Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

ON March l, 1869. The Star carried an ex-
ceIlent account of the services held at
the church the day previous and which is
deemed of sufficient interest to here repeat:
Dedication of the Metropolitan Church.
Yesterday the new church, at the corner of
Four -and-one-half and G streets, known the
Metropolitan M. E. Church "a description Of
which was published in The Star few days
ago) was dedicated in the presence of very
large congregation, every portion of the build
ing being occupied and numbers unable to
obtain admission The dedicatory services
were read by Rev. Bishop Simpson, Rev. Drs.
DeHaas, Hamilton, Kyrett and Goodman as
sisting. The choir sang dedcatory anthem
under the lead of Prof. Daniel, Mr.. Tucker
presiding at the organ. Bishop Simpson then
preached a most impressive sermon from the
text-Ezekiel, xlvii9: 'And it shall come to
pass that everything that liveth which moveth,
whatsoever the rivers shall come, shall live;
and there shall be a great multitude of fish,
because these waters shall come thither: for
they shall be healed, and everything shall live
whittier the river cometh.'
"At the conclusion of Bishop Simpsons SER
mon collection was taken up and a very
large sum of money was realized. Among the
contributors were Mr.. Thomas Kelso of Balti-
more who contributed 81 900 in addition to the
$1,000 hitherto contributed An effort was
made to raise $25,000 but the collections fell
considerably short of that amount, reaching
only about 900. Speaker ColfaX contributed
500 and there were several contributions Of
that amount.
"It is estimated that there were at least
1000 people in and about the church during
the service. Hundreds were unable to get even
inside the door, and were compelled to leave.
among the prominent gentlemen present
were Gen. Grant. Chief Justice Chase and
Judge Davis of the United States Supreme
Court; Hon. N. G. Taylor, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs; Speaker Colfax, Senators Har-
Ian, Cragin, Trumbull, Cole, Doolittle, Howe,
Hendricks, Patterson of New Hampshire, Will
son and Sprague Judge Fisher of the District
Supreme Court, Judge PASCAL Of Texas, Hon.
d. N. Cooley, Representatives Raum, Cobb, Van
Aernam, Clark of Kansas, Benton, Cliff,
Edwards, Mullins Dawes. Judd, Morhead, Terry,
Eckley, Humphrey, Churchill, Hubbard of West
Virginia, McKess, Window, Shanks White
more, Halsay, Shellabarger, Koontz, Chilcot,
Washburn of Massachusetts,, Washburn of
Indiana, McCormikc, Longbridge, Pile, Moore,
Corley, Newcob Burleigh, Butler of Tennessee,
Ross, Cullum, Highly, Fields and many others.
"In the afternoon, Rev. w. Morley Punshon
delivered a discourse from 4th and 5th verses
of the second chapter of the First Epistle Gen.
eral of Peter: To whom coming as unto liv-
ing stone, dsallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God and precious. Ye also as living
stones are built up as spiritual house, holy
priesthood, to offer up spirited sacrifices
ceptable to God, by Jesus Christ collection
was taken up and about So 500 additional was
raised.
"At night, Rev. DIR. Eddy of Chicago. an
nounced as his text the 4th verse of the I'd
chapter of Paul'S Epistle to the Corinthians:
And my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of mans wisdom, but in demon