CENTRAL CHURCH, DALLAS, TEXAS.

This is one of the best houses among our people. It is Romanesque in style, massive and majestic in appearance, and strictly modern in every particular. It is of yellow brick and heavily trimmed in red stone. The roof is slate. The audience room, a perfect circle, with bowled floor and circular pews, will seat seven hundred. The chapel, separated by a glass partition, seats five hundred, so when the two are thrown together, an audience of twelve hundred is in easy range of the speaker. And by the use of chairs in the aisles, etc., this number can be increased to fifteen hundred. The parlors, dining room, toilet rooms, and kitchen, are over the chapel. Here the social life of the church is cultivated--a work too much neglected in the average city church. In this elegantly equipped department, with a capacity of five hundred, some of the very best work is done.       The baptistry, robing rooms, preacher's study, etc., are in harmony with the rest of the equipment. The windows are especially beautiful. Besides a number of lovely floral designs there are four magnificent historic windows: The Resurrection of the Lord; Christ Blessing Little Children; Christ at the Carpenter's Bench; and The Good Shepherd. This splendid building cost $65,500, and there is not a dollar of debt on it.

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