Switzerland Prelate

in Impressive Address

Sunday Afternoon

at Site of New

Methodist Church.

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LARGE NUMBER

PEOPLE PRESENT

ON OCCASION

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Conditions in Central

Europe Portrayed in

Address at Turner Hall Sunday Morning.

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Sunday was a redletter day in the history of the local Methodist Episcopal church, as during the afternoon Bishop John L. Nuelsen, bishop of this denomination in Central Europe, with headquarters at Zurich, Switzerland, delivered the address at the cornerstone laying at the site of the new $65,000 church to be erected at the intersection of Broadway and Center street.

In the morning Bishop Nuelsen delivered an impressive talk at Turner theatre upon conditions in Central Europe.

In the evening Rev. Frank Doran, St. Paul, superintendent Mankato district Minnesota conference, preached the sermon at the local Methodist church. All services were well attended.

Advocates Unity.

Bishop John L. Nuelsen, of Zurich, Switzerland, in the cornerstone laying address, delivered Sunday afternoon, advocated more unity and co-operation between the different sects of Christianity, in the fight against sin and the activity of Satan.

“The inroads of Darkness are so great at this time that it really requires a union of all Christians in a united effort to combat this activity,” stated Bishop Nuelsen. “We should have no fight against any other Christian religion. It is time to cease fighting over matters of creed and all join in the great fight against sin and Satan. I hope the building of this new church is not with an aim to fight any other church, but with the larger and more beautiful aim to fight for the Christian religion and for the upbuilding of God’s kingdom on earth.”

Plans for Young People.

Bishop Nuelsen in his opening remarks outlined that he knew nothing of the plans of the church edifice, but he took it for granted that they included rooms, which could be employed in various ways by the young people as well as the older members of the congregation. The bishop was pleased to think that the new church would be erected with the thought in mind that it would be a community center, where the young as well as the old could congregate for the upbuilding of the city in things material as well as in things religious.

Brown County Journal,

April 18, 1924

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