Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-21
TO DEDICATE
NEW BUILDING
U. E. Publishing House Ready
For the Formal
Opening

ercises of the New United Evan
gelical Publishing House of this city
located at Third and Reilly streets,
VIII occur on the afternoon and
evening of Tuesday, October l in the
handsome edifice just completed by
that church in Harrisburg. The cere-
monies which will mark that day an
suspicious one in United Evangelical
annals here, will include the sepa-
rate dedication and formal opening
OF the exhibit room, an important
feature of The new building contain
ing the ecclesiastical data of the His
torical Society of the church and its
Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society.
The exercise throwing open the
doors of the new publishing house
to the denomination, and general
pubic begins with an afternoon ses-
sion there at o'clock on Tuesday,
the program for which is as follows:
Orchestral music, Gloria Patri,"
(standing), Scripture reading, the
Rev. j. G. Finkbeiner, member of the
board of publication; prayer, Ex-
Publisher the Rev. S. L. West; mu-
sic, hymn No. 324, Introductory re-
marks, Bishop U. F. Swengel, d. d.;
music by Publishing House employees,
address, The Publishing House in
Its Relation to the Church." James
j. Nungesser, publisher; music by
male chorus, unveiling of bronze tab
let, the Rev. w. M. Stanford, ID. D.,
editor of Sunday School and K. L. or
c. q. literature; closing hymn, No.
392, benediction, the Rev. ]. w. Dom
er, d. D., vice-president of the board
of publication; inspection of the
house under the direction of r. H.
Statlnr assistant DIlhliShar
Presiding at the above session will
be the Rev. ]. w. Thompson. presi-
dent of the board of publication. w.
L. Bailey will direct the musical
part of the program.
The evening dedicatory exercises
to be held at o'clock in the Harris
Street United Evangelical Church,
more elaborate and comprehensive
in scope perhaps than it's forerun-
Eer in the afternoon, and which will
doubtless be attended by prominent
churchmen and lay1nen of this city
outside the Evangelical Church in
tion of all churches of the latter de-
nomination in and about Harrisburg
comprises this program:
Scripture reading, the Rev. ]. w.
Hoover editor of Evangelical Men;
hymn No. 394, (standingr, invoca-
ton, the Rev. w. E. Peffiey, assistant
editor of Sunday School Literature,
address, Bishop w. II. Fouke,
d. D.; anthem by the combined
choirs of Harrisburg and vicinity
United Evangelical Churches; an his
torical sketch, THE Progressive His
tory of the Publishing Interests of
the United Evangelical Church." the
Rev. j. II. Shirey, secretary of the
Board of Publication and the Build
Ing Committee; music by the COM
bined choirs of Harrisburg and vi
cinity United Evangelical Churches;
dedicatory exercises: CD dedicatory
poem, the Rev. (ex-Bishop) H. B.
d. D., editor of The Evan
gelical; CD transfer of keys by the
building committee to the board of
the Rev. (eX-Bishop)
w. +. He'll, D. D., advisory member
of the building committee, deliver
&, and the Rev. NJ. T. Maze, menu
ber of the board of publication, re-
ceiving the keys; a praise song by
the congregation, (standing, doX-
ology, closing prayer and benedic-
ton, the Rev. B. H. Niebel corre-
spending secretary of the Missionary
Church; inspection of the house un-
James j. Nungesser.
That interesting part of the days
ceremonies given over to the dedica-
ton and formal opening of the ex-
hibit room of the Historical Society
of the United Evangelical Church
and Woman's Home and Foreign
Society, which takes
place in the new publishing house
from 6.45 to 7.45 p. M, Tuesday, will
be presided over by Bishop U. f.
Swengel, ID. D., president of the His
torical Society. Its exercise follow:
Presidents opening remarks, Give
devotions, conducted by
Bishop w. II. Fouke, D. D., Give
data of relics, the Rev. j. d. Short
ess, D. D., (twenty minutes); dedi-
catory address, DR.. c. A. Bowman,
(twenty minutes); closing remarks
and benediction, Editor II. B. Hartz-
Ter, d. D., Give minutes).
This exhibit room, which more
than likely, will be added to from
time to time by patrons and lovers
of the church who have read and
saved it's lore and who are more or
less necessarily acquiring it's biblio-
graphy and literary accoutermen
will be a sort of sacred" place for
those visiting it. Relics, pictorial and
otherwise, intimate with knowledge
of United Evangelism and the things
which it touches; books and papers
apropos the authority, history and
of the church and memen-
toes in general which testify to the
greatness and usefulness of the
church will find their abiding places
here. AS the name of this room i'm
plies, the contents therein will be
more or less equally divided between
the historical and missionary ac-
quirements of the United Evangelic-
al denomination. Noteworthy in the.
collection gathered are documentary
and other proofs of the church's in
huence in foreign lands notably in
China and Japan.
The bronze tablet commemorating
the building of the new publishing
house which occupies a prominent
place in the main entrance of the
bears the following in
The publishing house of the Unit
ed Evangelical Church, erected A. ID.
1917-1S. Board of Publication, Rev.
]. A. Thompson, president; Rev. ].
w. Domer. vice. president; Rev. ]. H.
secretary; Rev. ]. G. Fink
bender, Rev. M. p. Maze, /. G. Burd,
E. S. Hengst. M. B. Templin, ].
r. Shaw.
Building Committee-Rev. ]. w.
president; Rev. ]. H.
Shirey secretary: l. c. Burd E. s.