“LANDMARK 1896”
First Church Review
Rev. F. E. Snow, Editor
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In 1896 was life in First Church the same as today? Excerpts for NOTES BY THE WAY reflect church life in that period.
“The prayer meeting held in the Clapboard Hill schoolhouse, January 21, under direction of the Prayer Meeting Committee was well attended and of good spirit.
Married, June 10, at the home of the bride’s father, Dea. E.W. Leete, Miss Abbie Louise Leete to Edward Eliot Griswold (May Elinor Dudley’s grandparents and Stephen Dudley’s great grandparents.)
The Young Ladies’ Society has voted that with the consent of the Society’s Committee, they will replace the old doors between the vestibule and the audience room (sanctuary), with swing doors. If the matter can be satisfactorily arranged, the work will soon be done.
The picnic for the Church and Sunday School was held at Harrison’s Grove, Leete’s Island, Aug 19. The day was perfect, and almost 200 were in attendance. The arrangements were very complete and great credit is due the various committees who had the details in charge.
The congregation had the pleasure of listening to Rev. E.M. Vittum , Aug.9.
His lecture in the evening on the Development of Mohammedanism was particularly enjoyable.
A meeting in behalf of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will be held in the First Church, Tuesday evening, April 13th. This institution is located in Tuskegee, Alabama. Booker T. Washington is President. Brief addresses will be made and a quartet of colored singers will sing Negro melodies.
How would the proposition strike people to restore the old pulpit, with its handsome lamps to its former place? There was a dignity and fitness in that pulpit which no desk can ever attain unto.
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