Friday, May 23, 2008

Among The Churches

New York, 1895

Doings or the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island.

The ladies of the Lucien Memorial M. E. Church at Kings Park, have presented the church with a new organ.

Rev. B. F. Parliman, pastor of the Shelter Island Presbyterian church, has tendered his resignation, to take effect on May 15.

The Rev. J. E. Raymond has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Babylon, the relation to be severed April 1.

During the absence of the pastor, the Union Evangelical church of Corona will be supplied by the Rev. Henry A. Todd, of Brooklyn.

The Rev. F. A. MacMillen, of the Episcopal church in Brentwood, has accepted a call as assistant to the Rev. Edgar Cope, rector of the Church of St. Simeon.

For a year there has been preaching service in the Greenlawn Presbyterian church on alternate Sundays only. Arrangements have been made whereby there will be preaching every Sunday. The pulpit will be supplied by students from Princeton seminary.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 2.

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