The offer of Temple Emanu-El, of which Louis Marshall is president, to the Park Avenue Baptist Congregation of which Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick is pastor and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. a member, to hold Sunday services in the Temple during the construction of the church, has been accepted.
Beginning October 1, the Park Avenue Baptist Congregation will hold its services in the Temple which was formerly occupied by the Congregation Beth El before its amalgamation with Temple Emanu-El. The new edifice of Temple Emanu-El at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-fifth Street is nearing completion. It is planned to sell the present temple property where the Baptist congregation will worship. Their church, being erected on Riverside Drive, will be ready by the Fall of 1930.
At a meeting of the Baptist congregation the following resolution was adopted.
“Resolved, that the Park Avenue Baptist Church appreciates the generosity of the congregation of Temple Emanu-El in offering the hospitality of its synagogue to our people; that the church accepts this proffer not only as a practical convenience, which we welcome, but as an evidence of fraternal good-will, which we sincerely reciprocate; that the church instructs its responsible officers to convey cordial thanks to the congregation of Temple Emanu-El, and to make such arrangements for the acceptance of the proffered hospitality as shall be of least inconvenience to our hosts.”
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