Wednesday evening another large audience was present at the
Centennial Fraternal Service. Pastor Stackhouse presided and on the
platform with him and participating in the services were the
Venerable Dr. Steele, Dr. Chapman and Rev. J. K. Bearisto, Rev.
Anderson Rogers of St Stephen’s Church, Rev. E. H. Ramsay of Knox
Church Rev. H. Wigle of Trinity Methodist Church, Rev. L. S.
Crandal, pastor of the Baptist Church, Oxford, Rev. A. L. Powell,
Gaspereaux, and Rev. S. Walter Schurman, Lockport Brief
congratulatory addresses were given by all, and the general
expression was of thankfulness and congratulation for the great work
the Church has accomplished in its one hundred years its present
prosperity and its future prospects. Special mention was made of the
magnificent result of Sunday’s appeal, when the total indebtedness
of the Church was provided for. Letters were read from former
pastors. Rev. W. E. Bates and Rev. S. W. Cummings, and from
assistant pastors, Rev. G. O. Gates, D. D., Rev. J. Austin Huntley,
Rev. A. F. Newcombe, Rev. Johnston L. Miner, Messrs. Fred F. Foshay
and George Keirstead and from Rev. G. W. Schurman and Dr. C. Eaton,
all expressing their regrets that they were unable to participate in
the exercises of the church which had been so much to them in the
years gone by.