Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1911 — PLANS WELL UNDER WAY FOR CHURCH REBUILDING. [ARTICLE]

PLANS WELL UNDER WAY FOR CHURCH REBUILDING.

Methodists Have Adopted Plans for Remodeling and Enlarging Their Chnreh Baffling. Trinity M. E v church plans for the extension and remodeling of their church building and when completed the building wifi be one of the finest In Jasper county. The plans for the building were made by Architect J. F. McCoy, of Danville, 111., and have been accepted and adopted by the board. The building when completed will have much the same interior appearance as the Rensselaer Christian church. The Sunday schooF and class rooms will be in the east end of the the present class room will be thrown into the main auditorium, the pulpit and choir seats will be located in the southeast corner of the main room, and the Sunday school room will be shut dff from the main auditorium by means of sliding floors. While the present plans do not include a pipe organ, a place will be left with the expectation that one will be built therein later. The present entrance will be closed up and a somewhat larger entrance made just west of the present Sunday school room. The steeple “will be partly tom down and then enclosed up above the bell loft. The cost of rebuilding the church will be approximately SB,OOO. The following committees on finance hare been appointed: J. J. Hunt, I. N. Warren, G. F. Meyers, J. M. Wasson and Henry Amsler and Mrs. E. e. English, Mrs. Jacob Wilcox, Mrs. E. T. Harris and Mrs. Thompson. The work of subscription taking will begin at once. J