September 28, 1924 – In a day that was “replete with
fervent pulpit oratory, congratulations, stately music and solemn ritual” [Chicago Daily Tribune, September 28, 1924] the
Chicago Temple at Clark and Washington Streets is dedicated. Even though there
are three services at the new church, throngs outside are still so great that
two outdoor services are held in the morning and afternoon. The president of the Temple’s board of
trustees reads a letter from President Calvin Coolidge in which he writes, “I
join heartily in the hope which moved its founders, that it may be the means of
expanding and increasing the effectiveness of the great spiritual work to which
it is devoted. Unique in many ways as an
ecclesiastical type of architecture, it will bring together the spiritual and
lay activities of the church, giving from each a helpful inspiration to the
other.” The congregation is one of the
oldest in Chicago, beginning in an 1834 building on the north side of the
river. In 1838 that building was floated
across the river and rolled on logs to a location on the southeast corner of
Washington and Clark, the same plot on which the First United Methodist Church
of Chicago stands today.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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