Show REV IS WELCOMED I 1 isalt lake S ep t 13 the first con gregat lonal church was the scene of an informal gathering last evening the occasion being a double event to over the clearing of the church of debt and to extend a welcome to rev elmer I 1 goshen who has just returned to the city after a trip there was a large outpouring of tr lends and parishioners who spent the evening in social conversation par baltin tal tin 0 refreshments and listening fo some reminiscences of the history afi he church in this cit mrs sprague read a pa peron the early history of the church beginning in this state in to the time of the resignation of their pastor rev mr barrows in 1881 L E hall followed tracing its history from mr barrows time to that of rev mr brown including the pas borate of rev mr thrall mr hall related experiences in gathering funds to build a how they had sold their first place independence hall in 1890 for how they had then held services in the old walker opera house the theatre and hammond hall and finally erecting the present edl fice the ground alone five by ten rods coating |