustomed to going to ch""ch every
Sunday and to send their children to
Sunday school, where they were in
structed in the Word of God. But in
their new home they found no church
and Sunday school of their own faith.
And, assuredly, they looked for ways
and means to organize a German Re-
formed congregation and Sunday
school as soon as possible. Some Of
the new settlers learned to know some
people at Kuhn who were of their own
faith and on the point of building a
parsonage and calling settled pastor.
Rev. Ed. Scheidt, who then lived at
Baxter, Iowa, visited the congregation
at Kuhn in 1907, and when he heard
of the good people at Fullerton, called
on them, preached to them and with
their common consent, organized a
German Reforme d congregation and
Sunday school on the 9th day of July
in Mr. G. G. Ulmer's house. This con-
gregation was united with the Kuhn
parish by the South Dakota Chassis OF
the Reformed church in the spring OF
1908. Rev. Ed. Scheidt accepted a
call from this parish and since the
29th of October, 1907, has been thei,
settled pastor. The Kuhn congre.
tion, which previously belonged to the
Ashley parish, had church building
or church home, as the Germans call
it, but the Fullerton congregation hac
to :et either in private house or ir
the school house.
Last spring the congregation finally
decided to build church suitable tc
their needs. This church was dedi.
Gated last Sunday, the 23rd of Novem,
ber. It is pretty little church, 26x
80, with ~ foot posts, a. foot steeple
and a pulpit recess 4 feet deep. The
interior is finished with plaster ant
steel ceiling. The pews and pulpit are
finished in a beautiful oak. The
church stands three miles northeast Of
Fullerton, in beautiful grove.
A large crowd had come to take part
in the dedication services and, to be
sure, the friends from Kuhn were
there too to rejoice with the congre
cation. Rev. Ed. Scheidt dedicated
the new building to the services of the
Triune God, and then Rev. G. J. Zenk
stated clerk of the Eureka Chassis, de.
livered appropriate sermons in Ger
man and English. The songs rendered
by mixed quartette were enjoyed by
all. May the blessings of the Coco
Lord rest forever on this congregation
and this church, that the Word of Goo
be promulgated among the young ant
old and the strangers that may come
in their neighborhood.
In the afternoon the congregatio.
and their friends again filled the
church and listened to two sermons
on harvest-home by Rev. E. Scheidt
and on missions by Rev. G. J. Zenk.