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 FROM THE LIBRARY OF 
 REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D. 
 
 BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO 
 
 THE LIBRARY OF 
 
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THE HIST 
 
 Plymouth Church. 
 
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 (HENRY WARD BEECHER) .847 to 1872. 
 
 INCLUSIVE OF 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES 
 OF THE BETHEL AND THE NAVY MISSION, 
 
 AND 
 
 &fr* Silfaer Slewing. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher's first Sermon in Plymouth Church, and an Al- 
 phabetical List of the names of all Persons who have ever been 
 MEMBERS OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 
 With date of Admissions, Deaths, and Dismissals. 
 
 Illustrated with Numerous Portraits and Engravings. 
 By NOYES L. THOMPSON. 
 
 • •. 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 
 G. JV. Carleton £s? Co., Publishers. 
 
 LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO. 
 M.DCCC.LXXIIL 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by 
 
 G. W. CARLETON & CO., 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
 Stereotyped at the 
 
 women's printing house, 
 
 56, 58 and 60 Park Street, 
 
 New York. 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER FIRST. 
 
 Introductory — Various Opinions about the Plymouth Pastor 
 and his Ministry — Exterior and Interior of the Church — 
 Story of the Pulpit Furniture — "Cross Fulton Ferry, 
 and Follow the Crowd" 13 
 
 CHAPTER SECOND. 
 
 Plymouth Church Property — Brooklyn in 1846 — New Con- 
 gregational Church Proposed — Henry Ward Beecher — 
 His Sermon, May 16, 1847 — Organization of the Society 
 and Church — The Original "Twenty-one" — Call and 
 Installation of Mr. Beecher — The Property Transferred to 
 the Church , 24 
 
 CHAPTER THIRD. 
 
 January, 1849, to January, 1850 — Erection of the present 
 Plymouth Church — Its Cost and Dimensions — Increase of 
 the Congregation — The Pastor's Dangerous Illness 65 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER FOURTH. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Position Assumed by the Ministry toward Slavery and Aboli- 
 tionism — Beecher on their Pusillanimity — Fugitive Slave 
 Law passed — Its Effect— Kansas Troubles — Religion and 
 Business — Free Speech Advocated — Invasion of Plymouth 
 Church by N. Y. Roughs 72 
 
 CHAPTER FIFTH. 
 
 Church Finances — Harvey S. Weld appointed Sexton — Con- 
 gregational Singing— The Introduction of Plymouth Col- 
 lection — George A. Bell — Sunday-school Statistics — In- 
 crease of the Society in 1852 — Improvement in Aisle 
 Chairs — " Pauper Pews " — Baptism by Immersion — Sta- 
 tistics, 1858 84 
 
 CHAPTER SIXTH. 
 The Proposed New Church Fiasco 98 
 
 CHAPTER SEVENTH. 
 
 Pew-rent Record — John Brown reviewed — All Insurrectionary 
 Attempts to Overthrow Slavery Denounced — Contribution 
 Record — Rose Ward — The Slave Woman, Sarah — Ex- 
 tracts from Sermon Preached during the Bombardment of 
 Fort Sumter 109 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER EIGHTH. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The First Long Island and the Brooklyn Fourteenth Regi- 
 ments — The National Flag — Every Citizen's Duty toward 
 it, in its Hour of Peril — Sunday-school Matters — The 
 New Lecture and Sunday-school Building — Encampment 
 of a Maine Regiment in the Church — Beecher in Europe 
 — Sumter Party — Scene in Plymouth Church the Sabbath 
 after Lincoln's Assassination. 122 
 
 CHAPTER NINTH. 
 
 First Organist of Plymouth Church— John Zundel— F. F. 
 Miiller — The Great Organ — Organ Concerts — Henry 
 Camp — The Quartette and Choir 137 
 
 CHAPTER TENTH. 
 
 Mission Schools — Plymouth Church's Proteges — The Bethel 
 and the Navy Mission — Origin and History of the 
 Bethel, 1 841 to 1872— Stable to Palace— The Navy Mis- 
 sion, 1844 to 1872 — Its Establishment and History — The 
 Armstrong Missionary Society 143 
 
 CHAPTER ELEVENTH. 
 
 Mr. Beecher's Salary Increased — Appointment of a Pastoral 
 Helper — Deaconesses — Annual Progress of the Church 
 — The Church Revenue — List of Former Trustees — The 
 
6 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Present Board — Deacons and Deaconesses — Collection 
 System — Sunday-school Statistics — Conclusion 158 
 
 CHAPTER TWELFTH. 
 
 The Silver Wedding and the Memorial Fund 1 70 
 
 Alphabetical list of Members of Plymouth Church — 1847- 
 
 1867 237 
 
 Alphabetical List of former Members of Plymouth Church, 
 
 who have died or left the Church by Letter or otherwise, 
 
 prior to January 6, 1867 252 
 
 Alphabetical List of Members of Plymouth Church, admitted 
 
 January, 1867, to January, 1873 2 ^8 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Form of Admission to the Church, Articles of Faith and 
 
 Covenants 289 
 
 Basis of Union between the Church and the Society 293 
 
 Ecclesiastical Principles and Rules 295 
 
 Rules of Order for Business Meetings. 305 
 
 Miscellaneous 308 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 I. — Plymouth Rock Frontispu 
 
 icce. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 II. — Exterior of Plymouth Church 14 
 
 III. — Old and New Pulpit Furniture 20 
 
 IV. — Portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, 1847 62 
 
 V.— Interior of Plymouth Church 132 
 
 VI. — The Great Organ 139 
 
 VII. — Aisle Folding-chairs, and the Bethel 144 
 
 VIII. — Portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, 1872 170 
 
 IX. — Ground-floor Plan of Pews 236 
 
 X. — Gallery Plan of Pews 240 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The name of Plymouth Church has been for 
 many years a household word in countless com- 
 munities at home and abroad, and yet little was 
 known of its definite history. To be sure, every- 
 body knew that Henry Ward Beecher preached 
 from its pulpit, but, prior to the late Silver Wed- 
 ding, few people could have answered correctly as 
 to the number of years of his ministry in Brook- 
 lyn. 
 
 Several months ago, the desirableness of a his- 
 tory of this church and society was suggested, and 
 Mr. Harvey S. Weld, — a gentleman whose name 
 and face have been alike familiar, for nearly a score 
 of years, to all regular attendants of this house of 
 worship, — in accordance with the suggestion, sup- 
 plied the writer with the facts and data which have 
 i* 
 
I0 PREFACE. 
 
 been the foundation of this work. The Manuals 
 — embracing the religious and historic annals of 
 Plymouth Church — and various other works rele- 
 vant to the subject, have been carefully explored 
 and annotated, and their documents and treasures 
 have been profusely spread before our readers in 
 the following pages. The supplementary informa- 
 tion — embracing a most important portion of this 
 work — has been kindly and cheerfully furnished by 
 Mr. A. B. Davenport, Mr. George A. Bell, Mr. 
 John S. Pierson, the Librarian of the Long Island 
 Historical Society, and other courteous individuals 
 — to all of whom we hereby tender our acknowl- 
 edgments. 
 
 The portraits presented of Mr. Beecher are fine 
 specimens of the later improvements in photog- 
 raphy, and were copied from originals by the 
 Photo-Engraving Co., No. 62 Courtlandt street, 
 New York. We are indebted to the Trustees of 
 Plymouth Church for permission to use several 
 of the other engravings. 
 
 Many things are hereafter spoken of which, per- 
 haps, relate more properly to the life of the pastor 
 than to the history of the church, for, although the 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 II 
 
 effort has been made to speak only of that which 
 related properly to the church, the life of the one 
 and the history of the other are so closely inter- 
 woven, that it has been impossible to untwine the 
 cord that binds them together. 
 
 N. L. T. 
 
 Brooklyn, January 15, 1873. 
 
J 
 
Plymouth Church. 
 
 CHAPTER FIRST. 
 
 Introductory — Various Opinions about the Plymouth Pastor and his 
 Ministry — Exterior and Interior of the Church — Story of the 
 Pulpit Furniture — " Cross Fulton Ferry, and follow the crowd." 
 
 HEN some future historian shall compile a 
 history of the United States which shall 
 review and elucidate the great moral, 
 social, and political principles and motives that 
 actuated and influenced the various movements of 
 the present day, one of its -most interesting chap- 
 ters will be on the history of Plymouth Church, of 
 Brooklyn ; for this noted house of worship and its 
 distinguished pastor are as much a historical part 
 of our country as is Plymouth Rock. The interest 
 felt in the narration of any circumstance relating to 
 Plymouth Church or Henry Ward Beecher is more 
 than local ; for the discourses delivered from that 
 pulpit by the pastor have unquestionably had as 
 
14 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 great an influence as they have had wide-spread 
 circulation throughout the land. The church, 
 though nominally Congregational, has ever been 
 public rather than sectarian property from its 
 birth — when people of all sects, Roman Catholics 
 as well as Protestants ; people of no acknowledged 
 denomination, professed atheists as well as non- 
 professors of religion ; all willingly lent a helping 
 hand to guide and aid its first faltering steps — to 
 its Silver Wedding — when hundreds of people, 
 pewholders, but not professed Christians, partici- 
 pated in the glad celebration of its twenty-fifth 
 birthday (dating from the commencement of Mr. 
 Beecher's labors as pastor). 
 
 If the church has been public property its pastor 
 assuredly has. *". . . All denominations can 
 claim him, for he is broad enough in his sympa- 
 thies, and comprehensive enough in his sweep of 
 the truth, to afford a support for all. 
 
 1 ' The Baptist may claim him because, in his view, 
 * the Congregationalist is a dry Baptist, and the 
 Baptist is a wet Congregationalist.' The Metho- 
 dist may claim him because of the ardor and free- 
 dom of his speech, his love of revivals, his respect 
 for the responsible agency of man. The Presby- 
 
 * A. McElroy Wylie. Scrlbner's Monthly, October Number, 
 1872. 
 
EXTERIOR OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH. — Pag* 14. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 5 
 
 terian may claim him, because of his education and- 
 his early church connection ; and because, after a 
 rigid examination by ' good old father Hughes of 
 Ohio,' he was pronounced so thoroughly orthodox 
 that he ' leaned a little t'other way.' The Quaker, 
 too, may claim him because of his high regard for 
 the intuitions of the moral sense, and his standing 
 declaration of independence from all bondage to 
 outward ordinances, and slavish submission to the 
 man-imposed bondage and badges of ecclesiasti- 
 cism. The Low Church Episcopalian can claim 
 him because of his intense love of the beautiful, 
 and his admiration of order and symmetry. And 
 even the High Church and the Catholic can find 
 something in him for his touch of antiquarianism, 
 and his open and avowed confession that between 
 the world on the one side, and the Church, in its 
 comprehensive sense, embracing all forms and 
 sects, on the other, there is enough of Truth, 
 enough of Christ, in every denomination to save 
 a man ; and one need not abjure his own sect in 
 order to be saved, if he will but make the most of 
 the Light and Truth which are conveyed to him in 
 the channels nearest to his hand." 
 
 Love — love to God and love to man — rather 
 than sectarian dogma or theological bigotry, has 
 been the all-powerful magnet with which the 
 
j6 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Plymouth pastor throughout his ministry has 
 drawn thousands to the shrine of grace, and that 
 one word Love, as he has preached it, is the secret 
 of the success of Plymouth Church. 
 
 The following citations have been selected, as 
 among the most comprehensive, from the many 
 compendiums on the Plymouth Pastor : 
 
 * " Mr. Beecher's habit of wide observation 
 early caused him to espouse questions in the large. 
 Slavery, not the slave; drunkenness, not the 
 drunkard ; suffrage, not the voter ; mankind, not 
 men ; truth, not dogma; were what he pondered. 
 The times he speaks of are not years, but eras — 
 1 cycles.' The qualities he sees in men, too, group 
 
 themselves into natures It is easy to refer 
 
 Mr. Beecher's composite creed to its sources. 
 His allegorical picturesque views come from the 
 Swedish seer. His assent only to the kncrwable 
 was the doctrine of Compte and Locke, albeit the 
 latter would have shrunk from the full acceptance 
 of his own premise. His exaltation of love and 
 of the fatherhood at the expense of the royalty of 
 God is Channingism in expression. In his espousal 
 of restorational punishment, Mr. Beecher and Dr. 
 Chapin and the Pope clasp hands across the sul- 
 phurous chasm of Calvinism. The Plymouth 
 
 * Brooklyn Eagle editorial, Oct. 4, 1S72. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 17 
 
 preacher has insensibly assorted his creed from 
 many denominations 
 
 "The quality of his endowments is concededly of 
 the highest degree of excellence of their kind. 
 He possesses his gifts in quantities, too, greater 
 than any contemporary public speaker. 
 
 " There are dramatic preachers, but none so finely 
 or largely dramatic as he. There are word paint- 
 ers, but their brushes are brooms compared with 
 his. There are tumultuous thunderers 'gainst 
 wrongs, but none storm so vehemently as he. 
 There are men who play upon the feelings of au- 
 diences as Rubenstein on the keys of a piano, but 
 none elicit such harmonies as he. Mother-wit has 
 shone through others' sermons, but shone never 
 so luminously as in his. What he does not know 
 of human nature is hardly worth learning. The 
 flowers talk to him as to no other student of their 
 secrets. The forest and the factory, the leaf and 
 the event, all tell more to him than to most any 
 other man." 
 
 * . . . " Certainly of no other clergyman in this 
 country, nor of any clergyman who has ever min- 
 istered in this country, could the twenty-fifth 
 anniversary of his connection with his parish be 
 said to be a national event in so full a sense as the 
 
 * N. Y. World editorial, Oct. 8, 1872. 
 
1 8 B PL YMO UTH CHURCH. 
 
 1 silver-wedding ' in Plymouth Church to-day can 
 be truly said to be. It may be said also, and with 
 equal justice, that no man in the exercise of purely 
 pastoral gifts and graces could have come to make 
 his pastorate a matter of so much public moment. 
 .... It is not in the homes of Brooklyn but 
 on the platform of Plymouth Church that he has 
 built up the work by which men know him. And 
 there, in an age in which pulpit eloquence has 
 again and again been demonstrated to have gone 
 obsolete, superceded by the more frequent, the 
 more persistent, and the easier vehicle of the 
 press, he has come to possess such a power in the 
 land as no journalist in it, with the possible excep- 
 tion of Mr. Greeley, has ever been able to wield. 
 He has systematically inculcated no theology, or- 
 thodox or heretical. He has represented no sect, 
 and he has been the steady champion of no party. 
 He has simply stood up from Sunday to Sunday, 
 and expounded, with innumerable variations and 
 with an affluence arid variety of illustration which 
 has made him always intelligible to cobblers and 
 always interesting to philosophers, the simple 
 theme of the advantage of doing good rather than 
 evil — of the desirableness, that is, of what seems 
 to Mr. Beecher good, and the undesirableness of 
 what seems to Mr. Beecher evil For to 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 19 
 
 have heard or to have read for any considerable 
 period, the sermons which he has been preaching 
 in Plymouth pulpit for now these five-and-twenty 
 years is not only to be filled with admiration at 
 the force and fertility and versatility, but also to 
 be persuaded of the fundamental honesty and 
 goodness of this remarkable man." 
 
 Plymouth Church, itself, is almost as familiar to 
 the eyes of the people of our country as is its fame 
 to their ears. The building, which is of brick, is 
 two stories in hight. Of its exterior little need 
 be said, for the accompanying engraving, which 
 will be instantly recognized by all who have beheld 
 the original, is a far better description than could 
 be written. The front entrance is on Orange street, 
 between Hicks and Henry streets, but it may also 
 be entered from Cranberry street by an arched 
 way passing underneath the church parlors and 
 the trustees' room. A little more than midway in 
 this passage is a small hydrant, with a drinking- 
 cup attached, from which people from all parts of 
 our country and of Europe have doubtlessly drank, 
 and by the use of which many fainting ladies have 
 been revived. The interior of the church is spa- 
 cious and very high, and was evidently arranged 
 more with reference to comfort than beauty. The 
 walls are white and plain ; the windows — six on 
 
20 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 each side, and five in the front — are large and 
 glazed with common unstained glass, and are 
 screened by inside blinds which arc painted white. 
 The pews on the ground floor converge toward the 
 pulpit, and the broad aisles are rendered doubly- 
 useful by the attachment of a folding-chair to each 
 pew. 
 
 The pulpit platform occupies a central position 
 in the back part of the church and is ornamented 
 with a finely carved set of furniture, * consisting of 
 a light desk — the top of which can be raised or 
 lowered at will by means of a thumb-screw, — a 
 handsome, armed chair, a small octagon-shaped 
 table for books and papers, and a still smaller 
 table for flowers. They are all made of Olive 
 wood — a very fine-grained, light-colored wood — 
 
 * Until 1868, the pulpit furniture consisted of one mahogany 
 desk and one high-backed, crimson-plushed chair. Two other sim- 
 ilar chairs had at one time set upon the platform, but as they had 
 generally been rushed for and taken by unscrupulous persons, their 
 removal had been ordered. The simplicity of this furniture was 
 much admired, and artists and mechanics often sketched and made 
 models from it for other churches. Among the Pilgrims to the 
 Holy Land on the "Quaker City" Excursion of 1867, was Moses 
 S. Beach, a prominent Plymouthite. This gentleman, when visiting 
 the Mount of Olives, purchased an Olive-tree, which he brought 
 home with him ; and in 1868 the present pulpit furniture was manu- 
 factured from this tree at his expense, and presented to the society. 
 In consideration of Mr. Beach's thought fulness and generosity, the 
 society magnanimously voted to give him the old mahogany desk 
 and the high-backed chair. 
 
 
OLD PULPIT FURNITURE. — Page 2Q. 
 
 NEW PULPIT FURNITURE. — Page 20. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 21 
 
 and upon each the year in which they were pre- 
 sented to the society is beautifully wrought. 
 
 Immediately behind the pulpit is the organ-loft 
 and choir. On each side of the organ begin the 
 galleries which otherwise are continuous ; at the 
 front of the church there is an extension to the first 
 gallery (over which is the second gallery). The 
 church is well lighted in the evening by a large 
 reflector suspended from the centre of the ceiling, 
 and by numerous gas-jets underneath the galleries 
 and elsewhere. 
 
 The seats of pew-holders are always reserved by 
 the ushers until ten minutes before the commence- 
 ment of services, when by a general understand- 
 ing, if not occupied by their owners, they are 
 filled with strangers. Many members purposely 
 absent themselves from Sunday evening services 
 for the especial benefit of the thousands of outsid- 
 ers who desire to hear the famous pastor. A 
 number of gentlemen gratuitously officiate as 
 ushers. Their duties are not only delicate and 
 difficult, but often unappreciated. They are 
 obliged to hold back as well as face an impatient 
 throng, many of whom, thoughtless of the rights 
 of all others but themselves, often lose their tem- 
 pers because pressed back, and seem to imagine 
 that the ushers, who are only attending their 
 
22 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 duties, are deliberately insulting them ; but all 
 observant and considerate people, members or 
 non-members, will readily acknowledge that the 
 ushers of Plymouth Church, as a rule, fulfil their 
 self-imposed, and often thankless, tasks in a gen- 
 tlemanly manner. 
 
 The church is open every Sabbath throughout 
 the year, except when in need of repair — in that 
 case it is closed during August — and other clergy- 
 men of acknowledged talent minister during Mr. 
 Beecher's regular summer vacation, which com- 
 mences about the first of August and extends to 
 the middle of October. 
 
 The scene in front of the church on Orange 
 street on every Sunday morning and evening tells, 
 in unmistakable words, the story of Henry Ward 
 Beecher's popularity. 
 
 "Cross Fulton Ferry, and follow the crowd," 
 were the directions some one is said to have given 
 long ago to a seeker of "Beecher's church," and 
 those directions have lost none of their significance, 
 although they have been so well acted upon for 
 many years. Long before the hour of church 
 service, there gather in Orange street hundreds of 
 strangers, and policemen have Sabbathly been de- 
 tailed to Plymouth Church, "to keep the crowd 
 back," for years. The building, capacious as it is, 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 $ 
 
 falls far short of accommodating all those who 
 rush thither, and there is seldom a Sabbath that 
 many disappointed faces may not be seen leaving 
 the church, within which they have failed to find 
 even standing-room. 
 
24 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER SECOND. 
 
 Plymouth Church Property — Brooklyn in 1846 — New Congrega- 
 tional Church Proposed — Henry Ward Beecher — His Sermon, 
 May 16, 1847 — Organization of the Society and Church — The 
 Original " Twenty-one " — Call and Installation of Mr. Beecher 
 — The Property transferred to the Church. 
 
 |HE land, eighty-eight feet by two hundred 
 feet, comprising seven lots, and extending 
 from Orange street to Cranberry street, 
 now occupied by the Plymouth Church buildings, 
 formerly belonged to the Hicks estate. The Pres- 
 byterian Society purchased it of John and Jacob 
 M. Hicks, in 1823, and erected thereon an edifice, 
 fifty-six feet by seventy-two feet, with a front on 
 Cranberry street, for the use of the First Presby- 
 terian Church. At that time the population of 
 Brooklyn was less than ten thousand, and many 
 thought the erection of a church "out in the 
 fields," an imprudent step. The new church, con- 
 trary to the predictions of the would-be prophets, 
 prospered, and to such an extent that an addition 
 of eighteen feet to the building was soon neces- 
 sary. In 183 1, a Lecture Room (including Sun- 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 25 
 
 day-school rooms and a study) thirty-six feet by 
 seventy- two feet was attached. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Sanford was the first pastor, offici- 
 ating in that capacity from 1823 to 1829, when he 
 was succeeded by the Rev. Daniel L. Carrol, 
 D.D., who was followed by Rev. Samuel H. Cox, 
 D.D., in 1837, and the Rev. Dr. Cox continued 
 their pastor after the removal to their new house 
 of worship in Henry street, in 1847. 
 
 Brooklyn's population in 1846 was about * sixty 
 thousand, and though now called the City of 
 Churches, possessed then only thirty-nine t houses 
 
 * Population of Brooklyn, 1845, 59,566. — New York State Cen- 
 sus. 
 
 \ These were : 
 
 EPISCOPAL. 
 
 St. Ann's Church, Rev. B. B. 
 
 Cutler, D.D. 
 St. John's Church, Rev. Evan 
 
 M. Johnson. 
 St. Luke's Church, Rev. Jacob 
 
 Diller. 
 Emanuel Church, Rev. Francis 
 
 Vinton. 
 Calvary (Free) Church, Rev. 
 
 W. H. Lewis. 
 Christ Church, Rev. J.^ S. 
 
 Stone, D.D. 
 St. Mary' s Church, Rev. Joseph 
 
 Hunter. 
 St. Thomas' (Free) Church, 
 
 Rev. J. F. Messinger. 
 
 REFORMED DUTCH. 
 
 First Ref. Dutch Church, Rev. 
 
 M. W. Dwight. 
 Central Ref. Dutch Church, 
 
 Rev. Jacob Brodhead, D.D. 
 South Ref. Dutch Church, Rev. 
 
 S. M. Woodbridge. 
 
 BAPTIST. 
 
 First Baptist Church, Rev. J. 
 
 L. Hodge. 
 Pierrepont St. Baptist Church, 
 
 Rev. E. E. L. Taylor. 
 
 METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 
 
 First M. E. Church, Rev. H. 
 F. Pease. 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 of worship ; of these but one was of Congregation- 
 al denomination. The want of another Congrega- 
 tional church soon became apparent, and several 
 
 Second M. E. Church, Rev. 
 
 B. Goodsell. 
 Third M. E. Church, Rev. C. 
 
 W. Carpenter. 
 Centenary M. E. Church, Rev. 
 
 John Pease. 
 Fifth M. E. Church, Rev. O. 
 
 Starr. 
 African M. E. Church, Rev. 
 
 Wm. Moore. 
 Primitive M. E. Church, Rev. 
 
 Chas. Spars. 
 Protestant M. E. Church, Rev. 
 
 M. Birch. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN. 
 
 First Pres. Church (N. Y. Pres- 
 bytery), Rev. M. W. Jacobus. 
 
 First Pres. Church, Rev. S. H. 
 Cox, D.D. 
 
 Second Pres. Church. Rev. J. 
 S. Spencer, D.D. 
 
 Third Pres. Church, Rev. W. 
 B. Lewis. 
 
 Fifth Pres. Church, Rev. Geo. 
 Duffield. 
 
 First (Free) Pres. Church, 
 Rev. E. Weed. 
 
 South Pres. Church, Rev. S. T. 
 Spear. 
 
 ROMAN CATHOLIC. 
 
 St. James' Church, Rev. Charles 
 Smith. 
 
 St. Paul's Church, Rev. Nicho- 
 las O'Donnell. 
 
 Church of the Assumption, Rev. 
 D. W. Bacon. 
 
 New Roman Catholic Church, 
 Rev. Hugh McGuire. 
 
 OTHER CHURCHES. 
 
 Friends' Meeting House. 
 
 First Universalist Church, Rev. 
 
 T. B. Thayer. 
 Church of the Pilgrims (Con- 
 
 gregationalist), Rev. R. S. 
 
 Storrs, Jr. 
 Sailors' Union Bethel, Rev. 
 
 Wm. Burnet. 
 Advent Church, Rev. Moses 
 
 Chandler. 
 Church of our Saviour, Rev. 
 
 Fred. Farley. 
 
 This list of churches and pastors is from the Brooklyn Directory 
 of 1845-6, compiled and published by Henry R. and William J. 
 Hearne ; and by referring to the History of Brooklyn (Henry R. 
 Stiles') it will be discovered that, besides these, there were eight 
 others in course of erection : Wallabout Presbyterian Church, Mid- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 2J 
 
 public-spirited Christian gentlemen — John T. How- 
 ard, Henry C. Bowen, Seth B. Hunt, and David 
 Hale,* — determined to supply that want. The new 
 First Presbyterian Church in Henry street was 
 almost completed, and the Cranberry street prop- 
 erty had been offered for sale for $25,000. A 
 consultation was held by these gentlemen, and Mr. 
 Howard was authorized to effect a purchase, if 
 possible; $20,000 ($9, 500 payable in cash, and the 
 residue, $10,500, to remain on mortgage) was 
 offered, and in June, 1846, was accepted. 
 
 On Saturday evening, May 9, 1847, a meeting was 
 held at the residence of H. C. Bowen for the purpose 
 of establishing a new Congregational church in 
 Brooklyn. Messrs. Charles Rowland, David Hale, 
 Jira Payne, David Griffin, H. C. Bowen, and John 
 T. Howard were present, f "The meeting was 
 opened by prayer ; after which David Hale made 
 some statements in relation to the property now 
 held by 'the Plymouth Church,' and then, in behalf 
 of himself and the other owners, offered the use of 
 
 die Reformed Dutch Church, Church of the Holy Trinity (Episco- 
 pal), Church of the Restoration, Church of the Christian Disciples 
 (both Universalist), Eighth M. E. Church, Pacific Street M. E. 
 Church, and Asbury (colored) M. E. Church. 
 
 * Messrs. Howard, Bowen, and Hunt were members of the 
 Church of the Pilgrims, and Mr. Hale, of the Broadway Taberna- 
 cle, New York City. 
 
 f Plymouth Church Manual. 
 
2 8 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 said property for purpose of religious worship, as 
 soon as the premises should be vacated by ' The 
 First Presbyterian Church.' Whereupon it was 
 
 " Resolved, That religious services shall be com- 
 menced, by Divine permission, on Sunday, the 
 1 6th day of May, — that being the first Sabbath 
 after the house was to be vacated." 
 
 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher — then a young man 
 thirty-four years of age — was at that time* pastor 
 of the Second Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, 
 Indiana, and had already gained considerable 
 reputation, not only as an eloquent preacher, but 
 also as an original thinker and fearless speaker. 
 
 Mr. William P. Cutter, of New York, who was 
 acquainted with Mr. Beecher, and cognizant of his 
 abilities, thought he was the man to fill the vacant 
 pulpit and the new church at the same time, and 
 it was through Mr. Cutter's influence that Mr. 
 Beecher was requested to visit New York, and de- 
 liver ant address before the American Home 
 Missionary Society in May, 1847. Thus it was 
 that Mr. Beecher chanced to be in New York at 
 this time, and was invited to deliver the opening 
 
 • Henry Ward Beecher first entered upon pastoral duties in 1S37, 
 at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where he remained two years, when he 
 removed to Indianapolis. 
 
 f The address, for some reason, was not delivered before the Home, 
 but the Foreign Missionary Society. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 sermon at the new Congregational meeting-house. 
 The following notice appeared in the Brooklyn 
 Eagle of May 1 5 : 
 
 " New Congregational Church — The Congrega- 
 tional Church in Cranberry street (late Dr. Cox's) 
 will be opened for religious worship to-morrow 
 morning, afternoon, and evening. Rev. Henry 
 Ward Beecher, from Indianapolis, Indiana, is ex- 
 pected to preach morning and evening, and Rev. 
 N. H. Eggleston, from Ellington, Conn., in the 
 afternoon. The friends of this new enterprise, 
 also all who are willing to aid in the establishment 
 of a new church in that section of the city, are re- 
 spectfully invited to attend." 
 
 A considerable congregation attended the morn- 
 ing services, and in the evening the house was 
 crowded. The evening sermon was on " Man's 
 accountability to God." Mr. Beecher selected his 
 text from Romans xiv. 12: "So, then, everyone 
 of us shall give account of himself to God ; " and 
 preached the following sermon : * 
 
 * This sermon was reported for the N. Y. Tribune (in which it 
 appeared May 18th), by Mr. O. Dyer, who, at its conclusion, re- 
 marks : "The above sermon was delivered to an unusually large 
 audience. The speaker' s manner was forcible and impressive, and , 
 the discourse, delivered in such a style, could not fail of producing 
 a profound effect, as was visible at its close. We fear that in 
 some instances we have not done justice to the reverend author of 
 the sermon. We were obliged to omit several passages which we 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 "There is no doctrine which takes hold of men's 
 fears with a firmer grasp than this ; and when it is 
 understood to include the whole life — the interior 
 and the exterior life — and that it is to sum up 
 every thought and feeling, that they are to pass a 
 critical and rigid review, and that man's final des- 
 tiny is to be determined by his deeds done in the 
 body ; when the doctrine is so presented and felt 
 by men, it sometimes works their reformation and 
 repentance, and oftentimes it works mischief to 
 them, and they strive if possible to avert the doc- 
 trine, to evade its requirements ; and almost all 
 the popular errors which have sprung up in The- 
 ology are errors whose effect has been to lighten 
 the pressure either directly or indirectly of this 
 great fundamental doctrine of God's government ; 
 so you may grade these errors in respect to their 
 banefulness, according to the degrees in which they 
 omit to teach and enforce the doctrine of man's ac- 
 countability to God. But yet what avails it if it 
 be a true doctrine if we should leave it out of all 
 our theories ? It is a practical and personal ques- 
 tion, and one pertinent to every individual in this 
 congregation. If it be a hideous dream, we should 
 be awakened from it. If it be a solemn annuncia- 
 
 did not distinctly hear, and in one or two cases we were completely 
 distanced by the rapidity with which the speaker uttered his words." 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 tion from the God of Heaven and earth, we should 
 attend to it, and make a practical matter of it. To 
 those who are satisfied with the simple declaration 
 of the Bible, that there is such a scene as a final 
 judgment to take place, I need adduce no argu- 
 ment to prove that men will give account of them- 
 selves to God. They believe it because it is de- 
 clared in simple strains throughout the New Testa- 
 ment. But there are many who have been so ac- 
 customed to read these declarations as mere un- 
 meaning assertions possessing no Divine power or 
 truth ; there are many who have so handled them 
 that they have no longer any significance as proof 
 of this doctrine ; and merely to quote texts to such, 
 is to make declarations which will be altogether 
 without force. 
 
 " I purpose, therefore, instead of first entering 
 into the Bible to seek for evidence to support this 
 doctrine, to take another course of argument, and 
 ascertain whether this is or not a fundamental prin- 
 ciple that runs through God's government, and 
 whether it is or not inherent in the nature of man. 
 I do not hesitate to declare that there is abundant 
 evidence outside of the Bible of the truth of this 
 great declaration, that we are to be held to a rigid 
 accountability to God for all our actions and 
 thoughts in this world. 
 
32 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 "Let us start then from the beginning, and take 
 man and follow him up from the cradle to the 
 grave, through all his relations of life — his relations 
 to his family, his neighbors, his country — and see 
 if this doctrine is not practically acknowledged by 
 him throughout his entire career. 
 
 "And first: When the child is born into the 
 world and becomes a member of a family, he is as 
 helpless as helplessness itself, and entirely depend- 
 ent upon those whose duty under God it is to 
 watch over, and protect, and nourish him ; but just 
 as the child begins to develop its understanding — 
 just as it begins to be able to act for itself — from 
 the very moment that it begins to manifest its pref- 
 erence for one thing over another, that very mo- 
 ment it is met on the threshold of life by parental 
 restraint and supervision which are necessary to its 
 existence. The anxious mother is ever on the 
 watch lest it should come to harm. It may not 
 take poisonous food — the mother's care restrains 
 it ; it may not fall * from precipitous places — the 
 mother rescues it ; it may not come to injury or 
 harm — the mother ever shields it. And not alone 
 in respect to these things is it restrained, but the 
 governing hand of the parents is felt in all its rela- 
 tions, its actions, and desires, and the child is 
 'taught that it is to occupy a subordinate position 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 33 
 
 in the family, and be subject to the wishes of its 
 superiors. It is taught that there must be certain 
 limits to its wishes and actions — that the parents 
 are the governors of the family, that there are 
 others to participate in its privileges, and that 
 his liberty must be reduced within those limits ; 
 and in every well-regulated family, a child is 
 taught to conform itself to the wishes of its 
 superiors ; and just in proportion as it is not 
 so taught, the family is badly governed. So that 
 the very first experience which we have when 
 we come into life is, that we cannot do as we 
 please. At every step we meet with restraint and 
 coercion ; our wishes are opposed, our expecta- 
 tions thwarted by our guardians continually. 
 
 "But the child grows older, and passes out for a 
 time from the immediate supervision of its parents 
 and enters into the school, where it is surrounded 
 with new relations. Does it drop the principle 
 here ? or is its binding force augmented ? Why, 
 the child at school, the same as the child at home, 
 is under the control and government of its parents; 
 and in aspiring into another sphere it has brought 
 itself under an additional responsibility. The child 
 now is not alone held responsible to its parents 
 but to its teacher also. It finds that in all its rela- 
 tions in the school, it is under the influence of this 
 
34 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 principle of accountability. It cannot carry out 
 its own wishes in the school-room. The teacher 
 is there. His authority presses upon the child, 
 and reward for obedience and penalty for diso- 
 bedience cause it to come down to its proper 
 place, and he feels that so far from ridding himself 
 of the influence of this principle of accountability 
 by entering school, he has greatly added to it — 
 that where he previously had one governor he now 
 has two. 
 
 " But there is an interval between school and 
 home duties ; there is a time which they call play- 
 spell, when they are no longer under the control 
 of the parent or of the teacher ; a time when they 
 are left entirely to themselves, with no one to 
 command them or thwart their humors ; and now, 
 surely, they will have a breathing-time ; now they 
 can cast off for a time this onerous.yoke of ac- 
 countability and revel unrestrained in the Utopia 
 of freedom. But no, they will not ; for there are 
 laws among the young by which they are gov- 
 erned as with a rod of iron. Is there not a law of 
 honor among all young men, to which they must 
 yield implicit obedience ? Can they go against the 
 ordinary customs and usages of the circles in which 
 they move ? To be sure, they do not take into 
 their hands the same authority and assume the 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 same control as their parents and teachers do ; but 
 they have laws of their own which must be obeyed, 
 and if any of their number will not do as they 
 ought to do, they are cast out of the circle, 
 shunned by their former associates, and made to 
 feel that they cannot infringe with impunity upon 
 the conventionalities of their society in which they 
 move. So then, even when they are without the 
 influence of the family and the school, they are 
 compelled instantly to put on the harness of ac- 
 countability, as if they could not live without it. 
 
 " Next, the youth having made some attainments 
 in learning, and coming to the years which are 
 proper, goes forth to learn his profession or trade, 
 and in this new relation of life does he lose sight 
 of this principle, or does it lose sight of him ? Can 
 he go into the shop of the mechanic as an appren- 
 tice and perform such service as he will ? No. 
 As a student in the office can he study when and 
 what he will ? No. In whatever vocation he may 
 put himself, he finds that he is responsible to him 
 to whom he is bound ; he is obliged to obey him, 
 and if he does not, he loses the object he is seeking 
 by his connection with his master. 
 
 "But at last the young man is established. He 
 has now attained to years of discretion, and the 
 law pronounces him free from his parents. He 
 
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 has gained the means of livelihood and establishes 
 himself in business. And is he not now released 
 from this law ? Is he not set free at last ? No ; 
 by no means. As a citizen, he comes under the 
 law of the land ; as a member of his neighborhood, 
 he is under a responsibility to his neighbors. 
 And more than this, there is no calling in life that 
 is independent of other men. Let a man be a 
 mechanic, a lawyer, a physician, a merchant, or 
 what he will, he will find that he must conform 
 himself, in a measure, to the wishes and opinions 
 of those by whom he is surrounded. Let a phy- 
 sician assume the preposterous position of absolute 
 independence, and say, ' I am of age, and will 
 have my opinions, and will do what I please, and 
 will not be governed or influenced by my neigh- 
 bors or professional brethren ; ' and they will say, 
 1 We are of age, and we will have our opinions, 
 and one among the rest is, that you are not fit to 
 be trusted with the life of a fellow-being ; and you 
 may get your living as you can — we will have 
 nothing to do with you.' Let a lawyer do the 
 same, and his clients will have a very quiet way of 
 shutting his mouth, and will give him abundant 
 leisure for reflection in regard to his philosophy of 
 independence as applied to business. And so it is 
 in every vocation of life. You are all under obli- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 37 
 
 gations to regard the opinions of those who stand 
 around you, who are to help you, and whom you 
 are to help. In the great Brotherhood of Man no 
 one can say, ' I am alone ; I need not the aid of 
 others ; I will not regard this law of accountability ; 
 I will not respect the conventionalities of society, 
 I am independent of all.' You are not independ- 
 ent — you are responsible to those around you for 
 help. This web of mutual responsibility is wove 
 around all the human family, and if you will not 
 regard it, if you seek to break through it, a heavy 
 penalty will be inflicted upon you, and it is just 
 that you should receive it. 
 
 ''This leads me to speak of Civil Government. 
 There is not a Tribe, a State, or a people on the 
 globe, known to exist without a form of govern- 
 ment, ruder or more perfect. I apprehend that I 
 do not mistake when I say that there never did 
 exist a tribe or a people without some form of 
 government. If it be said that this is the result of 
 man's ignorance, I am prepared to show that the 
 very contrary is the fact ; that just in proportion 
 as men grow wiser, the more government they 
 have. And there are no communities that are so 
 completely bound and wound round, and round, 
 and round with the meshes of civil government as 
 those which are at this time considered the most 
 
38 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 learned and enlightened on the globe. This is the 
 experience of 6000 years, that man cannot live 
 wisely and well without some system of govern- 
 ment, and that for their full development and for 
 their rising up in the scale of progress it is neces- 
 sary that they should be under a just and healthy 
 accountability. Nay, I go farther ; after the law 
 has gone as far as it is possible for it to go, it can- 
 not go as far as men feel there is a need of go- 
 ing, and, therefore, whenever under the civil and 
 social laws of the community, men confederate for 
 purposes of any kind whatever, new compacts are 
 formed. They always build these upon some con- 
 stitution ; rules or regulations having their ex- 
 pressed or implied penalties. You cannot find 
 that company of men independent of all these ob- 
 ligations which society is under and which every 
 individual in society is under to all around him. 
 
 " We are not yet done unraveling this web which 
 is wove around men until we see this principle is 
 carried in society. Men are accountable for their 
 feeliiigs and their opinions as well as their conduct. 
 
 " It may seem strange to say that men are held 
 accountable for their opinions ; but they are, and 
 will be forever — and that, too, in the freest land, 
 and under the most liberal government. For in- 
 stance, let any prominent man in either of the 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 great political parties of this country stand up and 
 affirm his repugnance to any one of the great 
 principles of his party. Let it be understood that 
 he is advocating and disseminating principles and 
 opinions which are abhorrent to that party, and 
 what will be the result ? They cannot imprison 
 him ; they cannot lay hold on hjm and load him 
 with chains, and thrust him into the dark dungeon 
 of the criminal, but they can ostracise him ; and 
 now let him, regardless of his own private inter- 
 ests, and anxious only to serve his country, by 
 representing his fellow-citizens in her legislative 
 halls, attempt to run for any office, and there will 
 be those letters called votes, which will silently 
 but surely spell out his condemnation, and he will 
 be allowed the privilege of remaining at home, 
 freed from the cares and toils of office. 
 
 ' ' Men are not only held accountable for their opin- 
 ions and feelings by the Church, but by the Popu- 
 lar Sentiment also. To be sure, there are many 
 feelings and sentiments condemned by the Church 
 that the general community does not reprobate ; 
 but the general community requires from its mem- 
 bers a respect for all the fundamental principles of 
 honesty and justice, and he who is guilty of any 
 transgression of them is instantly girdled by the 
 scorn of the community in which he resides. 
 
40 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 u Let a man dwell in your household — let it be 
 known to you that he revolves base and dishonora- 
 ble purposes in his mind that will never take the 
 form of outward development and actions, and you 
 will immediately take measures to remove him 
 from your family, that they may not be exposed to 
 the possibility of .contamination by coming in con- 
 tact with his baleful mind. And so in the general 
 community. Suppose the case of a young man in 
 indigent circumstances, who comes to your city to 
 build up his fortune — to gain a profession. His 
 father and his mother make every sacrifice to as- 
 sist him ; they toil in poverty that they may secure 
 his success — that they may give him an education 
 — and it is said that he has literally consumed them 
 to profit himself, and at last, with joy in their 
 hearts and tears in their eyes, they hear of his tri- 
 umph in this metropolis ; with fond anticipations 
 of the grateful reception which they will receive at 
 his hands, they come to visit him in his splendid 
 mansion. But, when he hears of their coming, in- 
 stead of rushing to meet them with open arms and 
 a heart overflowing with filial love and gratitude, 
 and escorting them to his own home and introduc- 
 ing them to his family and friends as the author of 
 his being, and those to whom, under God, he is in- 
 debted for the position and prosperity he now en- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 4I 
 
 joys, he goes out alone to meet them, and conducts 
 them to some secret place where his fashionable 
 friends will not see them, and where he visits them 
 furtively ; for he is ashamed of his father and 
 mother — not on account of their minds, but on ac- 
 count of their rude dress and manners. Now let 
 this fact be known in the circles in which he moves 
 — let him visit at your house ; with what face will 
 you receive him ? You will manifest an irrepressi- 
 ble indignation at such base and inhuman conduct, 
 and why ? He has not broken any law ? No ; 
 but you say that you have detected in him feelings 
 unworthy of a man, and he very soon perceives 
 that his want of feeling is reprobated, and in future 
 he is careful to guard against any public exhibition 
 of his unnatural disposition, although at heart he 
 is the same inhuman monster as before. The con- 
 sequence of all this is, that men veil their corrupt 
 inclinations under the garb of seeming virtue ; and 
 thus all bad men are compelled, by the force of 
 popular opinion, to become hypocrites. Men are 
 very fond of talking about the hypocrisy of the 
 Church. God knows there is enough of it there ; 
 but when compared with the hypocrisy out of the 
 Church, it sinks into nothingness. 
 
 11 The last step we shall take is in respect to that 
 class of men in our nation which have gone steadily 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 down from one step to another, till they can be no 
 longer tolerated in the community. They have 
 gone down regularly from point to point, their 
 specific gravity has sunk them down and down in- 
 to the abyss of crime, until they are appropriately 
 called OUTLAWS. Now at last we have got at a class 
 of men who will have nothing to do with this ac- 
 countability. It was because they hated restraint 
 that they went down. They loved progression, 
 and they went down and down and down till they 
 could get at a wider circle, where they might act 
 out the innate depravity of their natures without 
 any restraint from their fellow-men, and indeed it 
 would seem that — now they have got beyond the 
 last bond of society — they will be freed from this 
 principle of accountability. But, ah ! how mis- 
 taken. There are laws among thieves, and in the 
 vilest bandit's den that ever darkened the moun- 
 tain-side, and on the bloodiest deck of the pirate's 
 ship there are masters and a rule more iron than 
 the peaceful denizens of a Christian community can 
 conceive of. So that when men by reason of their 
 hatred of restraint have thrown themselves wholly 
 out of society, they have found that they could not 
 get rid of their own nature so easily as they could 
 of human laws. They must be governed by these 
 or by themselves. 
 
PL YMO UTH CHURCH. 
 
 43 
 
 " I have attempted simply to prove by reference 
 to facts such as would be allowed in any scientific 
 argument that the law of accountability to God is 
 carried out in all the relations of life. We have 
 seen that it is carried into every sphere of human 
 action, and hence it is unnecessary that we should 
 declare, as we do declare, that the law of account- 
 ability to God is the universal law of the Universe, 
 and that it is just as universal as breath is. 
 
 "We now come back to the Bible and ask our- 
 selves, what does that teach ? It professes to be 
 the exposition of man's character, and the revelator 
 of God's principles of government, as they relate 
 to man. And now it is not necessary to take text 
 after text and chip and chip them to make them 
 fit each other ; it is not necessary to put one text 
 after another to torture in order to prove that man 
 is accountable to God. We find that if there never 
 had been a word spoken in the Bible in relation to 
 this subject we could draw up this doctrine just as 
 plainly from the facts as we now can. The Bible 
 simply declares of that which existed before ; it 
 was not the promulgation of an arbitrary law, it 
 was simply the declaration of the existence of that 
 which God made when He made all things. And 
 indeed it may be said that if the Bible, proposing 
 to be a revelation of the laws of God to man, had 
 
44 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 omitted this doctrine, it would have cast a doubt, a 
 shade, upon the sacred Word itself. What would 
 you think of a Bible that forgot to say that there 
 is a God ? and what would be said of a Bible that 
 should attempt to teach the relations of God, and 
 of man to God, and should leave out the doctrine 
 of man's accountability to God. 
 
 " I am now prepared, in the light of this subject, 
 to discuss one or two points that are relevant. The 
 first is the objection that is made by a certain class 
 of reasoners. It is said if there be established such 
 a law throughout society, it goes against your posi- 
 tion — men will be punished here and not hereafter. 
 We say, Thank you. If men are punished here, 
 it does not follow that they will not be punished in 
 the life to come. This is a question of fact. I ad- 
 mit that there are punishments in every department 
 of the world. God has fixed natural and consti- 
 tutional punishment as guards against the infrac- 
 tion of natural and constitutional laws. They are 
 not avenging punishments, however, but precau- 
 tionary. If there is a precipice over which men 
 will be likely to fall, the authorities place a bridge 
 over it, not to punish but to prevent accident. If a 
 man draws near to a poisonous substance, an odor 
 will meet him offensive to his sense, but it is that 
 he may avoid the threatened danger. All these 
 
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 evils are precautionary. And so throughout Nat- 
 ure ; but it is not necessary, indeed it will not be 
 possible here to specify all these precautions and 
 warnings which God has planted so thickly through- 
 out all His creation. 
 
 " Now if men are punished in this world for their 
 sins, it can be shown that their punishment is 
 graduated in proportion to the magnitude of their 
 crimes. The fact, however, is not so, but con- 
 trariwise ; it is established that men never suffer 
 so much as when they are the youngest and the 
 newest in sin. When a man first begins to steal, he 
 has more fear and more shame than when he has be- 
 come an inveterate offender. I remember the time 
 when I swore the first oath. It seemed as though 
 every leaf on the trees and every blade of grass 
 were vocal in their condemnation of my sin. The 
 very sky seemed to lower upon me, and all Nature 
 raised the note of reproof. But in after days, un- 
 der the demoralizing influence of bad company, I" 
 became able to use profane language without a 
 blush — without the least remorse of conscience ; 
 and finally, without being conscious of the language 
 I employed. 
 
 • " How is it, when a man in an affray first draws 
 the blood of his fellow-creature, his hand draws 
 back, as if it were scalding hot, and dreams terrify 
 
46 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 him, and he is haunted for months by the bleeding 
 victim of his rage. But let him go from fray to 
 fray, and by and by butchery will become a mere 
 excitement. In the lower parts of our own coun- 
 try, so much is this the case, that a fray is sought 
 as a cup is sought — merely as a pleasant excite- 
 ment wherewith to while away the time. It needs 
 no argument to prove that in proportion as men go 
 down in this world, just in that proportion they 
 lose their sensibility — till at last it becomes seared 
 as with a red-hot iron ; and this being the case, 
 what becomes of the doctrine of punishment in this 
 life ? Just in proportion as their crimes increase, 
 their punishment decreases ; the farther they get 
 from rectitude the lighter are their sufferings. Ac- 
 cording to this doctrine a man should go the whole 
 figure and commit crimes wholesale. They that 
 nibble at transgression are the greater fools, and 
 they that go deep into crime are the wise. This 
 is a dreadful but still a true doctrine. This subject 
 also affords some light to that popular and mis- 
 chievous maxim that it makes no difference what 
 a man believes if he is only sincere. Where can 
 we find any such law as that except in the code of 
 the reasoners ? Does it make no difference in the 
 laws of Nature ? Suppose a man jumps from the 
 top of a high building upon the pavement, and says 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 — I believe those flagstones are as soft as downy 
 pillows, — does Nature any the less dash him in 
 pieces ? Suppose a man should attempt to pro- 
 duce pleasure in himself by taking poisonous sub- 
 stances, or suppose he should breathe as well un- 
 der water as in the air of heaven, and should 
 plunge beneath the waves of the deep, what would 
 Nature care for his sincerity ? Try this principle 
 under the civil law. Is it no matter what a man 
 believes under the civil laws ? Will he be excused 
 the commission of crime if he only says he is sin- 
 cere ? Can you find a judge who will charge a 
 jury thus, or a lawyer who will urge such a plea in 
 defence of a client, when it has been a maxim from 
 time immemorial that ignorance of the law excuses 
 no man ? Try the same principle in mercantile life. 
 Let a man under your employment be sent to a 
 distant point to transact some important business. 
 He makes a blunder and loses hundreds of dollars, 
 and his excuse for it is his sincerity ; the blunder 
 is repeated, and he loses thousands ; and when you 
 reprove him for his carelessness, his only excuse 
 is, ' I was sincere in believing that I was acting in a 
 manner which w r ould best promote your interests.' 
 You would reply, ' Your sincerity is none the less 
 ruinous and I must discharge you.' 
 
 " Try the same principle in respect to your own 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 feelings. Suppose a man should say you are a 
 knave ; and upon your asking for an explanation 
 he should say, ' I admit that I said so, but I now 
 acknowledge that I did wrong ; I was in a passion 
 at the time, and said it in haste. I am sorry for 
 what I have done, and I ask your forgiveness.' 
 This would be a balm for your wounded feelings, 
 and you would freely forgive him. But suppose 
 that, instead of this, he should say, ■ I did call you 
 a knave, and I believed it, and I believe it now.' 
 This would be the most venomous part of it. You 
 would say, * It is not enough that you be sincere ; 
 — you must substantiate your belief by proof. I 
 will have recourse to the law.' And if you hold to 
 the principle of saying what you think is true, re- 
 gardless of the feelings and character of others, you 
 shall bear the penalty of it. 
 
 " Now here is a principle that is false in every 
 department of life, till you come into morals — and 
 that principle which business would not for a mo- 
 ment support, is applied and insisted upon in ar- 
 guing moral and religious questions. It does 
 make a difference what we believe. God will hold 
 us accountable for our belief just as true as He will 
 hold us accountable for our actions. 
 
 "The only inference I will attend to is this: 
 that God will hold men accountable for their opin- 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 49 
 
 ions under the Gospel and for what they know. 
 Then it may be said it will be best for them not to 
 know too much. But He will hold them accounta- 
 ble for what they do not know that they should 
 know. 
 
 " For example : a miserly and selfish guardian of 
 a defenceless orphan appropriates to himself the 
 whole estate of his ward, and upon the fact being 
 known, a suit is brought by the friends of the or- 
 phan to recover the property. It is found to be a 
 clear case of fraud, and the estate can be easily re- 
 gained. The whole community is aroused, and all 
 their sympathies are with the aggrieved orphan. 
 At length the trial comes on — the jury is impan- 
 elled and the case opened. And while the evi- 
 dence is going on, one juryman is reading a news- 
 paper, another is talking to a friend, and several 
 are asleep, as if they were in church. When they 
 go out, they remember nothing about the merits of 
 the case. They put one thing and another to- 
 gether, and come out and give a verdict, not in fa- 
 vor of the injured plaintiff, but in favor of the de- 
 fendant. 
 
 "Now what will the people say to these jury- 
 men ? One of them sometime after this occurrence 
 is a humble seeker to serve the people by going to 
 
 Congress. He is remembered, and it will be said, 
 3 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 this is one of the men that served that infamous 
 course on that jury. And he says, in extenuation 
 of his conduct, ' It was my desire to render a verdict 
 in accordance with the evidence, but / did not 
 know what it was / ' ' Did not know what it was ! ' 
 some sturdy old farmer would say to him ; l what 
 were you put there for, if it were not for the express 
 purpose of hearing the evidence, and rendering a 
 just verdict ? Your excuse only stamps you with 
 a deeper disgrace than your false verdict had al- 
 ready done, and is proof positive of your unfitness 
 to fill any station requiring common watchfulness 
 and honesty.' 
 
 " Now God has given the light of Jesus Christ. 
 God has stopped the career of His whole govern- 
 ment and interposed a new system. God has rent 
 the heavens in twain that he might bring the truth 
 to light and life and immortality. Star after star 
 in bright constellations have beamed out and 
 Jesus Christ has brought truth to light. Truth 
 preached, truth sent through the Bible, and 
 through a living ministry to the whole people. 
 And now, if any one seeks to evade it and avoid 
 it, God will hold every such guilty man account- 
 able' for his ignorance. The truth is here, and 
 it is your greatest interest to know it, and you 
 are ignorant of it at your peril. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 51 
 
 M Finally, if this doctrine is true, what will be 
 the account that we have to give to God ? 
 
 " I remark that you will have to give an account 
 before God, in respect to your relations to your- 
 self, to each other, and to God. 
 
 " Let us see how many points there are under 
 each of these heads : 
 
 " First, the duties which refer more particularly 
 to ourselves. 
 
 " Each of you will have to give an account to God 
 for your time — for every hour, for every moment. 
 You will have to give an account to God for every 
 power of mind — for the use of every one, for the 
 culture of every one ; for every power of thought 
 and imagination ; for all your religious and social 
 faculties. He will call you to account for all 
 your passions and motives — for all your conduct. 
 My friend, you may well feel some terrors when 
 you reflect that all that conduct of which you were 
 so ashamed, will be revealed by the Almighty in 
 the dread Day of Judgment, and you will be com- 
 pelled to look on it, and your neighbor will look 
 on it, and all the assembled hosts of heaven and 
 hell shall look upon it, and upon you, as the author 
 of it. And to those who do not now feel any 
 terrors, I would say, that there is a day of terror 
 coming when God will call you to account for all 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 the Divine efforts made in your behalf — for all the 
 special Providences that have been sent to your 
 door — for all the personal influences that have ever 
 been brought to bear upon you in the sanctuary or 
 out of the sanctuary. 
 
 " Secondly : God will call you to account for all 
 the duties which you owe to others — for the dis- 
 charge of your public duties as citizens. 
 
 " Are you an officer ? God will hold you to a 
 strict account for the manner in which the duties 
 of that office are discharged. I am afraid, my 
 friends, from the signs of the times that this doc- 
 trine is not much preached or understood ; namely, 
 that God will hold those in place to a higher ac- 
 count than those beneath them. God will call you 
 to account for the manner in which in this life you 
 discharge your duties to your family, your neigh- 
 borhood, your town, your state, and your whole 
 land. An inert citizen, an unpatriotic man, will 
 have something to answer for at the bar of God. 
 Every time you have voted those lots which were 
 right and just, God has noted them down, though 
 men have not. And you will be called to account 
 for all the opportunities to do good that you have 
 neglected to improve. If there is a young man 
 in this world that might have been held back from 
 intemperance by you, and you did not do it, God 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 53 
 
 will hold you accountable for it. It is not a safe 
 thing for a man to neglect to do good in this 
 world. 
 
 " For all of the influences you have exerted in- 
 tentionally or unintentionally God will call you to 
 account. There are many men who study to exert 
 a malign influence upon their fellows. Well, let 
 them do it. They wag their empty heads, and 
 swing themselves down through the streets inde- 
 pendent and free to do what they choose. ' The 
 world owes me a living,' say they, ' and I will 
 have it. I care for no man. I care for no law, 
 for no public opinion.' God has His eye upon 
 them. No archer ever drew a surer bow upon his 
 devoted game, than God has done upon these men, 
 and His avenging bolt will fall with tenfold terror 
 on their heads when they shall find the grave 
 yawning to receive them, and fearful will be their 
 fate when the black billows of death shall sweep 
 them resistless to their inexorable doom. 
 
 "Ina less degree it is no less true that a man's 
 unintentional offences will have to be accounted 
 for. Is there a man in this congregation who has 
 children that he loves ? Have they ever heard the 
 voice of prayer raised in grateful acknowledg- 
 ment from before the family altar, to the Dispenser 
 of all good ? That dear and beloved daughter, 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 that son growing up now into man's estate, — has 
 not the whole of your conduct been such as to 
 practically teach them that there is no God ? You 
 may have told them of God in a casual manner 
 the same as you have of Alexander ; and you may 
 have in a formal, lifeless manner, informed them that 
 it is their duty to obey God, and to love and serve 
 Him. But your life — your whole warm, sponta- 
 neous life — has ever preached a doctrine exactly 
 the reverse ; and which do you suppose a child 
 will believe first, a father's talk or a father's life ? 
 Most unquestionably the latter ; and if that has 
 told your children that all that God requires from 
 his children is lip-service, and they grow up with- 
 out ever coming to a knowledge of God's saving 
 mercy, and their souls are finally lost, God will 
 hold them accountable in their measure, but you 
 will be held accountable also, as accessory to their 
 guilt, and fearful will be the dread account which 
 you will have to meet. 
 
 11 Lastly : for all our duties toward God, we shall 
 be brought to a strict account. 
 
 " For the way in which we have treated the over- 
 tures of mercy made us through the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, for the hardening of our hearts against the 
 persuasive influences and efforts of our blessed 
 Redeemer for our salvation, God will call us to 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 55 
 
 account. Is there a man in this congregation who 
 will say, I say I do not believe God will punish me 
 for all through eternity for my little sins ? Give 
 me your hand on that. You have so many great 
 sins that God will have enough to do to punish 
 you for them alone, without taking into the ac- 
 count what you are pleased to style your little 
 sins. For defiling your whole nature, for the 
 prostitution of your powers, for turning yourselves 
 who were the sons of God into base materials of 
 the flesh, for this destruction of yourselves God 
 will call you to a strict account. And can you meet 
 that account ? Dare any man say I am ready to 
 make the venture ? 
 
 " There are some men who will not go to heaven, 
 because they are so very moral ; they wish to go 
 with the understanding that they are entitled to 
 the favor or else not at all. They do not feel 
 willing to accept heaven as a boon granted by the 
 infinite love of a merciful God, but they desire to 
 merit it through their own good works. They 
 will not go up to heaven's gate and plead the aton- 
 ing blood of the blessed Lamb of God, as their 
 passport into the Heavenly Land — the home of 
 the redeemed, but they offer in exchange for the 
 delights and pleasures of eternity, the meagre cat- 
 alogue of their own actions here on earth. Is it 
 
56 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 strange their offer is not accepted ? As for myself, 
 I know what I will do when God calls my soul to 
 judgment. I know when I shall look back upon 
 my life it will be folly to attempt to justify any- 
 thing that I have ever done. I will turn to Christ 
 and say, Thou hast promised to save me if I 
 would trust in Thee, and I have trusted in Thee, 
 and now I claim the fulfilment of Thy promise, 
 oh, Lord ! Here I am, and my only hope is in 
 Thee. And then Christ will throw around about 
 me the shield of His righteousness, not because I 
 am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner, loved 
 and shielded of Christ. But you refuse to take 
 this Christ at His word, you reject His promise, 
 and therefore He will reject you. 
 
 " My friends, I am speaking to some of you for 
 the last time. You and I will meet again on the 
 Judgment Day, and I am now telling you how 
 much you stand in need of a Saviour, of that 
 Saviour whom my soul has felt, and whom my 
 soul loves. I offer him to you, and I will do it 
 with all that sincerity, and all that earnestness, 
 with which I shall wish I had when I meet you at 
 the bar of God. Oh, my friends, will you not 
 begin now to be wise before the saving influences 
 of God's Holy Spirit are withdrawn from your 
 * hearts, and these things are hidden from your 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 57 
 
 sight forever. Death is coming, and after that the 
 judgment, and after that eternity. My fathers, 
 you who have experienced the benefits of God's 
 mercy for many years, where will you be on that 
 day? Were God to call you hence this night, 
 what would be your chances for heaven? My 
 dear friends, what would be your chances of 
 heaven, were you called hence to-night ? Jesus 
 Christ is ready to take all who desire salvation, 
 and I preach Him once for all, Christ, the sinner's 
 friend and your friend." 
 
 The two discourses of this day produced such 
 an effect upon his hearers that they determined, if 
 possible, to secure the eloquent stranger as their 
 pastor. 
 
 At the close of the morning services, the estab- 
 lishment of a continued series of weekly prayer- 
 meetings, commencing on the succeeding Friday 
 evening, had been publicly announced, which were 
 to be held in the lecture-room (then fronting on 
 Orange street). On the appointed evening, the 
 meeting was attended by about thirty individuals, 
 nearly all of whom were desirous of joining the 
 church at its organization. The services were con- 
 ducted by Jira Payne, and at the close of the 
 meeting, a business meeting was convened ; and 
 
58 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 *"on motion of David Hale, from New York, 
 John T. Howard, Henry C. Bowen, Richard Hale, 
 Charles Rowland, and Jira Payne, were appointed 
 a Committee to make arrangements for the forma- 
 tion of a church ; to prepare and report Articles 
 of Faith and a Covenant, a Form of Admission, 
 Ecclesiastical Principles and Rules, Manual for 
 business, etc. Also to give notice, the following 
 Sabbath, to all persons who desired to be con- 
 nected with the church at its organization, to be 
 present at the next Friday evening prayer-meet- 
 ing." 
 
 "At the two subsequent prayer-meetings," con- 
 tinues the Manual, <( twenty-one persons handed 
 in their names to be organized into a church. On 
 Friday evening, June eleventh, the Committee ap- 
 pointed to prepare Articles of Faith, etc., made 
 their report, which, after some amendments, was 
 adopted, and notice given that the Church would 
 be organized on the following Sabbath evening. 
 
 " A council of ministers and delegates from other 
 churches convened at the house of John T. How- 
 ard, on Saturday evening, the 12th day of June, 
 by invitation of the Committee, who presented to 
 said Council the Articles of Faith and Covenant 
 
 * Plymouth Manual. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 59 
 
 adopted, also the credentials of those persons who 
 expected to be organized into a Church." 
 
 The Council consisted of — 
 
 Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Jr., Pastor. 
 Chandler Starr, Delegate. 
 
 From the Church of the Pilgrims. 
 Rev. I. N. SPRAGUE, Pastor. 
 A. B. Davenport, Delegate. 
 
 From the Second Congregational Church. 
 Rev. J. P. Thompson, Pastor. 
 David Hale, Delegate. 
 
 From the Broadway Tabernacle Church, 
 New York. 
 Rev. D. C. Lansing, D.D., Pastor. 
 Seymour Whiting, Delegate. 
 
 From the Christie St. Congregational 
 Church, New York. 
 
 The Council approved the actions of the Com- 
 mittee, and accepted an invitation to participate 
 in the public services of the organization, on the 
 following evening (Sunday, June 13), when the 
 Church was duly organized, and the opening ser- 
 mon delivered by Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr. Several 
 names for the new society had been suggested — 
 The Cranberry Street Church, the WicklirT Church, 
 and the Plymouth Church. 
 
60 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 A Religious Society, in conformity with N. Y. 
 State Laws, was formed on Monday evening, June 
 14th, 1847, w r ith a membership of twenty-one; 
 Henry C. Bowen, John T. Howard, and Daniel 
 Burgess were elected Trustees, to serve, each in 
 the order written, for the term of one, two, and 
 three years ; and the corporate name of 
 
 THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH 
 
 was adopted by the society. The Certificate of 
 Incorporation was recorded in the Clerk's Office of 
 King's County, September 27th, 1847. 
 The names of the original members were : 
 
 * 2. 
 
 Bowen, Henry C. 
 
 6. Knight, Rachel. 
 
 3- 
 
 Bowen, Lucy Maria. 
 
 iS. Morse, John F. 
 
 17. 
 
 Blake, Eli C. 
 
 19. Morse, Rebecca. 
 
 11. 
 
 Burgess, Benjamin. 
 
 4. Payne, Jira. 
 
 12. 
 
 Burgess, Mary. 
 
 5. Payne, Eliza. 
 
 20. 
 
 Cannon, Mary. 
 
 13. Rowland, Charles. 
 
 21. 
 
 Griffin, David. 
 
 14. Rowland, Maria. 
 
 7- 
 
 Hale, Richard. 
 
 9. Turner, Alpheus R. 
 
 8. 
 
 Hale, Julia. 
 
 10. Turner, Louisa. 
 
 1. 
 
 Howard, John T. 
 
 15. Webb, John. 
 
 
 16. Webb 
 
 , Martha. 
 
 On the evening of the formal organization of the 
 society an unanimous vote had been cast, electing 
 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to the vacant pastorate, 
 
 * Figures prefixed denote the order of connection. 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. fa 
 
 and a Committee had been appointed to present 
 him with the invitation to that office. After two 
 months' deliberation — during which time the pulpit 
 had been occupied by various ministers, generally 
 from New England — Mr. Beecher, partly influ- 
 enced by the entreaties of William T. Cutter, and 
 partly by the continued ill-health of his family 
 while resident in the West, almost reluctantly — for 
 as he said "his heart was with the West" — ac- 
 cepted the call by letter. 
 
 "Indianapolis, August igt/i, 1847. 
 
 " Dear Brothers : — I desire to convey through 
 you to the Plymouth Church and Congregation my 
 acceptance of the call to the pastoral office tendered 
 by them to me. 
 
 " I cannot regard the responsibilities of this im- 
 portant field without the most serious diffidence, 
 and I wholly put my trust in that Saviour whom I 
 am to preach in your midst. I can heartily adopt 
 the language of Paul, * Brethren, pray for us, that 
 the word of the Lord may have free course and be 
 glorified. , 
 
 " It will be necessary for me to remain yet for 
 some time in this place ; but I hope to arrive in 
 
62 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Brooklyn in the middle of October, or at the far- 
 thest, by the first of November. 
 
 " I am in Christian love, 
 
 " Most Truly Yours, 
 
 " H. W. Beecher. 
 To John T. Howard, Henry C. Bowen, 
 Charles Rowland, and others." 
 
 On the 5th of September (1847) a Sunday- 
 school was commenced, the first session of which 
 was attended by ten teachers and twenty-eight 
 scholars, and Henry C. Bowen was appointed Su- 
 perintendent, and John T. Howard, Secretary. 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher entered upon Pastoral du- 
 ties in Plymouth Church on Sunday morning, Oc- 
 tober 10th, 1847. 
 
 The evening services were fully attended, and to 
 the astonishment of all, and dissatisfaction of some, 
 he laid aside the doctrinal theologies of the morn- 
 ing, in favor of the living issues of the times, and 
 boldly and clearly denned the position* he had 
 taken and intended to hold in reference to slavery, 
 temperance, war, and general reform, and from that 
 
 * This was not the first time, however, for, while pastor of the Sec- 
 ond Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, he had, in three 
 distinct and powerful sermons, declared slavery an institution in de- 
 fiance to the laws of God, and an outrage upon the rights of man. 
 
1'ORTRAIT OF HENRY WARD BEECHER — 1S4; 
 [From Steel Engraving by J C. Ijuttre.] 
 

 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 63 
 
 day there have been few vacant seats in Plymouth 
 Church. 
 
 Public installation services occurred on Thursday 
 evening, November nth (1847), which were con- 
 ducted as follows : 
 
 Invocation and Reading of the Scriptures — by 
 Rev. Dr. Heman Humphrey, of Pittsfield, Mass. 
 
 Sermon — by Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, of Bos- 
 ton, Mass. 
 
 Installing Prayer — by the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel 
 Hewit, of Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 Charge to the Pastor — by Rev. D. C. Lansing, 
 of New York. The Fellowship of the churches — 
 by Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Jr., of Brooklyn. 
 
 Address to the people — by Rev. Joseph P. 
 Thompson, of New York. 
 
 Concluding Prayer — by Rev. Dr. Horace Bush- 
 nell, of Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Thus was Plymouth Church founded,* and thus 
 began a ministry, which, by earnest and continued 
 inculcation of sound common-sense doctrine, prom- 
 ulgation of tolerant principles, and advancement 
 of liberal views, was eventually destined to par- 
 
 * During the same year, 1847, there were founded nine other 
 churches, namely : Central, East Brooklyn, and Concord Street 
 (colored), Baptist ; Grace Church, Episcopalian ; Union, and First 
 Bethel (colored), Methodist ; Central and Siloam (colored), Presby- 
 terian ; and the St. John's, German Lutheran. 
 
64 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 tially liberalize the tenets of the entire Christian 
 World. 
 
 On the first day of June, 1848, the success of the 
 new enterprise being ensured, and its organization 
 being complete, the property was duly conveyed 
 by the owners to the society of Plymouth Church 
 for its actual cost, with accrued interest to date. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 6$ 
 
 CHAPTER THIRD. 
 
 January, 1849, to January, 1850 — Erection of the present Plymouth 
 Church — Its cost and dimensions — Increase of the Congregation 
 — The Pastor's dangerous illness. 
 
 HE orfginal church buildings were almost 
 entirely destroyed by fire on the thirteenth 
 of January, 1849, and the society resolved 
 to rebuild on a larger scale, and with a front on 
 Orange street instead of Cranberry street. A 
 committee was appointed to devise the necessary 
 plans, and Mr. Sherman Day, chairman of the 
 committee, drew up a rough design which received 
 the approbation of the pastor. The projected 
 building was to be 105 feet in length, 80 feet in 
 width, and 43 feet in hight (floor to ceiling) ; 
 with a rear addition, two stories in hight and 50 
 feet by 80 feet ; the entire structure to be divided 
 into eleven rooms, namely : an auditorium with 
 seats for 2,050 persons (exclusive of aisle or wall 
 chairs), j6 feet by 92 feet ; a lecture-room 48 feet 
 by 51 feet ; a Sabbath-school room 24 feet by 64 
 feet ; four rooms for Bible and infant classes, each 
 10 feet by 16 feet ; two social circle parlors, each 
 
66 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 24 feet by 32 feet ; a reception parlor and a pas- 
 tor's study, each 14 feet by 32 feet. 
 
 Mr. J. C. Wells, an English church architect, 
 reduced Mr. Day's plan to exact proportions, the 
 society adopted it, and May 29 (1849) was the 
 day appointed for laying the corner-stone. 
 
 In description of this interesting ceremony, 
 quotations from the Brooklyn Daily Advertiser of 
 May 30 (1849) are cited : 
 
 "The day was dark, gloomy, wet — anything 
 but propitious — causing a serious disappointment 
 to many who had anticipated uniting in the exer- 
 cises of the occasion. Notwithstanding the rain 
 came down in copious quantities, there were sev- 
 eral hundred persons assembled, and the services 
 were performed in a highly interesting and devout 
 manner. The services were commenced with the 
 reading of a hymn by Rev. J. M. Sprague, and 
 singing by the choir of the church and the congre- 
 gation assembled. Rev. Dr. Cheever followed by 
 reading a very beautiful and appropriate selection 
 from the Scriptures. Prayer — by Rev. J. P. 
 Thompson, of Broadway Tabernacle. A very 
 eloquent, brief, and impressive address was made 
 by Rev. Mr. Storrs, of Pilgrim Church. His allu- 
 sion to the origin of the church, the struggles of 
 the Pilgrim fathers, the doctrines and principles 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. fy 
 
 which they inculcated, the sacredness and noble- 
 ness of the object which had called them together, 
 the influence which this church must exert in all 
 departments of life, the great civil and religious 
 blessings we enjoy, both as individuals and as a 
 nation, were themes which the reverend gentleman 
 blended into a highly religious, dignified, and in- 
 teresting address. 
 
 u The Rev. J. L. Hodge enumerated a list of the 
 various religious and secular papers enclosed in 
 the box intended to be placed beneath the initial 
 pillar of the foundation. 
 
 " The Rev. Dr. Lansing then stated that he had 
 been intrusted by the committee to lay the corner- 
 stone of the church. The reverend doctor remarked 
 that every one knew the excitability of his temper- 
 ament, and how generally he was disposed to en- 
 large and amplify on occasions like the present. 
 He said he had therefore reduced his address to 
 writing. He then read the address, which was 
 listened to with great attention. 
 
 " Rev. Mr. Thompson followed with a few re- 
 marks, alluding to the much-regretted absence of 
 the Rev. Dr. Cox, now in Boston, who was ex- 
 pected to have been present on the occasion. 
 
 "The services were concluded with singing the 
 doxology, ' Praise God,' etc., by the audience, in 
 
68 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 the tune of Old Hundred ; and a benediction by 
 Rev. Mr. Sprague." 
 
 The builders of the church were Solomon Conk- 
 lin, mason ; Tappan Reeve, carpenter ; J. C. Wells, 
 architect. $31,489 was subscribed in sums vary- 
 ing from $2 to $2,500 (total number of subscrib- 
 ers 324) toward the cost of the new edifice, and 
 $31,127 was collected upon seven per cent, scrip, 
 bearing interest, payable in pew-rents only, the 
 principal payable from the surplus revenue of the 
 church. The lecture-room and Sabbath-school 
 room were provided for by donations to the 
 amount of $10,800, and were furnished partly by 
 the proceeds realized by Sunday-school festivals 
 and partly by the pew-rent income of the Society. 
 Their cost was about $13,000, and that of the 
 church about $36,000. 
 
 While the buildings were in course of erection, 
 the Society were cordially invited by many of the 
 neighboring Societies to use their respective edi- 
 fices for worship, and for about two months these 
 invitations were thankfully accepted. Their even- 
 ing services were regularly held in the Church of 
 the Pilgrims. In March, 1849, Mr. Beecher ex- 
 perienced a serious attack of illness, which confined 
 him to his house for two months, and incapacitated 
 him from preaching until the ensuing September. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. £g 
 
 In the meantime a Tabernacle, ioo feet in 
 length and 80 feet in width, had been erected at 
 an expense of $2,800, on land (munificently ten- 
 dered free of rent by Lewis Tappan) on Pierre- 
 pont street, and the churchless congregation occu- 
 pied this temporary building until the first Sabbath 
 in January, 1850, when they removed to their 
 completed church on Orange street. The 'Tab- 
 ernacle was sold to Mr. A. G. Benson for $1,300, 
 which amount, together with Sabbath collections 
 and pew-rents, fully covered its cost and all attend- 
 ant expenses. On completion of the church build- 
 ings, the entire property was mortgaged for 
 $16,000, partly to pay off the original mortgage 
 ($10,500), and partly to liquidate the floating 
 debt. 
 
 The opening services occurred on the first Sun- 
 day in January, 1850. 
 
 The present system of renting pews annually to 
 the highest bidder was then adopted, and thus all 
 members and regular attendants were enabled to 
 
 * It may be interesting to state that the pews and doors used in 
 the construction of this Tabernacle were taken out of the old 
 Church ; that the entire structure was shipped to California on 
 speculation, in 1850, and there recognized by Sherman Day (for- 
 merly of Plymouth Church), who purchased it for the use of a 
 church in San Jose, where it is still occupied for public worship. — 
 Manual of Plymouth Church, 1867. 
 
JO PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 secure seats according to their respective means. 
 The pastor's salary was, by common consent, in- 
 creased to $3,500 per annum. He had originally 
 been engaged on a salary of $1,500 (an increase 
 of $700 over his stipend when in Indianapolis) for 
 the first year, $1,750 for the second year, and 
 $2,000 for the third year and succeeding years ; 
 and David Hale and Henry C. Bowen had volun- 
 tarily guaranteed personally the payment of his 
 salary for the first three years. In two years and 
 six months the Congregational Church, with only 
 twenty-one original members, whom many had 
 prophesied would come to naught, had increased — 
 notwithstanding its trial by fire, its subsequent 
 migratory life, and the long-continued ill-health of 
 its pastor — to a membership of three hundred and 
 forty-three, sixteen of which number, however, 
 had been lost by death and removals thereby leav- 
 ing a real existing membership of three hundred 
 and twenty-seven. 
 
 The Beecher of 1850 was far different from the 
 Beecher of 1872, in physique, and, as he was still 
 suffering from the effects of his late illness, a leave 
 of absence from June to September (1850) was 
 cheerfully granted to enable him to rest from his 
 labors, visit Europe, and, if possible, recuperate his 
 delicate health. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. j l 
 
 The size of the new church was at first thought, 
 even by many progressive men of that day, en- 
 tirely uncalled for either by the times or circum- 
 stances, and the moral impossibility of it ever being 
 filled by regular attendants was predicted ; but the 
 steady increase of the congregation and the con- 
 tinuous assembling of strangers within its walls, 
 soon proved that the designers had been far-seeing 
 men, and had rightly estimated the wonderful 
 mental and eloquential powers of their young pas- 
 tor. 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER FOURTH. 
 
 Position assumed by the Ministry toward Slavery and Abolitionism — 
 Beecher on their pusillanimity — Fugitive Slave Law passed — Its 
 effect — Kansas Troubles — Religion and Business — Free Speech 
 advocated — Invasion of Plymouth Church by N. Y. Roughs. 
 
 1FTER Daniel Webster had delivered * his 
 great speech in favor of t Mason's Fugitive 
 Slave Bill, and signified his intention to vote 
 for it, when | " every ' conservative 'pulpit and ros- 
 trum resounded with feebler and duller imitations 
 in drift and substance of this language (Webster's 
 speech) — the purport of all being that whoever 
 failed to do ' with alacrity,' whatever he could 
 toward securing the return of fugitive slaves to 
 their masters, was guilty of a flagrant breach, not 
 only of constitutional, but of moral obligation ; " 
 when the press — that most powerful mentor of the 
 public — of the North, — with a few notable excep- 
 tions, — as well as of the South, was scouting at 
 
 * March 7th, 1850. 
 
 •j- James M. Mason, of Va., of later notoriety in the Trent fiasco 
 (Nov. 8, 1861). 
 
 % XVI. The Era of Slave Hunting. P. 220, Greeley 's American 
 Conflict. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 n 
 
 the very idea of opposing a constitutional law and 
 deriding the opposers ; when all other clergymen 
 — again with a few notable exceptions — were at- 
 tempting to vindicate the doctrine, that no person 
 was justified in advancing, or defending the ad- 
 vancement of opinions discordant with the views 
 of the majority; then, the pastor of Plymouth 
 Church, abetted by the congregation, alike un- 
 dauntedly defying the thunderbolts of statesmen 
 and the press, the polished but venomous arrows 
 of his fellow-divines, and the popguns of lesser 
 lights, declared that the " Law of God was higher 
 than all other laws, Government or State, Consti- 
 tutional or Unconstitutional, and must first be 
 obeyed." 
 
 The timid — to use no severer word — and vacil- 
 lating course of action adopted in reference to 
 the slavery question by the ministry of New 
 York in particular, and by the clergy of the coun- 
 try in general, was thus rebuked from Plymouth 
 pulpit : 
 
 * " The worst spectacle which this country now 
 presents is not, I think, the governmental or polit- 
 ical corruptions, though these are enormous ; but 
 it is that of a religious body, like the one in New 
 
 * Notes from Plymouth Pulpit. Augusta Moore. 
 4 
 
* 
 
 74 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 York, utterly refusing to open its mouth against 
 the blackest iniquity of the age. 
 
 "And for what, in the name of Heaven ? What 
 reason do they give for this strange silence ? Why, 
 because, if it does speak against sin, it will not be 
 allowed to preach the Gospel. If every sin were 
 as powerful as is this sin of slavery, what would 
 these preachers of the Gospel do ? Keep silence 
 in regard to them all, of course ; for, according to 
 their views, only the smaller and least powerful 
 sins can be safely hit. That ponderous body can 
 bombard men bravely for using tobacco, but it 
 can't say one word against selling men and women 
 to raise it. It can spend itself and exert its tre- 
 mendous machinery against the awful sin of the 
 dancing of young men and maidens ; but can't ut- 
 ter a word, when maidens are sold to prostitution, 
 and young men are driven off, in chain-gangs, to 
 the rice swamps of Georgia. 
 
 " The use I make of such men, is to point the 
 young men to them, and say : ■ These are men 
 whom you must shun to resemble.' The worst 
 stamp of Phariseeism was not in our Saviour's day. 
 It has, after years of monstrous growth, exhibited 
 itself in the ninteenth century." 
 
 The condemnation of the slave-hunting law by 
 the Plymouth Jupiter Tonans, and his fearless dec- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 75 
 
 laration of the manner he should act in reference to 
 it, were not less pointed. Said he : " Our citizens 
 have been lynched for the suspicion of holding free 
 sentiments ; letters and papers have been refused 
 a channel in the national mail ; it has been freely- 
 said, and it was no vain threat, that a lamp-post or 
 tree should be that man's rostrum who dared to own 
 abolitionism in Southern territory ; free colored 
 citizens have been kidnapped, carried into hopeless 
 slavery from our midst ; our ships and boats could 
 not carry colored cooks, stewards, or sailors, with- 
 out having their service withheld from them ; our 
 whole free colored population are denied the right 
 of travel and residence in slave States, which the 
 Constitution guarantees to all citizens; they are 
 arrested if found, and sold, if proved free, to pay 
 jail fees. 
 
 "Man cannot plant parchments as deep as God 
 plants principles. The Senate of the United States 
 is august ; and such men as lead her counsels are 
 men of might. But no man, and no senate of men, 
 when once the eyes of a community are open to a 
 question of humanity, can reason or enact them 
 back again to a state of indifference, and still less 
 can they enlist them along with the remorseless 
 hunters of human flesh. 
 
]6 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 1 ' We solemnly appeal to Christians of every name, 
 to all sober and humane men, unwrenched by 
 party feelings, to all that love man, to behold and 
 ponder this iniquity which is done among us ! 
 Shall an army of wretched victims, without a crime, 
 unconvicted of wrong, pursuing honest occupa- 
 tions, be sent back to a loathed and detestable 
 slavery ? Here is no abstract question. We ask 
 you, shall men now free, shall members of the 
 church, shall children from the school, shall even 
 ministers of the Gospel, be seized, ironed, and in 
 two hours be on the road to a servitude to them 
 worse than death ? 
 
 "For our own selves, we do not hesitate to say, 
 what every man who has a spark of manhood in 
 him will say with us, that no force should bring us 
 into such horrible bondage. Before we would 
 yield ourselves to go away to linger and long for 
 death through burning years of injustice, we would 
 die a thousand deaths. Every house should be 
 our fortress ; and when fortress and refuge failed 
 us, then our pursuers should release our souls to 
 the hands of God who gave them, before they 
 should degrade them by a living slavery ! Who 
 shall deny these feelings and such refuge to a black 
 man ? 
 
 "With such solemn convictions, no law, impious, 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH 
 
 77 
 
 infidel to God and humanity, shall have respect or 
 observance at our hands. We desire no collision 
 with it. We shall not rashly dash upon it. We. 
 shall not attempt a rescue, nor interrupt officers, if 
 they do not interrupt us. We prefer to labor 
 peaceably for its early repeal, meanwhile saving 
 from its merciless jaws as many victims as we can. 
 But in those provisions which respect aid to fugi- 
 tives, may God do so to us, yea, and more also, if 
 we do not spurn it as we would any other mandate 
 
 of Satan 
 
 " J will both shelter them, conceal them, or speed 
 their flight ; and while under my shelter, or under 
 my convoy, they shall be to me as my own flesh 
 and blood ; and whatever defence I would put 
 forth for my own children, that shall these poor, 
 despised, and persecuted creatures have in my 
 house or upon the road. The man who shall be- 
 tray a fellow-creature to bondage, who shall obey 
 this law to the peril of his soul, and to the loss of 
 his manhood, were he brother, son, or father, shall 
 never pollute my hand with the grasp of hideous 
 friendship ; or cast his swarthy shadow across my 
 threshold ! For such service to those whose help- 
 lessness and poverty make them peculiarly God's 
 children, I shall cheerfully take the pains and pen- 
 alties of this Bill. Bonds and fines shall be hon- 
 
78 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 ors ; imprisonment and suffering will be passports 
 to fame not long to linger ! " 
 
 A meeting was held at Castle Garden by an as- 
 semblage of gentlemen, calling themselves a 
 Union Saving Committee, at which an attempt 
 was made to intimidate the merchants of New 
 York City by a threat to financially ruin all those 
 who refused to sell their principles with their 
 wares; but the Plymouth pastor, ever active in 
 emergencies, not only urged independence of 
 principle from his pulpit, but called at store after 
 store, and personally besought all business men to 
 stand by their principles at all hazards.* He 
 further earnestly opposed the noted Bill in a series 
 of lectures throughout New York and New Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Thus at the t passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill, 
 it would seem, had been unconsciously passed an 
 edict that the name of Plymouth Church of Brook- 
 lyn should become famous throughout the land — 
 throughout the world, not only by the fearless de- 
 nouncements of Slavery as an institution, and the 
 Fugitive Slave Law by its pastor, but also by the 
 outspoken sympathy for, and the active and will- 
 ing aid given to, the fleeing and hunted bondmen. 
 
 * 1856. 
 
 f Passed Sept. 11, 1850; became a law Sept. iS, 1850. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 79 
 
 Its pastor certainly was one of the most prom- 
 inent of the Directors of the once noted Under- 
 ground Railroad Company, and its congregation 
 were nearly all large stockholders in that Line — 
 of which, by the way, the Church itself may be 
 said to have been the Grand Central Depot. 
 
 From this time forth Mr. Beecher made a prac- 
 tice — immediately preceding the annual sale of 
 pews — of clearly and unmistakably expressing his 
 views upon Slavery and other practical reforms of 
 the day, for the especial purpose of forewarning 
 all those who contemplated renting sittings for the 
 ensuing year, of the general tenor of his preaching 
 and the application he should make of it to the 
 great issues of the time, so that none could have 
 reasonable grounds for complaint or dissatisfaction 
 with his course. 
 
 Comments, favorable and unfavorable, were 
 abundant upon his deliberate deviation from all 
 established rules of Gospel preaching, upon his 
 unparalleled audacity in applying the teachings of 
 Christ and the Holy Scriptures to the daily life of 
 mankind — to say nothing of the still more awful 
 and wilful desecration of any pulpit by dragging 
 politics into it. 
 
 In reply to which he said : * 
 
 * Notes from Plymouth Pulpit. Augusta Moore. 
 
80 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 " The infidelity of the last twenty-five years 
 has been that which has sought to emasculate 
 religion by separating it from practical life and 
 lifting it so far above everybody's daily and famil- 
 iar use, that they might as well be without it. 
 The pretence is, that religion is too sacred to be 
 rendered useful in common matters. Over church 
 doors men write : ' Religion is religion ' ; and 
 over store doors: 'Business is business.' And 
 the church says to business : ' Don't you come in 
 here ' ; and the store says to religion : ' Don't 
 you come in here / ' 
 
 " Man rejects the interference of the higher law 
 in his business as impertinence. But when Sun- 
 day comes, he says, ' We've had enough of busi- 
 ness all the week ; now let us have the blessed 
 Gospel. ' 
 
 "And the minister confines himself to ' Christ 
 and Him crucified.' He mustn't mention love to 
 God and man shown in business transactions, for 
 he must preach the Gospel ; he mustn't exhort to 
 temperance, for he must preach the Gospel ; he 
 mustn't preach of justice, purity, and humanity, 
 for he must preach the Gospel. 
 
 " Why, if men catch ' the higher law ' on 'change, 
 
 or in the street, they hoot at it, they chase it, they 
 
 *hit it, and drive it from among them, crying out: 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 8 1 
 
 1 Here is the higher law escaped out of the church, 
 and out of Sunday.' " 
 
 During the succeeding years of agitation, Plym- 
 outh Church was one of the few temples of Free 
 thought, opinion, and speech, in this land of 
 boasted liberty. So bitter was the hate for aboli- 
 tionists, that at one time it was impossible to ob- 
 tain a hall in New York or Brooklyn wherein 
 Wendell Phillips might speak. Mr. Beecher, be- 
 coming cognizant of the fact, immediately visited 
 the Trustees of Plymouth Church in person, and 
 procured permission for Mr. Phillips to speak in 
 the church — not because he was a believer in all 
 the doctrine advanced by the great agitator, but 
 because he was a believer in Free Speech. As dis- 
 turbances were not only anticipated but threatened, 
 the trustees, in accordance with a request of the 
 pastor, attended the meeting armed with heavy 
 canes, and the city authorities, in compliance with 
 a demand, furnished a police force. Happily, 
 however, there was no trouble. 
 
 Throughout the Kansas settlement struggle, the 
 right of every " Free State " settler to defend him- 
 self and his rights, with arms if necessary, from 
 the incursions and aggressions of the " Border 
 Ruffians," was vindicated from Plymouth pulpit. 
 The pastor himself subscribed a sufficient amount 
 
82 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 for the purchase of a Sharp's rifle and a Bible, and 
 the congregation expressed its hearty concurrence 
 by a liberal subscription to aid in supplying all 
 settlers with those commodities. 
 
 The hate of the lower and more ignorant classes 
 of New York City for Plymouth Church and pastor 
 was intense ; and one Sunday morning (June 8th) 
 in 1856, the New York journals announced that a 
 gang of roughs from Washington Market intended 
 visiting Brooklyn that evening, for the especial pur- 
 pose of "cleaning out the d — d abolition nest at 
 Plymouth Church, " and forever dispensing with 
 the services of "Beecher." This startling intelli- 
 gence naturally caused considerable excitement 
 among the Plymouthites, and they determined to 
 prepare for emergencies. The Mayor and the 
 Chief of Police were immediately notified of the 
 threatened raid, and a large police force were 
 ordered to report, in citizen's attire, at the church 
 that evening. In addition to this, some fifty gen- 
 tlemen, regular attendants, among whom were 
 some of the trustees, also armed themselves with 
 revolvers before going to evening services. Shortly 
 before the church doors were thrown open that 
 night crowds of roughs congregated on the neigh- 
 boring corners, but offered no remark or violence 
 to any one, and when the church was opened 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 83 
 
 many of them entered and quietly seated them- 
 selves. Either there had been no intention to 
 create any disturbance, or they had in some way 
 learned of the reception awaiting them and wisely 
 concluded to give up or postpone their intended 
 demonstration ;. for they soon passed into the 
 street again, and, after muttering curses upon all 
 " abolitionists and nigger- worshippers," formed in 
 procession and returned to New York. During 
 the services, while each one of the immense crowd 
 was nervously watching and waiting for a some- 
 thing they knew not what, and at a moment when 
 the entire audience were held in breathless silence 
 by the eloquence of the pastor, some object, hurled 
 from without, struck a pane of glass in the rear 
 window, on the east side of the pulpit, and broke 
 it ; * a bullet dropped upon the window-sill, and 
 for a moment there was a commotion among the 
 people near the window, then all was again quiet. 
 The services were not otherwise disturbed, and no 
 more invasions were thereafter threatened. 
 
 * Some mischievous-minded person, cognizant of the morning's 
 rumors, probably wished to create a sensation, and, thinking a bullet 
 the most impressive of missiles, had thrown one against the window. 
 
84 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER FIFTH. 
 
 Church Finances — Harvey S. Weld appointed* sexton — Congrega- 
 tional Singing — The introduction of Plymouth Collection — Geo. 
 A. Bell — Sunday-school statistics — Increase of the Society in 
 1852 — Improvement in aisle chairs — " Pauper Pews" — Baptism 
 by Immersion — Statistics, 1858. 
 
 ANY changes had taken place and many 
 improvements had been made meanwhile, 
 — all of which were less a part of the pub- 
 lic than private history of the church. 
 
 The increase of the church income — from pew- 
 rental — enabled the payment, in 1852, of $13,200, 
 the amount of the floating debt ; thus leaving the 
 Society indebted only $16,000, the balance for the 
 original purchase-money, which was secured by 
 mortgage. 
 
 In 1854, the system of pew-rent collection was 
 changed, and the present one adopted ; with that 
 alteration it became necessary to appoint a new 
 sexton. *Mr. Harvey S. "Weld, the present in- 
 cumbent, received the appointment. 
 
 * Mr. Weld has kindly furnished an amusing anecdote of Mr. 
 Beecher as a tutor of church bell-ringing. Between the auditorium 
 and lecture-room there was formerly a pastor's study, where Mr. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 85 
 
 Congregational singing has ever been one of the 
 prominent features of Plymouth Church services, 
 and in 1855 " The Plymouth Collection," a book 
 containing thirteen hundred and seventy-four 
 hymns, three hundred and sixty-seven tunes, and 
 twenty-six doxologies,* was produced. This work, 
 
 Beecher was accustomed to pass an hour or two immediately before 
 church services, revising and correcting his sermon. The new sex- 
 ton was somewhat awkward in the performance of his duties — and 
 in none, perhaps, more so than in ringing and tolling the bell. The 
 pastor, whose ear was sufficiently sensitive to detect discord even in 
 bell-ringing, had probably been considerably annoyed by the sexton's 
 too evident inexperience. Consequently, one Sunday morning, just 
 as the tolling began, he left his study, walked through the lecture- 
 room to the Cranberry-street hall, and suddenly appeared to the 
 astonished sexton, saying : ** Let me show you how to toll the bell 
 more uniformly ; it requires a strong steady pull to strike it exact 
 and at equal intervals." Seizing the rope with both hands, he began 
 pulling, and it must be said he made rather worse work of it than 
 the sexton. Soon after, the Cranberry-street door was opened and a 
 young man bearing a dapper black cane in his gloved hand entered. 
 Approaching the bell-ringing pastor, he consequentially inquired if 
 "the Rev. Dr. Beecher" would preach that day. Mr. Beecher, 
 slightly out of breath, paused long enough to give utterance to a very 
 emphatic " Yes ! " and then gave another pull The exquisite went 
 out and passed under the archway toward Orange street, and prob- 
 ably entered the church. His surprise can be imagined when he 
 discovered that "the Rev. Dr. Beecher" and the bell-ringer of a 
 few minutes previous were one and the same. 
 
 In conclusion, it may be said that Mr. Beecher, after that day, 
 probably concluded that bell-ringing and tolling was not his forte, 
 for he never thereafter offered to give instructions in that branch of 
 art. 
 
 * There has been since added a supplement of ten hymns, and 
 seven tunes. 
 
86 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 which was a labor of four years and under the per- 
 sonal supervision of Henry Ward Beecher, John 
 Zundel, and Rev. Charles Beecher, and the ends 
 it was intended to accomplish, may be best de- 
 scribed by portions of its Introduction.* 
 
 .... "The work is the result of a conviction 
 that congregational singing best answers the end 
 of worship by means of song. A choir should not 
 sing for the congregation, but incite them to sing, 
 
 and lead the way " 
 
 In reference to the hymns presented : 
 "No pains have been spared in collecting ma- 
 terials for this work. The principal collections of 
 Psalms and Hymns that have been published, 
 either in America or Great Britain, have been care- 
 fully searched, and the fugitive pieces which have 
 appeared in religious journals, or in collected po- 
 etical works of recent authors, have been made to 
 contribute to the store. A hymn is a lyrical dis- 
 course to the feelings. It should either excite or 
 express feeling. The recitation of historical facts, 
 descriptions of scenery, narrations of events, medi- 
 tations, — all may tend to inspire feeling. Hymns 
 are not to be excluded, therefore, because they are 
 deficient in lyrical form, or in feeling, if experience 
 
 * Introduction, written by Henry Ward Beecher, dated August 
 5, 1855. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 87 
 
 shows that they have power to excite pious emo- 
 tions. Not many of Newton's hymns can be called 
 poetical ; yet there are few hymns in the English 
 language that are more useful. 
 
 " We have carefully avoided a narrow adherence 
 to our own personal taste in the selection of 
 hymns. Scarcely any two ministers would agree 
 in the selection of hymns. A collection should be 
 made so large and various that every one may find 
 in it that which he needs. Neither should one 
 complain of the multitude of hymns useless to him. 
 They are not useless to others. A generously 
 spread table is not at fault because, in the profu- 
 sion, each guest cannot use everything. Every one 
 should have all liberty and the means of following 
 his own taste. Had we made this collection 
 merely for our own use, it would not have num- 
 bered more than five hundred hymns. 
 
 " Much attention has been given to the Great 
 Humanities which the Gospel develops, whenever 
 it is faithfully and purely preached. The hymns 
 of Temperance, of Human Rights and Freedom, 
 of Peace, and of Benevolence, will be found both 
 numerous, energetic, and eminently Christian. 
 No pains have been spared to secure a full expres- 
 sion to the whole religious feeling and activity of 
 our times. 
 
88 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 u We have sought for hymns in the books of 
 every denomination of Christians. There are certain 
 hymns of the sacrifice of Christ, of utter and almost 
 soul-dissolving yearning for the benefits of His 
 mediation, which none could write so well as a 
 devout and truly pious Roman Catholic. Some 
 of the most touching and truly evangelical hymns 
 in this collection have been gathered from this 
 source. It has been a matter of joy to us to 
 learn, during our research, how much food for 
 true piety is afforded through Catholic devotional 
 books, to the masses of darkened minds within 
 that church of error. 
 
 "We have gathered many exquisite hymns from 
 the Moravian Collections, developing the most 
 tender and loving views of Christ, of his personal 
 presence and gentle companionship 
 
 " To say that we have sought for hymns express- 
 ing the deepest religious feeling, and particularly 
 the sentiments of love, and trust, and divine cour- 
 age, and hopefulness, is only to say that we have 
 drawn largely from the best Methodist hymns." 
 
 In reference to Music : 
 
 "As this work is designed for families, for 
 social meetings, and for the lecture-room, as well 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 8 9 
 
 as for the great congregation, so the music has 
 been selected with reference to all these wants. 
 But the tunes are chiefly for congregational sing- 
 ing. We have gathered up whatever we could 
 find of merit, in old or new music, that seemed 
 fitted for this end. Not the least excellent are the 
 popular revival melodies, which, though often ex- 
 cluded from classic collections of music, have never 
 
 been driven out from among the people 
 
 Because they are homebred and popular, rather 
 than foreign and stately, we like them none the 
 less 
 
 11 Congregational singing will never become gen- 
 eral and permanent, until the churches employ 
 tunes which have melodies, that cling to the mem- 
 ory and touch the feelings or the imagination. 
 
 " Music is not simply a vehicle for carrying a 
 hymn. It is something in itself. No tune is fit 
 to be sung to a hymn which would not be pleasant, 
 in itself, without any words. Any other view of 
 the function of music, if it shall prevail, will in the 
 end bring music to such a tame and tasteless state, 
 that a reaction will be inevitable, and the public 
 mind will go to the opposite extreme. Thus, 
 those who are conscientiously anxious to make 
 music a means of religious feeling, will, by an in- 
 
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 judicious method, produce by and by the very 
 
 mischief which they sought to cure 
 
 " The tunes which burden our modern books in 
 hundreds and thousands, utterly devoid of charac- 
 ter, without meaning or substance, may be sung a 
 hundred times, and not a person in the congrega- 
 tion will remember them. There is nothing to 
 remember. They are the very emptiness of fluent 
 noise. But let a true tune be sung, and every 
 person of sensibility, every person of feeling, every 
 child even, is aroused and touched. The melody 
 clings to fhem. On the way home snatches of it 
 will be heard on this side and on that ; and when, 
 the next Sabbath, the same song is heard, one and 
 another of the people fall in, and the volume grows 
 with each verse, until at length the song, breaking 
 forth as a many-rilled stream from the hills, grows 
 deeper and flows on, broad as a mighty river ! 
 
 Such tunes are never forgotten 
 
 Such tunes give new harmony and sweetness even 
 to the hymns which float upon their current. 
 
 " We do not think that Congregational singing 
 will ever prevail with power, until pastors of 
 churches appreciate its importance, and universally 
 labor to secure it. If ministers regard singing as 
 but a decorous kind of amusement, pleasantly re- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 91 
 
 lieving or separating the more solemn acts of wor- 
 ship, it will always be degraded. The pastor, in 
 many cases, in small rural churches, may be himself 
 the leader. In larger societies, where a musical 
 director is employed, the pastor should still be the 
 animating centre of the music, encouraging the 
 people to take part in it, keeping before them their 
 duty and their benefit in participating in this most 
 delightful part of public worship. 
 
 " It is a very general impression that the pastor 
 is to teach and to pray, but another man to sing. 
 Music is farmed out, and the unity of public services 
 is marred by two systems of exercises conducted 
 by different persons, and oftentimes without con- 
 cord or sympathy with each other, and sometimes 
 even with such contrariety that the organ and the 
 choir effectually neutralize the pulpit. While it 
 may not be needful that the pastor should perform 
 the part of a musical leader, yet it is certain that 
 there will not be a spirit of song, in the whole con- 
 gregation, if he is himself indifferent to it, and the 
 first step toward Congregational singing must be 
 in the direction of the ministry." * 
 
 * Considerable — and too much, it may seem to those conversant 
 with the facts — space has been devoted to this subject — for it is 
 hoped this book will be read by people, to whom some, if not 
 
92 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Among the ten original teachers, when Plymouth 
 Sunday-school was founded, were George A. Bell 
 and Henry E. Morrill ; one of whom, the former, 
 was destined to be the life and light, successively, 
 of Plymouth Sabbath-school and its two Mission 
 schools, while the latter had the honor of holding 
 the superintendency of Plymouth Sunday-school 
 longer than any other man. Henry C. Bowen had 
 occupied that office from September, 1847, to J an ~ 
 uary, 1848, when he was succeeded by Luther 
 Eames, who continued in office one year. Edward 
 Corning officiated from January, 1849, to January, 
 185 1. He was followed by Henry E. Morrill. In 
 December, 1855, the Sabbath-school attendance 
 was one hundred and fifty-nine. 
 
 In 1852 the Church acquired one hundred and 
 sixty-one members — one hundred and two on pro- 
 fession of faith, and fifty-nine by letter — a larger 
 acquisition than that of any previous year. The 
 total membership on January 1, 1853, was — ex- 
 clusive of those lost by death and honorable dis- 
 mission — six hundred and three ; an increase of 
 five hundred and eighty-two from June, 1847. 
 
 all, of the rather lengthy quotation will be new and interesting — not 
 only because Plymouth was the pioneer church in Congregational 
 singing, but, also, because no clearer statement of the advantages 
 of that system has been made, nor broader and more lucid principles 
 in relation to singing, as a part of true worship, have been advanced, 
 than by Mr. Beecher in his Introduction to Plymouth Collection. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 93 
 
 Until the year 1857, strangers were accommo- 
 dated with chairs and stools ; but the general in- 
 convenience of both, and their constant need of 
 repair finally determined the trustees to adopt, if 
 possible, a more efficient method for seating the 
 crowds of outsiders. After several patterns had 
 been presented, their various merits urged, and 
 some tried, the simple folding chairs, now in use, 
 were invented and patented, at the suggestion of 
 Moses S. Beach, by a man who was at that time 
 Mr. Tappan Reeve's foreman. The chairs on one 
 side of each aisle are rented, either with the pews 
 they are attached to, or separately ; the remainder, 
 together with other comfortable sittings, which 
 swell the number of free seats to five hundred, are 
 for the especial benefit of visitors, and those of the 
 attendant congregation whose limited means will 
 not permit the payment of pew-rent. It has 
 often been falsely reported that the poor of Plym- 
 outh Church were " crowded out ; " not only were 
 these aisle-chairs and wall seats reserved, but, 
 formerly, a number of pews were for several years 
 set apart by the trustees, from the annual renting, 
 which were to be assigned to the deserving poor 
 by the deacons. But immediately it became 
 known that this reservation had been made, the 
 poor denounced the reserved pews as "the pauper 
 
94 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 pews," and refused to sit in them ; consequently 
 no pews have since been withheld from rental ex- 
 cept that of the pastor, who has not yet seen fit to 
 denounce his as deserving the title of eleemo- 
 synary. 
 
 The canons of the Congregational Church direct 
 pastors of that denomination to sprinkle only 
 when performing baptismal ceremonies ; but Mr. 
 Beecher, doubting that the virtue of baptism con- 
 sisted in the quantity of water used, and believing 
 that every person had a right to choose for them- 
 selves on such a purely doctrinal question, cour- 
 ageously broke from the leading-strings of secta- 
 rianism, and immersed or sprinkled, according 
 to the desire of candidates. As there was no 
 baptistery in his church, he was obliged to depend 
 upon the benevolence of the neighboring Baptist 
 churches. The inconvenience of this course soon 
 became apparent, and in May, 1858, he, in a writ- 
 ten application to the trustees, requested that a 
 baptistery be placed under the pulpit platform. 
 The Board of Trustees met and considered the un- 
 precedented request. They declared their willing- 
 ness to concede to any reasonable desire of the 
 pastor, but the proposal of a baptistery in a Con- 
 gregational church was, they thought, a deliberate 
 deviation from the prescriptions of the church, which 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 95 
 
 ought not be tolerated; and it was "Resolved 
 that the introduction of a Baptistery in Plymouth 
 Church, and its use on public occasions, would, in 
 the opinion of the Trustees, lead to a desecration 
 of the ordinance, by converting it to a great ex- 
 tent, and unavoidably so, into an exhibition, 
 thereby drawing together large numbers of per- 
 sons simply from curiosity. And, therefore, the 
 request is respectfully refused. But permission 
 will be granted to place a Baptistery in the Lecture- 
 Room, and in connection with this, the Trustees 
 would suggest that the ordinance may be admin- 
 istered only in the presence of candidates and their 
 friends." The pastor, however, confidently con- 
 scious that his views on the subject were ethically 
 just, was unwilling to receive this answer as final, 
 and by some means caused the reconsideration of 
 the resolution at the next meeting of the Trustees ; 
 the result of which was that, immediately there- 
 after, the necessary conveniences for baptism by 
 immersion were placed beneath the pulpit platform. 
 " When first people began to talk of the great 
 numbers Henry Ward Beecher was drawing," says 
 Augusta Moore in Notes from Plymouth Pulpit, 
 " there were remarks like the following made : 
 ' It's a new thing ; people will run after novelties ; ' 
 ' It won't last long, depend on that. These young 
 
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 guns burst suddenly — vanity charges them too 
 heavily.' ' Oh ! it's more the name of Beecher 
 than anything else.' ' Any man that has tact and 
 boldness, and that knows how to swell, can draw a 
 crowd for a while ! ' " But the " great numbers " 
 persisted in being drawn ; it was a " new thing," 
 but the " novelty " failed to wear off; the " young 
 gun burst " repeatedly like a thunder-cloud upon 
 national, political, and clerical vices of the times, 
 but was always "charged " for another explosion ; 
 he did have tact, and the right kind of " tact," 
 and possessed enough of "boldness" to uphold 
 the down-trodden, succor the weak, and persist in 
 it; and if he did know how to "swell," he also 
 knew how to swell the roll of Christianity, and the 
 membership of Plymouth Church. 
 
 1858 was by far the most fruitful of all preceding 
 years ; four hundred and forty-two persons joined 
 the Church — three hundred and sixty-nine on 
 profession of Christianity, and seventy-three by 
 letter. This was in excess of the most prosperous 
 of past years (1852) by one hundred and eighty- 
 one. At the close of the year, which completed the 
 first decade of Henry Ward Beecher's ministry in 
 Plymouth Church, the members numbered twelve 
 hundred and forty-one, which, with the addition 
 of three hundred and forty-six (the number of 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 97 
 
 those whose connection had been severed either 
 by death or removal), would show a total member- 
 ship from the beginning of fifteen hundred and 
 eighty-six. 
 
 During the spring of this year (1858), as in 
 1848, 1849, 1850, 185 1, and 1857, a daily morning 
 prayer-meeting had been held in the lecture-room, 
 conducted by the pastor in person. Throughout 
 each year of the decade there had been a marked 
 increase of the Society ; but the years 1849, l %5 2 > 
 1855, 1857, an d 1858 were particularly noticeable 
 for revivals. 
 5 
 
98 PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 
 
 CHAPTER SIXTH. 
 
 The Proposed New Church fiasco. 
 
 lawgniHE wonderful intellectual and oratorical 
 EB&l P owers °f the Plymouth pastor, his liberal 
 theology, his earnest advocation of practi- 
 cal reform, his zealous defence of abolitionism — 
 approved by some and deplored by others — all 
 combined to heighten his popularity and notoriety ; 
 and as the fame of the pastor increased so the 
 demand for church sittings increased, until it be- 
 came manifest, that had the church been of twice 
 its capacity, even then vacant seats would have 
 been few, if any. The question was soon mooted 
 whether the dimensions of the building should be 
 enlarged or another built, and on the evening of Sep- 
 tember 26th, 1858, a Society meeting was held in the 
 lecture-room, " To take measures, if it be thought 
 expedient, either to enlarge our present building, 
 or erect a new one of sufficient capacity to furnish 
 six thousand sittings, and all the necessary appur- 
 tenances thereto." After due deliberation they 
 decided in favor of a new church, and a committee 
 
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 was appointed to secure an eligible site for the pro- 
 posed church at the earliest possible moment. 
 
 On the evening of October 21st a public meeting 
 was held in the church, to further consider the sub- 
 ject. 
 
 Mr. H. B. Claflin was appointed chairman, and 
 Mr. J. T. Howard secretary. Mr. Beecher then 
 opened the meeting with prayer. 
 
 * " A report was submitted by the two com- 
 mittees, on finance and location, appointed at the 
 preliminary meeting, which was read by Mr. 
 Beecher. The report embodies three points— 
 Firstly, the committee are unable to come to any 
 conclusion in regard to a site for a building, and 
 believe they should first determine what amount of 
 money they will raise. Secondly, that the ground 
 and building, according to the design approved at 
 the last meeting, will cost $175,000. Thirdly, 
 they submit the following points for the considera- 
 tion of the meeting : — whether the money is to be 
 subscribed as donations — whether scrip shall be 
 issued for the amount — and whether there shall be 
 a sale of pews." The first proposition of the com- 
 mittee — to raise the money by voluntary contribu- 
 tion — was adopted, and the trustees were directed 
 to prepare subscription books, to be supplied to 
 
 * Brooklyn Eagle, Oct. 22, 1858. 
 
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 those who desired or should be appointed to 
 solicit subscriptions. An affecting letter from a 
 widow lady in Wrentham, Mass., who contribut- 
 ed $2, was read by the pastor. Mr. Moses S. 
 Beach expressed his willingness to subscribe $i ,000 
 and thought he could raise $5, 000 additional. Mr. 
 Beecher said he would contribute $1,000, and 
 thought he could promise $5,000 more from other 
 sources. Mr. H. B. Claflin put his name down 
 for $3,000, and would obtain as many subscriptions 
 as possible. The larger part of the assemblage 
 were unprepared to state what support they could 
 offer ; and consequently the meeting was adjourn- 
 ed to the following Monday evening (Oct. 24, 
 1858). On the appointed evening, about eight 
 hundred people were present, and $41,419 were 
 subscribed in the following sums : 
 
 One subscription of $6,000 -.$6,000 
 
 Two 
 
 Two 
 
 One 
 
 Seven " 
 
 Thirteen " 
 
 Two 
 
 Four 
 
 Two 
 
 Nine 
 
 3,000 .. 
 
 6,000 
 
 2,000 .. 
 
 4,000 
 
 1,500 .. 
 
 1,500 
 
 1,000 .. 
 
 7,000 
 
 500 .. 
 
 6,500 
 
 400 . . 
 
 800 
 
 300 .. 
 
 1,200 
 
 250 .. 
 
 500 
 
 200 .. 
 
 1,800 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 Thirty-five subscriptions of 
 One 
 
 Twenty-five 
 Four 
 Twenty 
 Eleven 
 One 
 
 Twenty-six 
 Fourteen smaller subscriptions 
 amounting to . . 170 
 
 100 .. 
 
 3,5oo 
 
 75 -- 
 
 75 
 
 50 .. 
 
 1,250 
 
 30 -- 
 
 120 
 
 25 .. 
 
 500 
 
 20 .. 
 
 220 
 
 15 .- 
 
 15 
 
 10 .. 
 
 260 
 
 170 
 
 $41,419* 
 
 Mr. Freeland, on behalf of the trustees*, sub- 
 mitted a recommendation that the proposition, to 
 raise money by voluntary subscription, adopted at 
 the previous meeting, be rescinded, and offered a 
 proposition to issue scrip in certificates of $10 
 each, bearing interest at seven per cent. , payable 
 only in pew-rent, and to be no lien on the church. 
 
 * Various interesting incidents which occurred during this meeting 
 axe thus described in the Brooklyn Eagle, of Oct. 25 (1858) ; 
 ' ' The largest sum subscribed in cash was by a young woman, a 
 member of the church, who is employed as a servant in a Brooklyn 
 family. She sent up her money — in gold — instead of paper. The 
 amount was $20. 
 
 " A rather aged man announced that he had no money to give, but 
 when the building was commenced, he should ask the privilege of 
 giving his labor with his trowel, his trade being that of a bricklayer. 
 
 " One boy sent up his dollar, saying it was the first dollar he had 
 ever been able to call his own." 
 
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 After considerable debating on the subject, the 
 motions of Mr. Freeland were adopted. 
 
 The highest estimate thus far for cost of the 
 ground and the proposed building, according to 
 the design approved of at the first meeting, was 
 $175,000. 
 
 The trustees had already been empowered to 
 offer the old church and land on Orange street 
 and Cranberry street for sale to the highest bid- 
 der, whenever the amount of subscriptions should 
 warrant a solicitation for the presentation of arch- 
 itectural plans and estimates for the erection of the 
 projected building. 
 
 The trustees met almost every evening, and 
 compared the results of their individual exertions 
 and ascertained the total amount of subscriptions. 
 They were unsuccessful for a time in finding a 
 satisfactory site ; for some, preferring the present 
 location, still favored the enlargement of the old 
 church, while others thought a more central situ- 
 ation advisable. Land was offered them at all 
 prices — from $24,000 to $80,000, and some was 
 offered for nothing, and the construction of a 
 building promised for the privilege of collecting 
 the pew-rents. Among the most favorably located 
 was a tract of land, 150 feet by 200 feet, compris- 
 ing fourteen lots, and extending from Montague 
 
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 street to Remsen street, west of Hicks street. 
 This property was offered for $56,000 ; or $4,000 
 per lot. Mr. Beecher was consulted, and expressed 
 his satisfaction with that location, and the purchase 
 was made. 
 
 On the fourth day of April, 1859, advertise- 
 ments * for architectural plans were inserted in the 
 leading New York journals, and a premium of 
 $500 was offered for the one best adapted to the 
 Society's wants — all applications and proposals to 
 be sent to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
 on or before June 1 (1859). \ Architects in all 
 parts of the country responded, requesting the 
 "statement of the trustees;" and on the ap- 
 pointed day for examination, more than twenty 
 plans invited inspection. That of Mr. Charles 
 Duggin, an architect of New York City, was most 
 in concordance with the views of the committee 
 and the pastor, and was declared entitled to the 
 premium, and adopted. Mr. Duggin was imme- 
 diately engaged to superintend the undertaking — 
 
 * The advertisement read: Plans for a church. — That will con- 
 tain six thousand sittings, allowing eighteen inches to a seat. One 
 or two galleries may be planned, running around the whole audito- 
 rium, except the space required by the choir and speaker's platform. 
 The trustees desire architects to understand that, while they look 
 for good arrangement in accessory rooms, the success of the whole 
 enterprise is staked upon the auditorium. 
 
 \ Thirty in number. 
 
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 his compensation to be five per cent, on the total 
 cost of construction. 
 
 Proposals for the carpenter, mason, and other 
 work were then advertised for — all bids to be sub- 
 mitted to the architect on or before May 1st, i860 
 — with this reservation: "and if no circumstance 
 should arise to prevent the building of the church, 
 the award will be given to' the lowest responsible 
 bidder." 
 
 It was in the midst of these strenuous endeav- 
 ors of the Society to increase the amount of sub- 
 scriptions to enable them to carry out in full their 
 project, and during the temporary absence of Mr. 
 Beecher, that Wendell Phillips sought to engage 
 the church an evening, that he might deliver his 
 " Destruction of the Union " therein ; but the trus- 
 tees, probably fearing that the grantal of a permis- 
 sion for him to lecture in the church, at this par- 
 ticular time and under the existing circumstances, 
 would rather deter than forward the subscriptions, 
 refused him the rental. The Sunday evening after 
 Mr. Beecher's return was devoted to a sermon on 
 " Moral Courage among business men ; " during 
 which he rebuked the ill-judged circumspection of 
 the trustees as follows : 
 
 "When I was away from home, recently, I 
 turned ruby red with shame to find in a newspaper 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. i $ 
 
 what I supposed was an ignominious slander, but 
 which proved to be an ignominious truth — namely, 
 that this church had been refused to Wendell 
 Phillips for the delivery of his address on ' The 
 Destruction of the Union.' If the church had 
 not been accustomed to be let freely for concerts, 
 and lectures, and the like, pending the construction 
 of a new church, the case would have been differ- 
 ent, and it might have been prudent not to let it on 
 the occasion in question ; but when it was in the 
 market, to be let to alt respectable causes and per- 
 sons, for one hundred dollars a night — which is the 
 fee — to deny it to him because it was feared that 
 his using it would have an injurious effect on the 
 raising of money for the new church, was shame- 
 ful in the extreme. When I read it I colored till 
 I felt my blushes in my boots ! I said to myself, 
 'Thirteen years of ministration among a people, 
 resulting, in the thirteenth year, only in cowardice 
 that makes them afraid to let a man stand in my 
 place and speak what they do not believe, what 
 they fear will have an unfavorable effect on the 
 church, or what will have an unfavorable effect on 
 me!' 
 
 "There is not a more moral and upright man, or 
 a more perfect gentleman and scholar, in the Union. 
 Though I do not accept his philosophy, or the ap- 
 
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 plication of it, I am proud to own that Wendell 
 Phillips is my personal friend. I have the greatest 
 admiration for the man. He has that which is 
 brighter than any gem ever worn in a kingly crown, 
 namely, moral courage to proclaim, and perse- 
 verance to advocate, what he thinks to be true, no 
 matter what opposition he may encounter. 
 
 " And I will tell you one thing, if you expect by 
 any such prudent course as that to get money to 
 build a church, I do not want it ; I do not want a 
 church that is built at the price of making men 
 hold their tongues. 
 
 ' ' I see it is reported that of late I have been grow- 
 ing moderate ; but the old feeling is in me yet ! I 
 am as warmly in favor of free speech as ever I was. 
 I will have it myself; I will contend for it for others ; 
 and I will rebuke that cowardice which is afraid to 
 let a man speak freely. Manliness requires that 
 you should allow open speech. If you want to 
 meet it, meet it by counter speech. 
 
 " Now, you know very well that while I speak 
 with great severity and emphasis, I do not speak 
 with hatred or anger, but because I abhor cow- 
 ardice — and most in those I love. I did not sup- 
 pose I had brought up a church or congregation to 
 sin in that way. 
 
 " One thing I am perfectly settled about, and that 
 
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 is this : I myself shall be free, and every one who 
 has anything to do with me shall be free also, if I 
 can help him to be so. And if, in the augmenta- 
 tion of our church, you mean that there shall be 
 circumspection of the liberty of speech, you will 
 not have my cooperation in the putting up of a 
 single brick. You may say that this will stand in 
 the way of building. Then let it ! I do not care 
 for a building that goes up on that foundation. It 
 would be like an old temple of Egypt — great and 
 grand in outward form, but full of dead dust inside. 
 No ; nothing is of any worth that does not carry 
 with it the vitality of the liberty of the sons of 
 God in the expression of honest convictions." 
 
 Owing to the reluctance of the trustees to as- 
 sume so great a responsibility until the amount of 
 subscriptions should justify them in proceeding 
 with the enterprise, nothing further was done until 
 the next annual meeting of the Society, which oc- 
 curred January 10, 1861, when they presented a 
 report, stating that $70,000 had been subscribed, 
 and that $40,000 had been offered for the present 
 church property, which two sums amounted to 
 $110,000; and as the least estimate received for 
 the cost of construction of the proposed building 
 was $225,000, there was yet a deficit of $115,000; 
 which, added to the present indebtedness of the 
 
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 church (about $40,000*), would create an enor- 
 mous debt. 
 
 The result of the matter was, that as the legality 
 of allowing the old scrip to bear the same relation 
 to the new as to the old church was questioned, 
 and as there was still considerable dissatisfaction 
 among members of the Society in reference to 
 the site chosen and purchased, and owing also to 
 the outbreak of civil war in the country, and the 
 general stagnation of business on that account, it 
 was determined to abandon the entire project, and 
 dispose of the Montague-street property as advan- 
 tageously as possible. Consequently, after three 
 years' possession of the land in question, during 
 which time the interest, taxes, and other expenses 
 accruing thereby amounted to about $3,000 per 
 annum, it was sold, at a loss of $500 per lot, for 
 $49,000. The total loss engendered by the pro- 
 jected enterprise was estimated, at the time, to be 
 between $20,000 and $25,000. 
 
 * Old scrip. 
 
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 CHAPTER SEVENTH. 
 
 Pew-rent Record — John Brown reviewed — All Insurrectionary 
 Attempts to overthrow Slavery denounced — Contribution Rec- 
 ord — Rose Ward — The Slave woman, Sarah — Extracts from 
 Sermon preached during the Bombardment of Fort Sumter. 
 
 HE many furious onslaughts upon Plymouth 
 Church and pastor, instead of having their 
 intended effect, seemed rather to increase 
 the numbers of the Society and its general pros- 
 perity. If any proof were necessary to substanti- 
 ate this assertion the exhibit of the pew-rent record 
 would be sufficient. In 1853 (the first year of 
 which a record was kept), the recorded amount 
 was $n,i57; 1854, $11,729; 1855, $12,053; 
 1856, $12,505; 1857, $H,340; 1858, $16,300; 
 and in 1859, $26,052.* During the latter year the 
 pastor's salary was raised to $7,500. 
 
 No little success had attended the determined 
 opposition of the prominent abolitionists — among 
 whom Mr. Beecher was one of the foremost — to 
 National vices ; the t Fugitive Slave Law had 
 
 * See Chapter Tenth, corrected and complete table of rents. 
 
 f The Fugitive Slave Law was declared Unconstitutional by the 
 Superior Court, Feb. 3, 1855, but was not repealed until June 13, 
 1864. 
 
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 proved but a " rope of sand," and the Border 
 Ruffians had ceased from their attacks upon the 
 Free-soilers of Kansas. In 1859, however, oc- 
 curred the notorious invasion of a Slave State for 
 the avowed purpose of liberating its slaves, by 
 John Brown and his associates ; an attempt, 
 though really insignificant from a numerical point 
 of view, which aroused and embittered the entire 
 South against the North, for pro-slavery men there- 
 upon naturally concluded that Brown was secretly 
 encouraged and abetted by the abolitionists of the 
 North. The erroneousness of this conclusion was 
 clearly demonstrated in a * sermon entitled " The 
 Nation's Duty to Slavery," in which Brown's entire 
 career was reviewed, and from which some ex- 
 tracts are here presented : 
 
 1 ' An old man, kind at heart, industrious, peaceful, 
 went forth, with a large family of children, to seek 
 a new home in Kansas. That infant colony held 
 thousands of souls as noble as ever liberty inspired 
 or religion enriched. A great scowling Slave 
 State, its nearest neighbor, sought to tread down 
 the liberty-loving colony, and to dragoon slavery 
 into it by force of arms. The armed citizens of a 
 hostile State crossed the State lines, destroyed the 
 
 * Preached Oct. 30, 1859, while John Brown was a prisoner 
 await in ar trial. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. m 
 
 freedom of the ballot-box, prevented a fair expres- 
 sion of public sentiment, corruptly usurped law- 
 making power, and ordained by fraud laws as in- 
 famous as the sun ever saw ; assaulted its infant 
 settlements with armed hordes, ravaged the fields, 
 destroyed harvests and herds, and carried death to 
 a multitude of cabins. The United States Gov- 
 ernment had no marines for this occasion ! No 
 Federal troops posted by the cars by night and 
 day for the poor, the weak, the grossly-wronged 
 men of Kansas. There was an army there that 
 unfurled the banner of the Union, but it was on 
 the side of the wrong-doers, not on the side of the 
 injured. 
 
 '■' It was in this field that Brown received his im- 
 pulses. A tender father, whose life was in his 
 son's life, he saw his first-born seized like a felon, 
 chained, driven across the country, crazed by suf- 
 fering and heat, beaten like a dog by the officer in 
 charge, and long lying at death's door ! Another 
 noble boy,* without warning, without offence, un- 
 armed, in open day, in the midst of the city, was 
 shot dead ! No justice sought out the murderers ; 
 no United States attorney was despatched in hot 
 haste ; no marines or soldiers aided the wronged 
 or weak ! 
 
 * Frederick Brown, shot near the village of Osawatomie, by Rev. 
 Martin White, Aug. 30, 1855. 
 
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 "The shot that struck the child's heart crazed the 
 father's brain. Revolving his wrongs, and nursing 
 his hatred to that deadly system that breeds such 
 contempt of justice and humanity, at length his 
 phantoms assume a slender reality, and organize 
 such an enterprise as one might expect from a man 
 whom grief had bereft of judgment. He goes to 
 the heart of a Slave State. One man — and with 
 sixteen followers ; he seizes two thousand brave 
 Virginians, and holds them in duress ! 
 
 " When a great State attacked a handful of weak 
 colonists, the Government and nation were torpid, 
 but when seventeen men attacked a sovereign 
 State, then Maryland arms, and Virginia arms, 
 and the United States Government arms, and they 
 three rush against seventeen men. 
 
 1 ' Travellers tell us that the Geysers of Iceland — 
 those irregular boiling springs of the North — may 
 be transported with fury by plucking up a handful 
 of grass or turf and throwing it into the springs. 
 The hot springs of Virginia are of the same kind ! 
 A handful of men was thrown into them, and 
 what a boiling there has been ! 
 
 "But, meanwhile, no one can fail to see that this 
 poor, child-bereft old man is the manliest of them 
 all. Bold, unflinching, honest, without deceit or 
 evasion, refusing to take technical advantages of 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 113 
 
 any sort, but openly avowing his principles and 
 motives, glorying in them in danger and death, as 
 much as when in security, — that wounded old 
 father is the most remarkable figure in the whole 
 drama. The Governor, the officers of the State, 
 and all the attorneys are pigmies compared with 
 him. 
 
 M I deplore his misfortunes. I sympathize with 
 his sorrows. I mourn the hiding or obscuration 
 of his reason. I disapprove of his mad and feeble 
 schemes. I shrink from the folly of the bloody 
 foray, and I shrink likewise from all anticipation of 
 that judicial bloodshed which doubtless ere long 
 will follow ; for when was cowardice ever magnan- 
 imous ? 
 
 "If they kill the man, it will not be so much for 
 treason as for the disclosure of their cowardice ! 
 
 " Let no man pray that Brown be spared. Let 
 Virginia make him a martyr. Now, he has only 
 blundered. His soul was noble, his work miser- 
 able. But a cord and a gibbet would redeem all 
 that, and round up Brown's failure with heroic 
 success." 
 
 "Because it [slavery] is a great sin, because it is 
 a national curse, it does not follow that we have a 
 right to say anything or do anything about it that 
 
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 may happen to please us. We certainly have no 
 right to attack it in any manner that may gratify 
 men's fancies or passions. It is computed that 
 there are four million colored slaves in our nation. 
 These dwell in fifteen different Southern States, 
 with a population of ten million whites. These 
 sovereign States are united to us not merely by 
 federal ligaments, but by vital interests, by a com- 
 mon national life. And the question of duty is 
 not simply what is duty toward the blacks, not 
 what is duty toward the whites, but what is duty 
 to each and to both united. I am bound by the 
 great law of love to consider my duties toward the 
 slave, and I am bound by the great law of love 
 also to consider my duties toward the white man, 
 who is his master ! Both are to be treated with 
 
 Christian wisdom and forbearance 
 
 . . . We must keep in mind the interest of 
 
 every part It is harder to define 
 
 what would be just in certain emergencies than to 
 establish the duty, claims, and authority of justice. 
 
 We have no right to treat the 
 
 citizens of the South with acrimony or bitterness, 
 because they are involved in a system of wrong- 
 doing. Wrong is to be exposed. But the spirit 
 of rebuke may be as wicked before God as the 
 spirit of the evil rebuked 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 If we hope to ameliorate the condition of the slave, 
 the first step must not be taken by setting the 
 master against him. ...... 
 
 "The breeding of discontent among the bond- 
 men of our land is not the way to help them. 
 Whatever gloomy thoughts the slave's own mind 
 may brood, we are not to carry disquiet to him 
 
 from without 
 
 The evil is not partial. It cannot be cured by par- 
 tial remedies. Our plans must include a universal 
 change in policy, feeling, purpose, theory, and 
 practice in the whole nation 
 
 " No relief will be afforded to the slaves of the 
 South, as a body, by any individual ; or by any 
 organized plan to carry them off, or to incite them 
 to abscond 
 
 " We have no right to carry into the midst of 
 slavery exterior discontent. . . . It is short- 
 sighted humanity, at best, and poor policy for 
 both blacks and whites 
 
 " Still less would we tolerate anything like in- 
 surrection and servile war. It would be the most 
 cruel, hopeless, and desperate of all conceivable 
 follies to seek emancipation by the sword and by 
 blood . ." 
 
 For many years various newspapers had re- 
 
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 ported the sermons preached from Plymouth pul- 
 pit, but their rendition of the pastor's words was 
 generally, either intentionally or unintentionally, 
 garbled, and in 1859 Mr. Beecher appointed T. J. 
 Ellinwood as the only authorized stenographer of 
 his utterances ; and from that time Mr. Ellinwood's 
 table has been a portion of the church furniture. 
 
 This church has always been noted for liberal 
 contributions to deserving charities. In 1850 (the 
 first year any record of contributions was kept) 
 there was donated to various causes $1,873; 1851, 
 $2,777; 1852, $1,815; 1853, $4,339; 1854, 
 $4,975; 1855, $5,895; 1856, no record; 1857, 
 $6,050; 1858, $4,857; 1859, $6,099; total amount, 
 $38,671, which with the addition of $1,302, the 
 amount of Sunday-school collections from 1851, 
 would give a grand total of $39,973- 
 
 In February, i860, Rev. Bishop Faulkner,* re- 
 turning home from Washington, D.C., brought 
 with him, by her owner's permission, an intelli- 
 gent-looking mulatto girl of about ten years of age. 
 She was valued by her master at $900, and Rev. 
 Mr. Faulkner, having become interested* in her 
 behalf, determined to raise that amount and pur- 
 chase her freedom if possible. He accordingly in- 
 
 * Then a member of Plymouth Church ; now pastor of Roches- 
 ter Avenue Congregational Church. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 formed the Plymouth pastor of the circumstances, 
 and introduced the little slave girl to him. On 
 Sunday, February 5th (i860), she accompanied 
 Mr. Beecher to church, and was placed by his side 
 in the pulpit. Mr. Beecher presented her to the 
 congregation, stated the facts of the case, and 
 asked for a contribution sufficient to effect her 
 purchase. Among the audience was a lady named 
 Rose Terry, who, when the contribution-box was 
 passed to her, drew a ring from her finger and 
 dropped it in ; the pastor placed this ring upon 
 one of the slave girl's fingers, and, telling her it was 
 her freedom ring, named her * Rose Ward, after 
 the donor of the ring, and himself. The amount 
 contributed that morning, together with a collec- 
 tion taken up in Sunday-school that afternoon, 
 was $1,000. 
 
 A similar instance of the sympathy and gener- 
 osity of the Plymouth congregation occurred on 
 Sunday, June 1, 1861. A young slave woman, 
 twenty years of age, named Sarah, having been 
 informed by her owner that if she could raise 
 $800 among her abolition friends, he would accept 
 of it and free her, had made the fact known to 
 several anti-slavery men in Washington. They 
 
 * Rose Ward is being educated at the Howard University by 
 Plymouth Society. 
 
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 pledged her owner either her safe return or the 
 required sum, and he allowed them to take her to 
 the North. They acquainted Mr. Beecherwith her 
 story. At the close of the morning services of the 
 day mentioned, he called her to the platform for the 
 purpose of showing to the congregation a " living 
 slave woman." He then explained her case, and 
 appealed to them to save her from slavery. $500 
 was requisite to complete the $800 ; and when it 
 was announced that the collection was $800, ex- 
 clusive of considerable jewelry, the congregation 
 expressed their joy by tremendous applause. 
 
 When the booming of rebel cannon in Charleston 
 Harbor resounded throughout the country, prov- 
 ing that the threats of armed disunion had not 
 been — as was supposed — those of mere braggado- 
 cio, and that all predictions of peaceful settlement 
 of existing difficulties were but hopeless dreams ; 
 when many of the greatest minds of the North — 
 almost staggered by the unexpected blow — were 
 wavering in opinion whether to maintain the 
 Union at all hazards, or "let the wayward sisters 
 go in peace," — then was the voice of Plymouth 
 Church again heard throughout the land, fearlessly 
 denouncing the actions of the secessionists, and 
 urging energetic and decisive measures on the part 
 of the Administration, crying : 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 119 
 
 * u We must not stop to measure costs — espe- 
 cially the costs of going forward — on any basis so 
 mean and narrow as that of pecuniary prosperity. 
 
 There are many reasons which make a 
 
 good and thorough battle necessary. The South- 
 ern men are infatuated. They will not have 
 peace. They are in arms. They have fired upon 
 the American flag. That glorious banner has 
 been borne through every climate, all over the 
 globe, and for fifty years not a land or people has 
 been found to scorn it or dishonor it. At home, 
 among the degenerate people of our own land, 
 among Southern citizens, for the first time, has 
 this glorious national flag been abused, and tram- 
 pled to the ground. It is for our sons reverently 
 to lift it, and to bear it full high again, to victory 
 and national supremacy ! Our arms, in this pecu- 
 liar exigency, can lay the foundation of future 
 union in mutual respect. The South firmly be- 
 lieves that cowardice is the universal attribute of 
 Northern men ! Until they are most thoroughly 
 convinced to the contrary, they will never cease 
 
 arrogancy and aggression Good soldiers, 
 
 brave men, hard fighting, will do more towards 
 quiet than all the compromises, and empty, wag- 
 
 * Sermon preached April 14, 1861, during the siege of Fort 
 Sumter. 
 
120 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 ging tongues in the world. Our reluctance to 
 break peace, our unwillingness to shed blood, our 
 patience, have all been misinterpreted. The more 
 we have been generous and forbearing, the more 
 thoroughly were they sure that it was because we 
 dared not fight ! 
 
 "We have no braggart courage; we have no 
 courage that rushes into an affray for the love of 
 fighting. We have that courage which comes 
 from calm intelligence. We have that courage 
 which comes from broad moral sentiment. 
 
 "We have no anger, but we have indignation. 
 We have no irritable passion, but we have fixed 
 will 
 
 " We must aim at a peace built on foundations so 
 solid, of God's immutable truth, that nothing can 
 reach to unsettle it. Let this conflict between lib- 
 erty and slavery never come up again. Better 
 have it thoroughly settled, though it take a score 
 of years to settle it, than to have an intermittent 
 fever for the next century, breaking out every five 
 or ten years 
 
 "Let not our feelings be vengeful or savage. 
 We can go into this conflict with a spirit just as 
 truly Christian as any that ever inspired us in the 
 performance of a Christian duty. 
 
 " Let no man, then, in this time of peril, fail to 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. I2 i 
 
 associate himself with that cause, which is to be so 
 
 entirely glorious Let every man that 
 
 lives and owns himself an American, take the side 
 of true American principles — liberty for one, and 
 liberty for all ; liberty now, and liberty forever ; 
 liberty as the foundation of government, and lib- 
 erty as the basis of union ; liberty as against revo- 
 lution, liberty against anarchy, and liberty against 
 slavery ; liberty here, and liberty everywhere, the 
 
 world through \ n 
 
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 CHAPTER EIGHTH. 
 
 The First Long Island and the Brooklyn Fourteenth Regiments — 
 The National Flag — Every Citizen's Duty toward it, in its Hour 
 of Peril— Sunday-school Matters — The New Lecture and Sunday- 
 school Building — Encampment of a Maine Regiment in the Church 
 — Beecher in Europe— Sumter Party— Scene in Plymouth Church 
 the Sabbath after Lincoln's Assassination. 
 
 HROUGHOUT the Rebellion, Plymouth 
 pastor and congregation continued 
 zealous in their support of the Union 
 cause ; not only in a pecuniary way, but nobly 
 sending forth sons and daughters to uphold the 
 nation's honor on the field of battle and in the hos- 
 pital. 
 
 The First Long Island (Infantry) Regiment, known 
 as the " Brooklyn Phalanx," and among whom 
 were many members of the church, was raised and 
 equipped at the expense of Plymouth Church, and, 
 during the war, the pastor often visited their camp 
 and preached to them. One of Mr. Beecher's sons 
 was an officer in one of the companies of this regi- 
 ment. Two companies of the Brooklyn Four- 
 teenth were also composed almost entirely of 
 
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 Plymouthites ; and the congregation contributed 
 $3,000 to aid in the equipment of the regiment after 
 one of the pastor's most eloquent discourses, en- 
 titled " The National Flag," one Sabbath in April, 
 1 861. This sermon was delivered especially to the 
 two companies mentioned, but its national charac- 
 ter and its peculiarly national subject particularly 
 merit the reproduction of portions of it at least. 
 
 " A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, 
 sees not the flag, but the nation itself. And what- 
 ever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads 
 chiefly in the flag, the government, the principles, 
 the truths, the history that belong to the nation 
 that sets it forth. . . . . . 
 
 "This nation has a banner, too; and until re- 
 cently, wherever it streamed abroad, men saw day- 
 break bursting on their eyes. For until lately the 
 American flag has been a symbol of Liberty, and 
 men rejoiced in it. Not another flag on the globe 
 had such an errand, or went forth upon the sea, 
 carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope 
 to the captive, and such glorious tidings. The 
 stars upon it were to the pining nations like the 
 bright morning-stars of God, and the stripes upon 
 it were beams of morning light. As at early dawn 
 the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and 
 
124 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 then as the sun advances that light breaks into 
 banks and streaming lines of color, the glowing 
 red and intense white striving together, and rib- 
 bing the horizon with bars effulgent, so, on the 
 American flag, stars and beams of many-colored 
 light shine out together. ..... 
 
 It is the banner of Dawn. It means Liberty. . . . 
 
 . . . Beginning with the Colonies, and coming 
 down to our time, in its sacred heraldry, in its 
 glorious insignia, it has gathered and stored chiefly 
 this supreme idea : Divine right of liberty in man. 
 
 1 ' And displayed it shall be. Advanced full against 
 the morning light, and borne with the growing and 
 glowing day, it shall take the last ruddy beams of 
 the night, and from the Atlantic wave, clear across 
 with eagle flight to the Pacific, that banner shall 
 float, meaning all the liberty which it has ever 
 meant ! From the North, where snows and moun- 
 tain-ice stand solitary, clear to the glowing tropics 
 and the Gulf, that banner that has hitherto waved 
 shall wave and wave forever, — every star, every 
 band, every thread and fold significant of Lib- 
 erty ! (*Great applause.) .... 
 
 * The pastor improved this occasion by expressing his views upon 
 applause in churches on the Sabbath day : 
 
 " I do not doubt your patriotism. I know it is hard for men 
 
 
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 " How glorious, then, has been its origin ! How 
 glorious has been its history ! How divine its 
 meaning !....... 
 
 . . . made by liberty, made for liberty, nourished 
 in its spirit, carried in its service, and never, not 
 once in all the earth, made to stoop to despot- 
 ism ! 
 
 M And now this banner has been put on trial ! It 
 has been condemned. For what ? Has it failed 
 of duty ? Has liberty lost color by it ? Have 
 moths of oppression eaten its folds ? Has it re- 
 fused to shine on freemen and given its light to 
 despots ? No. It has been true, brave, loyal. 
 It has become too much a banner of liberty for men 
 who mean and plot despotism. Remember, citi- 
 zen ! remember, Christian soldier ! the American 
 flag has been fired upon by Americans, and trod- 
 den down because it stood in the way of slavery ! 
 
 Chat are full of feeling not to give expression to it ; yet excuse me if 
 I request you to refrain from demonstrations of applause while I 
 am speaking. It is not because I think Sunday too good a day, nor 
 the church too holy a place for patriotic Christian men to express 
 their feelings at such a time as this, and in behalf of such sentiments, 
 but because by too frequent repetition applause becomes stale and 
 common, that I make this request. Besides, outward expression is 
 not our way. We. are rather of a silent stock. We let our feelings 
 work inwardly, so that they may have deeper channels and fuller 
 floods." 
 
126 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 " And now God speaks by the voice of His provi- 
 dence, saying, ' Lift again that banner ! Advance 
 it full and high ! ' To your hand, and to yours, 
 God and your country commit that imperishable 
 trust. You go forth self-called, or rather called by 
 the trust of your countrymen, and by the Spirit of 
 your God, to take that trailing banner out of the 
 dust and out of the mire, and lift it again where 
 God's rains can cleanse it, and where God's free air 
 can cause it to unfold and stream as it has always 
 floated before the wind. God bless the men that 
 go forth to save from disgrace the American flag ! 
 
 " Nor is it enough that that banner shall stand 
 and merely reassert its authority. It is time now 
 that that banner shall do as much for each man in 
 our own country as it will in every other land on 
 the globe. ....... 
 
 " You go to serve your country in the cause of 
 liberty ; and if God brings you into conflict ere- 
 long with those misguided men of the South, when 
 you see their miserable, new-vamped banner, re- 
 member what that flag means, — Treason, Slavery, 
 Despotism ; then look up and see the bright stars 
 and the glorious stripes over your own head, and 
 read in them Liberty, Liberty, Liberty ! 
 
 " And if you fall in that struggle, may some 
 
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 kind hand wrap around about you the flag of your 
 country, and may you die with its sacred touch 
 upon you ! It shall be sweet to go. to rest lying 
 in the folds of your country's banner, meaning, as 
 it shall mean, ' Liberty and Union, now and for- 
 ever- ' " 
 
 The rapid and continuous growth of the Sunday- 
 school * had necessitated the addition of the social 
 circle parlors t in 1859, but in 1862 the room was 
 still too small, and many children of the congrega- 
 tion were obliged to attend other schools on that 
 account. A new building, which should entirely 
 occupy the church property on Cranberry street — 
 thereby enlarging the lecture-room as well as the 
 Sunday-school room — was proposed, and princi- 
 pally through the untiring energy and persuasive 
 
 * The expenses of the school were defrayed in part by the teachers, 
 and in part by subscriptions and collections in the church, until 
 January, i860, when they were assumed by the Society, which has 
 ever since provided for them out of its current receipts. — Plymouth 
 Church Manual. 
 
 f The original design — which design is said to have been original 
 with Plymouth Church — of these rooms had been the furtherance of 
 social intercourse, and the promotion of a family feeling among the 
 members of the Society, and thus remove many of the formal barriers 
 — existing in churches of all cities — which often prevent new members 
 from becoming acquainted with their Christian brethren. But, not- 
 withstanding the endeavors of the pastor and some others, cliques 
 were soon formed, and thereafter there was ever a lack of that har- 
 mony and good-fellowship which alone renders such undertakings 
 successful. 
 
128 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 powers of Mr. George A. Bell * subscriptions were 
 obtained for an amount, $10,800, which ensured the 
 erection of the building without increasing the is- 
 sue of church scrip. The improvements were com- 
 menced in the spring of 1862, and the new building 
 was opened for religious services November 16th, 
 the same year. 
 
 The new lecture-room was of sufficient capacity 
 to comfortably seat seven hundred persons ; the 
 parlors were separated from the lecture-room by slid- 
 ing glass doors — thus making a still further enlarge- 
 ment possible when necessary. The Sunday-school 
 room, which occupied the entire second floor, ac- 
 commodated over one thousand children, exclusive 
 of the Infant and Bible Class Divisions. t Several 
 members of the Society donated funds to the 
 amount of $1,050, and a small but fine-toned or- 
 gan was purchased. Mr. Henry Whitney, at the 
 invitation of Mr. Bell, contributed his services as 
 organist. The room was also decorated with a 
 beautiful fountain. \ 
 
 The first use the new church parlors were de- 
 
 * George A. Bell succeeded Henry E. Morrill as Sunday-school 
 Superintendent in January, 1861. 
 
 f In 1864 the gallery, which occupied only one side of the room, 
 was extended for the benefit of Bible Classes and strangers. 
 
 % Removed in 1870 to make room for scholars. 
 
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 voted to was as noble as it was novel. One 
 cheerless rainy evening, in the autumn of 1862, a 
 Maine Volunteer regiment arrived in Brooklyn on 
 its way to the front. No accommodations could 
 be secured for them, as the barracks in the vicinity 
 were already filled. The Plymouth pastor hearing 
 of the fact, immediately visited their Colonel, and 
 told him to march his men direct to Plymouth 
 Church : the sexton was duly notified, the doors 
 were thrown open, and the weary soldiers filed in. 
 For two nights they slept on the cushioned seats 
 of Plymouth Church, and when they left the city 
 for Washington, some of the younger soldiers, 
 who had fallen ill with colds and fevers, were left 
 behind and removed to the parlors, where they 
 remained for four weeks, attended by surgeons. 
 The parlors having been thus initiated, a sewing 
 society was formed by the ladies of the church, 
 for the purpose of supplying the soldiers with 
 various necessary articles, hospital stores, and 
 making clothes for the destitute freedmen of the 
 South. Since the war the sewing-circle has been 
 continued in aid of the poor of the church, during 
 the winter months ; and at different periods of each 
 year the parlors have been turned into a labor 
 educational institution, wherein the children of 
 the poor have been instructed in sewing, both by 
 
130 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 hand and machine, so that it may be said, since 
 the natural death of the social circle, the parlors 
 have been devoted to more practical, if not more 
 praiseworthy uses. 
 
 In June, 1863, the health of the pastor, which 
 his many duties had overtasked, seemed about to 
 give way, and his voice threatened failing him alto- 
 gether, and the Society besought him to visit 
 Europe for recuperation. He consented, and re- 
 turned in November. It was during this visit he 
 made the celebrated speeches in Liverpool, Glas- 
 gow, Edinburgh, Manchester, and London, in de- 
 fence of the war policy of the North, which so 
 increased his popularity at home and abroad. He 
 did not visit England for the purpose of address- 
 ing the people in behalf of the North, as has been 
 often stated, and it was not until he had been 
 earnestly urged so to do, and had twice declined, 
 that he acceded to the many requests, and opened 
 the campaign in Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 
 October 9 (1863). At Liverpool occurred his 
 greatest struggle. Said he afterward, describing 
 it : * " I had to speak extempore on subjects the 
 most delicate and difficult as between our two na- 
 tions, when even the shading of my words was of 
 importance ; yet I had to outscream a mob and 
 
 * Men of our Times. H. B. Stowe. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. j^i 
 
 drown the roar of a multitude. It was like driv- 
 ing a team of runaway horses and making love to 
 a lady at the same time." 
 
 When he returned to America he was enthusi- 
 astically welcomed, and from that time many who, 
 owing to political differences, had been his bitter- 
 est enemies, have ever been among his warmest 
 friends and greatest admirers. 
 
 April 1 2th, 1865, was the fourth anniversary of 
 the surrender of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 
 by Major Robert Anderson to the rebels, and, as 
 war was virtually at an end, it was on that day 
 that it was determined to raise again over the fa- 
 mous fortress the identical flag that four years pre- 
 vious had been lowered in disgrace. Some of the 
 old-time abolitionists were to be present, and 
 many of the Plymouth congregation were among 
 the assembly. Mr. Beecher had been invited to 
 deliver an address upon the ruins of Sumter on 
 the eventful day, and did so. On their arrival at 
 Fortress Monroe, returning home, the hearts of 
 the happy party were doomed to be stricken with 
 grief and horror by the terrible and almost incred- 
 ible tidings of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 
 by John Wilkes Booth. At no other time, prob- 
 ably, throughout Mr. Lincoln's administration 
 could his assassination — though at any time it 
 
132 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 would have been as lamentable — have produced 
 such an effect upon the hearts and minds of the 
 people of the nation, South as well as North. On 
 the following Sabbath morning, April 24 (1865), 
 thousands of people flocked to Plymouth Church to 
 hear Mr. Beecher's sermon on the late President 
 whom he so loved, and for whose re-election he 
 had so earnestly labored — delivering the eloquent 
 Sunday-evening political discourses during the 
 previous autumn. Among the many of that Sab- 
 bath morning's assemblage, was one, whose de- 
 scription of it was so perfect that it is here repro- 
 duced : 
 
 " Presently the seats were all full. The multi- 
 tude seemed to be solid above and below, but still 
 the new-comers tried to press in. The platform 
 was fringed by the legs of those who had been so 
 lucky as to find seats there. There was loud talk- 
 ing and scuffling, and even occasionally a little cry 
 at the doors. One boy struggled desperately in 
 the crowd for his life, or breath. The ushers, 
 courteous to the last, smiled pitifully upon their 
 own efforts to put ten gallons into a pint pot. As 
 the hour of service approached, a small door under 
 the choir and immediately behind the mahogany 
 desk upon the platform opened quietly, and Mr. 
 Beecher entered. He stood looking at the crowd 
 
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PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ^3 
 
 for a little time, without taking off his outer coat, 
 then advanced to the edge of the platform and 
 gave some directions about seats. He indicated 
 with his Ijands that the people should pack more 
 closely. The ushers evidently pleaded for the 
 pew-holders who had not arrived ; but the preacher 
 replied that they could not get in, and the seats 
 should be filled that the service might proceed in 
 silence. He turned and opened the door. Then 
 he removed his coat, sat down, and opened the 
 hymn-book, while the organ played. The impa- 
 tient people meantime had climbed up to the win- 
 dow-sills from the outside, and the great white 
 church was like a hive, with the swarming bees 
 hanging in clusters upon the outside. 
 
 "The service began with an invocation. It was 
 followed by a hymn, by the reading of a chapter 
 in the Bible, and a prayer. The congregation 
 joined in singing ; and the organ, skilfully and 
 firmly played, prevented the lagging which usually 
 spoils congregational singing. The effect was 
 imposing. The vast volume filled the building 
 with solid sound. It poured out at the open win- 
 dows and filled the still morning air of the city 
 with solemn melody. Far upon every side, those 
 who sat at home in solitary chambers heard the 
 great voice of praise. Then amidst the hush of 
 
134 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 the vast multitude, the preacher, overpowered by 
 emotion, prayed fervently for the stricken family 
 and the bereaved nation. There was more sing- 
 ing, before which Mr. Beecher appealed to those 
 who were sitting to sit closer, and for once to be 
 incommoded, that some more of the crowd might 
 get in, and as the wind blew freshly from the open 
 windows, he reminded the audience that a handker- 
 chief laid upon the head would prevent the sensi- 
 tive from taking cold. Then opening the Bible, 
 he read the story of Moses going up to Pisgah, and 
 took the verses for his text. 
 
 " The sermon was written, and he read calmly 
 from the manuscript. Yet at times, rising upon 
 the flood of feeling, he shot out a solemn adjura- 
 tion, or asserted an opinion with a fiery emphasis 
 that electrified the audience into applause. His 
 action was intense, but not dramatic ; and the de- 
 meanor of the preacher was subdued and sorrowful. 
 He did not attempt to speak in detail of the Presi- 
 dent's character or career. He drew the bold out- 
 line in a few words, and leaving that task to a calmer 
 and fitter moment, spoke of the lessons of the hour. 
 The way of his death was not to be deplored : the 
 crime itself revealed to the dullest the ghastly 
 nature of slavery ; it was a blow, not at a man, 
 but at the people and their government; it had 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. i$$ 
 
 utterly failed ; and, finally, though dead, the good 
 man yet speaketh. The discourse was brief, fitting, 
 forcible, and tender with emotion. It was a manly 
 sorrow and sympathy that cast its spell upon the 
 great audience, and it was good to be there. 
 When words have a man behind them, Emerson 
 says, they are not to be forgotten. 
 
 " There was another hymn, a peal of pious tri- 
 umph, which poured out of the heart of the congre- 
 gation, and seemed to lift us all up, up into the 
 sparkling, serene, inscrutable heaven." * 
 
 The pew-rent record t from 1 859-1 860, $28,052 ; 
 1861, $28,750; 1862, $18,100; 1863, $23,396; 
 1864, $31,000; 1865, $39,000; 1866, $42,782; 
 1867, $49,000; — manifested a constantly increas- 
 ing interest in the church and pastor. With the 
 increase of the church income, the outgo in aid 
 of all benevolent objects also augmented ; i860, 
 $9,233; 1861, $11,680; 1862, $17,500; 1863, no 
 record; 1864, $9,630; 1865, $10,855; 1866, 
 
 $19,531. 
 
 Much of the church scrip, issued in 1849, owing 
 to a depreciation in value from the supposition 
 that it would never be redeemed, had passed out 
 of first hands — some having been sold for twenty- 
 
 * Editor's Easy Chair, Harper's Monthly, June, 1865. 
 \ See Chapter Tenth, corrected pew-rent report. 
 
136 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 five cents on the dollar, and some for even less. 
 The payment of this scrip had been based on the 
 condition, u that when the income from the church 
 property, in any one year, shall exceed the current 
 liabilities thereof, to the amount of ten per cent, 
 or more, the trustees shall divide that amount 
 among the scrip-holders;" accordingly, in 1865, 
 twenty-five per cent, was paid ofT, the old scrip 
 cancelled, and new certificates issued for the bal- 
 ance, which was paid in full in 1867. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 137 
 
 CHAPTER NINTH. 
 
 First Organist of Plymouth Church— John Zundel— F. F. Miil- 
 ler — The Great Organ — Organ Concerts — Henry Camp — The 
 Quartette and Choir. 
 
 HE first organist of Plymouth Church was a 
 Mr. Messinger. He remained only a few 
 months, and was followed by Mr. S. La- 
 sar, who occupied the position until the burning 
 of the church in January, 1849. 
 
 Mr. George N. Abbey was the first chorister, 
 and Mrs. Rachel S. Jamieson was the leading so- 
 prano, while Mr. Lasar presided at the organ. 
 When the new church was completed, Mr. John 
 Zundel * was hired, and he continued as organist un- 
 
 * Mr. Zundel's long identity with the church may render a brief 
 sketch of his life acceptable. He was born December 10, 1815, in 
 Germany. While a young man he removed to St. Petersburg, 
 Russia, where for several years he officiated as organist of the St. 
 Ann's Lutheran Church, and as Bandmaster of the Imperial Horse 
 Guards. He came to this country in 1847, and has since that time 
 succeeded in establishing a considerable reputation, not only as an 
 organist, but also as a composer. His first engagement in the 
 United States was at the Pierrepont Street Unitarian Church, on a 
 salary of $500. He was employed as organist of Plymouth Church 
 January 1, 1850, for $700 per annum. From that date to the 
 present he has retired from and returned to the church three times, 
 and is the present organist. His salary is $1,500. 
 
I3 8 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 til Easter Sunday, 1 854 * He was re-engaged in June, 
 
 1856, and retired a second time in January, 1865. * 
 An efficient organist was then advertised for by 
 the Society, and many applications were received ; 
 but before any one had been fully decided on, the 
 name of Mr. Frederick Ferdinand Mlillert was pro- 
 posed. He was applied to and immediately ac- 
 cepted the vacancy on a salary of $2,000 per 
 annum. 
 
 Mr. Miiller found the choir in rather poor con- 
 dition, and immediately began a thorough re- 
 organization. He advised the introduction of 
 Quartette in conjunction with Congregational sing- 
 ing, but the trustees were not at that time in favor 
 of the employment of a Quartette, so Mr. Miiller 
 was obliged to depend upon a volunteer choir. 
 He organized an entire new choir of fifty members, 
 and first established the double chorus. Miss 
 
 ' * Two organists were successively engaged from April, 1854, to 
 June, 1856. Messrs. Pond and Knoepfel. 
 
 f * Mr. Miiller was the organist at the Church of the Ascension 
 (John Cotton Smith, D.D.), New York, and Professor of Music at 
 the Packer Institute, Brooklyn. * 
 
 His professional engagements in this country have been : 1852 to 
 
 1857, Old South Church, Boston, Mass. ; 1857 to 1S61, Second 
 Presbyterian Church (Dr. Sprague), Albany, N. Y. ; 1861 to 
 1S65, Church of the Ascension ; 1865 to 1S68, Plymouth Church; 
 and 1868 to the present time, Church of the Ascension. Mr. Miil- 
 ler is a fine organist, and left many warm friends and admirers in 
 Brooklyn. 
 
THK GREAT 
 
 ORGAN- PLYMOUTH CHURCH.— Page I 39. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 139 
 
 Charlotte Oltrogge,* at the request of the or- 
 ganist, led the soprano singing. 
 
 Besides his regular duties, Mr. Miiller led the 
 musical exercises of the Sunday-school, and was 
 always present at the Monday-evening Singing- 
 school, which continued through the winter 
 months. 
 
 The purchase of a new organ was thought ex- 
 pedient in 1865, and a committee was appointed 
 from the Board of Trustees to act with the Music 
 Committee and the pastor on the subject. Messrs. 
 E. & G. G. Hook, of Boston, Mass., were applied 
 to and promised in one year's time to build an 
 instrument which should surpass in tone, mechan- 
 ism, and size, any ever built in America. 
 
 Early in 1866 the "material arrived and was 
 stored in the lecture-room — one half of which was 
 set apart for that pupose — for six weeks, while the 
 necessary alterations were being made in the 
 church. Ridgewood water was to furnish the 
 power to operate the bellows ; Stannard engine- 
 blowers of the Pratt & Whitney Company of 
 Hartford, Conn., were procured to inflate them, 
 and each bellows was to have one engine. 
 
 * Miss Oltrogge possessed a very sweet voice, and was remuner- 
 ated for her services by a private subscription of $300 per annum. 
 She remained two years, until her marriage. 
 
140 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 The whole cost of the organ, inclusive of that 
 of alterations in the church, was about $25,000. 
 The Stannard engine-blowers — which were added 
 afterward — and the four bellows engines, cost a 
 trifle over $2,000 additional. 
 
 The organ occupies a width of twenty-seven 
 feet, a depth of twenty-one feet, and a total height, 
 including that of the engine and bellows rooms, 
 of fifty feet. It is enclosed in a black-walnut case 
 with richly burnished block-tin pipes in front. It 
 possesses four banks of keys, sixty-two stops, and 
 contains three thousand four hundred and forty- 
 two pipes.* Among the stops are the Doppel 
 Flote, Viola de Ganba, Philomela, Hohlpfeife, 
 Vox Humana, Violone (all of recent introduction), 
 Vox Angelica, Euphone (free reed stops of fine 
 tone), Tuba Mirabilis, Tuba Octave (stops of won- 
 derful effect, — the larger pipes of which are dis- 
 played in groups on either side in the organ front). 
 
 During the last year of Mr. Muller's engagement 
 as organist a series of Organ (Free) Concerts were 
 instituted at the joint suggestion of Mr. Beecher 
 
 * An idea of the magnitude of some of the organ pipes can be im- 
 agined, when it is related that one day, while the unjointed sections 
 were lying on the ground, Mr. Beecher, who is by no means a skel- 
 eton, without divesting himself of his outer coat, crawled on his 
 hands and knees through the open Diapason pipe, a distance of 
 thirty-two feet. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 141 
 
 and Mr. Miiller. These concerts, conducted under 
 the direction of the Music Committee, were con- 
 tinued after Mr. Miiller's retirement, although the 
 arrangements were slightly changed, and a price of 
 admission # charged. For a period of three months 
 each year crowds of people assembled in the 
 church on Saturday afternoons, between the hours 
 of four and five, to listen to the symphonies of 
 Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, and other renowned 
 composers, as rendered by organists hailing from 
 all parts of our country and Canada. Occasionally, 
 other instrumental, and sometimes vocal, music 
 was introduced. 
 
 One of the principal objects of these entertain- 
 ments was the encouragement and elevation of 
 musical taste among all classes, and, in order that 
 all classes might be enabled to attend, the entrance 
 fee was made merely nominal ; another object was 
 to afford organists and other performers, instru- 
 mental and vocal — amateurs as well as professional 
 — an opportunity to exhibit their ability and ac- 
 complishments. 
 
 Mr. Miiller returned to his former situation at 
 the Church of the Ascension, New York, in 1868, 
 and Mr. Zundel was again employed. 
 
 Mr. Henry Camp, the present chorister, was 
 
 * Admission fifteen cents, or ten tickets for one dollar. 
 
142 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 engaged the same year, and notwithstanding the 
 fact that both pastor and organist were opposed to 
 Quartette singing a Quartette was then introduced, 
 consisting of Miss Emma Thursby,* soprano ; 
 Miss Matilda Toedt, contralto ; Mr. J. C. Rock- 
 wood, tenor ; and Mr. Camp, Basso. 
 
 Mrs. Genevieve Hoyt and Miss Clementine 
 Lasar (engaged May I, 1872) have successively 
 followed as sopranos ; Miss Thompson and Miss 
 Antoinette Sterling (engaged May, I 1 871), as 
 contraltos ; and Mr. Legget and Mr. Hill as 
 tenors, t 
 
 The choir has been increased in numbers to 
 seventy-five by Mr. Camp, who is generally con- 
 sidered an efficient choir leader. 
 
 * Miss Thursby and Miss Toedt had been engaged during Mr. 
 Muller's regime on salaries respectively of $900 and $600. The 
 latter — since noted as a violinist of some repute — now sings at 
 Christ's Church, N. Y. 
 
 \ The salaries of the present quartette are : 
 
 Miss Lasar, $1,300. Mr. Hill, $1,300. 
 
 Miss Sterling, $1,500. Mr. Camp (chorister and basso), $2,000. 
 
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 CHAPTER TENTH. 
 
 Mission Schools — Plymouth Church's Proteges — The Bethel and 
 the Navy Mission — Origin and History of the Bethel, 1841 to 
 1872 — Stable to Palace — The Navy Mission, 1844 to 1872 — Its 
 Establishment and History — The Armstrong Missionary Society. 
 
 HE founding of Mission Schools in Brook- 
 lyn during the past thirty years has re- 
 sulted latterly in a religious harvest far 
 exceeding the most sanguine expectations of the 
 noble men and women who have for years unself- 
 ishly devoted so much of their time to this praise- 
 worthy labor. Entire neighborhoods — within 
 whose dark and loathsome precincts the light of 
 Christianity had never before dared to beam — have 
 been gloriously illumined by floods of Christian 
 sunshine, and their residents enlightened and im- 
 proved by the influences of religious precept and 
 example. The societies of many of our churches, 
 actuated by a commendable ambition, have long 
 striven to surpass each other in their endeavors to 
 raise the ignorant and depraved from their de- 
 graded condition. 
 
 Plymouth Church, however, partly owing to its 
 
144 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 large and active membership, has thus far led the 
 van of reform, and its two proteges — the Bethel 
 and the Navy Mission — are to-day the most 
 flourishing Mission Schools in the city. The his- 
 tory of the Bethel is substantially as follows : 
 
 THE BETHEL OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH.* 
 
 In 1 841 an old stable located on Main street, 
 near the Catherine Ferry, was hired and fitted up 
 for use as a house of worship. At that time the 
 neighborhood was even worse than at present, 
 and possessed no religious institution of any kind. 
 A mission school was established, which was 
 named The Bethel Mission, and Mr. John P. Elwellt 
 was appointed Superintendent. After occupying 
 that position for one year, he was succeeded by 
 Mr. Albert Woodruff, who was in turn followed 
 by Messrs. Richard Thorne, Anderson, H. J. N. 
 Judson, and J. P. Montgomery. As might be ex- 
 pected under the circumstances, the condition of 
 the new Mission for the first few years was any- 
 
 * The original name, " The Bethel Mission," was dropped in 
 March, 1868, by consent of the officers and teachers, and the present 
 one adopted. 
 
 \ The Manual of Plymouth Church (1867) is the authority for a 
 slightly different set of names : — Messrs. Wadsworth, John P. 
 
 Elwell, Albert Woodruff, Judson, Sumner R. Stone, Martius 
 
 T. Lynde, Andrew A. Smith, and Robert S. Bussing. 
 
AISLE FOLDING-CHAIRS.— /V. 
 
 *g' 93- 
 
 THE HETHEL OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH. — Pa^e I44. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 14$ 
 
 thing but promising. Mr. Andrew A. Smith was 
 elected Superintendent in 1848, and was continued 
 in that office for fourteen consecutive years. In 
 1855 a change of location was deemed advisable, 
 and a removal was made to a room in the old 
 James Street Market building, corner of York 
 and James streets. 
 
 A second removal occurred in 1858, and for one 
 year the school was held in Poplar Hall (now 
 known as the Newsboys' Lodging House), on Pop- 
 lar street. In 1859, desirable rooms were leased 
 in the building Nos. 42 and 44 Fulton street, 
 opposite Front street, and, after the necessary 
 alterations had been made, taken possession of by 
 the Bethel Mission. 
 
 Mr. Smith, who had been instrumental in in- 
 creasing the number of scholars, and in advancing 
 the prosperity of the Mission in all respects, re- 
 signed the superintendency in 1862, and Mr. 
 Robert S. Bussing was elected as his successor. 
 
 *During its existence thus far, the school had ap- 
 plied to no church for pecuniary aid, nor had any 
 church offered any. 
 
 Owing to its proximity to Plymouth Church, 
 
 * All expenses had hitherto been defrayed, partly by voluntary 
 contributions of the teachers, and the school funds, and partly by 
 proceeds of lectures by John B. Gough. 
 7 
 
146 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 many of the young people of that Society had 
 connected themselves with it as teachers, and 
 when, in 1866, it was suggested that some one of 
 the churches of Brooklyn should assume the pro- 
 tection of the Mission, the proposition was first 
 made to Plymouth Church. The *Church at a 
 meeting, held June 1, 1866, unanimously voted to 
 adopt the Bethel as one of its regular institutions. 
 Mr. R. S. Bussing having resigned January 1 
 (1867), Mr. George A. Bell was elected his suc- 
 cessor, and entered upon his duties as Superintend- 
 ent, February 3 (1867). There were at that time 
 thirty-five classes in the school, embracing a total 
 registration of about 300, with an average attend- 
 ance of 220 (teachers and scholars). Mr. Bell 
 had lost none of his accustomed energy. The 
 Trustees of Plymouth Church were requested to 
 provide a new and more convenient building for 
 their adopted child, at an expense of $20,000, one 
 half of which amount to be raised by subscription, 
 and the other half to be furnished by the Society. 
 The present site,t on Hicks street, near Fulton 
 
 * This action of the Church was formally ratified at the Annual 
 Meeting of the Society, January 10, 1S67. 
 
 f The Bethel stands on a lot of ground, 50 x 100 feet. The 
 building itself is 50 x SS feet, outside measurement ; 46 feet 6 inches 
 x S4 feet inside. There are three floors, including the basement. 
 The basement story is S feet high in the clear, and comprises : Boys' 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 1 47 
 
 street, was selected, and purchased for $15,000, 
 and the corner-stone of the new edifice was laid by 
 Mr. Beecher in December, 1867. 
 
 The building, when completed, cost $52,000 ; 
 and its necessary furniture, inclusive of an organ, 
 pianos, and a fountain,* was procured at an ex- 
 pense of $8,000 ; the total cost of ground, building, 
 and furniture, amounting to $75,000. To meet 
 this amount, which was nearly quadruple the 
 original estimate, $21,000 was obtained by volun- 
 tary subscription (mainly through the influence of 
 Mr. Bell), $6,250 was realized from a fair held in 
 
 Reading Room, 19x54 feet; Boys' Night School, 15x36 feet; 
 Boys' Checker Room, 15 x 30 feet ; Boys' Wash Room, 12x15 feet ; 
 Kitchen, Store Room, Boiler Room, coal bins, closets, etc. 
 
 The first floor is 12 feet high, containing the Men's Reading 
 Room, about 36x36 feet; Men's Chess Room, 12 x 26 feet; 
 Teachers' Room, 24x24; Wash Room, Missionary's Parlor and 
 Bedrooms, Closets, Halls, etc. 
 
 The Main Hall is used for Sabbath School and Meetings. It is 
 lighted from the roof ; is the full length and width of the building ; 
 24 feet high to the cornice, and 12 feet more from the cross-beams 
 to the ceiling — therefore, really 36 feet high. The Platform is be- 
 tween the Main Entrance doors ; and behind the Platform, on the 
 Main floor, and opening to it by windows, is the Mothers' Class 
 Room. Above the Class Room, the Visitors' and Organ Gallery. 
 At the opposite end of the Hall are three Class Rooms, 12 x 16 
 each, and Library ; above these the Infant Class Gallery, 24 feet 
 deep and 46 feet 6 inches wide. The Gallery is divided in the mid- 
 dle by a partition, so as to form two classes, which are yet capable 
 of being worked as one. — Bethel of Plymouth Church (1869). 
 
 * Owing to the increase of the school it was found necessary to 
 remove the fountain in 1871. 
 
148 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Plymouth Church in December (1867), and the 
 balance, $47,750, was advanced by the Society ot 
 Plymouth Church. 
 
 When the Bethel was first opened to the public, 
 there were established, beside the Sabbath-school 
 exercises, a series of Sunday-night meetings, 
 Monday-evening prayer-meetings, Mothers' Meet- 
 ings (Tuesday afternoons), Ladies' Sewing Meet- 
 ings (Saturday afternoons), and Popular Enter- 
 tainments (Wednesday evenings). These enter- 
 tainments have proved successful, and have been 
 made to pay their expenses by the charging of an 
 admission fee of fifteen cents ; artists and lectur- 
 ers giving their services gratuitously. A Free 
 Library and Reading Room was also instituted ; 
 the latter is supported through the generosity of 
 five gentlemen* who yearly contribute a total 
 amount of $600. 
 
 One Assistant Superintendent (Mr. Thomas H. 
 Bird) was sufficient until 1871, when the large in- 
 crease of the school rendered the election of two 
 assistants necessary. The officers of the Bethel for 
 1 87 it were : 
 
 * Henry W. Sage, $200; Horace B. Claflin, $100; Isaac Van 
 Anden, $100; John T. Howard, $100; Henry A. Dike, $100. 
 
 \ Officers for 1870: Superintendent, George A. Bell; Assistant 
 Superintendent, Thomas H. Bird ; Secretary, John R. Anderson ; 
 Treasurer, Robert S. Bussing ; Librarian, Albert Tusch ; Mission- 
 ary, Charles M. Morton. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 149 
 
 Superintendent, George A. Bell ; Assistant Su- 
 perintendents, Thomas H. Bird and William B. 
 "Wadsworth ; Secretary and Treasurer, John R. 
 Anderson ; Librarian, Albert Tusch ; Treasurer 
 Missionary Fund, Arthur Bell ; Missionary, Charles 
 M. Morton. 
 
 The total annual expense of the Bethel is about 
 $4,500,* and is borne by the Society of Plymouth 
 Church. 
 
 Mr. Charles M. Morton was engaged as Mis- 
 sionary, at a salary of $ 1 , 500 1 per annum, in 1 869 ; 
 and as one proof of his usefulness, it may be said 
 that his married men's class numbers one hundred 
 and fifty members. 
 
 Missionary collections are taken up every Sun- 
 day ; in 1869 these contributions amounted to 
 $659.32, of which $460.55 was disbursed; in 1870 
 the total amount of collections was $761.69 ; and 
 in 1871, $1,885.89, of which $1,250 was presented 
 to the Illinois Street Mission of Chicago immedi- 
 ately after the great conflagration in that city. 
 
 After an administration of five years, Mr. Bell 
 severed his connection with the Bethel, in order to 
 aid in building up another adopted school of Plym- 
 
 * In the Secretary's report for 187 1, the general expenses are es- 
 timated at $6,000. 
 
 f Afterward increased to $1,800. 
 
i5o 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 outh Church. His loss, it has been truly said, 
 was " deeply regretted by every officer, teacher, 
 and scholar of the school he served so long and so 
 faithfully."* 
 
 Some idea of the result of his labors may be 
 realized by a comparison of the condition of the 
 Mission when he assumed charge of it with its con- 
 dition at his retirement According to the Secre- 
 tary's annual report for 1871, the registered mem 
 bership was : officers and teachers, 89 ; scholars, 
 1,054; total, 1 143 ; average attendance, 948. (The 
 total capacity of the Sunday-school room is 1,245.) 
 
 The officers elected for 1872 were: Superintend- 
 ent, Thomas H. Bird; Assistant Superintendents, 
 William B. Wadsworth and Thomas J. Tilney ; 
 Secretary, Frank H. Cowperthwait ; Assistant Sec- 
 retaries, G. Alfred Bell and Arthur Bell ; Treasurer, 
 John R. Anderson ; Missionary, Charles M. Mor- 
 ton ; Librarian, Albert Tusch ; Assistant Libra- 
 rians, Ernest Ruestow, Paul Grasser, Adolph Jag- 
 ger, and Walter Bell ; Treasurer Missionary Fund, 
 George Hornbeck. 
 
 " Ill-health compelled Mr. Bird to withdraw from 
 his office in April, 1872, and Mr. Wadsworth be- 
 came Superintendent. Mr. George A. Price was 
 
 * Report of chairman of Committee on the resignation of Mr. 
 BelL 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ji^ 
 
 then appointed to the vacant assistant superinten- 
 dentship. Shortly after, Mr. Wadsworth married 
 and sailed for Europe, having resigned his position. 
 About the same time Mr. Price resigned, thus oc- 
 casioning two vacancies, whereupon Mr. William 
 Ray was elected to fill one, and Mr. Lewis Wis- 
 wall, Jr., a young man of exemplary character, 
 and who had entered the Bethel a few years pre- 
 vious a comparative stranger, was elected to fill the 
 remaining vacancy. 
 
 THE NAVY MISSION.* 
 
 In June, 1844, three Christian gentlemen — John 
 S. Pierson, George Cranford, and Thomas N. 
 
 * In October (1872) Plymouth Church voted to endow the Bethel 
 and the Navy Mission with $25,000 each, and it was proposed that 
 the name " Navy " should be discontinued in favor of the name of 
 the pastor — or some name that he might suggest. Mr. Beecher, how- 
 ever, declined to have his name used, and refused to recommend any 
 name. It was then moved that the word " Roxana" be substituted 
 for "Navy." (Roxana was the name of Mr. Beecher's mother.) 
 This motion was carried, and the teachers of the Navy Mission were 
 officially notified of the $25,000 appropriation, and of the name 
 voted for them by the church. Some of the teachers, who had been 
 connected with the Mission for many years, were in favor of continu- 
 ing the old name, and all were, without any disrespect to Mr. 
 Beecher, opposed to the proposed name, and a request was sent to 
 the church that the action in respect to the change of name should 
 be reconsidered, and respectfully proposing that the name " Plym- 
 outh" be adopted if a change was considered advisable. The 
 church reconsidered its vote, and the name will hereafter be " The 
 Plymouth mission." 
 
152 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Sothcr — determined to organize a Mission Sunday- 
 school in the vicinity of the Navy Yard. The 
 premises, corner of Marshall and Little streets, 
 which had formerly been occupied as a liquor store, 
 were accordingly hired, and after an extensive visi- 
 tation throughout the neighborhood, a Sabbath- 
 school, consisting of twenty-nine scholars and 
 twelve officers and teachers, was formed June 30, 
 1844. It was named The Navy Mission, and Mr. 
 Cranford was chosen first Superintendent. This 
 gentleman died in 1846, and Mr. Richard W. Hub- 
 bard succeeded him. 
 
 Through the efforts of a Temperance Society, 
 which the members had instituted, and the liber- 
 ality of the late Mr. Whitehead J. Cornell, a Tem- 
 perance Hall was erected in Marshall street, into 
 which the school removed. This building was un- 
 dermined by the Gas Company in 1849 and be- 
 came unsafe. It was consequently sold to the Gas 
 Company, and an edifice was then built on the cor- 
 ner of Front street and Green lane, which the 
 Mission occupied for twenty-two years. 
 
 After Mr. Hubbard, Messrs. Daniel Pruden, 
 Gilbert H. Ferris,- Coe Adams, John S. Pierson, 
 Horatio N. Holt, C. S. Van YVagener, and S. F. 
 Strong, officiated successively as Superintendents. 
 
 The school was originally commenced under the 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ^3 
 
 auspices of the Second Presbyterian Church, of 
 which the late Rev. Dr. Spencer was then pastor, 
 and during his life was sustained by that Society, 
 but after his death the church was obliged to dis- 
 continue its support from pecuniary inability. 
 Several other churches — the First Baptist, the 
 Pierrepont Street Baptist, the St. Ann's Episcopal, 
 the Church of the Pilgrims, and the Plymouth 
 Church — feeling the essentiality of its maintenance, 
 afforded it aid both by teachers and pecuniarily. 
 
 In 1 87 1 the Front-street building had become 
 so dilapidated that it was unfit for use, and its 
 owners not feeling able to rebuild, concluded to 
 abandon the school and sell the property. At this 
 crisis several of the teachers applied to Plymouth 
 Church for assistance, and at the annual meeting 
 of the Society, January, 1871, it was decided to 
 adopt the Navy Mission. The building now oc- 
 cupied by the Navy Mission was then purchased 
 for $12,000, and the requisite alterations were made 
 and the house appropriately furnished at an addi- 
 tional expense of $12,500, thus swelling the total 
 cost to $24,500. The school assembled in their 
 new home on the last Sunday of June, 1871, but 
 the main hall was not prepared for occupancy un- 
 til the last Sunday in April, 1872. The foundation 
 thus laid for another large Mission school, it was 
 
154 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 only necessary, in order to ensure success, to ap- 
 point an efficient man Superintendent, and Mr. 
 George A. Bell was again called on and finally 
 consented to accept that office in January, 1872. 
 
 In 1 87 1, the average attendance was about 200; 
 it is now about 500- 
 
 Six of the Mission's former teachers and scholars 
 have entered the ministry, and three of the lady 
 teachers have connected themselves with the For- 
 eign and Home Missionary Service. 
 
 Miss Crane, a noble and experienced woman, 
 long connected with the Navy Mission, is the 
 present missionary. 
 
 In November, 1872, a Men's Free Reading 
 Room was opened, and a sewing-meeting for the 
 instruction of girls established, both of which are 
 well appreciated and patronized. One of the 
 young lady teachers — Miss Katie Belknap — has 
 offered to instruct gratuitously any scholars who 
 may desire to learn telegraphy, and arrangements 
 will soon be made to enable her to put her propo- 
 sition into effect. • 
 
 It is a remarkable coincidence that both the 
 Bethel and the Navy Missions have, from time to 
 time, removed farther and farther away from the 
 locations in which they were originally estab- 
 lished, until they are now situated in very respect- 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. i$$ 
 
 able neighborhoods, while the vicinities which they 
 were originally intended to enlighten are still wal- 
 lowing in darkness, though, perhaps, a trifle im- 
 proved by the occasional reflection of the rays of 
 gospel light, that long ago flashed in their dens of 
 vice. 
 
 THE ARMSTRONG MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 The Armstrong Missionary Society was formerly 
 composed of a few ladies of different churches, and 
 was instituted for the purpose of educating heathen 
 children. It was eventually taken under the wing 
 of Plymouth Church, and finally was adopted by 
 Plymouth Sabbath-school as one of its regular 
 objects of charity. 
 
 PLYMOUTH YOUNG PEOPLE'S ASSOCIATION. 
 
 This Association invites the admission of all 
 members of the church and Society, between the 
 ages of ten and sixty, who may feel inclined to pay 
 one dollar per annum toward its support. It was 
 organized after the discontinuance of the Social 
 Circles. Throughout the winter months, a sociable 
 is held in the Sunday-school rooms on every sec- 
 ond Thursday evening, when interesting readings, 
 vocal and instrumental music, and various games 
 
156 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 of amusement are introduced to lend additional 
 charms to social intercourse. If more of the young 
 people of the church could be induced to interest 
 themselves in this organization, and become active 
 members, spirited entertainments might be pre- 
 sented at these sociables, which would make them 
 very attractive. Every summer a pleasure excur- 
 sion is indulged in, and once each year a concert is 
 given in the church, the proceeds of which are 
 used to supply the pulpit with flowers on the Sab- 
 bath. 
 
 An Employment Committee, appointed from the 
 members of the Association, gladly receive appli- 
 cations from young men for situations, and if, after 
 due investigation, the characters of applicants are 
 found to be satisfactory, assistance is rendered. 
 During the winter of 1870, the ladies formed a 
 sewing-school for the free instruction of poor girls, 
 and met at three o'clock on Thursday afternoons 
 in the church parlors for that commendable purpose, 
 but in the fall of 1871 their place of meeting was 
 changed to the Bethel, where the good work is 
 still continued. 
 
 Besides supporting these various institutions, 
 the church has afforded pecuniary aid to numerous 
 young men studying for the ministry and other 
 professions, and also to several young ladies. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 I 57 
 
 Thus it will be seen that Plymouth Church and 
 Society, in emulation of the well-known liberal- 
 ity of their pastor, have stretched forth the hand of 
 assistance on every side to the needy and deserv- 
 ing. 
 
158 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER ELEVENTH. 
 
 Mr. Beecher's Salary increased — Appointment of a Pastoral Helper 
 — Deaconesses — Annual Progress of the Church — The Church 
 Revenue — List of Former Trustees — The Present Board — Dea- 
 cons and Deaconesses — Collection System — Sunday-school Stat- 
 istics — Conclusion. 
 
 HE Society, ever anxious to manifest the 
 sincerity of their love for their pastor and 
 their appreciation of the great work he has 
 accomplished in their midst, proposed in 1864 the 
 presentation of $5,000 to him as a mark of esteem, 
 but Mr. Beecher declined to accept of the dona- 
 tion. The same sum was then voted to him as 
 additional salary for that year, and in 1865 his an- 
 nual remuneration was increased to $12,500, which 
 amount was augmented to $20,000 in 1870. 
 
 The large membership of the church and the 
 multifarious labors of Mr. Beecher had for some 
 years rendered the fulfilment of all the duties which 
 devolved upon him as pastor utterly impossible, 
 and in 1869 Mr. Beecher advised the engagement 
 of Rev. S. B. Halliday as Pastoral Helper. The 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. j$g 
 
 functions of Mr. Halliday are to make pastoral 
 visits, call upon the sick, deliver funeral sermons, 
 and pay the proper attention to the many applica- 
 tions for assistance, personal and by letter (with 
 which Mr. Beecher is daily favored), during the 
 absence of the pastor or when he is otherwise un- 
 able to attend to those affairs. In 1870 Mr. Halli- 
 day was appointed clerk of the church. 
 
 The creation of the office or dignity of Deaconess 
 was suggested by Mr. Beecher in 1868, and Mrs. 
 Cordelia Morrill, Mrs. Mary L. Thalheimer, and 
 Mrs. Mary A. Fanning were chosen to serve in 
 that capacity during the remainder of the year. 
 At the annual meeting of the Society in 1869, the 
 office was formally instituted, and Mrs. Morrill, 
 Mrs. Thalheimer, Mrs. Fanning, Mrs. Sarah J. 
 Tappan, Mrs. Martha Bradshaw, and Mrs. Sarah 
 J. Bird were elected deaconesses. 
 
 The annual progress of the church is shown by 
 the annexed * table : 
 
 * This tabular report was copied partly from the Plymouth Church 
 Manual (1867) and partly from the church books. 
 
i6o 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 
 ADMISSION. 
 
 
 DATE. 
 
 a 
 
 £ 
 ft 
 
 
 5 
 
 H 
 
 f. s. 
 
 -- 
 
 ij 
 
 4 
 
 "0 
 
 1847 
 
 1848 
 
 1849 
 
 1850 
 
 I85I 
 
 1852 
 
 1853 
 
 1854 
 
 1855 
 
 1856 
 
 IS57 
 
 1858 
 
 1359 
 
 i860 
 
 I86l 
 
 1862 
 
 1863 
 
 1864 
 
 1865 
 
 1866 
 
 1867 
 
 1868 
 
 1869 
 
 1870 
 
 1871 
 
 1872 
 
 1 
 
 56 
 5o 
 43 
 33 
 102 
 
 33 
 18 
 48 
 
 19 
 88 
 
 369 
 20 
 27 
 36 
 97 
 43 
 42 
 57 
 
 126 
 66 
 77 
 92 
 
 143 
 
 124 
 
 134 
 
 56 
 94 
 
 86 
 
 56 
 
 55 
 59 
 46 
 
 43 
 52 
 63 
 
 44 
 73 
 43 
 52 
 47 
 37 
 13 
 40 
 
 50 
 
 11 
 
 54 
 45 
 61 
 
 5o 
 
 62 
 
 57 
 
 150 
 
 136 
 
 99 
 
 88 
 
 161 
 
 79 
 6i 
 
 10a 
 
 82 
 132 
 
 442 
 
 63 
 79 
 S3 
 
 i34 
 56 
 82 
 
 107 
 
 183 
 
 102 
 
 131 
 
 *37 
 204 
 
 174 
 
 196 
 
 I 
 
 4 
 11 
 
 17 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 40 
 
 51* 
 
 33 
 
 40 
 
 30 
 64* 
 
 27 
 36 
 35 
 42 
 
 38 
 27 
 53 
 SS* 
 24 
 27 
 14 
 18 
 11 
 4 
 
 56 
 146 
 
 125 
 82 
 6l 
 
 133 
 
 39 
 10 
 
 67 
 
 42 
 
 102 
 
 36 
 43 
 48 
 
 92 
 18 
 
 55 
 54 
 95 
 78 
 104 
 
 123 
 186 
 
 163 
 192 
 
 56 
 
 202 
 
 327 
 409 
 470 
 603 
 
 642 
 652 
 719 
 
 761 
 
 S63 
 
 1,241 
 
 1,277 
 
 1,320 
 
 1,36s 
 
 1,460 
 
 1,478 
 
 1,533 
 1,587 
 1,682 
 1,760 
 1,864 
 •1,987 
 2,173 
 2,336 
 2,528 
 
 Total. 
 
 i>944 
 
 i,374 
 
 3,3i8 
 
 790 
 
 2,528 
 
 2,52s 
 
 Mention has been made in previous chapters of 
 the income of the church from pew-rents (1853 to 
 
 * In 1854, 1858, and 1866, the Register was carefully revised, and many mem- 
 bers' names stricken off, who had in fact left or died long before. This accounts 
 for the apparent excess in the number of dismissals in those over other years. — 
 Plymouth Church Manual. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 161 
 
 1868) — Plymouth Church Manual of 1867 being 
 the authority for the figures given ; but Mr. Har- 
 vey S. Weld, having detected the errors, has care- 
 fully prepared a corrected and complete report of 
 this portion of Plymouth Church statistics. The 
 result of his research is here presented : * 
 
 DATE. 
 
 
 
 en C 
 
 li 
 
 Pi 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 ."2 
 
 ■ 
 
 'c3 
 
 O 
 
 ta 
 
 c>2 a 
 
 •0 
 
 > 
 
 8 • 
 
 <= V S 
 
 £2 ? 
 
 
 < 
 
 e 
 
 < 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 U! C " 
 
 1854... 
 
 $10,435 
 
 $1,286 
 
 $... 
 
 $... 
 
 $11,298 
 
 $423 
 
 1855... 
 
 10,551 
 
 1,316 
 
 
 
 11,489 
 
 378 
 
 1856... 
 
 10,345 
 
 1,756 
 
 
 300 
 
 12,200 
 
 20I 
 
 1857... 
 
 11,085 
 
 2,902 
 
 
 350 
 
 14,290 
 
 47 
 
 1858... 
 
 11,812 
 
 4,107 
 
 384 
 
 
 16,254 
 
 49 
 
 1859... 
 
 11,950 
 
 ",773 
 
 7 6l 
 
 1,700 
 
 26,222 
 
 24 
 
 i860... 
 
 11,820 
 
 16,219 
 
 766 
 
 1,500 
 
 30,257 
 
 48 
 
 1861... 
 
 11,892 
 
 16,060 
 
 6ll 
 
 200 
 
 28,660 
 
 103 
 
 1862... 
 
 11,953 
 11,996 
 
 5.945 
 
 291 
 
 340 
 
 18,443 
 
 86 
 
 1863... 
 
 10,034 
 
 433 
 
 200 
 
 22,663 
 
 
 1864. . . 
 
 12,070 
 
 i8,77S 
 
 585 
 
 345 
 
 31,760 
 
 18 
 
 1865... 
 
 12,102 
 
 26,794 
 
 59o 
 
 203 
 
 39,246 
 
 443 
 
 1S66... 
 
 12,010 
 12,008 
 
 29,526 
 
 747 
 
 760 
 
 42,788 
 
 255 
 
 1867... 
 
 36,043 
 
 S20 
 
 390 
 
 49,084 
 
 167 
 
 1868... 
 
 12,015 
 
 36,387 
 
 753 
 
 1,360 
 
 50,2l6 
 
 299 
 
 1869... 
 
 12,014 
 
 41,690 
 
 790 
 
 5io 
 
 55,877 
 
 127 
 
 1870... 
 
 12,028 
 
 44,441 
 
 784 
 
 580 
 
 57,6lO 
 
 223 
 
 I8 7 I... 
 
 12,028 
 
 44,456 
 
 766 
 
 37o 
 
 57,309 
 
 181 
 
 1872... 
 
 12,028 
 
 47,030 
 
 801 
 
 650 
 
 59»762 
 
 t 
 
 Total. 
 
 $222,142 
 
 $396,543 
 
 $9,882 
 
 $9,758 $6 3 5, 4 2S 
 
 $3,072 
 
 t Loss for 1872 not yet known. 
 
 * " The above is a correct exhibit of the rents of Plymouth Church 
 for nineteen years. Brooklyn, January i, 1873. — H. S. Weld, Sec- 
 retary Board of Trustees." 
 
1 62 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 The names of the gentlemen who have been 
 Trustees of Plymouth Church are : 
 
 Arnold, Daniel S. 
 Avery, Charles C. 
 Beach, Moses S. 
 Benedict, Roswell D. 
 Bowen, Henry C. 
 Burgess, Daniel. 
 Claflin, Horace B. 
 Collins, Henry. 
 Corning, Edward. 
 Flanders, Benjamin. 
 Freeland, James. 
 Fuller, Joseph C. 
 Gibson, Edmund T. H. 
 
 Studwell, 
 
 Graves, Rufus R. 
 Howard, John T. 
 Hutchinson, John B. 
 Knapp, Iverson W. 
 Mason, John W. 
 Mellen, William H. 
 Morrill, Henry E. 
 Palmer, Lorin. 
 Pillsbury, Nehemiah O. 
 Ropes, Reuben W. 
 Sage, Henry W. 
 Stanton, Amos P. 
 Storrs, Augustus. 
 Alexander. 
 
 The present Board of Trustees consists of: 
 
 James Freeland (President). 
 R. R. Graves (Treasurer). 
 II . B. Claflin. 
 H. W. Sage. 
 D. S. Arnold. 
 
 Augustus Storrs. 
 
 J. B. Hutchinson. 
 
 M. S. Beach. 
 
 Lorin Palmer. 
 
 H. S. Weld (Secretary). 
 
 The gentlemen now officiating as Deacons are 
 (including the pastor and the clerk, who act ex 
 officio) eleven in number, namely : M. K. Moody, 
 C. M. Morton, R. W. Ropes, D. H. Hawkins, H. 
 B. White, C. C. Duncan, R. D. Benedict,* S. E. 
 Belcher,* E. H. Garbutt,* H. W. Beecher, and S. 
 B. Halliday. 
 
 * Messrs. Benedict, Belcher, and Garbutt were elected Decem- 
 ber 13, 1872. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 163 
 
 The Deaconesses elected at the business meet- 
 ing of the church, Friday evening, December 13 
 (1872), to succeed the retiring Board (Mrs. Mor- 
 rill, Mrs. Tappan, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Halliday, Mrs. 
 Moody, and Mrs. Bryant*), were Mrs. Moody* 
 Mrs. Thalheimer, Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. 
 Halliday, and Mrs. Fitzgerald. 
 
 Collections — beside the regular (church) Poor 
 (after each communion) and the Thanksgiving- 
 day collections — are taken up on the last Sabbath 
 of each month, both morning and evening, the 
 proceeds of which are disbursed in the following 
 order : f 
 
 " January, City Mission and 
 Tract Society. 
 
 February, Home Missionary So- 
 ciety. 
 
 March, American Tract Society, 
 Boston. 
 
 April, Seamen's Friend Society. 
 
 May, Industrial School Associa- 
 tion and Home for Destitute 
 Children. 
 
 June, American Congregational 
 Union. 
 
 July, Sabbath-schools. 
 August, Temperance. 
 September, Western Colleges. 
 October, American Board of 
 
 Commissioners for Foreign 
 
 Missions. 
 November, American Missionary 
 
 Society. 
 December, City Bible Society." 
 
 When, in the autumn of 1871, the hearts and 
 purses of the civilized people of the Globe were 
 opened in sympathy for the thousands of unfortu- 
 
 * Deceased, f Plymouth Church Manual (1867). 
 
1 64 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 nates who suffered by the great fire in Chicago and 
 the Western forest conflagrations, the Society do- 
 nated cash, clothing, and other necessaries to the 
 amount of $40,000,* and the Sabbath-school con- 
 tributed $4,000 additional. 
 
 The annual meeting of the Society, for the 
 election of trustees, is held on the Thursday even- 
 ing" succeeding the first Sunday in January ; that 
 of the church, for the election of officers, is held 
 on the second Friday evening of December ; and 
 a regular business meeting is held on the Friday 
 evening succeeding the last Sunday of each month. 
 
 t The celebration of the Lord's Supper occurs 
 on the first Sabbath of January, March, May, July, 
 September, and November, unless otherwise di- 
 rected by the church. 
 
 t Baptism is administered to infant children on 
 the first suitable Sabbath morning after each com- 
 munion. 
 
 The annual rental of pews at auction takes place 
 in the church, on the first Monday evening in Jan- 
 uary of each year. (Incorrect. See page 294.) 
 
 The growth of the Sunday-school has been in 
 accordance with the increase of the church, to a 
 certain degree. J "In May, 1848, it numbered 
 
 * Direct and indirect. 
 
 f Plymouth Church Manual, (1S67). 
 
 % Plymouth Church Manual. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 165 
 
 25 teachers and 140 scholars, with an average 
 attendance of 140 in all. In December, 1850, the 
 attendance was 174; in December, 1855, 159; in 
 December, i860, 380 ; in 1861,480; in 1862, 580." 
 During the two succeeding years the enrollment 
 was swelled to over 1,100; and the following 
 exhibit* of the school register since 1864 (inclu- 
 sive) tells its own story : 
 
 Roll. 
 
 1864 
 
 1865 
 
 1866 
 
 1867 
 
 1868 
 
 1869 
 
 1870 
 
 1871 
 
 1872 
 
 Officers 
 
 15 
 
 97 
 795 
 250 
 
 15 
 
 98 
 
 783 
 168 
 
 15 
 96 
 
 73i 
 180 
 
 IS 
 
 95 
 
 665 
 
 175 
 
 13 
 94 
 
 769 
 
 175 
 
 14 
 
 86 
 
 849 
 
 125 
 
 14 
 
 97 
 
 885 
 
 150 
 
 13 
 
 97 
 732 
 150 
 
 IOI 
 
 Teachers 
 
 Scholars 
 
 1054 
 150 
 
 Infant class 
 
 Total 
 
 .,, 
 
 1064 
 
 1022 
 
 95o 
 
 991 
 
 1074 
 
 1 146 
 
 992 
 
 1319 
 
 Largest attendance. 
 Smallest " 
 Average * ' 
 
 
 776 
 229 
 615 
 
 767 
 
 3i9 
 649 
 
 787 
 337 
 613 
 
 779 
 220 
 620 
 
 6S6 
 
 185 
 537 
 
 808 
 230 
 651 
 
 822 
 261 
 
 726 
 
 861 
 296 
 780 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher t presides, at 
 present, over one of the adult Bible-classes. 
 
 It has been the custom of the school, for many 
 
 * Obtained through the courtesy of Mr. Adrian J. Tyler, Sec- 
 retary, Plymouth Sunday-school. 
 
 f Late pastor of First Congregational Church, Galesburg, 
 Illinois. 
 
1 66 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 years, to treat themselves and their friends to a 
 Festival (continuing several evenings) in the 
 autumn of each year, and to a Picnic * in the 
 month of June, each summer. 
 
 Monthly collections are taken up in the school 
 for various charities, which annually amount to 
 considerable sums, — 1863, $880; 1864, $1,514; 
 1865, $3,717; 1866, $1,211. An attempt was 
 made, in 1872, to change the contribution system, 
 and, for a short time, collections were called for 
 weekly instead of monthly, but the former and 
 more advisable method has again been resumed. 
 
 It has been deemed expedient, for some, per- 
 haps, wise reason, for several years past, to adjourn 
 the Sunday-school exercises during a portion of 
 the pastor's vacation — generally from about the 
 first of August to the first or second Sabbath in 
 September. A Bible-class meeting has, however, 
 generally been held regularly during the adjourn- 
 ment. The school session is of one and a half 
 hour's duration — commencing at three o'clock P.M. 
 and closing at half after four (P.M.). 
 
 The officers of the school since i860 have been : 
 
 * The Sunday-school picnics have latterly been under the direc- 
 tion of the Plymouth Young People's Association. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 167 
 
 1861. 
 
 Supt., George A. Bell. 
 
 Asst. ( Moses S. Beach. 
 Supts., \ Bishop Faulkner. 
 
 Libr'n, Alex. Magrotty. 
 
 1862-3. 
 
 Supt., G. A. Bell. 
 Asst. ( M. S. Beach. 
 Supts., \ B. Faulkner. 
 .SV<r. &> Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 Libr'n, O. B. Coomes. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Supt., G. A. Bell. 
 ^jj/. f M. S. Beach. 
 .Sw/Ar., '( R. D. Benedict. 
 .SVr. &> Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 Libr'n, O. B. Coomes. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Supt., G. A. BelL 
 ^j\tf. ( Lorin Palmer. 
 
 Supts., \ O. B. Coomes. 
 
 Sec & Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 
 Asst. & ) 
 
 Acting \ Adrian J. Tyler. 
 Sec, ) 
 
 Libr'n, M. G. White. 
 
 1866-7. 
 
 Supt., Rossiter W. Raymond. 
 
 Asst. C L. Palmer. 
 Supts., \ O. B. Coomes. 
 Sec. &> Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 Asst. 6° ) 
 
 Acting \ A. J. Tyler. 
 
 Sec, ) 
 Libr'n, H. S. Jewell. 
 
 1868-9. 
 Supt., R. W. Raymond. 
 Asst. j L. Palmer. 
 Supts., I O. B. Coomes. 
 Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 Sec, A. J. Tyler. 
 Libr'n, H. S. Jewell. 
 
 1870-1. 
 Supt., C. C. Duncan. 
 
 Asst. ( M. S. Beach. 
 Supts., \ O. B. Coomes. 
 
 Treas., C. L. Allen. 
 Sec, A. J. Tyler. 
 Libr'n, H. S. Jewell. 
 
 1872. 
 Supt., C. C. Duncan. 
 
 Asst. ( H. B. White. 
 Supts., \ G. W. Brush. 
 
 Treas., C. L. AUen. 
 .SVr., A. J. Tyler. 
 Libr'n, H. S. Jewell. 
 
 The amount of salaries annually paid by Plym- 
 outh Church is $35,300: 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher, Pastor $20,000 
 
 Rev. S. B. Halliday, Helper 3,000 
 
1 68 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Harvey S. Weld, Chief Sexton 3,500 
 
 Charles Raynor, Assistant Sexton.. 1,200 
 
 Music (Organist and Quartette) 7,600 
 
 $35,300 
 
 * Nine of the original "Twenty-one" are still 
 connected with the church ; t six are deceased ; 
 and % six have dissolved their connection by re- 
 moval. 
 
 The church whose membership numbered 
 twenty-one in 1847, numbers over thirty-three 
 hundred in 1872, and as Henry Ward Beecher 
 stands upon his oft-trod pulpit platform, and gazes 
 with those wondrous eyes down upon the sea of 
 upturned faces, or up at that other sea of faces 
 downturned, as he looks into the depths of the 
 countless eyes which so fondly and earnestly re- 
 gard him, can he not there read the love — love for 
 him and his — the depth and strength of which each 
 one of the past twenty-five years has increased 
 tenfold ! And as his hand wanders carelessly 
 
 * John T. Howard, Henry C. Bowen, Richard Hale, Eli C. 
 Blake, John F. Morse, John Webb, Martha Webb, Louisa Turner, 
 and Mary Burgess. 
 
 \ Lucia Maria Bowen, Jira Payne, Rebecca Morse, Maria Row- 
 land, Alpheus R. Turner, and Benjamin Burgess. 
 
 % Eliza Payne, Rachael Knight, Julia Hale, Charles Rowland, 
 Mary Cannon, and David Griffin. 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. T 6g 
 
 through his silvering locks may he not remember 
 that throughout each year, which has helped to 
 frost his own brown hair, hundreds of souls have 
 been saved by him and through him ! And may 
 he not — standing in the midst of this great church 
 and Society, this great harmonious family, which 
 during a quarter century he has gathered about 
 him — may he not regard them with a pardonable 
 pride, and when the -time of his departure is at 
 hand, exclaim : ''I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, 
 I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE, I HAVE KEPT 
 THE FAITH ! " 
 
170 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 CHAPTER TWELFTH. 
 
 THE SILVER WEDDING AND THE MEMORIAL 
 FUND. 
 
 T a meeting of Plymouth Church, Friday- 
 evening, July 5th, 1872; Thos. C. Fan- 
 ning, Moderator ;. S. B. Halliday, Clerk : 
 On Motion by Reuben Ropes, 
 
 Resolved — That a committee, of whom three to 
 be appointed by the Pastor, three by the Board of 
 Deacons, and three by the Board of Trustees, 
 take into consideration and provide for a suitable 
 commemoration of the twenty-fifth Anniversary, 
 in October next, of the commencement of Mr. 
 Beecher's labors and association with this church. 
 
 In pursuance of this resolution, there was ap- 
 pointed as such committee : 
 
 By the Pastor — J. C. Eldridge, J. B. Murray, 
 A. D. Wheelock, 
 
 By the Deacons — M. K. Moody, D. H. Haw- 
 kins, Reuben Ropes, 
 
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PLYMOUTH CHURCH. \ 7 i 
 
 By the Trustees — H. W. Sage, J. B. Hutchin- 
 son, M. S. Beach. 
 
 The committee met at the Social Parlors, Mon- 
 day evening, July 8th, 1872 ; H. W. Sage, Chair- 
 man ; Geo. A. Bell, Secretary. On motion by 
 Mr. Beach, 
 
 Resolved — That Rev. H. W. Beecher, Rev. 
 S. B. Halliday, the Superintendents of the three 
 Sunday-schools, and Henry Camp, leader of the 
 choir, be invited to act with this committee. 
 
 After general discussion of the object in view, 
 on motion by Mr. Ropes, 
 
 Resolved — That the commemoration include — 
 
 1. — A meeting of the children of the three Sun- 
 day-schools. 
 
 2. — A social Reunion of all who are or who 
 have ever been members of Plymouth Church. 
 
 3. — A historical meeting, at which addresses 
 shall be made by the Pastor and others. 
 
 4. — A prayer and conference meeting of those 
 who are or have been members of the church. 
 
 Resolved — That to secure opportunity for the 
 members of the church to be present, the admis- 
 sion to the three last-named meetings be by 
 ticket. 
 
 Resolved — That invitations be extended to the 
 
172 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Congregational Churches of Brooklyn and vicinity, 
 to be represented by Pastor and Delegate. 
 
 Resolved — That the necessary arrangements for 
 the several meetings be made by an Executive 
 Committee, and that J. C. Eldridge, S. B. Halli- 
 day, M. S. Beach, Reuben Ropes, and J. B. 
 Murray be such committee. 
 
 The Executive Committee then met, J. C. Eld- 
 ridge in the chair, and elected M. S. Beach 
 permanent chairman. 
 
 After discussion of the business before them, 
 and the adoption of sundry resolutions in reference 
 thereto, adjourned until Thursday evening, July 
 nth, at which time the following announcement 
 and order of exercises was ordered to be printed : 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH SILVER WEDDING. 
 
 A series of exercises commemorative of the 
 Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the organization 
 of PLYMOUTH CHURCH and Sunday-school, and 
 of the settlement of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher 
 as pastor, will be held in the Church and in the 
 lecture-room, Sunday-school room, and social par- 
 lors connected therewith, during the second week 
 of October next. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ij$ 
 
 These exercises will consist of — 
 
 I. 
 
 A morning prayer-meeting, conducted by Rev. 
 H. W. Beecher, for one hour — from eight until 
 nine o'clock — on each of the days appointed for the 
 commemorative exercises. 
 
 II. 
 
 An afternoon meeting — at three o'clock, on 
 Tuesday, October 8th — of the children of the three 
 Sunday-schools connected with Plymouth Church, 
 numbering about 2,100 members : 
 
 Plymouth Sunday-school, C. C. Duncan 
 Superintendent , 800 members ; 
 
 The Bethel Sunday-school, TJwmas J. 
 Tilney Superintendent, 900 members ; 
 
 The Navy Mission Sunday-school, George 
 A. Bell Stiperintejident, 400 members. 
 
 This gathering, the object of which is an oppor- 
 tunity for cordial greetings between pastor and 
 scholars, will be directed by George A. Bell, who 
 has been intimately connected with the rise and 
 progress of the several schools ; having been, in 
 succession, the superintendent of each. 
 
 III. 
 A social reunion, on Tuesday evening, October 
 8th, of every person who is now, or who has ever 
 
174 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 been, an officer or teacher in either the Plymouth, 
 the Bethel, or the Navy Mission Sunday-schools ; 
 from the very first organization of either of these 
 schools to the present time. 
 
 IV. 
 
 A social reunion on Wednesday evening, Octo- 
 ber 9th, of all persons who are or who have been 
 members of Plymouth Church. 
 
 This reunion, which will be under the immediate 
 management of the Plymouth Young People's As- 
 sociation, is expected to commence at four o'clock 
 in the afternoon and extend through the evening, a 
 plain lunch being served as a means of refreshment 
 to those who reside at a distance. 
 
 V. 
 
 A general and historical meeting on Thursday 
 evening, October 10th, in the course of which ad- 
 dresses may be expected by Rev. H. W. Beecher, 
 Rev. R. S. Storrs, Rev. W. I. Buddington, and 
 other persons who have been prominently con- 
 nected with the establishment of Congregational 
 churches in Brooklyn and its vicinity. 
 
 VI. 
 A final prayer and conference meeting on Friday 
 evening, October nth, presided over by Rev. H. 
 W. Beecher, and participated in by many to whose 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ^5 
 
 active exertions the existence and prosperity of 
 Plymouth Church is largely due. At the close of 
 this prayer-meeting the Lord's Supper will be cel- 
 ebrated, and suitable words of parting spoken. 
 
 At these several exercises there will be present, 
 it is hoped, every survivor of the twenty-one per- 
 sons by whom Plymouth Church was first organ- 
 ized. This little band of survivors, and the repre- 
 sentations by pastor and one delegate from each 
 of the neighboring Congregational Churches, will 
 be received as specially invited guests. 
 
 Suitable provision will be made for ample floral 
 and other decoration of the church and of the sev- 
 eral rooms in which these commemorative exer- 
 cises are to be held, the decoration being under the 
 general direction of Chas. L. Allen. 
 
 John Zundel will preside at the great organ in 
 the church, and will endeavor to introduce original 
 and other compositions worthy of the occasion. 
 
 The organ in the Sunday-school room will be 
 presided over by H. N. Whitney, an almost life- 
 long member of the school. 
 
 Mr. Lasar, the first # organist of Plymouth 
 Church, will preside at the piano. Mrs. Jameson, 
 the first lady vocalist of Plymouth Church, is ex- 
 pected to be present. 
 
 The choir will be led by Henry Camp, who will 
 
 * Incorrect ; he was the second organist. 
 
iy6 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 also arrange and conduct the musical portions of 
 the exercises, as well in the social as in the Sunday- 
 school and general meetings. 
 
 Miss Clementina Lasar, Soprano ; Miss Antoin- 
 ette Sterling, Contralto; Mr. Hill, Te?ior ; Mr. 
 Camp, Bass; and other members of the choir 
 will, it is expected, lend their several and valuable 
 aid in the suitable presentation of part singing, so 
 far as that may be appropriately introduced. 
 
 The very large membership of Plymouth Church 
 — its registry already numbering above 3,300 — 
 utterly precludes the opening of these several 
 meetings to the public, or even, without restric- 
 tion, to non-member pew occupants, and other 
 regular attendants of the usual services. 
 
 The Executive Committee will, therefore, after 
 making the fullest possible arrangements for the 
 prior accommodation of those entitled, who pro- 
 vide themselves with the necessary admission tick- 
 ets, apportion the limited space which may there- 
 after remain, among other members of Plymouth 
 Society. 
 
 The admission tickets will be provided for each 
 person who is now, or who has ever been, a mem- 
 ber of Plymouth Church, or an officer or teacher 
 of either of the Sunday-schools ; and for non- 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ijy 
 
 member pew-holders ; but they will not be trans- 
 ferable, and will be given out only to those who, 
 being thus entitled, and intending to be present, 
 may apply for them, personally or by letter, before 
 October 1st. 
 
 All tickets which are not applied for before Oc- 
 tober ist, will then, at the discretion of the execu- 
 tive committee, be apportioned as above stated. 
 
 Application for tickets should be made immedi- 
 ately, and every applicant should, at the same 
 time, state his or her present address (and if wife, 
 her maiden name), and the year of their connection 
 with the church or school. 
 
 Tickets will then be forwarded to the address 
 given, during the month of September. 
 
 As one means of increasing the general interest 
 
 to be derived from this occasion, and at the same 
 
 time of perfecting the church records, any and all 
 
 information as to the present residence, if living, of 
 
 any person who is now or who has ever been a 
 
 member of Plymouth Church, or an officer or 
 
 teacher in either the Plymouth, the Bethel, or tjie 
 
 Navy Mission Sunday-schools, is most earnestly 
 
 and urgently solicited, from the parties themselves, 
 
 or from any person to whom the facts are known. 
 
 Particulars of the death of any such member are 
 
 also desired. 
 8* 
 
i;8 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Written statements of incidents connected with 
 the history of the Church or either of the three 
 Sunday-schools, or of any of its past or present 
 members, which may be deemed of general inter- 
 est, are also solicited, whether from church mem- 
 bers, or from friends to whom the incidents are 
 known. 
 
 Address all letters to " Plymouth CHURCH, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y." 
 
 Make personal application to Rev. S. B. Halli- 
 day, 69 Hicks St. 
 
 f Joseph C. Eldridge, 
 
 c .. r -+* l Reuben Ropes, 
 Executive Committee. I s R H alliday, 
 
 (Jacob B. Murray. 
 
 M. S. Beach, Chairman, 96 Columbia Heights. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., July nth, 1872. 
 
 These exercises were necessarily prolonged 
 through five days, to better enable all members of 
 the church and Sabbath-schools, and the pew- 
 holders — numbering more than six thousand per- 
 sons — to take part in the ceremonies. 
 
 Monday, October 7th (1872), was the opening 
 day, and on that morning, at eight o'clock, the first 
 of the series of morning prayer-meetings was 
 held in the lecture-room. The pastor conducted 
 the services. No tickets were required to obtain 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 179 
 
 admission — all were cordially invited to attend. At 
 four o'clock P.M. the members — 2,954 in number — 
 of the three Sunday-schools connected with the 
 church ; — Plymouth Sunday-school, C. C. Duncan, 
 Superintendent; Bethel Sunday-school, T. J. Til- 
 ney, Superintendent ; Navy Mission Sunday- 
 school, George A. Bell, Superintendent — assem- 
 bled in their respective school-rooms in Cranberry 
 street, Hicks street, and Jay street, preparatory to 
 forming in line of procession. At five o'clock they 
 united and, preceded by bands, marched past Mr. 
 Beecher's house on Columbia Heights. 
 
 Toward five o'clock Columbia Heights was 
 thronged with an anxious crowd eager to witness 
 the ovation to Mr. Beecher. Nor were they dis- 
 appointed, for at about five o'clock the roll of the 
 drum and notes of instruments were heard in the 
 distance, and presently the head of the approach- 
 ing column wheeled into view, the van being led 
 by 
 
 THE NAVY MISSION SCHOOL. 
 
 Previous to the arrival of the processionists, the 
 steps of Mr. Beecher's house were crowded with 
 people, some friends, some strangers, but all intent 
 upon the one all-important object to swell the mul- 
 titude by their presence, and assist in magnifying 
 
l8o PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 the ovation to the Plymouth preacher. In the cen- 
 tre of the group, upon the steps, stood the Rev. 
 Henry Ward Beecher, his face 
 
 WREATHED WITH SMILES, 
 
 and the very personification of heartfelt and ex- 
 ultant delight. There was no mistaking it. Mr. 
 Beecher looked happier than he had ever been 
 known to look before. At least such was the nat- 
 ure of many remarks passed through the curious 
 crowd. A % little in the background, sharing the 
 honor of her husband, stood Mrs. Beecher. 
 
 There were also there to help on as welt as to 
 enjoy the general honors of the occasion, Miss 
 Beecher, Col. Harry Beecher, Dr. and Mrs. Scud- 
 der and Miss Scudder, Rev. S. and Mrs. Scovell 
 (Mr. Beecher's daughter) and family, and several 
 other relatives and friends. The bands of music 
 having been stationed in favorable positions, they 
 struck up enlivening strains, and 
 
 THE MARCH PAST 
 
 the house commenced. First came the Navy School 
 Mission preceded by a very handsome banner.* 
 The men and boys took off their hats, and saluted 
 the well-known divine, expressing by the delight 
 depicted upon their faces their happiness at seeing 
 

 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. j8i 
 
 him and love for him in their hearts. Mr. Beecher 
 bowed and smiled, and smiled and bowed ; he ac- 
 knowledged his gratitude in every possible manner. 
 Presently 
 
 THE BETHEL MISSION 
 
 came in view, and proudly marched past the home 
 of their beloved pastor, rending the air with cheers 
 and shouts in the exuberance of their glee. The 
 Married Men's and Women's Class were also there ; 
 of these there could not have been less than 250 or 
 300, and all saluted Mr. Beecher. But when 
 
 HIS OWN PLYMOUTH SCHOOL 
 
 appeared, the enthusiasm was literally unbounded. 
 It was immense ; handkerchiefs were waved, ban- 
 ners held aloft, smiles everywhere, cheers trium- 
 phant rent the air, and to complete one of the most 
 joyous demonstrations that anyone clergyman was 
 ever made the recipient of, a perfect shower of the 
 choicest bouquets were cast at Mr. Beecher's feet. 
 So great was the delight of the little girls, that, not 
 satisfied with casting 
 
 THE FLORAL TRIBUTES 
 
 at his feet, they aimed at his head and body, one 
 of the urchins succeeding with admirable precision 
 in planting a rosebud on Mr. Beecher's eye. In 
 
1 82 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 scarce three minutes the stoop was made a glorious 
 parterre of choicest flowers. When all had passed 
 by, a glance at Mr. Beecher'sface showed that he 
 was 
 
 VISIBLY AFFECTED. 
 
 The wedding procession passed by, and then 
 they were escorted by their respective Superintend- 
 ents, Mr. Bell, Mr. Tilney, and Captain Duncan, 
 to the Plymouth Church, which was filled in about 
 twenty minutes. The appearance of the galleries 
 was very brilliant, what with the variety of bright 
 colors, the array of beautiful banners, and the sea 
 of smiling, happy faces. The bands, now concen- 
 trated into one, were in the upper gallery, and 
 played some delightful music, until the arrival of 
 the pastor, Mr. Beecher. Then, indeed, it would 
 have needed half a dozen bands to have drowned 
 
 THE ECHOING CHEERS 
 
 from 3,000 throats. The platform was occupied 
 by Messrs. Bell, Tilney, Duncan, Scovel, and Bird, 
 with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Scud- 
 der. 
 
 Mr. Bird came forward when the excitement had 
 subsided, and in a few brief words called upon the 
 entire assemblage to sing "Sing unto the Lord a 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ^3 
 
 New Song," which was rendered with excellent 
 effect by all present. 
 
 Mr. Bird then introduced Dr. Scudder, saying 
 that he did not think any one could possibly ad- 
 dress a pleasanter-looking audience, but it was 
 rather a difficult one to speak to. 
 
 Dr. Scudder on coming forward said that he 
 would speak a little to the children and a little to 
 the teachers, but that, as in every house the baby 
 was the king, he would address the children first. 
 Dr. Scudder here told a fable of an eagle and a 
 wren, in which the eagle claimed the ability to fly 
 higher than any bird, but when it had soared up to 
 its utmost limit, the wren, which had nestled in its 
 back, rose higher still. So, he said, the little ones 
 are above us, no matter how high we are. Dr. 
 Scudder told some amusing anecdotes, and de- 
 lighted the children to their hearts' content. 
 
 When Mr. Beecher came to the front of the 
 platform he was received with cheers. He said 
 that it ought to be no difficult matter for him to 
 address those present, having had great experience 
 in public speaking, but of all the large audiences 
 he ever addressed, however important the subject, 
 he never felt it more difficult to speak than on the 
 present occasion. He expressed his heartfelt 
 thanks to all present, and hoped that as years 
 
I 84 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 rolled on, so would those schools increase in num- 
 bers and prosperity. It had been said that Plym- 
 outh Church was only intended for adults, but he 
 would defy any other church to produce so many 
 Sunday-school children, and who were better 
 cared for. Plymouth Church itself was but barely 
 large enough for their reception alone, and there- 
 fore it was impossible for them to join with the con- 
 gregation. He then referred to the formation of 
 the different schools, the first the Plymouth, num- 
 bering originally but 48 ; the Bethel, and the 
 youngest, the Navy Mission ; and a more comely 
 and happy band, collectively, could not be found. 
 
 Mr. Beecher closed by expressing the hope that 
 they would all be gathered into that garden where 
 their Father would receive them. The proceed- 
 ings closed by singing a hymn. 
 
 The children then adjourned to their several 
 school-rooms, where they expected to be regaled 
 on ice-cream and cake, but owing to the neglect 
 or incompetency of a member of the Refreshment 
 Committee, the ice-cream was not forthcoming 
 and the children were greatly disappointed.* 
 
 After being allowed a brief period for social en- 
 tertainment, they were dismissed, and thus ended 
 
 * The scholars of the Navy Mission, at the school's own expense, 
 received their ice-cream on an evening of the following week. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Y ^ 
 
 the first day and night of the great Silver Wedding 
 of Plymouth Church. 
 
 The second day's ceremonies (Tuesday, October 
 8) were commenced by the eight o'clock A.M. 
 prayer-meeting in the lecture-room. 
 
 In the evening there was a reunion in the Sun- 
 day-school room of all the officers and teachers of 
 the three Sunday-schools. Upwards of a thou- 
 sand tickets were issued, and the rooms were 
 crowded with ladies and gentlemen. Badges of 
 red, white, and blue ribbons were distributed to 
 the officers of the different schools — white to those 
 of Plymouth ; and a different color to each of the 
 others. Mr. Beecher wore all three badges. He 
 looked well, and was, as usual, genial and kind to 
 all. Excellent music was furnished by Bernstein's 
 band. Refreshments were plentifully supplied, 
 and the reunion was of a very pleasing, social char- 
 acter. 
 
 At about eight o'clock the visitors descended to 
 the lecture-room, which was handsomely decorated 
 for the occasion. Across the ceiling was stretched 
 an immense white flag, upon which was described 
 a huge circle in crimson, with " 1847 — 1872," em- 
 broidered in red, white, and blue. Below the 
 cornices were rows of little silk flags in groups of 
 threes ; and above them were festoons of red and 
 
1 86 PL YMO UTII CIIUR CII. 
 
 blue bunting. Over the platform, on the wall, 
 was inscribed : 
 
 One family in Heaven and earth. 
 
 " One is your master, even Christ, and all 
 ye are brethren." 
 
 Around the walls were fixed the gayly colored 
 banners of the Sunday-school, bearing various mot- 
 toes and texts of Scripture. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher presided, sup- 
 ported by Messrs. Henry C. Bowen, George A. Bell, 
 Thomas J. Tilney, and R. Raymond and Andrew 
 A. Smith. The services were principally conducted 
 by Brother Bell. Mr. Lasar presided at the piano. 
 
 The proceedings began with the singing of a 
 hymn and the reading of a portion of the 2ist 
 chapter of John's Gospel. 
 
 Brother Andrew A. Smith led in prayer. He 
 said they lifted up their hearts to the great Master 
 of assemblies, who had promised that where two 
 or three were gathered together there would He 
 be in the midst of them. Oh, that God would 
 come and fill all their souls with grace divine. He 
 thanked God for having brought so many of the 
 officers and teachers of the schools together. He 
 thanked God that He had been with them in the 
 past, and prayed Him to be with them in the fut- 
 
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 ure. He prayed God to bless their pastor, and 
 all the officers, teachers, and scholars of the Sun- 
 day-school : and may the blessings that were past 
 be only the beginning of blessings yet to come. 
 
 The beautiful hymn, " Safe within the Vail," was 
 then sung : 
 
 " ' Land ahead ! ' its fruits are waving 
 
 O'er the hills of fadeless green, 
 And the living waters laving 
 
 Shores where heavenly forms are seen ; 
 Rocks and storms I'll fear no more, 
 
 When on that eternal shore ; 
 Drop the anchor, furl the sail, 
 
 I am safe within the vail." 
 
 Brother Bell then addressed the meeting, and re- 
 lated some interesting points of his experience in 
 connection with the schools. Twenty-five years 
 ago he became a teacher in Plymouth Sunday- 
 school, and took a class under Mr. Bowen. His 
 principal duty for some time consisted in lifting 
 one little rascal up who would persist in getting off 
 his seat on to the floor. [Laughter.] There were 
 no infant classes in the schools at that time. That 
 little rascal was here to-night a good, Christian 
 young man. He had asked him how old he was : 
 " Oh, about thirty." So he was just five years old 
 when he first joined the Sunday-school. He was 
 a teacher in the Bible-class in 1854. Well did he 
 
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 remember the old school with round benches in 
 Cranberry street. Do you remember that, Mr. 
 Bowen ? said he. Oh that was a blessed room. 
 And when we had to move from that to the Taber- 
 nacle, what an awful place it seemed to hold a meet- 
 ing in. Looking back for twenty-five years, I can 
 recollect of friendships all through life. How the 
 young men used to work in' the Sunday-schools, 
 and in the young men's prayer-meeting. How we 
 used to go into the little study and hold our prayer- 
 meetings of a Saturday night. Thoughts of our 
 young men and of our young women teachers all 
 come back to me. A great many of them are 
 passed away ; some are working in other fields. 
 Then after a few years I was chosen superintend- 
 ent of the Sunday-school. It was the best thing 
 that ever happened to me. Oh, what pleasure, 
 joy, and comfort I have derived from those years 
 of work ; what love I have gained from the chil- 
 dren ! Many of them are now teachers. Some of 
 them have not yet given their hearts to God, but 
 I believe they will do so. I dare not go down to 
 that Bethel School, I feel so strongly about it. 
 Oh, isn't the Sunday-school pleasant work ? Is 
 there anything in all your life so happy ? You all 
 look so happy and cheerful that I am sure you find 
 it so! 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. ^9 
 
 After the singing of a hymn, Mr. Bell called on 
 Brother Lowell, " who was superintendent of 
 Bethel twenty or thirty or forty years ago. " (Great 
 laughter and applause.) 
 
 • Brother Lowell said he was a teacher in the First 
 Street Church. The Sunday-schools were very 
 different from what Sunday-schools are now. It 
 was a whitewashed stable, and the boys used to 
 come and throw mud and stones in at the door. 
 They had but a very indifferent library ; a few 
 books which the teachers themselves contributed. 
 The teachers also defrayed the expenses of the 
 school. In fact, it was a kind of domestic concern. 
 The school was started under very difficult circum- 
 stances ; but a great deal of good was done in that 
 neighborhood, which was a very poor one. They 
 had to go into cellars and garrets to get children. 
 And so the work was carried on, and God blessed 
 it. He congratulated Mr. Beecher on the success 
 of his work, and on the good he had done, and 
 hoped he would be long spared to continue the 
 work in their midst. 
 
 After the singing of another hymn, Mr. Bell said : 
 Now I think we ought to hear from the first Super- 
 intendent of Plymouth Sunday-school. 
 
 Brother Bowen, after a few preliminary remarks, 
 said : I am happy to be here, fellow-teachers and 
 
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 fellow-workers and fellow-Christians. I am happy 
 to be here to mingle my thanksgiving to God for 
 His goodness to me, and to us as a church, and to 
 Brooklyn. I thank God for His goodness to us as 
 individuals and to the church and to our city, so 
 richly blessed with Christian privileges, with such 
 faithful Christian ministers, with so many Christian 
 influences, with so much of everything to make us 
 happy — as happy as we can expect to be in this 
 career on earth. But our object is principally to 
 speak of the Sunday-schools connected with this 
 church : and as the Bethel has been referred to, I 
 may say that if ever I had any fitness to be a 
 teacher (and I never professed to have much) I 
 learned it in Main street. A very good lady, now 
 in heaven, a member of the Old Presbyterian 
 church, said to me : "I want you to go down into 
 Main street, and help me at some evening meet- 
 ings." I said : "What do you want of me there ? " 
 She replied : " Well, I have opened a room, and 
 have invited people to come in there during the 
 afternoon and evening : and in a week Ave were 
 crowded, and I want you to come and help." I 
 said, " I have had no experience, and I doubt my 
 capacity to fill such a place. You had better go to 
 the elders, and ask them to designate some proper 
 person." However, I went ; and in a short time 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 after, Elder Holbrooke (a very Godly man — now 
 living, I am happy to say) was sent down to see if 
 that young man and that lady were safe — fit to 
 teach. He reported that they were doing some 
 good — perhaps no harm — and perhaps they had 
 better be encouraged. (Laughter and applause.) 
 Well, we went on, and that meeting grew, and I 
 became much interested in the work. My feelings 
 on behalf of those in our city who did not enjoy 
 the privileges that we enjoyed were first kindled. 
 I found there were people who needed the Gospel, 
 beside those in the churches, and I began my 
 labors in the field ; and it was blessed ; and a 
 large number connected themselves with the church 
 as the fruit of that mission effort. When this 
 church was organized, one of the first requests of 
 our beloved pastor was that we should have a 
 Sabbath-school. We had scarcely got together as 
 a congregation ; we did not know each other. 
 His first request when he came here to survey the 
 field was that we should have a Sunday-school. 
 He had not settled whether he would come here 
 or not. But he said, " Even if I don't come, have 
 a Sunday-school. Begin on a pattern that shall 
 mean the best interest of the entire community, 
 for my heart is with you." Well, we followed his 
 advice. We gave notice on the first Sabbath that 
 
192 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 there was to be a special organization in the Sab- 
 bath-school building. We were surprised when 
 we got there. We found about fifty promising 
 young persons present, and without any manage- 
 ment as to who should be superintendent. I was 
 elected, or appointed, or took the position, I don't 
 recollect how it was. We didn't come together in 
 any way to show any authority or any such thing, 
 but we came together to do good ; and it hap- 
 pened, as I said, that I occupied the position of 
 superintendent for a short time, until they elected 
 a better man ; and they have had better men ever 
 since. At that meeting there was a very good 
 spirit shown, and I felt I had a heavy duty upon 
 my hands. Children were constantly coming in, 
 and we were anxious to have the house full on 
 Sundays, and to have the Sabbath-school full. I 
 was more anxious about the Sabbath-school ; for 
 the public was with us, and we had many special 
 demonstrations about the Sabbath-school. God 
 blessed us with surprising increase ; and we were 
 all glad and happy. I have served this church — 
 as many officers in the army are glad to say — from 
 the ranks upward as far as trusteeship and as being 
 a deacon. I feel proud and happy to say I have 
 labored in three positions with a sole desire to pro- 
 mote the general good and prosperity of this 
 
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 church ; and I count it a matter of great satisfaction 
 that I began in the Sabbath-school in this church. 
 It gave me an insight into my own needs, my own 
 wants, such as I never had before. I believe it did 
 me more good than anything I ever attempted to do. 
 When I gave up the position of superintendent, 
 and a better man was appointed in my place, I 
 didn't lose my interest in the work. I believed I was 
 fitted to look after other matters. I was appointed 
 door-keeper; I was occupied in bringing people 
 into the church, and bringing in boys ; and then I 
 looked after the music ; for sometimes we had 
 one singer, and sometimes six : and I had to scour 
 the neighborhood for singers. For we had no 
 congregation, and we didn't even know that any 
 of us would unite in forming a church, until that 
 man (Mr. Beecher) came, and then we all came. 
 We didn't know that we should unite in forming a 
 church, for some of us belonged to other churches. 
 But when he came we were all determined to unite 
 with him. My dear friends I am happy to meet you 
 and to say, " God bless you " wherever you are, 
 whether in St. Louis or San Francisco, we come 
 here to recognize no other ; and whatever positions 
 we may fill now, and however we may be sep- 
 arated, I trust we shall all meet again hereafter; 
 
 and there see the crowd of children who have been 
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 PL 1 11/(9 1 ~TH C1IUR Clf. 
 
 converted by these means ; I hope we shall all 
 meet them on that shore where we shall all be 
 happy forever and ever. 
 
 The hymn " Crown Him Lord of All," was then 
 sung. 
 
 Brother Holt said : We are all met together to 
 give a reason for the hope that is in us. I have 
 been very happy to meet you here. I have stolen 
 considerable gospel from Mr. Beecher, and though 
 some have said he is not orthodox, I have always 
 defended him. I always said I believed he was 
 sound. He has stirred up a good deal of interest, 
 as is evident here to-night ; but then you know he 
 has a Bell which always rings. 
 
 Brother Bell — Yes, time is passing ; let us have 
 your remarks — not any Bells. [Laughter.] 
 
 A member — Xo, bells are only sounding brass. 
 [Renewed laughter.] 
 
 Brother Holt — I hope you will allow r me to con- 
 gratulate myself as belonging to one of your 
 schools. I went down to the Navy Mission in 
 1859, and, after performing the duties of teacher, 
 they, in January, 1866, very unwisely appointed 
 me superintendent. During that year a very im- 
 portant revival took place. Forty or fifty persons 
 were converted. I stayed there till 1869, and the 
 school increased and grew, especially atter I left. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. + T g$ 
 
 I always have endeavored to remember all the 
 scholars, and it gives me great pleasure to meet 
 them and talk to them. I have now a clan of little 
 children, little girls — blessed youth — they are a 
 great blessing to me. It is no irksome task to me 
 to teach them. I am getting along to that time of 
 life when the affections of a father begin to blos- 
 som, and I like to instruct them ; I like to talk to 
 them ; I like to think of them. 
 The meeting sang the hymn : 
 
 " Oh, that with yonder sacred throng." 
 
 Brother A. A. Smith : I went down to the Bethel 
 and took charge of it in 1848, and graduated in 
 1862. They asked me to go down for one single 
 day. It was a Mission School, a new thing then, 
 a matter quite outside of the church. I said, " I 
 don't know much about the work. My heart goes 
 out to it." In the meantime I went to a teachers' 
 social meeting on Fulton avenue, and I liked them, 
 and was interested in them. So I went down the 
 next Sabbath, and there seemed to be indications 
 on the part of the teachers that I was to be super- 
 intendent. But the Lord spoke to me, and en- 
 abled me to see what I didn't see before ; and it 
 seemed to me as if He said, " Stay here, and go to 
 work ;" and I said, "Lord, what qualifications 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 have I ? " and He said, " I will give you all you 
 
 need." I looked to Him and trusted to Him. I 
 felt there was a great work to do in this triangle 
 bounded by Fulton street, and the river, and Main 
 street. Right opposite to us was the old stable 
 and a house, wherein there were sixty families. 
 But I felt that with the help of the Lord we could 
 do everything. So I said, " Let us have a week 
 of prayer." After that, when I went down, I felt 
 there w r as an atmosphere in the school that I had 
 never perceived before. We had a prayer-meeting 
 in a house near there, and by and by it increased 
 so much that we had to go to a larger place. 
 There never was a year but God came and gave 
 us souls for our hire. I think, without exception, 
 there were as noble workers, as sincere Christians, 
 in that school as I ever met with ; and during all 
 those fifteen years I never once had an unkind 
 word with teachers or officers. The parents of the 
 children, too, take so much interest in the work. 
 There you will see the love of scholars for their 
 school, and the love of parents for the institution 
 also. 
 
 Brothers McKay and Ferris made a few remarks 
 in reference to their connection with the school. 
 
 Brother Henry Whitney said Mr. Bell came to 
 him, and asked him to come down and play the 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. jgy 
 
 organ. He replied he could not play, but he 
 would come and try. So he went down ; and he 
 could never say that he regretted it. It had been 
 a great blessing to his own life. 
 
 Rev. H. W. Beecher — I would like to have a 
 little light about this. Here is one brother who 
 says he could never sing until he went to Sunday- 
 school, and then he could sing well enough ; and 
 another went and he played the organ although he 
 knew nothing about it before. Why, we ought to 
 have a little light about this. [Laughter.] 
 
 Brother Bell — I think we should like to hear Mr. 
 Beecher's views on the general subject. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Beecher — I am warned by the super- 
 intendent that you are only to have short speeches. 
 But I am satisfied that you can't get up in such a 
 meeting as this and get at the pith of the subject 
 in short speeches. You have to go round it, and 
 describe, and describe, and describe it. Well, I 
 think ministers are likely to be worse than any of 
 them. I can only say I have had a very happy 
 evening ; and now I will set you an example of 
 being short. 
 
 Brother Morrill, being called upon by one of 
 the members, gave his experiences in connection 
 with the school ; of the handful who were con- 
 nected with it when it was organized, but few re- 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 maincd. He was appointed a temporary teacher. 
 Then he took a Bible-class, Brother Corning hav- 
 ing vacated the position of superintendent ; and 
 so the school was left upon the speaker's hands. 
 So in January, 1 85 1 , he was elected superintend- 
 ent, and for ten consecutive years had the blessed 
 privilege of being superintendent of this school. 
 Sabbath-schools are far different things now to 
 what they were in those days. Formerly they 
 were a mere appendage to the church ; now they 
 are a power in themselves. 
 
 Brother Bell intimated that it was time for the 
 meeting to close, but several persons seemed in- 
 clined to speak, when Rev. Mr. Beecher said when 
 forty or fifty people got together and attempted to 
 give their experience, we do not get the best part 
 of it. There wasn't a man who had spoken there 
 who, when he sat down, did not feel, " I haven't 
 said the thing I wanted to say." The thing that 
 is unsaid, is more than the thing that is said — the 
 things that lie back in the heart. God knows 
 them, the angels know them. "The kingdom of 
 God is within you ; " and these mysteries of expe- 
 rience can never be communicated ; and in regard 
 to the work of these schools and the life of this 
 church, it had not been in mere externals ; and 
 people did not know the hundredth part of what 
 
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 had been accomplished. The best history of this 
 church is not that which is written, but that which 
 will lie secret till the last day. 
 
 After singing a few more verses, the pastor gave 
 the benediction, and the company adjourned to 
 the upper room, when refreshments were served, 
 and the remainder of the evening spent in social 
 conversation, interspersed with music. 
 
 Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, the usual 
 prayer-meeting was held for one hour, conducted 
 by Mr. Beecher. 
 
 At four o'clock P.M., the Sunday-school rooms 
 were opened preparatory for the general reunion 
 during the evening, and at five o'clock the lecture- 
 room and social parlors were also thrown open, 
 and a plain lunch of tea, coffee, and sandwiches 
 served to those whose homes were distant. 
 
 Until eight o'clock the company remained 
 around these rooms, but at that hour the doors of 
 the church were thrown open, and thither, in the 
 words of the programme, they repaired, to indulge 
 
 "IN MIXED INTELLECTUAL AXD MUSICAL EXER- 
 CISES." ' 
 
 In a few minutes after the doors had been 
 thrown open, not a seat was to be had in the house. 
 It was filled all round, up and down. The scene 
 
200 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 was decidedly impressive. There in the pews sat 
 
 little short of three thousand men and women, 
 
 cultured and refined in every faculty, all delighting 
 
 in their connection with Plymouth Church, and 
 
 proud to think that at one time or another they 
 
 had been among the congregation superintended 
 
 by Mr. Beecher. The building was splendidly 
 
 decorated for the occasion. The pulpit was almost 
 
 a solid bank of flowers, woven into all manner of 
 
 curious and fitting emblems. The galleries were 
 
 completely circled with rare and delicate plants, 
 
 and the usually bare white walls were, by deft 
 
 workmanship, made to blossom like the rose. The 
 
 organ, even, itself an ornament, was subject to 
 
 still further adornment, and poured out its music 
 
 through perfumed wreaths, crosses, harps, and 
 
 horns. 
 
 THE ENTERTAINMENT 
 
 was opened by a fine voluntary on the organ, by 
 Mr. Zundel, followed by the quartette rendering 
 of " Home," by Miss Lasar, Miss Sterling, Mr. 
 Hill, and Mr. Camp. 
 
 Dr. Edward Beecherthen offered a short prayer, 
 after which the 
 
 REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER SAID : 
 
 " It will be twenty-five years to-morrow since 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 0I 
 
 my personal connection with this church began. 
 During that twenty-five years the church has been 
 related to the work of the age in more important 
 respects than is generally understood or remem- 
 bered. It has always been a matter of faith with 
 me that the great object contemplated by the gos- 
 pel of Christ would fail of accomplishment, if left 
 chiefly to the hands of the professional clergy, 
 and that there never would be the work done that 
 was necessary until the whole body of Christians 
 became, as it were, ministers of Christ. Among 
 the earliest things that I had in my mind when I 
 came here at first, was, if God pleased to gather 
 together a body of Christian men and women who 
 would influence religiously every place, not merely 
 to be witnesses of Christ, but to work together 
 with me under the gospel. This desire has been 
 answered. There has been for the last twenty- 
 five years, in connection with Plymouth Church, a 
 largely increasing 
 
 DEVOTED BAND OF MEN AND WOMEN, 
 
 pledged to the carrying forward of all humane ob- 
 jects ; a more active, more zealous company I 
 have never known. Now in this anniversary week 
 it seemed to me that if we gave Monday to the 
 children (and a beautiful day it was, and a sight 
 
202 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 finer than which I never expect to see until we 
 meet in the New Jerusalem), if we gave Tuesday 
 to the reunion and congratulation of teachers and 
 officers of the various schools, then Wednesday, 
 which is a church day, might be set apart as a day 
 on which to speak of the church history, as some- 
 thing apart from the history of the pastor. And 
 to-night, although much provision has been made 
 for music, which you will all of you wait upon with 
 pleasure (for you will have to wait until you get 
 it), it has seemed proper to interject such reminis- 
 cences and accounts of the early history of the 
 church, as would put in possession of those who 
 joined later some of those 
 
 FACTS WHICH ARE IX DANGER OF BEING FOR- 
 GOTTEN. 
 
 " This evening will therefore be occupied chiefly 
 with statements that turn largely upon the early 
 history of the church. Here, however, let me 
 say, that in 1846, while I was living in Indiana, an 
 innocent-looking gentleman, then to me unknown, 
 presented himself to me, and introduced himself 
 as from Brooklyn ; but you must know who this 
 man is, as he afterward played an important part 
 in the affairs of this Church — he proved to be a 
 conspirer against my person ; he was nothing less 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 203 
 
 than a spy — that person was Mr. W. T. Cutter. 
 He induced me to go with him on fishing excur- 
 sions, for drives and other amusements, and when 
 he had got out of me what he wanted, he told of 
 his deep-laid scheme of getting me away from the 
 land of the West. He will give you an account of 
 the nefarious steps which he took to secure my 
 person in the shape of a pastor. He is here, and 
 I now call upon him to tell his own story." [Ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 MR. CUTTER, 
 
 a gentleman about sixty years of age, then got on 
 the platform, and proceeded to state how he car- 
 ried on his negotiations with young Beecher, 
 touching the transfer of his person to Brooklyn. 
 He (Cutter) had heard of Beecher while travelling 
 in the West, and when Plymouth Church was es- 
 tablished, it occurred to him that Beecher was the 
 man to fill the pulpit. With this object he went 
 to Indiana, heard the young man, and was more 
 than satisfied. He then fixed matters with the 
 New York Missionary Society, so that they brought 
 him in here to preach their anniversary sermon, 
 and thereby gave the Plymouthites a chance to 
 satisfy themselves concerning his qualifications. 
 They were satisfied, determined to call him ; did 
 
204 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 call him, and he, Cutter, hung around Indiana, 
 using all the influence he could command until 
 Beecher determined to accept the call. Mrs. 
 Becchcr was then in ill-health, and had been told 
 that eastern air was necessary for her restoration, 
 and this, among other things, was one of Mr. 
 Beecher's strongest reasons for coming to Brook- 
 lyn. 
 
 At the conclusion of Mr. Cutter's remarks 
 
 MR. HENRY C. BOWEN 
 
 was introduced, and read a lengthy paper on the 
 history of the church. 
 
 At the conclusion of Mr. Bowen's recital, an in- 
 teresting letter from Mr. John T. Howard, dated 
 at Chicago, was read. Mr. Howard was among 
 the founders of the church, and his letter in a 
 general, but very pleasant way, dealt with his 
 recollections of the early days of the movement. * 
 
 A letter signed "An Old Member of the 
 Church," and another signed " One of the Young 
 
 * A letter from Mr. Sherman Day — once a prominent member 
 of the Society but now a resident of Bacon's Island, San Joaquin 
 River, California — was also read. Several letters written by Mr. 
 Beecher to Mr. Henry C. Bowen, relative to his acceptance of the 
 pastorship of the church in 1847, were obliged to be omitted owing 
 to want of time, but were published in the Brooklyn Union of Octo- 
 ber nth (1872). 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 20 5 
 
 Members," were also read. These eulogized the 
 preaching of Mr. Beecher, and thanked Heaven 
 that they had been brought under his benign influ- 
 ence. After they had been disposed of, the fol- 
 lowing 
 
 MUSICAL PROGRAMME 
 
 was rendered effectively : 
 
 Song — " My Queen" — Mr. Baird Blumenthal. 
 
 Duet — "The Swallows" — Miss Lasar and Miss 
 
 Finch Kucken. 
 
 "Glee — " King Wittlaff's drinking home " Hatton. 
 
 Messrs. Bush, Rockwood, Baird, and 
 Camp. 
 
 Song — " The Message " — Miss Lasar Blumenthal. 
 
 Song—" Brightest Eyes "—Mr. Hill Stogelli. 
 
 Quartette — " You stole my love" G. McFarren. 
 
 Miss Lasar, Miss Finch, Mr. Bush, and Mr. 
 Baird. 
 Solo— " Prayer from La Vestale " — Mrs. F. 
 
 Jackson Mercadante. 
 
 Quartette—" Red, Red Rose " Patton. 
 
 Miss Sterling and Messrs. Bush, Rockwood, 
 and Camp. 
 Song — " The Yeoman's Wedding" — Mr. Baird. Poniatowskie. 
 Song and Chorus — " Auld Lang Syne " — Miss 
 
 Sterling Scotch. 
 
 During the evening, Mr. S. Lasar, the second 
 organist of Plymouth Church, presided at the 
 piano in the church, and Mr. H. N. Whitney at 
 the organ in the Sunday-school room. 
 
 Thursday, the fourth day of the festival, was 
 
206 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 commenced with the usual morning prayer-meet- 
 ing at eight o'clock, open to all. 
 
 The following pictures had been kindly loaned 
 to the Society for exhibition in the evening : 
 
 Nos. Subject. Artist. 
 
 1. The Desire of all Nations J. A. Oertel. 
 
 2. The Haymaker's Ford A. F. Fellows. 
 
 3. The Grindstone J. C. Thorn. 
 
 4. Morning in Belgium Van Luppen of Antwerp. 
 
 5. Donkey's Breakfast Lafant de Metz. 
 
 6. At the Well W. Amberg. 
 
 7. Ideal Head Geo. A. Baker. 
 
 8. Coming Storms Geo. Inness. 
 
 9. Marriage of St. Catherine After Correggio. 
 
 10. The Bath Paul Soyer. 
 
 n. Morning Devotion Paul Soyer. 
 
 12. Forest in Westphalia A. Arnz. 
 
 13. " Under His own Vine" J. Oertel. 
 
 14. The Love Letter W. Amberg. 
 
 15. At the Fountain. , C. Bran. 
 
 16. My Old Mammy T. W. Wood. 
 
 17. The Launch J. C. Thorn. 
 
 18. An Old Friend Rockwood. 
 
 19. Sweet Violets J. Patrois. 
 
 20. Fisherman's Daughter Geo. A. Baker. 
 
 21. A Catskill Stceam A. B. Durand. 
 
 22. The Little Knitter G. C. Lambdin. 
 
 23. Blowing Bubbles G. C. Lambdin. 
 
 24. Lake George J. F. Kensett. 
 
 25. The Favorite Plant Gamba. 
 
 26. Prayer by Moonlight Lecomte de Nouy. 
 
 27. Our Pel G. A. Baker. 
 
 2S. Heads of Children G. A. Baker. 
 
 The church doors were opened in the evening 
 promptly at six o'clock, and the auditorium was 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 0J 
 
 soon crowded. This was the Historic Meeting 
 Night. Rev. Drs. Edward Beecher, Theodore L. 
 Cuyler, and W. I. Buddington occupied the pulpit 
 with Mr. Beecher, and Rev. Dr. R. S. Storrs 
 subsequently joined them. 
 
 The services began with a voluntary on the 
 organ by Mr. Zundel, which was followed by an 
 Anthem, Quartette and Chorus from the Oratorio 
 of Elijah— " Holy, Holy, Holy is God the Lord," 
 — by Misses Lasar, Finch, Toedt, and Sterling, 
 and chorus by the choir. 
 
 The Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians was 
 then read, and prayer offered by Dr. Cuyler. 
 After the audience had sung the 199th hymn 
 (Plymouth Collection), Mr. Beecher arose and 
 said : 
 
 " This is the last day, in one respect, of the days 
 set apart for the commemoration of the founding 
 of this church, and its quarter of a century of 
 history. To-morrow night we resume the accus- 
 tomed meetings, so that we close w r ith the Friday- 
 night prayer-meeting, after which the Lord's Sup- 
 per will be administered. To-night we are assem- 
 bled to listen to some few statements regarding the 
 history of this church. So far as I am concerned, 
 I propose to look at it from my own standpoint. 
 I find myself met at the beginning of my work this 
 
208 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 evening with some embarrassments. Among the 
 swarm of memories that arise in these years of ac- 
 tive labor, almost unbroken by sickness, and run- 
 ning through such a period of time as the last 
 twenty-five years have been, both in the world and 
 in our own country — such an abundance of mate- 
 rial is laid up that it would be impossible to bring 
 them all within the compass of a reasonable time. 
 And yet, to speak of anything less than that which 
 I have been in sympathy with — the inward living 
 life of the Church, seems almost a mockery. There 
 is also another element of embarrassment — I can- 
 not speak of the progress of this church without 
 referring more or less to myself. If I succeed in 
 doing so without offensive egotism, I shall satisfy 
 my own judgment. I believe men have sacrificed 
 a great deal too much to this dread of speaking 
 about themselves, and if the work of the Gospel in 
 men's hearts were more often spoken of the Gospel 
 would get back again that living power which it 
 had when it was first preached. St. Paul had none 
 of this kind of dread. He was constantly speaking 
 of I, and I, and I — making religion a personal ex- 
 perience, and not dry didacticism or formal state- 
 ment. I came to this city without anticipating any. 
 future here. It had pleased God, during the ten 
 years that I labored in the West, to fill the church 
 
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 with His Spirit ; and great and continuous revivals 
 had prevailed all through that region. I had la- 
 bored with all my heart and with all my soul ; and 
 when from reasons that I need not detail, I was 
 brought to this new field, I came with all the in- 
 spiration and ardor which had been gathered by 
 my ministry in this work of saving souls. At my 
 first coming I had no plans. I had marked out no 
 future. I had no theories to establish ; no systems 
 to found ; no theories to demolish ; no oppugna- 
 tion of any kind. I remember distinctly that I 
 held account with myself, and that I came into this 
 field simply and only to work for the awakening of 
 men, for their conversion to Christ, and for their 
 establishment in a Christian life. I thought of but 
 one thing — the love of Christ to man. I believed 
 that to be the greatest influence in this world ; that 
 it raised man to the highest manhood, and pre- 
 pared him for translation into a higher and better 
 sphere. My purpose was to preach Christ ; and, 
 though I preferred the polity and economy of the 
 Congregational Church, yet I felt that God was in 
 all other churches, and it was no part of my min- 
 istry to fire off sectarian bombs, but to find my 
 way to the hearts of men. I said that I had no 
 theory ; but I had a very strong impression that 
 the first five years in the life of a church would 
 
2IO PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 determine the history of that church for many 
 years after. If the early years were controversial 
 or barren, it would take scores of years to rid it of 
 that malign influence ; that if it were consecrated, 
 active, energetic during those first five years, it 
 would go on in their genius, developing the same 
 graces in subsequent years ; and my supreme anx- 
 iety in gathering a church was to keep them unit- 
 ed in a loving temper. I longed to see developed 
 amongst us that social and contagious part of reli- 
 gion which we call a revival. In the course of 
 the first year it pleased God to give us a revival. 
 Many of those who have been most earnest mem- 
 bers were gathered in at that first revival. From 
 year to year these have occurred, and the history 
 of this church has been filled with great and glori- 
 ous revivals of religion. But there is even a 
 higher type of religion than in the revival ; the 
 spirit of the church may become so rife that re- 
 ligion may be a part of their ordinary conversation 
 and daily labor ; and so, in this long summer, every- 
 thing will be mellowed. This is still better than 
 a fugacious revival of religion. Nevertheless, a 
 church must go through a long training of religion 
 before it can reach this point. And in the early 
 history of a church great things are to be prayed 
 for, that they may be visited with revivals, and 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 II 
 
 that at last they may come so frequently as to 
 form a perpetual summer. Well, it may be said 
 of you that if we divide the life of this church in 
 periods of five years, the last five years has been 
 one of greater in-gathering than any other period 
 — even those of '48 and '49, or '58 and '59, which 
 were marked with such magnificent and extraordi- 
 nary works of grace. There has been a steady rise, 
 intermitted by national excitements ; but, on the 
 whole, there has been a steady increase in the 
 ratios of the last twenty years ; and the last period 
 of five years was the most fruitful. I may speak 
 of the life of this church in reference to what 
 may be considered its fundamental inspiration. I 
 should not be just to the truth, I should not be 
 just to the Divine Witness, if I did not affirm my 
 earnest conviction that the power which has been 
 displayed has not resided in those things that were 
 most talked about and attracted attention the 
 most. That part of our church life which is most 
 conspicuous, and has been inspected, has been the 
 effect and not the cause. My opinion is that the 
 abiding influence has been faith and love in the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. This has been the living root, 
 and every branch that has borne fruit has been in 
 vital connection with this root. In regard to my 
 own ministry, my judgment of the efficiency of 
 
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 it is, that it was due simply and mainly to my deep 
 and ardent faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who to 
 me fills the whole sphere of affection, and of whom 
 I can say, 'Whom have I in Heaven but Thee.' 
 At certain times I have felt almost as the Apostles 
 did, who had seen Him and walked with Him ; 
 and during all my ministry, my own personal sup- 
 port and the secret of the vital piety of this church 
 has been faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It has 
 been an earnest, living church. It has been a 
 power in this community. In my preaching, a 
 change of emphasis has been made, as compared 
 with the emphasis aforetime given in New Eng- 
 land theology. That theology had put the em- 
 phasis on conscience and that which represents 
 law. It has presented the conscience in intimate 
 connection with fear, and conscience and fear have 
 been largely developed as the prime constituents 
 of religion. But, partly from my own personal 
 experience, a change of emphasis has been made 
 in my preaching, and I have put the emphasis on 
 Divine Love, and have made conscience and fear 
 secondary. I have never sought to rid preaching 
 of the sense of responsibility, nor of a wholesome 
 fear. But love is the true representation of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and I have endeavored always 
 to express this in my preaching, and from the 
 
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 fruits that have followed the course is justified. 
 I have preached that love out of which was born 
 the whole world ; love that fills the spheres ; love 
 that fills the infinite heart, and one of whose 
 manifestations was the earthly life of the Son of 
 God, Jesus, our Master. One of the fruits of this 
 emphasis has been seen in the development of this 
 great church, of which there have been more than 
 three thousand members. There has been ex- 
 hibited a spirit of fellowship, of concord, of co- 
 operative zeal and harmony in it that I think has 
 scarcely had a parallel in the history of the Chris- 
 tian Church. Considering that our life has been 
 cast in stormy times, and that we have had here 
 men representing every shade of opinion, speci- 
 mens of almost every recognized sect in Christen- 
 dom ; and during the discussion of many social 
 questions, and taking part in all the reforms, and 
 speaking of them in open meeting, when every man 
 had the utmost liberty, we may well rejoice that 
 there has been an unbroken unity in this church — 
 not a seam, not a crack, not a flaw. There never 
 has been a time when the officers have had to take 
 counsel how to keep the church together, or how 
 to destroy a clique or a party. We have been 
 without them. I attribute this to Divine Love, 
 which has entered into the hearts of this people, 
 
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 and which they have emphasized more than any- 
 other Christian experience. There is another ele- 
 ment : the life of this church has been developed 
 along the currents of music. We have been a 
 singing people. The reading of hymns cannot be 
 without profit ; but no man knows anything of 
 hymnology who does not sing. From the very 
 beginning of this church it was given to it to de- 
 velop the element of sacred song. We all sing — the 
 young and the aged — in all the meetings of our 
 churches ; in our prayer-meetings, in our houses, 
 from first to last the spirit of sacred song has 
 been warm, strong, impetuous. I believe that has 
 largely influenced the under-current of the life of 
 this church. A thousand sermons can't put down 
 heresy so fast as a hundred hymns. Hymns have 
 elevated the hearts of men, time and time again ; 
 yes, and have borne their souls to the very thresh- 
 old of the heavenly land. We think of those who 
 have gone, we think of heaven, and it is made a 
 cause of song. We here and they there sing 
 together. ' Well, then, this church, having this 
 sympathy with men and with God, has been zeal- 
 ous in all the great social reforms of the times — 
 anti-slavery, temperance, and so on. Mistake me 
 not. If this church had been founded on an 
 anti-slavery or temperance basis alone, I should 
 
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 consider it unworthy of the notice it has had. But 
 the spirit which prompts to these reforms has been 
 developed in us. It has been developed as a philo- 
 sophical necessity. It has been impossible to live 
 up to the character of the Son of God ; to take to 
 heart the command, ' Thou shalt love thy neigh- 
 bor as thyself; ' it has been impossible to disclose 
 what God has done for man, and at the same time 
 leave man indifferent as to what concerns the race. 
 This is the spring of the labors of this people in the 
 cause of temperance. And though in the main it 
 has not transgressed the great principle of individ- 
 ual liberty, and it is not a condition of church 
 membership that a person abstain entirely, yet it 
 is a subject of inquiry and consideration. Tem- 
 perance is the product of religion, not its substi- 
 tute. I suppose that in many parts of the land 
 Plymouth Church is synonymous with anti-slavery, 
 with abolition ; and people have supposed that it 
 was the main business of the church to preach 
 against slavery. Yet, up to the time of the war, 
 slavery was not made the subject of discussion 
 here more than once or twice a year. Yet, when 
 the testimony of this church was given, it was 
 given with no uncertain sound. The church, in 
 its united influence, has been a church that stood 
 up for human freedom. In my first sermon I an- 
 
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 2l6 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 nounccd. that those who came to hear the gospel 
 preached here would hear it applied faithfully to 
 questions of peace and war, to questions of tem- 
 perance and anti-slavery. And just previous to 
 the annual renting and sale of pews, I always came 
 out and showed my hand, in order that no man 
 might be deceived. What the power of Plymouth 
 Church has been in this question, I know not. It 
 has certainly been great, but it is not for us to 
 exaggerate it. It is to me a matter of profound 
 satisfaction that for twenty-five years Plymouth 
 Church stood up in stormy times a faithful witness 
 to the great principle of human right and human 
 liberty. When the war broke out this church did 
 not flinch. She gave her sons and her daughters ; 
 she sent them to the field and to the hospitals ; 
 and during all the war she never uttered an uncer- 
 tain sound ; and when the war ended, I think 
 there never has been a moment when we harbored 
 a thought of revenge ; or when we had any other 
 feelings towards our opponents than those which 
 might be entertained by citizens, friends, and Chris- 
 tian men. Plymouth Church has always been a 
 patriotic church. We have loved our country, not 
 as representing corn and wine, goods and mer- 
 chandise ; we have loved our country as repre- 
 senting Men, and we have exhibited our patriot- 
 
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 ism by doing our best to surround them with edu- 
 cational and beneficial institutions ; we have lived a 
 patriotic life during the last twenty-five years ; we 
 have worked for our whole country, and we have 
 been proud of it in the proper sense of the word ; 
 and the nerves of religion have been quickened by it. 
 The church has had sympathy with the whole na- 
 tion and with the world. In regard to its laborers, 
 a large proportion of its members being prosper- 
 ous and the church having much wealth, it is a 
 matter of peculiar satisfaction that the church has 
 devoted so much of its wealth to the development 
 and elevation of religious institutions. It has been 
 said that there was no place in Plymouth Church 
 for the poor man. But this church has done more 
 for the poor man than any other. When the 
 services of this church have closed, there has been 
 a distribution of men and women in every direction 
 to carry the spirit and institutions of Christianity 
 to those who were deficient ; and so there has 
 grown up a series of Mission Schools in con- 
 nection with this church. They were founded as 
 Mission Schools, and it was decided that they 
 should remain schools, in order that laymen might 
 labor directly with the people for their education 
 and moral improvement. In doing this the breth- 
 ren felt it was not enough to run up a building 
 10 
 
21 8 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 that would keep out the elements — ' plain and 
 substantial,' as the saying is. The feeling was 
 that when we gave a gift to the poor, it should 
 not be a gift according to their experience, but 
 that we were to take the best things that Chris- 
 tianity, and civilization, and wealth had to offer, 
 and give thereof to them. This is what we have 
 done — not alone in this city : we have given them 
 more beauty and elegance than Ave have in our 
 own house. The Bethel and Navy Mission are 
 better equipped than Plymouth Church. We 
 give, not what we can spare, but give the very 
 best we have. We have not stopped in giving 
 money, we have given our sons and our daughters. 
 We have sent them everywhere to work ; and I 
 bear witness that our young people have performed 
 a labor as great as that which is sustained by 
 ordinary pastors in an ordinary country church. 
 They have gone through a vast amount of labor — 
 greater than ever appeared ; and it is not their 
 desire that there should be any praising of it ; they 
 wait for the approbation of their Heavenly Lord. 
 My opinion is that the steady growth of the 
 church is more owing to such works as these than 
 to any ministration in the pulpit. This church has 
 had its power, not in the pulpit, but in its whole 
 loving membership ! They have not done what 
 
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 has been done because they had genius better than 
 other men, but because they were simple-minded, 
 devoted, willing to work together ; and so the 
 fruit has been abundant. I need not go into the 
 details of what has been done. It has given its 
 money for the missionary societies, for the education 
 of young men in the ministry ; it has aided in the 
 distribution of religious literature, it has had a vital 
 interest in colleges ; and some of the best gifts that 
 have been made for these educational purposes 
 have proceeded from this church. Many of our 
 members living in other parts of the country, are 
 building school-houses in their native villages, be- 
 ing themselves both patrons and architects. In 
 every direction I hear of these influences and these 
 good works. It would not be right that I should 
 fail to mention the very great prudence and wis- 
 dom with which affairs have been conducted by 
 the trustees. From the foundation of the church 
 we have had a body of men, who have been emi- 
 nent for fidelity, integrity, and administrative wis- 
 dom. We have also been served from year to 
 year by Boards of Deacons, and within the last few 
 years by Deaconesses with great fidelity, and a vast 
 deal of labor has been performed by them. Let 
 me also refer to the success of the men who have 
 taken upon themselves a most disagreeable task 
 
220 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 from year to year — I mean those who have per- 
 formed the duties of ushers. They have served in 
 this humble capacity, doing great service indirectly 
 to the cause of religion. Christian friends, the 
 best part of this week of reminiscences and reunion 
 has been that which will bear no apparent fruit 
 to the world. We have gathered together in our 
 accustomed places, and it has been to me a matter 
 of congratulation that the best meetings are the 
 prayer-meetings, and it has ever been so since 
 the church began. The conference, the prayer- 
 meeting, these have been the sources of power — 
 the last source has been the preaching. The per- 
 meating power of the church, this is the greatest 
 power of all. The root of the power of the church 
 has been the living faith in Jesus. And out of 
 this faith, this love of God and love of man, has 
 sprung all their labors and contributions, and all 
 the history which has been developed during the 
 past twenty-five years. I bless God when I look 
 back on it. I have lived my life. No man can 
 take it from me. The mistakes I have made no 
 man knows so well as I. My incapacity no one 
 feels more than myself. I have never been able to 
 develop to my own satisfaction what seems to be 
 the character of Christ. A living image of Christ 
 has ever seemed to hang over my head inspiring 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 2I 
 
 me, yet making me feel how poor were my best 
 efforts. Yet I ask you to witness that for twenty- 
 five years I have labored faithfully among you, for 
 the love I have for God and for you. If I should 
 fall to-morrow, I have seen this land rise up from 
 its darkness and shame ; I have seen Liberty come 
 forth like Lazarus from the grave, and staggering 
 for the first few steps because bound with the grave- 
 clothes. Our country is free ; and we ought to 
 bless God that He gave you and me some part in 
 this work. I have lived here a quarter of a cen- 
 tury ; I have had a free platform, you have stood 
 by me. You have never maintained servile opin- 
 ions because they were mine. But you have per- 
 mitted me to speak ; and I have had it given me 
 to speak the words of truth and right — much, faster 
 than some thought I should — much slower than 
 others thought ; but committing the truth to your 
 consciences. I have done my best. I am admon- 
 ished that the best years of my life are passed. 
 My sun is going down. But I have lived a happy 
 life. I have loved you, and have been beloved. 
 I have seen your children. I have seen many laid 
 in the dust. We have come down without a quar- 
 rel, without a break, and now in these closing 
 words join with me, not in selfish gratulation, but 
 in thanks to Christ who loved us, to the Spirit of 
 
222 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 God who inspired, and to the Father that kept us 
 together in this household of the faith, loving and 
 beloved. To all those who have gone to different 
 spheres of labor we send our congratulations. We 
 recall the honored dead. Doubtless, they are 
 singing with us, are singing to us from yonder 
 sphere. They and we are one. If in the Provi- 
 dence we continue together, may God grant that 
 the parish may be more abundant in labor, in dis- 
 interested effort, in courage, in fellowship with the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, keeping all, loving all, and 
 waiting for the appearance of Him by whom we 
 shall be crowned in the kingdom of His glory." 
 
 The Plymouth Silver Wedding anthem, " Lift up 
 the Song of Joy," *composed expressly for the oc- 
 casion — music by John Zundel, words by Professor 
 
 I. 
 
 Lift up the song of joy, 
 Let the notes of praise ascending 
 
 Raise each grateful heart to Heav'n ! 
 Organ-tone and voices blending, 
 Speak the gladness He hath giv'n ! 
 Again revive and glow 
 Pledges of long ago ; 
 The hands then clasped in friendship true 
 Are clasped to-day anew. 
 
 Then raise the song of joy ! 
 Drive every care away ! 
 God from above lights up with love 
 Our Wedding-day. 
 
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 223 
 
 R. R. Raymond — was then sung, the entire audi- 
 ence rising at the last verse, and joining in the final 
 chorus, which was set to the tune called " Beecher." 
 
 II. 
 
 Who speak of aught but joy ? 
 Five-and-twenty years together 
 
 We have trod the Way of life, 
 Shared its fair and stormy weather — 
 Church and Pastor — Man and Wife ! 
 The hours of youth are past ; 
 The spring-buds may not last ; 
 Yet Autumn hath its own sweet flowers. 
 And these at least are ours. 
 
 Then raise the song, etc 
 
 III. 
 
 A day of hope and joy ! 
 Five-and-twenty years, dear Pastor, 
 
 We have walked with hand in thine ; 
 Sat with thee around the Master, — 
 Feasted on the corn and wine. 
 
 Thy clear glance Heavenward bends ; 
 Thy guidance thither tends; 
 We trust thee still to lead us on 
 Until the goal is won. 
 
 IV. 
 
 There comes a higher joy ! 
 When the hours of toil are over, 
 
 And the day of life is done, 
 Lover then may watch with lover 
 
 Shadows of its setting sun. 
 
224 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Storrs was then introduced by Mr. 
 Beecher in the following words : 
 
 "Twenty-five years ago and more, among the 
 first friends I met or visited in the ministry here, 
 was my brother and neighbor, the Rev. Dr. Storrs, 
 who has been present with us to-night. I have 
 never received from him one word but that of kind- 
 ness, and never heard of one syllable from him that 
 
 The Shining Shore shall gleam 
 
 Across the darkling stream, 
 And prophesy, with glowing ray, 
 Our Golden Wedding-day ! 
 
 There heavenly songs of joy 
 Drive cares and fears away, 
 And God above shall light with love 
 The glorious day ! 
 
 Recitative to the Congregation: 
 
 Let us now, that Power addressing, 
 Who hath thus our store increased, 
 
 On our cheer invoke the blessing 
 Of the Master of the Feast ; 
 
 Response by Choir and Congregation: 
 [Tune — Beecher. ] 
 Cana's Guest, beloved Saviour ! 
 
 Let this hour be also Thine ! 
 Give our joys celestial flavor : 
 
 Turn the water into wine ! 
 Pastor of the whole communion, 
 
 Bridegroom of Thy Church Thou art ! 
 To that higher, holier union 
 
 Welcome every faithful heart ! 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 2$ 
 
 has not been generous, beyond my deserts even. 
 It is one of the treasures I lay up in memory — an 
 unbroken friendship that has run through a quar- 
 ter of a century. He has been kind enough to 
 come this evening and will say a few words." 
 
 Rev. Dr. STORRS advanced to the pulpit desk 
 and spoke as follows : 
 
 u My friends of Plymouth Church : To speak 
 frankly, I feel somewhat embarrassed this evening, 
 by finding myself involved, for the first time in my 
 life, in what appears to be a serious difference of 
 opinion between you, the people, and your pastor. 
 I see that he has said, as it is reported in the pub- 
 lic newspapers, that he wishes nothing to be said 
 at any of those meetings in regard to him. Well, 
 turning over that thought, it seemed to me, per- 
 haps, a few remarks on recent discoveries in Cen- 
 tral Africa might be suitable. [Laughter and ap- 
 plause.] But I was afraid that might bring up the 
 subject of slavery ; so, after lounging into the 
 rooms of the Historical Society, and trying to find 
 out from our friend, Mr. Hannah, what were the 
 latest works on the subject, I found I must take 
 something more remote, and I thought perhaps a 
 dissertation on the probable condition of the planet 
 Saturn would do. But even that would be con- 
 nected with ' rings,' you observe. [Laughter and 
 10* 
 
226 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 applause.] And how on earth to get at any sub- 
 ject 
 
 WHICH DOES NOT LEAD TO BEECHER 
 
 or terminate in Beecher, to-night, was a puzzle to 
 me. Then, in the letter of the Committee, they 
 particularly desired me to speak of Mr. Beecher as 
 a preacher, and the only way I saw out of it was 
 this: 
 
 " As I understand it, he is not present here to- 
 night. I don't see him anywhere. And I don't 
 hear him. And it's the first time in a twenty-five 
 years' experience, where he has been present and 
 has been entirely invisible and inaudible to me. 
 [Laughter.] At any rate, constructively he is 
 absent. For the purpose of my remarks he is not 
 present, and won't know anything about what I 
 say unless you tell him — which you won't. 
 
 " I have never had a chance to hear much of the 
 preaching of Mr. Beecher, so mine will be sure 
 to be 
 
 AN IMPARTIAL AND UNBIASED OPINION. 
 
 [Applause.] But I have heard him enough to 
 know the difference between hearing him preach 
 and reading his sermons in pamphlet form. It is 
 very much like letting fireworks go off at night and 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 227 
 
 contenting yourself with looking at the blackened 
 frames in the morning. [Prolonged applause and 
 laughter.] 
 
 " However, I have heard him preach. I heard 
 him preach in the old church. It was an address 
 prepared for Hamilton College. It was an admi- 
 rable address, but the congregation was getting dull 
 and listless. He saw it. Suddenly he paused. 
 Then there came from his lips an utterance that 
 was as if a wind cloud had burst in the house, and 
 which was overwhelming in its effect upon the 
 congregation. There was no more dulness or 
 listlessness, but everybody was looking on sur- 
 prised. Then he jumped about twenty-five pages 
 of the manuscript, and went on magnificently to 
 the end. I heard him preach, also, when about 
 two-thirds of his sermon was written ; and he had 
 to deliver the rest extemporaneously. I wanted 
 to see how he managed that transaction. The in- 
 troduction was very beautiful, and very beautifully 
 delivered. Then he came to the end of the manu- 
 script ; and instead of walking off the pier into 
 the ocean, he sailed into the extemporaneous dis- 
 course as a ship glides into the water. It showed 
 his natural ability as an orator. I was delighted 
 with the beauty of the companionship they had 
 for each other. I heard him again in 1854, when 
 
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 I may say that his face absolutely globed with the 
 love of Christ. His face glowed like the face of 
 an angel. The words came with such spontaneous 
 force that every heart was moved. So you see I 
 have heard him. Now, as to the sources of this 
 power ; they are very deep, and very manifold. 
 It always used to provoke me when men said that 
 his power lay in some one thing, his voice or ex- 
 pression, or something of that sort. This was the 
 hair of the Samson, in which his power resided. 
 Now, you know that this great flow of power 
 comes from many sources. First, I should say he 
 has a thoroughly vitalized mind — so vitalized that 
 every process becomes vital. There is no repro- 
 duction of past forms, but the creative faculties 
 are in play all the time. Well, then, secondly, I 
 should put immense common-sense, a wonderful 
 self-rectifying judgment that gives sobriety and 
 steadiness to all his powers of thought. I have 
 been more impressed by that than by any one 
 element of his strength. I have seen him go to the 
 edge of a proposition that seemed to me danger- 
 ous and absurd, and never go over. He would 
 rectify what seemed to be dangerous remarks as 
 soon as made. His common-sense brought him 
 back to the solid ground from which he seemed to 
 have lifted himself. Now, men without this self- 
 
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 rectifying judgment always flash out very soon. 
 We have had any number of examples of that 
 kind, and they soon flash out. Then I should say 
 that he has a quick sympathy with men ; he has 
 an intuitive perception into the minds of men 
 which makes their modes of thought stand out 
 like visible persons in the street. ' But this is 
 genius,' you say. So it is, but not the genius of 
 the poet or the painter. In a lower sense we may 
 say of him as was said of the Master, ' He knew 
 what was in men ' — he discerned it intuitively, 
 and made his instructions drive directly at that 
 state of mind which he saw present and personally 
 before him. Then we have in him a responsive- 
 ness w r hich makes him ready for every occasion. 
 I recollect hearing him speak of some of the atroc- 
 ities of slavery, and asking whether persons who 
 committed such acts ought to be out of Sing Sing. 
 Somebody up in the gallery said 'Yes.' 'Ah, 
 you've been there ! ' cried Mr. Beecher in a mo- 
 ment. The audience for a second or two could 
 hardly believe that this was not an arranged scene ; 
 but when they came to understand that it was 
 spontaneous, the enthusiasm was tremendous, and 
 Mr. Beecher had the audience with him for the 
 rest of that evening. Then we must take 
 into account his wonderful animal vigor — his voice 
 
230 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 which can thunder or whisper — his sympathies 
 with nature — and above all these put his enthusi- 
 asm for Christ, his giving glory to the Son of God, 
 and that he is sent to reflect that glory upon 
 others, to inform your minds with love, to kindle 
 souls and prepare them for their heavenly relations. 
 Then you have some of the characteristics of the 
 great preacher, who has quickened and blessed 
 you here, and because these sources are so mag- 
 nificent that makes him the foremost preacher in 
 the American pulpit. Now, that is a great thing 
 to say, for there have been many great men in this 
 city — Dr. Stone, Dr. Vinton, Dr. Cox, Dr. Spen- 
 cer, Dr. Dwight, Dr. Bethune, Dr. Welsh, Dr. 
 Kennady, and Dr. Nadal. I cannot name them 
 all — a brilliant circle of men. I don't mean to say 
 that Mr. Beecher is a perfect preacher ; if he had 
 taken my advice, it would have been a great deal 
 better for him. I think he has spent enough of 
 his voice to make two perfectly splendid thunder- 
 storms. And then I prefer my illustrations to 
 come in bouquets and not in bushels. [Huge 
 laughter.] But he has been a great preacher ; and 
 then you know he has a somewhat vehement and 
 combative nature, and I never saw a man whom it 
 was more dangerous to start by opposing him ; I 
 never do it. [Laughter and applause.] He 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 23 1 
 
 made volcanoes round him in Liverpool and Man- 
 chester ; but the ground was too hot for the Gov- 
 ernment of England to permit its sympathies with 
 the rebellion to be formulated in law. I have 
 seen him in council, when things were getting 
 mixed up ; and his clear, decisive sagacity soqn 
 put them straight. So he has stood before you ; 
 so he has stood before the whole community. It 
 doesn't seem possible it is twenty-five years since 
 he came here and I gave him the right hand of 
 fellowship. And here I want to correct a misap- 
 prehension in regard to the vote of the council. 
 There were old men on that council who wanted 
 him to use some terminology, which he declined ; 
 but upon the examination of his religious experi- 
 ence, there was no doubt whatever. He proved 
 that he was sound on that subject, and that he 
 knew the presence and glory of the Son of God ; 
 and he was accepted by an entirely unanimous 
 vote. There was an entire unanimity in the vote 
 which gave me the privilege of giving him the 
 right hand of fellowship. I feel that no man on 
 earth less needs assurances of friendship, save the 
 friendship of the Son of God ; but I am here on 
 behalf of this congregation, on behalf of the best 
 in our city, which has had its name made famous 
 by his ministry, on behalf of those in every part 
 
232 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 of the land who have read his sermons with admi- 
 ration and profit ; on behalf of the great multitude 
 who have gone up above, I am here to-night to 
 offer him the right hand of fellowship, at the close 
 of these services. [Turning to Mr. Beecher, and 
 clasping his hand.] I say God be praised for all 
 the. work you have done here. God be praised for 
 your great gifts, and for the generous use you have 
 made of them through the land. God give you 
 many happy and glorious years of work ; and may 
 your soul be whitened more and more in the ra- 
 diance of God's light, until, when the end comes, 
 may the gates of pearl be opened, and you enter 
 that bright eternity all vivid with God's love, 
 where an instant vision shall be perfect bliss, and 
 immortal labor immortal bliss." 
 
 This magnificent concluding passage was uttered 
 with an eloquence that defies description. At its 
 conclusion, Mr. Beecher, with tears, and trembling 
 from head to foot, arose, and, placing his hand on 
 Dr. Storrs' shoulder, warmly kissed him upon the 
 cheek. The congregation sat for a moment 
 breathless and enraptured with this simple and 
 beautiful action. Then there broke from them 
 such a round of applause as never before was 
 heard in an ecclesiastical edifice. There was not a 
 dry eye in the house. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 233 
 
 Mr. Beecher came forward. In a voice, broken 
 with emotion, he said : " I want to say something, 
 but I am unable to. I can only observe that Dr. 
 Buddington promised to speak next." 
 
 Dr. Buddington arose, and remarked he was 
 satisfied the congregation desired that nothing 
 more should be said, and that the services should 
 terminate there. He would therefore simply say, 
 that he would say nothing further. (Great ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 The hymn, " Jesus, lover of my soul," was then 
 sung ; the benediction was given, and the meeting 
 separated. 
 
 Friday, October 11, was the last day of the 
 anniversary, and the morning prayer-meeting at- 
 tendance was unusually large. The regular Fri- 
 day-evening prayer and conference meeting was 
 held in the church at seven o'clock, and at its 
 close the Lord's Supper was celebrated, which 
 concluded the Silver Weddine ceremonies: * t 
 
 i ^> 
 
 * In the compilation of this sketch of the Silver Wedding Cele- 
 bration, the descriptive reports, which appeared in the Brooklyn 
 Daily Eagle and the Daily Union, have been copied almost verba- 
 tim. 
 
 f Mr. S. Lasar had intended the delivery of a few remarks on 
 Wednesday morning (at the prayer-meeting), but unavoidable ab- 
 sence prevented, and at his request the following has been inserted : 
 
 " The request of Mr. Beecher, made at the Monday-morning 
 prayer-meeting, in reference to the abstaining from glorifying him, 
 
234 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 THE MEMORIAL FUND. 
 
 Mr. R. D. Benedict, at the Friday-evening 
 prayer-meeting (October 18), moved the institu- 
 tion of a memorial of some kino!, which should 
 be lastingly commemorative of the celebration of 
 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the existence of 
 Plymouth Church, and, after considerable discus- 
 sion on the subject, several projects were proposed, 
 — the erection of a new Sailor's Home in New 
 
 has, I believe, been complied with. To speak of Plymouth Church 
 without Mr. Beecher, would be like the play of Hamlet without 
 the individual Hamlet. This church, through its pastor, has, in 
 my mind, done more to establish and settle forever the right of free 
 speech in our country than has been done through any other 
 instrumentality. When New York and Brooklyn dared not allow 
 Wendell Phillips to speak in any of their public halls, then our doors 
 were thrown wide open, and the thanks of every true man and 
 woman in America were showered upon this church. 
 
 " The influence of Plymouth Church in its efforts to popularize 
 Congregational singing cannot be over-estimated, and this is, in my 
 judgment, principally due to the direct and persistent exhortations of 
 its pastor. He does not now find it necessary to importune on that 
 subject, but in the early days of the Society he exhorted his people 
 on the matter in season and out of season. 
 
 "I have been honored with Mr. Beecher' s acquaintance for twenty- 
 five years — from the time when he first spoke in the Broadway 
 Tabernacle during the May anniversaries of 1 84 7. 
 
 " I became organist of Plymouth Church about a month after Mr. 
 Beecher's settlement here as pastor, and remained until the destruc- 
 tion of the church by fire ; and now, after the lapse of a quarter 
 century, I feel proud and happy to be enabled to say that a child of 
 mine is taking part in leading the Praises to God in Plymouth 
 Church." 
 
 J 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 235 
 
 York, which should be of sufficient capacity to 
 accommodate every sailor in the port, by the ap- 
 propriation of a fund of $250,000, which should be 
 raised by voluntary subscription among the mem- 
 bers of the church and Society, and in favor of this 
 proposal it was urged that an institution of this 
 kind would yield handsome dividends, which could 
 be used for charitable purposes ; the building of a 
 Congregational church in the vicinity of Prospect 
 Park, to be known as the Beecher Memorial (this 
 proposition was dismissed, for Mr. Beecher declined 
 to have his name used) ; and the founding of a 
 hospital. The Sailor's Home scheme was most 
 favorably received, but the meeting dispersed with- 
 out deciding upon the matter. Mr. Beecher subse- 
 quently suggested that a fund be raised of $50,000, 
 which should be known as the Memorial Fund, and 
 which should be used for the benefit of the Bethel 
 and the Navy Missions, — $25,000 to be endowed 
 to each, the interest of which sums would be amply 
 sufficient to defray all " running expenses " of each 
 institution. This suggestion was voted upon and 
 unanimously carried. 
 
Alphabetical List of Members of Plymouth 
 Church, January 6, 1867. 
 
 FROM "MANUAL OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH," 1867. 
 %* Names of husband and wife are united by a brace. 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 1847. Abbey, Horatio G. 
 1853. Ackerman, Abraham. 
 1859. Adams, Miss Anne P. 
 1862. Adams, Miss Augusta. 
 
 1864. Adams, Miss Susan. 
 1858. J Addinsell, George W. 
 1858. I Addinsell, Mrs. Lois. 
 1858. Aiken, Miss Helena St. J. 
 1858. Aldrich, S. T. 
 
 1858. Allen, Mrs. Hannah. 
 1862. Allen, George H. M. 
 
 1862. Allen, Paul B. 
 
 i860. Aller, Stephea Burrows. 
 
 1850. Alvord, G. G. 
 1849. Alvord, John C. 
 1849. j Amerman, Richard. 
 1849. j Amerman, Mrs. Maria. 
 
 1863. j Anderson, John Henry. 
 1863. j Anderson, Mrs. Jane. 
 1858. j Anderson, Robert G. 
 1858. | Anderson, Mrs. Mary. 
 1861. Anderson, Mrs. Mary. 
 1853. Andrews, Mrs. Adeline. 
 1858. Andrews, Miss Anna M. 
 1852. Andrews, Mrs. Eliza R. 
 1858. Andrews, Henry Beekman 
 1852. Andrews, Mrs. Rebeeca E. 
 1861. Anthony, Seth. 
 
 1858. Armstrong, Thomas. 
 1858. J Arnold, Daniel S. 
 1858. "j Arnold, Mrs. Lovisa M. 
 1849. Arnold, Miss Hannah. 
 1863. Arrott, Isaac. 
 1858. Asbury, Mrs. Emma. 
 1858. Asbury, Mrs. Frances. 
 1852. Ashley, Miss Ellen P. 
 
 1865. Ashton, Frederic. 
 
 1849. Atkinson, Miss Charlotte. 
 
 1851. Atkinson, Mrs. Emma J. 
 1851. Atkinson, Miss Sarah. 
 
 1848. Atwater, Miss Maria B. 
 i860, j Avery, Irving N. 
 i860. ( Avery, Mrs. Jane S. 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 1853- 
 1858. 
 1854. 
 1849. 
 1862. 
 1862. 
 1851. 
 1864. 
 1858. 
 1852. 
 i860. 
 1850. 
 1852. 
 1848. 
 1852. 
 i857- 
 1862. 
 i855. 
 1867. 
 i857. 
 1865, 
 1865. 
 1865, 
 1862 
 
 1862. 
 1852. 
 1866. 
 1851. 
 1862. 
 1862. 
 1865. 
 1858. 
 1854. 
 1S66. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Babcock, Mrs. Mary. 
 Backus, Samuel D. 
 Baggott, Miss Eliza. 
 Baggott, Joseph. 
 Baggott, Mrs. Leonora. 
 Baggott, Mrs. Susan Maria. 
 Bailey, Alexander. 
 j Bailey, Samuel T. 
 I Bailey, Mrs. Clara S. 
 Bainbridge, Miss Mary A. 
 Baird, James C. 
 Baker, Mrs. Hannah M. 
 Baker, Miss Margaret. 
 Baldwin, Mrs. Martha B. 
 j Ball, Edward. 
 \ Ball, Mrs. Ellen S. 
 Ball, Miss Sarah. 
 Ballard, Mrs. Melissa. _ 
 Banfield, Mrs. Anna Fiske. 
 Bannister, Mrs. Eliza. 
 Barber, Mrs. Agnes B. 
 Barber, Miss Alice. 
 Barber, Miss Nellie. 
 Barnes, Mrs. Emma. 
 Barnes, Frank. 
 Barnes, Mrs. Julia. 
 Barnsdall, Mrs. Emma. 
 Barr, Alexander M. 
 Barrow, Miss Ann. 
 Barstow, Mrs. Frances S. 
 Bartlett, E. L. 
 Barllett, Phineas. 
 j Bartlett, William E. 
 \ Bartlett, Mrs. Jos. H. 
 j Bass, Samuel G. 
 I Bass, Mrs. Catharine L. 
 Bates, E. N. 
 
 Bauchmann, Mrs. Anna T. 
 j Bavier, William. 
 \ Bavier, Mrs. Mary Ann. 
 j Beach, Alfred E. 
 ( Beach, Mrs. Harriet E. 
 
238 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 1859. 
 1859. 
 1866. 
 1S66. 
 
 J Beach, Charles. 
 
 Beach, .Mrs. .Mary. 
 
 Beach, Charles Y. 
 
 Beach, Frederick C. 
 
 1866. Beach, Miss Jennie H. 
 
 1866. J Beach, Joseph P. 
 
 1866. I Beach, Mrs. Eliza M. 
 
 1866. Beach, Miss Emetine B 
 
 1854. J Beach, Moses S. 
 1864. I Beach, Mrs. Chloe B. 
 
 1867. j Beach, Thomas. 
 1866. I Beach, Mrs. Gertrude. 
 
 1863. Beadle, Miss Harriet. 
 
 1864. Beadle, Mrs. Mary A. 
 1863. Beadle, Miss Sophia. 
 
 1855. Bean, Ira. 
 
 1856. j Beard, George. 
 
 1856. j Beard, Mrs. Eleanor. 
 1850. Beatty, Miss Catherine. 
 
 1850. j Beattys, Benjamin. 
 
 1863. j Beattys, Mrs. Maggie. 
 
 1861. Bedloe, Miss Charlotte E. 
 
 1862. Bedloe, Miss Hattie Ellen. 
 1858. Bee, Peter. 
 
 1858. j Beebe, Clement E. 
 
 1858. I Beebe, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 1861. J Beebe, David N. 
 
 1862. \ Beebe, Mrs. Julia B. 
 1858. Beecher, Geo. Buck'ham. 
 
 1847. j Beecher, Henry Ward. 
 
 1848. j Beecher, Mrs. Eunice W. 
 1858. J Beecher, Henry Barton. 
 1858. j Beecher, Mrs. Harriet J. 
 1848. Beecher, Mrs Maria P. 
 
 1864. Beecher, \Vm. Corstantine. 
 1853. j Belcher, Samuel E. 
 
 1853. j Belcher, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 1858. Belcher, Edgar. 
 
 1858. Belden, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
 r858. Belden, Miss Caroline. 
 
 1858. Belden, Charles D. 
 
 1858. Belden, Henry, Jr. 
 
 1858. Belfour, Alexander C. 
 
 1862. Belfour, Miss Emma. 
 
 1863. Belfour, George. 
 
 1847. j Bell, George A. 
 
 1851. 1 Bell, Mrs. Isabella E 
 
 1865. Bell, George Alfred. 
 1854 j Benedict, Robert D. 
 1854 j Benedict, Mrs. F'nces A. 
 1858. j Benedict, Roswell S. 
 1855. I Benedict, Mrs. Minerva. 
 
 1866. Benjamin, Miss S. Anna. 
 
 1852. Bennett, Mrs. Catherine H. 
 
 1848. Bennett, Miss Charity. 
 
 1854. Bennett, George I. 
 
 1858. Bennett, Miss Henrietta M. 
 
 1858. Bennett, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 1857. Bennett, Miss Sarah E. 
 1865. Bennett, Miss Sarah S. 
 
 1858. Benson, Mrs. Fanny E. 
 1862. Beresford, Mrs. Leonora. 
 1858. Bergen, Charles M. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 866. 
 853- 
 848. 
 851. 
 866. 
 864. 
 861. 
 857- 
 862. 
 862. 
 862. 
 
 Bergen, George P. 
 j Bergen, George \V. 
 I Bergen, Mrs. Susan. 
 Bertrand, Miss Rosetta D. 
 l!ett^, Mrs. Anna. 
 Berts, Miss Mary S. 
 Bicknell, Miss Adelaide. 
 Bicknell, David. 
 j Bigelow, Daniel C. 
 
 I Bigelow, Mrs. Susan. 
 Bigelow, Miss Lizzie. 
 J Bigelow, Wm. H. 
 
 ( Bigelow, Mrs. Louisa B. 
 Bigley, Mrs. Martha W. 
 Bingham, Abiel M. 
 
 j Bingham, Amos F. 
 
 I Bingham, Mrs. Mary M. 
 Bingham, Miss Ellen S. 
 Bingham, Miss Julia A. 
 Bingham, Miss Mary L. 
 
 I Bird, George W. 
 
 'j Bird, Mrs. Adeline. 
 
 J Bird, Thomas H. 
 
 \ Bird, Mrs. Sarah J. 
 Bishopric, Miss Alice J. 
 Bishopric, Miss Ellen M. 
 Bishopric, Henry 
 Blackmer, Mrs. Eliz. H. 
 Blake, Charles F. 
 Blake, Miss Ada. 
 Blake, Eli C. 
 Blake, Mrs. Julia M. 
 Biakesley, Ransom. 
 Blanchard, Mrs. Caroline. 
 Blanchard, Miss Helen. 
 Bliss, George H. 
 
 J Bliss, John. 
 
 I Bliss, Mrs. Fanny E. L. 
 Bliss, Justin A. 
 Boardman, Mrs. Mary L. 
 Boice, Mrs. Sarah K. 
 Bonner, Mrs. Jane H. 
 
 j Boorum, William B. 
 
 I Boorum, Mrs. Amelia O. 
 Bourne, George W. 
 Bowen, Edward A. 
 
 J Bowen, Edward E. 
 
 I Bowen, Mrs. Sophronia. 
 Bowen, Edward H. 
 Bowen, Miss Ellen A. 
 Bowen, Mrs. Eliza J. 
 Bowen, Miss Emma L. 
 Bowen, George Austin. 
 Bowen, Miss Grace A. 
 Bowen, Henry C. 
 Bowen. Miss Mary A. 
 Bowen, Miss Mary L. 
 Bowet, Frank L. 
 Bower, Mrs. Mary Ann. 
 Bowers, Mrs. Ada. 
 Bowers, Miss Annette. 
 J Bowers, George W. 
 
 ( Bowers, Mrs. Cornelia. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 239 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 858. j Boyce, John Thomas. 
 858. I Boyce, Mrs. Eliza. 
 858. Boyd, Miss Alice I. 
 
 855. Boyd, Mrs. Ellen. 
 852. J Boyd, Samuel. 
 
 852. j Boyd, Mrs. Sylvia C. 
 
 858. Boyd, Valentine. 
 
 859. Braden, Robert L. 
 858. J Bradshaw, Andrew. 
 
 856. j Bradshaw, Mrs. Martha. 
 862. Bradshaw, Miss Mary. 
 858. J Braman, John A. 
 
 858. \ Braman, Mrs. Catherine. 
 
 866. Brewster, Mrs. Margaret. 
 
 855. \ Bridgman, Malcolm, 
 
 858. I Bridgman, Mrs. Marion. 
 
 855. Bridges, Miss Frances L. 
 
 850. Brinkerhoff, Miss Emeline. 
 
 801. Briggs, Mrs. Helen C. 
 
 866. Brodhead, William H. 
 
 864. Bronson, Robert S. 
 
 848. Brooks, Miss Esther. 
 
 849. Brooks, Mrs. Lucy. 
 
 867. Brooks, Mrs. Ruby Louisa. 
 858. Brooks, Simon. 
 
 858. Brower, Mrs. Sarah Ann. 
 849. Brown, Cochrane G. 
 852. Brown, Mrs. Eliza. 
 
 848. Brown, Miss Ellen S. 
 
 865. Brown, Miss Emeline. 
 
 855. Brown, Miss Emma T. 
 
 849. Brown, Miss Helen Maria 
 
 856. Brown, Miss Helen M. 
 
 865. Brown, Mrs. Helen M. 
 
 866. Brown, Miss Jane F. 
 1, J Brown, John. 
 i. "j Brown, Mrs. Cordelia. 
 . Brown, Miss Kate E. 
 ;. Brown, Mrs. Mars' t Ann. 
 
 866. Brown, Miss Matilda J. 
 850. I Brown, Moses P. 
 848. \ Brown, Mrs. Helen E. 
 858. Brown, William Alonzo. 
 855. Brownson, Mrs. Angeline. 
 865. J Bruce, Elijah. 
 
 865. | Bruce, Mrs. Ruth E. 
 865. Brush, George W. 
 858. Buck, Miss Mary L. 
 854. Bulkley, Philander. 
 850. Bunce, Mrs. Mary M. 
 
 867. Bundick, Mrs. Ellen. 
 862. Bunker, Miss Anna. 
 8s8. Bunker, William R. 
 
 j Burdick, Curtis E. 
 
 I Burdick, Mrs. Emma C. 
 Burdick, Mrs. E. Amanda. 
 Burdick, J. C 
 
 j Burgess, Benjamin 
 
 I Burgess, Mrs. Mary. 
 Burgess, Mrs. Paulina L. 
 
 j Burgess, Nathan G. 
 
 j Burgess, Mrs. E. M. 
 
 864. 
 
 357- 
 S58. 
 858. 
 847. 
 847. 
 
 OjO. 
 
 858. 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 1855. j Burlingamc, Brown. 
 1855. I Burlingamc, Mrs. F. 
 1858. Burlingame, Miss Cath. 
 1858. Burnell, Mrs. Bartheba. 
 
 1864. Burse, Mrs. Lucy Jane. 
 1862. Burtis, Alvah W. 
 
 1862. Burtis, S. Edgar. 
 
 1848. j Burtis, Samuel W. 
 
 1848. "j Burtis, Mrs. Priscilla A. 
 
 1S57. Butler, Henry B. 
 
 1865. Byrne, Charles. 
 
 1855. Cahill, Miss Anastasia. 
 1852. Cahoone, George. 
 
 1865. Calder, Andrew. 
 
 1852. Calder, Mrs. Maria. 
 
 1866. Calderbank, Miss Eliz'th. 
 1865. Caldwell, Mrs. Eliza. 
 1S66. Caldwell, Miss Lilias I. 
 1865. J Caldwell, Wallace E. 
 
 1865. I Caldwell, Mrs. Cor'th N. 
 i860. Cameron, Mrs. Nancy. 
 i860. Camp, Calvin B. 
 
 1859. Campbell, Alexander. 
 
 1861. Campbell, Augustus. 
 1858. Campbell, William. 
 
 1853. Carhart, Mrs. Jane. 
 1858. Carl, Mrs. Imogen I. 
 
 1849. J Carly, Jesse. 
 
 1852. j Carly, Mrs. Sarah E. . 
 
 1855. Carly, Miss Sarah. 
 
 1867. Carman, Bertine P. 
 
 1857. Carner, Mrs. Joanna. 
 
 1856. j Carpenter, Henry F. 
 
 1856. "j Carpenter, Mrs. Eliz. D 
 
 1858. j Carpenter, James. 
 1858. I Carpenter, Mrs. Cath. 
 1858. Carter, Miss Emma A. 
 1863. j Case, Zina. 
 
 1863. I Case, Mrs. Anna Maria. 
 
 1862. Chambers, Mrs. Sarah I. 
 
 1866. Chamberlin, James H. 
 
 1861. Champuey, Mrs. Susan J. 
 1855. Chant, Miss Emma. 
 
 1858. Chant, Miss Rosaline L. 
 
 1859. Chapin, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
 1864. Chapin, Elisha S. 
 
 1865. Chapin, Henry, jr. 
 
 1862. Chapin, Miss Mary L. 
 1864. Chase, Miss Isabella S. 
 1858. Chase, Mrs. Sarah G. 
 1852. Chichester, Mrs. Jane A. 
 
 1857. Child, Henry E. 
 
 1854. Chittenden, Mrs. Henrietta. 
 
 1852. Chown, Miss Ann Maria. 
 
 1855. Church, Miss Esther. 
 
 1853. Church, Moses 
 
 1850. Church, Sheldon P 
 1S54. Churchill, Miss Sophia S. 
 1852. Claflin, Mrs. Agnes. 
 1S57. Claggett, Miss Mary L. 
 
240 
 
 PL YMO Uril CIIUR CH. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 857. Claggett, Mrs. Louisa. 
 
 858. Claggett, Miss Ellen L. 
 
 852. Clarendon, Thomas. 
 
 856. Clark, Mrs. Eugenia. 
 S52. Clark, Mrs. Iantlia. 
 
 864. J Clark, Sylvester H. 
 
 865. 1 Clark, M'rs. Lucy P. 
 
 863. Clement, Marshall H. 
 Clements, Miss Margaret 
 j Cleveland, Henry M. 
 ( Cleveland, Mrs. Mary C 
 
 Cluff, Mrs. Charlotte. 
 Cobb, Henry H. 
 Cochrane, John. 
 
 J Cochrane, Robert. 
 
 J Cochrane, Mrs. Margaret. 
 Cochrane, Mrs. Sarah. 
 Cockeram, Herbert. 
 
 857. Coe, Miss Adeline. 
 855. Coe, Mrs. Sarah Jane. 
 
 857. j Coffin, O. Vincent. 
 S59. \ Coffin, Mrs. Ellen E. 
 861. Cogswell, Benjamin F. 
 
 853. Coleman, Edmund. 
 
 858. Colletti, Mrs. Julia A. 
 849. Colligan, Miss Jane. 
 
 848. J Colligan, William. 
 J Colligan, Mrs. Joy. 
 J Collie, William, 
 j Collie, Mrs. Mary. 
 j Collins, Henry. 
 J Coliins, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 Collins, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 \ 
 
 Colt, L. B. 
 J Colwell, William. 
 858. j Colwell, Mrs. Mary Jane. 
 
 849. Colyer, Charles W. 
 
 866. Comins, John E. 
 855. J Comins, John P. 
 855. J Comins, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 857. Comins, Miss Mary E. 
 
 861. Conant, Roger. 
 
 862. Condit, Charles L. 
 
 858. Condit, Frederic. 
 848. ) Condit, Isaac L. 
 
 858. \ Condit, Mrs. Mary E. 
 862. Condon, Miss Mary Jane. 
 
 848. j Conkling, John T. 
 
 849. j Conkling, Mrs. C. E. 
 849. Cook, Miss Catharine. 
 866. Cook, Miss Ella A. 
 
 858. Cook, Mrs. Henrietta M. 
 
 S57. Cook, Mrs. Margaret I. 
 
 866. Cooke, Miss Emma F. 
 
 858. J Coomes, Oliver Bliss. 
 
 858. j Coomes, Mrs. Laura. 
 
 851. Cooper, Mrs. Harriet S. 
 
 858. ( Cooper, Stephen P. 
 
 853. ") Cooper, Mrs. Louisa W. 
 
 858. Corkery, Miss Lizzie K. 
 
 864. Cornell, Mrs. Abby. 
 
 Collins, William. 
 Collins, Mrs. Charity. 
 
 Year 
 Adinii i.il. 
 
 1862. Corning, Charles T. 
 1859. CouzenSj Matthew. 
 
 1863. Cox, Miss Emma V. 
 1863. Cox, Mrs. Mary E. 
 1863. Cox, Miss Mary L. 
 1858. Cox, Richard. 
 
 1858. Crane, Miss Arabella. 
 1858. Crane, Mrs. Esther W. 
 1858. Crane, Mrs. Helena. 
 i860. Crane, John W. 
 1865. Crawbuck, William. 
 
 1858. Crawford, Mrs. Martha. 
 1865. J Creamer, William G. 
 1865. I Creamer, Mrs. Harriet. 
 
 1865. Creamer, Miss Hattie M. 
 1863. Crosby, Mrs. Florence E. 
 1852. Crosby, Miss Martha S. 
 1852. Crosby, Mrs. Sarah B. 
 
 1866. Crowe, Alfred. 
 
 1851. j Cruikshank, James. 
 
 185 1. J Cruikshank, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 1856. Cruikshank, Edwin A. 
 
 1862. Cruikshank, Miss Jane J. 
 
 1859. Cruikshank, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1863. Cuff, Mrs. Martha Matilda. 
 
 1866. Curtis, William R. 
 
 1867. Curtiss, Daniel W. 
 1866. Curtiss, Judson. 
 1861. Cushman, Thomas. 
 
 1862. 
 1862. 
 1865. 
 1866. 
 1850. 
 1855- 
 1858. 
 1864. 
 1^49. 
 1851. 
 1864. 
 1855. 
 1855. 
 1851. 
 1858. 
 1858. 
 1861. 
 1856. 
 1856. 
 1848. 
 1866. 
 1852. 
 1855- 
 
 1851. 
 1857- 
 1861. 
 1857. 
 1857. 
 
 j Dailey, A. H. 
 1 Dailey, Mrs. E. T. 
 Dale, Fullington. 
 Dale, Miss Emma A. 
 Dalrymple, Mrs. Jane. 
 Daniels, Miss Jane L. 
 Daniels, Mrs. Sophia C. 
 Danner, Edgar V. H. 
 j Davenport, A. B. 
 
 I Davenport, Mrs. Jane J. 
 Davenport, Albert B. 
 
 \ Davenport, Daniel. 
 
 I Davenport, Mrs. Mary A. 
 Davis, Mrs. Catherine. 
 
 J Davis, Charles T. 
 
 I Davis, Mrs. Emma T. 
 Davis, Chester H. 
 
 J Davis, Elijah D. 
 
 \ Davis, Mrs. Sarah. 
 Davis, Isaac F. 
 Davis, Miss Sarah R. 
 'Davis, Thomas. 
 Dawson, Charles. 
 Day, Elias H. 
 
 j Day, George H. 
 
 j Day, Mrs. Jeannette L. 
 Day, Mrs. Hannah T. 
 Day, William H. 
 
 J Dayton, Hiram. 
 
 I Dayton, Mrs. Mary Ann 
 
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PL YMO UTH CIIUR CIL 
 
 241 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 864. Deadman, Miss Elizabeth M. 
 866. Dean, Mrs. Maria L. 
 
 852. Deane, Robert. 
 
 866. Dearborn, George E. 
 
 863. Decker, Miss Nellie. 
 
 865. Decker, Simon C. 
 
 847. Decker, Mrs. Susan. 
 858. Delamater, Mrs. Maria. 
 
 848. De Mott, Mrs. Catherine. 
 865. Demand, Miss Agnes. 
 S60. Demand, Mrs. Alma Jane. 
 852. Dennis, Miss Ann. 
 
 858. Denny, Mrs. Mary M. 
 
 865. Dickey, Julius C. 
 
 858. Dickie, Mrs. Catherine. 
 
 861. Dickinson, Charles P. 
 860. Dickinson, Edward J. 
 851. J Dickinson, Isaac X. 
 
 860. j Dickinson, Mrs. Louisa J. 
 S53. Dickinson, Mrs. Ruth A. 
 S64. Dike, Mrs. Elizabeth M. 
 848. J Dillingham, William S. 
 848. } Dillingham, Mrs. Julia. 
 858. Dimon, James. 
 
 865. Dimon, William B. 
 
 S62. Dodge, Miss Ann Matilda. 
 
 858. Dodge, Miss Lizzie W. 
 
 862. Dodge, Miss Maria L. 
 
 861. Dorlon, Mrs. Caroline. 
 S56. Doubleday, Alfred. 
 
 851. Dougherty, Miss Mary. 
 
 848. Downing, Mrs. Maria. 
 
 864. Downs, David S. 
 
 866. Doyle, Miss Emma J. 
 
 865. I Doyle, James E. 
 
 865. (Doyle, Mrs. Cornelia. 
 
 866. Doyle, Thomas L. 
 850. Drake, Mrs. Ann. 
 
 849. Drummond, Miss Susan. 
 
 867. Duerden, Mrs. Anne. 
 858. J Du Flon, Vitallis. 
 858. I Du Flon, Mrs. Mary 
 866. J Duncan, Charles C. 
 866« f Duncan, Mrs. Hannah J. 
 S62. Duncan, Charles D. 
 
 866. Duncan, Frederick C. 
 
 858. Duncan, Mrs. Lydia S. 
 
 866. Dunn, Mrs. Lydia Anne. 
 
 852. Dunn, Mrs. Susan W. 
 
 Durrie, Daniel. 
 52. Duryea, Miss Aletta. 
 
 49. Duryea, Hermanus B. 
 58. Duryea, Miss Helen E. 
 52. Duryea, Miss Maria L. 
 58. Duryea, Samuel B. 
 
 52. Duryea, Miss Sarah Ann. 
 56. Dwight, Mrs. Charlotte P. 
 63. J Dwyer, John. 
 62. 1 Dwyer, Mrs. Louisa. 
 67. Dwyer, Miss Fanny. 
 40. Dyas, Mrs. Dorothy. 
 
 50. Dyas, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 11 
 
 1848. 
 1847. 
 1S47. 
 1865. 
 1866. 
 1858. 
 1859. 
 1850. 
 1850. 
 1 861. 
 1861. 
 1847. 
 1852. 
 1S63. 
 1S63. 
 1863. 
 i865. 
 1848. 
 1S54. 
 1866. 
 1866. 
 iSc-6. 
 
 1S62. 
 
 864. 
 
 S06. 
 865. 
 860. 
 860. 
 
 E 
 
 Eames, Edward A. 
 
 j Eames, Luther. 
 
 } Eames, Mrs. Mehi table. 
 
 j Edgerton, Francis M. 
 
 ( Edgerton, Mrs. Mary R. 
 Edwards, William W. 
 Edwards, Thomas. 
 
 \ Eels, Thomas S. 
 
 } Eels, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 J Eklredge, Joseph C. 
 
 I Eldredge, Mrs. Reb'a G. 
 
 \ Fly, H. Gilbert. 
 
 '( Ely, Mrs. Mary P. 
 Ely, Arthur T. 
 
 J Ely, Joseph N. 
 
 I Ely, Mrs. Hannah M. R. 
 Fly, 'Miss Lydia R. 
 Fly, Mrs. Caroline B. 
 Elliott, Augustus. 
 Ensel, Mrs. Sarah. 
 Ensel, Miss Sarah B. 
 F.stes, Mrs. Sarah Ellen- 
 Evans, Mrs. Margaret. 
 Everitt, Edwin C. 
 Ewbank, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 Fab-ens. Miss Alice E. 
 Fabens, Miss Carrie. 
 Fabens, Miss Hannah E. 
 Fairman, Mrs. A. P. 
 Fates, Mrs. Edward. 
 Fanning, Miss Lucy C. 
 Fanning, Mrs. Eliz. B. L. 
 Fanning, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 J Fanning, Thomas C. 
 
 rf Fanning, Mrs. Mary A. 
 Farley, Mrs. Mary. 
 Farnsworth, Mrs. Julia. 
 Farrand, Mrs. Zilla T. 
 Farrar, John M. 
 Farrar, Mrs. Mary Jane. 
 Farrar, Miss Mary H. 
 Farreli, Miss Elizabeth. 
 Fair, Mrs. Mary M. 
 Fenner, Miss Flora H. 
 Fenner, Miss Julia M. 
 
 I Fenton, James. 
 
 \ Fenton, Mrs. Jessie. 
 
 j Ferguson, William. 
 
 ( Ferguson, Mrs. Isab. W. 
 
 j Fern, Herbert. 
 
 ( Fern, Mrs. Mary Ann. 
 Fernald, Mrs. Mary. 
 J Ferris, Samuel S. 
 
 1 Ferris, Mrs. Elvira M. K. 
 Field, Charles P. 
 Field, Wm. Emile. 
 Fisk, Mrs. Mary J. 
 
242 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Year 
 -Admitted. 
 
 1852. j Fitzgerald, Andrew. 
 
 1852. ) Fitzgerald, Mr>. (;uh. 
 
 1861. Fitzgerald, Miss Catherine. 
 1S60. Flanders, Mrs. Jennie D. 
 1S50. Fletcher, I lorace R. 
 
 1862. Fletcher, Miss Luella J. 
 1852. Flindt, Mrs. Maria A. 
 1856. Flowers, Mrs. Jeannctte C. 
 
 I Foote, John. 
 
 I Foot j, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 Ford, Adonijah D. 
 
 Ford, Miss Cornelia M. 
 
 Ford, Mrs. Jane. 
 
 ForJ, Mrs. Mary A. 
 1855. Formain, .Sands F. 
 1866. Foster, Miss Alice. 
 1S5S. Foster, Mrs. Esther J. 
 1850. Foster, Mrs. Julia I). 
 i860. Foster, Miss Mary A. 
 1858. Foster, Mrs. Mary Jane. 
 1865. 
 1865. 
 
 1857. 
 1857. 
 1S50. 
 1861. 
 1S5S. 
 1852. 
 
 •'owlc, John A. 
 
 I Fowle. Mrs. Ehz: 
 
 j Freckelton, John. 
 
 1851. j Freckelton, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1849. i Freeland, James. 
 
 1849. 1 Freeland, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
 1859. j French, George F. 
 1862. I French, Mrs. Adelia R. 
 
 1860. French, Mrs. Nancy. 
 i860. French, Miss Julia. 
 1864. Friedrick, Miss Amclie. 
 1864. Friedrick, Miss M. Lucie. 
 1865 Friedrick, Miss Octavie. 
 1853. Frink, Mrs. Maria L. 
 1862. Fry, Henry. 
 
 1855. Fuller, Charles L. 
 
 1858. Fuller, Mrs. Cornelia L. 
 
 i860. Fuller, Miss Madana. 
 
 1858. ( Gale, Thomas D. 
 1S58. ) Gale, Mrs. Julia E._ 
 1858. Gausman, Mrs. Caroline S. 
 1853. I Garbutt, Elmer H. 
 1853. } Garbutt, Mrs. Emma. 
 
 1863. Garbutt, Miss Libbie E. 
 1852. Garrod, Mrs. Amelia. 
 1867. j Gatter, Charles E. 
 1866. f Gatter, Mrs. Sarah. 
 1866. Getty, Mrs. Elizabeth C. 
 
 1848. Gibbons, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 1849. Gibbs, Miss Jane Eliza. 
 
 1850. Gibbs, John. 
 
 iS-8. Gibson, Charles D. T. 
 1858. Gibson, Edmund T. H., Jr. 
 1G53. Gibson, Mrs. Sarah White. 
 1849. Giftbrd, Mrs. Sophia. 
 1858. Gilbert, Mrs. Elizabeth W. 
 1862. Gilbert, Miss Elizabeth. 
 1861. J Gillespie, James II. 
 1861. I Gillespie. Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1864. Gladwin, Mrs. Hannah M. 
 
 T^ar 
 
 ■ 
 
 860. J Gleason, Fernando C. 
 
 860. I Gleason, Mrs. Harriet A. 
 
 855. Glover, Joseph C. 
 
 848. Glover, Miss Maria Jane. 
 
 52. Glover, MisskhodaA. 
 
 S56. Gold, Cornelius. 
 
 866. Gold, Mrs. Hattie S. H. 
 
 864. Goddard, Mrs. Emily C. 
 
 862. Gommerson, Mrs. Emily. 
 852. J Goodno.v, Erasmus D. 
 052. 7 Goodnow, Mrs. Caroline. 
 852. Goodrich, Mrs. Phoebe J. 
 
 866. j Gordon, William G. 
 
 865. ) Gordon, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 867. Gorman, Miss Agnes. 
 
 866. Gossip, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 865. Gould, Charles. 
 
 863. Gould, Miss Julia F. 
 
 58. 
 
 S66. 
 
 cCz. 
 
 Z62. 
 862. 
 B58. 
 
 84 5. 
 
 Graff, George. 
 
 1 Graff, Mrs. Sarah B. 
 
 Grassie, William C. 
 
 Graves, Miss Alice C. 
 
 j Graves, Erastus A. 
 
 I Graves, Mrs. Cornelia J. 
 
 Graves, E. 
 
 Graves, Miss Fanny R. 
 
 Graves, Miss Henrietta A. 
 864. Graves, John M. 
 S62. Graves, Mrs. LucyM. 
 859. Graves, Miss Louisa M. 
 866. Graves, Miss Mary Ella. 
 857. Graves, Miss Mary Z. 
 859. J Graves, Rufus R. 
 859. f Graves, Mrs. Mary Jane. 
 855. Grayston, John. 
 849. Green, Miss Sarah Eliz'h. 
 
 864. Green, John. 
 
 855. Green, Miss Margaret. 
 854. Greenough, Miss Hannah. 
 866. Gregory, Mrs. Emma 13. 
 
 857. Grierson, Mrs. Susanna. 
 866. Grierson, Miss Susie. 
 848. Griffin, Miss Sarah. 
 
 861. Griffith, John. 
 
 858. Grimshaw, Miss Ann. 
 1.858. J Grimshaw, Henry H. 
 
 858. I Grimshaw, Mrs. Eliz. C. 
 S56. Griswold, Mrs. Henrietta. 
 852. j Griswold, Stephen M. 
 
 862. I Griswold, Mrs. Louisa M. 
 861. Gulick, John T. 
 
 865. Gunn, John. 
 865. Gustin, John H. 
 
 857- J Guthrie, Columbus B. 
 857. ) Guthrie, Mrs. 
 857. Gwynn, Miss Mary. 
 
 H 
 
 1866. Habberton, Mrs. Esther E. 
 1866. Habberton, Miss Hattie S. 
 1S66. Habberton, John. 
 1S66. Habberton, Miss Mary E. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCIL 
 
 243 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 866. Hagar, John. 
 
 858. Hagar, Mrs. Susan. 
 
 866. Hague, Thomas O. 
 
 864. J Haight, Abner S. 
 
 864. J Haight, Mrs. Harriet E. 
 
 S65. Haight, Mrs. Grace M. 
 
 866. Haight, Jonathan. 
 
 847. Hale, Richard. 
 
 861. Hall, Miss Ellen. 
 858. Hall, Miss Elizabeth. 
 
 864. Hall, Miss Emma P. 
 860. Hall, Joseph T. H. 
 858. Halliday, Alexander. 
 866. Halliday, Miss Amelia. 
 866. Halliday, Miss Amy E. 
 866. J Halliday, S. 13. 
 
 866. "J Halliday, Mrs. Mary C. 
 
 867. Hallock, Charles W. 
 852. Hallock, Daniel B. 
 
 865. Halsey, Miss Anna M. 
 
 862. Halsey, Charles F. 
 
 862. Halsey, Miss Mary. 
 850. Halsey, James M. 
 860. j Halsey, Warren. 
 860. \ Halsey, Mrs. Lydia. 
 854. Halsted, Mrs. Elizabeth A. 
 
 857. Halsted, Miss Juliet. 
 
 864. Halsted, Miss Mary Ann. 
 854. Hamilton, Cutler. 
 
 858. Hamilton, Francis P. 
 858. Hansell, Mrs. Lydia. 
 
 857. Hansell, Thomas. 
 
 867. Harris, Mrs. Margaret. 
 
 863. Harris, Mrs. Mary Ann. 
 
 865. Harris, William S. 
 
 856. Hart, Mrs. Eugenia C. 
 860. J Hart, Rev. Levi Wells. 
 860. j Hart, Mrs. Georgiana N. 
 
 865. Hart, Miss Sarah. 
 
 848. Hartman, Mrs. Matilda S. 
 
 866. Harwood, Miss Hattie E. 
 
 864. j Harwood, William A. 
 864. "j Harwood, Mrs. S. M. 
 852. j Haskell, Samuel S. 
 850. 1 Haskell, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 866. Hastings, Frederick G. 
 866. Hathaway, Miss Mary C. 
 
 858. Havens, Miss Julia Eva. 
 860. J Hawes, Peter A. 
 
 860. I Hawes, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 857. j Hawkins, David H. 
 
 857. ) Hawkins, Mrs. Julia P. 
 
 856. Hawks, Miss C H. E. 
 
 858. Hawks, Mrs. Sarah M. 
 
 859. Havvley, Amos P. 
 
 857. J Hayden, Alfred P. 
 
 857. I Hayden, Mrs. Nancy. 
 864. j Hayes, Jonathan W. 
 864. I Hayes, Mrs. Mary P. 
 
 860. Hayes, Mrs. Mary C. 
 862. Hayman, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 849. Haynes, Robert. 
 
 858. Haynes, Mrs. Naomi. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 858. j Haynes, Samuel. 
 
 861. j Haynes, Mrs. Emeline. 
 
 852. J Healy, Aaron. 
 
 852. I Healy, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 865. Healy, Stephen W. 
 855. Heath, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 S58. Heminglon, Miss Eliza. 
 863. Hemstreet, Miss Elizabeth; 
 858. Henshaw, Mrs. Maria E. 
 
 866. Herron, Joseph M. 
 
 854. Hervey, Mrs. Prudence. 
 852. J Hickcox, George A. 
 
 850. j Hickcox, Mrs. Caroline A. 
 
 861. Hicks, Mrs. Emeline. 
 
 862. J Hicks, Walter S. 
 
 862. ) Hicks, Mrs. Parmelia A. 
 
 863. Higgins, Miss Ellen. 
 862. Higgins, Robert. 
 
 865. Hildreth, Augustus G. 
 
 864. j Hill, .Abraham. 
 864. ) Hill, Mrs. Carrie S. 
 
 855. Hill, Mrs. Frances C. 
 858. Hill, Mrs. Ellen W. 
 858. Hill, Mrs. Huldah. 
 
 866. Hill, Mrs. Mary Anne. 
 864. Hilton, Mrs. Amelia. 
 
 857. Hinkly, Miss Emily A. 
 862. Hinman, Miss Clara. 
 860. Hitchcock. Miss A. S. 
 855. Hodges, Mrs. Ruth M. 
 
 858. Hoffman, Mrs. Mary G. 
 866. j Holmes, David S. 
 
 866. 1 Holmes, Mrs. Sarah C. 
 
 848. Holbrook, Miss Emeline. 
 
 860. Hooker, Mrs. Sophia. 
 
 862. Hooper, Mrs. Anna Maria. 
 
 847. Horsey, Mrs. Sophia. 
 
 864. Horton, Miss Margaret R. 
 
 859. Hosie, Alexander. 
 
 852. House, Mrs. Elizabeth W. 
 864. Howard, Charles M. 
 
 864. Howard, Frank W. 
 
 858. Floward, Mrs. Georgiana E. 
 
 864. Howard, H. W. B. 
 
 847. j Howard, John T. 
 
 853. I Howard, Mrs. Susan T. 
 857. Howard, John R. 
 
 852. j Howard, Joseph P. 
 
 857. I Howard, Mrs. Harriet F. 
 
 858. Howard, Miss Susan R. 
 
 855. Howell, Mrs. Nancy. 
 
 856. j Hubbard, Abner. 
 
 856. \ Hubbard, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 857. j Hudson, George. 
 
 857. | Hudson, Mrs. Esther C. 
 862. Huffington, Miss Eliza. 
 862. \ Huffington, John W. 
 
 S62 
 
 j Huffim 
 ) Huffim 
 
 ton, Mrs. Julia E. 
 
 858. Hulett, Mrs. Ellen A. T. 
 866. Humphrey, Miss Agnes. 
 858. J Hunt, James N. 
 858. | Hunt, Mrs. Mary. 
 866. Hunter, Miss Arabella, 
 
n 
 
 244 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 T.Tir 
 Admitted. 
 
 1S63. J Huntington, Hiram L. 
 1863. I Huntington, Mrs. Anna. 
 1863. Huntington, John L. 
 i860. Huntley, Mrs. Nancy M. 
 1350. Hurlbut, Mrs. M. E. 
 1857. J Hutchinson, John 1». 
 
 1857. J Hutchinson, Mrs. Ruth 13 
 
 1858. j Hutchinson, John W. 
 1862. "j Hutchinson, Mrs. G. A. 
 1862. Hutchinson, Miss Sarah R. 
 1S62. Huttamycr, Miss A. Maria. 
 
 1857. Ilsley, Caleb. 
 
 1864. Ingham, Miss Annette. 
 
 1850. James, Miss Mary. 
 :. James, Mrs. Mary. 
 _ I. James, Miss Mary. 
 [863. J James, William E. 
 1863. "j James, Mrs. Sarah. 
 1865. Jaques, Richard D. 
 
 1849. Jaques, Mrs. Susan D. 
 ;. Jaques, Miss Zipporah D. 
 I. Jennings, George H. 
 
 1854. Jennet, Mrs. Nancy. 
 1858. Jerncgan. Miss Sarah M. 
 I56. Jewell, Mrs. Eliza J. 
 [866. I Johnson, Carlisle P. ~- 
 566. \ Johnson, Mrs. Caroline. 
 558. Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth A. 
 358. Johnson, Mrs. Elizabeth C. 
 t866. Johnson, Miss Eanny E. 
 
 j- Johnson, Harlan P. 
 [866. Johnson, Miss Harriet B. 
 t. Johnson, H. F. 
 !. J Jones, Benjamin P. 
 _ I. 1 Jones, Mrs. Anna M. 
 [859. Jones, A. D. 
 [861. Jones, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 56. Jones, Miss Emeline. 
 51. Jones, Miss Emily, 
 ji. Jones, Miss Harriet. 
 1863. J Jordan, Thomas. 
 [863. I Jordan, Mrs. Sarah. 
 t862. I Jov, Henry 15. 
 [862. \ Joy, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 [865. Joyce, Miss Harriet Emma. 
 1865. Joyce, Thomas U. 
 [866. Ju'dd, Mortimer N. 
 
 1850. Judson, Miss Mary Jane. 
 
 K 
 
 1851. Keeler, Amos. 
 1S60. Keen, Robert L. 
 
 1858. Keese, Miss Charlotte W. 
 
 i860. Kellogg. Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 i860. Kelly, Miss Man-. 
 
 1850. Kempshall, Miss Julia Ann. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 1856. Kennedy, Samuel C. 
 1866. Kenncy, Miss Maria L. 
 1852. Kent, Mrs. Hannah C. 
 1S60. Kent, Mrs. Sarah Ann M. 
 1C66. Kent, Miss Sarah D. 
 1855. Kiuimerslev, Mrs. Ann. 
 1848. King, Mrs.' Elizabeth. 
 J King, Horatio C. 
 \ King, Mrs. Esther A. 
 King, Mrs. Jane Olivia. 
 Kingsley, Edwin E. 
 J Knapp, Francis. 
 Knapp, Mrs. Eliza. 
 
 1866. 
 1858. 
 1847. 
 1S58. 
 1857. 
 1857. 
 
 1862. Knapp, Henry E. 
 
 1854. Knapp, Joseph W. 
 
 1S54. Knapp, Rev. Nathan B. 
 
 1858. Knight, Philip M. 
 
 1853. Knocpfel, John G. 
 
 1865. 
 1865. 
 1861. 
 1S61. 
 1861. 
 1S61. 
 1861. 
 1855. 
 1866. 
 1857. 
 1858. 
 1865. 
 1857. 
 1854. 
 i860. 
 1861. 
 1850. 
 1858. 
 1852. 
 1857. 
 1857. 
 
 1855. 
 1857. 
 i8 5 3. 
 1865. 
 1864. 
 
 Is 53 ' 
 1866. 
 
 1853. 
 
 IS66. 
 1866. 
 
 [S64. 
 1858. 
 
 Ladd, Miss Mary Ellen. 
 Lamb, Mrs. Helen. 
 Lamb, Miss Mary. 
 
 J Lancaster, Rev. Daniel. 
 
 ) Lancaster, Mrs. Eliza G. 
 Lancaster, Daniel E. 
 Lancaster, Miss Helen. 
 Lancaster, Miss Ann E. 
 
 J Lane, Anthony. 
 
 I Lane, Mrs. Mary P. 
 
 I Lane, James. 
 
 I Lane, Mrs. Lois M. 
 Lane, Miss Mary Ida. 
 Lant, David. 
 La Praite, John. 
 Law, Charles. 
 Law, Charles R. 
 Lawrence, John B. 
 Leary, James L. 
 Ledyard, Miss Maria. 
 
 J Leigh, Robert. 
 
 I Leigh, Mrs. Georgiana. 
 Leonard, John. 
 Leonard, Mrs. Nancy. 
 Lewis, Mrs. Emma. 
 Lewis, Miss Fanny E. 
 Lewis, John. 
 Lightbody, James H. 
 
 J Lincoln, George B. 
 
 I Lincoln, Mrs. Mary A. M. 
 Lincoln, Geo. B., Jr. 
 Lissels, Miss Jane. 
 
 I Livingston, Geo. H. 
 
 I Livingston, Mrs. Eliz. 
 Lloyd, Henry H. 
 Long, Frederick H. C. 
 Long, Walter P. 
 Loomis, Miss Fanny A. 
 Love, Miss Margaret. 
 Lovett. William. 
 Low, John. 
 Lowe, Samuel. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 245 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 1857. Lowndes, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 1858. Lownds, Miss Cecilia K. 
 1858. Lownds, Mrs. Jane M. 
 1858. Ludlow, W. P. 
 
 1852. Ludlam, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 1866. Lunan, Miss Kate. 
 
 1857. Lunn, Mrs. Ann. 
 
 1864. Lunt, Mrs. Elizabeth H. 
 
 1866. j Lyman, Alfred E. 
 
 1866. [ Lyman, Mrs. Elizabeth S. 
 
 1866. Lyman, Miss Helen O. 
 
 1866. 
 1848. 
 1862. 
 1848. 
 [854. 
 
 Lyman, William A. 
 
 j Lynde, Martins T. 
 
 I Lynde, Mrs. Eliz. T. 
 Lynde, Mrs. Eli; a W. 
 Lyon, Mrs. Marietta, 
 
 1852. Lyons, Mrs. Ann. 
 1858. Lyons, Miss Eliza Ann. 
 
 1865. Mack, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 i860. Maconnell, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 1865. Macy, Jared. 
 
 1858. McAUey, Miss Janet. 
 
 1849. Mcl'ride, Anthony. 
 
 1853. McCarty, Miss Mary E. 
 1864. McCollnm, Mrs. Ella Lake. 
 1862. McChesncy, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 1858. McCormick, Lachlan. 
 
 1867. McCraken, Mrs. Mary Anne. 
 1856. McCray, Samuel II. 
 
 1850. McCrommell, Mrs. Margaret. 
 
 1851. j McFlroy, Robert. 
 
 1851.' 1 McElroy, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 1862. McFarland, Miss Cath. E. 
 1848. J McFarland, James. 
 1848. j McFarland, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 1858. j McGrottv, Alexander. 
 
 1859. j McGrottv, Mrs. H. L. 
 1862. Mclntyre, Samuel. 
 
 1864. McKay, Miss Isabella. 
 1850. McKay, Mi.^s Mary A. 
 
 1854. J McKay, William. 
 1854. I McKay, Mrs. Ann. 
 1867. McKenzie, Mrs. Hannah. 
 1867. McKenzie, Miss Helen. 
 1858. J McLaugMin, John. 
 
 i860. I McLaughlin, Mrs. Sus. K. 
 
 1866. McLeod, Donald. 
 1866. McMahon, Charles E. 
 i860. McMahon, Miss Helen R. 
 
 1856. McMahon, James. 
 1862. McMasters, Miss Sarah. 
 1858. McMillan, Andrew T. 
 i860. McMillan, Mrs. Margaret. 
 
 1857. McNi^hton, Miss Jane. 
 
 1865. McWiiliam, Miss Annie. 
 
 1866. McWiiliam, Miss Mary A. 
 1866. Maklem, Miss Lucy E. 
 1866. Malcolm, James R. 
 
 1858. Mallatrat, James. 
 1865. Mallatrat, James Wm. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 1857. Mallory, Miss Anna A. 
 
 1857. Mallory, Miss Frances T. 
 
 1850. Mallory, Miss Mary. 
 1857. Mallory, Mrs. Theresa F. 
 
 1857. J Manchester, Lysandcr W. 
 
 1851. I Manchester, Mrs. M. M. 
 1C52. Mann, Mrs. Susan. 
 
 1858. Marchant, Mrs. Mary C. 
 1858. Markillic, Thomas. 
 1862. Marie, Mrs. Sarah E. 
 
 1861. Marquis, Mrs. Emma. 
 1866. Marsh, Charles C. 
 1866. Marsh, Irwin G. 
 1858. Marsh, John B. 
 185S. Marsh, William B. 
 
 1862. Marshall, Miss Lizzie. 
 1862. Martin, Mrs. Annie H. 
 1858. Martin, Miss Cornelia. 
 1858. J Martin, George G. 
 1858. J Martin, Mrs. Mary E. L. 
 1862. j Martin, James. 
 
 1862. | Martin, Mrs. Emily. 
 
 1858. Marvin, Miss Fanny. 
 
 1850. Marvin, Isaac. 
 
 1862. j Marvin, John. 
 
 1862. I Marvin, Mrs. Lydia A. 
 
 1858. J Marvin, Oliver W. 
 
 1858. 1 Marvin, Mrs. Cornelia C. 
 
 1858. Marvin, Miss Sarah. 
 
 1849. Maryoit, Miss Elizabeth C. 
 1858. j Mason, John William. 
 1858. 1 Mason, Mrs. Hannah M. 
 
 1850. Mason, Joseph Warren. 
 
 1855. Mason, Mrs. Margaret. 
 1858. Mason, Miss Margaret J. 
 
 1858. Masters, Miss Delia A. 
 
 1859. Mather, Mrs. Caroline G. 
 
 1849. Mather, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 1858. Mathews, Miss Adelaide W. 
 1853. Mathews, Henry E. 
 
 1856. May, Mrs. Emeline. 
 i860. Maynard, Mrs. Matilda T. 
 1866. j Mayo, J. Rhodes. 
 1866. j Mayo, Mrs. Elmira S. 
 
 1859. J Mears, G. Washington. 
 1864. 1 Mears, Mrs. Mary L. 
 1861. Meekes, Mrs. Caroline. 
 i86r. Meekes, Miss Mary Eliz'h. 
 
 1855. Megarey, Mrs. Mary Anne. 
 
 1852. Meikle, Mrs. Irene. 
 
 1856. j Meldrum, Robert. 
 1856. I Meldrum, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 1850. Mellen, Mrs. Helen S. 
 1858. Mercein, Miss Caroline. 
 1859- Mercein, Miss Emma C. 
 1849. Mercein, Mrs. Mary. 
 1866. Mercer, Miss Josephine L. 
 
 1858. Merchant, Mrs. Sarah D. 
 
 1855. I Meriam, Silas A. 
 
 1859. ( Meriam, Mrs. Louise A. 
 1858. Merker, Miss Mary Ann. 
 1858. Merriam, Mrs Eliza. 
 
 1856. Merrifield, Mrs. Lizzie. 
 
246 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Tear 
 
 Admitted. 
 
 1858. 
 
 i8< 5. 
 
 [864. 
 
 1864. 
 
 1866. 
 
 '857. 
 
 [858, 
 
 1861. 
 
 1861. 
 3=5- 
 00. 
 ?57- 
 
 1865. 
 
 [865. 
 
 [862. 
 
 1849. 
 
 [8 5 3. 
 
 1863. 
 
 [866. 
 
 '859. 
 
 t8 5 =. 
 
 l»57- 
 
 i860. 
 i860. 
 353. 
 i8< j. 
 1S60. 
 1S48. 
 1852. 
 1858. 
 1858. 
 [850. 
 
 1858. 
 
 1847. 
 1858. 
 
 1S58. 
 i85i. 
 
 r66 3 . 
 
 1862. 
 tS 5 8- 
 
 1859. 
 1858. 
 r866. 
 
 «*• 
 
 [862. 
 56. 
 [861. 
 [855- 
 1S56.- 
 
 J Merrill, William F. 
 
 j .Morrill. Mrs. Julia A. 
 
 j Mcrriman, Edwin R. 
 
 I Mcrriman, Mrs. Emily J. 
 Mcrriman, Ralph. 
 
 J Merv.in, Jan 
 
 J Merwin, Mrs. Marg. A. 
 
 Miller, Miss Amanda. 
 
 Miller, Mrs. Clara Ely. 
 
 Miller, Miss Fanny Jane. 
 
 \ Miller, GreenleafP. 
 
 J Miller, Mrs. Nancy P. 
 Miller, Ira O. 
 Milliken, Mrs. Mary; 
 Mills, Mrs. Ann. 
 
 I Mills, Clark W. 
 
 I Mills. Mrs. Julia C. 
 Mills, George A. 
 Milne, Mrs. Mary. 
 Moneypenny, Richard H. 
 Monroe, Miss Caroline. 
 Monson, Homer G. 
 Monte, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 » tmery, Mrs. M. 
 . , Moses K. 
 
 ) Moodey, Mrs. Hannah M. 
 Moore, Miss H. Augusta. 
 
 ^ Mordough, James H. 
 "l Mordough, Mrs. Mary. 
 Morgan, Mrs. Ann. 
 Morgan, Charles C. 
 Moriey, James. 
 
 \ Morrill, Henry E. 
 
 / Morrill, Mrs. Cordelia. 
 Morris, Mrs. Agnes. 
 Morris, Miss Agnes. 
 Morris, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 \ Morris, James. 
 
 1 Morris, Mrs. IsaVa M. S. 
 Morris, Miss Mar:ha. 
 Morris, John A. 
 Morrison, Mrs. Diana. 
 Morse, Mrs. Joanna S. 
 Morse, John F. 
 Moser, "Mrs. Sarah L. 
 Moulton, Mrs. Emma C. R. 
 Mount, Miss Elizabeth. 
 Mowry, James T. 
 Muir, James B. 
 Muller, Mrs. Emma P. S. 
 Muller, James. 
 Muller, Miss Louisa. 
 Muller, Mrs. Marianne. 
 Munday, Mrs. Maria. 
 Munroe, Mrs. Lizzie C. 
 Murray, Charles H. P. 
 Murray, Mrs. Martha H. 
 Myers, Mrs. Catharine A. 
 J Myers, Evart. 
 
 j Myers, Mrs. Louise. 
 
 j Myers, Michael A. 
 
 \ Myers, Mrs. Lucy A. 
 
 N 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 i860. Nash, J. A. 
 
 1866. Nash, Henry. 
 
 i860. Nash, Mrs. Mary C. 
 
 1858. J Neal, William ft 
 
 [j • *. j Neal. Mrs. Lucy D. 
 
 1853. Newberry, E. D. 
 
 1850. Newton, Mrs. Catharine A. 
 
 1851. J Nichols, Edward A. 
 1851. I Nichols, Mrs. Cath. Y. 
 1866. Nichols, George E. 
 1S51. j Nichols, George H. 
 1856. ) Nichols, Mrs. Sarah E. 
 1S58. Nichols, George K. 
 
 1S57. Nichols, Mrs. Gliver Agnes. 
 1861. Noble, Miss Annie F. 
 1849. J Noble, James. 
 1S49. I Noble, Mrs. Jeannette. 
 1858. Norton, Dwight A. 
 Norton, Jonathan T. 
 
 j Noyes, James S. 
 I N. 
 
 1S62 
 1866. 
 
 Noyes, Mrs. Jenny B. 
 1S58. Noyes, Mrs. Mary S. 
 1S60. \ Nutting, Thomas B. 
 i860. I Nutting. Mrs. Julia L. 
 1C64. Nutting, Thos. B. (2d). 
 
 1858. O'Brien, Richard. 
 1S58. Obenberger, Miss Matilda. 
 1848. Old. Charles. 
 1S58. J Oliver, Charles H. 
 1858. 1 Oliver. Mrs. AdeKa A. 
 1858. Olnev, Mrs. Dollv E. 
 1858. Onion, Mrs. Mary A. 
 i860, j Orton, Jason R. 
 1853. I Orton, "Mrs. Sarah R. 
 1862. Osmun, Mrs. Lucretia P. 
 1858. Otis, Mrs. Cornelia L. 
 1866. Otis. Mrs. Emma Jane. 
 184S. i Otis, William H. 
 1S48. ) Otis, Mrs. Elizabeth A. 
 1865. I Ovington, Edward J. 
 1S65. \ Ovington, Mrs. Maria N. 
 1852. Ovington, Theodore T. 
 
 1867. Packer, Mrs. Margaret. 
 1849. ( Page, Amos C. 
 1849. J Page, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 e. Mrs. Aurelia E. 
 Painter, Thomas A. 
 
 1858. "( Painter, Mrs. Adelaide. 
 
 1559. Palmer, A. Judson. 
 
 1859. Palmer, Lorin. 
 1S61. Park, Mrs. Helen. 
 1859. Parker, Asa. 
 
 1560. Parker. Asa W. 
 
 1S39. Parker, Miss Harriet L. 
 1S5S. Parker, Mrs. Rebecca. 
 
PL ymo urn CIIUR CH. 
 
 247 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 854. Parker, Mrs. Parmelia. 
 
 £66. Parkhurst, David L. 
 
 857. Parmalee, Miss Jane Ann. 
 
 857. I Parsons, James. 
 
 857. I Parsons, Mrs. Amelia. 
 
 S66. Partridge, Miss Hattie A. 
 
 S64. Pate, Mrs. Harriet. 
 
 864. Pate, Miss Harriet E. 
 852. Payne, Mrs. Eliza. 
 857. Payne, Miss Mary H. 
 857. Payne, Miss Sarah E. 
 
 865. Pearce, Miss Matilda. 
 854. Peaslee, Miss Mary S. 
 
 C63. 
 863. 
 863. 
 863. 
 
 862. 
 849. 
 849. 
 
 £64. 
 
 Peck, Alfred A. 
 Peck, Mrs. Marian M. 
 Teck, R. Sanford. 
 Peck, Mrs. Rebecca R, 
 853. Perkins, Frederick. 
 S61. Perkins, Mrs. Maria. 
 Perry, Miss Ann Eliza. 
 J Perry, Tohn J. 
 1 Perry, Mrs. M. E. 
 Peters, Edward J. 
 Pettis, Miss Pamelia. 
 j Phelps, Henry B. 
 I Phelps, Mrs. Lucetta B. 
 Phillips, Mrs. Helen M. 
 
 857. Phillips, John P. 
 
 865. Phipps, Mrs. Catharine L. 
 
 866. Phipps, Charles L. 
 866. Pinckert, William. 
 866. Pine, Mrs. Frances G. 
 850. Pinkham, Miss Eliza M. A. 
 850. j Pitt, John B. 
 
 850. j Pitt, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
 851. Pittie, Mrs. Clarissa. 
 848. Plant, Edward. 
 
 S58. J Plate, Richard T. 
 
 858. I Plate, Mrs. Louisa. 
 866. J Polhemus, John D. 
 
 865. j Polhemus, Mrs. Hattie A. 
 8^6. i Pond, H. Augustus. 
 856. 1 Pond, Mrs. Julia. 
 
 851. j Porter, .Augustus D. 
 S51. j Porter, Mrs. Keziah C. 
 848. J Post, George W. 
 
 848. } Post, Mrs. Cornelia E. 
 858. Post, Mrs. Mary A. J. 
 
 852. Post, William. 
 
 §55. 
 
 Potter, Miss Fanny. 
 Potter, Miss Josephine. 
 
 855. 
 
 Geo. 
 
 Potter, Miss Frances Anne. 
 
 859- 
 
 Potter, Thomas. 
 
 81 3. 
 
 Powell, Ardon K. 
 
 S62. 
 
 Powell, Rufus W. 
 
 867. 
 
 Power, Mrs. Margaret E. 
 
 85S. 
 
 Pratt, Mrs. Caroline M. 
 
 858. 
 
 Pratt, Miss Mary. 
 
 S5S. 
 
 J Pratt, William. 
 
 j Pratt, Mrs. Sarah M. 
 
 858. 
 
 S63. 
 
 Prescott, C. J. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Preston, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 849. Purchase, Miss Eleanor. 
 
 Year 
 
 Admitted. 
 
 1858. Queen, James St. Clair. 
 1S66. Quinn, Miss Lucy E. 
 
 ?5- 
 
 j Rae, Richard. 
 
 I Rae, Mrs. Helen J. 
 
 {Randall, Lewis G. 
 Randall, Mrs. Mary E. 
 Randolph, Mrs. Harriet. 
 
 j Rankin, Andrew N. 
 
 j Rankin, Mrs. Eliza R. 
 
 j Rankin, John. 
 
 I Rankin, Mrs. Eliza. 
 Rapp, Miss Lizzie. 
 Raymond, Miss Almira P. 
 Raymond, Carrington H. 
 
 j Raymond, Charles W. 
 
 I Raymond, Mrs. Clara W. 
 Raymond, Miss Harriet J. 
 Raymond, Miss Eliza O. 
 
 j Raymond, Robert R. 
 
 I Raymond, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 j Raymond, Rossiter W. 
 
 1 Raymond, Mrs. Sarah D. 
 Raymond, Sheldon C. 
 Raymond, Miss Susan H. 
 Raynor, Miss Amy. 
 Raynor, Miss Ellen A. 
 
 J Reanier, William. 
 
 I Reanier, Mrs. Martha. 
 Reasoner, Mrs. Ruth Ann. 
 Redhouse, William. 
 
 j Reed, J. Herbert. 
 
 ( Reed, Mrs. Anna. 
 Reeve, Miss Elizabeth. 
 Reeve, Mrs. Lydia Crane. 
 Reynolds, Mrs. Olivia. 
 Reynolds, Miss Olivia. 
 Reynolds, John. 
 Rich, Mrs. Mary. 
 Rich, Miss Mary S. 
 Rich, Miss Sarah F. 
 Richardson, Miss Louisa L. 
 
 j Riecks, Carsden W. 
 
 I Riecks, Mrs. Matilda. 
 Riecks. Miss Martha E. 
 
 j Rippier, Stephen J. 
 
 I Rippier, Mrs. Rebecca. 
 
 J Rippier, Thomas S. 
 
 ) Rippier, Mrs. Sarah. 
 Ripton, Mrs. Lucy Jane. 
 
 j Robbins, Samuel. 
 
 ") Robbins, Mrs. Sophronia. 
 Roberts, Albert. 
 
 J Roberts, Edward. 
 
 ) Roberts, Mrs. Mary E. 
 Roberts, Mrs. Man,-. 
 Robertson, Archibald. 
 Robinson, David W. 
 
 j Robinson, George C. 
 
 ( Robinson, Mrs. Mary L. 
 
248 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Yoar 
 Admitted. 
 
 1858. Robinson, James C. 
 
 1857. Robinson, John C. 
 
 1858. S Robinson, Marcus W. 
 1S58. > Robinson, Mrs. Abigail S. 
 1S56. Rockwell, Mrs. Isabella. 
 1862. Rockwood, Justin E. 
 
 1856. Rockwood, Mrs. Mary A. 
 1855. Rogers, Mrs. Adeline, 
 
 1855. Rogers, Clifford J. 
 1858. Rogers, Mrs. Eleanor H. 
 1864. Rogers, Miss Mary E. 
 1S55. Rogers, Mrs. Jane R. 
 1S63. Roome, Mrs. Sarah F. W. 
 1852. i Ropes, Reuben W. 
 1S55. > Ropes, Mrs. Maria L. 
 
 1856. Roth, George J. 
 1S5S. Roundv. Cenj. B. 
 
 1852. } Royall, John H. 
 
 1S52; \ Royall, Mrs. Louisa H. 
 1861. Roys, Mrs. Huldah. 
 Rumrell, Marshall. 
 
 1853. 7 Rumrell, Mrs. Anna. 
 
 1560. Russell, H. V. 
 1861. \ Rvan, James E. 
 
 1561. > Ryan, "Mrs. Adelaide. 
 1S5S. Ryer, Mrs. Margaret Ann. 
 
 S 
 
 1866. Sage, Henry W. 
 
 1S58. Sammis, Mrs. Amanda B. 
 
 1S66. Sampson, Mrs. Mary D. P. 
 
 1S60. S Sanderson, Elnathan L. 
 
 i860, \ Sanderson. Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 1850. ] Sanger, Whiting. 
 
 1850. J Sanger, Mrs Lucy C. 
 
 1864. Saunders, Mrs. Sarah E. 
 
 1S58. Sayre, Mrs. Eliza. 
 
 1857. Scales, Miss Mary Nelson. 
 
 1866. Schastei, George Alfred. 
 
 1864. Schermerhom, Thomas. 
 
 1857. Seott, Miss Man,- Jane. 
 1S66. Scrimshaw, Frederick. 
 1848. Scudder, Mrs. Phcebe. 
 185S. j Seaburv, Alexander. 
 1S58. / Seaburv. Mrs. Lydia B. 
 
 1858. Seaman, Mrs. Eliza M. 
 1 3 54. Sellick, Mrs, T. 
 
 1857. t Seymour, George N. 
 
 1857. ) Seymour, Mrs. Emily L» 
 1S65. Sevmour, Miss Millicent. 
 
 1858. \ Shaw, Prosper P". 
 1858. \ Shaw, Mrs. Catherine. 
 
 1865. Shaw, Wesley A. 
 1858. \ Shearman, "James A. 
 1858. ) Shearman. Mis. Helen. 
 1858. Shearman, M 
 
 1858. \ Shearman, Thomos G. 
 i860. 1 Shearman, Mrs. Ella. 
 1862. Shepherd, Mrs. Mary E. 
 1S56. Sherer, Edward. 
 
 Year 
 
 dm it ted. 
 
 852. Sherer, Mrs. Susan H. 
 
 S66. Sherwood, Mrs. Caroline H. 
 
 866. Shenvojd, William. 
 >man. Miss Mary 
 ::ian, Miss Sarah. 
 
 857. ) Shook. Henr 
 
 557. 1 - < >Kvia M. 
 
 858. Shook, Hermon Hinsdale. 
 858. Shook, Revere D. 
 
 851. Shultz, Miss Mary. 
 S66. Sickles, George E. 
 
 852. Silliman, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 848. Silver, James Madison. 
 857. Sim, James. 
 
 857. Simonite, Mrs. Susan. 
 8^8. Sizer, Nelson. 
 
 866. Skaat, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 849. Skidmore, Mrs. Emeline. 
 863. Skinner, Miss Frances C 
 S59. Slaughter, Mrs. Clara C. 
 
 858. Sleight, Miss Frances C 
 S59. Small, Miss Margaret. 
 866. Smith, Albert H. 
 
 S49. Smith, Alfred W. 
 866. j Smith, Alonzo B. 
 866. 'i Smith. Mrs. Sarah E. 
 
 558. Smith, Barlow J. 
 S5S. Smith, Miss Deborah. 
 852. * Smith, Jonas W. 
 852. ) Smith, Mrs. Clarinda. 
 849. Smith, Mrs. Eliza Ann. 
 861. Smith, Mrs. Harriet E. 
 S64. Smith. Miss Helen E. 
 S64. Smith, Miss Joanna. 
 
 .ith, JohnC. 
 mith, Mrs. Sarah J. 
 
 865. Smith, Joseph. 
 S66. Smith. Miss Louise. 
 849. Smith, Mrs. Lydia M. 
 849. Smith, Miss Marv. 
 
 866. Smith, Mrs. Marv B. 
 S 4 S. Smith, Mrs. Marv D. 
 S58. Smith, Miss Rebecca H. 
 
 857. Smith, Mrs. Sarah A. 
 
 858. Smith, Miss Sarah Jane. 
 855. J Smith, Sidney H. 
 
 ) Smith, Mrs. Josephine H. 
 Smith, Miss Sophia G. 
 Smith, Miss Susan. 
 Smith, T. Worthington, 
 
 S Smith, William B. 
 
 ") Smith, Mrs. Harriet T. H. 
 
 > Smith, William P. 
 S .!. Mrs. Marion E. 
 
 557. Sniffen. Miss Catherine M. 
 S47. South wick, Mrs, Ellen D. 
 
 558. Southv.ick, Mrs. Elizabeth S. 
 S58. Sowden, James B. 
 
 865. Sparks. Miss Frances W. 
 S58. Spencer, Charles. 
 852. t Spencer, Geor--: G. 
 J49. (Spencer, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 249 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 1849. J Spencer, Uriah H. 
 
 1849. I Spencer, Mrs. Jane M. 
 1852. Spencer, Miss Maria L. 
 
 1862. Spencer, Miss Mary W. 
 
 1863. Spencer, William II. 
 1865 Sprague, Miss Annie. 
 i860. Sprague, Mrs. Margaret M. 
 
 1852. Staats, Samuel A. 
 
 1850. Stanly, Mrs. Pamelia M. 
 1855. Stanton, Miss Eliza Jane. 
 
 1853. Starbuck, Charles C. 
 1865. Stebbins, Mrs. Ellen E. 
 
 1853. Stebbins, Mrs. Sophia W. 
 1858. Stevens, Mrs. Ann C. 
 1858. J Steele, Michael M. 
 
 1858. 1 Steele, Mrs. Catharine G. 
 
 1854. Stevens, Mrs. Harriet. 
 1861. Stevens, T. Jefferson. 
 1861. Stevenson. Miss Isabella. 
 
 1859. Stewart. Mrs. Isabella. 
 1858. j St. John, Jesse. 
 
 1857. I St. John, Mrs. Susan B. 
 1865. j Stone, Samuel D. 
 
 1865. j Stone, Mrs. Ellen L. 
 
 1858. j Storrs, Augustus. 
 1858. ~\ Storrs, Mrs. Antoinette. 
 
 1866. Storrs, Miss M. Antoinette. 
 1858. Storrs, Miss Harriet Eitch. 
 
 1861. Storrs, Miss H. \V. 
 1847. Story, Mrs. Adelia Ann. 
 
 1857. Stover, Wm. S. 
 
 1858. Stowe, Frederick William. 
 1858. Stowe, Mrs. H. Eeecher. 
 1849. Stringer, Miss Man,-. 
 
 1862. Strong, Miss Arabella. 
 1862. Strong, Samuel F. 
 1849. J Studwell, Alexander. 
 1849. "/ Studwell, Mrs. Lucretia. 
 1858. I Studwell, Dwight. 
 
 1861. ) Studwell, Mrs. Hannah M. 
 
 1858. Studwell, George H. 
 
 1852. Studwell, Mrs. Susan W. 
 
 1858. Styles, Miss Helen. 
 
 Swain, Augustus C. 
 
 Swany, Arthur A. 
 858. Swany, Mrs. Catherine S. 
 
 Sweezey, Mrs. Phoebe. 
 
 Swenarton. S. Augustus. 
 
 Sweetzer, Horatio. 
 
 Swim, Mrs. Martha L. F. 
 
 J Switzer, John Augustus. 
 
 I Switzer, Mrs. Mary Ellen. 
 i860. Sylvester, Miss Almira L. 
 1865. Symmes, Miss Addie M. 
 
 [866. 
 t86 5 . 
 
 1866. 
 1858. 
 1858. 
 1850. 
 
 1858. Talcott, William Stewart, 
 1858. Tall, Frederick. 
 1865. Tallmadge, Daniel W. 
 1858. Talman, Miss Angelica. 
 
 11* 
 
 Tear 
 
 dmitted. 
 
 856. 
 Sso. 
 856. 
 S49. 
 848. 
 G66. 
 S59. 
 S54. 
 854. 
 858. 
 856. 
 £62. 
 S 4 S. 
 848. 
 858. 
 853. 
 858. 
 858. 
 B60. 
 £66. 
 866. 
 £06. 
 £65. 
 £52. 
 853. 
 
 Tappan, Mrs. Anne. 
 
 J Tappan, Lewis. 
 
 j Tappan, Mrs. Sarah J. 
 Tassie, Miss Magdalen. 
 Taylor, Miss Emma. 
 Taylor, George S. 
 Taylor. James. 
 
 j Taylor, Samuel G. 
 
 / Taylor, Mrs. Lucinda G. 
 Taylor, Miss Sarah A. 
 Tcale, David C 
 Thalheimer, Henry B. 
 Thalheimer, Miss Mary E. 
 Thalheimer, Mrs. Mary L. 
 Thatford, Miss Caroline. 
 Thompson, Miss Emily. 
 Thorne, Mrs. Mary Anne. 
 Thome, Miss Emma. 
 Tilley, Mrs. Eliz. A. 
 Tilney, Mrs. Janet. 
 Tilney, Miss Minnie. 
 Tilney, Robert. 
 Tilney, Thomas J. 
 Tilt, Mrs. Angeline M. 
 
 j Tilton, Theodore. 
 
 I Tilton, Mrs. Elizabeth M. 
 Titus. Mrs. Annie L. 
 Todd, David P. 
 Todd, Miss Naomi M. 
 
 J Todd, S. Edwards. 
 
 1 Todd, Mrs. Rhoda P. 
 Todd, Sereno E., Jr. 
 Toland, Mrs. Sarah E. B. 
 Tompkins, Mrs. A.nn Eliza. 
 Tompkins, Miss Mary S. 
 Tomlinson, Mrs. Martha M. 
 Topp, Mrs. Eliza C. 
 Topping. Miss Mary J. 
 Trainor. Miss Mary Jane. 
 Trask, Mrs. Eliza. 
 Trask, Miss Ellen. 
 Treadway, Frederick. 
 Treadwell, Mrs. Sophronia. 
 Tremper, Mrs. Maria. 
 Tremper, Miss Mary A. 
 Tubbs, Samuel W. 
 Tukesbury, Erwin M. 
 Tupper, Miss Lydia. 
 Tupper, William Vaughan. 
 Turner, Mrs. Louisa. 
 Turner, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 Turner, Erdix T. 
 
 J Tuthill, E. W. 
 
 ) Tuthill, Mrs. Matilda. 
 Tweedie, Mrs. Anabella N. 
 
 j Twist, Henn-. 
 
 / Twist, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 Tydeman, Wm. Edmund. 
 
 \ Tyler, Adrian J. 
 
 ) Tyler, Mrs. Mary. 
 Tyler, William. 
 Tyson, Mrs. Catherine. 
 
2$Q 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Year 
 
 Admitted. 
 
 1852. Underhill, Miss Caroline. 
 
 1852. Underhill. Miss Sarah J. 
 
 1862. Upham, Mrs. Louisa S. 
 
 1858. Upham, Victor l)e M. 
 
 1858. Upton, Miss Maria M. 
 
 1858. j Vail, Charles B. 
 1858. I Vail, Mrs. Emdine M. 
 1858. Vail, Miss Elizabeth S. 
 
 1864. Vail, George A. 
 1858. \ Valentine, Brewster. 
 1858. j Valentine, Mrs. Ann E. 
 1858. I Valentine, David. 
 
 1858. "j Valentine, Mrs. Caroline. 
 
 1850. Valentine, Mrs. Mary E. 
 1858. Valentine, William. 
 1858. Vanderbilt, Thomas. 
 1855. Van Doren, Mrs. Susan A. 
 
 1865. Van Nostrand, Miss A. 
 
 1861. Veyrasset, Miss Louisa. 
 
 1857. Viele, Mrs. Charlotte. 
 
 1862. Vosburgh, Miss Helen A. 
 
 1858. Vosburgh, Mrs. Jane L. 
 
 w 
 
 1849. Wade, Mrs. Clara G. 
 
 1858. Walker, Mrs. Eliza. 
 
 1849. Walker, Miss Emily. 
 
 1858. Walker, L. Dwight. 
 
 1865. Walker, Miss Meggie. 
 
 1858. Wallace, Miss Elizabeth. 
 
 1858. Wallace, Walker. 
 
 1858. Walling, Mrs. Mary F. 
 
 1865. Walter, Miss Louise. 
 
 1852. Walton, Mrs. Barbara. 
 
 1853. Ward, Miss Esther. 
 1858. Ward, Joseph G. 
 
 1851. Ward, Mrs. Laura M. 
 
 1866. W 7 ard, Miss Maria B. 
 1853. Warnock, Miss Mary. 
 1866. Warring, Mrs. Aleda. 
 T858. Washbourne, Charles. 
 
 1852. J Waterman, Thomas S. 
 
 1857. j Waterman, Mrs. Lydia. 
 i860. Watson, Chauncey R. 
 
 1858. _) Watson, Elias. 
 
 1866. I Watson. Mrs. Sarah M. 
 
 1865. Watson, Mias Ella. 
 
 1858. Watson, Miss Frances. 
 
 1858. Watson, George I">e Leroy. 
 
 1861. Watson, Mrs. Mary. 
 1852. Watts, Isaac. 
 
 1847. \ Webb, John. 
 
 1847. j Webb, Mrs. Martha. 
 
 1862. j Week, Philip. 
 
 1862. I Week, Mrs. Frances. 
 
 1861. Weed, Mrs. Eliza M. G. 
 
 Year 
 Admitted. 
 
 860. j Wceden, Joseph B. 
 860. I Wecden, Mrs. Jane B. 
 866. Weeks, Eugene J. 
 8,7. Weir, Miss Julia. 
 
 864. Weld, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 865. Weld, Mason C. 
 
 S65. Wclford, Miss Isabella. 
 858. Wells, George G. 
 
 855. Wells, Henry M. 
 S67. Wells, Miss Marie E. 
 
 857. Welsh, John. 
 S65. West, Wm. F. 
 852. J Wcstcott, John. 
 
 852. I Wcstcott, Mrs. Anna. 
 
 851. Wheeler, Mrs. Ann Eliza. 
 
 858. Wheeler, Mrs. Caroline. 
 858. Wheeler, Mrs. Emma D. 
 858. Wheeler, Miss Lillie L. 
 
 866. Wheeler, Willis L. 
 849. ( Wheelock, Adam D. 
 
 848. ( Wheelock, Mrs. Laura A. 
 
 865. Wheelock, Miss Helen G. 
 862. Wheelock. Miss Laura F. 
 
 866. Whctts, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 849. j Whipple, Rev. George. 
 849. I Whipple, Mrs. Alice. 
 
 864. White, Mrs. Catherine. 
 S60. White, Miss Fanny M. 
 858. White, Mrs. Jane Maria. 
 
 865. White, Miss Katy S. 
 
 857. White, Mrs. Lucy J. 
 
 858. t White, Mortimer G. 
 862. ( White, Mrs. Emma B. 
 
 866. j White, Stephen V. 
 866. J White, Mrs. Eliza M. 
 
 856. j White, William B. 
 856. ) White, Mrs. Ophelia. 
 
 852. Whiting, Mrs. Mary. 
 851. j Whiting, Mason. 
 851. "j Whiting, Mrs. Eliza. 
 858. Whiting, Wm. Mason. 
 856. Whitman, Albert. 
 
 849. j Whitney, Abijah. 
 
 849. / Whitney, Mrs. Elk. J. 
 858. Whitney, Edward J. 
 858. j Whitney, Henry N. 
 
 862. j Whitney, Mrs. Kate S. 
 
 863. j Whitney, Jesse J. 
 863. I Whitney, Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 850. Whitton, Miss Margaret. 
 
 850. Whitton, Mrs. Sarah. 
 858. Wiegand, Conrad. 
 8ss- Wierum, Otto C. 
 848. j Wilbur, Charles. 
 848. 1 Wilbur, Mrs. Mary. 
 866. Wilcox, Miss Augusta. 
 
 853. Wilcox. Mrs. Sarah. 
 
 851. j Wilde, Robert T. 
 851. 1 Wilde, Mrs. Elvira D. 
 848. Wilkes, Mrs. Helen. 
 S50. Wilkes, Miss Helen M. 
 S52. Williams, Miss Abby. 
 S64. Williams, Miss Fanny. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 251 
 
 Tear 
 Admitted. 
 
 1865. Williams, Miss Isabel. 
 1852. \ Williams, John. 
 
 1852. j Williams, Mrs. Martha. 
 
 1862. Williams, Miss Lizzie B. 
 1857. Williams, Mrs. Louisa. 
 
 1865. Williams, Miss Louise. 
 i860. Williams, Mrs. Sarah. 
 i860. Williams, Miss Sidney. 
 1857. Williams, Timothy. 
 
 1853. Williamson, John. 
 
 1857. Williamson, 5lrs. Margaret J. 
 1848. Willis, Mrs. Angenette B. 
 
 1863. Willis, Mrs. Harriet. 
 1859. Wilmot, Mrs. Sarah M. 
 
 1852. J Wilson, Elijah. 
 
 1854. I Wilson, Mrs. Eliza J. 
 1848. Wilson, Mrs. Elizabeth. 
 
 1866. Wilson, Miss Isabel B. 
 
 1858. Wilson, Joseph R. 
 
 1858. Wilson, Miss Kate Eleanor. 
 
 1853. Winser, Henry J. 
 1853. Winser, Mrs. L. H. 
 
 1864. Winslow, Mrs. Eliza A. 
 1858. Winter, Mrs. Catherine. 
 1858. Winter, Miss Caroline B. 
 1858. Winter, Henry G. 
 1866. Wiswall, Lewis. 
 
 1850. Wood, Miss Artelissa. 
 1855. Wood, Mrs. Gccrgiana. 
 
 1851. Wood, Mrs. Mary. 
 1849. Wood, Miss Mannda. 
 1866. Wood, Mrs. Sarah R. 
 
 1862. Wood, Thomas E. 
 
 1859. 3 Woodbridge, Joseph E. 
 1859. I Woodbridge, Mrs. S. E. 
 
 1857. Woods, Mrs. Sarah Ann. 
 
 1863. \ Work, Alanson. 
 
 1858. ") Work, Mrs. Henrietta L. 
 1858. Work, Mrs. Mary Ann. 
 1848. Work, Ward A. 
 
 1853. j Wright, James. 
 1853. I Wright, Mrs. Mary. 
 1857. Wyburn, John. 
 
 1862. Yale, Amerton. 
 1862. Yale, Leroy M. 
 1862. Yates, Michael. 
 
 1865. Young, Miss Ruth. 
 
 1866. Young, Selah. 
 
 [851. Zundel, John. 
 
Alphabetical List of former Members of Ply- 
 mouth Church, who have Died or left the 
 Church by letter or otherwise, prior to 
 January 6, 1867. 
 
 FROM "MANUAL OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH (1867)." 
 
 |t + * Names of persons who died while members of the Church are printed in 
 italics ; and names of husband and wife are united by a brace. 
 
 A 
 
 LdmHted. Names. % SSSlL 
 
 1855 ( Abbott, Austin 1858 
 
 1855 I Abbott, Mrs. Ellen L. G 1858 
 
 1858 S Abbott, Lyman 1862 
 
 1859 I Abbott, Mrs. Abby F. H 1862 
 
 1854 j Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan 1864 
 
 1854 ( Abbott, Mrs. Elizabeth T 1864 
 
 1858 Abbott, Waldo 1S64 
 
 1848 (Aber, Smith M 1S5S 
 
 1848 \ Aber, Mrs. Hannah M 1858 
 
 1849 Adams, Mrs. Phoebe Vanderhoff. 1856 
 
 185 1 Anderson, Mrs. Mary 1856 
 
 185 1 j Andree, Frederick 1863 
 
 1 85 1 ] Andree, Mrs. Caroline M. i860 
 
 1849 j Arnold, Samuel G 1854 
 
 1849 \ Arnold, Mrs. Sarah G 1S54 
 
 1856 Ashfield, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith 1S65 
 
 1849 Ashley, Mrs. Amelia Poinier 1S54 
 
 1849 j Askham, John 1S54 
 
 1849 { Askham, Mrs. Harriet 1854 
 
 1852 Atkinson, James F 1857 
 
 1858 Atkinson, William 1S62 
 
 i860 Atwater, Miss Frances II. 1866 
 
 1849 Austin, Miss Sarah Evelina 1861 
 
 1848 Avery, Charles A 1866 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 253 
 
 B 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 [858 Badger, Mrs. Elizabeth C 1864 
 
 [850 Baker, Daniel 1858 
 
 [852 Baker, Origen M 1857 
 
 [848 Ball, John 1850 
 
 [858 Baright, Mrs. Sophia W 1866 
 
 [853 \ Barker, Ezra D 1857 
 
 >48 I Barker, Mrs. Maria D 1857 
 
 [851 Bamsdall, John. 1863 
 
 [857 Barnum, Miss Annie i860 
 
 [855 Bamuni, Miss Sylvia 
 
 [864 Barrow, Miss Kate 1S66 
 
 [847 Batchekler, Francis E. M 1854 
 
 [856 { Battclle, Albert T. 
 
 [856 \ Battelle, Mrs. Mary M 
 
 [859 Beach, Henry D 1-86 1 
 
 »59 Beach, Miss Maggie 1864 
 
 [851 Beach, Thomas 1853 
 
 [848 Beechcr, William A 1S64 
 
 [858 Belf our, Miss Sina 1865 
 
 >48 Bement, Caroline P 
 
 J51 Benedict, Henry 1851 
 
 [849 j Benedict, Lewis S 1864 . 
 
 [849 / Benedict, Mrs. Harriet 1864 
 
 155 Berry, Miss Sarah B 1855 
 
 [852 Bertrand, Mrs. Elizabeth 1S66 
 
 [853 Bird, Miss Helen Maria 1865 
 
 [864 Bishopric, Mrs. Elizabeth I £66 
 
 [859 Bixby, Joseph R 1862 
 
 [850 Blake, Mrs. Abby L 1S59 
 
 [848 Blake, Mrs. Mary E 
 
 [859 Blakesley, Henry A 1861 
 
 [852 Bliss, Mrs. Abby W 1S62 
 
 [855 j Bloss, Charles W 1856 
 
 [855 { Bloss, Mrs. Jane 1S56 * 
 
 [853 j Bloss, Josiah 1854 
 
 [853 \ Bloss, Mrs. Mary 1854 
 
 [857 Bodzuell, Miss Susan 1S63 
 
 [854 Bonta, Miss Elizabeth 1866 
 
 :86i Booth, John 1863 
 
 [847 Boiuen, Airs. Lucy Maria 1S63 
 
 [852 Boyd, Robert M 1S63 
 
 [857 Brewster, Lucius G 186 ", 
 
 [848 Briggs, Mrs. Mary Payne 1S66 
 
 [S52 \ Brockway, Daniel Vv 1854 
 
 [S53 1 Brockway, Mrs. Emma E 1S54 
 
 [850 Brodhead, Miss Harriet R 1S52 
 
254 PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1850 ( Brown, Josiah T 1853 
 
 1S50 ( Brown, Mrs. Eliza Ann 1S53 
 
 1858 Brown, Miss Julia 1S63 
 
 1848 Brown, Miss Maria 1849 
 
 1S58 Brown, Miss Martha E 1866 
 
 1859 j Brownell, Franklin C 1862 
 
 1859 "j Brownell, Mrs. Mary B 1862 
 
 1S62 Brushy Mrs. Alice Bowers 1865 
 
 1848 Bullard, Jesse 1S51 
 
 1857 Bunce, Jonathan B i860 
 
 1847 j Burbank, Gardner 1848 
 
 1847 \ Burbank, Mrs. Susan 1848 
 
 1849 Burckett, Mrs. Sarah Kellogg 1S53 
 
 1858 Bur dick, Airs. Octavia C 1864 
 
 1847 Burgess, Daniel. 1S57 
 
 1858 Burgess, Miss Lizzie M 1S61 
 
 185 1 Burke, Miss Jeannette 1853 
 
 1850 Bumham, George IV. 1853 
 
 1855 Burnham, Mrs. Mary R i860 
 
 1848 Burton, Miss Louisa 1854 
 
 1853 Butler, Miss Sarah 1853 
 
 c 
 
 1852 Cahoojie, Mrs. Mary "... 1853 
 
 1848 Cain, Mrs. Elsie Maria, exe'd 1850 
 
 1849 Cam, Miss Jane 1S50 
 
 1853 Cammett, Miss Louisa i860 
 
 1S60 Camp, Mrs. Mary E 1866 
 
 1848 j Camp, Samuel K 1S56 
 
 1848 "j Camp, Mrs. Mary K. 1852 
 
 1848 Campbell, Archibald 
 
 1851 Cannon, Rev. Josiah 1857 
 
 1847 Cannon, Mrs. Mary 1855 
 
 1850 Carman, Miss Harriet 1 85 1 
 
 1850 Car?nan, Mrs. Jane 185 1 
 
 1850 Carman, John B i8s6 
 
 1852 Carman, William 1856 
 
 1856 Case, J. Hart 1863 
 
 1852 j Chandler, Sylvester S 1853 
 
 1852 ( Chandler, Mrs. Catherine 1S53 
 
 1854 j Charlton, John 1S57 
 
 1854 "j Charlton, Mrs. Martha 1S57 
 
 1858 Chase, Jonathan 1863 
 
 1347 Child, Miss Eleanor 1S53 
 
 1848 j Child, Joseph H 1S62 
 
 1848 \ Child, Mrs. Fidelia 1S50 
 
 1847 Child, Miss Penelope 1864 
 
PL YMO UTH CIIUR CIL 
 
 1852 Chown, Miss Mary E 
 
 1857 \ Christianson, Christian T 
 
 1S57 \ Christianson, Mrs. Emmy Laura. 
 
 1S49 Church, Mrs. Lydia Everingham. . . 
 
 1S4S Churchill, Francis E 
 
 1S54 Clark, Burton E 
 
 rt>49 Clark, Miss Anna E 
 
 1850 Clary, Mrs. Louisa 
 
 1848 Clement, Mrs. Mary E 
 
 1852 Cluff, Henry G 
 
 1862 j Coe, Israel 
 
 1862 { Coe, Mrs. Huldah 
 
 1855 Coe, Spencer W 
 
 1 86 1 Cogswell, Mrs. Annis 
 
 1849 Colver, Mrs. Ann E 
 
 1 86 1 Colcord, Andrew D 
 
 1857 Comins, Miss Ellen M 
 
 1858 Cook, Miss Lizzie B 
 
 1859 j Corey, William 
 
 1859 \ Corey, Mrs. Phoebe L 
 
 1852 Corning, Miss Catherine M 
 
 1852 Corning, D. Austin 
 
 1857 Corning, Edward, Jr 
 
 1849 j Coming, Edward. 
 
 1849 / Coming, Airs. Catherine M.. . . 
 
 1848 Corning, Jasper E 
 
 1848 Corning, Rev. J. Leonard 
 
 1854 Cornish, George 
 
 1850 Corwin, Mrs. Charlotte A 
 
 1858 Cottrell, Henry 
 
 1859 Couzens, Mrs. Susan 
 
 1858 Crane, Geo. L 
 
 1848 Cummings, Wm. R 
 
 1852 Curtis, W. W 
 
 1S62 j Cashing, George W. B 
 
 1862 \ Cushing, Mrs. Sophia 
 
 1862 Cushing, Miss Mary E 
 
 1849 j Cutter, William T 
 
 1849 ] Cutter, Mrs. Frances Maria 
 
 1849 Cutter, Miss Margaret Eliza 
 
 255 
 
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 865 
 
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 865 
 865 
 S54 
 854 
 S52 
 
 1853 ( Damai, Cornelius 1854 
 
 1853 I Damai, Mrs. Sarah 1854 
 
 1849 Danforth, William 1849 
 
 185 1 Danforth, Miss Frances A 185 1 
 
 185 1 Danforth, Mrs. Lydia 1862 
 
256 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. N.ii Si •-. Con. dis. 
 
 1S5S Dauchy, S. Theodore 1S64 
 
 1849 j Davenport, William ^59 
 
 1849 ( Davenport, J Irs. Catherine M 1862 
 
 1848 Davis, Isaac F 1S66 
 
 1S51 Davis, Mrs. Catherine 1866 
 
 1852 Davis, Charles E 1S53 
 
 184S j Davis, John D 18^3 
 
 1S48 / Davis, Mrs. Esther 1853 
 
 1847 j Day, Sherman 1856 
 
 1547 ( Day, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann 1856 
 
 1849 Day, Miss Harriet King 1856 
 
 1851 Day, Willard 1851 
 
 1 85 1 Day, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1863 Dayton, Miss Clara 
 
 1854 Dean, Miss Charlotte 1854 
 
 1852 Dean, Edward II 1S53 
 
 1855 Dehart, Miss Elizabeth H 1858 
 
 1848 Demott, Richard C 1852 
 
 1854 Denny, James P 1858 
 
 1849 Dikeman, George W 1854 
 
 1857 Dixon, Mrs. Emily 1S61 
 
 1548 ( Doty, Samuel C 1857 
 
 1848 \ Doty, Mrs. Abby Ann 1S57 
 
 1858 Doughty, Miss Gertrude 1861 
 
 1855 j Douglas, Charles 1865 
 
 1855 ( Douglas, Mrs. Cornelia 1S65 
 
 1855 Dow, Charles L 1859 
 
 1 86 1 Downes, Mrs. Lilla Rogers 1866 
 
 1862 Drake, Miss Ella 1864 
 
 1853 Duff, Alexander 1855 
 
 1S57 Duryea, John C 1861 
 
 E 
 
 1858 Earnest, Miss Mary 1865 
 
 1847 j Edwards, William 1S48 
 
 1847 \ Edwards, Mrs. Rebecca 1848 
 
 1858 Evans, Daniel W 1863 
 
 1853 \ Evans, Sumner F 1858 
 
 1850 \ Evans, Mrs. Mary E 1858 
 
 1861 Everest, Rev. Charles H 1865 
 
 i860 j Everitt, Thomas R 1865 
 
 1S60 j Everitt, Mrs. Elizabeth 1865 
 
 F 
 
 1848 Eairchild, Miss Fanny 
 
 1849 Fairman, Mrs. A. P 1851 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 
 
 257 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1853 Falkner, Rev. Bishop 1866 
 
 1858 Falkner, Mrs. Elizabeth 1866 
 
 1855 Falkner, Miss Annie A '. , . 1866 
 
 1853 Fanning, David G 1857 
 
 1851 Fanning, Mrs. Lucy H. 1853 
 
 1854 j Fanning, Thomas C, Jr 1861 
 
 1855 I Fanning, Mrs. Cornelia L 1863 
 
 1858 j Fay, Edmund B 1861 
 
 1S58 I Fay, Mary Jane 1861 
 
 1849 j Fisher, Samuel 1855 
 
 1549 1 Fisher, Mrs. Marianna Ann 1< &$T 
 
 1848 Fitch, Mrs. Caroline 1S63 
 
 1857 Fitch, Mrs. Caroline 1S62 
 
 1857 Fitch, Miss Frances 1862 
 
 1852 Fletcher, Mrs. Margaret 1866 
 
 1850 Fletcher, Mrs. Olive J 1865 
 
 1858 Fletcher, Thomas J 1866 
 
 1S52 Fonda, Hiram J i860 
 
 1861 Ford, Miss Cornelia M 1864 
 
 1858 Foster, Miss Mary 1863 
 
 1858 Foster, Mrs. Mary Jane 1866 
 
 1550 Fowler, Henry 1856 
 
 1851 j Fuller, Joseph C 1866 
 
 1851 ( Fuller, Mrs. Emily H 1866 
 
 G 
 
 1861 Gale, Thomas 186 1 
 
 1858 \ Gallaudet, Peter W 1861 
 
 1858 1 Gallaudet, Mrs. Margaret D 1861 
 
 1S57 Gardes, Henry 1858 
 
 1858 Gaylor, Miss Caroline E 1866 
 
 1858 Gaylor, Miss Lucy C 1866 
 
 1857 Gaylord, Elijah M 1866 
 
 1851 Gilbert, Edward 1856 
 
 1851 Gilbert, John 1855 
 
 1852 Gilbert, Mrs. Sarah B 1S56 
 
 1858 Gilkison, Mrs. Frances R 1861 
 
 1855 Gill, William 1857 
 
 1852 Glover, William II 1858 
 
 1848 Goodrich, Miss Christine 1855 
 
 1848 j Goodrich, Josiah B 1855 
 
 1848 \ Goodrich, Mrs. Mary B 1855 
 
 1848 Goodrich, Miss Mahala 1855 
 
 1850 j Graff, Henry 1866 
 
 1850 \ Graff, Mrs. Sarah 1S66 
 
 1853 Grant, Mrs. Mary 1856 
 
 1857 Green, Miss Annie R 1866 
 
258 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 1848 
 
 1S4S 
 184S 
 1S4S 
 1S47 
 
 i853 
 1S56 
 1S50 
 
 Names. Con. dis. 
 
 Green, John i860 
 
 \ Green, Warren 1S62 
 
 \ Green, Mrs. Lydia Ann 1SG6 
 
 Green, J. Wilson 1S65 
 
 Green, Mrs. Catherine A 1849 
 
 Griffin, David 1850 
 
 Griswold, Mrs. Esther H 1854 
 
 Griswoldy Mrs. Henrietta Virginia 1S61 
 
 Gustin, Mrs. Susan 1S54 
 
 H 
 
 S64 
 849 
 847 
 S49 
 
 S5S 
 
 857 
 852 
 s 5 i 
 858 
 85s 
 
 847 
 S58 
 84S 
 S50 
 853 
 855 
 S49 
 s 5 i 
 s 5 i 
 S49 
 
 859 
 
 S5S 
 
 859 
 S49 
 850 
 849 
 
 S5S 
 S50 
 S50 
 857 
 $57 
 S4S 
 
 S5S 
 852 
 S57 
 
 Haff, Mrs. Phoebe Jane 
 
 Hale, Miss Caroline Charlotte 
 
 Hale, Mrs. Julia 
 
 Hale, Thomas 
 
 Hale, Mrs. Sarah E 
 
 Hall, John C, exe'd 
 
 Hall, "Mrs. Julia A 
 
 Hall, Mrs. Martha II 
 
 Hall, Miss Mary R 
 
 Hand, Chauncey M 
 
 Harrison, Edward 
 
 Harrison, Mrs. E. C 
 
 Harrison, Joseph 
 
 Harned, Miss Adelissa 
 
 Hart, Tacob 
 
 Haskell, Robert B 
 
 Haskell, Miss Mary Elizabeth 
 
 \ Hathaway, Thomas 
 
 } Hathaway, Mrs. Esther Angeline. 
 
 Hawley, Miss Phoebe 
 
 Hayes, Miss Catherine 
 
 Hay nes, Mrs. Mary 
 
 Hazelton, Mrs. Clarinda 
 
 Herbert, Mrs. Abigail 
 
 Hinman, R. Hopkins 
 
 Hodges, Laura M 
 
 Holcomb, Wilson C 
 
 \ Holdridge, Daniel M 
 
 \ Holdridge, Mrs. Frances S 
 
 Hornblowcr, Edward Thouias. . . . 
 
 Hornblower, Mrs. Martha 
 
 Horsey, Joseph 
 
 Horsey, Miss Sophia 
 
 Howard, Miss Annie S. 
 
 Howard. Mrs. Elizabeth J. 
 
 Howard, Joseph, Jr 
 
 S65 
 S63 
 S59 
 
 854 
 
 S64 
 S64 
 854 
 S54 
 865 
 
 S59 
 
 847 
 861 
 
 856 
 
 855 
 S65 
 
 851 
 856 
 S56 
 
 853 
 863 
 863 
 S62 
 S62 
 S62 
 S50 
 S5S 
 852 
 852 
 S66 
 S66 
 S61 
 852 
 S60 
 S61 
 S5S 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 259- 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1857 Hoiues, Mrs. Elizabeth 1859 
 
 1S61 ( Hubbard, Jerome B 1S65 
 
 1S61 \ Hubbard, Mrs. Julia 1865 
 
 1847 j Hull, A. B 1853 
 
 1847 \ Hull, Mrs. Sarah 1853 
 
 1850 Humphrey, Mrs. Mary 1853 
 
 1856 Husted, Mrs. Ellen F. C 1S66 
 
 I 
 
 1857 Ilsley, C. S i860 
 
 1854 Irvine, Charles J 1857 
 
 1856 Isaacs, Augustus Thomas 1858 
 
 J 
 
 1852 ( Jacobs, George 
 
 1852 \ Jacobs, Mrs. Anna F. i860 
 
 1856 James, Miss Ann 1857 
 
 1857 James, David 1857 
 
 1856 James, John 1857 
 
 1856 James, William H 1S57 
 
 1849 Jaques, John C 1850 
 
 1855 Jaques, Mrs. Zipporah 1S60 
 
 1852 j Jeffrey, Charles 1S53 
 
 1852 \ Jeffrey, Mrs. Phoebe 1853 
 
 1857 Jennings, Mrs. Elizabeth 1 861 
 
 1856 Jewell, Theodore E . . 1865 
 
 1852 Jocelyn, Miss Mary A 1855 
 
 1859 j Johnson, Henry Joseph 1 862 
 
 1859 \ Johnson, Mrs. Jane Coy 1862 
 
 1858 Johnson, Mrs. Mary Ann 
 
 1850 Jones, Miss Catherine L 185 1 
 
 1850 j Jones, Darius E 1S51 
 
 1850 \ Jones, Mrs. Dorcas M 1851 
 
 1550 Jones, Ebenezer 1857 
 
 1551 Jones, Miss Harriet 
 
 1852 Jones, Miss Kezia 1S65 
 
 1849 Jones, Mrs. Mary E 1S51 
 
 1855 Jones, Samuel T 1S63 
 
 1858 "j Judson, Charles G 1862 
 
 1S53 ( Judson, Mrs. Fanny 1862 
 
 K 
 
 1855 j Karr, Daniel 1856 
 
 1855 "j Karr, Mrs. Mary 1S56 
 
 1855 Karr, Mrs. Mary Frances 1856 
 
2 60 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Cod. dir. 
 
 1858 Kempshall, Miss Amelia i860 
 
 1852 Kennon, Mrs. Maria V 1854 
 
 1847 King, Mrs. Ann 1855 
 
 1848 King, Mrs. Minerva R 1854 
 
 1848 King, Hesden 
 
 1862 j Kingon, James 1866 
 
 1858 \ Kingon, Mrs. Jennie A 1S66 
 
 1862 Kingon, Miss Margaret 1866 
 
 1862 Kingon, Miss Matilda 1866 
 
 185 1 Kirby, S. H i860 
 
 1849 ( Kitchen, John E. F 1863 
 
 1849 "I Kitchen, Mrs. Sarah B 1863 
 
 1848 Knapp, Bradford 1S51 
 
 1854 Knapp, Miss Caroline A 1865 
 
 1852 Knapp, Mrs. Harriet M 1864 
 
 1 85 1 Knapp, Iverson Wilson 1865 
 
 1848 Knapp, Mrs. Susan 185 1 
 
 1858 Knight, Philip i860 
 
 1852 Knight^ Mrs. Rachel. 
 
 1858 Knight, Miss Susan i860 
 
 1852 Knox, Israel W 1855 
 
 L 
 
 1849 ( Ladd, Joseph H 1857 
 
 1S48 j Ladd, Mrs. Mary 1857 
 
 1855 Lane, Mrs. Elizabeth S 1863 
 
 1851 Langdon, Elam Chester 1S55 
 
 1848 Latimer, Miss Sarah 1850 
 
 1849 j Law, Henry Ward 1857 
 
 1855 ( Law, Mrs. Adeline P 1857 
 
 1858 j Lefhngwell, John E 1863 
 
 1858 I Lefhngwell, Mrs. Emetine O 1863 
 
 1858 Lewis, Reuben S 1858 
 
 1849 Libby, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth 1862 
 
 1850 Lincoln, Theodore M 1852 
 
 i860 j Little, James L 1863 
 
 i860 ( Little, Mrs. Elsie A 1863 
 
 1852 Little, Miss Margaret 1S52 
 
 1866 Locke, Miss Frances 1 866 
 
 1864 Lockwood, Miss Henrietta 1S66 
 
 1858 Lord, William H. 1865 
 
 1858 Lovell, Frank II 1S65 
 
 M 
 
 856 j Maconnell, James 1864^ 
 
 j Mc 
 
 I Ma 
 
 1856 ( Maconnell, Mrs. Jeannette 1S62 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 6l 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1859 Mallory, Miss Betsey S 1866 
 
 1855 Mansfield, William 1865 
 
 1848 March, Miss Catharine 1849 
 
 1857 j Marshall, George 1861 
 
 1857 \ Marshall, Mrs. Hannah 1866 
 
 1858 Mason, Norman M 1862 
 
 1858 May, Mrs. Meletta S 
 
 1857 Mayhew, Mrs. Calista S 1866 
 
 1852 McCandless, Miss Eliza 
 
 1858 McCartee, Mrs. Anna Daniels 1866 
 
 1857 McChesney, Joseph M 1865 
 
 1858 McChesney, William W i860 
 
 1858 McCleve, Mrs. Elizabeth 1859 
 
 1848 McElwa, Miss Ann, exc'd. 1853 
 
 1859 McGee, Miss Elizabeth 1866 
 
 1859 McGee, Samuel i860 
 
 1850 McGrath, Mrs. Electra 1853 
 
 1853 McLeod, Peter 1863 
 
 1848 j Meknn, Austin 1863 
 
 1848 {Melt 'in, Mrs. Martha i860 
 
 1852 Mcrzuin, Miss Sophia T 
 
 1852 Merriam, Mrs. Mary E 1857 
 
 1864 j Miller, William D 1866 
 
 1S64 \ Miller, Mrs. Rebecca 1866 
 
 1850 Milligan, James "... i860 
 
 1859 Millings, Mrs. Ann 1866 
 
 1850 Mitchell, Mrs. Caroline Laura ^S3 
 
 1853 j Mitchell, Warren 1857 
 
 1853 "j Mitchell, Mrs. Eliza 1857 
 
 1853 j Mixter, Madison 1866 
 
 1852 "j Mixter, Mrs. Susan 1862 
 
 1848 Moers, Mrs. Rebecca 1858 
 
 1858 Montgomery, James, Jr 1863 
 
 1848 j Moore, William H., exc'd 1852 
 
 1848 I Moore, Mrs. Jane A 1865 
 
 1855 Morgan, Mrs. Roxana 1858 
 
 1848 Morrill, Mrs. Cynthia L 1861 
 
 1852 Morrill, Mrs. Susannah 1853 
 
 1850 Morris, John 1851 
 
 1852 j Morrow, Cornelius W. L 1855 
 
 1852 / Morrow, Mrs. Jane Eliza 1855 
 
 1S47 Morse, Mrs. Rebecca 1849 
 
 i860 \Munson, D. D 1863 
 
 i860 \ Munson, Mrs. Mary Jane 1S64 
 
 1851 j Murray, Robert 1852 
 
 1851 I Murray, Mrs. Mary 1852 
 
262 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. 
 
 1858 
 1847 
 1853 
 
 1857 
 1859 
 
 1849 
 1S58 
 1851 
 
 1855 
 1857 
 1849 
 184S 
 
 IS53 
 
 IS54 
 185I 
 I8.5I 
 
 lS 49 
 
 1858 
 
 1854 
 1S54 
 i860 
 1849 
 1849 
 1847 
 1847 
 1848 
 
 1853 
 IS53 
 1858 
 1848 
 1851 
 1353 
 1847 
 1S54 
 1863 
 
 1849 
 1855 
 1849 
 1S50 
 1858 
 1858 
 
 N 
 
 Names. Con. did. 
 
 Neild, Edwin i860 
 
 Newlin, Miss Maria Louisa 
 
 Nichols, Mrs. Caroline B 1859 
 
 Nichols, Mrs. Julia 1859 
 
 Niebuhr, Charles C 1861 
 
 Niles, Henry T 1851 
 
 Norman, George A. J 1863 
 
 Noyes, Charles H 1858 
 
 o 
 
 Oakley, Miss Isabella 1858 
 
 O'Brien, Mrs. Mary P 1863 
 
 Osborn, David D 1856 
 
 Otis, Mrs. Agues , 
 
 P 
 
 Pa^e, William H 1861 
 
 Page, William L 1859 
 
 \ Paine, Royal 1S52 
 
 j Paine, Mrs. Elizabeth 1852 
 
 Palmer, Francis 1859 
 
 Palmer, Miss Mary 1S61 
 
 [ Parker, S. J 1854 
 
 I Parker, Mrs. R. L 1854 
 
 Parmalee, William 1S64 
 
 Parton, John 1856 
 
 Parton, Mrs. Mary 1856 
 
 j Payne, Jira 1849 
 
 \ Payne, Mrs: Eliza 1850 
 
 Pease, Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth 1863 
 
 Pease, Rev. L. M 1863 
 
 Pendrill, Mrs. Judith E 1865 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. Alice T 1858 
 
 Pettit, Miss Gertrude 185 1 
 
 Phelps, Miss Corinthia 1854 
 
 Phillips, Mrs. Mary A i860 
 
 Phillips, Phoebe C 1855 
 
 Pierce, Mrs. E. A 1858 
 
 Pierson, Cyrus M 1866 
 
 Pillsbury, Nehemiah 1864 
 
 Pillsbury, Mrs. Mary K 1864 
 
 Pillsbury, Mrs. Frances II. 1853 
 
 Pinney, E. S 1S51 
 
 Pitkin, George D i860 
 
 Pitkin, Mrs. Magdalen 1S60 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 263 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1851 Pittie, Nathaniel 1861 
 
 1857 Plant, Miss Albertina M. 1864 
 
 1852 j Plant, Deforest E i860 
 
 1858 "j Plant, Mrs. Harriet i860 
 
 1S48 Plant, Mrs. Harriet Jeannette 1866 
 
 1858 Pond, Mrs. Mary C 1S61 
 
 1858 Pond, B. Foster 1862 
 
 i860 Port, William R 1862 
 
 185 1 Porter, Lewis 1853 
 
 1855 Potter, Francis M. 1865 
 
 1858 Powell, Thomas 1863 
 
 1861 j Powers, Charles 1865 
 
 1 86 1 \ Powers, Mrs. Mary Isabella 1865 
 
 1849 Pray, John W 1S54 
 
 1858 Pratt, Miss Harriet 1866 
 
 1857 Prince, Miss Mary E 1857 
 
 1849 Pritchard, Mrs. Jane Anna 1866 
 
 1S48 j Pritchard, William H. 1 86 1 
 
 1848 ( Pritchard, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 1852 
 
 1851 Ptirdy, Miss Ruth E 
 
 1S55 Purdy, Mrs. Harriet A 1862 
 
 R 
 
 1848 Rathbone, Mrs. Emily Edick 1863 
 
 1848 Rathbone, Miss Maria 
 
 1852 Raymond, Mrs. Harriet L 1858 
 
 1849 Raymond, Henry Martin 1858 
 
 1848 j Raymond, John 1852 
 
 1848 \ Raymond, Mrs. Jeannette 1852 
 
 1849 Raymond, Samuel H 1858 
 
 1858 Reed, Mrs. Fanny B 1865 
 
 1850 Reed, Mrs. Nancy P 1859 
 
 1858 Reid, Miss Annie 1865 
 
 1853 Reid, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1853 Rice, Albert 1854 
 
 1856 Rich, Mrs. Pamelia B 1859 
 
 1855 Ringwood, Miss Julia 1863 
 
 1858 Ripton, Thomas 1S64 
 
 1856 Robinson, Mrs. Abigail R 1S58 
 
 1858 Robinson, Daniel C 1S60 
 
 1855 Rogers, William L 1862 
 
 1853 Rogers, Miss Caroline 1861 
 
 1855 Rogers, William 
 
 1855 Rogers, Miss Mary 
 
 1850 Root, James P 1861 
 
 1858 j Ropes, Henry 1865 
 
 1850 ( Ropes, Mrs. Harriet H 1S65 
 
264 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitt j4. 
 
 1847 
 
 1S60 
 
 1847 
 
 1847 
 1847 
 1S47 
 l86l 
 l86l 
 1865 
 
 i860 
 1848 
 1848 
 1858 
 1858 
 1850 
 1 849 
 1849 
 1848 
 1S57 
 1858 
 1854 
 I8 53 
 1S58 
 1S52 
 1848 
 
 1853 
 lS6l 
 1 86l 
 
 1848 
 1848 
 I8 5 I 
 1851 
 1849 
 1849 
 1849 
 1853 
 IS53 
 1847 
 1847 
 1858 
 
 1854 
 1849 
 1855 
 1849 
 1858 
 
 Name*. Con. rtis. 
 
 Rorke, Mrs. Charlotte A 1S5 1 
 
 Rose, William II 1864 
 
 j Rowland, Charles, exc'd 1852 
 
 / Rowland^ Mrs. Maria 1 849 
 
 Rowland, Miss Elizabeth 
 
 Rowland, Henry 
 
 Rugg, G. S 1864 
 
 Rugg, Mrs. Lavinia E 1864 
 
 Russell, Rev. Frank 1S66 
 
 s 
 
 Salmon, Mrs. Catherine 1865 
 
 j Sandford, Thomas H 1863 
 
 \ Sandford, Mrs. Caroline M. B 1 85 3 
 
 Sanford, Mrs. Ellenor H 1863 
 
 Sanford, Miss Lucretia B 1863 
 
 \ Saxton, John 1854 
 
 "I Saxton, Mrs. Mary 1S54 
 
 Sawyer, William B 185 1 
 
 Scofield, Miss Mary 1 850 
 
 Scott, Miss Elizabeth 1861 
 
 j Scovill, John F 1865 
 
 { Scovill, Mrs. Elizabeth 1865 
 
 Scoville, Mrs. Harriet E. Beecher 1861 
 
 Seagrave, Josiah 1861 
 
 Secor, David H 1853 
 
 Sedgwick, Chedale v . 1865 
 
 Severance, Miss Mary L i860 
 
 j Seymour, Edward C 1S65 
 
 \ Seymour, Mrs. Laura A 1865 
 
 Seymour, James 1855 
 
 Simons, Mrs. Lydia Ann 1S54 
 
 Simmons, Mrs. Amelia 1855 
 
 Small, Miss Catherine. . i860 
 
 Small, Miss Maria 185 1 
 
 j Smith, Alfred 1854 
 
 ( Smith, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth 1854 
 
 ( Smith, Job H 1866 
 
 ( Smith, Mrs. Clarissa A 1866 
 
 j Smith, Cornelius 1S60 
 
 ( Smith, Mrs. Emeline i860 
 
 Smith, Emma R 1S60 
 
 Smith, George F 1865 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Hannah 1S56 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Hannah R 1865 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Jane L 1857 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Sarah R 1S61 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 6$ 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1851 Smith, Mrs. Mary S 1862 
 
 1858 Sowden, Mrs. Eliza 1859 ' 
 
 1848 Spencer, William, Jr 1857 
 
 1861 Sprague, Miss Marianna 1866 
 
 1852 j Staats, Abraham L 1862 
 
 1852 \ Staats, Mrs. Jane E 1862 
 
 185 1 Stanton, Mrs. Julia A 
 
 1851 Stanton, Mrs. Olivia W 1863 
 
 1852 Steen, Miss Eliza 1854 
 
 1856 St. John, Mrs. Mary 1859 
 
 1858 St. John, Minor 1858 
 
 1848 Stockton, Mrs. Mary 1851 
 
 1848 Stout, Mrs. Abigail J 
 
 1850 j Stow, Joseph W 1853 
 
 1850 \ Stow, Mrs. Mary B 1853 
 
 1852 Stone, Miss Adelia B 1854 
 
 1852 Street, Edwin A 1858 
 
 1866 Stryker, John L 1866 
 
 1859 Stuchbnry, Miss Sarah 1 865 
 
 1856 Studley, Mrs. Helena P 1864 
 
 1852 Sullivan, Miss Eliza M 1852 
 
 1853 Swan, Miss Lucetta A 1854 
 
 1858 Swaney, Arthur A 1863 
 
 1852 Swazey, Henry B ^54 
 
 T 
 
 • 
 
 1856 Tappan, Miss Susan Anne 
 
 1847 Taylor, Miss Amelia 
 
 1847 Taylor, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1848 Taylor, Miss Henrietta 1849 
 
 1856 Taylor, Horace S 1862 
 
 1852 j Ten Eyck, Conrad A 1864 
 
 1852 "j Ten Eyck, Mrs. Catharine 1864 
 
 1862 Ten Eyck, Miss Kate 1864 
 
 1850 Tenney, Levi, Jr 185 1 
 
 1852 Thalheimer, Miss Helen 1852 
 
 1858 j That ford, Joseph 1859 
 
 1858 \ Thatford, Mrs. Harriet 1865 
 
 1857 Thomas, Miss Mary F 1858 
 
 1853 Thomas, Miss Sarah Ann 1856 
 
 1854 Thompson, E. K 1859 
 
 1852 j Thompson, George 1858 
 
 1852 \ Thompson, Mrs. Margaret 1858 
 
 1856 j Tingley, George H 1858 
 
 1856 \ Tingley, Mrs. Anna 1858 
 
 1856 Titcomb, Charles 1S65 
 
 1854 Trask, Hervey 185G 
 
266 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con, dis. 
 
 1854 Trask, Payson 1856 
 
 1861 Trevor, John. 1S62 
 
 1 849 Try 011, Miss Margaret Elizabeth 
 
 1S52 Tucker, Miss Jemima J 853 
 
 1854 Tufts, Mrs. B. A 1856 
 
 1856 Turner, Coll J - 1859 
 
 1847 j Turner, Samuel II 185 1 
 
 1848 \ Turner, Mrs. Joanna A 185 1 
 
 1858 Tusck, William 1861 
 
 i860 Tyler, Henry D 1865 
 
 V 
 
 1862 Van Epps, Miss Ella A 1865 
 
 1862 j Van Epps, J. C 1866 
 
 1862 I Van Epps, Mrs. Maria K. P 1S66 
 
 1849 Vanderhoff, Miss Catherine H 1854 
 
 1850 Vanderhoff, Mrs. Louisa 1854 
 
 1S49 Van Pelt, Henry 1850 
 
 1855 Van Vechten, Mrs. Jane A 1859 
 
 1859 Voigt, Mrs. Antoinette 1866 
 
 1863 Vosburgh, Mrs. Ann 1866 
 
 w 
 
 1849 Wade, T. Anderson , 
 
 1850 j Waldron, Henry 1854 
 
 1850 \ Waldron, Mrs. Mary Fisher 1854 
 
 1852 Waldron, Miss Mary E 1854 
 
 1855 Walker, Avery S 1865 
 
 1849 Walker, Miss Martha 1S55 
 
 1849 Walker, Miss Mary 1S53 
 
 1848 Walker, Phineas 1858 
 
 1851 Wallace, William H 1865 
 
 1848 j Warren, John D 1S54 
 
 1848 \ Warren, Mrs. Elizabeth F 1854 
 
 1858 Warren, Theodore 1865 
 
 1863 Warren, Miss Virginia 1866 
 
 1858 Watson, Mrs. Caroline 1S59 
 
 1851 j Watson, Horace C 1S60 
 
 1S51 \ Watson, Mrs. Elizabeth -A 1S60' 
 
 1852 Watson, Miss Sarah A 1S60 
 
 1858 Wattles, Mrs. Helen B 1859 
 
 1858 Weaver, Mrs. Sarah 1S66 
 
 1848 \ Webb, Philip D 
 
 1848 \ Webb, Mrs. Sarah L 
 
 1858 Westcott, Miss Sarah 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 267 
 
 Admitted. Xames. Con. dis. 
 
 1850 j Wetherbee, Aril 1852 
 
 1850 \ Wetherbee, Mrs. Elizabeth 1852 
 
 1858 Wheeler, Mrs. Martha Jane 1 864 
 
 1856 Whitlock, Miss Charlotte S 1858 
 
 1849 j Whitlock, Ephraim J 1857 
 
 1849 / Whitlock, Mrs. Georgiana 1857 
 
 1856 Whitlock, William H. 1857 
 
 1850 j White, William 
 
 1851 \ White, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1850 Whitmore, Miss Catherine 1854 
 
 1855 { Whittlesey, Charles 1858 
 
 1856 } Whittlesey, Mrs. Helen M 1858 
 
 1854 Widgeon, Miss Almeda '. 1856 
 
 1848 Wight, George W 1853 
 
 1S50 Wightman, Mrs. Isabella 1857 
 
 185 3 Wilcox, E. H. 1864 
 
 1853 Williams, Miss Sarah C 1S56 
 
 1852 j Wilson, John B 1856 
 
 1852 \ Wilson, Mrs. Sarah G 1856 
 
 1850 Wilson, Mrs. Harriet 
 
 1850 Wilson, Miss Harriet E 
 
 1848 Wilson, Mrs. Helen 1854 
 
 1858 Wood, Abiel, Jr i860 
 
 1849 Wood, Miss Hannah H 1850 
 
 1858 Woodbridge, Charles L 1863 
 
 1858 Woodbridge, Joseph 1863 
 
 1849 Woodhull, Miss Eleanor T 1851 
 
 1849 ( Woodhull, Smith 1854 
 
 1849 "j Woodhull, Mrs. Marietta 1854 
 
 1855 Woodruff, Mrs. Lavinia Peyster 1866 
 
 1852 ( Wooley, John C 1856 
 
 1852 / Wooley, Mrs. Susan 1856 
 
 i860 Wright, Miss Julia A 1862 
 
 1857 Wyburn, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 [Note.— The names of Mrs. Henrietta Griswold, Miss Harriet Jones, Miss C. 
 M. Ford, and Mrs. L. B. Munroe (dismissed as Miss Cook) were erroneously 
 included in the other list. They are properly entered here ; and are not included 
 in the aggregate number of members stated on page 64.] 
 
Alphabetical List of Members of Plymouth 
 Church, admitted January, 1867, to January, 
 1873. 
 
 COPIED FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS, BY PERMISSION 
 OF REV. S. B. HALLIDAY. 
 
 *** Names of deceased in italics. 
 
 A 
 
 Admitted. Names- 
 
 Connection 
 
 dissolved. 
 
 1872 Abbott, Arthur V 
 
 1872 Abbott, Benjamin V 
 
 1872 Abbott, Mrs. Elizabeth T 
 
 1869 Abbott, Miss Emma A 
 
 1870 Abbott, Joshua K 
 
 1870 Abbott, Mrs. Lucretia W 
 
 1 870 Abbott, J. Harris 
 
 1869 Adams, Geo. H 
 
 1869 Adams, Mrs. Louisa 
 
 1868 Adderly, John H 
 
 1870 Adleman, Mrs. Jane 
 
 1868 Aiken, James R 1872 
 
 1867 Allen, Miss Lizzie 
 
 1872 Allen, Mrs. Priscilla W 
 
 1868 Allen, Mrs. Susan 
 
 1868 Alvin, Miss Mary A 1869 
 
 1872 Ames, Miss Nellie 
 
 1870 Anderson, Charles W 
 
 1870 Anderson, Mrs. Annie 
 
 1870 Anderson, Mrs. Clara 
 
 1869 Anderson, John R 
 
 1870 Anderson, Miss Lizzie 1870 
 
 1867 Apperly, Mrs. Sophia 
 
 1871 Arbuckle, John ' 
 
 187 1 Arbuckle, Mrs. M. A 
 
 1869 Armstrong, Miss Jessie 
 
 1869 Armstrong, Robert B 
 
 1867 Arnold, Miss Julia 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 6g 
 
 Admitted. Names. 
 
 1S72 Avery, Augustus P. . 
 1867 Averill, Mrs. Janet . , 
 1867 Averill, Miss Mary J. 
 
 B 
 
 1872 Badeker, Andrew 
 
 1872 Badeker, Mrs. Mary J 
 
 1869 Bagot, Miss Augusta 
 
 1870 Baker, Mrs. Mary C. (now Mrs. Morrison) 
 
 187 1 Baker, Thomas E 
 
 1871 Baker, Mrs. Laura 
 
 1869 Ballard, Miss Lucy M. (now Mrs. Foot) 1871 
 
 1867 Banfield, Mrs. Anna F 1870 
 
 1870 Banning, Miss Nellie A 
 
 1870 Bardwell, Willis A 
 
 1870 Bardwell, Mrs. Sylvia 
 
 1869 Barker, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1869 Barnes, Miss Emma 
 
 1870 Barnes, Joseph A 1871 
 
 1872 Barnes, Mrs. Sarah G 
 
 1871 Barnum, Miss Mary E 
 
 1870 Barre, Mrs. Maria A 
 
 1870 Barney, Mrs. Mary M 
 
 1870 Barrows, Edwin 1872 
 
 1869 Barrows, John H 
 
 1869 Barrows, Walter M 1870 
 
 1868 Bartlett, Miss Jane A 
 
 1868 Barworth, Miss Elizabeth A 
 
 1868 Bates, Jerome E 
 
 1870 Bates, Mrs. Mary G 
 
 1870 Bates, Miss Redelia 
 
 1870 Beach, Mrs. Julia M 
 
 1867 Beach, Thomas 
 
 1872 Beal, Miss Sarah (now Mrs. Green) 
 
 1869 Beames, Miss Lily (now Mrs. Donnelly) 
 
 187 1 Beardsley, Miss Miranda 
 
 1870 Beattys, Mrs. Sarah A 
 
 1872 Bee, Miss Janet 
 
 1872 Bee, Miss Marion 
 
 1872 Beecher, Miss Alice C 
 
 1872 Beecher, Edward 
 
 1872 Beecher, Mrs. Isabella P 
 
 1872 Beecher, George 
 
 1872 Beecher, Eugene F 
 
 1872 Beecher, Mrs. Susie 
 
 1870 Beecher, Herbert F 
 

 270 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. d!«. 
 
 1870 Beers, Walter 
 
 187 1 Behrem, Henry 1872 
 
 1871 Behrem, Mrs. Sophia 
 
 1869 Belcher, Miss Kate 
 
 1868 Belcher, Lewis 
 
 1872 Bell, Arthur 
 
 1870 Benedict, George H 
 
 1870 Benedict, Mrs. Maria A 
 
 186S Benedict, Mrs. Grace 
 
 1871 Benedict, Miss Helen M 
 
 1871 Bennett, William 
 
 1871 Bennett, Mrs. Eliza 
 
 1867 Beresford, Miss Priscilla 
 
 1868 Bergginst, Miss Eveline 
 
 1872 Bergen, Mrs. Clarissa 
 
 186S Betts, Frank M 
 
 1870 Bicknell, Miss Minnie A 
 
 1869 Beiisner, Miss Harmenia 
 
 1870 Bigham, Miss Ida E 
 
 1870 Bird, Miss Grace 
 
 1868 Blackmer, George A 
 
 1872 Blair, Benjamin F 
 
 1872 Blair, Mrs. Mary L 
 
 1870 Blaisding, Miss Maria H 
 
 1867 Blanchard, Miss Clara L. (now Mrs. Wadsworth) 
 
 1871 Blauvelt, Garrett M 
 
 1870 Blood, Miss Matilda M 
 
 1872 Bonnar, Miss Katrina 
 
 1S72 Bosche, Miss Harriet 
 
 1870 Bosman, Henry 
 
 1870 Bosman, Mrs. Charlotte 
 
 1872 Bosman, Henry J 
 
 1868 Bosworth, Mrs. Elizabeth A 
 
 1868 Bowen, Miss C. Electra 
 
 1869 Bowen, Clarence W 
 
 1869 Bowie, George 
 
 1872 Bowlsby, Miss Jennie 
 
 1869 Boyer, George W. G 
 
 1871 Brink, Miss Phila A 
 
 1869 Boyer, Mrs. Louise M 1872 
 
 1871 Brenner, Walter H 
 
 1872 Bride, Mrs. M. A 
 
 1870 Briesen, A. V 
 
 1870 Broadbent, M:t>. Elizabeth 
 
 1870 Broadhead, Mrs. Kate J 
 
 1870 Broadbent, Charles W 
 
 1872 Bromhead, George 
 
 1872 Bromhead, Mrs. Elizabe;h A 
 
 - 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 27 1 
 
 Ldmitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1871 Bromfield, Rev. E. T 1872 
 
 1S7 1 Bromfield, Mrs. Georgiana 1872 
 
 1867 Brooks, Mrs. Ruby L 
 
 1871 Brower, John II 
 
 1571 Brower, Mrs. Emeline R 
 
 1868 Brower, Miss Angelina C 1 870 
 
 1572 Brown, Alva J 
 
 1872 Brown, Mrs. Ada M 
 
 187 1 Brown, Miss A. Isabel 
 
 1868 Brown, Miss Emma L 
 
 1869 Brown, Miss Kate 
 
 1871 Brown, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1867 Brown, Miss Mary E 1868 
 
 1872 Brownell, Miss Angenora M 
 
 1S69 Bryant, Elias A 1871 
 
 1869 Bryant, Mrs. Laura E 1871 
 
 1868 Bryant, Elihu 1869 
 
 1868 Bryant, Mrs. Mary S 1872 
 
 1868 Buck, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1868 Bullard, Henry W 1871 
 
 1868 Bullard, Mrs. Sarah L 1871 
 
 1867 Bundick, Miss Ellen 
 
 1872 Burbank, J. K 1872 
 
 1871 Burgess, Miss Julia 
 
 1869 Burgess, Miss Lydia (now Mrs. Field) 
 
 1872 Burham, Sidney 
 
 1869 Burke, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1868 Burke, William L 
 
 1868 Burke, Mrs. Harriet E 
 
 1871 Burnap, Miss Druscilla G 
 
 1S67 Burns, Miss Margaret 
 
 1867 Burroughs, Miss Sophia M 
 
 1868 Burrows, Edwin B 
 
 1868 Bush, Rufus T 
 
 1868 Bush, Mrs. Sarah M 
 
 1872 Buttman, George, Jr 
 
 1872 Byer, Miss Katie L 
 
 187 1 Byron, Miss Rachael 
 
 c 
 
 187 1 Cameron, John 
 
 1869 Camp, Miss Aretta. . . 
 
 1869 Camp, "James B . . . . 
 
 1869 Camp, Miss Mary E . 
 
 1872 Camp, Miss Mary A, 
 1872 Caldwell, Frank E. . , 
 1868 Caldwell, Jardyce S. , 
 
272 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1869 Caldwell, John 
 
 1868 Carleton, Edmund J 1871 
 
 1871 Carpenter, Miss Anna P 
 
 1872 Carpenter, Benoni G 
 
 1872 Carpenter, Mrs. Fannie E 
 
 1871 Carpenter, Miss Mary F 
 
 1872 Carpenter, Mrs. Matilda 
 
 1872 Carpenter, Miss Martha E 
 
 1867 Carman, Miss Bertine P 1869 
 
 1867 Carrigan, John H. (now John H. Clayton) 
 
 1870 Cary, Mrs*. Sarah S. B 
 
 1870 Cary, Edwin F 
 
 1872 Catherar, Charles 
 
 1872 Catherar, Mrs. A 
 
 1871 Chadwick, Charles W 
 
 1868 Chambers, Forman S 
 
 1868 Chamberlain, Alfred E 
 
 J870 Chandler, Miss Ada 
 
 1870 Chandler, Miss Eliza C 
 
 1867 Chandler ; Miss Sallie 1870 
 
 187 1 Chapin, Mrs. Laura C 
 
 1868 Chapin, Nathan T , 
 
 1868 Chapin, Mrs. Julia M 
 
 1869 Chartres, Robert P 
 
 1868 Chase, Alonzo 
 
 1868 Chase, Mrs. Cordelia 
 
 1869 Chase, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1870 Christensen, Christian T 
 
 1870 Christensen, Mrs. Emma L 
 
 1867 Churchill, W. K 
 
 1867 Cipperly, Mrs. Sophia C 
 
 1867 Clapp, Mrs. Harriet K 
 
 1871 Clark, Mrs. Clara 
 
 1867 Clark, Miss Mary F 
 
 1872 Clark, Miss Mary J 
 
 1872 Clark, John H 
 
 1868 Clarke, Mrs. Sophia A 
 
 1870 Clarke, Edwin, Jr 
 
 1872 Clarke, Miss Elizabeth H 
 
 1868 Clausen, Mrs. Emma 
 
 1870 Coates, Miss Susannah 
 
 1868 Cobleigh, Nelson F 
 
 1868 Coffin, Rowland 
 
 1869 Cogswell, Mrs. J. W 
 
 1868 Colburn, Miss Maria C 
 
 1868 Colburn, Miss Emily M 
 
 1867 Cole, Daniel M 
 
 1867 Cole, Mrs. Maria 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 273 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1869 Cole, Mrs. Emily C 
 
 1870 Colver, Mrs. Ann E 
 
 1869 Combes, Hiram G 
 
 1869 Combes, Mrs. Sarah M 
 
 1867 Combes, William A 
 
 1869 Comstock, Miss Maria M 
 
 1867 Conklin, John M 
 
 1869 Conklin, Lewis O 
 
 1870 Cone, Edward P 
 
 1870 Cone, Mrs. Anna M 
 
 1870 Conant, Mrs. Jennie B 
 
 1871 Cook, William 
 
 1872 Cordener, Mrs. Charlotte 
 
 1872 Cordon, Miss Lizzie 
 
 1868 Cornell, William S 
 
 1868 Corning, J. W. L 
 
 1868 Corning, Miss Catherine M 
 
 1871 Cornwall, Mrs. Laura B 
 
 1871 Corp, Miss Mary J 
 
 1867 Cowperthwait, Miss Victorine 
 
 1868 Cox, Miss Georgiana (now Mrs. Warren) 
 
 1872 Cotherin, Chas 
 
 1872 Cotherin, Mrs. Alice 
 
 1867 Crane, George L 
 
 1867 Crane, Mrs. Helen M 
 
 1870 Crane, Edward M 
 
 1872 Crane, Mrs. Ida 
 
 1872 Cree, David 
 
 1868 Crossley, Mrs. Emma 
 
 1869 Cruger, Judson 
 
 D 
 
 1870 Davenport, Miss Ellen 
 
 1872 Davenport, Jonas P 
 
 1872 Dartrich, John 
 
 1872 Day, Miss Emma P 
 
 1869 Day, Judson F 
 
 1870 Davis, Isaac <» 
 
 1872 Davis, Singesmer 
 
 1869 Davies, Charles 
 
 1867 Dawson, Rodney B., Jr 1867 
 
 1871 Dean, Alfred T 1871 
 
 1871 Dean, Mrs. Mary E 1871 
 
 1872 Degraw, John A 
 
 1871 Demerest, John H 
 
 1 87 1 Demerest, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 187 1 Demerest, David 
 
 12* 
 
274 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. ITirt Con. dig. 
 
 187 1 Demerest, Andrew J 
 
 1869 Dennis, Miss Frances 
 
 187 1 Dennis, Mrs. Frances 
 
 1872 Desmond, Miss Kate 
 
 1871 Devoy, John C 1872 
 
 1871 Devoy, Mrs. Rachael 1872 
 
 1871 Devoy, Miss Georgiana 1872 
 
 1872 Dewey, George M 
 
 1868 Dewey, Edmund H 
 
 1868 Dewey, Mrs. Sylvia A 
 
 1868 Dillont, Frederick 
 
 1869 Dickenson, Henry W 
 
 1869 Dickerson, Mrs. Mary J 
 
 1869 Dorr, Miss Annie 
 
 1 87 1 Dorr, Mrs. Emily R 
 
 1872 Dooley, Mrs. Jane 
 
 1869 Doten, Charles A f 
 
 1869 Douglas, Richard D 
 
 1869 Douglass, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 187 1 Dows, Joseph 
 
 1 870 Dresser, Charles A 
 
 1872' Dudley, Miss Martha 
 
 1867 Duncan, George F 
 
 1872 Duncan, Henry E 
 
 1872 Dugard, Miss Mariana 
 
 1870 Dungate, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1871 Dungate, Miss Sarah 
 
 1872 Dungate, Miss Amelia 
 
 1871 Dunn, Hugh S 
 
 1867 Dunn, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1870 Dupinac, Richard P 1870 
 
 1870 Dupre, Miss Katie 
 
 1867 Durie, David 
 
 1867 Durno, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1870 Duryea, Miss Kate D 
 
 1872 Dusenberry, Henry A 
 
 1867 Dwyer, Miss Fanny 
 
 1872 Dwyer, Miss Susan 
 
 1869 Dyer, Miss Emma N 
 
 1S69 Dyer, Miss Susie F 
 
 E 
 
 1 87 1 Earle, John B 
 
 1S71 Earle, Mrs. Amanda 
 
 1871 Edgell, James G 
 
 187 1 Edgell, Mrs. Anna 
 
 1S68 Edmunds, Miss Georgiana B 1870 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH 27$ 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1870 Egerton, Miss Jane 
 
 187 1 Eike, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 187 1 Ellinwood, Truman J 
 
 1871 Ellinwood, Mrs. Sarah M 
 
 1870 Elliott, Miss Eleanor E 
 
 1870 Ellis, Miss Louisa 
 
 1872 Ely, Miss Bessie P 
 
 1867 Ely, George G 
 
 1869 Evans, Mrs. Kate 
 
 1872 Eves, Miss Emma 
 
 1872 Eves, Miss Lizzie 
 
 F 
 
 1872 Faber, William H 
 
 1869 Farr, Milliard F % 
 
 1868 Faucett, Andrew 1870 
 
 1869 Fay, Marcellus E 
 
 1870 Fergurson, Moses G 
 
 1870 Fergurson, Mrs. Eleanor 
 
 1870 Fergurson, Miss Sarah A 1871 
 
 1871 Fergurson, John H 
 
 1871 Fergurson, Mrs. Sylvia 
 
 1871 Fergurson, Mrs. Georgie 
 
 1872 Fergurson, Miss Mary L 
 
 1870 Ferris, Miss Phcebe J 
 
 1872 Ficken, James 
 
 1871 Finch, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1867 Fisher, Edmund C 
 
 1867 Fisher, Mrs. Sarah E 
 
 1871 Fitzgerald, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1871 Fitzgerald, Miss Sarah 
 
 1870 Fischer, Miss Ida 
 
 1871 Flagge, Mrs. Christina 
 
 187 1 Flagge, Henry 
 
 1869 Flanders, Miss Kate A. M. (now Mrs. Pelton). . 
 
 1869 Flanders, Miss Susan E 
 
 1868 Fletcher, Mrs. H. R 
 
 1868 Flindt, Miss Matilda E 
 
 1870 Floyd, James S 
 
 1870 Floyd, Miss Julia (now Mrs. Smith) 
 
 1867 Foote, Miss Sarah E 
 
 1871 Ford, Mrs. A. P 
 
 1870 Foster, Mrs. Laura B 1872 
 
 1870 Foster, Miss Mary H. C 
 
 187 1 Foster, William 
 
 1872 Fowle, Miss Jennie 
 
 1870 Frazee, Loneda -. 
 
2 ;6 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. 
 
 1870 Frazee, Mrs. Mary M 
 
 1872 Freckelton, Miss Eva . . . 
 
 1872 Free, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1872 Free, Miss Henrietta 
 
 G 
 
 1S68 Galindo, Edwin A 
 
 1S70 Gandley, Miss Mary F 
 
 1S67 Gannett, Miss Belle 
 
 187 1 Gano, George W 
 
 1868 Garbutt, Miss Emma L 
 
 1868 Garbutt, Miss Jennie (now Mrs. Jewell) 
 
 1871 Gaston, Mrs. Hannah 
 
 1867 Gatter, Charles E 1869 
 
 1872 Gauntt, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1872 Gauntt, Miss Emma J 
 
 1872 Gauntt, Miss Mary L 
 
 1872 Gauntt, Lewis F 
 
 1S72 Gauntt, Edward C 
 
 1 87 1 Getchell, Miss Lydia 
 
 1870 Gibbs, Miss Carrie 
 
 1870 Gibbs, John C 
 
 1868 Gilbert, Miss Cecilia L 
 
 1872 Gilbert, Ebenezer D 
 
 1872 Gilbert, Mrs. Mary R 
 
 1872 Gilbert, Miss Mary R 
 
 1872 Gilbert, Miss Sarah D 
 
 1868 Gildersleeve, Mrs. Anna M. V 
 
 1871 Gilfillan, Miss Mary E 
 
 1872 Goddard, Miss Jennie 
 
 1869 Gold, Edward 
 
 1871 Gooding, Miss Ada 
 
 1872 Goodrich, Henry H. K 
 
 1870 Gorman, Miss Agnes (now Mrs. Kennedy) 
 
 1870 Gosling, Miss Charlotte M 1872 
 
 1868 Gossip, George 
 
 1872 Graham, Josiah 
 
 1872 Graham, Miss Kate 
 
 1870 Graham, Robert 
 
 1868 Graves, Charles C 1868 
 
 1868 Graves, Mrs. Elmira H 
 
 1868 Graves, Charles C, Jr 1872 
 
 1868 Graves, George 
 
 1870 Gray, Miss Julia 
 
 1869 Green, Miss. Emily D. W. (now Mrs. Daily).... 
 1868 Green, Girard C 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 277 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dig. 
 
 1870 Grew, Mrs. Mary S .' 
 
 1869 Grierson, Miss Mary 
 
 1872 Griffin, William J 
 
 1871 Griffith, Miss Mary J 
 
 1868 Griswold, Lyman J 1872 
 
 1871 Groening, Paul C 
 
 1870 Guillame, Miss Clara 
 
 1870 Guinlock, Mrs. Georgiana 
 
 1870 Guinlock, Miss Georgiana J. (now Mrs. Hollis). 
 
 1870 Guinlock, Miss Alice 
 
 1867 Guiteau, Charles J 1869 
 
 1872 Guthrie, Richard 
 
 1871 Gwillian, Richard 
 
 H 
 
 1869 Habberton, Mrs. Alice L 1870 
 
 1870 Hagan, Miss Amelia 
 
 1872 Haines, Miss Susan 
 
 1868 Hakes, Mrs. Jennie B 
 
 1869 Hall, Edward A 
 
 1868 Hall, GranvUle S 
 
 1872 Hall, H. M 
 
 1870 Hall, Mrs. Mary L 
 
 1872 Hall, Harvey C 
 
 1872 Halliday, F. J 
 
 1872 Halliday, Mrs. Sarah A '. 
 
 1868 Halliday, Miss Jennie (now Mrs. Gibson) 
 
 1871 Halliday, William 
 
 1871 Hallock, Miss Martha T 
 
 1872 Hallock, Miss A. Ada 
 
 187 1 Halsey, Henry 
 
 1867 Hammond, Miss Josephine 
 
 1872 Hanna, James 1872 
 
 1872 Harlow, Samuel R 
 
 1872 Harlow, Mrs. Mary E 
 
 1872 Harlow, Miss Sarah A 
 
 1871 Harper, Miss Lillie J 
 
 1871 Harrington, Miss Fanny M 
 
 1867 Harris, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1870 Harris, Mrs. Maria 
 
 1868 Harrison, Mrs. Annie 
 
 1868 Hart, Miss Hannah 
 
 1870 Hartman, Miss Emma 
 
 1868 Harwood, Miss Julia E 
 
 1872 Hatten, Henry 
 
 1867 Hawarth, Mrs. Amelia 
 
 1869 Hawkins, Miss Martha 
 
278 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dls. 
 
 1869 Hayman, Miss Elizabeth 
 
 1869 Hazelton, Miss Carrie E 
 
 1867 Head, Miss Fannie 
 
 1869 Head, William 
 
 1868 Healy, A. Augustus 
 
 1S67 Healy, Frank 
 
 1571 Healy, John 
 
 1872 Hein, Louis 
 
 1870 Hemmington, William 
 
 1869 Hendricks* >n, Miss Louisa B 
 
 1872 Henry, Miss Mary F 
 
 1872 Hepburn, Mrs. Marion 
 
 1870 Herriott, Peter 
 
 1871 Hervey, James M 
 
 1S69 Hewitt, Miss Eiizabeth (now Mrs. Davenport). . 
 
 1869 Hewitt, Miss Sophia L 
 
 1572 Hickcox, Miss Hattie 
 
 1871 Hill, James T 
 
 1872 Hill, Miss Katie 
 
 1867 Hill, Miss Emma 
 
 1868 Hill, Oilman C 1870 
 
 1870 Hillyer, Henry 
 
 1S67 Hinman, Miss Anna A 
 
 1868 Hinman, Miss Ella 
 
 1868 Hofstetter, Antony 
 
 1872 Hollis, Miles 
 
 1872 Hone, Miss Sarah J 
 
 1869 Holmes, Miss Ada A. (now Mrs. Scholes) 
 
 1869 Houghton, Charles F 
 
 1870 Howes, John J 
 
 1870 Howes, Mrs. Caroline 
 
 1 87 1 Howes, Honnath 
 
 1870 Hornbeck, G. D '. 
 
 1872 Hopewell, William 
 
 1871 Hubbard, Miss Eugenie A 
 
 1870 Hudson, George, Jr 
 
 1870 Hudson, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 1870 Hudson, Miss Harriet 
 
 1867 Hunter, Mrs. Sarah A 
 
 1869 Hunter, Miss Elizabeth 
 
 1872 Hutchinson, Miss Katie 
 
 1869 Hurst, James 
 
 1870 
 1S70 
 
 Ingersoll, William H 
 
 Ingersoll, Mrs, Adelaide M , 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 279 
 
 J 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1872 Jackson, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1869 Jaeger, Aclolph G 
 
 1863 Jagger, David E : 
 
 1 863 Jagger, Mrs. Dorcas 
 
 1S70 Jamison, Mrs. Rachael P 
 
 1870 Jeffrey, Mrs. Maria B 
 
 1867 Jeffrey, Thomas 
 
 1870 Jessamine, Miss Emma 
 
 1868 Jewett, Mrs. Annie F 
 
 1872 Johnson, Mrs. Catherine W 
 
 1867 Johnson, J. Hasbrouck 
 
 1869 Johnson, Nathaniel 
 
 1872 Jones, Miss Anna K 
 
 1872 Jones, James 
 
 1872 Jones, Miss Mary L 
 
 1868 Jones, Thomas W 1870 
 
 1868 Jones, Mrs. Frances G 1869 
 
 187 1 Jones, William 
 
 1871 Judson, Mrs. Harriet 
 
 1870 Jumper, Charles 
 
 K 
 
 1870 Kellogg, Brainard 
 
 1868 Kelly, William 1872 
 
 1871 Kemlo, Miss Louisa 
 
 1870 Kent, Miss Charlotte W 
 
 i863 Keppel, Frederick 
 
 1871 Ketcham, William , ; .•. . 
 
 1871 Key, Mrs. Amelia B 
 
 1871 Kick, Henry M 
 
 1871 Kick, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1871 Kick, Henry, Jr 
 
 1S70 Kiermeyer, J. C 1871 
 
 1869 Kiermeyer, Mrs. Dora 
 
 1871 Kiermeyer, George 
 
 1872 Kinsley, Miss Katie 
 
 1868 Knight, William D 1872 
 
 . 1S71 Kirby, Albert. 
 
 1872 Kirkley, Miss Anna E 
 
 L 
 
 1872 Laidler, Miss Mary 
 
 1869 Lane, Thomas P 
 
 1872 Landon, Cassius D 
 
 1867 Langdon, Miss Jerusha 1872 
 
2 8o PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con, dia. 
 
 1869 Lash, Miss Mary J 
 
 1869 Lascelle, Mrs. Caroline A 
 
 1871 Latur, Ferdinand 
 
 1 87 1 Latur, Mrs. Wilhemina 
 
 1869 Lawrence, Ephraim A 
 
 1869 Lawrence, M rs. Clara P 
 
 1869 Lawrence, William A 
 
 1869 Lawrence, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1870 Lazelle, Mrs. Tabitha 
 
 1869 Leach, Mrs. Eliza 
 
 1870 Leach, Miss Emily J 
 
 1870 Leach, Miss Hannah (now Mrs. Duncan) 
 
 1868 Leach, James 
 
 1868 Leonard, Ambrose 
 
 1867 Leonard, Mrs. Mary A 1872 
 
 1868 Lewis, Miss Mary E 
 
 1869 Lightbody, Mrs. Abbie F 1870 
 
 1869 Lindeman, Miss Lizzie 
 
 1871 Linegar, Charles 
 
 1871 Littlewood, James E 
 
 1S71 Littlewood, Mrs. Jeannette 
 
 1870 Lloyd, James H 
 
 1870 Lockwood, Miss Henrietta 
 
 1870 Lockwood, Miss Julia 
 
 1870 Long, Mrs. Sarah C 
 
 1870 Looke, Mrs. Christiana 
 
 1872 Loring, John H 
 
 1869 Ludlam, Miss Augusta P 
 
 1869 Ludlam, Miss Cornelia P 
 
 1870 Ludlam, Miss Jennie P. (now Mrs. Smith) 
 
 1869 Ludlam, Miss Julia P 
 
 1869 Lusk, Mrs. Frances E 
 
 M 
 
 187 1 Mabee, George W 
 
 1867 Mack, Mrs. Julia A 
 
 1870 Magonn, Edmund , 
 
 1870 Malone, Miss Esther C 
 
 1870 Man by, Miss Anna M 
 
 187 1 Manby, George 
 
 1871 Manby, Mrs. Mary S 
 
 1870 Manby, Miss Isabella 
 
 1869 Manchester, A. Russell 1872 
 
 1871 Manning, Alfred E 
 
 1871 Manning, William H 
 
 187 1 Marsh, Isaac T 
 
 1869 Martin, John 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 2 8l 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1867 Martin, Miss Mary 
 
 1871 Mason, Mrs. Clara D 
 
 1872 Mather, George 
 
 1871 Matthews, Miss Emily 
 
 1870 Matthews, Miss Alice G 
 
 1870 May, Samuel S 
 
 1870 May, Mrs. Eliza 
 
 1872 Mayhew, Frank B 
 
 1869 Meach, Miss Agnes 
 
 187 1 Mead, Mrs. Harriet J 
 
 1871 Mead, William E 
 
 187 1 Mead, Mrs. Adelia 
 
 1868 Meade, William II 
 
 1870 Meeks, Miss Carrie A 
 
 1867 Meeks, Ralph 
 
 1867 Meighan, J. M 
 
 1871 Mercer, Mrs. Augusta 
 
 1870 Merchant, Miss Carrie 
 
 187 1 Meredith, Evan 
 
 1872 Merry, William J 
 
 1870 Merry, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 1872 Miller, Mrs. Nancy 
 
 1871 Moffatt, Robert 
 
 1868 MofTatt, Miss Mary H 1872 
 
 1870 Monte, Harold 
 
 1872 Montignani, Albert 
 
 1869 Moore, James 
 
 1871 Morgan, Miss Abby B 
 
 1870 Morrill, Miss Anna E 
 
 1870 Morrill, Julius A 
 
 1870 Morrill, Mrs. Sarah B 
 
 1869 Morton, Charles M 
 
 1869 Morton, Mrs. Emma 
 
 1870 Munday, Arthur J 
 
 1870 Munday, Charles H , 
 
 1868 Munn, Mrs. Juliet A 
 
 1867 Munn, Miss Juliet L 
 
 1868 Munn, Miss Sallie C 1870 
 
 1867 Murlin, Mrs. Margaret 
 
 1869 Murphy, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1867 Murray, Mrs. Margaretta 
 
 1872 Myers, Joseph G., Jr 
 
 Mc. 
 
 1867 McBride, Miss Jennie (now Mrs. Leavens) 
 
 1870 McClelland, William R 
 
 1867 McCord, Charles O 
 
2 82 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dls. 
 
 1868 McCord, Mrs. Mary H 
 
 187 1 McCorkindale, Mi-s Emma 
 
 1 87 1 McCorkindale, Miss Kate (now Mrs. Cornwall). 
 
 1871 McCorkindale, Mrs. Laura G 
 
 1569 McCormick, Miss Jennie 
 
 1S67 McCraken, Mrs. Mary A 1S72 
 
 1871 McDonald, Frank V 
 
 187 1 McDonald, Richard H 
 
 187 1 McGinnis, James 
 
 1869 McGlashan, Mrs. Harriet O 
 
 1871 McGowan, Edward 
 
 1871 McGowan, Mrs. Kate 
 
 1871 McGowan, Miss Jennie A 
 
 1867 McGregor, Miss Jennie 
 
 1871 McKay, Miss Maggie A 
 
 1S67 McKenzie, Mrs. Harriet 1870 
 
 1867 McKenzie, Miss Helen 1S70 
 
 1570 McLaren, Duncan 
 
 1870 McLaren, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1872 McLeod, Miss Elisa 
 
 187 1 McNair, William A 
 
 1S72 McWood, Miss Virginia 
 
 N 
 
 1871 Napier, Mrs. Jane 
 
 1868 Nash, Lucius C 
 
 1870 Neal, Miss Julia 
 
 1869 Neal. Miss Katie C 
 
 1S70 Newman, Miss Agnes 
 
 1870 Newman, Miss Bertha 
 
 1S70 Newton, Benjamin F 1S71 
 
 1S69 Nichols, William G 
 
 1870 Noe, Ellis M 
 
 1872 Norris, Wallace 
 
 1869 Norton, Oliver, Jr 
 
 o 
 
 1868 Oakley, Miss Isabella G 
 
 1870 Olsen, Solomon 
 
 18S0 Olsen, Mrs. Matilda 
 
 1867 Orr, Miss Eliza 
 
 1871 Osborn, C. Mortimer 
 
 1S68 Osborn, Miss Rebecca 
 
 1870 Outhrup, Miss Elizabeth 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 283 
 
 P 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dis. 
 
 1867 Packer, Mrs. Margaret 1871 
 
 1867 Paddock, John D 1868 
 
 1870 Paine, George W 1872 
 
 1870 Paine, Mrs. Frances B 1S72 
 
 1869 Palm, John G 
 
 1868 Palmer, Miss Eliza A 
 
 1872 Palmer, Miss Ella A 
 
 1872 Palmer, William H 
 
 1872 Palmer, Mrs. Julia N 
 
 1868 Pangborn, Joseph G 
 
 1872 Paten, Miss Ellen A 
 
 1869 Patmore, Mrs. Charity A 
 
 1872 Patterson, George 
 
 1869 Patterson, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1868 Penny, Miss Cecilia W •. 
 
 1S70 Peterson, Frank 
 
 1870 Phelps, Calvin 1871 
 
 1870 Phelps, Mrs. Julia 1871 
 
 1872 Phelps, Edwin D 
 
 1870 Phipps, Miss Bertha K 
 
 1870 Phipps, Miss Martha 
 
 1870 Phipps, Mrs. C. L 
 
 1868 Pierce, Edward H 
 
 1869 Pierce, Frank E 
 
 1867 Pierrepont, William H 
 
 1871 Pierson, Charles G 
 
 1871 Pierson, Mrs. Josephine 
 
 1868 Piatt, Miss Stella J 
 
 1869 Plumstead, Miss Phcebe 
 
 1872 Poley, Miss Elizabeth 
 
 1870 Pollard, Mrs. Harriet 
 
 1867 Porter, Rienzi D 
 
 1869 Potter, Miss Florence 
 
 1869 Power, Miss Annie M 
 
 1867 Power, Miss Margaret E 
 
 1870 Pozo, Phillip 
 
 1870 Pratt, Mrs. Frances S. S 
 
 1870 Pratt, Miss Lucy 
 
 1867 Pratt, Miss Rosa J 
 
 1868 Pray, Orestes M 1S69 
 
 1870 Price, Elias W 
 
 1870 Price, Mrs. Phcebe 
 
 1868 Price, George A 
 
 1868 Price, Mrs. A. Adelaide 
 
 1870 Price, Miss Hattie S 
 
 1870 Price, Miss Henrietta 
 
 1870 Price, Miss Ida 
 
284 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. di* 
 
 1868 Price, William II. 
 
 1868 Price, Virgil 
 
 1870 Price, Virgil, Jr 
 
 1869 Primmitt, Miss Sarah 
 
 1869 Pullman, Miss Mary L 
 
 1868 Pulver, Miss Eliza E 
 
 1871 Pyle, Mifflin 
 
 1872 Quimby, Miss Alletta. . 
 1 87 1 Quimby, Miss Marietta. 
 
 1867 Raddell, William 
 
 1869 Radford, Miss Lizzie , 
 
 1872 Randall, Clark 
 
 1867 Rankin, Miss Ada 
 
 1867 Rankin, Miss Maggie , 
 
 1871 Ray, William 
 
 1871 Ray, Mrs. Addie 
 
 1872 Raymond, Thomas , 
 
 1867 Raynor, Miss Ellen A 
 
 1871 Reeder, Albert R 
 
 1870 Reeder, Miss Lillie T , 
 
 1870 Renwick, James 
 
 1867 Rice, Miss Luanna 
 
 1872 Richardson, Miss Hattie , 
 
 1 87 1 Richmond, Mrs. Ruth M , 
 
 1872 Roberts, Miss Fanny O , 
 
 1872 Roberts, Miss Lydia 
 
 1867 Robinson, Richard W 
 
 1870 Robinson, Miss Louisa L , 
 
 1870 Robinson, Miss Mary N 
 
 1867 Roraback, Mrs. Julia A , 
 
 1871 Ronn, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 1872 Rose, William W., Jr 
 
 1871 Rossa, Mrs. Catherine 
 
 1870 Russ, Miss Sarah F 
 
 1872 Russell, Mrs. Anna E 
 
 1868 Russell, Miss Emma (now Mrs. Thomas), 
 
 187 1 Russell, George , 
 
 187 1 Russell, Mrs. Lucia W 
 
 1872 Russell, Mrs. Jane 
 
 1872 Russell, Miss Mary , 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 285 
 
 s 
 
 Admitted. Xames. Con. dis. 
 
 1868 Sackett, Augustine 1871 
 
 1872 Sackett, Emanuel K 
 
 1872 Sandhouse, Miss Mary 
 
 1872 Sanders, Cassius D 
 
 1869 Saunders, Mrs. Elizabeth E 
 
 1872 Savidge, Miss Ann E 
 
 1872 Schenck, Miss Mary S 
 
 1872 Schwarz, Miss Antonia 
 
 1872 Scott, George S 
 
 1869 Scott, Mrs. Sarah 
 
 1872 Scott, Miss Rebecca L 
 
 1872 Scott, Miss Sarah E 
 
 1870 Scribner, James 
 
 1870 Scribner, Mrs. Mary G 
 
 1S69 Seymour, John F 
 
 1872 Seixas, Miss Abagail C 
 
 1871 Shaw, Miss Eleanor J 
 
 1870 Shears, Mrs. Levina 
 
 1872 Shepard, Mrs. Ann E 
 
 1870 Shepard, Miss Anna M 
 
 1870 Shepard, Mrs. Eliza W 
 
 1867 Shipman, Miss Hattie N 
 
 1869 Shipman, Miss Lizzie W 
 
 1871 Shoemaker, Charles B 
 
 187 1 Shoemaker, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1870 Simons, Miss Laura E 
 
 1870 Simpson, Charles 
 
 187 1 Skerry, Amory 
 
 1871 Skerry, Mrs. Martha B 
 
 1872 Skerry, Miss Martha B 
 
 1868 Skilton, James A 
 
 1871 Skinner, Miss Jane F *. 
 
 1868 Skinner, Miss Susan 
 
 1871 Slack, John 
 
 1868 Sloan, Miss Mary A 1869 
 
 1868 Smith, Brainerd 
 
 1870 Smith, George H 
 
 1870 Smith, Henry S 1871 
 
 1871 Smith, Mrs. Christina 
 
 1871 Smith, Mrs. Emma W 
 
 1872 Smith, Miss Emma 
 
 1871 Smith, Joseph L 1872 
 
 1871 Smith, Mrs. E. C 1873 
 
 1870 Smith, Miss Mary A . • 
 
 1870 Smith, William E 
 
 1871 Smith, W. E 
 
 1868 Smith, Henry L 
 
2 86 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dla. 
 
 1867 Smith, Mrs. Rebecca L 
 
 1868 Smythe, Mrs. Abagail 
 
 1872 Snow, Edward L 
 
 1872 Snow, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1872 Snow, Miss Tirza 
 
 1872 Southard, Henry D 
 
 1867 Southwick, Miss Ella M 
 
 1872 Spears, Mrs. Catherine S. B 
 
 1872 Spencer, Miss Elizabeth R 
 
 1872 Spooner, Gideon B 
 
 1872 Spooner, Mrs. Charlotte M 
 
 1869 Stacey, John C 1870 
 
 1871 Stearns, William A 
 
 1868 Stearns, Mrs. Helen A 
 
 1870 Stephens, M iss Isabella 
 
 1871 Stephenson, Charles F 
 
 1867 Sterritt, William W 1868 
 
 187 1 Stevens, Cassias R 
 
 1868 Stewart, Edwin E 
 
 1867 Stewart, George H 
 
 1869 Stewart, Miss Josephine 
 
 1869 Stewart, Miss Sarah 
 
 187 1 Stewart, Miss Perpetua 
 
 1867 Stewart, Robert 
 
 1867 Stewart, Robert L 
 
 1868 Stillwell, Miss Anna M 
 
 1868 Stillwell, Samuel D 
 
 1871 Stone, Miss Carrie 
 
 1867 Stone, Miss Kate D 
 
 1S69 Strong, Mrs. Mary B 
 
 1870 Strong, Miss Clara L 
 
 1869 Studwell, George S 
 
 1870 Sullivan, James 
 
 1869 Sulton, Miss Anna E. (now Mrs. Pitt) 
 
 1869 Sulton, Miss Clarissa M 
 
 1868 Swan, Frank M 
 
 1871 Swezey, Miss Hannah 
 
 1870 Swinarton, John A 
 
 1870 Swinarton, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1872 Swithenbank, Edward L 
 
 1872 Swithenbank, Miss Maria 
 
 1868 Sylvester, Isaiah 
 
 T 
 
 [871 Taft, Mrs. Lydia F . 
 [872 Tallman, George C. 
 [872 Tallman, Mrs. Julia. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 287 
 
 kdtnitted. Names. 
 
 1 87 1 Tappenden, Miss Fannie. 
 
 1871 Tate, James 
 
 1 87 1 Tate, Mrs. Charlotte 
 
 1868 Taylor, Mrs. Mary 
 
 1868 Taylor, Miss Melissa 
 
 1872 Terry, Allen B 
 
 1870 Thomas, Anthony S 
 
 1872 Thomas, Edward 
 
 1870 Thomas, Frederick J 
 
 1870 Thomas, Miss Theresa. . 
 
 1867 Thompson, William. . . . 
 
 1868 Thorpe, Henry 
 
 1869 Thurber, Mrs. Anna M . 
 1S69 Thursby, Miss Emma C. . 
 
 1872 Tilney, Joseph. 
 
 1872 Tilney, Thomas J 
 
 1869 Tiiton, Miss Annie D . . . 
 
 1868 Tiiton, Miss Florence . . . 
 
 1 87 1 Titcomb, Miss Mary ... . 
 
 1869 Toedt, Miss Matilda 
 
 1870 Topliff, Mrs. Louisa 
 
 1870 Topliff, Mrs. Margaret . . 
 
 1872 Transom, Miss Caroline. . 
 1870 Transom, Miss Emma. . , 
 
 1870 Traphegan, George C . . . 
 1872 Tremper, Michael 
 
 1869 Trigg, Mrs. Charlotte... 
 
 1871 Tripp, Lewis 
 
 1871 Turner, Miss Eva. ....-., 
 
 1871 Turnow, Mrs. Auguata. , 
 
 1S72 Tuttle, Mrs. Isabella 
 
 1867 Twist, Mrs. Elizabeth. . , 
 
 1867 Twist, Henry , 
 
 1S72 Tydeman, Miss Emma. . 
 
 1872 Tydeman, Mrs. Maria. . , 
 
 1870 Tyrrell, Miss Ella L 
 
 1867 Vail, Joseph H 
 
 1868 Vanderbilt, Mrs. Keziah 
 
 1S72 Van Doom, George 
 
 1872 Van Doom, Mrs. Isabella. . . 
 
 1S70 Van Everson, Miss Julia C. . . 
 
 1S70 Van Ingen, Mrs. Elizabeth J. 
 
 1868 Van Ingen, Mrs. Mary L 
 
 1S69 Van Nostrand, Miss Rachael. 
 
288 PLYMOUTH CHURCH, 
 
 Admitted. Karnes. Con. di* 
 
 1868 Van Wagoner, Cornelius S 
 
 1872 Vosburg, Miss Carrie C 
 
 w 
 
 1870 Wadsworth, William B 
 
 1872 Wainwright, George H 
 
 1871 Waldo, Charles D 1871 
 
 1870 Walker, Francis H 
 
 1870 Walker, Mrs. Marilla 
 
 1871 Wallace, William 
 
 1872 Ward, Miss Mary 
 
 1871 Warner, Miss Edith 
 
 1869 Warner, Miss Emma B 
 
 187 1 Warren, Charles 
 
 1867 Warren, William H. J 
 
 1870 Warring, Ja?7ies E 
 
 1872 Washburn, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1870 Wass, Mrs. Lydia 
 
 1870 Waterbury, Charles M 
 
 1868 Waterman, Miss Mary E 1870 
 
 1S67 Waters, Miss Rosina 1868 
 
 1867 Watson, Charles H 
 
 1867 Watson, Miss Frances 1869 
 
 1867 Watson, James H 
 
 1867 Watson, Mrs. Mary E 
 
 1867 •Watson, Miss Mary E 
 
 1567 Weillings, Charles 1868 
 
 1868 Welling, J. T 1869 
 
 1868 Welling, Mrs. Eliza 1S69 
 
 1568 Welling, Miss Susan 1869 
 
 1868 Welling, Silas W 1869 
 
 1870 Welling, Miss Addie (now Mrs. Brenner) , 
 
 1868 Welling, Miss Adeline 1869 
 
 1871 Wells, Mrs. Harriet D 
 
 1S68 Wells, George H 
 
 1867 Wells, Miss Marie E. (now Mrs. Jacobson) 
 
 1872 Wells, Mrs. Hettie A 
 
 1S72 Wells, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1872 Wescott, Miss Alice 
 
 1867 Wheeler, Miss Emma C 
 
 1S67 Wheelock, William E 
 
 1868 White, Hiram B 
 
 1S70 White, Miss Jennie C 
 
 1868 White, Miss Marv L 
 
 1868 White, Mrs. Maria M. D 
 
 1567 White, Willard W 1870 
 
 1568 Whitlock, Lewis L 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 289 
 
 Admitted. Names. Con. dia. 
 
 1868 Whitlock, Mrs. Jennie L 
 
 1868 Whitney, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
 1867 Wierum, Mrs. Anna H 
 
 1867 Wiggins, Mrs. Rebecca 1871 
 
 1867 Wight, Charles H 
 
 1868 Willard, A. Clark 
 
 1869 Williams, Henry C 
 
 1871 Williams, Mrs. Jennie L 
 
 1871 Williams, Mrs. Nellie 
 
 1870 Wilson, Elisha 
 
 1870 Wilson, Mrs. Julia 
 
 1868 Wilson, George A 
 
 1870 Withey, Miss Marion C 
 
 1870 Woodruff, Truman B . . . 
 
 1870 Woodruff, Mrs. Mary S 
 
 1872 Woods, Mrs. Matilda 
 
 1872 Woods, Miss Tillie F 
 
 1872 Woods, Miss Lizzie N 
 
 1870 Woolison, Joseph 
 
 1870 Worth, Miss Josephine 
 
 1867 Wyman, Luke 
 
 1867 Wyman, Mrs. Mary A 
 
 1867 Wysocki, Basil 
 
 Y 
 
 1870 Yandley, Miss Mary F 
 
 1869 Young, David T 
 
 1869 Young, Mrs. Belle H 
 
 1870 Young, Miss Ellen 
 
 1870 Youngblood, Miss Matilda 
 
 z 
 
 1870 Zipfel Mrs. Gustine 
 1872 Zipfel, Miss Minnie 
 1870 Zundel, John 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Form of Admission to the Church.* 
 
 FROM THE " PLYMOUTH CHURCH MANUAL" (1867). 
 
 [The persons about to unite with the Church upon a profession of faith will take 
 their places in front of the pulpit.] 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE PASTOR. 
 
 You have separated yourselves from this congregation, 
 dear friends, to perform one of the most momentous and 
 yet joyful acts of your life. You will never cease to feel 
 the effect of the dedication which you now make. Should 
 you cling affectionately to that Redeemer whom you are 
 now about openly to avouch, you will ever rejoice that 
 you were brought to this hour ; but if your soul shall 
 draw back, and you shall put Christ to an open shame, 
 this deed and this hour shall be everlasting witnesses 
 against you. 
 
 You have been deeply convinced of your personal sin- 
 fulness ; you have heartily repented thereof; you have 
 believed in the forgiving love of Jesus Christ ; you have 
 
 * The Articles of Faith and Covenant, having been revised by a Special Com- 
 mittee, were adopted by the Church as they now stand, on the 17th of April, 1848, 
 by a unanimous vote. 
 
292 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 dedicated your heart and life to him ; that dedication you 
 are about to renew in the presence of God and this con- 
 gregation. Yet, be not cast down. Though we have 
 thought it meet to admonish you, it is with a calm and 
 cheerful hope that He who in love has called you will 
 never leave nor forsake you until you shall stand in Zion 
 and before God. 
 
 ARTICLES OF FAITH. 
 
 i. We believe in the existence of One Ever-living and 
 True God, Sovereign and Unchangeable, Infinite in 
 Power, Wisdom and Goodness. 
 
 2. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- 
 ments to be inspired of God ; to contain a revelation 
 of His will, and to be the authoritative rule of faith 
 and practice. 
 
 3. We believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
 Ghost, are revealed in the Scriptures as existing, in 
 respect to attributes, character and office, as three 
 Persons, equally Divine ; while in other respects they 
 are united, and are, in a proper sense, One God. 
 
 4. We believe that our First Parents were created up- 
 right ; that they fell from their original state by diso- 
 bedience, and that all their posterity are not only 
 prone to sin, but do become sinful and guilty before 
 God. 
 
 5. We believe that God so loved the world that he gave 
 his only begotten Son to die for it ; that Christ ap- 
 peared in the flesh ; that he set forth a perfect exam- 
 ple of obedience ; that he purely taught the truths 
 needful for our salvation ; that he suffered in our stead, 
 the just for the unjust; that he died to atone for our 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 293 
 
 sins, and to purify us therefrom ; and that he rose from 
 the dead and ascended into heaven, where he ever 
 liveth to make intercession for us. 
 
 6. We believe that God offers full forgiveness and ever- 
 lasting life to all who will heartily repent and believe 
 in the Lord Jesus Christ ; while those who do no.t be- 
 lieve, but persevere in sin, shall finally perish. 
 
 7. We believe in the resurrection of all the dead ; in a 
 final and general Judgment, upon the awards of which 
 the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment, and 
 the righteous into life eternal. 
 
 [Thus do you believe?] 
 
 COVENANT. 
 
 Do you now avouch the Lord Jehovah to be your 
 God ; Jesus Christ to be your Saviour ; the Holy Spirit to 
 be your Sanctifier? Renouncing the dominion of this 
 world over you, do you consecrate your whole soul and 
 body to the service of God ? Do you receive his Word as 
 the rule of your life, and, by his grace assisting you, will 
 you persevere in this consecration unto the end ? 
 
 [The ordinance of Baptism, if not previously received, will here be adminis- 
 tered.] 
 
 COVENANT WITH THE CHURCH. 
 
 [Here those who unite by letter will rise in their places.] 
 
 Do you solemnly covenant and agree to study the 
 peace, purity, and liberty of this Church ; to love and 
 watch over its members as your brethren ; to receive 
 from them all needful care and admonition ? Will you 
 labor together with us in the maintenance of its public 
 worship and ordinances ; submit to necessary discipline, 
 
294 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 and avoid all causes of scandal and offence, so long as in 
 the Providence of God you shall continue among us ? 
 
 [The members of the Church will here rise.] 
 
 We, then, the members of this Church, do joyfully and 
 cordially receive you into our number. We promise to 
 bear with you, to love, to edify, and by all means in our 
 power to advance you in the Divine life. Amen. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 295 
 
 Basis of Union 
 
 BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE SOCIETY. 
 
 [Adopted June ii, 1847.] 
 
 i. The Society shall hold the property, and receive 
 the income, and make all pecuniary engagements, appro- 
 priations and payments. 
 
 2. In calling a Pastor, the Society and Church will act 
 as concurrent bodies — a majority of each being necessary 
 to constitute a call ; the Church nominating, and the So- 
 ciety confirming or rejecting the nomination. 
 
 3. The Church will provide for the supply of the pulpit 
 when there is no settled Pastor ; make the necessary ar- 
 rangements for singing, and in general, for the orderly 
 celebration of religious worship : and the Society will 
 liquidate all reasonable expenses thereby incurred. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS AT THE ANNUAL 
 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 1. Reading the call of the Meeting, duly certified. 
 
 2. Treasurer's Report. 
 
 3. Election of Trustees and other Officers. 
 
 4. Appointment of Auditor for the ensuing year. 
 
 5. Other Business. 
 
296 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 RENTING OF PEWS. 
 
 The Pews, and half the Aisle Seats (the others being 
 free), are publicly rented on the Tuesday* evening suc- 
 ceeding the first Sunday in January of each year. This 
 renting is never postponed on account of the weather. 
 
 Each Pew and Aisle Seat has a fixed valuation, and 
 the choice of any in the house, without any reservation 
 for previous occupants, is offered to the person who will 
 bid the highest premium above the valuation. 
 
 * The statement made on page 164 in reference to this subject is erroneous. 
 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 297 
 
 Ecclesiastical Principles and Rules. 
 
 :o: — 
 
 I. ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPLES. 
 
 Rule i. Independence. — This church is an indepen- 
 dent ecclesiastical body ; and, in matters of doctrine, 
 order and discipline, is amenable to no other organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Rule 2. Fellowship with other Churches. — This Church 
 will extend to other evangelical churches, and receive 
 from them, that fellowship, advice, and assistance, which 
 the laws of Christ require. 
 
 11. membership. 
 
 Rule 3. Admission. — Application for church member- 
 ship, either by letter or upon profession, must be made 
 to the Examining Committee ; but all members of the 
 church are entitled to participate in the examination. 
 Those applicants who are approved by the Committee 
 must be propounded to the church and congregation on 
 the Sabbath immediately preceding the communion. 
 The church shall pass upon the names so propounded, at 
 the next business meeting, and the persons accepted be- 
 come members upon giving their public assent to the 
 Articles of Faith and Covenant. 
 
293 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Rule 4. Discipline. — Members cannot be censured 
 by the church, except by the process herein stated. A 
 complaint may be made, either to the Examining Com- 
 mittee, or to the whole church. In the former case, the 
 Clerk of the Committee, and in the latter case, the Clerk 
 of the church, must reduce the complaint to writing, if it 
 is entertained, and must use due diligence to forward a 
 copy to the accused, and to give him personal notice of 
 the time and place of hearing. The accused must have 
 a full opportunity to be heard in his own defence. An 
 accusation presented to the church must always be heard, 
 either by the church or by the Examining Committee, 
 unless the application for a hearing is rejected at a meet- 
 ing of the church by a three-fourths vote. 
 
 Rule 5. Censures. — The censures which may be in- 
 flicted on offending members are, according to the aggra- 
 vation of the offence, either (1) private reproof, (2) public 
 admonition, (3) suspension, or (4) excommunication. In 
 cases of excommunication, notice thereof must be given 
 from the pulpit on the Sabbath. 
 
 Rule 6. Dismission. — It is expected that members, 
 on removing from the city, or to other churches in the city, 
 will ask for letters of dismission and recommendation. 
 A request for such a letter may be announced at the 
 weekly prayer-meeting ; and if no objection is made to 
 the Clerk, he must issue a letter accordingly, and strike 
 the name of the member dismissed from the roll of the 
 church. 
 
 If objection is made, the matter must be submitted to 
 the Examining Committee. 
 
 Rule 7. Dropping Members. — Members may be 
 dropped from the roll of the church, with or without notice 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 299 
 
 to them, as may be deemed just, by a vote of the church, 
 upon the recommendation of the Examining Committee, 
 either upon their own application, or, in case they have 
 abandoned their connection with the church by prolonged 
 absence or otherwise, upon the application of any other 
 person. The name of every member thus dropped must 
 be read from the pulpit on the Sabbath. 
 
 Rule 8. Deaths to be Recorded. — In case of the death 
 of any member of the church, it shall be the duty of any 
 surviving member of the family to notify the clerk. And 
 if none of the family or immediate relatives of the de- 
 ceased are members of this church, then it shall be the 
 duty of any member of the church, acquainted with the 
 facts, to inform the Clerk of the same in writing, that it 
 may be entered upon the records. 
 
 III. ORDINANCES. 
 
 Rule 9 (Communion), and Rule 10 (Infant Baptism), 
 see page 1,64. 
 
 IV. MEETINGS. 
 
 Rule ii. Prayer Meeting. — This church will meet 
 for prayer and conference every Friday evening. The 
 meeting shall be conducted by the Pastor, or, in his ab- 
 sence, by one of the brethren. 
 
 Rule 12. Business Meetings. — A regular business 
 meeting of the church shall be held after the close of the 
 prayer-meeting, on the Friday evening next preceding 
 the first Sabbath in each month ; but at the meeting next 
 before the communion no business other than the recep- 
 tion and dismission of members shall be transacted, ex- 
 cept by unanimous consent. 
 
300 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Rule 13. Special Meetings. — The Clerk may, of his 
 own motion, and must, at the request of the Pastor, or, 
 on the written requisition of any seven members of full 
 age, call a special business meeting of the church, by 
 causing a notice to be read from the pulpit, or, where the 
 only business to be transacted is the appointment of del- 
 egates to a council, by a notice given in the lecture- 
 room. 
 
 Rule 14. Annual Meeting. — A meeting of the church 
 for the choice of officers, and transaction of other busi- 
 ness, shall be held annually on the second Friday evening 
 of December, at which the Clerk and Music Committee 
 must present their reports, and the Treasurer must pre- 
 sent his accounts duly audited. 
 
 Rule 15. General Provisions. — No business can be 
 transacted except at meetings regularly organized, and 
 with at least seven members present ; nor can any busi- 
 ness other than the reading of the reports be transacted 
 at the annual meeting, unless at least twenty members 
 have been present at some stage of the meeting. But 
 the action of a meeting irregularly convened, or without a 
 quorum, may be ratified at a subsequent regular meeting 
 competent to act upon the subject. 
 
 Rule 16. Moderator. — At each business meeting a 
 moderator must be elected. 
 
 Rule i 7. Prayer. — All meetings for business must be 
 opened with prayer. 
 
 Rule 18. Resolutions. — Resolutions cannot be voted 
 upon at the same meeting at which they are offered, if 
 any objection is made to a vote being taken, but must, 
 in that case, be reduced to writing and laid over to the 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 30 1 
 
 next business meeting ; except in the case of resolutions 
 offered at the annual meeting. 
 
 Rule 19. Rules of Order. — Business shall be trans- 
 acted at the annual meeting in the following order : 
 
 1. Reading the minutes ; 
 
 2. Annual reports of the Clerk, Treasurer, 
 
 and Music Committee ; 
 
 3. Election of officers ; 
 
 4. Proposed amendments to these Rules, the 
 
 Articles of Faith, Covenant or Form of 
 Admission ; * 
 
 5. Other business. 
 
 In all other respects, business meetings shall be regu- 
 lated by the Manual of the Church, and, in cases not 
 provided for thereby, by Cushing's Manual. 
 
 v. officers . 
 
 Rule 20. Officers. — The stated officers of the church 
 are a Pastor, or Pastors, nine Deacons, an Examining 
 Committee, a Music Committee, a Clerk, an Assistant 
 Clerk, a Treasurer, and two Auditors. 
 
 Rule 21. Pastor. — The choice of a Pastor must be 
 made at a meeting specially called for that purpose, by 
 notice from the pulpit, on two successive Sabbaths ; and 
 is subject to the approval of the Society. 
 
 Rule 22. Deacons. — The Board of Deacons shall 
 consist of nine brethren, three of whom shall be chosen 
 at each annual meeting, for three years from the next 
 first of January ; and at the expiration of their terms of 
 office they shall be ineligible for one year. 
 
 Rule 23. Examining Conunittee. — The Examining 
 
302 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Committee shall consist of the Pastor and Deacons (ex 
 officio), and six brethren, two of whom shall be chosen at 
 each annual meeting, for three years from the next first 
 of January ; and at the expiration of their terms of office, 
 they shall be ineligible for one year. 
 
 Rule 24. Music Committee. — The Music Committee 
 shall consist of the Pastor (ex officio) and six brethren, two 
 of whom shall be chosen at each annual meeting, for three 
 years from the next first of January ; and at the expira- 
 tion of their terms of office they shall be ineligible for 
 one year. 
 
 Rule 25. Other Officers. — The Clerks, Treasurer, and 
 Auditors shall be chosen at the annual meeting, for one 
 year from the next first day of January. 
 
 Rule 26. Mode of Election. — All officers must be 
 chosen by ballot, unless otherwise ordered by unanimous 
 consent. A majority of all the members present and 
 voting shall be necessary to a choice. 
 
 Rule 27. Vacancies. — Vacancies in any of the offices 
 (except the Pastorate), occurring between the annual 
 meetings, may be filled for the unexpired terms at any 
 regular business meeting : notice of the election having 
 been given from the pulpit on the preceding Sabbath. 
 
 Rule 28. Duties of Deacons. — It is the duty of the 
 Deacons, 
 
 1. To assist in the administration of the Lord's Sup- 
 per; 
 
 2. To distribute the charities of the church to its poor ; 
 
 3. To have a general oversight of the collections for 
 benevolent objects; 
 
 4. In the absence or at the request of the Pastor, to 
 provide a supply for the pulpit and lecture-room ; 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 303 
 
 5. To make all needful provision for the meetings of 
 the church, and to superintend all its affairs not actually 
 in charge of other officers of the church. 
 
 Rule 29. Duties of Examining Committee. — It is the 
 duty of the Examining Committee to investigate applica- 
 tions for reception into, or dismission from, the church, 
 and accusations made against its members ; and also to 
 keep a vigilant watch over the membership in general. 
 The Committee must annually, at its first meeting in Jan- 
 uary, appoint a Clerk, who must keep full records of its 
 acts, and especially of the examination of candidates, 
 and must furnish the Pastor with a list of persons pro- 
 pounded for admission to the church on the Sabbath 
 morning next preceding the communion. 
 
 Rule 30. Musie Committee. — The Music Committee 
 has power to appoint suitable persons to conduct the 
 music of the church ; make all necessary arrangements 
 to furnish a well-disciplined choir ; and also for the prac- 
 tical development of musical talent in the congregation. 
 It must annually, at its first meeting in January, appoint 
 a Clerk, who must keep full records of its acts, and re- 
 port in writing to the church at the annual meeting. 
 
 Rule 31. Duties of the Clerk. — It is the duty of the 
 stated Clerk : 
 
 1. To keep full minutes of the transactions of the 
 church at its business meetings ; 
 
 2. To keep two registers of all the members of the 
 church, one chronological, and the other alphabetical, in 
 order ; 
 
 3. To keep a record of the names of all children of 
 church members baptized, with the date of their baptism 
 and of their birth, and the names of their parents ; 
 
304 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
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 4. To keep a record of the admission, dismission, or 
 death of members of the church, showing the date of the 
 event, and to note the same briefly on the registers ; 
 
 5. To enter all reports accepted by the church, in full, 
 in a book to be specially kept for that purpose ; 
 
 6. To keep the Covenant, Confession of Faith, Form 
 of Admission, and Ecclesiastical Principles and Rules, 
 recorded in a place by themselves ; 
 
 7. To notify officers, delegates, etc., of their appoint- 
 ment ; 
 
 8. To issue letters of dismission and recommendation, 
 pursuant to Rule 6 ; 
 
 9. To give reasonable notice of the meetings of the 
 church ; and to give notice of the annual meeting on each 
 of the two preceding Sabbaths ; 
 
 10. To call special meetings, when required to do so 
 under Rule 13 ; 
 
 11. To conduct the correspondence of the church ; 
 
 12. To present, at the annual meeting, a written report 
 on the state of the church, giving its history for the pre- 
 ceding year, and an account of the members received, 
 dismissed, and deceased ; which report must be previously 
 submitted to the Examining Committee for revision. 
 
 Rule 32. Duties of Assistant Clerk. — It is the duty of 
 the Assistant Clerk to assist the Clerk in the performance 
 of his duties, and, during his absence or disability, to take 
 his place. 
 
 Rule t,^. Duties of the Treasurer. — It is the duty of 
 the Treasurer : 
 
 1. To receive the proceeds of all collections other than 
 for the poor of the church ; 
 
 2. To keep an account thereof, stating the object for 
 which each collection was taken up ; 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 305 
 
 3. To pay money specially collected for the benefit of 
 an organized society to the proper officer of such society 
 only ; 
 
 4. To pay out money otherwise collected only upon 
 the written order of at least three of the deacons, and then 
 only to the cause for which the money was collected, un- 
 less otherwise ordered by a two-thirds vote at a regular 
 meeting ; 
 
 5. To present a written report at the annual meeting 
 showing in detail all his receipts and payments. 
 
 Rule 34. Duties of Auditors. — It is the duty of the 
 Auditors to audit the accounts of the Treasurer, and to 
 report thereon at the annual meeting. 
 
 Rule 35. Quorum. — Three members of the Board of 
 Deacons, Examining Committee, or Music Committee, 
 respectively, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
 of business. 
 
 VI. COLLECTIONS. 
 
 Rules 36, 37, 38, Monthly, Poor> and Thanksgiving 
 collections (see page 163). 
 
 VII. MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Rule 39. Delegates. — Members of the church ap- 
 pointed as delegates to other churches, or to councils, 
 must attend as such, if possible : but if they cannot do 
 so, may appoint substitutes with the approval of the Pas- 
 tor or Deacons, giving prompt notice to the Clerk. 
 Delegates must report the action of councils attended by 
 them, at the next regular business meeting of the church 
 after their return. 
 
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 306 
 
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Rule 40. Suspension of Rules. — Rules 3, 6, 10, 11, 
 18, 19, 36, 37, and 38 maybe suspended in particular in- 
 stances, in whole or in part, by the vote of two-thirds 
 of the members of the church present and voting at a 
 business meeting. 
 
 Rule 41. Alteration of Rules. — The Confession of 
 Faith, Covenant, Form of Admission, and Ecclesiastical 
 Principles and Rules shall not be altered or suspended, 
 except as hereinbefore prescribed, or at an annual meet- 
 ing, by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the church 
 present and voting ; nor can they be altered even in such 
 case, unless a notice containing the substance of the 
 alteration has been presented to the church in writing at 
 another business meeting within one month previously. 
 But an alteration adopted at an annual meeting may be 
 rescinded at the next regular business meeting, if notice 
 of an intention to move for such rescission is presented 
 to the church in writing at such annual meeting. 
 
 [The foregoing rules, with the exception of two slight alterations since made, 
 having been revised by a special committee, were adopted as they now stand, at 
 the annual meeting held December 14, 1865, and, by adjournment, January 12 
 and 19, 1866.] 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 307 
 
 Rules of Order for Business Meetings. 
 
 •:o:- 
 
 1. It is the duty of the Clerk to call the meeting to 
 order at the time appointed, and when a Moderator has 
 been nominated, to put the question upon the choice. 
 In the absence of the Clerk, any member may call the 
 meeting to order, nominate a Moderator, and put the 
 question. A Clerk pro tent, should then be chosen. If 
 the meeting is adjourned to another day, the same 
 Moderator presides. 
 
 2. Every motion must be reduced to writing, if requir- 
 ed by any member. 
 
 3. When a motion is made and seconded, it should be 
 read or stated by the Moderator, and is then before the 
 meeting for consideration ; and, until it is disposed of, no 
 other business is in order. It may be withdrawn by the 
 mover at any time, if no vote has been taken on it or on 
 an amendment of it. 
 
 4. Several amendments may be moved to a proposi- 
 tion. 
 
 5. A motion to amend an amendment may be made, 
 but not to amend the second amendment. 
 
 6. A motion to strike out all the words after " re- 
 solved," and to substitute a new proposition on the same 
 subject, is in order. 
 
 7. Privileged motions may be made at any time. 
 They are : (1) to adjourn, (2) to lay on the table, (3) the 
 
30 8 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 previous question, (4) to refer to a committee, (5) to 
 postpone to a time fixed. 
 
 The first three are not debatable. 
 
 If the previous question is carried, no further debate is 
 in order, and the pending motion, with amendments 
 offered, must be immediately put to vote. 
 
 8. Motions to amend are to be put in inverse order. 
 
 9. If several sums are proposed, the largest is put to 
 the question first, and of several times the longest. 
 
 10. When a vote is to be taken, the Moderator, after 
 stating the question to be decided, calls first for the 
 "ayes" and then for the "noes," and announces his de- 
 cision. If any one doubts the correctness of the decision, 
 he may, at any time before another motion is made, call 
 for a vote by rising, when the Moderator calls first upon 
 the " ayes " and then upon the " noes," " to rise and 
 stand until counted." 
 
 n. While a vote is being taken, debate is out of order. 
 
 12. A member, who voted with the majority, may, 
 during the same meeting, move a reconsideration of the 
 vote, which motion opens the subject again to debate. 
 
 13. While a member has the floor, no motion can be 
 made without his consent. 
 
 14. The Moderator is bound to confine debate to the 
 point under discussion. 
 
 15. If a point of order is raised during debate, it must 
 be decided by the Moderator, subject to an appeal to 
 the meeting, before the debate proceeds. 
 
 16. An appeal to the meeting may be taken from any 
 decision of the Moderator. 
 
 17. Debate is not in order unless there is a motion 
 before the meeting ; but one who makes a motion may 
 preface it with remarks. 
 
PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 309 
 
 18. If the floor is claimed by more than one member, 
 the Moderator decides who is entitled to it. 
 
 19. The question before the meeting must be stated 
 by the Moderator on the request of any member. 
 
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 PLYMOUTH CHURCH. 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 ■:o:- 
 
 business meetings. (See page 164.) 
 
 RELIGIOUS MEETINGS. 
 
 I. — Preaching on Sunday at 10J A.M. and 7 -J- P.M. 
 
 II. — Young People's Prayer Meeting, on Thursday 
 evening. 
 
 III. — Prayer Meeting of the Church, on Friday even- 
 ing. 
 
 ADMISSION INTO THE CHURCH. 
 
 The Examining Committee meets, as a rule, at the 
 close of every Friday night prayer meeting, except in 
 July, August, and September ; and except also on the 
 Friday succeeding the last Sunday of each month. 
 
 Every one desiring to unite with the church, whether 
 on profession or by letter, must appear in po'sofi before 
 the Committee for that purpose. 
 
 DISMISSION FROM THE CHURCH. 
 
 Applications for letters of dismission should be made 
 in writing, giving the address to which the letter is to be 
 sent. Such applications should always be made to the 
 Clerk of the Church, and not to the Pastor. 
 
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