STEEPLE FOR FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

 

Across the Fence

From The Hamilton Herald-News

 

By Arvord Abernethy

 

 

Congratulations to the Presbyterian people for the beautiful steeple they now have on their church.

 

There has been an interest in putting a steeple on the church for some time. Bus Gordon had started some of the interest by drawing a picture of the church with a steeple and using the drawing on the weekly church bulletins.

 

Recently Mavis Barkley saw a small ad in the Waco paper stating there was a church steeple for sale. A committee composed of Ed Craig, Bob Wilson, Leon York and possibly others, went right down and looked it over. They came back with a good report, so the church met in conference and voted to buy it. Ken May and others of the committee went down and completed the deal as soon as possible as others were wanting the steeple.

 

The steeple had been on a Mormon church building which had been sold to a boy’s club. The people in Waco preferred that the steeple go to some church, but since it is made of solid copper, scrap metal dealers were anxious to get it.

 

As some say, it all seemed to be a miracle. There was Mavis accidentally seeing the small ad, the committee and church acting promptly, Kenneth Craig happening to be bringing the large crane through here, and the steeple fitting the bell tower as through the architect had planned it that way; everything working to a desired end.

 

The Presbyterian Church has always had a churchy look, but this steeple just touches it off. As that steeple points upward, so does the influence of the church people point the lives of people?

 Shared by Roy Ables

 

ACROSS THE FENCE