Prium Accepts Call

New York, 1895

AMONG THE CHURCHES.

Doings of the Various Religious Bodies Throughout the Island.

Rev. Walter B. Prium, of Crozer Seminary, has accepted a call to the Babylon Baptist church.

Bishop Littlejohn visited St. John's church, Long Island City, Sunday afternoon and confirmed a class of 26.

A site has been purchased at Sayville for a new Catholic church, and work upon the edifice will be started at once.

The ordination of the Rev. William S. Ballou will take place in the Universalist Church at Huntington on Tuesday evening.

The woman's home and foreign missionary society of the Presbytery of Long Island will hold its annual meeting in Bridge Hampton on Wednesday and Thursday next.

Another memorial window has been placed in All Saints' church, Great Neck. It is given in memory of the late Harry Messenger and his wife, Rosa, by their five surviving children.

Last Sunday was a day of rejoicing for Patchogue Congregationalists. The occasion was the celebration of the second anniversary of the dedication of the handsome church. One of the interesting events of the morning was the contribution of $1,300 toward the church debt.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 8.