St. Saviour's Church will BAR HARBOR, MAINE St. Saviour's Church Bar Harbor, Maine 1879 - 1979 Centenary Observance We appreciate the assistance of those many people who contributed pictures, ideas, and advice in the publication of this book, including the Bar Harbor Historical Society. ST. SAVIOUR'S, 1879 - 1979 The history of St. Saviour's on its Centenary may be put in perspective by noting what the parish register says of it when it was but 25 years old. In that first quarter century there were 592 baptisms, 245 confirmations, 114 persons married, and 229 funerals. The parish had 200 communicants. A very large part of the parish budget was covered by an August appeal for contributions; in 1904 the parish asked for $3,500. The budget reveals how that value of money plummeted between 1904 and 1979: Rector's salary $2,500 Choir (including soloists) 2,750 Sexton and assistant 700 Fuel and lights 800 Sunday School 150 Rector's assistant 200 Diocesan assessment 25 Bishop's fund 50 Incidentals and contingencies 325 $7,500 The roots of the parish may be traced to 1863 when Jonathan Stevens built a schoolhouse in Hulls Cove which was also meant to be used as a mission church for Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor; services were also held at the Rodick House hotel in Bar Harbor. Then, summer residents thought of establishing a church in Bar Harbor. In 1878, the parish's first church was built and consecrated the following year (August 21, 1879) by Bishop Henry A. Neely. Since the parish was a mission still the first vicar was appointed by Bishop Neely. This was the Rev. Mr. Christopher Starr Leffingwell. Mr. Leffingwell served for some 20 years, plus 3 years as Rector Emeritus, and was finally elevated to a canonry. St. Saviour's first confirmation was celebrated on February 29, 1880, then the 3rd Sunday in Lent. The members of the class were: 4 Esias Smith Wright Platt Louise D. Platt Albert Morgan Fish Higgins Phoebe Elizabeth Higgins Miriam Roberts Francis Allen Lebenton Anna Connors Sarah Elizabeth Wasgatt Virginia Dawson Salisbury Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Wasgatt Kavanaugh became, with Edward Suminsby and Clad Dunham, one of the pillars of the parish. Mrs. Kavanaugh as sacristan, Messrs. Suminsby and Dun- The Rev. Christopher Starr Leffingwell ham as sextons, also served on many parish committees. Their collective service covered a major part of the parish's first century. Though it was commonly called the vestry, the parish's first governing body was officially the Committee for the Administration of the Worldly Affairs of the Church. Begun in 1882, its members were appointed by the Bishop of Maine. The old minutes list such prominent men from New York and Boston of the end of the century as Gouverneur Morris Ogden, Robert Amory, Edward Coles, Gardiner Sherman, and John Kane. The vicar (and later when the mission became a full-fledged parish the rector) was invited to attend the meetings at his discretion. In later years, the vestry were elected by the parishioners and the rector presided over their meetings. Though the church had been built primarily for summer use by holiday-makers from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Mr. Leffingwell began holding weekly services throughout the year as soon as he was installed. From a handful, the number of resident communicants grew to 60, and church attendance grew 5 1886 Church Exterior similarly. In 1886 the church was enlarged. A chancel and nave and built on the east and west sides, making a cruciform were leaving the original church to form the crossing and transepts. At a party, Leffingwell was heard to say: We need a church in Hulls Cove! In consequence two sisters, the Misses Cornelia and Mary Prime, proceeded to give Hulls Cove the Church of Our Father. One of Bar Harbor's enduring legends is that the sisters made their gift conditional on the church's being SO named in memory of their father. A transcript of the church's early records shows that a paper deposited in the cornerstone of the church does have an oblique title which can be construed as supporting the tale; no other documentation is currently known. Since the automobile had not yet reached Mount Desert Island the vicar traveled to Hulls Cove in a buggy drawn by his horse Rufus. The faithful pair used the old road which runs by 6 Witch Hole, along the foot of Paradise Hill, thence down to the Cove. For Rufus' use, Miss Cornelia Prime had a watering trough erected by the side of the road. In 1979 the trough was still there, and was called "Rufus' watering trough." In 1979, the Church of Our Father is one of the Hancock County Missions. At St. Saviour's, Leffingwell found a congregation of some 30 communicants and left it with 171. The church had been given the form it still has in 1979. The receiving vault had been built. The Church of Our Father was finished. When he resigned June 22, 1899, from the post of Priest in Charge of the Missions he was made Rector Emeritus of St. Saviour's. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1902, with, as noted above, the rank of Canon. 1886 Church Interior 7 On Father Leffingwell's recommendation, Bishop Neely appointed the Rev. Mr. William O. Baker, who had been Leffingwell's assistant to be Priest in Charge, i.e., vicar. The appointment was June 26, 1899. Bishop Neely died Oc- tober 31, 1899, and was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Robert Codman. Bishop Cod- man also was cast in the pattern of a vigorous mission- ary. Portland, Sanford, Bid- deford, Seal Cove, and other The Rev. William Osborn Baker parishes that had lacked proper church buildings now received them. He was also insistent that every parish have a proper vicarage or rectory. St. Saviour's rectory reflects the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll Jackson to their son-in-law, Father Baker, and their daughter Elizabeth Oakley. Given by the Jacksons in 1899, and perhaps reflecting a connection with the great New York fortune of Charles Carroll, the house is half-timbered, with the stonework of Mount Desert pink granite, plus brick and shingle. It preserved the style of Bar Harbor of the 1890's. Immediately after his installation, Father Baker began to develop the social work of the parish. An industrial training activity was projected where young men and women could learn useful arts and crafts. Meanwhile, Mrs. Jackson paid for remodeling the interior of the church to provide space for a boys' choir. Her husband having died, she built the Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin in his memory. The chapel was early the scene of a happy event, the wedding of Margaretta Biddle Porter and Bishop Codman. 8 Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin in 1979. In this same period of building and remodeling Mrs. Edith Opdycke in 1901 gave $1,000 to begin Father Baker's industrial training project. A year later, as a memorial to her daughter Emily Harrison Barnes, Mrs. John Harrison, gave the small house currently used for the parish offices and church school. Father Leffingwell's death in 1902 led to the building of the parish hall in his memory. Father Baker was called to another parish in 1903 but the building of the parish hall was completed during the incumbency of his successor, the Rev. Mr. Stephen Green. In Father Green's incumbency 1903 - 1913, the building period of the parish ended, St. Saviour's ceased to be a mission, and began to do the work of a fully-independent parish. On April 20, 1903, the necessary legal steps for transition from mission to parish were taken; the first parish meeting was held May 1 in the choir room. Father Green was duly elected rector; David B. Ogden, senior warden; Frank M. Conners, junior warden. The vestry were: W.J. Evans, F.W. 9 BEE Parish House Chandler, Francis Howe Johnson, William Jay Schieffelin, George J. Stafford, John C. Livingston, Gardiner Sherman, Alec J. Grant, M.P. Cleaves, Frank E. Sherman, and Nathan J. Salisbury. Grant was chosen clerk and Sherman treasurer. Father Green engaged the Rev. Mr. G.S.A. Moore as assistant. Opening of the new parish hall led to greater activity among the several parish organizations. The providing of a bowling alley and a billiard table caused some parish controversy but the Episcopal Church here, as The Rev. Stephen Green 10 in other ways, was breaking with the tenets of Puritanism and calling for wholesome sport under church auspices. The work of the women of the parish steadily evolved. Since 1882, St. Saviour's had had a chapter of the Women's Auxiliary and their work had been well defined. They concerned themselves with missions and charities only, missions beyond the parish boundaries, charities within them. In 1913 a Parish Guild was organized for local projects. They raised money to reshingle the choir room, provide coal for the parish house, and assumed responsibility for the parish fair. Originally the fair had been held on the grounds of the Gouverneur Morris Ogden cottage but now it was transferred to the church lawn. Organization of the Girls' Friendly Society was an event of 1904. The society was very strong in Maine and closely Garden Party for the Archbishop of Canterbury September 18, 1904 11 associated with the Episcopal Church. To anticipate chron- ology, the Society flourished until well into the 1920's when the growth of the YWCA and of school activities began to remove its reasons for being. In 1933, it disbanded. The Rev. Mr. Cecil Larned's incumbency as suc- cessor to Father Green (1913- 1917) was brief because of America's entrance into World War I; Father Larned resigned, later to become a chaplain in The Rev. Albert Cecil Larned the Navy. His incumbency, however, is associated with the growth and multiplication of women's parish organizations. Changes at St. Saviour's were accompanied by a change in the leadership of the diocese for Bishop Codman died October 7, 1915. His successor was the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Brewster. Father Larned's successor in the parish was the Rev. Mr. William E. Patterson. In 1918 the long armistice between World Wars I and II began on November 11. Both in the United States and in Europe life styles after the war differed greatly from what they had been before the war began in August 1914. The deaths of millions of young and middle-aged men, what had seemed their temporary replacement in office, farm, and factory by women, the weakening of old moral values by intervals of hectic pleasure before the return from leave to the trenches, all led to what was called at the time the Jazz age of the 1920's. In the U.S. the situation was worsened by a Constitutional Amendment that aimed to end consumption of alcohol by law. A war-hardened generation promptly took pride and pleasure in denying that law. More constructively, the changed position of women in 12 American life was recognized by giving them the right to vote. These were great chang- es in American society and they took place within the six years 1914-1920. Father Patterson found- ed a Day School of Religious Education based on the principle of released time. Since enacted into law in many states, this permitted pupils to leave school and attend church for one hour each week on what would otherwise have been school The Rev. William E. Patterson time. In 1930, and still led by Father Patterson, the parish celebrated its 50th anniversary. The number of communicants had grown from the 200 of 1904 to 274. The parish listed 135 families and 20 individuals. The budget for 1930 showed receipts from all sources of $23,409.87. Disbursements were: Rector's salary $5,000.00 Curate's salary 2,570.85 Clergy supplies 225.00 Curate's travel 100.00 Sexton's salary 1,470.00 Sacristan 240.00 Organist 1,200.00 Choir 1,176.50 Music 179.00 Assistant treasurer 50.00 Church heat 338.75 light 133.42 water 23.75 13 Parish hall and rectory heat 306.38 light 28.00 water 24.22 Insurance 796.74 Repairs 422.39 Church school 186.00 Taxes (sexton's house) 26.32 Diocesan missions 2,100.00 Diocesan expense 405.00 Episcopate fund 52.00 Rector's fund 200.00 Church program 1,765.00 Expenses of diocesan convention 15.00 Church pension fund 610.00 Assistant's car and upkeep 403.93 General expenses 376.97 $20,425.22 In addition to the Day School of Religious Education, Father Patterson established a Boy Scout troop in St. Saviour's. This resulted in a great deal of camping, hiking, and training in wood craft. Possibly his most lasting achievement was the creation of the parish's endowment fund. He realized that while great social changes were taking place the passage of the years was taking from St. Saviour's its oldest and sometimes most devoted members. Therefore he continually reminded his congregation of the need for a substantial endowment to carry on the work already begun. He never hestitated to remind the summer colony, and bluntly, to include St. Saviour's in their wills: "We must have more endowment if the Christian religion and the Christian way of life is to be continued and taught. I view with deep concern that professing Christians with substantial estates are leaving nothing their church; the fact is that they are letting the government take in inheritance taxes what they might well have the joy of giving to St. Saviour's." The transitory nature of fortunes and estates as well as life 14 itself was underscored by the Crash of 1929. Wiping away or reducing many fortunes (one of the leading figures of the summer colony ended his days as a department store employee in New York) the four years of steadily eroding stock market values followed by decades in which investments did not return to their old levels while some public utility, real estate, and railroad investments vanished in bankruptcy notably diminished the once lavish life style of Bar Harbor summers. Against this somber background it is pleasant to record that in 1938 the chimes were given by William P. Hamilton (son-in-law of J.P. Morgan, Sr.) to show forth his gratitude for the recovery of his wife, Theodosia, from illness. Bishop Brewster died in 1940, early in World War II. He was succeeded by the Rt. Rev. Oliver L. Loring. Bishop Loring's greatest interest was missionary work and he inspired the clergy to emphasize missions even more. This reinforced St. Saviour's traditional generosity toward missions. As SO often before, a new bishop soon worked with a new rector for Father Patterson died June 1, 1941. His successor was the Rev. Mr. Russell Sturgis Hubbard in 1942. (The United States, it will be recalled, formally entered World War II on December 7, 1941.) Father Hubbard, in addition to the incumbency of Bar Harbor, became Canon Missioner of St. Luke's Cathedral and so took charge of the Hancock County missions in addition to the Church of Our Father. The Rev. Russell Sturgis Hubbard 15 This included Franklin, Winter Harbor, Ellsworth, Blue Hill, and Castine. He surveyed each of these towns and held home services in many places, including Northeast Harbor. In this he was assisted by the Rev. Mr. David Bradley. To anticipate chronology slightly, Father Hubbard was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Michigan in St. Saviour's in August 1948. One Sunday morning in August, 1942, various items were dedicated at St. Saviour's Church by the Rev. Russell S. Hubbard, Rector. These were given in memory of the Rev. William E. Patterson; immediately after the sermon prayer was offered for him. Then a Church flag was dedicated. That flag is the cross of St. George, a red cross on a white field. In the upper center there is a blue field with nine Jerusalem crosses upon it. These crosses signify the origin of the Church, for nine of them represent the nine colonial Dioceses of the Episcopal Church of America. The flag has been given by Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Talmadge. Then a plaque was dedicated with the wording: "In loving memory of William Edwin Patterson, Born April 2, 1872 Died June 1, 1941. Rector of St. Saviour's Church, 1917-1941." This was given by Mrs. William E. Patterson. The Parish Enters a New World Peace returned in 1945 but many of the young did not. Some had given that last full measure of devotion, others had moved into a wider, more exciting world. War work had given new skills, new perspectives, to the generations somewhat older. Therefore, summer in Bar Harbor or service in Bar Harbor were less attractive to a significant number. On October 23rd, 1947 a forest fire turned into a fire storm and devastated 17 thousand of Mount Desert's acreage. Beginning at Fresh Meadow, near Hulls Cove, the fire had smoldered for a few days, then stronger winds blowing across woods dried by a severe drought made it uncontrollable. 16 In all, 67 summer cottages valued (and in 1947 dollars) at $1,077,000 assessed value were destroyed. These had been the summer homes of the wealthy whose purchases of goods and services had been Bar Harbor's primary trade. The fire had not limited itself to the Social Register for it destroyed shops and houses valued at $1,128,000 assessed value. The fire completed what the 1929 crash and two world wars had well advanced; it was the final blow to what Sir Winston Churchill once called the secure splendors of the Victorian and Edwardian Ages as they had been manifested at Bar Harbor. The great cottages had outlived their time. Now the fire destroyed all but a few. With them went jobs and trades such as the repainting of limousines and the provisioning of yachts. Old newspapers stated the fire as being "Bar Harbor's $10,000,000 fire." St. Saviour's congregation had to adjust to this stunning development. Not least of their burdens was that their church's plans had assumed a large, generous summer colony among the congregation. Directing the work of adjustment was to be the principal task of Biskop Hubbard's successor, the Rev. Mr. Ralph Henry Hayden, who was installed February 1, 1949. Shortly after, Bishop Hubbard's former assistant, Father Bradley, was called to Christ Church in Yonkers, N.Y. The Hancock mission field was divided, except for Castine, and the Rev. Mr. Leopold Damrosch, survivor of Japanese captivity in the Philippines, took charge. It now became clearer what the great fire had done. The Rev. Ralph H. Hayden Many of the summer colony 17 never returned to Bar Harbor after their cottages were destroyed. The local com- municant list also began to shrink because of the drop in the number of job opportuni- ties. Canon Hayden came to fear that St. Saviour's church was more than its reduced congregation could support. "We sit in our lovely church," he said, "and enjoy its cool dignity and aura of devotion because someone, when he made his will, said in his heart The Rev. Leopold Damrosch 'I want these things to endure." This congregation, both win- ter and summer, is trying. It has passed over from a summer congregation to a combination of residential and summer people; in fact, we are integrated." But with his cares Canon Hayden also had the pleasure of joining in his son's ordination at St. Saviour's in 1954. In 1959 Canon Hayden was succeeded by Father Damrosch. Father Damrosch's special calling to the missionary field peculiarly fitted him for the nurture of SO many small, struggling mission churches. After four years as Priest in Charge, he was called to the Church of the Resurrection in New York City. Anticipating chronology, one may note that he retired to Bar Harbor in 1977 and continued to serve as both supply priest and parish visitor. When Father Damrosch was called to New York City he was succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Harold A. Hopkins, Jr. Father Hopkins was, at this time, the youngest rector to have had the incumbency. He instituted the Family Service in which parents and children worshipped together. Since he was rector at the beginning of the prayer book reform of the 1960's he was deeply 18 involved in liturgical reform. From St. Saviour's he was called to Portland to assist the Bishop. He is now the Venerable the Archdeacon of The Diocese of Maine. The Rev. Mr. Michael H. Dugan in 1969 became the 8th rector and 10th priest in charge of St. Saviour's. To date, he has had to deal with several crises. They have been the sharp increase in the cost of heating St. Saviour's spacious, high-ceilinged build- The Rev. Harold A. Hopkins, Jr. ing of another age, an increase that followed on the 1974 increase of prices by the oil-exporting nations; youth- ful protest and defiance of the late 1960's - early 1970's that resulted from U.S. interven- tion in Vietnam; a desire for services not provided by the public schools, and the increasing tendency of both young people and adults to seek personal counsel from their clergy. Fortunately, the several mission churches are no longer among the respon- sibilities of the Rector of St. The Rev. Michael H. Dugan Saviour's. 19 To deal with the dramatic increase in fuel costs, Father Dugan and the vestry carried out an extensive program of insulating church buildings and improving their heating systems. The church proper, the Parish Hall, the rectory were each given the insulated ceilings earlier times had dispensed with, and storm windows were widely installed. To minister to youth, every summer a seminarian was brought in to serve as street pastor. As such, the seminarian mingled with his contemporaries on the streets where they spent SO much of their days. In the parish house a coffee shop, the Music Ark, sought to attract the young. Managed by a layman, John Stewart, it offered companionship, folk music, coffee, and pastries made by the women of the parish. Attendance over a summer ran from about 50 to 60 weekly. By 1978, that particular war in Vietnam having ended and the U.S. not currently involved in any war tension among the young had SO diminished that there was but one applicant for the role of street pastor and he came to think the role might be dispensed with. The Music Ark, however, continued popular and well attended. A desire for pre-school training had been met under Father Hopkins by organizing the Eden School in September 1966. By 1979 the school had 2 teachers and 30 students. Minimum age for entrance was 3. Two years of instruction were offered, 2-1/2 hours per day from September to May. Although the school charged $2.00/$2.50 tuition, six scholarships were offered. The need for personal counsel was met by Father Dugan directly in private session. In 1978, these totalled a great many hours. An opportunity for a major improvement in the church's music program was seen as its venerable organ grew ever more audibly inadequate. Hence, a beautiful new organ was supplied at a cost of $60,000. A campaign for raising sufficient funds for this new organ started in 1975 and ended in 1976. $30,000 of this fund came directly from the Leffingwell estate. We have had over the past years some great choirs, men, boys and girls. We have pictures of some of our choirs whose 20 1979 Choir names are mentioned - others we cannot properly identify. Perhaps some of you readers can identify yourself - we sincerely hope SO. During these years we had about thirteen organists, perhaps most outstanding would be Mr. Rumsey, Mr. Priest, Mr. Farnsworth, Mr. Wescott, and Mrs. Wescott, to name a few. The present organist is Stoddart Smith. The Women of St. Saviour's, organized as the Episcopal Church Women, the Altar Guild, and the Guild, have all done a magnificent job. They worked together on all church projects and we cannot appreciate their work too much. Well done to the Women of St. Saviour's Church! Looking back along the pageant of the years, one sees many ecclesiastical dignitaries who have visited St. Saviour's; an Archbishop of Canterbury, a Coptic Bishop from Ethiopia, and among less exotic divines, the Rt. Rev. William Manning of New York and the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence of Massachusetts. One wit of the 1900's claimed that the very rich went to Bar Harbor, the brains went to Northeast. Perhaps, but Eliots and Lowells have worshipped in St. Saviour's, as have Cassatts, Livingstons, Opdyckes, and Auchinclosses. St. Saviour's has had some notable weddings; that of A. Atwater Kent is still remembered. Also remembered is the throng that gathered for the funeral of Dr. Clarence Cook Little of The Jackson Laboratory, as well as the memorial service for President Warren G. Harding. Notable, too, has been the talent and devotion shown among the senior and junior wardens, David Ogden, John S. Rogers, Frank E. Sherman, Guy Torrey, Clarence Cook Little, D.Sc., Judge Norman Shaw, and Augustus Thorndike. To look backward for awhile is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. THEODORE FALKENSTROM 22 CHRISTMAS 1978 Charles Falkenstrom with the bell he, and his father before him, made each Christ- mas since 1915. 1979 Interior 23 The budget for 1979 shows receipts from all sources of $91,860.00. Disbursements were: Outreach Diocesan Exp., assessment $5,846.00 Episcopate fund 128.00 Diocesan apport., Missions 8,535.00 Presiding Bishop's Fund 300.00 Local missions 1,200.00 Theological education 500.00 Eden School 6,660.00 Rector's fund 500.00 Retired Parish Visitor 2,350.00 For Holy Land $26,019.00 Salaries Rector 12,200.00 Supply Clergy 500.00 Sexton 6,900.00 Sexton's assistant 100.00 Organist-Choirmaster 7,200.00 Supply Organist 200.00 Parish Secretary-Assistant Treasurer 5,900.00 Vacation Secretary 175.00 33,175.00 Parish Expense Christian Education 800.00 Social security 2,800.00 Insurance - Property - Rector's life 2,000.00 Fuel, lights, water, sewer 10,100.00 Office supplies, postage 1,500.00 Automobile 1,600.00 Telephone 750.00 Altar supplies, flowers 700.00 Instrument maint., music 600.00 Auditing 150.00 Miscellaneous & Centennial 266.00 Pension premiums 3,000.00 Repairs 2,000.00 Supplies 1,500.00 Delegates to Convention 200.00 Hospital insurance 3,800.00 31,766.00 Non-assessed Expense Major Improvements Improvements from Endowment fund Payroll taxes withheld Return to savings Return to Endowment fund 900.00 900.00 $91,860.00 24 APPENDIX ST. SAVIOUR'S LAND By Mrs. Ruth Sleeper The land making up St. Saviour's was acquired in three separate lots. The eastern part of the property was conveyed in 1875 by David Rodick, Jr. to The Trustees of the Fund for the Support of the Episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maine (now Trustees of Diocesan Funds in the Diocese of Maine). This lot has approximately 113.85 feet frontage on what is now Mount Desert Street, but which is described as the "road leading to Somesville" in the 1875 deed, and adjoins the "Burying Ground" so-called. Apparently additional land was needed for the church and a twenty foot strip westerly of the first acquisition was conveyed by Joshua M. Sears to Trustees of Diocesan Funds in the Diocese of Maine in 1887. The western part of the lot having a frontage of ninety-five feet on Mount Desert Street, and being bounded on the west by what was earlier known as "Zion's Lane" (now High Street) was conveyed by Christopher S. Leffingwell to Trustees of Diocesan Funds for the Diocese of Maine in 1892, being property formerly owned by Everard H. Greeley. Upon advice of Deasy & Lynam, attorneys, a Declaration of Trust was entered into between St. Saviour's Protestant Episcopal Church and Trustees of Diocesan Funds in the Diocese of Maine covering the arrangement under which title was to be held by the Trustees for the local church. This agreement was signed on August 4, 1919. MEMBERS OF ST. SAVIOUR'S VESTRY FOR 1979 Mr. Leslie C. Brewer, Senior Warden Mrs. David (Ruth) Sleeper Mr. George M. Cleaves, Junior Warden Mrs. George (Rita) Redfield Mrs. Edwin (Margaret) Garrett, Clerk Mr. Warren Davis Mr. Lester Bunker, Treasurer Mr. John Stewart Mrs. Dessa (Mary Lee) Skinner Mrs. Elizabeth E. Owens Mr. James Cameron Mr. Leslie Gray Mr. Theodore Falkenstrom Mr. Donald Allen Mr. Riley Sunderland Mr. David Shelton Parish Statistics for 1979 Number of families and individuals 231 Baptized persons 525 Communicants 319