St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, First and Cherry Streets.
Dr. Marian Miller, an art teacher at Illinois State Normal University made eleven panels for the reredos, painted in brilliant color on gold leaf, and it is estimated it would cost $3,000 to replace them. The work in the church was entirely by volunteer labor on evenings and holidays. The church was rededicated on a Sunday in June, 1952 by the Most Reverend Wallace Conkling, Bishop of Chicago, and today the Reverend Wayne Duggleby of Pontiac is the priest in charge.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS held services in various homes in the community on Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings for a few years in the 1880's and 1890's. However, their numbers were small and no church was organized or built.
THE GOSPEL TABERNACLE congregation was organized in 1935 and in the following spring built their frame church on a lot on South Elm Street. Most of the work was done by members. The Reverend Mr. Rediger of Morton dedicated the church in June, 1936, assisted by the Reverend and Mrs. George Ade who had been leaders in the organiza-
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