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CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH SECTION, SHELBY, N. C PAID-UP CIRCULATION Of This Paper Is Greater Than The Population Given Shelby In The 1920 Census VOL. XXXII, No. SI THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY RELIABLE HOME PAPER Of Shelby And The State’s Fertile Farming Section. Modern Job Department. TUESDAY, OCT. 11, 1924. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE E1.1. S»H TELLS OF HIS BUILDING PROGRAM III SHELBI. i, 0. Give* History Of The Beginning Of The $15,000 Parsonage And $150,000 Church. Rooms And Equipment In Both Parsonage And Church. (By Rev. A. L. Stanford, Pastor Central Methodist Church.) When I came to Shelby in Novem ber, 1922 I found what could only be construed as a very promising field for service. The needs were impera tive, the opportunities great but the equipment for doing the best work in Sunday school and church was wholly inadequate. I immediately began studying th" situation as carefully as I could hop ing that. we might arrive at a. ’.rue. decision as to what ought to be done. Parsonage Is Built First. The Parsonage was the first task undertaken. Believing that a church like this ought to have a better home for the pastor I called fifteen ladies together and told them that I wanted the women of our church to build a parsonage. After some discussion they unanimously decided to undertake the task. The following Sunday all of the women of our church were called to gether and being told what the small er group had decided on they unani mously voted to build. A Building Committee was appointed, architect engaged and plans secured within six weeks. Description Of Parsonage. The actual work began in March and in July the home was finished vot (i enthusiastically to build. That mght a Building Committee was se lected. They begun functioning at °'ice. They secured the services of an architect and in October ground was broken for tire hew church on what is easily one.1 of the very best lots in Shelby. Splendid Arrangement. Our people have been loyal and as a rc lit of their united effort v.-hat s uhdoubto llv one ^of the best-—tw-: -eehgLd tliuimn lirtliTSputh' is nearing completion. It is attractive, conven-1 Sent, commodious. One ground floor is large bouket room, kitchen, three toilet;-. Cradle Roll department, be ginners department, primary depart-! merit. Hal for cloaks and hats and plate for vacuum cleaner. All the dust from each department will be brought to til is place. On the first floor auu tor.ium, Men’s Bible class room 1 and office which can be thrown into ; auditorium giving a seating capae- f ity of about. 1,000. Also pastors study, 1 Philatbea class room, ladies parlor, library, superintendent office, from j which. telephones extend from every) department in whole church. Will Seat 1.200. On the second floor is large Junior ! department, Intermediate department; and Senior department. We can | Plyler Re-Elected Editor Of Advocate Kev. T. A. Sikes is Again Named Business Manager—Board Pleased With Condition. The board of publication which pub lishes the North Carolina Christian Advocate the official organ of the two Methodist conferences of the state, met in the editorial rooms of the Ad vocate Thursday afternoon to discuss the affairs of the publication for the past year and to make plans for the ensuing year. Everything pertaining to the Advo cate was found to be in a satisfactory condition. According to the reports at the meeting, the circulation and ma terial of the publication has increased remarkably in the last 12 months. Rev A. W. Plyler was re-elected editor and Rev, T. Ar StkeA was rc-olecled busT” ness manager. I). B. Coltrane, of Concord was re elected president and Thomas C. Hoyle ,of Greensboro, was again named secretary of the board. Other members of the board at the meet ing were I)r. W. I*. Few and M. Brad shaw, of Durham, M. T. IJylcr, of Raleigh, H. A. Page of Aberdeen, Frank Lambeth, of Thomasville, Dr! S. B. Turrentine and N. L. Eure, of Greensboro, Joseph G. Brown, of Ral eigh, is the only member who was not present. Pastor Stanford Has A Good Sense Of Humor Preachers are usually considered a “dry lot,” that is by the general run of people. However, there are excep Rev. A. W. 1’lyler, of Greensboro, editor of the North Carolina Chris tian Advocate, who with his family made a motor tour of Western Caro lina during the summer, took occas ion in the -torv of his jaunt to pay a tribute to Shelby Methodists regard ing their new church and parsonage. Rev. Mr i’ivlor writes “straight front the shoulder” in more ways than one, ; .ami his mention of the Central church il work here carried below is of more than passing interest to local people: “At Shelby 1 happened to know where the e-v ( hutch is located and also where the parsonage is. That par sonage looks more like a millionaire’s than a Methodist preacher’s home. It is palatial in appearance. “Rev. A. L. Stanford and the Shel hy Methodists have reason to be proud of their new church. Standing as it doe., on the corner by the post office and facing the beautiful court square, th s elegant and imposing structure will not fail to attract the attention of all who pass that way, R< v. A. I,. Stanford has led in a great piece of construeti\e work in building that church and parsonage in Shelby." Just be plata decent, you don’t have to he ethical. Some folks’ test of a dry joke is that it he on a wet subject. Good news is twice as good if you have someone to tell it to. THE NEW $140,000 CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH EDIFICE This handsome structure, on Shelby, on Shelby’s “eourtsquare” and the corner of Washington and Marion streets, is con sidered one of the most beautiful small town church structuresin the entire country. Modern in every respect it will stand as a tribute to a building pastor and a hustling congregation. and handsomely furnished and since that time this pastor has been occu pying one of the most comfortable and convenient homes to be found anywhere. The building consists of a re -op tion Hall, sun parlor, dining room, bed rooms, breakfast room, kitchen, pantry, bath room, back porch and terrace porch. Up stairs there are four bed rooms, bath room, lir.en closet and sewing room. The house is brick veneered. Also a double garage was built, banks terraced, garden inclos ed with wire fence, flowers planted and the place presents a most at tractive appearance. For* this hand some parsonage easily worth $15,000 the credit is largely due the ladies of pur church. They have wrought worthily and well and the pastors who shall serve in the years to come will call them blessed. ueginning or t hurcn. The next outstanding need was a church. Our Sunday school and con gregations grew until the present church was inadequate. So on the first Sunday night in May, 1923 the official board was called together after service. The purpose of this meeting was made known by the pastor. In a few words I told them that I felth that the time had come when we ought to launch a new church enterprise. They discussed it freely and being men of vision, loy ally and grit they voted to bring the matter before the congregation on the following Sunday morning for final decision as to what course we should pursue. The next Sunday morning in the presence of a large congregation I preached from the text, “Let us go over at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it.” The Spirit of the Lord was pres ent and owned the service. The con gregation was told of the action of the Official Board on the previous Sunday night and after some inter esting discussion the congregation easily care for 1,200 in Sunday school—more if necessary. The build ing when complete will cost about $150,000. Tiie church and lot will be a p proxi mate 1 y $200,000. Few charges will be so well equip ped with parsonage and church as Central Shelby. 1 must desist from saying more lest some other pastor will be a candidate for my job. Rev. A. L. Stanford The wide-awake pastor that builds a church on almost ev ery charge. He builds his con gregation through service and then builds a church to accom modate them. Clerk: “Do you want a room for 25c or 50c?” Stranger: “What’s the difference?” Clerk: “Well, we put a rat trap in the 50c room.” tions— witty exceptions—and Rev. A. L. Stanford is an exception, an enter taining one at times. His wit is of the “ten-second” variety and the “joshing" usually given ministers al ways finds a master of repartee in the Central pastor. An incident some time back before the Wesley Bible class is an example. The fame of Hon. Clyde R. Hoey, former congressman, as a Bible class teacher, has spread over the entire state and numerous people come from afar to hear him lecture before his ;£>le class of 200 men and young met. Sometimes entire classes from oth er towns are guests of the local class. Several Sundays back the Cliffside class in body was present to hear Mr. Hoey. The teacher was welcom ing the visitors and for the class was inviting them out for dinner. Rev. Mr. Stanford happened to be in the room at the time and at the end of the "welcome spoke up: “Yessir, boys, I would be glad to take five or six of you down to my home for dinner, but you see my wife is with her father." Rev. Mr. Stanford has never been married. God’s Budget System. N. C. Christian Advocate. God made the first application of the “budget system” in His decision of our time to give us one day a week for rest and worship. How can we make the accomplishments of that sev enth of our lives as real as any other seventh. The church service has for centuries aided the solution of that problem; but just as in school work, regular atendance is required for sat isfactory results. With the greatest work of all the ages to accomplish in a very few short years, Jesus was a regular church at tendant. He finished His work Though He dies four our sins. He rose again. Shall we not follow his example , in the use of the day and find com American Woman Roughly Treated By Canton Police Mrs. TIarvey L. Decker, an Ameri can and wife of the manager of the Canton City Transportation company, Saturday was subjected to rough hand ling, jostling and jeering and finally j to detention in a police station cell by 20 Chinese policemen of Canton,; China. Mrs. Decker, who is in delicate health, had pone to police station in connection with a demand for pay ment of a police tax alleged to he due from her husband on the ground that he is engaged in business in Canton. Mrs. Decker was arguing she and her husband should be exempted from the police tax because the Canton City Transportation company is a foreign corporation when some of the police thrust a revolver against her side, dragged her out of her motor car and carried her into a barred cell. Mrs. Decker endeavored to commu nicate with the American consul gen- ; oral but was prevented by police offi- | cials until after nearly two hours of molestation her husband was inform ed of her predicament and invoked the assistance of the American consul who went to the police station'and ob tained her release. Some sections are now witnessing a three-cornered feud between prohibi tion officers, bootleggers and high jackers. The high-jacker holds up and robs the bootlegger and the enforce ment officers are after both. Several innocent citizens have been shot re cently by being mistaken for one or the other. All of them are entirely too handy with their pistols. j munion with Him where His people gather at the trystine place, and then i go out to live Christ ? 1 Officers Of Central And Building Body In connection with this history of Central Methodist church as an or ganization in Shelby and the story of the building of the new parsonage and church under the pastorate of Rev. A. I,. Stanford, it is interesting to record the names of the stewards, trustees and building committee: Stewards--J. ('. Smith, B. H. Ken dall, W. fl. Arey. .1, N. Dellinger, W. L. Fanning, Dr. R. M. Gidney, P. L. Mennes.- i, C. R. Hoey, Mrs. B. C. Houser, K. 1.. Hoyle, George A. Hoyle W. 1). Lackey, .1. D. Lineberg.er, Wm. Lineherg< r, John R. McClurd, T). Z. Newton, <>. O. Palmer, J. F. Roberts, Roj Sisk, Z. J. Thompson, J. 11. Grigg, W. C, Whisnant, C. S. Young, Thad < ford, D. D. Wilkins, (). S, Anthony, P. F. Giigg, JLXL Lutz, Mac Wilkins, G. R. Spencer, Dr. F A. Houser. Trustees P. B. McMurry, Writ. Lintberger, J. F. Harris, R. L. Hen drick, J. H. Hull, J. A. Anthony, J. C. Smith. Building committee —J. C. Smith, C. R Hoey, J. F. Roberts, Z. J. Thomp son, C. S. Young, Wm. Lineberger, George A. Hoyle. L.ittle And Son Build Central Methodist The contractor for the Central Meth odist church was the firm of J. P. Little and Son of Charlotte, which firm the building committee has found absolutely reliable and honest, always anxious to give a satisfactory job, both to the committee and to the architect. Since starting the Central Methodist church building in Shelby the first of 1H2-1, the firm has Closed the contract for a number of other Shelby jobs, which in itself is no better evidence of the satisfaction the firm has given locally, J. P. Lit tle and Son now have under construc tion in Shelby the Masonic Temple which will cost when completed and furnished approximately 8150,000, the Lineherger-Suttle building of 5 store rooms to cost approximately 8(55.000 flic Sunday school addition to the Presbyterian church to co=t about v.‘50,00p and a 87,000 residence for county solicitor ( has. A. Burros. Alt of these jobs total about $000, 000 and construction work is being carried on simultaneously. Competent construe ion foremen are in charge of the jobs and indications are that Lit tle and Son have established a repu tation on the Central Methodist church which will win for them much favor in Western North Carolina. Statesville After Next Conference Statesvi 11 e—-Broad Street Metho dist church, Statesville, has unani mously voted fo invite the next ses sion of the Western North Carolina conference to meet with this congre gation. The invitation will be extend ed by the pastor. Rev. John W. Moore at the. approaching session of the con ference to be held in Greensboro. The year closing very auspicious ly for the Broad Street church, 18 new members having been added dur ing the past twelve months. A very successful revival was held recently by Dr. Ashley Chappell, pastor of the Central Methodist church, Asheville, and the spiritual condition of the con gregation is fine. Not only the Broad Street congre gation, hut the people of Statesville, as a whole, regret exceedingly that Rev. John W. Moore, the universally beloved pastor for the past four years is leaving this Fall. During the four years of his pastorate here, 416 have joined the church, the membership now ranking among the largest and most liberal in the Western North Carolina conference. Bottle Of Wine Is Cause Of Loss To Methodist History A bottle of wine, proved itself harmful in more ways than as a leverage when it caused the loss of ■lie historical records of the Central Methodist church building at Shelby. When the old church was sold to J. E. Webb, the cornerstone was remov 'd and the contents opened, but lo jnd behold, all of the record were il legible because the wine had fer nented in the course of years and saturated the other contents of the sealed box. The records were, there fore, so rotten by dampness and age :hat even the Bible could not be open ed. None of the records placed there ivhen the building was erected were n any sort of state of preservation. Whht does a dash before a sen tence is finished mean? I know a couple of guys that tried that, and it meant a few years more if hard labor. Small Boy: Pa, what did prehistor c monsters look like ? . Father: I don't remember. Ask your nother. NEW METHODIST CHURCH i MODEL !8 II1ITECT1E U DESIGN Will Cost When Completed $140,000. Ideal In Arrangement. Auditorium Seats 1,000. Has $8,000 Pipe Organ. 60 Sunday School Rooms. (By Leo B. Woathei . > The new Central Methodist church which is nearing completion in SheL by under the pastorate of that belov ed minister Rev. A. L. Stanford, lam ed in his denomination as builder, will cost when equipped $110,000 and is without a doubt one of the most con venient in arrangement of any church in North Carolina. It is a credit to Shelby and n tribute to Methodism md onf? in Shelby and Cleveland County, hut to North Car dina. The Gothic style of architecture is used in the building which adorns the northeast corner of the beautiful court square Ht the corner of Washington and Marion streets and overlooks the principal streets and business section of the town. It has been under con struction since January 1st when J. P. Little and Son of Charlotte were awarded the contract by the building committee. While the work has been rushed along, it will be from 3ft to 60 days from the date of this paper be fore the congregation actually wor ships in the new structure. Several delays were encountered in material, but the building itself is finished and the equipment is being added as rap ily as it arrives. The structure is of brick and steel construction, terra cotta tile roof, partmont are largo and comfortable with from one to two solid walls be tween each department so there is no interruptions by the noise. Each room lias stationary chairs, blackboards and maps while there are a half dozen pi anos for use of teacher and pupils. A telephone system has been install ed. connecting every Sunday school with the superintendent’s office, so that t be superintendent and secretary can lie in instant communication wifti r' the teachers. In collect!■ " the records of attendance and contributions, the telephone system facilitiates matters greatly, making it unnecessary for the secretary-treasurer to disturb the teachers at their work. Two Scriptural References. Of course the building has steam heat with two large boilers, one to heat one side of the building and the other the opposite side. The ventila tion is perfect in the auditorium and Sunday school department, while there are a number of toilets and rest rooms, cloak rooms and coal bins. Carved in the granite keystone over the middle entrance is a reference to John ;i:10 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, ! that whosoever believeth on Him : should not perish, but have everlast , ing life.” leva THE OLD CENTRAL CHURCH. One of the landmarks of Shelby’s historic “court square” that as other things had to give away to progress. The old build ing in its day was considered an outstanding edifice—but com pare "the old and the new.” Flemish bond style of outside wall, three stories high including the base ment which extends the length and breadth of the building. The main au ditorium has a seating capacity of 1,000 while there are 60 different Sun day school rooms to accommodate the Sunday school which is graded per fectly in accordance with the approv ed methods of the Sunday school board. $8,000 Pipe Organ. To the rear of the pulpit, will be installed a mammoth pipe organ that is costing $8,000 and is said to be the most improved instrument of its kind on the market. It will play as softly as a whisper or the organist can make ] the thundering sounds of the clouds or the roar and roll of the ocean waves. Sixty Class Rooms. But coming back to the Sunday school department of which William Lineberger is superintendent. Mr, Lineberger is an energetic business man who has worked marvels with the school since he took charge six years ago. He can do more because he is busy and when he undertakes any thing for the good of the school, he goes about it in a hustling, business like manner and selects busy men and women as his co-workers. The church j membership is 675 and the interest is keen. Since Rev. A. L. Stanford came to the pastorate, the membership rap dly ran up to this splendid record. The Sunday school has an enrollment larg er than this when the cradle roll and home departments are included. The class rooms m the Sunday schgol de Over the fireplace in the men’s of ! fice U a reference to Philippians 4:8 i which reads: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatso ever things are hone«t, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of oood report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Methodists Now Have Best, Says Mr. Murray (By Rev. W. A. Murray, Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Shelby, N. C.) I wish to heartily congratulate the congregation of the Central Metho dist church and their leader in the enterprise of erecting such a splen did Temple of Worship. It has al ways been my conviction the church ought to be the equal, if not the su perior of any building in the com munity. The Methodists of Shelby now have the best. I have studied this magnificent building carefully and I know no church more pleasing to the eye, complete in every detail or bet ter adapted t oworship and religious education. If anything has been otnit ted that ought to be in a modern church, I have not detected the omis sion. W’ashable maps have been invented, but the detours can’t be ereased. Perhaps the trains could be per suaded to stop at the road crossings. There are two sides to every fam ily question the male and the female.
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