Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-06-14

The dedicatory services of the First
Baptist church ON West King street
of yesterday morning and evening
mark one of the most interesting
gains in the religious history of Mar
burg. Under skies Of azure blue.
through sln-fooded streets that left
no excuses for nonattendance;
throngs began to wend their ways to-
wards the new edifice long before the
hour for the morning services No
more beautiful day could have been
asked to lend color of the memorable
and very beautiful wrought services.
The interior Of the ediflce was
strange to but few that assembled
there yesterday. because for days
past as the workmen put their fin
ishing touches on the edifce, pedres-
TRANS along the way have been drop
ping into view the new churc. II
would be indeed difficult to picture
a more attractive and architectural
ly decorative church than is this new
building, the latest type of sacred
edifice in this community. Much com.
ment was passed on the interior
An Attractive Church.
The pews are arranged in amphi-
theatrical curves so that they are
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seat in the chur h from which can
not be observed the pulpit and choir
without chaning their necks or incon-
yenience.
BY eleven o'clock, when he organ
began to peal forth its prelude Of
praise, every available seat in the
church was occupied and the rear gal.
lery was thronged to Overlooking. The
church has already been described in
these columns. 1t will suffice to say
that it would hardly have been made
more attractive and incontrovertibiity
reflects the greatest credit on the
building committee and the trustees.
From the high and lofty ceiling to
the foot Of the auditorium there Is
not feature or characteristic that is
not most pleasing and attractive.
From the soft purple and god and
the delicate tints in the stain glass
windows to the silvery pipes OF the
organ all is light in color and warm
with intrinsic beauty.
The Music a Feature.
1t is evidently the purpose of the
congregation to make feature of its
music, if that of yesterday was an ex'
ample of what is to come. To do this
of course it was necessary to have
a new organ and no one had heard
that splendid instrument as it was
so cleverly played by Mrs. IL, d.
Fuller, who is the organist at the
Episcopal church in Winchester, will
hesitate to give the instrument any
thing but the highest praise.
1t was built by M. p. Moller, the
emirent organ builder, of Hagers-
town, whose factory is the largest
and equipped in America, and who
has already built organs for more
than sixteen hundred churches and
institutions.
The action, is different in design
and a great Improvement over any
type of action that has heretofore
been put on the market, especially
for organs of medium size, as the
musical possibilities of tEa various
stops are utilized to a dgree never
before attained, and at least 40 per
cent more varieties of tone can be Sc
cured than from an instrument OF
usual construction containing the
same number of pipes.
A Unique instrument.
The action is pneumatic through
out, with pneumatic couplers and ey
ery modern accessory, but so design
ed that every stop is available from
either manual, for solo or accompan
iment either singly or in groups, in
stead of fixed to given manuals as IN
instruments Of older types, and DIS
tinctive feature is the ability to com
mand the stops desired at any pitch
Another distinctive feature which
is grfeat convenience to the organ
list and which increases the musical
possibilities, is the system of adjust
able combinations which are control
led by piston under the respective
manuals, or by corresponding toe pis
tons. by which the organist can ar