Among the Churches

New York, 1895

Doings of the Various Religions Bodies Throughout the Island.

By the will of the late Sarah Allen the Reformed church at Manhasset will receive $200.

A certificate of incorporation of the First Methodist church of East Hampton has been filed.

Rev. Canon William Henderson, of Montreal, has accepted a call to St. Mary's church on Shelter Island.

The new St. Paul's Methodist church at Bay Shore will be dedicated Sunday, Bishop Andrews preaching in the morning.

A call has been extended by the Methodist church at Sea Cliff to the Rev. L. K. Moore, pastor of the church of Southampton.

The Rev. William Ross, of the Methodist church Elmont, has announced to his congregation that he will not be a candidate for the pastorate the coming year.

The Presbytery of Long Island will meet in Southampton on the 9th day of April, and the installation of the Rev. Richard S. Campbell as pastor of the Southampton church will take place.

The rumor that an effort is to be made to have a coadjutor appointed to Bishop Littlejohn of the Protestant Episcopal diocese is denied by the members of the standing committee of the diocese.

The Congregational society at East Rockaway has decided upon plans for an enlargement of the church. An addition 20x25 feet will be built. This action is one result of the withdrawal of resignation by the Rev. T. S. Braithwaite, the pastor.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.