Centennial celebration of the United Presbyterian (the old white) Church of building 1797-1897 : Salem, Washington County NY, November 9th, 1897 . e it gives me to be invited once more to the old WhiteChurch and its devout people for another memorial service. I thought, when with you in your last celebration, that Iwas attending my final service in a place that has been, likeUz of old, invested with the divine Spirit for a hundred years. I have a great veneration for old places where the fathersand mothers gathered for their Sabbath worship, where theGospel has been preached in its purity and
Centennial celebration of the United Presbyterian (the old white) Church of building 1797-1897 : Salem, Washington County NY, November 9th, 1897 . e it gives me to be invited once more to the old WhiteChurch and its devout people for another memorial service. I thought, when with you in your last celebration, that Iwas attending my final service in a place that has been, likeUz of old, invested with the divine Spirit for a hundred years. I have a great veneration for old places where the fathersand mothers gathered for their Sabbath worship, where theGospel has been preached in its purity and power, and whereI have been occasionally invited to give a sermon and received OF OLD WHITE CHURCH. 91 with the kindest welcome by pastor and people. As I havesaid, I greatly appeciate the kind invitation, and would bedelighted to join with you in the historic service, but a previousengagement prevents acceptance. Though absent in body, I shall be present with you inspirit; and my prayer is that the devotion, peace, and prosperitywhich has characterized you in the past will continue in thefuture. Most cordially yours, W. H. Meeker. ^^ ^^ ^^. TOKENS Bescription of the fiDueeum, Persistently lias the Gray Man shadowed all ofSalems history, and this fragment would be incompletewithout a touch of his hand. Thus he seems to haveregarded the matter, for on the eve of the centennial hequietly placed on the collectors desk a long-lost relic: thiswas a small gray book, containing the farewell address ofDr. Thomas Clark to his Balibay congregation. Thelittle volume had not been seen for a dozen or more years,and its mysterious re-appearance is at least worth noting. A few days before, while search was being made in anold garret, there came to light a quaint picture of a was wrought w^ith a needle in silks; on the back waspasted a newspaper, bearing date 1797; this savored sostrongly of the Gray Mans manoeuvres that his domainwas abandoned and interesting relics were sought else
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