The Republican journal., 1913-07-03
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Mrs. George W. Gorham
The Donor of an Organ to the First Bar
fist Church of BANGOR.

The Donor of an Organ to the First Bap-
fist Church Of Bangor.
The identity of the donor of the mag
nificent electro pneumatic organ just in
stalled in the new meeting house of the
First Baptist church, Bangor, was re-
vealed at the recent dedication, when
the pastor announced the giver as Mrs.
George W. Gorham. This announce
ment came as total surprise to the
members of the church and congrega-
ton. who since early in January had
been mystlfed to know whose generosi-
ty inspired SO fine a gift. The announce
ment was made in connection with a
recital by H. Everett Hall of Brewer,
Miss Aline Glass and Arthur E. Huskins
of Bangor, which was held to add inter-
est to the services of dedication of this,
one of the finest gifts to the church
since it began on the work of replacing
the meeting house destroyed in the big
fire OF April &c. 1911.
At the time of dedication, the pastor,
Rev. George C. Sauer, took from its
Wrappings on the pulpit the metal plate
the panels of the organs foundation,
announcing as he read from its message,
that the myst erious donor of the instru-
ment is Mrs. George W. Gorham, who
is lying seriously i'll at her home on
Fountain street, but whose deep interest
in the building of this church is mani
Tested by this beautiful toned gift which
is memorial to her loved ones and will
be, in after years, memorial to her own
great generosity.
In presenting the organ to the church
In Mrs. Gorham's name, Mr.. Sauer told
most interesting story; first of how
the gift came absolutely without solicit
tation on the part of anyone. Mrs.
Gorham, although a member of another
church of the same denomination, has
for several years attended the services
of this church and Unidentified herself
with it's activities. When the needs of
the new church were being considered,
she went privately to the pastor and Of
fered to pay for SUCH an organ as was
needed. This gift was made Jan. IL,
1913, and it had been, said the pastor,
most difficult task to keep secret the
identity of the donor for SO long, in the
face of so great an interest on the part
of the people of the church.
Originally, it appeared, Mrs. Cor
hams husband, the late George w.
Gorham, had made her a gift of sum
for the purchase of a suitable piano or
other musical instrument for their home.
Not having her mind made up at the
time just what sort of instrument she
preferred, Mrs. Gorham had placed the
fund in bank and left it to grow, pend
ing her decision, but this had never been
made and she had continued to use the
piano already in her home. With the
development of the need of the church,
it came to her mind that by the giving of
the money to which the original sum had
now, after almost 20 years, grown she
could carry out her husbands thought
and give, at the same time, wider IN
SEPARATION and happiness than the possess
sion OF any sort of musical instrument
in her own home could give with its
wider sphere of activity, and so the gift
was made, one of the largest individual.
gifts made to the church in the re-estab-
fishing of its material home.
just a week or two prior to the
dedication of the organ the donor
was stricken by sudden and unex-
pected illness, so that she was unable
to be present to witness the pleas
VI ene ehuIcu which Is the recipient
OF her bounty. Mr.. Sauer spoke with
much feeling of the strangeness of
Providence in this connection, but ex-
pressed the conviction that it will all
work out to the good Of all, that sit will
all work out right for her and for us"
as he expressed it.
As Mrs. Gorham during the life of her
husband, who was engaged in business
here, was for some time a resident of
Belfast and has since been fire.
quent visitor, the foregoing will be read
with interest by her many friends.
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