The First Ordained Pastor in Snohomish

The Presbytery of Puget Sound, or more correctly speaking, those members thereof who arrived by the Steamer Nellie on Thursday night, held the first Ecclesiastical Council which ever met in Snohomish County on Friday the 16th. The meeting was called to order by Rev. G. F. Whitworth, who was elected temporary moderator. The evening session was devoted to the installation of Rev. T. W. McCoy as Pastor of the church and congregation of Snohomish City. A large audience was in attendance, observing with deep interest all the proceedings, which were very novel for this locality. The music, under the direction of Prof. W. H. Ward with Mrs. McCoy at the organ, was unusually good. Rev. J. R. Thompson, having been appointed by Presbytery, preached the sermon and presided over the services. Following the sermon, the constitutional questions were proposed to the minister and congregation, which were answered in the affirmative. Rev. D. W. Matheson delivered an elaborate charge to the minister, after which Mr. Thompson declared the pastoral relation constituted. Rev. G. F. Whitworth then addressed the people with a well-timed and pointed discourse on their duties to the newly installed pastor. Mr. Thompson congratulated the congregation of Snohomish City on their religious prospect, evidenced by the beautiful house of worship in which they were assembled—an ornament and attraction to their town. Snohomish City has, we believe, the only regularly installed pastor of any church of any denomination on Puget Sound. There are pastors elect and acting pastors, but we know of none regularly installed by constitutional ceremonies.