Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-05
LAY CORNERSTONE FIRST M. E. CHURCH WITH CEREMONIES Announce List of Contents in Box Out of Old
 Building PUT KEEPSAKES
 IN NEW STONE Bishop Mouzon Compares Build ing of Church With Erection of Business Ttruc-
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 1 In thepresence of a large number 1 of Methodists and their friends, Bi- shop E. D. Mouzon of Dallas, Texas, presided at the laying of the corner stone of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, at the Southwest corner of West Sixth Avenue and Pine street, yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The order of the program was:
 Hymn POS. q Love Thy Church, 0 Lord." Singing led by Milton D. Me l Neil.
 Prayer, Rev. Jomes Thomas of Lit tie Rock, former pastor of the church | Scripture reading, Rev. H. B. Trim ble, pastor Lakeside M. E. Church. i Description of articles contained in | the cornerstone of the church at 9th Avenue and Main street, and of the articles which are being put in the cornerstone laid today, Rev. E. R Steel, pastor fthe church.
 Ceremony of laying the cornerstone and address, Bishop E ID. Mouzon.
 Doxology, "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow"
 Benediction, Rev. w. c. Watson presiding elder, Pine Bluff district Among out of town visitors pres ent was Rev. J. A. Baylor of Louis- vile, Ky., architect who drew the plans for the church. Bishop Mou- zon, one of the most commanding and scholarly representatives of the Southern Methodist church, delivered an inspiring address, comparing the laying of the cornerstone of church 1 with the similar incident in the life of a commercial or industrial plant The latter enterprises stand for what is transitory; the church stands long after the people of today are gone and points the way to eternal life. The church, he said, was built to stand for Jesus Christ, and in the building of it every citizen of Pine l Bluff should feel an interest. He closed his address by appealing to those who are not identified with the church, to find themselves a church home.
 Articles in Old Stone
 The list of articles found in the cornerstone which was laid thirty three years ago at the church, 9th and Main, which is being supplanted by the new structure, is as follows:
 Copy of discipline of 1886, and copies of the then current issue of Sunday School magazine, w. G. B Cunningham, publisher; Arkansas Methodist, edited by Dr. A. R. Win field; Christian Advocate, (Nashville Tcnn.). o. P. Fitzgerald. editor; "Our Little People, published by Southern Methodist Publishing house, Nash vile, Tenn; Roster of members and official board, illegible because of disintegration; Pine Bluff Weekly Republican Ga paper published by the colored people of this city); Pine Bluff Weekly Press Eagle, Arthur Murry, editor; Pine Bluff Weekly Graphic, Read Fletcher, editor; Pine Bluff Daily Commercial, Major Chas Gordon Newman, editor. List of of ficers of the grand lodge of Masons who participated in the ceremonies | Copy of Masonic Trowel, the official organ of the grand lodge. List ot Y. M. c. A. officers participating in the ceremonies. Business card o1 R. H. M. Mills. Helmet badge in scribed, HI. King White, Mayor of Pine Bluff, 1ss7." One silver dollar one half dollar, one quarter, foul dimes, one penny and one two pfen- ming. Most of the money was mint ed in 1887.
 In the cornerstone of the new church the articles deposited are: A Bible; Discipline for the year 1918; Arkansas Methodist: Christian Ad- 'vocate Nashville, Tenn.); officla roll of church: Methodist club rol of officers and roster of members Year Book of Woman's Missionary Society: Year Book of Young Ladies Il Club; Year Book, Young Peoples Missionary Society; Roll and Roster Epworth League; Roll and Roster i, Junior church; list of Sunday Schoo II officers, teachers and students; Sun Il day School literature, copies of eacf I grade; Service Flag of the churcf during world war; copy of roll O, those who enlisted from the churcf during world war; program of stand ard training school for Pine Blut district: standard plan for eight day drive. Missionary Centenary for th' S35.OOO. .OO0 of which First Churci subscribed s2s,0oo; list of pastors of the city of all the churches O. all denominations; Minutes of thu last Little Rock conference; recen copies of Pine Bluff daily papers Graphic and Commercial; program O tho semi-centennial service held D! Rev. A O. Evans, Nov. 13, 1898; Tw' copies of the church paper, Pulpit ant Pew, one containing an account Q Bishop Mouzon's first visit to ou church and one containing estimate