The Archive · 1924

New Building for Seventh Day

CHURCH DEDICATION IN SHANGHAI

'Adventists is' Opened in Range Road An opening and dedicatory service was held at the-new Seventh Day Adventist Church in Range Rod on lay with a large congregation, both' Chinese: and foreign. The service, which took place partly in English and partly in Chinese, was conducted by the Rev. H, K. Wood, Cuairman of the Building Commit:

Mr. Wood in a, short address said that it was now some 10 years since the project of building the church had first begun. At that time the congregation was a little one and occupied a small chapel in North Honan Road. Three or four years Jago the hopes of building a new church had become of the very brightest when the committee were fable to purchase the present site, The Chairman expressed on behalf of the Building Committee his thanks to the large number of workers who had assisted in the realization of this great work.

The Rev. I. H, Evans then gay jan address in which he took hhis text the words: "God is a spirit] and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit." They came] that day to- dedicate by prayer ¢his building to the worship of God. Te had always been customary to dedicate a church by certain In the past the taber-nade had been dedicated to the Lord by certain. ceremonies as was also the ease with Solomon's; ple. The God they worshiped was beyond all human conception even as the vastness of the heavens was beyond the bounds of the Jhuman conception. Yet the Psalmist had described Him as the God who "measured the waters in the hollow of His hand."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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