YMCA V there, they heard of the beginnings of a new Christian men's group that had started within the YMCA. When Dan Jenkins and Art Affleck arrived home, they talked a few friends into organizing and chartering the Charlottetown Y 's Men's Club, which continues to this day as one of the major service clubs in Charlottetown . The Y 's Men's Club, over the years, has counted among its membership a number of Charlottetown Baptist Church ministers. Late in 1925, organist and choir director Hiram Ball resigned to return to New Brunswick , and trusted Music Committee member Blanche Boyver was once again pressed into interim service until a full time replacement for Professor Ball could be found. In August of 1926, the church held a special service to mark the 90th anniversary of its organization. The Charlottetown United Baptist Church had grown from very humble beginnings in 1836, to become one of the more respected Baptist churches in the Maritime provinces. The guest speaker at the anniversary service was now retired Dr. John A . Gordon, who had served the congregation as its pastor through some very troubling years, from 1889 to 1893. He recalled that he had come to Charlottetown at the urging of Deacon Alfred Sterns , and found that he faced a major challenge, "...When I came here I found a hole in the ground, a heap of ashes and a big debt." Pastor Eaton, in response to the message, thanked John Gordon for his long service to Baptists of the Maritimes, and especially for his great work for their Lord Jesus Christ here in Charlottetown . Rev. John A . Gordon's son, John P. Gordon , lived in Charlottetown and served the Baptist congregation as the Sunday School superintendent. He would also serve his father's former church as both a deacon and treasurer, in the 1930s. The Sunday following anniversary services, a special Temperance Meeting for all Charlottetown churches was held at the Masonic Hall on (the hall later became the Prince Edward Theatre in 1934, and was destroyed by fire in 1955). There was some talk on Prince Edward Island of the Legislature bringing in a new bill to ease the terms of Prohibition, and local churches wanted to protest this possibility. Temperance concerns, although not organized, were still considered a challenge, and the Masonic Hall was packed to hear some fiery anti-liquor oratory. At the conclusion, a local soloist sang the old temperance song, Have Courage My Boy To Say No. The temperance meeting did get some media attention, but the plans for a new legislative bill were still only in the talking stages and the effort was considered a bit premature. Anniversary enthusiasm was timely at the Baptist Church. Although there was still a bank overdraft to be addressed, the big news, the really big news, was that the balance of the mortgage on their church building, $3,225, had finally been paid off. Dr. John Gordon was back on the Island for the event, and Dr. J.A. Clark , in his brief 1959 history of the Church, describes it best: On Monday evening, November 1st, 1926, the mortgage was burned. At that meeting, due to the absence of J.A. Clark , Chairman of the Special Debt Committee, J. Alvin Webster , Chairman of the Finance Committee, testified 81