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Church Dedications in West Virginia

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 7, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 49.

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Church Dedications in West Virginia

By B. G. WILKINSON

It will give our brethren throughout the field pleasure to learn that the cause is onward in the little conference of West Virginia. Our camp-meeting in Parkersburg this year was a source of great pleasure and encouragement. The increase in tithe and membership showed that the brethren were of good courage, that the ministry was living near to God, and that the conference management was doing its best to establish the work on a high plane.
In connection with the annual camp-meeting, we dedicated the Parkersburg church. Elder K. C. Russell preached the dedicatory sermon, and made an appeal for gifts to liquidate the remaining debt upon the building. It was a beautiful little brick structure, worth about thirty-five hundred dollars. For a long time the brethren in Parkersburg have been without any suitable building in which to worship. We are satisfied that the erection of this building marks an onward step in the progress of the cause of present truth in that region.
Sabbath and Sunday, November 18, 19, Elder Russell and myself had the pleasure of dedicating another church building at Charlestown, for the use of our brethren in that city. This property is worth about seven thousand dollars. On the day of the dedication there remained about eighteen hundred dollars' indebtedness on the property, but we fully believe that the liberal responses by the people on or before the hour of the dedication, furnished sufficient, in cash and pledges, to wipe out the debt.
The services in connection with this church dedication were a great blessing to our brethren. A deep work of repentance and revival went on in the hearts of the believers. Precious souls were reclaimed from walking in the ways of temptation, and an impetus was given the work at that time. It gives us pleasure and encouragement to note the items of progress in West Virginia.
B. G. WILKINSON.