On that tenth day of December 1881, the new church was fonnally dedicated. The Rev. J. Buff Jackson, then pastor at Elderton and Shelocta and Superintendent of Missions of Conemaugh Presbytery had charge of the program and preached the sermon using as his text, "My house shall be called a house of prayer." He emphasized particularly the keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances God hath appointed in His word. This house was never made a house of merchandise in order that the stipends might be paid.

From the time that the Rev. J. C. Telford resigned in April 1878 until the autumn of 1883 many strange voices arose from the pulpit. The first three were the Revs. Knox, Duff, Schouler.

The Rev. Mr. Jackson representing the Presbytery 1 a committee from the congregation, and a committee from the Board of Trustees decided to call the Rev. Albert S. Stewart as pastor. He would also serve as a teacher in the academy. He began his ministry in the fall of 1883 and his work in the academy after the Christmas vacation. Mr. Stewart was tall, gaunt and rather stern in appearance, a veritable counterpart of Abraham Lincoln. Like him he was gentle and tender-hearted, almost to the limit, and yet courageous and fearless in matters of right and wrong. Those who knew him best appreciated him most. During his pastorate, the little pastorate seemed to take on new life and prosperity. He was especially efficient in the work of the Sabbath School. He had a laborious task and on Thanksgiving Day of 1886, he offered his resignation, but remained in the field until the following spring.

Again there was a period of vacancy and at times the little congregation was much depressed, but then Mr. Jackson would come with his hearty greeting and say, "Fear not, little flock for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." It was during this time that W. T. Anderson, a student in the seminary , preached a number of times before he sailed for India. On September 28, 1890, he met with the young people and organized the first Young People's Christian Union an organization that later met alternate Sabbath evenings with the Christian Endeavor of Elders Ridge. In the year 1894 the Rev. Edward S. Littell became the pastor of West Union and in the fall of 1897 they asked Olivet to unite with them again in the joint pastorate, a union that remained between the two congregations until December 6, 1959. Dr. Littell was a gifted preacher and was much interested in temperance and reform work, and as pastor and citizen he was even ready to help those who were unable to help themselves. In April 1899 he resigned in order to accept a call to the 119th Street Church in New York City.

At the beginning of a new century , the Rev. E. L. Ralston, a student just recently graduated by the seminary , accepted calls from the united charge and became pastor June 26, 1900.

During Mr. Ralston's pastorate the church was completely renovated and the contributions to missions increased. In 1903 the organ was introduced as an aid in the ministry of music. Then Mr. and Mrs. Simon Townsend donated a beautiful communion service. There was not only temporal prosperity, but the Lord seemed to manifest His goodness in a special spiritual uplift. Mr. Ralston was firmly convinced that no minister should remain more than ten years in one place, so in 1910, he was released to serve the United Presbyterian Church in DuBois, Pa.

For the next four years, Olivet was without a pastor. During one year of that period a young man from the Southland, Jay W. Ranson, who later served his master in the mission field of India, came as a stated supply.

In the spring of 1914 the Rev. Mr. W. C. Work was installed as pastor. At a reception given him and Mrs. Work, one of the members, Mr. Horace Hudson, who had been a boyhood friend of Mr. Work was called on to make a few remarks. In the course of his talk he said, "Mr. Work in his school days at Marion Center was also known as Willie Work. Now I am wondering, Will he work? Will he work?" Soon we found that he lived up to his name and spared not himself either as pastor or creature. He also expected his people to work with him. Coming from a family of missionaries, he kept all well informed as to the mission work of the church. In the course of events, he too, decided to go into another field and resigned the church. At the spring meeting of Presbytery in 1925, Mr. Dwight Nichol, a student in the seminary and a young man under the care of Conemaugh Presbytery was appointed stated supply for West Union and Olivet. With much enthusiasm he took up the work. One of his fIrst undertakings was to reorganize the Y. P. C. U. as a joint society in the united church. The next year Glenn Stephens was appointed for a year, followed by Carlyle Carson who was here almost two years; then Frank McAllister, Alfred Martin, James Brown and Don Almes each one year.

Since the dedication of the second church, the following elders were elected and served faithfully: Messrs. Hugh M. Wilson, John H. Wilson, Will Wilson (all grandsons of Hugh M. Wilson, one of the founders), Herbert J. Shirley, Joseph R. Patterson, John G. Henderson, John B. Wilson, Wallace George and C. Raymond Miller.