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In the above record no declaration appears as to the Episcopal nature of the new organization. This, however, was definitely settled at a meeting held in July following, when the subjoined declaration and subscription were added :
"FALMOUTH, July 23, 1764.
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On the 4th of September (according to the parish records) the corner-stone of the new church was laid by the wardens, who, with the other officers, were chosen on the same day. James Hope and George Tate were the Wardens; Thomas Child, Benjamin Waite, John Waite, Stephen Waite, Wheeler Riggs, Edward Mountfort, David Wyer, Daniel Isley, Jonathan Craft, Robert Mclellan, and Dr. Edward Watts, Vestrymen ; Henry Wallis was Parish Clerk, whose duty it was to lead the responses in church. At this meeting the following invitation was extended to Mr. Wiswall, forming bis " title" for ordination as required by the canons of the English Church :
"We do invite you to accept the pastoral charge over us, and in order thereto, we desire you would, as soon as may be, apply to his lordship the Bishop for ordination to qualify you therefor, and we do hereby promise to yon one hundred pounds lawful money per annum, to be paid yearly, to commence at the time of your ordination."
For two Sundays Mr. Wiswall preached to the parish in the Town-House, and then, October Sth, as we learn from Smith's diary, " sailed in the mast-ship, Capt. Haggett," for England. The church in the mean time was rapidly going up. It stood on the corner of Church and Middle Streets, and was 50 feet in length and 29 feet high. The church was opened for divine service June 6, 1765. Mr. Wiswall, having been duly ordained, returned, and entered upon his pastoral duties.
The burdens of building a new church, making provis- ions for a glebe and rectory, and supporting the regular ministration, fell heavily on the church at first, especially as they were still taxed for the ministry and expenses of the First Parish, from which they had withdrawn. This tax was not remitted till 1773. In April, 1772, it was " voted that Rev. John Wiswall be desired to bring an action against Mr. James Milk, Treasurer of the First Parish in said Falmouth, for the recovery of the rates of every person who attends worship at said church, which said Milk has received and refused to pay to said Wiswall, either in whole or in part." They had petitioned their former associates for relief, but in vain ; they had in 1770 addressed the General Court for the removal of these heavy obligations, but their prayers had not been granted. In January, 1773, the proprietors of St. Paul's addressed another petition to the General Court asking for redress, which was answered in March following by the appointment of a committee consisting of " Jedediah Preble and David Wyer, Esqs., and Messrs. William Simmons and Stephen and John Waite, to settle the dispute respecting the assessing and collecting taxes from the members of the Church of England." The result of a conference of this committee with a committee of the First Parish, and of a further petition to the General Court for relief, appears to have been the relinquishment on the part of the First Parish of all legal right to impose a tax upon the members of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Wiswall continued as reetor of St. Paul's till 1775, when the excitement consequent upon the breaking out of the Revolution dissolved his relation with the parish. He was a loyalist, and no doubt conscientiously believed that all efforts of the colonists to gain their independence would be futile. Bishop Perry very justly remarks, " We
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have learned of late to place a higher value on men who have dared to keep their oath of allegiance, and it was not to be expected of one who at ordination had taken a solemn oath of allegianee to the king and government of Great Britain, and who had for years, in the prayers of the church, acknowledged that allegiance and besought Heaven's bless- ing upon the ruling monarch and his family by name, should easily swerve to the popular side." Early in May, under apprehensions of personal violence, and at the call of Mowatt to all friends of the government to come on board, he had taken refuge on the " Canceaux." He was afterwards apprehended by Capt. Thompson's militia from Brunswick, but was released and returned again to the vessel on the 14th of May, sending word to the wardens that he should officiate as minister of St. Paul's no longer. In a few weeks the church and town were laid in ashes.
No services appear to have been held in the parish during the Revolution, and for some time subsequent to the con- clusion of peace occasional visits were made by neighboring clergymen. In August, 1785, Mr. Frederick Parker, a graduate of Harvard, began to read prayers for the church. These lay-services by Mr. Parker and others were contin- ued till 1797, when Rev. Joseph Warren, of Gardiner, ac- cepted a call to the rectorship, which he held till 1799. From 1800 to 1803 the parish was supplied by Rev. James
Bowers, of Pittstown. In the mean time, Mr. Timothy Ililliard, a graduate of Harvard in 1793, was engaged as lay-reader. During his services the parish increased in strength and influence, so that a new brick church was erected at a cost of $11,800, and $1200 additional paid for the land, nearly the whole sum being raised by the sale of pews at the opening of the building. Mr. Hilliard, being ordained, became reetor and officiated until 1808. The parish was then supplied temporarily till 1819, when the Rev. Petrus S. Ten Broeck was instituted rector. The parish was also greatly strengthened by the removal to Portland of Hon. Simon Greenleaf, afterwards LL. D. and Professor of Law at Cambridge. In 1831 the connection of Mr. Ten Broeck with the parish was dissolved. He was followed, in 1833, by the Rev. G. W. Chapman, D.D., one of the most eminent clergymen of the church. Two years later, Rev. Alexander II. Vinton took charge of the parish, and was succeeded in a few months by the Rev. Thomas M. Clark, late Bishop of Rhode Island. " Mr. Clark re- mained but fourteen Sundays, when, in September, 1836, the Rev. John W. French, then professor in Bristol Col- lege, Pa., and since chaplain and professor at the Military Academy at West Point, was elected to the rectorship, in which he continued till December, 1839, when, the parish being inextrieably involved in pecuniary difficulties, a dis- solution of his engagement was rendered necessary, and old St. Paul's, without a rector, sought relief from its liabilities in the dissolution of its organization."
ST. STEPHEN'S.
It was during Mr. French's ministry, viz., in 1839, that St. Stephen's parish was established, to take the place of St. Paul's, which had become somewhat embarrassed in its affairs. It was thought best to sell the property of the parish (for which au act of the Legislature was obtained iu
1840), pay off all the debts, and form a new society, or, rather, recast the old. This was accordingly done, and St. Stephen's parish was organized in 1839. In 1840 it pur- chased the property of St. Paul's, and under its new charter and title has been going prosperously on. Jan. 15, 1840, the Rev. James Pratt entered upon the duty of rector of St. Stephen's. The last meeting of Old St. Paul's was held in October, 1841, when it ceased to exist.
Mr. Pratt's long and successful ministry was marked by a steady growth of the parish in numbers, zeal, and wealth. After witnessing large accessions to the number of its com- municants, he found himself obliged, on account of ill health, to resign his charge, to the great regret of the church and community. He was succeeded by the Rev. Roger S. Howard, who, after an incumbency of two years, was followed by the Rev. Wm. Stevens Perry.
ST. LUKE'S CATHEDRAL.
The growth of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Port- land led, in 1851, to the organization of a second parish in the western part of the city, which was incorporated, and its first services held, on the 27th of April, 1851, under the name of St. Luke's Church, in what was then called Union Hall, an upper room near the junction of Free and Congress Streets, still in occasional use for religious meet- ings. The clergyman officiating at the organization and for nearly a year after was the Right Rev. Iloratio Southgate, D.D., who had lately resigned his office as missionary bishop at Constantinople, and was now residing near his old home in Scarborough. Bishop Southgate was succeeded, in Febru- ary, 1852, by the Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, D.D., then a professor in Bowdoin College, who supplied Sunday services regularly, without becoming rector, until the spring of 1853, at which time the Rev. Benjamin H. Paddock, now Bishop of Massachusetts, took charge as rector. He remained but three months, resigning on account of ill health, and the parish was again indebted to Prof. Goodwin for valuable services during a vacancy of eight months.
The Rev. Alexander Burgess, the present Bishop of Springfield, Ill., accepted the rectorship of St. Luke's Church at Easter, 1854, and held it for nearly thirteen years. Within three months after his entering upon his duties, a site for a church was purchased, and the first " St. Luke's Church" begun, at the corner of Congress Street and Vernon Court. The corner-stone was laid on the 8th of August, 185-4, by the bishop of the diocese. The church was opened for service on the Ist of July, 1855, and consecrated by Bishop Burgess on the 10th of the same month. This church, now occupied by the congregation of St. Stephen's Church, was completed at a cost of about $30,000, and at the time of its erection was by far the finest Episcopal church in Maine, and, with one exception (Christ Church, Gardiner), the only one of stone. In 1856 a large and fine organ was added, and in 1857 a bell of 3000 pounds, both individual gifts.
Among the earliest parishioners were the late Dr. John Merrill (the first senior warden), the late Judge George F. Shepley, the late Hon. Josiah S. Little, Henry W. Her- sey, the late Edward P. Gerrish, Col. Charles B. Merrill, N P. Richardson, Hon. James T. McCobb, E. C. Andrews,
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J. Ambrose Merrill, Frederick A. Quinby, the late Samuel Smardon, Mrs. J. S. Paine, Edward E. Upham, Mrs. R. Southgate Boyd, and others, in all 49, recorded by Bishop Southgate, May 1, 1851. There were then 20 communi- cants, and a Sunday-school of 5 teachers and 13 scholars. At the close of Dr. Burgess' rectorship, Christmas, 1866, he reported nearly 300 communicants, 487 baptisms, 253 confirmed, 128 marriages, and 286 burials. It is worthy of note that the first St. Luke's church, as well as the cathedral which succeeded it, was never closed on a Sun- day from the day of its consecration.
With the close of Dr. Burgess' long, faithful, and suc- eessful rectorship ends the first period in the history of St. Luke's Church, of nearly eighteen years. On his resigna- tion the Bishop-elect of Maine, the Rev. Henry A. Neely, D.D., was chosen rector of the parish, and having been con- secrated bishop in Trinity chapel, New York, Jan. 25, 1867, entered on his duties as rector, May 1, 1867. In the great fire of July 4, 1866, St. Stephen's church, in the castern part of the city, was destroyed, and the edifice of St. Luke's being inadequate in size for a bishop's church, was sold to St. Stephen's parish, with its bell and organ, for $17,000. A lot on the easterly side of State Street, 1.40 feet front by 150 feet deep, was purchased for $20,000, and on the 15th of August, 1867, the corner-stone of St. Luke's cathedral was laid by the bishop in the presence of a large number of clergymen and laymen. The work of building went on during the remainder of the year, under the most efficient superintendence of Col. Thomas L. Casey, U.S.A., and from plans and working-drawings by Mr. Charles C. Haight, architect, of New York. After a sus- pension of six months, during the winter and spring, it was resumed in 1868, under the direction of Gen. George Thorn, U.S.A. (still a resident of Portland), and so far completed as to admit of the opening of the cathedral for worship on Christmas-day of the same year. It has never since been closed on a Sunday, and very rarely on a week-day. The interior, however, was far from being completed at the open- ing for service. Not a single door was hung, and but half a dozen of the seventy windows were in place; ceiling, organ, pulpit, and font were wanting, and the aisles were filled with carpenters' benches. All these deficiencies were supplied, and the church brought nearly to its present state of completion, within about two years. At its opening but two-thirds of the entire cost of the cathedral had been paid. It was not until 1877 that the whole amount, about. $125,000, was paid, and the church freed from all indebted- ness, with liberal aid from churchmen of New York, Boston, and other cities. On St. Luke's day, Oct. 18, 1877, it was consecrated with most joyous and impressive services by Bishop Necly, assisted by the bishops of Fredericton, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Jowa, and some sixty other clergymen. By the instrument of donation executed by the vestry and read at the consecration, the whole property of the cathedral was pledged to its maintenance forever, not only as a parish church, but a cathedral church in which the Bishop of Maine should be ex-officio the personal and official head, and a free church for all classes and conditions of men, in which no pews or seats should ever be let or sold.
'The noble church thus set apart occupies the entire rear of the lot on State Street, its extreme length from east to west being 140 feet, and its width across nave and aisles 65 feet. The open roof of nave and chancel is 60 feet to the ridge, and over the chaneel-arch rises a slender spire to the height of 100 feet. The building is of dark-blue limestone from Cape Elizabeth, the door and window caps and sills and other exterior finishing being of Nova Scotia freestone alternated with red and gray. The nave, 30 feet by 100, rises above the low aisles in a lofty clerestory, lighted by 12 triplet windows, and is supported by broad arches resting on short circular columns, monoliths of Nova Scotia stone. The chancel is separated from the nave by a lofty arch of 24 feet span and a low parapet wall of stone, a semicircular projection of which forms the pulpit. The altar and reredos are of Caen stone, Italian marble, and red jasper, with delicately wrought cornice, shafts, and capitals, occupies a space of 10 feet in width by 17 in height against the east wall, and forms one of the most striking features of the interior. Above it is a rose-window 16 fect in diame- ter, containing the Ascension, surrounded by 12 quatre- foils with the symbols of the Apostles. The organ is on the south, and the seats for the choristers on either side within the chancel. The beautiful organ-screen of carved wood, the pulpit of stone (not yet carved ), the font of Nova Scotia and Ohio freestone, Scotch jasper, and Irish marble, the eagle lectern of bronze, the chancel pavement of en- caustie and porcelain tiles, the altar and reredos, the arched credence and sedilia of stone, and all the stained glass as yet in place, were individual and mostly memorial gifts. The seats, all open and movable. are arranged for about 800, but the actual space of nave and aisles is sufficient for 1200. On the north of the chancel is a small chapel for the daily service and other uses, and on the south are the choristers' and clergy rooms, organ-chamber, and library.
At the west end of the cathedral is the bishop's house, erected by the Diocese of Maine in 1869, and forming one side of the court in front of the church, the opposide side being occupied by the canon's house. The architect's plan for the cathedral includes a central tower and tran- septs, the erection of which will perhaps devolve upon another generation.
The Rev. Charles W. Hayes, appointed chaplain to the bishop in April, 1867, and senior canon of the cathedral at its opening, January, 1869, has been the only clergy- man in charge under the bishop without interruption since 1867. Other resident canons have been the late Rev. N. W. Taylor Root, C. Ingles Chapin, David Pise, D.D., and Charles M. Pyne, from one to four years cach. The Rev. Messrs. F. C. Neely, Sill, Pyne, and Ketchum have served as deacons.
The " Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Portland," was incorporated by the Legislature of the State in 1879, and consists of the bishop and fourteen other trustees (three of them clergymen), whose duty it will be to hold the ca- thedral property in trust both for the diocese and the con- gregation, and carry out efficiently the various purposes for which it has been erected. Services have been held for the past twelve years withont intermission, -- three every Sunday and two every week-day,-and the church is always
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open from morning till night. The Holy Communion is celebrated on every Sunday and holy-day; the evening service on Sundays, and the morning service on great fes- tivals, are choral, as usual in the English cathedrals ; but, except in this respect, the services are the same as are usual in the larger Episcopal churches in this country,- perhaps a little more reverent and impressive than in many of then.
The Right Rev. Ilenry A. Neely, D.D., Bishop of Maine, is Dean and Rector ; the Rev. Charles W. Hayes, Canon ; Messrs. George E. B. Jackson and Charles B. Merrill, Wardens. The congregation numbers 225 families and 360 communicants, with a Sunday-school of 200 pu- pils. There have been since the building of the cathedral 422 baptisms, 261 confirmed, 135 marriages, and 214 burials, and about 9000 public services. The offerings of the congregation for the same time have been $162,696, of which $88,359 was from the regular Sunday offertory.
ST. PAUL'S.
The new St. Paul's church on Congress Street was erected in 1868. Rev. N. W. T. Root was instituted the first rector. He was succeeded by Rev. Dr. Pise; since whose period of service Rev. F. S. Sill and Rev. C. J. Ketchum, the present rector, have officiated. The parish is in a prosperous condition, numbering about 90 families and 100 members in the Sunday-school. Wardens, Jo- seph Dow, E. P. Banks ; Vestrymen, William Gray, W. Huse, W. P. Gooding, A. Riggs, Charles Chase, Charles E. Banks, M.D., George Norton, J. II. Dow, A. Welch, and B. Gregory.
METHODIST CHURCHES.
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.
The first Methodist sermon ever preached in Maine was at Saco, Sept. 10, 1793, by Elder Jesse Lee, of Virginia. Ile had been principally instrumental in forming the socie- ties of this order in the New England States, which he commenced in Connecticut in 1789. At a conference held in Lynn in 1793 this zealous disciple of Wesley was ap- pointed to travel through Maine. In a tour of several months in this State, he went as far east as Castine, and preached almost every day to such collections of people as he could draw together. A cireuit was immediately formed on the Kennebec called " Readfield Circuit," and Elder Wager was appointed preacher; the next year Enoch Mudge, of Lynn, one of the first-fruits of Elder Lee's preaching at Lynn, was sent to Redfield.
The Portland cireuit, established in 1794, was the next, and in 1795 a class was formed in this town, and in Decem- ber of the same year the first quarterly meeting held in the State assembled at Poland. Eller Wager was appointed the traveling preacher in this circuit. On Elder Lee's first visit here he preached several times in the Second Congregational meeting-honse. Subsequently he preached in the court-house, and sometimes in a private house in Essex Street. The first society was organized by Eller Wager, in 1795, and consisted of six persons. They strug- gled along through many difficulties, and with a slow prog-
ress for nine years, at the end of which time the number of members had increased to but eleven.
In 1797 the persons who had associated together were received into the Methodist Episcopal Church as one of the united societies.
In 1804, however, their prospects began to brighten. Major Daniel Ilsley purchased and presented to the society the house which had been previously occupied by the Kpis- copalians, which was removed to Federal Street, and soon filled by a respectable congregation. This was the first house of worship which the society had owned. The Rev. Joshua Taylor now became the stationed preacher, and the church, which at the commencement of Mr. Taylor's ministry con- sisted of but 11, increased in two years to 64. In 1808 the society, having become so numerous as to require larger accommodations than the old house afforded, made arrange- ments for the crection of a more spacious one. Trustees were chosen to superintend the concerns of the society, and a year or two later their church edifice on Chestnut Street was erected. It was dedicated by Rev. E. Kelby, Feb. 17, 1811. The trustecs were Wm. Waterhouse, Thomas De- lano, William True, Thomas Ronnels, Samuel Horner, Lemuel Gooding, and Thomas Dodge.
In February, 1821, the society was incorporated. Twice the house on Chestnut Street was enlarged, and at length it became necessary to furnish still more room, when the society with great spirit and unanimity erected a handsome brick church on the corner of Pleasant and Aun Streets, in 1828. Both churches continued to be filled, and the society enjoyed great prosperity. The second society on Pleasant Street, however, in a few years became embarrassed, and, in 1835, sold their church to the Second Unitarian Society.
Most of them worshiped with the old society till 1846, when they erected a neat wooden church on Pine Street. We shall give a fuller history of this church hereafter.
The old society on Chestnut Street continued to prosper. In 1847, Rev. Charles F. Allen was their pastor. The ministers changed so often under the old regime of the Methodist Church that their names would make too long a list to publish in this place. A few of the snecessors of Mr. Allen for perhaps a decade were Rev. William Me- Donaldl, Rev. Aaron Sanderson, Rev. Joseph Colby. Rev. Charles W. Morse, Rev. Henry Cox, Rev. Henry B. Ridge- way, and Rev. William R. Clark.
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