rRINITY METHODIST CHURCH 18th at Broadway A Denver, Colorado Processional Hymn Ella S. Schenck Myrtle E. Blaine aups i r-pi f olr—d * * '—*~wT We thank Thee, Lord, for men of old who knew a great -'er We praise Thee for the countless folk who^e placed their shoulders Thy prais-es sung by man- y a choir re- eeh- o still be- •Mftifir f f f 7 iM Nrt¥pi # ^^ God i thfih gold; Strong 'pi - Po - neers^, whos e faith LJ*fcnd toil •neath Thy yoke; Men who with faith these aisles have trod aeath our spire; Thy chos- en ones who preached the way 71ft 1 I f p FP? M; pg 3=5 broughr t forth this churcurch pn prair 4 *e solsoi]l and sane • ti - fied this church of God. A - men. live on in oth- er lives to- day. & gi p i I XX k. A hundred years are naught to Thee, Naught this Centennial Jubilee; May we who now the sweet trust bear Make great this church with love and prayer 5. Lord, we would faithful stewards be, Our service pleasing unto Thee; But well we know all work is vain, Unless Thy Spirit here shall reign, 6. Then dwell with us, Thou risen Lord, Make this dear church Thy sure abode; So shall our children's children see A greater, nobler Trinity. This booklet is affectionately dedicated to all ministers, lay­ E men, and laywomen of the past one hundred years of Trinity Methodist Church. It is by their prayers, sacrifice of their time D and talents, that they showed their love for the Lord Jesus Christ; their faithfulness to God and their concern for their I fellowman. C r Trinity Methodist Church 1820 Broadway Denver 2, Colorado • . _ — „. ^, „ — f • ^A^-^JL.e^-^L/^' 0**^&Z& 'ffl-^L^t^a* fo+t.- Latins* **7 f**r**, /VLPPX^ 100 Years of Trinity Ministers REV. JACOB ADRIANCE PASTORS OF TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH 1859 -1959 YEARS WHERE NEXT JACOB ADRIANCE July 1859 to Feb. 1860 To Colo, mining camps till 1862, then Neb. Conference. LOWDEN TAYLOR May 30 to July 31, 1860 Resigned, ill health, died soon A. P. ALLEN July 1860 to Feb. 7, 1861 Retired, was supply WALTER A. KENNY July 31, 1861 to Feb. 8, 1862 111 health, died soon while pastor here W. S. LLOYD Feb. 1862 to June 23, 1862 111 health, resigned OLIVER A. WILLARD 1862 to June 10, 1863 Became Presiding Elder GEORGE C. BETTS June 1863 to 1864 Joined Episcopal church GEORGE RICHARDSON Fall 1964 to 1865 Appointed Pres. Colo. Seminary (first pastor of Lawrence Street Church) WILLIAM M. SMITH 1865 to 1866 Appointed to Denver Dist. BETHUEL T. VINCENT Aug. 1866 to 1868 Appointed to Denver Dist. JOHN LEVI PECK 1869 to 1871 Transferred to N. Y. Dist. THOMAS ROBERTS SLICER 1871 to 1872 Became Unitarian Minister in 1881 BETHUEL T. VINCENT 1872 to 1875 To Philadelphia Conference JOHN R. EADS 1875 to 1878 Probably to Golden, in 1881 to Ky. Conference *EARL CRANSTON 1878 to 1880 Became Presiding Elder, then Bishop 1896 * DAVID HASTINGS MOORE 1880 to 1881 As head of Colo. Seminary then Bishop 1900 ROBERT WOLFF MANLEY 1881 to 1883 Died here July 15, 1883 GILBERT DE LA MATYR 1883 to 1886 To Ohio Conference HENRY A. BUCHTEL July 25, 1886 to 1891 To Indianapolis, Ind. (Later DU chancellor and Colo. Governor) 1891, April to Oct. *WILLIAM FRASER MCDOWELL Was then DU chancellor elected Bishop 1904 1891 to 1896 *ROBERT MdNTYRE To Los Angeles, elected Bishop 1908 1896 to 1901 CAMDEN MCCORMACK COBERN To Chicago, later Allegheny College 1901 to 1904 FROST CRAFT To Capitol Hill church, Denver, then Univ. Park Church, Denver, then DU JAMES SHERA MONTGOMERY 1904 to 1905 Resigned, high altitude; lecturer; in 1921 was Interim of months chaplain U. S. House of Rep., Washington LOUIS ALBERT BANKS 1906 to 1909 To Kansas City, Mo. CHARLES BOWSER WILCOX 1909 to 1914 To Asbury, Denver, then Colo. Springs * CHARLES LAREW MEAD 1914 to 1920 Elected Bishop 1920 LOREN MCCLAIN EDWARDS 1920 to 1932 Grace Ch., St. Louis, Mo. JAMES EDWIN CROWTHER 1932 to 1936 To San Jose, Calif. OTTO H. HOUSER 1936 to 1939 District Supt. SAMUEL W. MARBLE 1939 to 1950 To Oklahoma Conference as District Supt. JOHN H. CROWE 1950 to 1956 Kansas City, Mo. WILLIAM A. HUBBARD 1956 to * Ministers later made Bishop History of Trinity Methodist Church t_yWountains which held the gold that lured settlers to the Denver. Many years later Reverend Adriance wrote about Pike's Peak Region in 1858-1859 also inspired religious it: "I covered the floor with hay, made a table, bedstead, worship. Along with the cutting of timber for cabins and two stools, and with a little camp stove, a tin plate, cup, stores and the panning and digging for gold, some people knife and fork, two blankets and a buffalo robe, I commenced were also providing for places of worship. In the new frontier housekeeping." settlement later called Denver on August 2, 1859, was Only one week after organizing the quarterly meeting founded its first church organization, which became Trinity conference, the Reverends Adriance and Fisher canvassed Methodist Church, now celebrating its Centennial. Auraria and Denver City for subscriptions for a church The first worship services in this region are reported to building. The people of both rival towns wanted the church have been held outdoors under cotton wood trees on the bank but each wanted it on its own side of Cherry Creek. After a of the South Platte river at the location now identified as week of effort, they abandoned their attempts for lack of lltK and Wewatta streets in the present railroad yards with agreement. Mr. Adriance was preacher for the rest of the participants seated on the dusty ground. year 1859 and until February 16, 1860, when he went to The first indoor worship service on record was held Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the Leavenworth Conference, November 21, 1858, at one end of a double cabin of Jack later visiting his parents in New York. While there he met Jones and John Smith while gambling went on at the other Fannie A. Rogers and just 17 days later they were married. end. The Reverend George W. Fisher, carpenter, wagon- They returned to the Pike's Peak Region but not to Denver, maker and former Methodist circuit-rider in Kansas, preached being assigned to mining camps until 1862 when they were to about a dozen people seated on the floor on buffalo robes. sent to Fremont, Nebraska, remaining in the Nebraska Corn He thus won the distinction of preaching the first sermon in ference until his retirement in 1878. the Pike's Peak Gold Region. He continued to preach in the Fifty years after Rev. Adriance preached his first sermon settlement and his efforts bore fruit. in what is now Colorado, in August 1909 he was invited to The next April, 1859, at the Kansas-Nebraska Methodist come back to Denver to preach once more. On the same spot Conference in Omaha, Presiding Bishop Levi Scott read out where Rev. Fisher had preached his first sermon in this re­ the name of "Pike's Peak and Cherry Creek" as one district gion, Rev. Adriance preached substantially the same sermon to be supplied with preachers. He appointed William H. he himself had preached in the Pollock Hotel in 1859. He Goode, Superintendent of Missions of the Methodist Church spoke with remarkable power even though he was elderly west of the Missouri river, and 23-year-old Jacob Adriance, and very deaf. This visit of Rev. Adriance, accompanied by later called "the boy preacher". After 28 days of hard travel his wife of almost 50 years, was a memorable occasion. by wagon across 600 miles from Iowa, they reached Auraria A few months later she died on November 13, 1909, and he (later named Denver) on June 28, 1859. At once they posted died 12 years later on December 12, 1922, at the age of 86 notices of a meeting for the following Sunday, July 3, which at the home of his daughter in Fremont, Nebraska. was held in the Pollock Hotel, actually two small frame and Sunday School came along very soon after the church log buildings joined, located on present 11th Street between began. The fi-st Sunday School, called Union Sunday School, Wazee and Market. Reverend Goode preached in the morn­ opened early in October 1859 and 12 children were present, ing and Reverend Adriance in the afternoon. also some adults, "Aunt Clara," an old colored woman, After spending the next few weeks touring and preaching Rev. Adriance, Reverend George W. Fisher, Lewis N. Tap- in mining camps in the nearby mountains, they returned to pan, David C. Collier, and Professor Owen J. Goldrick, who Auraria. On August 2, 1859, they conducted the first quar­ had just opened the first school in the settlement, a private terly conference of the Methodist Church in the Denver City one. For some time Reverends Adriance and Fisher had and Auraria Mission. These two rival settlements on oppo­ charge of the Sunday School. David C. Collier was elected site banks of the South Platte river were later consolidated first superintendent. Indian Sopris, later Mrs. Samuel Cush- into Denver. That was an epochal date for Methodism in man, Denver's first woman school teacher, was elected super­ Colorado for it marked the founding of the first church intendent. In 1863 and until 1868 it was known as the First organization in Denver, which became Trinity Methodist Methodist Sunday School and then from 1868 to 1877 in the Church.