Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-16 | Page 2 | Final Sermon in Old Church

fINAL SERMON t 1 OLD CHURCH Sacramento nto Landmark of Gold Rush Days Th Is Doomed SACRAMENTO Cal April 16 It I Sacramento churchgoers Sunday night bade farewell to a iL k landma-k 1 Of ef California s pioneer t days when final services were held In the I Congregational church said I Ito to be bo the oldest church in the tho state The Tho work ot of I dismantling the building will wilt be- be beI begin fin bo-fin I gin In this celt and a dancing pai pa ilion Is to be erected on the tho paI site I The congregation will III build a new newchurch newchurch newchurch church In eo a more mor modern part ot of I tb the city Dr J B Silcox of ot San Francis Francisco co do who Vho preached In the tho th church more than 25 hears ealS ago aco antI and who delivered the sermon when tb tint church churchs golden jubilee was Vas cole cole- ccle tented back In the SOs presided d at the services Sunday A choir I composed of person persons dressed In tue tho i garb of 49 days who sang san at atthe atthe I the tho church mol more morr than a score acor of oC years ag ago aso furnished the tha music oCI I The Th first church was waa built In 1849 wh when n Sacramento s a male main InI I str street et was a line lin ot of min mm- miners min miners ers tents and the lumber to bUild It cost nearly neatly 6 a thousand feet tet The Th present was constructed in 1854 1154 when hen the first I Iwas was destroyed destro d by n tire Cite