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Hobart Guild Hall

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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The dedication of this handsome new edifiee, Tuesday evening, marks another important epoch in the advancement o religious thcught and the influence of the Episcopal church in ita relation to the Univereity of Michigan. The dedicatory services were very beautiful and impressive, and were attended kL a large number of prominent Episcopaliacs from different parta of the country, professors, students and others. The reception, after the services were closed, in the parlors of the hall, was attended by the elite of the city, and was a brilliant affair. Supper was served in the spacious dining hall, at six o'clock, to those who were present from abroad, among whom were noticed Bishop Samuel S. Harris, exGov. H. P. Baldwin, Hon. Don M. Dickingon and wife, Wm. P. Wells, O. W. Shipman, Elliott T. Slocum, S. W. Frisbee, A. Heber ïïoskins, Joseph N. Blanchard, Josepb. H. Johnson, H. P. Baldwin, '2d, F. E. DeWitt, H. C. Parke, Miss Mary M. Parke, and Miss Marquette Sinclair, of Detroit; Senator F. B. Stockbndge, of Kalamazoo; Gen. W. H. Withington, Jackson; J. V. Conover, Ovfobso; Rev. J. Rice Taylor, Grand Rapids; Edwin R. Bishop, Bay City; Edwin Magee, J. M. Curtis, Cheboygan; A. D. Oook, Brooklyn; R. D. Brooke, Monroe; Rev. Royal B. Balcom, Jackson; R. D. Stearns, St Johns; Judge Hammond and Miss Hammond, Memph8. The exercises were opened by an anthem by the University glee club. Rev. Dr. Earp read the lesson, after which the audience joined in singing "Coronation." After the Creed had been repeated, prayer offered, and a hymn sung by the glee club and congregation, Rev. Samuel S. Harris, of Detroit, Bishop of Michigan, delivered the inaugural address. He began by praising God for His favor bestowed upon the enterpriie, and alluded to the fact that the first words spoken ia the hall were in worship of God, under whose guidance they had prospered o well in their work. We trust, as it has been built for His good, it will result in our good, and evoke His divine blessings on all our labora here. He spoke in acknowledgement of the gifts of their benefactors, of whom so many were present, to whose liberality and enterprise they were indebted for the hall. Hs complimented the rector and vestrymenof the society for their interest and work performed, and was thankful to the ladies' society to whose efforts and zeal much credit was due, and also to such members of the Guild as had labored earnestly for tne sccomplishment of this work. The work begun here tonight is only a part of God's werk. The hours which inaugúrate this beginning are only what Grod has been doing for ages, and is the commeneement of many innumerable corjflicts between faith and free thougt. Science and religión are now wide apart, both can live without the other, but science always becomes barren when it refuses the advice of religión. Because we believe it is wicked to allow religión to be at conflict with science we should not relax our efforts, but work to bring them together. Both tried to live apart for ages when they should have been friends and lived together. The conflict is not yet over. This guild ia started to bring them together. It means the practical allianee of the Protestant Episcopal church of this diocese with the Univeraity of Michigan. We see in the University the best system of education that can be adopted. We believe in this system. We recognize what Michigan is doing for learning. We look around and see the vast multitude of foreignera that are regularly being landed on American shores. Some of them come here to be educated. So we have erected this hall, that they may learn of His love and His teachmgs. We come here to testify our interest in the University because we believe in the methods pursued here. We approve of the surroundings and the condition of things. Here man ia to be educated, not for a lifetime but for eternity. We come here to be educated, and not to edúcate the University. We believe our sons and daughters have great advantage here and we insist that they shall have true religión with them, for we believe that religión has an indisputable part to perfortn, and without it education is not complete. For these reason we come here believing that each will aid the other and that the high moral character of the University will be fTther advanced, and that an crganized religious institution will be a benefit to it. Religión here shall not only add to the natural but to the eternal, and our young shall be taught ita noble teachings. This is the headquarters of our church work here. Here our venerable but ever young church is to ppeak to the minds of the students. In this hall is where our lectures will be given and where the word of God will be proclaimed. In the room below will be a library of unique selection. There will be kept a record of what is being done the wold over. The Bishop then spoke of the building, a description of which was given in The Register at the time the building was commenced, the parlors, gymnasium, the different courses of lectures, etc. This hall is now under the controll of the studente themselves and their energies must now be brought to bear to make it success. Upon them dependa its futur success. Every student is an active mem ber and every professor is a member ex. officio. After another hymn the Bishop reac letters of regret from Rev. George D. Gil lispie, D. D., Bishop of Western Michigan who was unable to be present, and one from President Angelí, who was to repom to the address, but was detained in Provi dence on acoouLit of the illness and death o a brother-in-law. Prof. H. S. Frieze, how ever, responded in behalf of the University to the Bishop's address, in an able am scholarly manner. U. S. District Judge Hammond, of Ten nessee, was introduced, who made a few remarks, speaking in very high termg o the University and of the Guild. After another hymn, prayer and bene dic'.ion, the exercises closed, and all re paired to the parlors below where the re ception was held. Hobart Guild Hall is a very neat atu substantial edifice, its dimeneions are 49x 69 feet and about 70 feet high, built o brick with stone trimmings. The instde of the building is flnished in Norway pine, with a hard oil finish, excepting the floors which are of oak. The first floor of the hall is divided mto several rooms, which are designated a9 a library, reading room, ladies' parlor, student' parlor, diningjiall, pantry, kitchen, etc, the floors being covered with Brussels carpet. The furniture in these rooms is all made of oak of antique design. On the upper floor is the hall where the lectures will be delivered. In the basement is a bowling alley and a complete parlor gymnasium, where the boys can devote their spare moments to physical exercise. There is no smoking room or billiard room in the building, as is suppot ed by some, and as was reported in the Detroit papers. The regulations of the Guild also prohibit dancing, the object of the building being entirely in the line of religious and intelectual culture.

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