The Fourth Church erected in 1910

It was under the leadership of Dr. Wycoff that our fourth and present church building was erected. Early in 1909, the congregation decided that it would be better to build a new church than to undertake to repair the old. While the building was under construction, the congregation worshiped in the Bethel High School Auditorium. Some of the bricks of the second and third churches were incorporated into the inner course of the present structure. The old Bethel Academy bell that in 1888 was placed in the tower of the third church was in turn hung in the tower of the fourth church and is in use today. This structure was dedicated in May, 1910. Its cost, including interest, was $30,432.32.

Near the close of the nineteenth century, Dr. Wycoff helped establish the Beadling Mission. For a time the Methodist conducted the Sunday School classes, but on May 22, 1892 Dr. Wycoff preached a sermon dedicating the new chapel that had been built with generous help by William and Thomas Beadling, coal operators, on ground donated by Finley Gilkeson. From then on for many years Bethelites conducted the mission and its school. From the spring of 1912 to October 1916, the Beadling Mission was under the care of the Presbyterian Church of Dormont.

Dr. Wycoff suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in the fall of 1912 when he was compelled to close his active ministry. Wanting to round out forty years of service as pastor of Bethel, the congregation furnished him an assistant. On November 22, he was stricken with a second hemorrhage. He was laid to rest in Bethel Cemetery, where his three predecessors lie.

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