Among The Churches

New York, 1895

Doings of the Various Religions Bodies Throughout the Island.

The convention of the Hempstead Town Christian Endeavor union will be held in the Presbyterian church at Hempstead on Wednesday evening.

The Presbyterians of Southampton are trying to raise $3,000 to defray the expenses of enlarging their church and building a chapel.

The Rev. Clarence True Wilson, who has been stationed at Sea Cliff for two years, has decided to spend one year in California for the benefit of his health.

City and Island has a portrait of the Rev. William M. Willett, A. M., the Nestor of Long Island Methodist pastors, the eldest among the elders, having traveled the Suffolk circuit in 1823.

Children of the late Henry Corwith of Chicago have presented a new rostrum back, costing $700, to the Presbyterian church at Bridgehampton. They have also offered to build an organ gallery.

The members and congregation of Bethany Congregational church at East Rockaway are not disposed to accept the resignation of their pastor, the Rev. Thomas S. Braithwaite, and Monday evening by a unanimous vote it was decided to request the pastor to withdraw it.

The closing services in the old church building that for over one hundred years has been the spiritual home of the First Presbyterian society of Newtown were held last Sunday. In the morning the pastor, Rev. J. E. Mallmann, preached a historical discourse, covering the period of the Society's existence from 1652 to 1895. The dedication of the new church will take place next Sunday.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 2.