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Show CORNERSTONE OP NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH EDIFICE TO BE LAID TODAY NEW WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN OTrURCH AS IT "WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED. At ,'!:30 o'clock this afternoon the cornerstone of tho new Westminster Presbyterian church, which is being erected at the cori.er of Fifth South and Fifft West streets, will be (laid. The official programme of the ceremony was announced by the Ifev. (.'. C. Mcliilire. pastor of the church, Saturday. TJie services will open with a hymn, after which the Apostles' Creed will be recited re-cited in concert. Tho scripture reading read-ing will be led by the Hew If. G. Mc-Nieco, Mc-Nieco, D. D,, dcuii of Westminster college, col-lege, and the Jfcv. Herbert. 15. Haves, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, will offer the invocation. Following the prayer, the history of tho West minster church will be read by Mrs. Stewart MeLcesc. and the slato-inent slato-inent of the building committee b' Gordon Gor-don Williams, secretary. .1. W. Phillips, Phil-lips, a member of the church session, will make a few remarks, and after the singing of "Praise Ye the Father" by a quartette, the Hev. William M. Paden, D. I)., pastor of Ihe First. Presbyterian church, will deliver Ihe sermon. I-'oI-lov.ing the sermon, the hymn. "Tho Church's 'One Foundation." will be sung. The cornerstone will then bo laid by James S. AValker, president of the board of trustees. The iron box in the cornerstone will contain a Bible, a history of the church, a copy of the last church directory-, the sunflower cards, represent ing t he manner man-ner in which money for the building of the new edifice was raised in (he Sunday Sun-day .school, and a piece of one of the old adobo bricks used in the original Presbvterian mission, which was built in this city in JSSJ. The lotai cost of the new church will bo about $25,000. All but 2000 of this amount has already been raised, and for many months past tho pastor, tho Hev. C. C. Mel ut ire. has worked hard securing appropriations for the new building. When it is completed, the church will be one of Ihe most "beautiful "beauti-ful in the city. For the past year the services of tho Westminster church have been hold at the I. O. O. F. hall, on Market street. The Hev. Mr. Mclntirc stated Saturday that he expected thai tho new edifice would be completed by May 1. 11)10. ' |