Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-26
the Pleasant, Street Methodist church

he fie5Sditt#.9ltel MellloulSlH 49,
| in this city:
Most everybody is glad that state
Street church is at last to have Il !
pastor. Certainly if the congregation
! is TO be kept together. the excellent |
work maintained, the members united |
without an abatement of interest. |
regular preacher is needed in this the
biggest congregation in town. but |
There are other reasons why so MANY |
persons are pleased to learn that state
Street church has Il pastor at last. !
It's refusal to call Il pastor at one time |
! i'm the conference year. when the rules
of the church provided for the placing |
of ministers. has caused more unpleas-
liant talk and criticism than anything
THAT has occurred in Methodisn in TINS !
(Section i'm Il quarter of a century. In
lAprl when every other Methodist
lchurch accepted the pastor the confer
Ience sent. State street in effect gave
lnotice that no minister in the confer
lence who at the time could be secured
| for them was good enough for state
street. :" State street was given au-
IthuritN to go outside the conference
t" get Il preacher And the minister
ithcN wanted could not be then OBJ
ltained 50 State street was allowed to
WYATT its own pleasure before filling its
Pulpit. News from WatcrviIle. Maine.
lWhert the new State street pastor is
looming from seems to Indicate that the
lWatcrvil!e church is nearly upset by
THE action OF State Street church. The
Rev. r. o. Everhart has been forcibly
taken possession of in the name of the
stat" Street church without 81 much
las by your leave. The removal of the
| Watcrvile minister to Troy comes in
the middle Of a conference year when
1.-THE WaterVillc congregation will find
lit difficult to get a minister. The APP
pointmtnt of Mr.. EVcrhart to the Troy
church was made by the high officials
before any official notice had been
given the WaterVille church at all Mr.
t.Vcrhart was appointed to come to
Troy and Il notice sent to him to that
effect "A hours before his Waterville
people knew that he had thought of
leaving them.
| After being sent to Maine by the
national authorities h" experienced a
desire To again enter the active min
iStrv and Was sent by the Maine cons
ference 10 WaterVi!le and returned at
the following conference. In the WOrl.
OF the Pleasant street church OF this
city Mr.. iIvernart has been a beloved
pastor: a strong leader and has cen
Quoted the business part oI mis- charge
With the experience of Il keen business
man. He has organized every departs
mcnt of tn" church and Sunday school
so that all is in first class working or
der and the Sunday school is the
largest in the city.
| AS 4 preacher ne is one of the best
in the city. His sermons have been
filled with practical Christian doc.
trineS and lie has the cloquence to
deliver them with telling force. In the
city he has participated in all that
is going on for the public good and In
every place where he has worked his
absence will be felt.
Few persons knew that any plan
was under way t" take Mr.. Everhart
away from Watervile The church In
Troy has been without Il pastor for
six months and the people there nave
been looking for a minister to take
charge. ON July IS last committee
came to WatCrville to hear Mr.. Ever,
hart preach. all unknown To him. He
had been recommended by one Of the
bishops and the Troy Methodists wanr-
cd to hear hin a committee tried to
GnG him while he was on his vacation
but failed through mistake in ad-
dresses, and when DR.. MaCElfreSh
spoke her" q week or two ago another
committee from Troy was in the city
and was disappointed that Mr.. Ever.
hart WAS not in the pulpit that morn.
ing.
preached there last Sunday. lie was in
vited to become pastor last Monday and
ON Tuesday, having signlied his willing
ness. received ii telegram from Bishop
j. seph +. Berry informing him of his
appointment to the place
The State street Methodist church of
Troy is, without doubt. the most inhuen-
tial of the city. 1t is located in the very
heart of the city ana numbers among its
members many of the aristocratic
families of Troy. The churc.l has been
Wlout pastor since April last. when
RN. George Wood Anderson resigned to
"cept the pastorate of Union church of
st. Louis. Mr.. Anderson was one of the
greatest and most successful Methodist
| clergyman who ever preached in Troy
| and, in consequence of his leaving the
charge 50 long ago it only follows that
Mr. Everhart has great work before
BIN to get the affairs Of the church in
running order. The membership of tn,
State street church is Very large and its
organization work is most Important Thu
church has seating capacity of about
| lMe and has connected to it large
chapel The pastor will have his resi-
dcnce Just across the street from the
| church in a thrcc-story and handsomely
| furnished fiat.
| The members of the local church will
| he without Il pastor after this month";
perhaps earlier than that for Mr.. Ever
| hart wishes to leave as soon as con-
| Venient. The official board appointed a
| committee consisting OF Herbert l.
| Emery J. e. Smith. w. II. Bowden. T.