The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-12-18
Friends Dedicate
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whose hair has been made gray By
time, Naomi Harrison Jay, for whose
husband the church was named.
Words are not sufficient to ex.
PRESS the appreciation feel" said the
aged woman who at present lives IN
California. Il now see in reality what
was my husbands life long desire. |
rejoice more than ever Up the work my
husband did. ~FsiEl
This church has been erected on
the grounds where my little ones We're
reared. And as I Look out over this
audience, feel as though you were
all my children. ! have known most
Of you since you We're children. 1t Is
your duty to carry on the work which
has SO nobly been started by those
who have started it."
Donates Beautiful oraan
Subscriptions made esterday varied
from S. to $3.50. 1t was announced
that a fine Aeplian. organ was donated
by Miss Rose Dougan; memorial win
dows were donated for Charles Albert
and Mary H. Tebbetts by Charles Teb.
Let's and wife, Mary Ann Jenkins by
Abram Pearson and Amelia Test by
her brothers and sisters the religious
library Of Allen Jay has been given
the meeting by Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Jay and Isaac Jay; the pulpit was do
mated by the grandchildren Of Allen
Jay, Allen Jay, IT., Willard Jay and
Esther Jay and the pulpit Bible was
given by Rev. Charles M. Woodman
and his wife.
AT a special service yesterday after
noon, greetings were extended to the
Allen Jay Memorial church by Rev. i.
!. Rae for the Federation of Churches
and the Ministerial association, Rev.
Francis Anscombe for the other
Friends churches OF the city, Ellis M.
Learner for the Y. M G. A. and by
Robert L. Kelly for Earlham college.
Letters OF greeting from Rev. Charles
T.. Tebbetts, Rev Murray Kenworthy
and Rev Elnert Russell, former pas
tors OF the meeting, we're read. The
message Of the afternoon was deliver.
ID by Rev. Alexander G. Purdy, head
" the Biblical department of Earlham
college. 44
The dedication sermon as preached
IN the morning by the pastor of the
hurch. Charles nj. Woodman, follows.
We gather here on this auspicions
occasion and contemplate this COM
pleted structure with a feeling of sat.
lsfaction. The hopes and fears and
labors of many years Is embodied
hero in brick and stone. The real
significance OF the occasion lies not
in sense of completion. but in a
sense Of beginnings. This meeting
stands at the beginnings Of It's work.
This Is it's commencement day. The
real satisfactions of the house of God
are to be found not In an outward
structure, but In inward realities
which end expression within 1t.
All Places Are Holy
The Quaker Of the olden time main
tanned that no one place was any
holier than any other place. Holiness
to him was a moral attribute. and be-
longed to life and character, not to
brick and stone. This place there
fore. 10 be truly consecrated must
find its conservation expressed in the
lives of men and women who worship
within 1t with clean hands and pure
hearts There are no crosses upon
this building. May their absence
teach Us the profound lesson that the
spirit OF Calvary is to find expression
in the holy hearts of its worshippers.
In the dedication of this building and
the life we shall find the real salts
factions OF the house Of God.
we shall find satisfaction in the
house OF God as It embodies in its
form. its worship and its service the
noblest spirit Of the past. This build
ing bears the name of one man, Allen
jay. 1t does so because he more than
others embodied in himself the unde-
fined longings and aspirations Of
Friends in this community and other
places who In one way or another
dreamed OF seeing 4 Friends meeting
In this place. This building as me-
mortal IN unique as such. It has not