The dedication exercises of the new Emanuel Lutheran church, at 315 South Dakota Street, will be held tomorrow night, starting at 7:30. The exercises will mark the opening or one Butte's best appointed churches. a Gothic edifice of brick and concrete, and will mark the end of the arduous work done by the congregation in making the religious structure possible.
The Rev. N. J. W. Nelson of Anaconda, president of the Montana district of the Lutheran Church will give the dedicatory address. Other visiting clergy will make short talks. Among these will be the Rev. R. J. Forsburg of Great Falls and the Rev. Dr. E. J Groenveld of the Silver Bow County Ministerial Association.
The congregation is to meet in the basement of the church. At 7:30, led by the pastor, the Rev. D. N. Anderson, the congregation will march from the basement to the outside of the building then into the church. The architect of the new structure, John E. Seaquist, will hand the keys to the pastor, who will then open the doors. As the congregation enters the church the choir will sing "I was Glad.", an appropriate selection chosen for the occasion.
In October 1915 the congregation decided that a new better edifice for worship was needed. A building committee was named and one year later work of building began under the supervision of E. C. Paterson. On November 12, 1916 the cornerstone was laid by the Rev. Dr. L. A. Johnson, president of the Augustana synod of the Lutheran Church of North America.
From the Butte Daily Post