Christian herald and signs of our times . amount was subscribed, and each pledgesigned as a legal promise to pay. The sub-scription-paper was put into the hands of anable treasurer especially appointed to receivefunds and discharge obligations, and the workbegan in serious earnest. Each organizationconnected with the church assumed a share ofthe load. The Ladies Aid Association pledged$5,000, the Sunday School, $2,500, and the So-ciety of Christian Endeavor, $500. At the endof the two years allotted for the payment of thedebt, every subscription had been paid. So silently was the great emprise
Christian herald and signs of our times . amount was subscribed, and each pledgesigned as a legal promise to pay. The sub-scription-paper was put into the hands of anable treasurer especially appointed to receivefunds and discharge obligations, and the workbegan in serious earnest. Each organizationconnected with the church assumed a share ofthe load. The Ladies Aid Association pledged$5,000, the Sunday School, $2,500, and the So-ciety of Christian Endeavor, $500. At the endof the two years allotted for the payment of thedebt, every subscription had been paid. So silently was the great emprise carriedforward that comparatively few of the congre-gation were prepared for Dr. Terhunes an-nouncement on the first Sabbath of 1891, thatthey would worship that day in their own sanc-tuary,—that the building so dear to them wasnow truly—and for the first time—the Houseof God. The solemn jubilee service of the next Sundaywas felt by the rejoicing people to be the real 92 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Feb. ii, Rev. E. P. Terhune, The First Reformed Church, Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. consecration of the church they had fought tosave. An eloquent commemorative discourse waspreached by the pastor in which his own partin the Great Deliverance was modestly minifiedby his determination to honor him who hadgiven thirty-four years of zealous service andhis very life to secure the end his people thatday commemorated. was followedby a son of the late revered incumbent, Rev. Porter of Bridge water, Mass., whose con-gratulatory address to church and pastor wasfull of feeling, and was listened to with pro-found emotion. On Tuesday evening, January 6th, 1891, thegeneral joy was evinced by the gathering in thechapel and parlors of the church of the con-gregation and their invited guests. Happyfaces and glistening eyes testified to the pas-sionate loyalty of a tried and faithful people tothe church of their love. There were musicalnumbers, gi
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