THE CHURCH AT MT. DESERT. family and one infirm Englishwoman, Saviour's now claims several score commu nicants and a resident congregation of en- BY ALSOP LEFFINGWELL. couraging size and regular attendance. The church originally accommodated perhaps St. Saviour's, Bar Harbor, Me. 325 closely-crowded worshippers. But last In the sixteenth century the Jesuits es- year this capacity was increased to about tablished a colony on the island of Mt. 800 by various alterations and additions that Desert. Here, for a short time, they lived have made the building cruciform in shape. and held their services, but after a few years This parish is, nominally, a mission un- entirely disappeared. The Church of Eng- der the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Maine, who has placed the manage- ment of its temporal affairs in the hands of a commit- tee-in-charge, gentlemen residing in the larger cities of the Union and appointed by the bishop himself. The presentcom- mittee-in-charge comprises Messrs. David B. Ogden, Gardiner Sherman and Samuel E. Lyon (lately deceased) of New York; John DeKoven of Chicago; Edward Coles of Phila- delphia; Francis W. Law- rence of Boston, and Wal- ter L. Kane of Newport, R.I. Church work at Bar Har- bor exists solely through voluntary offerings of sum- mer parishioners, who are SO numerous that five ST. SAVIOUR'S, BAR HARBOR, ME. (EAST). Sunday services are scarce- ly enough to accommodate them. Indeed the question has, once and again, arisen whether further enlarge- ment is not the next thing in order. St. Saviour's is built of red, untrimmed island- granite, and is finished in the rough both outside and inside. The roof and all the wood work is stained with a rich black-brown that forms a pleasing con- trast to the light hue of the stone work. The body of Mr. Gou- verneur Morris Ogden, chairman and treasurer of the first committee-in- charge, and late vestryman of Old Trinity, New York, lies buried in the centre of the nave, his grave being marked by an appropriate brasstal sunk in theaisle. ST. SAVIOUR'S, BAR HARBOR, ME. (WEST). The handsome Italian marble altar was given land and our own Church were unrepre- by his wife and children in memory of sented here during the Colonial period and Mr. Ogden, who was, perhaps, the prime until the year 1878. The stone chapel of mover in the erection of the church and St. Saviour's was then completed at Bar than whom, most certainly, none other had Harbor, and the Church thus gained her its welfare more at heart. There are, also, first foothold upon the island. numerous other gifts, memorial or other- This edifice was built entirely by and for wise, from summer guests; among them a summer guests, those who fathered the en- fine brass tablet presented by Mr. Gardiner terprise modestly expecting nothing beyond Sherman; brass candelabra from Mr. John summer services held by some temporary De Koven; a beautiful stained-glass win- incumbent. However, the present rector, dow from Dr. Wm. Todd Helmuth of New the Rev. Christopher Starr Leffingwell, York, and handsome altar vases and an decided upon the experiment of residing altar cross, the offerings of several of the permanently at Bar Harbor and of holding congregation through Mrs. M. G. Evans of regular weekly services there. New York, Beginning with no more Church people Within the past few weeks Mr. J. Mont- than a few members of the clergyman's gomery Sears of Boston (who lately resigned from the committee-in-charge) has given to composed not only of Northeast Harbor the church an additional portion of very people, but, also, of many guests from Bar valuable land, thus increasing the size of Harbor, worshippers either driving or sail- the hitherto contracted church lot. The ing over from that thronged resort. Hook & Hastings pipe-organ is also another Since 1883, services have been held in gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sears. A Philadelphia the chapel during the entire year. The society, formed for the purpose, has lately Rev. Messrs. Ogden, Richmond, Shreve and added greatly to the supply of vestments Wyllys Rede having been in charge at and altar cloths of St. Saviour's. various times. The Rev. Mr. Fowler, lately An outlying mission of the parish has of the Diocese of New Brunswick, is the been doing good work at Hull's Cove, some present incumbent and the first occupant of three and a half miles distant from Bar Har- the new rectory which the bishop's energy bor. has just caused to be completed. St. Mary's-by-the-Sea. St. Mary's communicant list, at first a About eleven miles from Bar Harbor is blank, now presents an encouraging appear- Northeast Harbor, the charming site of an ance. The resident congregations are ex- equally charming summer colony whose cellent and the parish has lately established pioneer was the Bishop of Albany. Bishop a mission at Seal Cove, three miles distant. Doane had been at Northeast Harbor Through the courtesy of the Bishop of scarcely a month, when he and his friends Maine, St. Mary's is managed by the decided to institute efforts for the erection Bishop of Albany who spends a portion of of a church in this village. These efforts his summers at Northeast Harbor, living at were crowned with success, and on the Magnum Donum, his comfortable home, eleventh Sunday after Trinity, August 20, situated scarcely a stone's throw from the 1882, the lovely little wooden chapel of St. chapel on rocky heights that overlook the Mary's-by-the-Sea was consecrated by the blue Atlantic. bishop. The exterior of St. Mary's is finished in spruce and hemlock slabs, well-oiled to bring out their rich color. The interior is of 'open" timber. Instrumental in its erection were many, both of the summer guests and of the permanent residents of Northeast Harbor, who offered gifts of either time, money, or those various articles of outfit that go to make St. Mary's the completely equipped house of worship that it is. One very great source of help was the liberal bequest of Mrs. Mary S. Perkins. All subsequent pecuni- ary deficiency was supplied by her husband, Mr. Edward N. Perkins, half-brother of Bishop Doane. Still another great assistance in the work was the gift of the church lot from the bishop's younger daughter, Miss Margaret Harrison Doane, and from a resident of Northeast Harbor, Mr. Stephen ST. MARY'S-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHEAST HARBOR. Smallidge. The names of Mrs. Perkins and of Miss Doane (who died HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP." in 1883 at Northeast Harbor) are kept alive BY A. E. PORTER. to worshippers in the chapel-the first in the appellation "St. Mary's-by-the-Sea," Lie still, oh throbbing heart, lie still! the second by the polished and noble red Thy pain is great, thy sorrow deep- granite Iona cross that guards the resting- But One is near who knoweth all, place of Miss Doane, and also by the pretty And giveth His beloved sleep." stained-glass window and the brass tablet Lie still, oh restless hands, lie still! sunk into the wall ; while the memory of And weary eyes forget to weep both women is preserved, as in several The King is chanting softly, now, other ways, SO also by the beautiful stained- He giveth His beloved sleep." glass chancel window, memorial by Mr. Though tossed on stormy seas of pain, Perkins of his wife, the lovely design of this The wrathful billows o'er thee sweep, being elaborated from a painting of Miss He walks the wave to succor thee, Doane's own hand- lighthouse on a rock, And giveth His beloved sleep." suggesting the well-known light on a neigh- boring rock, and wild roses in the fore- The mother soothes her weary child, ground with the legend: The Lord shall Yet may forget her watch to keep be to thee an Everlasting Light." Memo- But Love Eternal guardeth thee- rials of others are numerous, too-windows, He giveth His beloved sleep." tablets, the M. H. Doane Parish Library, Deep shadows o'er yon gateway rest, etc. Whose noiseless keys two angels keep. By the recent addition of a side aisle and He leads thee safely through that gate, porch, the seating capacity of St. Mary's And giveth His beloved sleep." has been doubled to over three hundred. And when those shadows flee away, As in the case of St. Saviour's, further addi- And morning on the hills shall break, tions will soon be necessary to keep pace The Love that gave that blessed sleep, with neever-growing congregations that are To new and higher life will wake.