Among the Churches

New York, 1895

Doings of the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island

A legacy of several hundred dollars has been left to the Sea Cliff M E. church by the late Mrs. Mary McCartney.

The Catholic society at Northport has purchased the house and grounds adjoining the church plot. The house will he remodeled and will be occupied by Father Fitzgerald.

The parish of St. George's, Flushing, is historic. It owns a charter from King George, accounted so valuable that it is committed to the care of a safe deposit company in New York. To the parchment sheet is appended a great seal as large as a box of blacking.

The Methodist church in Oyster Bay, although organized in 1833 was never incorporated. During the building of the new church this fact became known and Dr. Steele, by his own personal effort attended to the matter and secured the result immediately, making out the papers, getting orders from the courts, and filing them. The Dr. speaks very highly of County Clerk Sutphin, who receipted a thirty dollar bill and presented it to the clergyman for the good of the cause; and also of John Fleming, who made a liberal donation of services for like reasons. — Pilot.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 12, 1895, p. 5.