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Eventually this church outgrew the old building, and it rose 

 up and erected a new one, costing, including furnishings, $10,000 

 in money and the equivalent of another thousand in hauling, 

 which the farmers did gratis. Practically all the money was 

 subscribed before a shovelful of earth was moved for the founda- 

 tion. No offering was taken at the dedication for building pur- 

 poses or for furnishings. Every persgn in the community was 

 given opportunity to help build the new church. And all 

 responded heartily. The Catholics and German Lutherans con- 

 tributed to the building fund and helped to haul the materials. 



The new structure is Gothic in design and is built of brick. 

 The interior is finished in red oak. A handsome fresco in water 

 colors adorns the walls, with panels of burlap below the surbase 

 molding. This with the beautiful art glass windows gives the 

 interior a most pleasing and homelike appearance. The floors 

 are covered with cork carpet. The main auditorium has a 

 bowl-shaped floor and seats three hundred people. The assembly 

 room of the Sunday school apartment, which is separated from 

 the auditorium by accordion doors, has an additional one hun- 

 dred and fifty sittings. There are fourteen rooms in all, includ- 

 ing a number of classrooms, choir and cloakrooms, toilet, pas- 

 tor's study, vestibule, kitchen, dining hall, cistern, and furnace 

 and fuel rooms. The building is heated with hot air furnaces 

 and lighted with gas. A system of waterworks supplies water 

 wherever needed about the building. 



To sum up the principles underlying these methods: Make 

 the church a ministering institution. Let it be many-sided. 

 Let it seek to serve the whole man, body, mind and spirit, 

 rather than the spirit alone. Let it seek to make this a new 

 earth by teaching the people to do all things to the glory of God. 

 Let them know that honest toil is sacred, that innocent amuse- 

 ment is holy, and that these are also ways of praising and glori- 

 fying God as well as the Sunday devotions. Let the church seek 

 to discover to men their talents and then encourage and help 

 them in their development. Distribute the responsibilities as 

 widely as capacity for efficiency will warrant. Lead everybody 

 into doing something useful for somebody else. Make the 

 church to minister to the whole community rather than to a 

 particular body in the community, the aim being, not to make 

 Presbyterians or Baptists or Methodists or Catholics, but to 

 create an atmosphere in the neighborhood to breathe in which 

 will help Presbyterians to be better Presbyterians, Baptists 



