Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication

Citation: "Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Trinity Congregation Holds Interesting Services Marking Completion of Edifice," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 11 October 1912, p. 11; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 5 July 2019).

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BAPTISTS DEDICATE NEW CHURCH HOME. Trinity Congregation Holds Interesting Services Marking Completion of Edifice. WORKERS RAISE OVER $4,000. Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication.
The second of the dedication services being held this week to mark the completion of the new Trinity Baptist Church was held last night in the church, Greene and Patchen avenues. There was only one disappointment for the minister, the Rev. Robert E. Hill, and his flock, and that was the unavoidable absence of Mrs. James M. Wade, in whose home, in 1874, the church was organized. Mr. Hill had planned to have Mrs. Wade, who is 96 years old, offer the prayer of dedication, but owing to an accident she was unable to be present. However, she wrote out the prayer which she had intended to offer, and it was read at the services, and the plea of one of the founders of the church, that God might prosper the work of the church in this, its new home, was fervently echoed in the hearts of all present. […]