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After the church burned in April 1913, we had to build a new building. One of the fund raisers used by the children of the Sunday School in 1914 was for each child to get money to buy a brick. Each child had an envelope on which were drawn ten squares. Each time a child earned (or begged) a dime, a square was coloured in. When all finished it represented a brick and then a new envelope.
As a barely six year old child, Elin Schuyler was lucky. She retrieved a red brick which fell off a load passing her home. This brick was given to the contractor, Mr. David D. Gunton, a member of the church and also one of her neighbours. Mr. Gunton had the brick layers put the brick the 20th one up from the steps at the east entrance (Young Street) side of the building.
The brick was carefully removed by Martin Williams, a member of the church, and this brick was then placed above the peak of the Young Street entrance to the new building (1989). The brick is quite noticeable by its weathered condition.
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