All this time Mount Olivet had been quietly witnessing the Baptist Faith. Never a prominesnt church, but always bearing a witness firmly and without fuss, it had continued with the help of local preachers. Ealry in the 1920's the building fell badly into disrepair and other accommodation was needed, so an amalgamation was formed with the then South Street church under the offical title Mount Olivet and South Street Baptist Church functioning as one fellowship.

During its lifeitme the church had been the home of the Christian Endeavour, the Band of Hope, Scouts and Guides, football and cricket teams in the local leagues.

The war years took their toll on members of the fellowship, and for a time a decline in attendence was very noticable. Later, an increase in Sunday School attendence and tehn baptisms in two years provided the church with high hopes of greater things to come, but this was not to be. Families who were regular attenders left the district and once again low attendances were recorded.

The first invitation to joing talks to from one Baptist church in the town was turned down, and the increase in the fellowship members that had been hoped for did not materialise. So it was decided at a meeting in September, 1962, that the chuch would close its doors on the last Sunday in December, 1962.

The last few lines are very sad because Mount Olivet had much to offer. Although they never formally "united" the church at Trinity is stronger and firmer in its faith because the people of Mount Olivet are now a valued part at Trinity.

The last services at Ebenezer were on the 28th of October, 1962. Thereafter the chuch and schoo furnishes were sold to the Bacup Corporation. The buildings were structurally sound and in good repaid, and it is regrettable that the Corporation could not find any use for them. The buildings were demolished, the site landscaped and the grave stones laid said by side along the Lane Head Lane boundary.

A brief summary such as this connot give a full picture of the activites associated with the church over the years. In the last 100 years in particular the church had ministered not only to the spiritual needs of its own members, but had provided ecuational, recreational and cultural facilities to all connected with it. The following list, which is far from complete, gives some idea od the activites carried on at various times during the church's history:- The Sunday School, the Day School, the Library, the Missionary Society, the Women's Meeting, the Men's Fellowship, the Burial and Sick Society, the Temperance Society, the Literary and Debating Society, the Choir, the Ladies Choir, the Christian Endeaver, the Girl's Auxiliary, the Girls' club, the Lads' Club, the Scouts, clubs catering for cricket, football, hockey, tennis, table tennis and the Drematic Society.

The burial registers show that there are over 3,000 bodies interred in the gormer graveyard, including two centenarians aged 104 and 108, and there are about the same number of entries in the birth registers. The church records going back to 1692 are very extensive. No statistics from these records can adequately measure the lasting influence the church has had in the formation of Christian charactor in this locality.