Year: 1878

In the winter of 1S75-6 a Presbyte-

 rian Mission Church was organized

 in Tucson and about SIX mouths later

 Rev. J. E. Anderson of Colorado, was

 commissioned for this charge. The

 Secretaries of the Home Board were

 especially anxious that the Tucson

 Mission should be a marked success

 and accordingly set about to find a

 man whose ability as preacher and

 adaptability to frontier work had been

 tested and not found wanting. It was

 very soon decided to invite Rev. An

 derson to take this new and important field. Mir. Anderson was the first min

 ister from the membership of the Colo

 rado churches, and at the conclusion

 of his studies was stationed at Boulder,

 where in few years, through great endurance, continuous hard labor and

 with characteristic energy and ability

 he succeeded in building a handsome

 brick church and united such con

 gregation as might have satisfied the

 most successful worker in the cause His record in Colorado was what in lduced the Secretaries of the Home

 Mission Board to urge upon him the Tucson field. After considerable per suasion and deliberation Mir. Anderson accepted and he arrived in Tucson a little less than two years ago. He came

 with a purpose and determination to accomplish that pursOse. The field

 was difficult one and the obstacles Ito be overcome were many while his supporters and encouragements were few; even the Board that sent him at times manifested an unexpected in- difference, but notwithstanding all this AIr. Anderson struggled on, and today he is constructing a church edifce in the Courthouse plaza that will stand as worthy monument of his success for years, and we hope for generations.

 The building was planed by Mir. Anderson, and is being constructed under his personal supervision. He does not allow his other labors, the heat or any other matter to interfere with this duty. During even the warm est days when the thermometer marked 11S degrees in the shade he could be found among the wOrkmen superin- 1 tending the laying of each brick and | adobe, and carefully watching the walls as they rise foot by foot toward | completion. The main walls were finished while we were in Tucson last week. The church will contain a large auditorium, back of which are two commodious parlors. At the left hand corner of the front will he a | neatly designed bell-tower, and on the right hand corner a lofty steeple. The windows are to be of stained glass, and the inside furniture will be of the best material, after latest devices, all of which is to be sent from New York. The outside is to be we'll | plastered and painted with a heavy | paint made expressly for such pur- poses after which it will be penciled | and made to represent stone. The building when it is completed will aside from it's usefulness to the con- a great ornament to the town and without doubt the finest structure in Southern Arizona.

 Many of the citizens of Tucson have contributed literally to the building fund, and Mrs. Dr. c. II. Lord has been most untiring and successful in her efforts to secure aid from her numerous and wealthy eastern friends.

 NIT. Anderson by his personal dig llty, practical sense, ability and chrls- ian zeal has won the confidence and .espect of the community in which he ives and of all others who have learn d to know him well, and the Home 3oard have cause to congratulate them elves and MT. Anderson upon the sue .ess of the Tucson Mission.