The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-06

| Resolved, That, although our beautiful and COM
molious Westinghouse, and the adjoining vestry
shall still re- ain organization under the name
and title OF the Second Parish Church and Society,"
and shall as soon as practicable, erect another place
cessbe TO the bulk OF our parishioners.
Resotced, hat as upwafs OF six'y-fve families
OF ur parish have lost their houses and their homes
and nearly all have be impoverishe by This cal I'M
ity, it becomes necessary to resort eXr ORDINARY
tor the purpose OF securing the funds reouists
for the erection OF place OF worship.
| The entertainments OF business on the old
location of the church, the lorg continued ten
| dency of our population towards the north CT
| the peninsula and its eastern and western OK.
| tremities, together with the firm conviction
| that more than one commodious and substan-
| Tia! congregational sanctuary, ought not und II
| existing circumstances to be erected in this
| part of our city, induced an early address to
| the sister church and society who had also suf-
fered the loss of their place OF worship On
the lIth day OF September, ten weeks after the
destructive con1agration the Second Church
| and Society thus addressed their brethren of
| the Third: "In the present state of our CITY,
| especially that portion of ii where both our
| sanctuaries were located, and considering The
| impoverished condition oi many flm les in
| both our societies, it seems greatly inexpedi-
| ent to contemplate or attempt the simultane-
| GUS re-erection of both our churches"
I'VE, therefore, the members of the Second
| Parish Church aud Society," invite YOU to cast
| in your lot with u.s. to combine your available
| resources with ours, and to unite with us in
| rearing substantial and commodious sanctu-
| airy under the name already adopted and uni
| versaly accepted, as most consonant with our
bygone history, and the sacred memories that
| cluster around the Second Parish Church."
ut is our desire to perpetuate, in conjunction
| with other evangelical churches in our city,
the preaching OF the everlasting gospel, to bear
our collective testimony to its sacred and saw
| ing truth, AMI to transmit to our posterity the
| high and precious privileges attendant on the
| maintenance of christian worship and the pos
| session and and practical issues of the faith
| once delivered to the saints
Christian hrethren friends and fellow citi-
zens, these purposes, now partially executed,
are here reiterated, and all of similar faith and
polity and purpose, not yet accommodated else
| where. are affectionately invited to Sabbath
home I'D the sanctuary now in process of cree
| ton.
1t was early resolved not TO encroach on tie
locality recently occupied by the Third Socie-
| ty should they entertain the purpose of re-
building; nor was it till that purpose was cred
| IDLY said to be abandoned, that this Second Sc
| cety purchased of one of the most prominent
| members of the Third the greater part of this
| most eligible site. On the revival and an
nouncement of that design, this Society stayed
| Third Society had adopted and published their
resolution TO dissolve their building committee
and to dispose, by sale, OF their real estate.
| [See Daily Press Aug. 10, 1851
IhiS resolution relieved the Second Parish
| from all embarrassment on the score of sight,
and, as soon as practicable, plan was proeur-
| ed, contracts made, and the erection commence
| ed 1t seemed meet and proper that a church
aud society, of which all the others of like pol
| ity in the city are the offspring, should still
have a name and place in this community
| and the purpose of re- erection, when published,
| met with ready and encouraging response
| from many of the best and wisest of the land.
Thus wrote the venerable DR.. Pond
BANGOR, Sept II, 1866.
| To all aoh1m 10 may Conceri:
This certihes that approve entirely the plan Of
| the md Church and Socie y in Portland, 10 build
new house Of worship in place of that which the
late DR.. Payson so effectively occupied, and which
has recently been DESTROYED by fie. The great losses
of this beloved CHI irch AMI people alone enough
TO emit lie them to sympathy and help but the tact
that The new house is to bea" the veneratei OF
| Payson should be dditional nducemen'. Let all
those who have heard of this name, and especially
those who have been prof ed by the published me-
mors and Sc mons of Payson whether within the
| bounds of vaine or bevond them, embrace the OPP
port unity to do something towards the ion OF
| this mem )r1al church. ENOCH POND,
| In his own behalf and in behalf of Ii s colleagues
who are absent.