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[The Kansas Mission Annual Conference, provided for by the last General Conference, not being yet organized, the Kansas Mission District is embraced in the St. Louis Conference. The transferred preachers are reckoned with those of the Conferences to which they now belong.]

PREACHERS ADMITTED ON TRIAL.

The following list embraces the names of all the preachers admitted on trial in 1854; those for 1855 must be reported in our volume for next year.

428,511 164,584 3757
415,297 154,264 3691

603,303 23,992 214 579,525

13,214 10,320 66

John L. Gragg,

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Thomas J. Godby,

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J. T. W. Auld and Lewis G. Hicks, Elders, have been reädmitted.

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Harrison A. Graves, David H. Merriman, and John Matthews, readmitted in

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Guilford Jones and Philip Tuggle were reädmitted in elder's orders.

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James McLeod, Robert L. Drake, G. W. Cottingham, Andrew Davis, (elders,)

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Robert Crawford, Francis M. Stovall, Alexander R. Dixon, (elders,) reädmitted.

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CHAPTER III.

DEDICATION OF CHURCHES.

[From the St. Louis Advocate, of January 4]

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, ST. LOUIS.

THIS magnificent edifice is situated on the corner of Eighth street and Washington avenue. The lot of ground on which it stands is one hundred and sixteen feet deep in one place, and one hundred and fifty-one feet deep in another, by one hundred and twenty-three feet front; costing sixteen thousand dollars.

This church is built in the Norman style of architecture. George I. Burnett, architect; Messrs. Sage and Webster, builders: costing thirty-four thousand dol lars. Length, one hundred and nine feet; breadth, sixty-five feet; height, seventyfive feet. The basement story is above the surface, and contains the pastor's study, rehearsal-room, two class-rooms, a hall, a chapel, a Sunday-school library-room, furnace-room, and an ample vestibule. The suite of rooms, above mentioned, are eighteen feet by fifteen; the hall, dividing these from the chapel, is nine feet in width; the chapel will seat four hundred persons; the library-room is sixteen feet by fourteen; the cost of furnace, four hundred dollars; and the width of vestibule is sixteen feet. The basement story is finished and furnished throughout; lighted in the day time by stained glass windows, and at night with gas; ornamented in front by a handsome portico, sustained by massive iron pillars. This story may be entered by five large doors.

Now we will enter a very large door-way in front, we will turn either to right hand or to the left, and through any one of four doors, we will enter the main audience-room. It is ninety feet long by sixty feet wide, handsomely carpeted. The pews are circular, and elegantly cushioned. There are four aisles sufficiently wide, though not the widest. The altar and pulpit are much larger than usual; carpeted with the finest velvet; and furnished with a sofa, a table, and three chairs, surpassing any pulpit and altar furniture that we have noticed. Forty persons can kneel comfortably at the altar. The walls of the church, inside, have been made to assume somewhat the appearance of granite. This audience-room is lighted in day time by eighteen stained-glass windows; two of which, the one in front and the one in the rear, are rose windows of enormous size. It is lighted at night by chandeliers and gas-burners, which cost in the neighborhood of one thousand dollars. It has but one gallery-a front gallery-twenty feet wide and sixty feet long, The ceiling, which is about forty-four feet from the floor, is painted in oil-grained oak, with oak decorations. The whole building is covered in with slate. The fronts of portico and church are to be surmounted with handsome ornaments.

"Behold thy temple, God of grace,

The house that we have raised for thee;
Regard it as thy resting-place,
And fill it with thy majesty."

THE PARSONAGE.-This large and comfortable dwelling is built of brick, by L. D. Baker. It stands on Washington avenue, a few feet west of the church. It is three stories high above the cellar; containing a parlor, a dining-room, five bedrooms, a bathing-room, ample halls, wardrobes, and closets, and a kitchen, and servants' room, etc. When we mention that it has a yard sufficiently large, a small portico in front, that it is well furnished by the Church, and that it is lighted throughout with gas, our description closes. This parsonage cost upwards of four thousand dollars. It is said to be the best in the city.

THE SEXTON'S HOUSE.-This is on the same lot with the church and parsonage. It is just in the rear, built of brick, contains four rooms, and cost about one thousand dollars. The workmen are, this day, inclosing the east side of the church

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