. Reminiscences of Montclair : with some account of Montclair's part in the Civil War . ted in 1836. HenryWilde, Gorline Doremus and Josiah W. Crane wereactive promoters of the enterprise. The advantage ofthe change matle in its location some years later toNorth Fullerton Avenue is apparent from its presentbeautiful buildings and largely increased membership. The original building of the First PresbyteriaCChurch soon followed. Next was St. Lukes firstbuilding, mentioned above, and the next in orderof time was the Roman Catholic Church, a plain framebuilding located in Washington Street and now
. Reminiscences of Montclair : with some account of Montclair's part in the Civil War . ted in 1836. HenryWilde, Gorline Doremus and Josiah W. Crane wereactive promoters of the enterprise. The advantage ofthe change matle in its location some years later toNorth Fullerton Avenue is apparent from its presentbeautiful buildings and largely increased membership. The original building of the First PresbyteriaCChurch soon followed. Next was St. Lukes firstbuilding, mentioned above, and the next in orderof time was the Roman Catholic Church, a plain framebuilding located in Washington Street and now occu-pied by the Foundling Society. The Church of theImmaculate Conception made a wise move when itchanged its location to North Fullerton Avenue where,through the strenuous labors of Father Mendl, it hasattained its present large membership and materialadvance in the large and handsome church buildingnearing its completion, together with its fine Paro-chial school building on Munn Street. The otlierchurch organizations of the town arc fresh in thememory of the present geueratit) s.\Mi;i;[. fisiii:k. ,.u. Reminiscences of M ont cl a i r 47 Up to about 1870 the four churches named, viz.:the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and RomanCathohc, seemed to satisfactorily accommodate thechurch-going people of the town, but for about fifteenyears previous there had been a gradual and increas-ing growth of residents encouraged by the improvedtraveling facilities to and from New York. A largeproportion of the new residents allied themselves withthe Presbyterian Church (the Society was at thistime worshippmg in the present building), and, whilethis was not in many cases their denominational pref-erence, yet in the spirit of a true Christian fellowshipthey added much to the material and spiritual interestsof the Society. At the time the church was built it wasthe custom to give to the contributors a pew or pewsaccording to the amount subscribed for the churchbuilding, gi
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