Among The Churches

New York, 1895

Doings of the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island.

The First Congregational Church at Roslyn was admitted to fellowship Thursday by a council of clergymen and laymen. The society was organized less than a year ago, and last fall dedicated its new edifice, which was erected at a cost of $10,000.

The Catholic children at Willets' Point are assisting to collect funds for the erection of a new Roman Catholic church at Bayside. They have raised enough money with the contributions of the residents to insure the laying of the corner stone early in the spring.

The dedication of the new Presbyterian church of Newtown village, which was to have taken place last Sunday, had to be postponed on account of the discovery that a number of steam pipes had burst. As soon as the damage can be repaired, arrangements for the dedication will be made.

St. John's Lutheran church at Ingleside, Flushing, was dedicated Sunday afternoon. The Rev. Leo Konig, president of the New York State synod, preached, and he was assisted in the services by the church pastor, the Rev. A. E. Schmitthaener. The church is a frame building finished in natural woods. The auditorium was filled Sunday, and the day was a glad one in the history of the congregation, representing as it did the successful culmination of years of struggle. Several years ago a handful of the German element of Flushing with no church of their denomination in the village were in the habit of meeting and journeying together to attend services on Sunday at Corona or Jamaica. Additions were made to their number, and finally a little colony of twenty secured the free library for meetings and called as a minister the present pastor. He set about the work of erecting a church, and in October, 1894, the cornerstone of the building dedicated on Sunday was laid.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 2.