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Show This they did, the property costing $23,500 and some taxes. . I Subscriptions amounting to nearly $;o,000 having been secured. Klders Weir, McMillan and Terhune were. In November, 1901, appointed a committee to secure plans for the" new church. On February 2,' 1302, plans submitted by V. E. Ware were approved by the session, ses-sion, and on May 21, 1902, adopted by 1 the congregation, and the' session was authorized to put the plans Into stone. Messrs. H. Q. McMillan, Thomas Weir, W. F. Colton and R. J. Caskey were appointed a building committee. In the fall of 1903 the contract for putting put-ting the building under roof was given to Mr. Campbell, the gross amount of the contract, etc., being about $S0,0OO. Ground was broken In the late fall of 1903 and the corner-stone was laid June 4. 1903; the basement being inclosed and the building well under waA The subscriptions up to that date were about $80,000. , . . . ' He cords Ats Preserved. Constitution of the church, a list of officers, members and various organizations organi-zations within the church, catalogues of Westminster college and the Collegiate Colle-giate institute, a list of missionary workers in Utah In 1602-03. historical records concerning the First church various reports and memorials from Sunday-schools, Ladies Aid, the Mission Mis-sion societies and the Christian Endeavor En-deavor society, miscellaneous memorials, me-morials, including some of Dr. Paden's published sermons, copies of the daily papers and reports of the last general assembly were in the cavity .of the corner-stone, after which Dr. Paden and Dr. McNlece turned the stone over and Dr. McNlece placed ft in position. Dr. McNiece finished laying the stone by saying- ""We lay this stone In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." The Rev. C. L. Thompson offered a prayer and Dr. Paden closed the services ser-vices by pronouncing the benediction. ftst:: cf First Fresby-'i Fresby-'i tcrlanCIiurcIi Recounts Great Growfh of the . , Organization. - ' The corner-stone of the ' new First Presbyterian church on Brlgham Btreet, which will cost $100,000, was laid yesterday afternoon at 4:3ft o'clock with appropriate services in the presence of 500 spectators. The ceremonies were presided over by the Rev. Dr. William M. Paden, the pastor, and the Rev. Dr. R. O. McNlece, Mc-Nlece, who was for twenty years the pastor of the First church, laid the stone. . . . Among the prominent visitors pres- - ent were Dr. Franklin Arnold and wife, who were here when the church was organized thirty years ago; Dr. and Mrs. Darwin R. Jones of New York, Erskine N. White, Dr. Charles S. Thompson. Benjamin L. Agnew, Dr. m Thomas Marshall, the Rev. James A. W'orden, Robert Achman and Mrs. - Pingree. . . The services were opened by Dr. Pa- den, who read a scriptural selection, v a after which the Doxology was sung and the Rv. Dr.. Wishard" offered the invo-cation, invo-cation, another hy,mn was sung and the second chapter of I. Peter was used by Dr. Worden, secretary of the National ' Sunday-school organization of the Presbyterian church. ' y. Story of. the Church. . ? Dr. Paden then read the following historical sketch of the Presbyterian church in Utah : . The First Presbyterian church of , Salt Lake City was organized on .November .No-vember 12, 1871. with ten members.' In the spring- of 1874 a lot ten rods square, at the northeast comer of Second South and Second East was purchased at a - cost of $11,000. A frame church building build-ing was erected upon this site during the summer of 1874, at a cost of $18,500. This building was dedicated on October 11. 1874. Mr. Welch's health broke down in the rprlng of 1876 and he died at his home in the East. March 18, 1877. At his death the membership of the church was sixty-eight. In the spring of .1875, Prof. J. M. Coyner opened a school In the basement of the church. This school grew into the Collegiate Institute. Dr. J. F. Millspaugh and Prof. Robert J. Caskey succeeded Prof. Coyner as principal. A mission and day school was started later on the west side. Out of these the Westminster West-minster church has grown. During the , illness of Mr. Welch, and for a while after his death, the Rev. Duncan J. McMillan served the First church as a supply. - ' Rev, R. 0. McNiece. D. D., became fTZ he second pastor of the church, Au- gust 15. 1877. In 1881 there were eighty- eight 'members. " In 1890-92 the church ' grew raddly. A mission, which is now the Third Presbyterian church, was founded, and a Sunday-school was es- tablished below Tenth South on Sec-Z Sec-Z ond West, which has since been cared - for by the First church. When Dr. McNiece resigned the pastorate of the church in 1897, it had a membership of 2 over 300 and. had been self-supporting for several years. ; Dr. Paden Takes Charge. ; In the fall of 1897 the Rev. W. M. v Paden, D. D., became the third pastor - of the First clujreh. A debt of $10,000 .. was paid off by the people in 1890. In the fall of 1900 the session considered I plans for the enlargement of the old church building and found them in-Z in-Z sufficient and unsatisfactory. They then appointed a committee to look in-I, in-I, to and report upon the advisability and possibility of erecting new buildings. On January 7. 1901, the committee re- ported favorably and advised an im-mediate im-mediate and "organized effort towards - raising money for such buildings.' The ' " session adopted the report, -called a meeting of the congregation on February Febru-ary 20, 1901, and laid the matter before the people. They unanimously approved of and committed themselves to the new work proposed. The question of site emerged and was canvassed by the session. They recommended the purchase of a lot (9x15. rods) at the corner of D and Brig- ham streets. At a meeting of the congregation con-gregation this recommendation of the 'fcessten was- approved and the session .authorized to complete the purchase. |