The Sword and the trowel . o hire, furnish and open, a YoungMens House ; and there is every prospect of a strong and useful churchfilling the new house. The style of the building is Early English. Its interior is in the formof a half-circle, with gallery. It is seated throughout with chairs. Underthe chapel is a schoolroom, holding 250, a large infants room seating100, and five class-rooms ; while behind there are three vestries for theuse of church officers. The whole cost, including builders extras, archi-tects fees, and the ground, has been ^7,416. Mr. Stone, the pastor, is exercising a sel
The Sword and the trowel . o hire, furnish and open, a YoungMens House ; and there is every prospect of a strong and useful churchfilling the new house. The style of the building is Early English. Its interior is in the formof a half-circle, with gallery. It is seated throughout with chairs. Underthe chapel is a schoolroom, holding 250, a large infants room seating100, and five class-rooms ; while behind there are three vestries for theuse of church officers. The whole cost, including builders extras, archi-tects fees, and the ground, has been ^7,416. Mr. Stone, the pastor, is exercising a self-denial, which we think toosevere. We know of no man who more fully lays his all upon the altarof the Lord. The debt is the trouble which burdens him, and he bothstints himself and wears himself out in the effort to remove this load. Hecommends himself to us as one of a thousand, and we hope he willcontinue to receive the help of all our friends in his specially arduousenterprise. 338 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PASTORS Beloved President, WITH alacrity I respond to your invitation to give an outline of the work here at Wimbledon. Space forbids anything but an outline ; but it will be one whichmight be filled up with delightful testimony to the consecration of manyfaithful hearts, and, above all, to the covenant mercy of God. The varying fortunes of the church from 1871, when the work wasstarted, to December 1880, when the present pastorate commenced,need not now be dwelt upon. Suffice it to say, that friends from theTabernacle formed the nucleus of the church; funds from the Taber-nacle aided the work; students from the Tabernacle filled the pulpit. Since December, 1880, we will speak with greater fulness. Thetestimony will be as to things heard, seen, handled. A church of between twenty and thirty members ; a chapel of onlytwo hundred sittings, and these needing to be let; an income of £s°per annum, and a debt of ^400 was our beginning then. From thattime up to the end o
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