Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-03
CHURCH OBSERVES
DOUBLE EVENT.
Services at Gunton- Temple
Memorial for ConsoIida-
ton and Passionate.

A series of special services began
! Thursday night at the Gunton- Temple
! Memorial Presbyterian Church cele-
brating the tenth anniversary of the
union of the Gunton- Temple and Cur
. ley Memorial Churches and also the
tenth anniversary of the passionate OF
/ Rev. Bernard Braskamp. The pastor
! will preach tomorrow morning at ii
o'clock an anniversary sermon COM
! memorating the union. His text will be
Acts xxyiii.25: He Thanked God ano
Took Courage"
There will be a special service at 8
pm, when the announcement will be
made by Representative Albert r. Hall
and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, who are trus-
tees of Hanover College, that the college
trustees have voted to confer upon Rev:
Mr. Braskamp the honorary degree oil
doctor of divinity at the commence
ment exercises in June. The sermon
tomorrow night will be preached by
DIR. Albert j. Mccartney, pastor OF the
Church of the Covenant.
e. christian Ministry Subject.
His subject is Christian Ministry"
-. DR.. John c. Palmer, pastor of the
washington Hefg hts Presbyterian
sChurch, will read the Scriptures; Dr..
/ Charles Wood, former pastor OF the
prayer, and DR.. Otto Braskamp, pastor
of the Northminster Church, will pro-
nounce the benediction.
After graduating from the University
of Michigan in 1908 with the degree OF
bachelor of arts, Mr.. Braskamp took
his first year of theological training at
Hartford Seminary Then he went to
, Princeton to complete his last two
years of training. While at Princeton
he also took a postgraduate course in
the philosophical department, for which
he received the degree of master of
arts Upon graduation in 1911, he was
licensed and ordained by the Brooklyn
Presbytery and then came to Washing
ton to be the assistant pastor in the
= Church of the Covenant, of which DR..
. Charles Wood was the pastor. He re-
/, manned there about two and a half
years and in 1914 was called to the
passionate of the Gurley Memorial Pres
byterian Church of this city, this
church being a memorial to DR.. Gurley,
who was President Lincolns pastor in
Church The Gurley congregation, i'm
mediately after calling the pastor,
erected a new building at Fourteenth
and Meridian streets. and 500 members
were received during the first six years
of Mr.. Braskamp's paStorate. The con-
gregation outgrew their building and
plans were made to build a larger au-
ditorium. 1t seemed advisable to erect
the new church on a larger and more
suitable site, and consequently q lot was
purchased at the corner of Sixteenth
and Newton streets.
II Proposed by DR.. Birnie.
Il In 1919 DR.. Douglas Putnam Birnie
stated supply of the Gunton- Temple
Presbyterian Church. at Fourteenth
and r streets, proposed and assisted
Elder George A. Provost of the Guntofl-
Temple Church and Elder BENJAMIN D.
Stalings of the Gurley Church in for
n1ulating the articles of federation
whereby these two churches might con-
solidate. In April of 1920 the two con-
gregations approved the plan and Mr..
Braskamp was unanimously called to
become the pastor of the united con-
gregation, with Gunton-Temple as the
name OF the new church and Gurley as
the adjoining chapel. Shortly after the
consolidation the church building at
Fourteenth and r streets was sold and
the united congregation began building
operations on the new site at Six
teenth and Newton streets, and in 1924
the completed church and chapel, cost
Ing approximately $250,0e0, were dedi-
Gated.
4 There will be an informal fellowship
dinner Thursday at $50 O'Clock in the.
assembly room for the members of the
church and congregation. Dr. j. Ross
Stevenson, president of Princeton The
ILLOGICAL Seminary, will be the speaker.