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MINDAT TIMES SIGNAL. ZANESVIIXE. OHIO. SI.MAFirst Grace Methodist CongregationWas Organized Here 150 Years AgoCircuit Rider Founder Of Old Churchof(Ed.lor’k Noi* This h *h« tirtt two ifon*! Ofl ihm history of Gr«co Mt*hodfif Church JBy NORRIS F. SCHNEIDERGiaet Methodist Church will begin next Sunday to celebrate 150 years as an organized congregation and half a century in the present house of worship on North Fifth street. Special services during the week of March 8 to 15 will commemorate this double anniversary'.Today's story will review the 100-year history of the church when it was located at Second and Main streets. Next week we shall relate the events of the last half century m the present building.Methodism was the first religious denomination to be organized in Muskingum county John Mclntire and Jonathan Zane laid out the town of Zanesville in 179D. but they delayed recording the plat until 1802. Until the county was organized two years later, trees and bushes grew in the slreets. Only a few hundred people lived in scattered cabins.But among those few pioneers were several devout Methodists Elijah Hart Church wrote in the Courier” on March 9. 1S78, that Rev John Goshen held the first Methodist love feast in Zanesville at the two-story double log cabin of Samuel Goff on Third street ”Goff was the leader among the pioneer Methodists of this community Because he lived in Putnam. which was then a separate town, he organized the First Meihodist Church in that town iniso*Circuit riders continued lo hold services at the homes of Methods in Zanesville Rev. James Rev. David H. Moore, pastor Watts, one of these tireless and of Second 5treet Church at the zealous riders, organized the Sec- close of the Civil War, oecame ond Street society on Wills Creek a bishop and returned to Zanes-circmt in 1808. That was the be- ville to dedicate the site and Ruining of Grace Methodist the sanctuary of Grace Church. Church* * * a station, a single and completeTHE MEMBERS of this 5o-,PasfQral charge with a resident ciety met in their log cabin preacherhomes and in the courthouse. The ^ev Leroy Swarmsted, a Muskingum county commission- man of 25. was the fjrsters recorded m their minutes on1 mnister. The total income of the Dec 6. 1810, that the Methodists rewards m 1823 was $199.97. AnEarly WorshipSrrvirc Held!u Residencescause Bishop Matthew Simpson was scheduled to be in Zanesville on that date to lecture on “Egypt” under the auspices of the Young Men's Lecture association, He preached from Isaiah. Chapter II, second and third verses.The Zanesville Courier described the new church as follows: “The main structure is 85 by 4S feet; the vestibule, in which are located the broad staircase and gallery, 15 by 43 feet. The basement 45 by 51 feet and 18 feci in height, with six pleasant classrooms 15 bv 15 feet in si/e, three on each side.'i he • WUSUIV to be r Washing I he No iHut IOII mil beStcwmcordingArthurUNIUNI1pird house of worship of the Second Stieet Methodist Church Society built in 18*—. The building is now used for storage.had met in the old hewed log.urimd-ned pastor received boardInterior of Second Strtet Meihodist Church as It appeared in 1909 when congregation moved to Grace Church,sue ct the A M E Church on South street, the second on Pear street, and the last on West Mamcourthouse and that the) werc;ar}d lodging and $87.40 a year aim permitted to worship in the w*th an allowance of $7 for ox* now state cap.tol building pensesThe town grew rapidly while People took their religion scri-jstreet, thethe state legislature met here m those days. Leaders of Church, from I3J0 to 1812. Believing that the church at Second street foe- Plll ,n spitc ot thj5 ]oss thcre they had enough members to ouentK tried their fellow mem-j^vcre successful revivals in the build a church of their own, the bcis at the quarterly conference.churd at Second street in 1831-32 Zanesville Methodists paid $100 for Iving. slander and gossip. If unfTu Rcv_ j M TnmbJe. ]n mi for lo! number eight in square the charges ue**e ^ proved, the under Rev William Simmons, number 3 on Second street, the guiliy person uas 'unchurched' 'ancj in iS40-^4 under Rev Uriahradical organization which conq “Arise and build.” scrueted its first building on the [ Rev. David Young, who hadmarried John Mclntire \s widow.•‘THE MAIN auditorium is 30feet high and will seat between 600 and 70Q. The pulpit is a chaste specimen of architectural beauty 'and 15 located on the south side. The floor is an inclined plane, rising with gentle ascent from the pulpit to the entrance from the vestibule, and the seats are grouped m semi-cucular form around the pulpit and divided by four aisles.It has been mentioned that the Second Street Church lot was the third lot south of Main street The first two church buildings 011 the bite were entered from Second street But 111 I860 a strip of ground extending 14 feet along Main street and extending south lo the entrance of the new third budding was bought for $700. Four years later a 20 foot strip west of this purchase was bought for $700, making an entrance 34 feet wide from Main street. Many improvements and additions were made lo the third building In 1887 a cornice was added and the walls and ceiling were frescoed A society of ladies purchased a new organ at a cost of $3,000 tn 1879 Extensive repairs were made in 1895.Epworth League was organized at Second street in 1890. and the name was changed in 1939 to Youlh Fellowshiptn I8S9 the ministers of the Methodist churches of the vicinity met at Second Street Church and organized the branch of the Methodist Episcopal Extension Society which later became Euclid Avenue Methodist Gnmh Next week’s story will describe the conditions winch caused the Second Street congregahon to died in 1858 and bequeathed $12* choose a new local ion and buildSimp! anos’ glt; emblem I antic pears tc a solidThe 1 by 09S ly, wil sheets 1 foratedpress IKW ooo Colie cel In tic vclopei ingiun to CO Vito beA clc al c«rlt; ed in « citheroutsiderr shoi Covers The tenth • of thebindingj iiuardChu rc:hon:030 to Second street church for;lhc present Grace present Coburn a new building. Edward Ball of North Fifth streetZanesville, then a member of ____Congress, suggested that the de-,sign of the Wesley chapel in' Automatic RiVCtCI*S Washington, D C. be adopted,for the new structure. His sug-j Quieter, Faster gestion wai accepted and the!new church was completedinWASHINGTON — Automatic nv-ihlrd lot south of Main Jonathan Rev. Courtenay wrote: 44The|Heath. These revivals increased*1360 at a lotai cost- $11,753 31 ,ctmg machines being used by theZane and Hannah his wife and numbci expelled by regular trial ^ rnembership to 800 and re* John Mclntire and Sarah his wife for immorality is surprisingly. q.urcf’ the appointment of two sold the lot to the following trus-'p*oat One cannot but muse preachers to the charge tees- Christian Spangler, Samuel the fate of those poor souk, sin-; As ,h( !msn twan| {h(1Frazer. Jesse Miller, James Vic-in.ng sadly and thrust out cf the ^ . whf) ha(j {() ^kcrs. Joseph Havsktns, John Spry, fellowship of believers «,th gen- scxcra| b|nrks (n c)wch and Barney Monroe Although the I tie but unsparing hand deed was not Signed Until Feb 2,' During the pastorate of Rev 1 £14, work on the church was be .Nalhar Fjmory in 18JS-2Q, a sue-gun in ]813. Jeessful revival doubled the mem*Thir site was chosen because ber*hip of the church and in* the town at that date was crowd creased it tu 350 For this con ed on lower Mam street near the gregahon the old fiame building river. Residences were on the completed m 1814 was too small side streets, and the lot purchas |On April 22, 1829, the trustees deed bv the trustees was central!) i cided to build a new meeting located ,hou^e 50 by 60 feet in size.Thomas Moorehead and Wtl- * * *andis nowIt is still standing used for storage The new building was dedicated on Friday, Dec 4, 1860. be-tn build their own house or wu-sbjp As Rev Courtenay smd, There was a swarming of the old hive Seventh Street Methodist. later Trinity, was built in IS 19 The old chuicli. prcdeccs-iTV Promotion Brings ResultsHOLLYWOOD rijPJ) - AnneLockhart, 5. and another small girl named Linda Wrather* willsor of Grace then became Sco.bc sec'i m ‘ Swami, a play in ond Street Methodist church !lhc « Lassic- jv scrjcs It.s noaccidentAPPROXIMATELY 5l)fl mem- Anne Lockhart is the daughterbers left the Second Street of June Lockhart, slar of the Churchown*r , , * ^1 lo r°rm tJlc ncw conRre- series And Lind* .s the dauch-bam Craig had the contract fori THE SECOND church stood,gat[0n on 5^^ S[rccj To di- ter of Jack Wrather, who constructing a frame building 40jnear Second street and extended!vide members fatrk, a line was the series bv 60 feet in sire on the rear of(west to the old frame structure (drawn at Siuh slrret and all —the lot Four large hewed logjU wa built of brick and had a Methodists cast of the line \u renation's aircraft plants can op erale three tci five limes faster than the old hand opera led variety. They al.o diminalo ihc notsc of regular rivMing gun'.The big machines obev a reel of struct ions, move from one row of rivet pattern to the next, and stop by themselves When engi ncering changes require that the pattern in an aircraft panel be revised, the tape can be severedand a new punched pattern inserted.itage people of det land tl 1 liuti glum, Icclan Ncthci the IUtit tecWesle:TurkcThe'ganizamg w in Wi 4, 194! ver.sar ing w slarlir lie I h«Umtcc1950 A 3-was rc on Aj third of the design aloft 1 Globe. - SlreiThepo.ssihlurdavm*was hr edinmovei has 1 rie' cl PhilacArts, of Nc HeWest German Population Tipicanof 111and \ York childr ( onncpost! supported the roof The ga- basement with a floor two and a supposed lo attend Srvrmh street VandllMl Found hie end facing Second street had,half feet below ground The audi- church and al! west of (he linetwo doors, each opening inlo an'icrum had four windows on each were espccted to come to Scr- First 111 1801a’slo (Side, two doors m front between1 ond street But people followedAfter the walls and roof were which was a platform for the their own inclinations GARY, JND — Vanadium wascompleted, it was found that J choir, and a window on each side1 With a membership of only 300 d'seovercd m 1801 hut 1/ was not there was no seasoned lumber of lhrt high pulpit on the west left after thlt; Seventh street con- ur»nl 106 years later that the available for the floor. But the!end. The total cost was about gregation withdrew. Second street metal became commercially im-lack of a floor did not prevent $700. church labored failhfollv dunng portinl as an alloying agent in* I 1 ^ ami . 4 . t . K s ■ rni aBONN — Western Germany now has a larger population lhan before World War 11 despile war hisses and its shrunken s;/c Its population has mcreasrd bv about 11,000.000 since 1939 The popula tion density is nlyml 10 limes that( of the United Slate s 'the West, and East zones including Bcrhn.j have a population of about 71,-000 000 Of these, about 53,000,-1 000 live in West Germany andAiuitn pence si 150th lt;ir ficc in slump, time wDn
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Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sun, Mar 01, 1959
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