Semi-centennial celebration of the First Congregational Church, of Dubuque, Iowa, May 12th and 13th, 1889 . in all the heavens, the best governmentthat exists among men, and infused mankind with the sublim-est political hope that ever lodged in the human breast. Ithas provided for the enlightenment of the common people andchampioned the inalienable rights of man in the face of op-pression and despotism. And to-day, by virtue of its funda-mental principles and its educational effects, Congregational-ism is at the very front as inspirer and guide of that move- 57 ment for theemancipation and exa
Semi-centennial celebration of the First Congregational Church, of Dubuque, Iowa, May 12th and 13th, 1889 . in all the heavens, the best governmentthat exists among men, and infused mankind with the sublim-est political hope that ever lodged in the human breast. Ithas provided for the enlightenment of the common people andchampioned the inalienable rights of man in the face of op-pression and despotism. And to-day, by virtue of its funda-mental principles and its educational effects, Congregational-ism is at the very front as inspirer and guide of that move- 57 ment for theemancipation and exaltation of man which beganwhen John Wickliffe awoke the slumbering world by firingthe first gun of the Great Reformation, and which has nowgone into all the world. We are in the current, we are thecurrent which is to become the ocean. Following the address there was a hymn, Onward Christian Soldiers,inwhich all joined. This was followed by the closed the Anniversary Day whose record is a part ofthe Churchs imperishable history, and whose memory will bea blessing as long as it The Old Stone Church. , 40x60. Capacity, about 350. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1889. Promptly at 10:30 A. M., according to program, theaudience having assembled, the exercises of Monday wereopened by an organ voluntary, singing by the choir and con-gregation, prayer and a second hymn, when the presentPastor of the Church read the following account of its historyduring the fifty years of its existence. The zeal and joyful in-terests of the audience, so far from having been exhausted bythe services of the day before, seemed only to have becomethe more aroused and eager. HISTORICAL SKETCH 1839-1889. Rev. C. O. Brown, D. D. This Church was organized fifty years and twelve days afterthe government of the United States was fully set up by the in-auguration of George Washington as President. There wasno telegraphic dispatch announcing the event in the Chicagodailies next morning for
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