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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1912
Page
3
Andrew Thompson recalls founding Grace M. E. church in Waterloo Iowa as Bishop McDowell leads dedication of a large new church. He describes early struggles, central donations, and a 900-member expansion with Linden swarm growth, predicting further increases after the dedications.
A massive edifice at the head of Fifth Street East, seating 1400, costs 960000 with site 11000. The octagonal main hall, dome, and six Bedford columns frame a detailed interior with a 760 seat auditorium, 790 more in adjoining rooms, and a 1400-volume pastor's study.
The Grace M. E. church dedication week in Waterloo features Sunday services with Bishop William F. McDowell and Rev. J. W. Bissell, organ recitals, choir renditions, and offertories. Weekday events include an organ dedication, Epworth league reception, and a union prayer meeting with city ministers.
A concise reflection states that order requires mind and mind implies a sense of justice, attributed to A Conan Doyle, emphasizing rational moral governance. The remark links orderly society to disciplined thinking and fairness.
Pope on his deathbed with a friend by his side. the doctor calls him better yet jokes that he is dying of a hundred favorable symptoms. The anecdote captures the poet’s humor amid illness and the physician’s optimistic tone.
The Grace M. E. church in Waterloo, Iowa, is dedicated after a December 30 service. Bishop Andrews of Des Moines delivers the sermon God Is a Spirit. Rev. J. R. Berry contributes a new baptismal font and communion table. Total cost and debt details are given, with significant subscriptions and gifts noted. A card of thanks follows from the Grace M. E. church official board.
The present officers of Grace Church and its auxiliary societies are listed including Board of Trustees President C H Bingham and Vice President C W Illingworth. Various society leaders follow with presidents secretaries treasurers and league officials across the Sunday School Brotherhood Ladies Aid Woman’s Home Missionary Society Foreign Missionary Society Outlank Circle Epworth League and Junior League.
In connection with the old Grace M. E. church transition to the new building, this notes the early officers of Grace Church and its societies from the first directory. Trustees include A. Cunnell and Nelson Fancher among others. class leaders list C. Bunnell and K. Seaman with assistants.
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