Show V f David Keith and Thomas Weir Have Given Each and Hal Half HalS C I of the is Raised To be Dedicated S S J a Year From Christmas S i KEITH has given to toward toward toward DAVID ward the building fund of the tha First Presbyterian church Thom Thomas as Weir Weir has given a like hike amount and the thc committee that has the matter in i charge has in hand and in j addition the payment for the lot on corner of Brigham and C streets is provided for before the actual work of or canvassing for funds has begun be n The TheU U 3 has been subscribed by twenty twentythree twentythree three people not a cent of it has been solicited and a good block of or It has come from friends of the church from outside the th community This is the gist of ot the report of or the officers of the First Presbyterian church made to the tho congregation at the regular sen service service ice yesterday morning It Is needless to say that the report was received with gr groat at enthusiasm Church to Cost The plan of the is to build a church to cost just over and above the cost of oC the lot hot and the to dedicate the building free from rota debt The work was begun last spring but a long delay was caused in getting the title to the lot cleared then the hot spell came on and many of the active people in the church left the city for the summer For these reasons the matter of build Ing lug has lain Iain dormant for some time but now an active campaign is to be opened up and all aU members of nf the th con congregation are to be given an opportunity to subscribe to Ah the building fund Arrangements will be made so that subscribers can pay part In cash part partIn In the spring and part next fall tall when the church Is completed No trouble Is anticipated In raising the full amount The work Is in charge of Thomas Weir H G McMillan Frank Pierce and William F P Colton the treasurer of the church It be remembered that the beau beautiful be lU Newhouse lot Jot on Brigham street wag wa purchased by the congregation last spring for It has a frontage a of nine rods on Brigham and fifteen S rods on C Five Fiva rods will be sold from fron S the rear re rear lr end on C street and the hal bal ance will be utilized for the church and parsonage par In addition to this the th e site of the old church and parsonage a aon on the corner of Second South and Sec Second Second Second ond East streets will be sold and the th 0 congregation will realize more than thai a enough out of these sales to pay for the th e Newhouse lot In this way wy w y there is I 5 nothing to raise but hut the cost of or the th e church building and this is half raised raise f now Dedication a Year From Christmas Very little will vIll be done this fall In the way of ot building It is agreed that a aplan aplan aplan plan for the new church will be de decided decIded upon about Christmas next and after that the work of building will be pushed so 80 as to have the th structure completed within a year from that time The general plan Is to dedicate the completed ted building a year from next Christmas The old church on Second will m be used till the completion of the new one and if it a sale of the property is made before that time it will wUl be made with the understanding that possession Is not to be gIven glen till the new church home is ready for the congregation This it is argued will save the con congregation congregation congregation the heavy hea expense of ot rent ing some place in which to l hIld Id s ives and wilt will hold the thc congregation together much better than If f some new place were tried The need of larger quarters for tor the congregation becomes more apparent every day The old church is often orten overcrowded but it is the Sunday Sunda school that it is making Itself felt more than any other department of ot the church The Sunday Sunda school quarters are far tar too limited Jov some of ot the classes cJ ses are driven to the collegiate in institute Institute institute and some of ot them to the par parsonage parsonage parsonage Splendid provisions for the lit tie tle tJ people will wm be made in the new newchurch nel newchurch church home |