Show BUILT HIS OWN CHURCH clergyman nv wic developed loped into a ravi itar I 1 er on the slant 0 the unfinished roof with his toes toc s on jn beam his knees on another a has han mer in his hand and a sixpenny six penny pendy nail in li e arouth ir anth is an odd situation in h to ind a clergyman says the san franc fr nc sea enquirer yet that is how I 1 fond the rev henry victor morgan ps cr of the first k christian hris dan chuch chinch of alameda he was wearing a carpenters apron with the pockets full of nails his shirt sleeves were rolled up and his coat was carefully folded across a sawbuck under a tree the roof he was clinging to is the roof of a church at the corner of san jose and park avenues aes ues alameda it Is a church to house bouse his flock and he be is IB spending his vacation building tt it an 0 1 vr iv Y of spending vacation vait but it is the way of an uncommon man W we od art to have a church he explained with wih deprecating modesty as he backed down the ladder to have a chat with me and as I 1 am pretty handy with tools and fond of manual ual u I labor abor I 1 thought it would do me just as much good to put in my vacation building a church as it would to go mountain climbing or something of that sort when money Is as scarce as it Is now it is easier to labor than it is to raise the funds to pay the laborers the members of the congregation are taking a lively interest in the building and he here are some ol of them working w tb me and he pointed out elder bower bovyer in a pair of overalls and a populist straw hat hoisting boards to the ridge of the root roof and brothers brown and thomas thompson sawing and hammering away eagerly an aa boys with a brand new chest of tools we expect to have it ready to hold services in early this fall when the building is finished there will be no it everything Is 12 debt deb t hanging banging over paid for as we go along to be sure we had to raise the money to buy building anater materials as we needed them but we have not bought a toot foot of lumber ber unless the money was in sight to pay for it this building it ft is EL a large airy redwood structure over fifty feet long and thirty wide win will serve as a church until we can put up a better one then it will be moved to the back of the lot 1 and used as a sunday school room |