Show DANCE HALL TALL TIMBER IS USED FOR BUILDING TABERNACLE Pulpit Is Made From Top of Old Bar Durango Colo The Colo-The The old Greek Greel saying out of o bad wood good smoke sometimes comes was applied here when a community tabernacle and Its parsonage were built out of timbers timbers timbers tim tim- bers and materials taken from a once notorious gambling resort and dunce hall and from an erstwhile brewery Time The tabernacle built b by the Ute Free Methodist church was recently dedi dedi- Its altar altur rail was made of part of the bar against which the lumberjacks miners cowpunchers Mexicans and gamblers of forty years ago used to lean The bars bar's rail foot-rail I Ithe was converted Into the hand rail of or the steps leading Into the church A Bible now rests on the polished walnut walnut wal wal- nut herp the liquor of the early curl days da s 's was for the top of or the ar mr has bus become t the he pulpit The altar was con- con from other parts of the bar Time church rests on a foundation of stone heavy hem timbers and iron ben beams i m lul taken en from both the dunce hall hail and the brewery The window windowsills windowsills sills bills und told edges were made from the heavy oak ouk bottoms of or huge beer vats uta The building occupies the site of or orthe the former brew brewery ry It Is situated at atthe atthe atthe the font foot of or u a bluff and Is s overlooked by th the parsonage of or the presiding elder of tho the district The parsonage once was the office of the brewery and has hns been made Into a modern cottage It Is planned to terrace the bluff blutt ant and to build wind ng stairs from the el elders elder's elders elder's elders elder's el- el ders der's home to the house of worship using as n a rail hand a n coil coll formerly utilized In la making beer The two steps that lead lend to the entrance entrance entrance en en- trance of the tabernacle were formed of timbers taken from the dance dunce hull hall One of the boards carries a bullet fired from a u 45 evidence of one of ot the many shooting scrapes that enlivened enlivened en- en livened the old resort The Tho heay y timbers comprising the supporting columns columns col- col lied and the roof beams were taken from tho the dance hulls halls Tho The church sen seats ts I think said Rev F. F F F. F Stewart the presiding elder who conceived tho the Idea Iden that It was In the nature of or an act of Providence that we were able ablo to convert these places of or disrepute Into a house of worship |