Plans For The New Church

The Seventh Day Adventist conference of Michigan have purchased a lot on the Miller addition on Prospect avenue and have begun the excavating preparatory to building a new $3,500 church edifice. The one which they occupy at present was sold some time ago to Dr. Klingman.

The new church will be a frame structure with a seating capacity of 300. The church will be divided into two rooms, one to be used for preaching services and the other for Sunday school. Large folding doors will seperate the two rooms and in case the entire space is needed the doors may be opened, making a fine auditorium.

The Rev. Mr. Howell, who has been the pastor of the church for some time, left recently and went to Tennessee, where he took up the work in his new field. This left the church without a pastor, so in the absence of a leader Dr. Marsh has acted in that capacity.

A new pastor will be appointed for the church here at the state conference which will be held in Alma in the latter part of August.

The congregation in the Seventh Day Adventist church was, a few years ago, a comparatively good sized one, composed chiefly of students, but the members at present number only about thirty-five. This diminution is caused by the establishment of colleges of their sect and which are almost without exception attended by the members of this church in preference to other universities, thus decreasing the members of this congregation, which depends so largely upon the students.

What this church lacks in numbers it makes up in enthusiasm. The probability is that this church, though it will never be large in members, will have n powerful influence for good in the city.