The church held its final service on the first Sunday of June 2026, as the size of the congregation was no longer sufficient to warrant its continuation.

I had been the piano tech there for some years and had always loved the old organ in the sanctuary.  It had been disconnected from its power supply, and I couldn't both pump it and play it, so I never got to hear how it sounded.  But despite its name, I was quite sure it was actually a reed organ, since I knew those beautiful pipes were just a façade.

But I was wrong!  It turned out to be very much more than that - and now it is on its way to being restored to its former glory and will sound both reeds and pipes in the future.

The Compensating Pipe Organ Company
from https://www.thediapason.com/content/stevens-marietta-forgotten-builder-bygone-era

In a quest for capital, The Compensating Company decided to relocate from Toronto to Battle Creek, Michigan in June, 1902, and in October floated a common stock offering of 7,500 shares, par value $10.00 per share, at an offer price of $3.33 per share.26 In January, 1903, a contract was awarded for a new factory building in the Merrill Park section of the city. In July that year, the legendary Ransom E. Olds of Oldsmobile motorcar fame, a large stockholder, was elected chairman of the board of of The Compensating Company.27 This firm advertised a combination reed and pipe instrument, the details of which are unknown, but in building conventional pipe organs the business initially prospered.28 Soon, however, it failed, and in early 1906 the firm declared bankruptcy.29 In May of that year, largely through the efforts of the Battle Creek Business Men's Association, the Lyon & Healy Company of Chicago purchased the Merrill Park facility, for a reported $35,000, and moved pipe organ production there, retaining Sparling as shop foreman. To celebrate their good fortune, the businessmen of Battle Creek held a banquet at the Post Tavern on November 1, 1906 in honor of Lyon & Healy officials.30