The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-14

enth streets stood tho house OF H0en-
ezer Zane.
sylvan Scene.
THE river bottom was devoted 20
corn. grass and woodland. SoInc
lance from the corner OF the ptort =.
Chapline and Twelfth STREETS IN ~ NJ
erly direction and near the hill wa FUR
tbnr bacr i6r house. Where the sec
ond ward market house, now stanos Wa =
pond which was snppthlneII Market
spring on the side Of the MIL IA few
street was not graded anu
houses. ,,. cr.sL Circuit
an din 1873 appears for the mrs. III
IN 1919 Wheeling apPointment md
as separate station. the eloQuens The
eccentric Irishman. Billy
preacher in charge.
Hssdsd More ROOM
"rho CONGREGATION had so increased
thar a larger building was REQUIRED, ~
Nav, 1882. the new project was launen'
ed The old church was torn ooTaii
After many hard struggles, nnan1 ,a .
and oth s ssb the Hs y G 1sss It had
been occupied earlier. Daniel LimeriS.
was tho preacher in charge. on uns
huiIdinr committee appeared inc IaiaaS
of John List. Joseph Morrlson, tGa
Dav and Robert Hamuton-names sna,
arc still perpetuated IN Tue 1-be new
hmrIdinr was commodious structure;
with side and end galleries ana ~ouio
seat two thousand people. It was ,nSse
fore larger than any puoiiS oIiiIu ~
rcIi rious or secular. in the Wheenns o.
nmr dav The basement held a large
ronn, |or the Sabbath school and sever
al small class-rooms.
Stood IN Solitude.
when we consider that IN lS5 i,
Fourth Street church was the o.1s
Mace Of worship for Methodists Tot VIZ VIZ
miles along the Ohio river; on POI
sides, and reflect that all OF the Me.noSS
list churches In that oI Iad tbc original so,
r lisp we can we'll see why Fourtr.
street Is known as the Mother Churcn
No fewer than sixteen otner n,
these nearly all are still in e1istenc'
and fourishing. ,e.. o,
| able service was held IN f1urih Sae
to cree erect a new building to meet the DE- de:
s sItIrICn dedicated in 1885. the seconc
on the site. wes to be demolished; FOL
the last time the throngs assembled T. T.
charge was Alexander Martin. D. D. Thu
services began at 4 m. with love
feast.
Later Samuel Barnes. OF baillInorc
offered prayer. Wesley Kenney, D. u,
| Nt Philadelphia. read the Scripture ane
T, NJ, Hudson. of the West Firginia con
ference preached from the 1880 Psalm
Services were held in the afternoon ant
evening and on the following evening
. Washington Hall was secured as meet
ing place. the old church demolished
and the new one constructed.
First Service Xsld.
Tho basement Of this third and pres
snt church being ready for use the frs
service was held on December 90. 1857
w. N. Mullinix was tho pastor. II
| March. 1870. Henry G. Westwood. d. D.
was transferred from Baltimore con
ference and on the 18th Of the following
May the new building. the 9nntversar!
Of which we are now observing: wa!
dedicated BY Bishop Edmund S. James
D. D.. Thomas Bowman. D. D.. aftcfwart
bishop preaching in the evening.
"Bishop James text was lsaias 6:5-S
Henry K List. president of the boart
~ trustees. presented the church fo
dedication. 1t Is worthy Of note tina
the present president Of the board o.
, , trustees Is a son Of Daniel c. List, Jr
The invitation to this dedication shows
that the morning sermon was TO hay.
J have been preached by Bishop Davis w