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TWENTY-FIFTHl ANNIVERSARY 
ORGANIZATION OF THE
FIRST -CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
DETROIT, MICHIIGAN.
DZcEXBER 8TH, 9TH AND 10TH, 1869.
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two bands.'- GElq. XXXii: 10.
DETROIT:
TRIBUNE BOOK A.ND JOB OFFICZ.
1870.
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CHURCH OFFICERS
FOR  A QUARTER  CENTURY.
PASTORS  AND  ACTING PASTORS.
HENRY L. HAMMOND,....1844- 1847
HARVEY D. KITCHEL, D.D.,.. 1848- 1864
SAMUEL M. FREELAND,....    1864- 1866
ADDISON BALLARD, D.D.,.. 1866
DEACONS.
SHERMAN S. BARNARD,.                 -
CHARLES HOWARD,                      -
SILAS M. HOLMES,..                   -
FRANCIS RAYMOND,.
LYMAN BALDWIN,..          -
CHARLES I. WALKER,
WILLIAM WARNER,.
TIMOTHY L. PARTRIDGE,.               -
CHARLES I. WALKER,.
CHARLES E. SILSBEE,.
HENRY E. BOSTWICK,..
HENRY E. BAKER,...
CLERK.
FRANCIS RAYMOND,
OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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SUPERINTENDENTS
C]ErARLEs HOWARD,,
ORRIN C THOMPSON,
CHARLES S. CUSIIING,
HENRY E. BAKER,.
ROBERT W. KING,.
EDWIN C. HINSDALE,
ROBERT W. KING,.
HENRY E. BOSTWICK,  
THE
ANNIVERSARY PROCEEDINGS.
At a meeting of the First Congregational Church
and  Society, held  June 14, 1869, it was  resolved,
after full consideration, to celebrate in a becoming
manner the Twenty - Fifth Anniversary of the organization of the Church, and, to this end, ROBERT W.
KING, HEXRY E. BAKER, WILLIAM C. HOYT, EDwIN C.
IHIINSDALE, CHARLES I. WALKER, WILLIAM A. BUTLER
and FRANCIS RAYMOND were appointed a Commnittee of
Arrangements, with power to fix upon and carry out
such a programme as, in their judgment, should
most fitly commemorate the event. This Committee organized by choosing ROBERT W. KING as its Chairman
and FRANCIS RAYMOND as its Secretary. It was decided that the celebration should occupy the evenings
of three days, and, inasmuch as the actual date of
the anniversary to be observed fell upon Christmas
Day, it was resolved to fix upon a time midway
between the date of the first preliminary meeting
looking to the organization of the church and the
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cember 8, 9 and 10 were chosen, and it was further
determined that, on the first evening, a Historical
Address and an Anniversary Poem should be delivered; on the second evening, there should be a
general reunion of all former and present members
and invited friends; and, on the third evening, a
Memorial Address concerning deceased members should
be delivered.   It was then resolved to  invite  Hon.
CHARLES I. WALKER to deliver the Historical Address,
and Rev. HARVEY D. KITCHEL, D.D., the Memorial
Address, and these invitations were accepted by the
gentlemen named. The latter requested a modification of the Committee's plan so far as to allow him
to confine his commemorative discourse to the period
beginning with the founding of the church, and closing with the termination of his pastorate in 1864,
leaving to his successors the duty of speaking of
those whose decease occurred during their ministry.
This change was accordingly made, and Rev. SAMUEL
M. FREELAND and Rev. ADDISON BALLARD, D.D., were
requested to prepare Memorial Addresses also, covering
the period of their pastorates, which they did. Mrs.
JULIA P. BALLARD was also invited to prepare an Anniversary Poem. It was further determined to invite
all the old members of the church, removed to other
communions, to join in the proposed celebration, as
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also to extend a like invitation to all the Congregational ministers in this State, and their wives. Recognizing the value and large importance of the
faithful and earnest services of Rev. HENRY  L. HAMMOOND, and his brother, HIIon. CHARLES G. HAMMOND,
rendered to the Church in the early years of its struggles for an  existence, it was resolved  to extend  to
them a special invitation to be present with us in
celebrating  the close  of  a  quarter  century  in  the
laborious beginnings of which they had so honorable
a share.
In accordance with the general programme above
set forth, the church, with a goodly number of its
invited guests, assembled in the spacious audience
room of its house of worship, which had been most
elaborately and beautifully trimmed with evergreens
and flowers, on Wednesday evening, December 8th,
the Pastor, Rev. Dr. BALLARD, presiding. After the
singing of an anthem by the choir, an invocation
was offered, and a selection from the Scriptures read,
by Rev. H. L. HUBBELL, of Ann  Arbor.  This was
followed by the singing of the following hymiin, xWritten for the occasion,  by Mrs.  JULIA P. BALLARD:
O Thou, whose ever-listening ear
Thy children's faintest cry doth hear,
Thy gracious love to us impart,
Great Helper of each waiting heart.
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Be with us while, as one, we meet
Thy special mercies to repeat;
While we our song of praise renew,
"The Lord hath helped us hitherto."
The past Thy tender care hath found,
The present with Thy love is crowned;
Let all the future work Thy will,
The Lord shall be our Helper still.
was  then offered by Rev. O. C. THoMPsoN,
the minister  earliest connected in  anywise
church, after whiich the hymn beginning
"0 God of Bethel! by whose hand"
was sung.   Rev.  Dr.  BALLARD  then  delivered  the
following Address of Welcome:
BRETEREN AND  FRIENDS-We  are met, this evening, to
celebrate the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Organization
of our Church and Society.
We feel that the results of that organization have been so
good, so great, and so abiding, that we are abundantly
justified in giving to the event this public commemoration.
As Moses turned aside to behold the bush burning, yet
unconsumed, so do we feel that it is worth pausing a while
to consider the origin and history of the Church of Jesus
Christ, which has firmly maintained its place for a quarter of
a century, and which survives in vigor amid the wasting
hostilities of such a world as this.
But apart from that, we are drawn to this celebration by a
sweet feeling of affectionate gratitude. We who have drank
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of these refreshing waters, love to trace the stream of blessing
back to its source.   We  love, in this emphatic  way, to tell
those who founded this church how great and good a work
they did, and to thank them for doing it. THE EARLY
FoUNDERs -we   welcome  you,  first of all, to taste these
harvest-fruits of a field which you enclosed and first planted.
We extend a joyful greeting to the former PASTORS of this
church. We thank them for all their earnest, patient and
successful labors here.   Brethren who  have stood before me
in this office, and especially you, my brother,* who for so
many years ministered at this altar, and in these homes,
hundreds of hearts turn with tender love to you to-night.
We welcome most cordially those who, obeying the impulses
of an honorable Christian enterprise, and led, as we believe,
by the Providence and Spirit of God, went out from us a few
years since to form a new rallying post for the army of our
Immanuel.
We welcome back warmly all the former members of this
church and congregation. We welcome the pastors who have
come from different parts of the State to share in and increase
our joy; as, also, the pastors who represent other Churches of
Christ in the city.
We welcome all of our fellow citizens who have come in to
see us and to lend us the encouragement of their friendly
presence.
We heartily welcome you to our hearts, to our homes, to
our sanctuary, to a share with us in this our glad Feast of
Remembrance and of Thanksgiving. Together we will recall
the loving kindness of our God in the midst of His temple.
*Alluding to Rev. Dr. KITCHrIL.
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The Historical Address was next read by E. C.
HINSDALE,  Esq., sudden and serious illness preventing Judge WALKER, the Historian, trom participating
in the anniversary celebration. At the close of the
address, which, though occupying a full hour and
a half in its reading, was listened to with the strictest attention, Rev. P. R. HURD of Romeo, offered
a fervent prayer. This was followed by the reading
of the Commemorative Poem, written by Mrs. JULIA
P. BALLARD, by R. W. KING, Esq.  "Shining Shore"
was then sung, and the benediction, pronounced by
Rev. Dr. KITCHEL, dismissed the assembly.
On Thursday evening, the general reunion of the
oll and present members of the church, together with
invited guests, took  place,  and  was  well  attended.
Rev. Dr. BALLARD presided, and an introductory
prayer was offered by Rev. WILLIAM PLATT of Utica.
After a few prefatory remarks by the Pastor, brief
and interesting addresses were made by Rev. O. C.
THOMPSON, Mr. ISRAEL  COE,  now of Newark, N. J.,
and one of the earliest members of the church, Rev. Dr.
KITCHELI Rev.  S. M.  FREELAND, and  Rev.  W: P.
RUSSELL of Memphis. These were followed by cordial congratulatory and fraternal addresses from representatives of the other denominations of the city,
Rev. A. T. PIERSON, of the Fort Street Church,
speaking in behalf of the Presbyterians, and Rev. A.
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OWENS, of the Lafayette Avenue Church, for the Baptists. Unable to be present in person, Rev. F. A.
BLADES,  Presiding  Elder  of  the  Detroit  District
Methodist Church, sent a very hearty anid earnest letter on behalf of his denomination. Concluding addresses were then made by CHARLES A. KENT, Esq.,
and Rev. A.  S.  KEDZIE, of Dexter.   The audience
then adjourned to the lecture room where an elegant
collation, prepared by the ladies of the church, was
served, and the remainder of til e evening was spent
in most agreeable social intercourse.
On Friday evening, the concluding exercises of this
anniversary occasion took place. After an opening
anthem by the choir, the hymn beginning
"Let Saints below in concert sing"
was sung, followed with reading the Scriptures and
prayer by Rev. J. S. HOYT of Port Huron, and  the
singing of the hymn
"Jerusalem, my glorious home,"
Rev. Dr. KITcHEL, then delivered his Memorial Address, and was followed by Rev. S. M. FREELANU and
Rev. Dr. BALLARD, the latter closing with an earnest
exhortation to the renewed and more faithful consecration of those present to the service of the Master,
admonished as they were by the solemn recitals of
the evening, of the shortness of life and the certainty
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of death. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do
it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device,
nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither
thou  goest."   And  then, after  singing,  "Shall we
gather at the River?" a benediction, which was a
commendation of all to the sure mercies and sufficient
grace of a covenant-keeping God, was pronounced by
Rev. Dr. KITCHEL, and the celebration of the first
Quarter-Centennial of the church was at an end.
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS,
BY
HoN. CHARLES I. WALKER,
OF DETROIT.  
ADDRE E SS.
Twenty-five years ago to-night there gathered in
the old City Hall, then dimly lighted by oil lamps,
about a dozen persons, who there took the first
steps towards organizing this church. The hall was
then used as a Circuit Court room, and was also a
place for all kinds of public gatherings. It was, as
now, difficult of access, illy kept, and uninviting.
The Rev. HENRY L. HAMMOND  presided over that
gathering, and SAMUEL COIT, now of Hllartford, was
Secretary.  A committee, consisting of S. S. BARNARD,
ISRAEL COE, CHARLES G. HAMMOND, JAMES G. CRANE
and WILLIAM COOK, was appointed to prepare and report a Confession of Faith and Rules of Plactice for
the church, which it was then proposed to organize. The committee wisely adopted the Confessian of
Faith of the First Presbyterian Church and reported
the same evening, and their report was adopted.  A
committee was also appointed to call a Council to
consider the propriety of organizing a Congregational
Church in this city. 
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This Council met on the 25th of December following, and the result was the organization of this
church.
DETROIT AS IT WAS IN 1844.
To form a proper estimate of the enterprise thus
originated, it is essential that we know what Detroit
then was.  It had partaken largely of the causes and
results of the financial revulsion of 1837-a revulsion more sudden, severe  and  long continued, than
any other known  to our history.  It is difficult for
any one not personally familiar with that period to
form any correct idea of the wild spirit of speculation that prevailed in the country, and particularly
in this State, previous to the suspension of specie
payments in 1837, or of the utter and wide-spread
financial ruin that succeeded that event,-a ruin
made more complete in this State by a disastrous
system  of  fraudulent  banking  that  here  prevailed.
Before the period of which we now speak, the
banks had nearly all utterly failed, and  a large proportion of our business men had either becme
bankrupt, or so embarrassed and crippled in their
resources, as to paralyze their business energies. For
the most part, there was absolutely no market for
real estate, and hundreds of thousands of acres of
valuable lands had been abandoned by the owners,
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who chose this course rather than pay the taxes
thereon. The State, too, of which Detroit was then
the Capital, was literally bankrupt; so much so,
that in 1843  the  Legislature  was paid off by warrants upon an empty treasury, which were hawked
about the streets at a large discount.
The city which had, in 1830, a population of two
thousand two hundred and twenty-two, increased rapidly till the crisis came, and real estate commanded
enormous prices.  From  that time to 1840, its population decreased, and it then numbered nine thousand
one hundred and fourteen. In September, 1844, the
number, by actual count, was ten thousand nine hundred and forty-eight. The crisis of depression had then
passed, and the prospect for the future was somewhat  more hopeful.   The  city  then extended  from
Dequindre street on the east, to Fourth street on
the west; but a very large proportion of this territory was without streets or buildings, save a few
scattered farm houses. The whole number of streets,
lanes, and alleys, that bore names, was only sixty five. Not one of these streets was then paved, and
there were seasons when they were almost impassable.
As yet there were few private carriages, and no
public ones, save hotel omnibuses.   The most wealthy
of the inhabitants still indulged in French carts
and, on Sunday, an array of them might be seen on
Woodward avenue, extending from Congress to Lar
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ned streets, backed up against the sidewalk, awaiting
the forthcoming of their aristocratic proprietors from
the  Presbyterian  and  Episcopalian  churches.   Gas
had not yet been introduced.
East of this place, there was no railroad nearer
than Buffalo, but a daily line of stages left the
city for the east by way of Toledo, the Black
Swamp  and Northern  Ohio, and at times, for weeks
together, the travel was almost entirely suspended,
from the impassable character of the roads. A triweekly stage left the city for Port Huron. The
Michigan  Central road had just been  completed to
Marshall, and was traversed by one train of coaches
each way per day. It was owned by the State, and
the depot was on Michigan avenue, where the new
City  Hiall now  is.   The  Detroit & Pontiac  R. R.
had been completed to Pontiac the preceding year,
and, without any passenger depot, [received and discharged its passengers by the side of Andrews'
Hotel, where the Opera House now stands.  Neither
of these roads was connected by rail with the
river. None of the plank roads, which subsequently
opened to us the interior of the State, had yet
been built.
West of our own State, there were no railroads.
The Illinois Central and the Northwestern railroads,
with their wonderful net-work of connections, were
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not yet in existence, and the Pacific road was but
a dream of the far-distant future.
Where the Merrill Block now stands, on the corner of Jefferson and Woodward avenues, there was
a two-story brick building known as Smart's Block.
Between that block and the National Hotel, now
forming the north wing of the Russell  House,  except  the Episcopalian church and the Presbyterian
church and session room, there were no structures
of brick.  From the Labadie-Campau corner (Smith's
Jewelry store) to Campus Martius there were no
brick stores, save the low three-story block adjoining Campbell & Linn's. Beyond the Campus Martius there were few buildings of any kind, and
only one of brick, situated at the'corner of Farrar
and State streets, which was built for a Methodist
church, but was then occupied  as a theater.   The
best brick block in the town was the Eldred Block,
on Jefferson avenue, adjoining Smith's Jewelry store.
The most expensive private residence was that of
Theo.  Romeyn,  Esq.,  on  the  corner  of  Fort  and
Wayne  streets, now  occupied  by Mr.  J. R. Grout;
and next to that in cost was the new brick residence of Robert Stuart, then Superintendent of
Indian Affairs, situated on Jefferson avenue, so long
and so recently occupied by his family.
There were at that time eleven Church organiza
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tions in the  city.  Of  these, three  were  Catholic,
and were served by a Bishop and six Priests. St.
Ann's was the oldest and had the largest attendance,
as the French population was principally Catholic,
and then formed a very large proportion of the
inhabitants of our city. This Church dates its origin
from the time of De la Motte Cadillac, the founder
of Detroit.   The  present building was commenced
in 1817. There were, at the time, two other Catholic Churches. That of the Holy Trinity occupied
a wooden building upon the corner of Bates street
and Michigan Grand avenue, the present site of
Schultheis' marble shop.  The building was originally
the  Fiist  Presbyterian  church,  and when, in 1834,
the brick church then standing wivas erected, this
was removed to the place named, and subsequently to
the 8th Ward. St. Mary's, German Catholic, church,
upon the corner of Croghan and St. Antoine streets,
was commenced  in  1841, and  was  still unfinished,
but had  been  used  for worship  since  1843.  The
corner stone of the  Cathedral  on Jefferson avenue
was laid June 29th, of this same year, 1844, but as
yet little progress had been made thereon.  At this
time, the majority of the population of the city
were Roman Catholics, who numbered probably from
six to seven thousand.
The oldest, most numerous, wealthy and influen
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tial Protestant organization was the First Presbyterian
Church, or, as its corporate name was, the First
Protestant  Society.   This  Society  was  informally
organized in August, 1816, and the Rev. JoHN MoNTEITII, who reached here the June preceding, became
its minister. In 1818, a Church was organized PIresbyterial in its character, but not Presbyterian, and
nearly the entire Protestant population, for a time,
joined  in  its support.   On  the  23d of  January,
1825, it re-organized and became distinctly a Presbyterian Church. The building stood upon the corner
of Larned street and Woodward avenue, where Nall's
store now stands, and was of brick, eighty feet by
one hundred, having cost about twenty-five thousand
dollars. The Society also had a brick session room
immediately north of the church. Rev. Dr. DUFFIELD
was then pastor, and the membership was about
four hundred. The congregation was very large.
Next, in point of age, was the Methodist Church,
which was organized in March, 1822. There had
been Methodist preaching in Detroit at a very early
day, which was continued with some interruptions
to the time mentioned. Before the war of 1812, and
perhaps after that war, there was a small Church here,
but the organization of that denomination, existing
in  1844,  bears  the  date  I  have  mentioned.  The
church was a wooden building standing upon the
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corner of Congress street and Woodward avenue,
where Gunn & Locke's store now is, and the same
building is now used as a Methodist church on the
corner of Lafayette avenue and Fourth streets. They
then had about two hundred and eighty members. A
second Church was organized in September, 1843. and,
at the time we speak of, consisted of sixty members,
and met in the United States Court room, the building
now occupied by the First National Bank. This Society
afterwards completed the Congress Street Methodist
church, and worshiped there until they united with
the Woodward Avenue Church, constituting the
present Central  Church.   There was also a colored
Methodist Church, which was organized in 1836, and
consisted at this time of seventy-sik members, and
met in a building formerly occupied by the Territorial Council on East Fort street.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church was organized Nov.
20, 1824, and at this time consisted of three hundred  members.   They  occupied  a  brick building
immediately north of the Presbyterian session room,
situated on the present site of Throop's bookstore.
The First Baptist Church was organized on the
27th of October, 1827, and, at this time, had one
hundred and fifty members. There was also a colored
Baptist Church - which was organized January 21,
1838-then occupying a wooden building on the south
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side of Lafayette street, between Brush and Beaubien.   The  same  Society  now  occupy  the  brick
building on Croghan street.
The German Lutheran Church, on Monroe avenue,
was organized in 1833, and was then occupying a
wooden building on the site of the present brick
one. Their membership was two hundred.
The Scotch Church, on the corner of Farmer
and Bates streets, was completed in October of this
year, 1844. The Society was organized early in the
same year, and the number of church members was
sixty-five.
ORGANIZATION OF THIS CHURCH.
It will be seen from this review; that there was
then no want of Churches, or Church organizations
in Detroit, and the time did not seem entirely
propitious for the organization of a Congregational Church; nor was Congregationalism then
a favorite form of Church polity in the West,
although in Michigan it had already obtained a
very respectable footing. There were about fifty,Congregational Churches, with a membership of about
two thousand three hundred and about thirty ministers.
In 1845, including this Church, there were fiftythree Congregational Churches, forty - six of which
reported a membership of two thousand one hundred
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and fifteen, and there ware thirty-two  ministers.  The
First Presbyterian Church was, as we have said,
large in numbers, strong in wealth and influence,
and there was a deep conviction among many persons that the time had fully come for the organization of another Church of a similar faith, and at
different times slight efforts had been made in this
direction. But to CHARLES G. HAMMOND, more
than to any  other  one  man,  are we  indebted  for
the preliminary steps that led to the organization
of this Church and Society, although others rendered
great and invaluable aid. He was a Congregationalist by natural  inclination and  by  education.  iHe
was converted while yet a lad of twelve years of
age, living at Smyrna,  N. Y., and joined a Congregational Church in the adjoining town of West
Sherburne. He was also a member of a Congregational Church in Canandaigua. He came to Detroit
in December, 1834, and here joined the First
Presbyterian Church, and was chosen an Elder
thereof in November, 1835. He subsequently, in the
spring of 1836, removed to Union City, and there
joined  a  Congregational  Church.  Hie represented
Branch  County in the Legislature in  1841.   I was
then a member  of that body, and  knew  him  well.
He then exhibited the same sterling integrity of
character, clear, sound judgment, and resolute pur
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pose, and the same power to influence others, and
to execute efficiently any plan which he had deliberately formed or adopted, and which, in the
construction and management of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, placed him among the
first railroad men in the land, and which has finally
made  him  chief  executive  officer  of  the  Union
Pacific Railroad. In 1842, he was appointed Auditor
General of the State, and the duties of his office
again   brought   him   to  Detroit.    He   attended
the Presbyterian Church, but retained his connection with the Congregational Church at Union
City. He had become fully convinced that the time
had come when the interests of our common faith
demanded the organization of a new Church in
Detroit. He saw that the city was just starting
upon a new career of growth and prosperity.   The
Presbyterian Church was then sufficiently large to
spare a portion of its strength without injury to
its usefulness.
In June, 1844, his brother, the Rev. HENRY L.
HAMMOND,  was preaching  at Homer, in this State.
He   studied  theology  at  Andover;  was  licensed
to preach in April, 1841; was ordained in December of the same year, and came to Homer, in
this State, in 1842, having previously spent a
year  in  charge  of the  Congregational  Church  at
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Kingston, Mass. In June of this year, 1844, at the
suggestion of his brother, he visited Detroit, to see
whether it was wise to make any movement for the
organization of a Congregational Church, and spent
a week or two  in the city.   He  preached once for
Dr. DUFFIELD, and one Sabbath in the City Hall,
and conferred with  Dr. DUFFIELD upon  the subject
of  his mission.   Dr. DUFFIELD  was, in  conviction
and feeling, a decided Presbyterian, and he had not
then reached that state of catholicity of feeling which
so marked his riper years. He had little confidence
in Congregationalism in the abstract, still less in
its  adaptation  to the  West,  and  hle  partook of a
feeling, then generally prevalent, that Western Congregationalists were not as orthodox as their New
England brethren. It was ascertained that, while he
admitted that there was need of a new Church, yet
he was decidedly opposed to the'organization of one
unless it came under the care of the Presbytery,
either as a Presbyterian Church, or as a Congregational Church upon the Union  plan.   He  was then
in the full vigor of his great powers, and his influence, both in the city and in the State, was"very
great.   This opposition,  for the  time,  discouraged
further  effort, and  Mr.  HAMMoND  returned  to his
work at Homer. Subsequently, and probably in August, or early in September, Mr. C. G. HAMMOND,
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with the persistency of  purpose which  so  marked
his character, wrote to Rev. O. C. THOMPsoN, then
preaching at St. Clair, and one of the most prominent, most prudent and most influential of the
Congregational  ministers  in  the State. to visit Detroit and confer with Dr. DUFFIELD and other
persons  as to the proposed effort.  Mr.  THOMPSON
came and called upon Dr. DUFFIELD, who listened
attentively and respectfully to his representations,
invited him to preach in his pulpit, and referred
him to his Session. Mr. THOMPsoN then saw individually most of the members of the Session, and
ultimately had a meeting of a portion of them over
McFARREN's bookstore, in SMART's block. Among
the Elders of the Presbyterian Church at that time,
were some of the strongest men in the city; such
men  as ROBERT  STUART,  Major  KEARSLEY,  E. P.
HAsTINGs, Major  LARNED,  EDWARD  BINGHAM, and
HORACE HALLOCK.  Several of these were present at
this meeting, and especially Messrs. STUART, KEARSLEY and HASTINGS.  It was at first doubtful whether
this body would not throw the full weight of its
power against the new enterprise, but the influence
of ROBERT STUART, a man of strong and decided
character, turned the scale in its favor, and it was
to be countenanced rather than opposed;- and this
upon the ground that it might do good to the
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common cause, although the chances of suee,ss
were  deemed  very feeble.  Mr.  THOMPSON  spent  a
week here in diligent endeavors to get persons enlisted, who were Congregational in sentiment, and
one who thus became enlisted, had been an old
parishioner at St. Clair, and has since done more
to sustain the Church than any one ever connected
with  it -I mean  Deacon  SHERMAN  S. BARNARD.
Either at this time, or soon after, ISRAEL COE also
became enlisted in the enterprise, and was one of
the most important men connected with the new
organization.  He was a Connecticut Congregationalist,
— an efficient and successful business man- of great
energy and liberality.
These labors of Mr. THoMPsoN were entirely
gratuitous, but Mr. C. G. HAMMOND paid his fare
on the boat to and from St. Clair, amounting to
three dollars, and this was the first distinctive cash
payment for the new Church, and was but the commencement of many such, made by the same hand,
which passed into no account. Nor did the labors
of Mr.  THoMPsoN  end  here.   On  his  way  to  the
General  Association, which met at Marshall on the
24th of September of that year, he went out of
his way to see the Rev. Mr. HIAMMOND, at Homer,
and  urged  him  to  come  to  Detroit, and  devote
himself to the organization of a Church.  This visit
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was self-moved, and sprang entirely from the deep
interest Mr. THoMPsoN took in the matter, and his
conviction that, under all the circumstances, Mr.
HAMMOND  was the best man attainable to commence
and carry on the effort to successful completion, and
the result proved the correctness of his judgment. Mr. HAMMOND accompanied Mr. THOMPSON
to the General Association, where, doubtless, the
subject was discussed by the ministers present, and
in October Mr. HAMMOND came here and commenced those labors, from which this Church has
sprung into existence.   But,  previous  to  the  commencement of his labors, Mr. HAMMOND had been
in  correspondence -, with  that  eminent   Christian
philanthropist, DAVID HALE, of The New York
Journal of Conmmerce, and had inquired of himni if
there was any missionary society that could render aid
to the enterprise, the rules of the Home Missionary
Society, at that time, restraining it from rendering
aid to a new church at any place where there was already
either a Presbyterian or a Congregational Church.
Mr. HALE  replied that he was, to some extent, such
a society, and that, if Mr. HAMMOND and his brother
thought the time had come for the effort, and he
would go to Detroit and devote himself to it, he
might-draw upon him, Mr. HALE, for six hundred
dollars per annum; and this amount was actually
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paid for two  years,  and  without  this, the  success
of the project would have been doubtful. The first
services were held in the City Hall, then for a Sabbath or two  in the new  Scotch  church,  then just
finished, and before they had a minister of their
own.   An  effort was made  to secure the use of the
Presbyterian session  room  for  the winter,  and was
well nigh successful with the trustees, but, notwithstanding what had passed. between Mr. THOMPsON
and the Session, it was found that the influence of
the latter, as well as that of Dr. DUFFIELD, was
decidedly hostile to the enterprise, and the use of
the lecture  room  was denied.   Equally  hostile was
the great social power of the old Society, and when
the friends of the effort were driven back for the
wintfer to the old City Hall, as the only place to
be had, the prospect before them was not a cheering
one. But there was no thought of discouragement.
They were few in number, and not strong in wealth
or social influence, but they were strong in earnest
purpose and in abiding faith, and went forward with
an unfaltering step.   The leading men,  at first.engaged in the enterprise, were C. G. HAMMOND,
ISRAEL COE, SAMUEL COIT, S. S. BARNARD, REUBEN
TowN,  FRANcIs  RAYMOND,  LYMAN  BALDWIN,  E.
K. GILBERT,  CHARLES  HOWARD,  and  PHILETUS S.
CHURCH.  Many of these were  New Englanders, and
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were imbued  with something of the true Puritan
spirit.
The first meeting,  of which  there is  any record,
was at the house of CHARLES  G. HAMMOND, on the
25th of November, when preliminary steps were
taken to organize a Society. MARTIN WILLSON, now
of Kalamazoo, was in the chair, and a committee,
consisting of Messrs HAMMoND, BARNARD, BALDWIN
and RAYMOND, were appointed to prepare a plan for the
organization of a Society under the statute. On the
7th of December following, a notice for the meeting
was given for that purpose, to be held on the 23rd
of  December;  and  on that  day  the Society  was
organized.   The   first meeting  with   reference  to
organizing the Church was, as I haive mentioned, on
the 8th of December. A Council was called to meet
upon the 25th of the same month, and consisted of
the  following  persons:  Rev. HARVEY  HYDE  from
Rochester, Michigan, and R. B. NEWBERRY, delegate;
Rev. O. C. THOMPSON Of St. Clair, and OVID SMITH,
delegate; and Rev. S. A. BENTON of Armada. Mr.
THoMPSON was Moderator, and Mr. BENTON, Scribe.
Mr. C. G. HAMMOND presented the Articles of Faith.
and, after statements from Deacon BARNARD and
Rev. Mr. IHIAMMOND as to the reasons for organizing
the Church, it was voted that the reasons were
satisfactory and that a Church be organized. It was
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organized upon the same day, and consisted of
thirteen members, namely: LYMAN BALDWIN, NANCY
BALDWIN, JAMES G. CRANE, MARY A. CRANE,
FRANCIS RAYMOND, RUTTH RAYMOND, ROBERT W.
WARNER, C. A. WARNER, WILLIAM COOK, MARIETTA
P. COOK, S. S. BARNARD,  MARY JANE  HAMMOND,
and Miss RHODA COWLES. Others had expected to
join,  but  did  not receive their  letters in  season.
Of the thirteen that thus formed the nucleus around
which this Church has crystalized, seven are still with
us, namely: Mr. and Mrs. BALDWIN, Mr. and Mrs.
RAYMOND, Mrs. COOK, Mr. BARNARD, and Miss
COWLES; and three of them are officers in the
church, namely: Deacons  BARNARD,  BALDWIN  and
RAYMOND.   Nine  others  joined  an  the  following
Sunday, Dec. 29th, and four others on January
5th, 1845.
On that day (Jan. 5th, 1845,) it was voted to
organize a Sabbath School on the following Sunday.
It was then organized and has been kept up
without intermission to the present time, and, did
time permit, it would be a grateful task to recount
the faithful services which have been rendered by
superintendents, officers and teachers. But it must
suffice to say, that the earnest labors of these
Christian workers in this Sabbath School have been
the means of cultivating their own growth in intellectual
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and Christian character, a great leans of grace  to
the pupils, and one of the most abundant sources
of increase of church membership. The only person
now with us, who has, without interruption, been
a member of the Sabbath School from its first
organization,  is FRANCIS  RAYMOND.  Then, too, the
members of this Church have done their fair share
of work in the Mission Sabbath Schools of this city,
and have reaped the benefit which must ever come
from such work.
One of the first steps that demanded attention
was the election of Deacons, and it was voted that
the afternoon of the first Sabbath of February be
spent in church meeting to seek Divine guidance
in the matter, and it was so spent, but no Deacons
were elected until the 24th of August following,
when  Messrs  BARNARD  and HOWARD  were elected
Deacons for two years. On the 2d of February,
1845, FRANCIS RAYMOND was elected Clerk of the
Church, as he previously had been of the Society,
and he has been Clerk of both bodies from that day to
this, and every word of the records of both bodies
is in his handwriting, as, previous to his election,
the minutes were kept merely upon slips of paper,
and were by him transcribed.
ERECTION OF THE FIRST CHURCH EDIFICE.
The Church and Society had hardly come into
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existence before they began to consider the great
question of building a church. As early as the
31st  of March,  1845,  the  Society  authorized  the
purchase of the lot where the church was afterwards
built,  on   the  corner  of  Jefferson  Avenue   and
Beaubien Street, at the price of two thousand dollars,
and a Committee on Plans and Estimates was
appointed. On the 2d of June following, a plan
of building was adopted, and it was voted that the
walls, roof, steeple, and, if possible, the basement,
were to be built for the sum of four thousand
dollars. The building was pushed with vigor, and
on the b15th of December, 1845, the Society held
its annual meeting in the basement, and the Church
commenced worship there. They had occupied the
City   Hall  during   the  winter,   and   after  the
adjournment of the Legislature, they obtained the
use of the Capitol until the present Circuit Court
room was completed, when, for a time, they worshiped
there. As we may imagine, tilere was great rejoicing
when they were able to meet in their own house.
On  the  first Sabbath, Mr.  HAMMOND very  appropriately selected for his text the following words:
"I was glad  when  they said unto me,  Let us go
into the house of the Lord."
On the 4th of January, 1846, the Committee on
Building were authorized to increase the debt so
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that the interest thereon should not exceed two
hundred dollars per annum;  on the 10th of March,
1846, the plan for the interior of the church was
adopted; on the 14th of March a contract for its
completion was authorized; and on the 30th of
August following the completed church edifice was
dedicated to the worship of God. The cost of the
lot was two thousand dollars, and the house cost
over five thousand dollars, while a subscription of
about four thousand one hundred and ninety dollars
had   been  obtained.   This   included   an  Eastern
subscription, obtained by Rev. Mr. IIHAMMOND, of
nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty
cents. There remained upon the lot and building a
debt of not far from three thousand dollars. The
leading subscribers belonging to the Church and Society
were ISRAEL COE, CHARLES G. HAMMOND, SAMUEL
COIT, REUBEN TowN, S. S. BARNARD, FRANcIS RAYMOND, LYMAN  BALDWIN, and H. T. BACKUS.  Quite
liberal subscriptions, however, were received from
those who belonged neither to Church nor Society.
BUCKMIINSTER WIGHT subscribed one hundred dollars,
WESLEY TRUESDAIL fifty dollars, and others smaller
sums. We may well believe that this subscription,
small as it was, was an exhibition upon the part
of the Church and Society, of great liberality, and
the occasion of no little self-sacrifice.
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MR. HAMMOND1 AND HIS LABORS.
For the first year, the salary of Mr. HAMMOND
had mainly been paid by the contribution of Mr.
HALE.  His contribution for the second year formed
a part of the Eastern subscription for the church, and
Mr. HAMMIOND'S salary, or a portion thereof, was paid
by the Connecticut Missionary Society. On the 9th
of November, 1846, the Trustees were authorized to
employ Mr. IIAMMOND for a year, at a salary of
seven hundred dollars, and this arrangement was
completed. During the following winter, the Rev.
CHARLES G. FINNEY labored here for some six weeks
in connection with the Pastor, and it resulted in a
very interesting work of grace, and quite a number
were added to the Church, and a deeper interest in
the subject of religion was awakened throughout
the city.
On the 21st of June, 1847, Mr. HAMMOND asked
to be released from his engagement for the year after
the 30th of June. The Society requested him to
engage for another year, but he declined, and the
Church and Society then, by vote, expressed their
confidence in him and their commendation of his
ministerial labors. On the 5th of July, 1847, Mr.
HlAIMOND  administered  the  communion,  and  this
closed his regular services with the Church. The
period of the ministry of Mr. HAMMOND was both
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the formative and the critical period of the history
of  our  Church.   It  had   struggled  with  poverty,
embarrassment, obscurity, and, to some extent, with
contemptuous neglect. Through it all, the labors of
Mr.  HA,MMIOND were faithful, wise, and  tireless, and
received the blessing of the Heavenly Father.
Special efforts were made to interest those who were
Congregational in sentiment, and those who attended
no church. He devoted much time to visiting and
other personal efforts, and never lost sight of the
great end of Christian work-the conversion of the
soul to God. The prayer-meetings were spirited and
spiritual. The whole number added to the Church
during his ministry, including the original thirteen,
was one hundred and fifteen, of which one hundred
and ten remained at his departure. A comfortable,
though not elegant, edifice had been erected and
completed. The congregation had largely increased,
and it had become entirely respectable to belong to
the Church and Society, and the Church had obtained
recognition among the sisterhood of churches, and
its influence in awakening others to more active
Christian work and to higher spiritual life was
apparent. The labors of Mr. IIAMMOND are held in
the highest estimation by those who then belonged
to the Church and Society.
Mr. HAMMOND was immediately succeeded by
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Rev. O. C. THOIMPsON, who  had been compelled  to
leave his parish at St. Clair because of ill-health.
He preached for about two months, when his health
failed and hlie was compelled, to the deep regret of
the Church and Society, to suspend his ministerial
labors, which he did for many years. The Rev. Mr.
KELLOGG thereafter, for a short time, filled the pulpit, and, on the 11th of November, 1847, the
Trustees were authorized to employ Rev. W. W.
ATTERBURY for six months, at a salary of two
hundred and  fifty dollars.   Mr.  ATTERBURY  was  a
young man, just out of the seminary, but he proved
an  acceptable  and  faithful  minister.   During  the
winter of 1847 - 48, the Rev. Mr. AVERY labored
in the Church, as an Evangelist, in connection with
Mr. ATTERBURY, and these labors were attended with
deep interest.
DR. KITCHEL'S MINISTRY.
On the 10th of July, 1848, the Church and Society, with great unanimity, called to the pastorate
Rev. II. D. KITCHEL, then of Thomaston, CQonn.,
at a salary of one thousand  dollars.   Mr. KrrcHEL
graduated at Middlebury in 1835; studied theology
one year at Andover, then, while acting as tutor
at Middlebury, studied another year with  Dr. MERRILL, (a man of pre-eminent ability, who took the
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valedictory at Dartmouth, in a class of which
D AXIEL  WEBSTER  was  a member)  and  graduated
at the Theological Seminary, at New Haven, in
1838. In the fall of the same year, he commenced
preaching at Thomaston, and was ordained Pastor
in February, 1839.  He remained at that place until
he came to Detroit.  He was obtained as Pastor of
this Church  through  the  agency  and recommendationii of Mr. COE, a Connecticut man, who well
knew  the wants of the  Church, and  the qualifications necessary to supply  them.   Mr.  KITCHEL accepted the call, preached his first sermon on the
1st of October, and on the 6th of December following was installed as Pastor of the Church. Rev.
Dr. DUFFIELD was a member of the Council of
Installation-conducted  the  examination  (a  most
satisfactory one)-and took part in the installation
exercises.
Mr. KITCHEL  remained  the Pastor of the Church
until dismissed  by a Council,  at his  own  request,
on the 2d of November, 1864, a term of sixteen
years. The period of his ministry was one of prosperity and growth, and, like times of peace to — the
national historian, affords but few points of special
interest to the historical narrator. The new Pastor
was  soon  recognized as one of the most cultivated
and able ministers, not only of the city, but of the State
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and of the West. His sermons were characterized by
soundness of doctrine, fullness and ripeness of thought,
with a purity of style, and chasteness of diction
that gave them a great charm, and made them a
power for good. They were eminently suggestive in
their character, and were especially attractive to the
thoughtful. The effect was a gradual and rapid increase in the Church and Society, so that, in four
years' time, the building so recently erected was
filled to overflowing, and no seats were to be had,
and a fair proportion of these accessions were persons  of culture  and  social  position.   This  forced
upon the Society the question of the erection of a
new church; and this forms an important chapter
in our history, not without its disagreeable incidents,
and if for no other purpose than to warn others
of the shoal on which we were so nearly stranded,
it is worthy of record.
ERECTION OF THIE SECOND CHURCH EDIFICE.
The first formal meeting with reference to a new
church edifice, was on the 21st of December, 1852,
a little over six years from the time the first
church was completed.   Three projects were considered: first, the erection of a new central edifice;
second, enlarging the old one; third, colonizing and
organizing a new Church. A committee consisting
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of Messrs.  HOLMES,  BARNARD,  O. C.  TiiOMPSON,
WALKER,   PARSONS,   and  S. G.  WIGIIT, were  appointed to consider the several projects,  and report
at an  adjourned  meeting  the following  week.   On
the 28thi of December, the committee reported in
favor of the erection of a new edifice in a central
part  of the town, and time was  given  to them  to
report as to the proper  location.   On  the 10th of
January, 1853, the Society voted to proceed with the
erection of a new church.   The committee reported
in favor of a site on the corner of Monroe avenue
and Farmer street, but the subject was recommitted
to them, and they were instructed to inquire as to
obtaining the lot on the corner of Congress and
Griswold streets, where Buhl's Bank Block now
stands;  but, on the 21st of February, they reported
in favor of purchasing the present site at a cost
of ten  thousand  dollars.   A  Committee  on Subscriptions was appointed, consisting of Messrs. BUTLER,  STEBBINS,  BARNARD, and  PARSONS;   and  a
Committee on Plans, consisting of Messrs. H. D.
A. WARD,  COE, S. M.  HOLMES, and WALKER.   On
the 6th of March, the Committee on Subscriptions
reported that they had obtained subscriptions to
the amount of eleven thousand six hundred and
sixty-four dollars. The Committee on Plans reported
a plan, and they were instructed so to modify it,
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that the cost of the new church should not exceed
twenty thousand dollars. A Buildzlng Committee was
appointed, consisting of Messrs. HOLMES,  BARNARD,
GILBERT,  PARsoNs,  BUTLER,  and  KING,   and  the
Trustees, and that committee were authorized to
offer the old church edifice for sale, possession to be
given the following December. By the 27th of June,
it was ascertained that the cost of the building,
according  to the plan  adopted,  would  far  exceed
twenty  thousand  dollars  and  the  comm ittee  were
authorized to enlarge  the  cost, but to  limit it as
near thirty thousand dollars as the plan would admit
of. This virtually left the Building Committee with
unlimited  power  to  build  according  to  the plan,
whatever it cost. Although the Society was not rich,
and its resources were very limited, yet the prospects before it seemed bright and hopeful. We had
a popular minister, a growing Church and Society,
and we looked forward to a large increase of both.
We were ambitious to have a church of which we could
be proud,  and  that would  be an ornament  to the
city. Business generally was prosperous, and business men were full of hopeful courage.  The leading
men on the Building Committee, and upon whom
the great burden  fell, Messrs.  IHOLM S  and  BARNARD, were men of means, of earnest zeal End
large-hearted liberality, and they freely advanced
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their means and credit to meet the exigency of the oc casion.   Fortunately,  or unfortunately, we  were not
compelled to pay anything down upon the lot
indeed, owing to a controversy upon the amount due
upon a mortgage thereon, we were not at liberty
to pay anything until  that  controversy was settled.
The  result was that this edifice was completed  at a
cost, exclusive of  the lot, of forty-five thousand nine
hundred  and eight dollars, and sixteen cents/  It is
but just to say, however, that nearly twelve thousand dollars of this was not included in the estimate
of the expenses of the building, namely: the cost
of gas-fitting and fixtures, upholstering and furnishing, the bell, the organ, the furniture for the house,
fence, etc., etc.   Our  resources  applicable  to  meet
this large cost were as follows:
Sale of old building on the lot...............$436 00
Collected by ladies to pay for bell.................  974 74
Sale of old church...................9,150 00
Received on subscriptions,................  11,205 75
Sale of pews on completion of church...........  6,628 50
Total resources...................... $28,394 99
Leaving unprovided for towards the house alone,
seventeen thousand five hundred  and thirteen dllars
and fourteen cents, besides the cost of the lot, ten
thousand dollars, and its accruing interest.
The house was dedicated with appropriate services
on the 21st of September, 1854. After paying the
subscriptions for building the house and the money
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for the purchase of pews, the Society were unable to
make any present effort to reduce this large debt.
Our income from pew rents did not pay our current
expenses, but our creditors were forbearing, and we
rested, hoping for the time soon to come when we
could make an energetic effort to reduce, if not pay,
the indebtedness. While looking for this good time
coming, there came upon us, as a thunder storm
from a clear sky, the financial crash of the autumn
of 1857, which most seriously affected the pecuniary
ability of some of our best men and cast a deep
gloom over business prospects.
The annual meeting held on the 21st of December, 1857, was one of deep gloom. Our indebtedness at that time, including the accruing interest,
was thirty-seven thousand and sixty-two dollars, besides a paving tax, unprovided for, of nearly a thousand dollars. In round numbers we owed thirtyeight thousand dollars, and were utterly destitute of
resources. We hardly dared to speak of the dangers
that loomed up before us, but they were deeply felt
by thoughtful men. Various plans for reducing this
debt were discussed from time to time, and efforts
made, but nothing practical was done until December, 1859, when, by an earnest and self-denying effort
upon the part of the Society, met by a spirit of exceeding liberality on the part of our creditors, our
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floating debt was paid, leaving unpaid the purchase
price of the lot and its interest, and the claim for
paving taxes. While the subscription made taxed
the liberality and the means of the Society, it would
have failed in accomplishing the object except for
the large-hearted generosity of our principal creditor,
Deacon BARNARD, who received a large portion of
the indebtedness in unsold pews from which he could
derive no income save as they were rented beyond
the assessments thereon for society purposes. There
still remained upon us, however, a heavy indebtedness, and the efforts so far made, encouraged us to
make provision for the payment of that. In making
arrangement for the paying off of the first installment of our debt and providing for the remainder,
we  were largely  indebted  to  the sound  judgment
and great financial ability of one who is no longer
with us, WILLIAM WARNER, but he  will be spoken
of elsewhere, and by another. Arrangements were
made for taking up collections on the Sabbath towards the reduction of our debt, and in 1863, it
was found we could pay off our debt upon the lot
for fourteen thousand dollars. The unpaid taxes
were a thousand dollars, and our church imperatively
needed repairs to the amount of another thousand,
thus leaving sixteen thousand dollars to be provided
for. A second great effort was made to meet these
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obligations, and this effort was successful.   We  had
raised by our Sunday collections more than two
thousand dollars, and the balance of the sum required  was  raised  by subscription.   In  both these
instances, the subscriptions were most cheerfully met,
and nearly every member of the Church and Society
joined in the effort. The experience was a bitter
one, and, although it has not been without its good
results  in  teaching  us  self-sacrifice  and  how  to
bear burdens, I would advise no Society to follow
our example. It unquestionably seriously interfered
with our prosperity, for persons coming into the
city did not desire to join a Church or a Society
where they must bear the burden of an old debt.
During the building of  the church, and in December, 1854, the society voted six months' leave of
absence to Dr. KITCHEL, with the continuance of his
salary, and he availed himself of this absence to
visit Europe and the Holy Land. A liberal contribution towards his expenses was also made by individual members of the Church and Society.
I have already said that the church was dedicated on the  21st of Septemtber, 1854.  It is proper
to say that the Rev. Dr. LEOXARD BAcON was appropriately selected to preach the dedicatory sermon.
IHe was a native of Detroit, the son of a Congregational minister who resided here for a time and
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who was, doubtless, the first Congregational minister
that ever preached in the city.
MRS. KITCHIEL
On the 1st day of June, 1858, the Church and
Society met with a most grievous loss in the death
of Mrs. ANNA S. KITCHEL, the wife of our Pastor.
Hers was a character of rare excellence. She breathed
the very spirit of piety almost from her childhood.
With great native strength and force, as well as tenderness of character, cultivated by education, refined
by social intercourse, and purified and elevated by a
deep and earnest piety, she united a retiring, almost
shrinking, modesty, and an entire absence of selfassertion, that prevented those who, knew her but
slightly from fully appreciating her great worth and
real  power.  What  she was in  the sacred  circle of
home and to those allied to her by the tenderest
ties known to our-humanity, of daughter, wife, and
mother, I cannot fully know, and if I did, this
would  not be the fitting  occasion for utterance.  I
speak of her only as our Pastor's wife, and a member of this Church. As such, her labors were at
once unobtrusive and untiring.  If any  member  of
the Church or congregation was in distress of mind,
body, or estate, she seemed to know it by intuition,
and to be present with her words of counsel, com
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fort and sympathy, and with her deeds of charity,
kindness and love. But she did not rest contented
with her own personal exertion. As occasion demanded, she called freely upon others to do what she
could Jnot do herself, and she had the rare power,
without officiousness, of knowing what others could
and ought to do, and setting them to work. Many
in this audience can bear witness to the reception
of her ever discreet and kindly notes of suggestion,
breathing the very spirit of the Master; and her
touching invitations to come to the Savior were a
power for good that wonderfully complemented the
labors of the pulpit. She often gathered about her at
her own home the young of the Church and Society,
and while she promoted, in her gentle way, every
social enjoyment, she never for a moment lost sight
of their spiritual interest. The spirit of her daily
life was in perfect harmony with her Christian labors.
Her loss to the Church  was irreparable.  It came so
suddenly, that, while it stunned and almost paralyzed
us, we did not at the time so fully appreciate it as
we did afterward-as month after month passed away
and  the  want  of her presence  and  influence  was
more and more understood and felt.
Many years after, in 1864, we were called upon
to mourn the death of the second Mrs. KITCHEL. She
came amongst us a stranger from a distant State
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where her church connections were, and she remained
withl us so short a time, and was so much of  an
invalid while with us, that she did not become a part
of our Society as did the first Mrs. KITCHIEL. Those
who knew her well speak of her in the highest terms
of commendation as an accomplished, earnest, and
religious  woman.   Her  loss fell sadly and heavily
upon our Pastor, and called forth the deep and earnest
sympathy of the Church and congregation.
CLOSE OF DR. KITCIIEL'S PASTORATE.
On the 21st of October, 1864, Dr. KITCHEL
asked a dismission  from the Church  with reference
to accepting a call from Chicago, and on the 2d of
November,  a Council met and acquiesced in his  request; and  thus  was completed  the sixteenth  year
of his pastorship of this Church. During that time
the Church had largely increased in nIumbers, strength
and influence. There had been added by letter, one
hundred  and  eighteen  males, and two hundred  and
thirty-one females; by profession of faith, sixty-one
males and one hundred and twenty-two females-in
all, five hundred and thirty-two. Many of thest were
gathered in during the time of the great revival of
1857-8.
MR. FREELAND'S MINISTRY.
On the 2d of December, 1864, the Rev. S. M.
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FREEL.XD,  who   had   been  preaching  at  WatertOwvi,  Conn., was  engaged  for  three  months.  He
came  at a  very  interesting  time, when  there  was
considerable religious interest in the city.  That interest  was  increased  and  deepened,  and  our  own
Church  shared in  the  fruits  of  the  revival.  His
labors were so accelptable that, on the 2()th ol
MAarch,  18(;5, he  was  engaged for  a  year.  Before
that year expired, the project of organizing a second
Congregational  Church  was  freely discussed,  both
amongst individuals  and  in  our Church gatherings.
Mainy of those who hlad  borne the great burden of
the  past  indebtedness  upon  their  shoulders  were
anxious  for  something of  rest, and  were  desirous,
for a time, at least, of having a large Church from
which  the expense  of supporting  the gospel  could
be readily raised, while  some  had  doubts  whether
the  time  had  fully conic for  the  organization  of
such a Church.  But,  after full discussion, on  the
6th of March, 1866, it was voted that it was
expedient to organize a second Congregational Church,
and  this Church  was  subsequently  orgtanized  and
Mr. FREELi.AND became its Pastor.  The number dis
missed from  our Church to organize  this was  one
hundred  and  ten.   Thus  this Church  somewhat
reluctantly became  a Mother  Church,  and,  in so
doing, lost  many  of its most  valuable  Christian
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workers, but she has reason fully to be satisfied
with  the result.  The Daughter  Church  is one  of
which  she  may  be  gratefully  proud,  and  already
nearly rivals in numbers and in strength the Mother
from  which  she  sprang.  God's rich blessings have
attended the movenment.
DR. BALLARD CALLED.
In April, 1866, the Rev. Mr. BALLARD, of Williamnstowii, Mass., supplied our pulpit for three
Sabbaths, and so acceptable were his labors that, on
the  6th of May, a call was  extended  to  him  to
become our Pastor. This call was accepted and he
commenced  his  labors  inl  June  following, and was
regularly nstalled Pastor of the Church  onl the 18th
of October, 1866.   There  have  been added  to  the
Church during his ministry sixty-six members.  His
labors have been eminently acceptable and the Church
are very thoroughly united in his support.
I cannot  forbear  imentioning  here one  event of a
personal character.  On  the  21st of D)ecember, 1868,
DI)eacon  BAXRARD resigned his position as Trustee of
this  Chlrchl, after seventeeii  years of  most faithfill
and arduouis service.  Hle had  been  enmphatically  the
workiing, mat of' the Board, and the indeb)tedness of
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the Society to him in this, as well as in Other
particulars, is very great.
The whole number admitted to the Church membelship since the organization has been eight hundred
and forty-five. Some of these have gone from us,
because they were not of us; many have gone over
the River, and are awaiting us in the Better Land;
still a larger number are widely scattered over our
country, members of other Churches; and two hundred
and seventy-five still remain upon our list. But the
influence of this Church for good, has not, we trust,
been limited to church membership.
SALARIES.
I have already mentioned that, on the 9th of
November, 1846, Mr. HAMMOND was voted a salary
of seven hundred dollars.  In 1848, Mr. KITCIEL was
settled at a salary of one thousand dollars. On the
21 st of December, 1852, this was raised to twelve
hundred  dollars;  in  December,  1855,  to  sixteen
hundred; on the 1st of May, 1857, to two thousand
dollars.  On the 21st of March, 1865, the salary of
Mr. FREELAND was fixed at twenty-five hundred
dollars; and Mr. BALLARD was settled as Pastor at
that salary. Fromn the 1st of February, 1868, his
salary has been three thousand dollars. This shows
that the Church and Society, even in the midst of
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embarrassments, have been progressive in this matter
of salaries, and have not fallen behind other societies
even of much greater wealth.
WOMEN'S VOTING.
The question of the age, the right of women to
vote, yet remains unsettled in this Church. On the
9th of February, 1845, it was moved that female
members be permitted to vote on the admission of
members.   This was laid upon  the table under the
rule, and, for auight that appears upon the records,
it  still lies there.   In  March, 1861, women  were
permitted  to vote on the  election of Deacons.   On
the 6th of May, 1866, when the question was before
the church as to extending a call to the Rev. Dr.
BALLARD, it was moved that female members be
permitted to vote. This motion was also laid upon
the table. These motions are not bvuried, they only
sleep, and they have laid upon this imaginary table
of the Clerk's record about as long as they will be
quiet, and we may as well prepare to give them a
fair hearing.
TERM OF THE DIACONATE.
The question whether Deacons should be elected
for a limited time, or whether the office should be
a permanent one, is also somewhat of an open
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question  in  this  Church, and  I give  the action  of
tlhe Churclh upon the subject.  On tlhe 25th  of August,
1845, Deacons BARNARD  and HOWARD were elected
the first Deacons for  the  term  of two  years.   On
the  23d  of Deceniber,  1847,  they  were  re-elected.
On the  23d  of Novenber,  1849, it was  voted  to
elect three Deacons, whose term of office should
expire  on  the  1st of January,  1852,  and Deacons
BAIRNARD and HOWARD were re-elected, and S. M.
HOTL,.ES added to the list.  In  1852, on the 9th of
JanuLary, these three were reelected, and on the 18th
of January, 1856, Deacons RTAY3IOND and  BALDWIN
were added to the list.  In 1861, January 22d, Mr.
HOLMES having resigned, and  MIr. HOWARD  having
removed, there was a new election at which womnen
voted, and  brothers  BARNARD,  RAY3IOND,  WALKER
and WARNER were elected.  On the 27th of January,
1865, all resigned,  when,  on the motion of  brother
WARNER,  DI)eacons were elected, subject to  Congregational  usage,  and   brotfhers   BARNARD,  BALDWIN,
RAYMrOND and PARTRIDGE were elected.  On  the 18th
of  January,  1866G,  brothers  WALKER  and  SILSBEE
were added  to  the  list.   On  the  21st of October,
1868, brothIer PARTRIDGE having removed and brother
SILSBEE  having  joined  the  Second  Congregational
Church, brothers BAKER and BOSTWICK were elected.
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whether  the office  should  be  a  permanent one, or
for a limited  time, and  a committee  was appointed
by  the  (Church,  consisting  of brethren  entertaining
diverse  views, to  examine  the  question  and report
Upon  that  subject, bl)ut that  coimmittee  have failed
to report, and the question is still an open one; and
whether the present Deacons hold  their oflice at the
will of the  Churchle, or for life, depends  upon  what
is Congregational usage.
BENEFACTIONS OF THE CHURCH.
IW hile  the  Church  has  been  deficient  in  many
things, and  dotlbtless  deficient in  tlhe highest  spirit
of  Cliristian  lalbor, yet,  during  all  the  pecni-iary
embiarrassments that  have  weighed   upon L        us,  thle
Chulrchl  has contributed  freely  and largely  to  the
various benevolent  ca-tses tlhat have dern(Lided Chlistian aid, and  I think the statistics,  which,  however,
cannot  he  readily  gathlered  and   compared,  woluld
show  that,  in  this  respect,  we  have  exceeded  the
liberality of most Churches of the same  wealth  and
financial ability.
POSITION  ONr        TIIE TE PERAN(CE  QUESTION.
The  Church,  too, 1hats borne  an earnest  testimony
in favor of the cause of Temperanlce.   As  early as
MIarch  28, 1849, the  Church approved of the Tenimperanlce  League,  then  formed  in  the  city,  and  a
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committee was appointed to represent this Church
on the Executive Committee, consisting of Messrs.
HAMMoOND,  HOLMES, and  the  Pastor.   On   the  21st
of December, 1849, a resolution, drawn by Dr.
KITCHEL, was adopted by the Church, and still
stands upon its records; and, consistent with this
resolution, has  been  the  spirit  and  action  of  the
Church from  that time  to the present.    This  reso
lution is in the following words:
"Deeply impressed with the prevalence of intemperance
in the comnmunity around us, and with the conviction that the
inconsiderate and moderate use of intoxicating drinks is the
fountain-head of this evil; believing also that a special
responsibility rests on  the Churches  of  CHRIST, that they
carefully maintain their own purity in this respect, and throw
around them the influence of a blameless example, this
Church, for the purpose of an Act and Testimony to the
world, and to secure to itself and to the cause of CnRIST, as far as
may be practicable, the moral power of a right profession and
unsullied membership, declares its full conviction that the
manufacture, sale, or use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage
is at variance with the spirit and teachings of CRmIST and His
Holy Word, and should be, on grounds of Christian obligation,
altogether abandoned and discouraged by all who bear the
Christian name. And to this end, besides our other modes of
action against this evil, a book shall be kept by the Clerk of
this Church, containing this our Declaration, which shall be
presented for signature to every person desiring connection
with this Church- not as a condition of their acceptance, nor
as a sole test of character, but with the most earnest desire
that our entire membership may stand unitedly and fully
arrayed against this great evil.
"We, therefore, whose names follow, members of the First
Congregational Church of Detroit, do covenant together that
we will not make, sell, or use intoxicating drinks as a beverage,
and that we, in all fit methods, will discountenance the same
in others."
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
There is one chapter in the history of our Church
and Society that cannot be overlooked on an occasion
like  this, and  yet which  can  only  be adverted to,
although the materials in my hands tempt me to
a history  that  would  be  full of  graphic  interest
-that is, the aid rendered our common country
during the recent war for our national existence.
While, upon minor topics of modes and measures,
there was naturally some difference of opinion, there
was none as to the atrocity of the Rebellion, and
the stern duty of crushing it out by the strong
arm  and power of the Government.  This deep  and
earnest feeling found voice again and again in the
pulpit, and was evinced by the self-sacrificing spirit
of liberality that led to large and frequent contributions to all the purposes of the war; but of
these I cannot speak, although some of them deserve
special  commendation.   I can  only  mention  those
who gave personal services directly to their country.
At the commencement of the rebellion, JOHN
TYLER enlisted as a private in Company A, of the
1st Regiment of Michigan Infantry Volunteers,
called for three months' service, and commanded by
Colonel 0. B. Wilcox. Private TYLER was engaged
in the first battle of Bull Run, and served until
the expiration of his term of service. In July, 1862,
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he joined the 17th Regiment of Michigan Infantry
as First Lieutenant, was engaged at the battles of
South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, was
commissioned as Captain in June, 1863; was with
his regiment at the siege of Vicksburg, and in several
battles incident thereto. At the battle of Campbell's
Station, in East Tennessee, he was twice wounded,
and lost his left hand, and was subsequently brevetted as Major of Volunteers for gallant conduct
in that battle. In May, 1864, he was appointed
Captain in the 2d Regiment of the Veteran Reserve
Corps; and since the war has been commissioned as
First Lieutenant in the 43d Regiment of United States
Infantry, in which he is now serving.
Next upon the list, in point of time, was FRANK
R. RIcE, who enlisted for three months in the 1st
Michigan Infantry, at the very breaking out of the
war, May  1, 1861.  HIe re-enlisted on  the  1st of
September, as Sergeant, and won his way by genuine
valor to a Second Lieutenantcy, and to a First
Lieutenantcy on the 1st of November following. At the
battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he lost-his
leg and was subsequently transferred to the Veteran
leserve  Corps, as  First Lieutenant,  and  has  since
been transferred to the 44th U. S. Infantry, to
which he now belongs.
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7th Michigan Infantry in July, 1861, and was then
promoted to the Captaincy, and on the organization
of the 24th Michigan Infantry, was selected as
Major of that popular  regiment.   He  was  engaged
in many skirmishes and battles, and acquitted
himself like a true soldier. The last battle in which
he was engaged was that of Fredericksburg, December
13, 1862.   He  was  subsequently  sent  home on  a
furlough, from failing health, and died from disease
contracted in the service on the 3d of July, 1863.
CHARLES J. NALL enlisted, after the defeat of
Bull Run, in the regular army, as a private, was
promoted to the medical staff December 1st of the
same year; was in nine general engagements, and
was most honorably discharged, after arduous service,
for ill-health, July 26, 1864.
FRANCIS RAYMOND, Jr., enlisted on the same day,
July 24, 1861, as a private in the 24th Regiment; became Sergeant, August 19, and Commissary Sergeant
April 5, 1863, First Lieutenant and Adjutant, April
26, 1864; received his commission as Captain July 15,
1866; was wounded  at the battle of the Wilderness,
May 5, 1864, and honorably discharged July 9, 1865.
EDWIN S. ACKER enlisted August 15, 1861, as Sergeant in the 9th Michigan Infantry; was wounded at
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a commission as First Lieutenant in the regular
army, March 16, 1863.
JAMNES C. ACKER, his brother, enlisted as Sergeant
in the 2d Michigan Cavalry, August 31, 1861; was
clerk to General Sheridan when he commanded  that
Regiment; was promoted to Acting Adjutant, awaiting
commission as First Lieutenant, but was taken prisoner in one of Morgan's raids; was subsequently
paroled, and afterwards exchanged, and then became
clerk of the military prison at Louisville, Ky., and
served his full three years.
CHAnLES HI. CURTIs enlisted August  22, 1861, as
Quarter-Master Sergeant in the 7th Michigan Infantry; was  commissioned Second Lieutenant, April  15,
1862, First Lieutenant, February 10, 1863, anud Captain
Mlay 2, 1864.  He participated in all the campaigns of
the Army of the Potoniac, including  the seven days
of battle before Richmond under McClellan, the battle
of Gettysburg, and the long struggle so familiar to
all, till the army of Grant was in front of Petersburg.
On the 17th of June, 1864, owing to severe and protracted ill-health, he was compelled to resign, after
nearly three years of most active and gallant service.
STEPHEN S. BARROWS went into the service October
12, 1861, as Second Lieutenant in the 9th Michigan
Infantry, and received his commission  as First Lieu
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tenant on the 13th  day of December, 1861. He was
taken prisoner at Murfreesboro, Tenn., July 13, 1862
and was released on the 16th day of the same month;
was promoted to the rank of Captain, February 27,
1863, and was mustered out of the army at the expiration of his term of service, Novemb)er 13, 1864.
WILLIAM  S. BILISS entered the army  October 13,
1861, as First Lieutenant in Battery B- of the Michigall Light Artillery;  was taken  prisoner  at Shiloh,
April 6, 1862, and foully murdered by a sentinel  at
Montgomery, Ala., Mtay 1, 1862.
LAFAYETTE  F. HAl RTER became Paymaster il  the
Navv, December,  1861, and  served  to the close  of
the war uinder Admirals Davis, Porter, and Lee, in
the Mississippi squadron.
EDWIN  M. CONKLIN enlisted Septemnber 3, 1861, in
Company  E, 9th  Michigan  Infantry, and  during his
first year of service (lied at [rl lahoma, Tenr., July 3,
1862,  of  congestion  of  the  lunlgs occasioned  )by a
forced mnarch.
GEORGE M. LANE became Captain of C ompany B,
of the 1st MAichliganl  Engineers, April,  1862, served
under Buel and Rosecrans, was engaged in the battle
of Stone River, was subsequently Adjutant  General in
the Provost  Marshal General's department in Kentucky till the close of the war, and was mustered out
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as Brevet Major in April, 1866.  The services of this
regiment were invaluable, but mainly in the civil
department as engineers.
GROVER S. WORMER entered the army as Captain ill
the 8th Cavalry Regiment, served during thle war, was
engaged in many b)attles under different distinguished
Generals of the war, and was promoted to a Brigadier
Generalship.
FREDERICK W. SWIFT became Captain of Company
F, in the famous 17th Regiment, in July, 1862, and
on the 11th of September joined the 9th Army  Corps,
and served until the close of the war.   He  was ini
command of the regiment for most of the time after
September, 1863, and was taken prisoner at Spottsylvania Court House, May 4, 1864, in a battle where
his regiment was terribly cut to pieces; was taken to
Lynchburg,  Macon,  and, finally, to  Charleston,  and
was one of the fifty Federal officers placed under fire
as hostages for the safety of that city.  He was exchanged August 3, rejoined his regiment in September,
and served till the close of the war.  HIe was appointed
Colonel of Volunteers for gallant and meritoriousconduct at Spottsylvania, and was also made a Brevet
Brigadier General for gallant and meritorious conduct
during the war.
HERBERT ADAMS enlisted as Sergeant of Company
H, 24th Michigan Infantry, August 4, 1862, was with
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his regiment at the battle of Fredericksburg, was
afterwards taken sick and died at Belle Plains, Va.,
January 4, 1863.
In the spring of 1862, after the battle of Corinth,
Dr. DWIGHT STEBBINS, in response to a call for relief
to aid in the care of the sick and wounded in our
Michigan Regiments, volunteered his services to the
Sanitary Commission, and by that efficient agency was
appointed to the hospitals  at Corinth.  So great was
the demand for his services by those who needed
immnediate aid and attention, and so earnest and sympathetic was his nature, that he could give himself no
rest from constant, unremitting labor, while others
suffered. Wornl with fatigue, he was at length himself
seized with camp fever.  After ten days of illness, and
while still prostrated by disease, and almost in a dying
state, he was conveyed to a steamer bound for Cairo,
but died as the boat reached the latter place, on the
evening of July 18, 1862.
LUTHER  S. TROWBRID)GE joined the 5th Michigan
Cavaliry, September, 1862. This regiment formed a
part of the famtous Mlichigan Cavalry Brigade, and- its
history is a part of the history of the country.  They
were in fourteen engagements in fifteen days  at the
time of Lee's raid into Pennsylvania. He was in
command of the regiment at the time; and, in the
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Tennessee during 1864, engaged in active, arduous and
efficient service; January 20, 1865, was made Provosl
Mlarshlal General of East Tennessee, and joined Stoneman in his raids upon the railroads to cut off Davis'
retreat in Mlarch following, and was engaged in the
chase after Davis, marchling two thousand miles in
sixty-nine days; and at the close of the war was brevetted Brigadier General and Major General for gallaut and meritorious services.
Rev. OnRRI  C. THOMIPSOX, on the 7th of June, 1864,
engaged in the service of the  Christian Commission,
and continued therein till October 1, 1865.
His son, ORRIN C. THO.NIPSON, Jr., engaged in the
same  service  in August,  1864, and  enlisted  in  the
army, March, 1865, and continued  therein  till September, 1865.
His daughter,  MAGGIE E. THOIPSON, was likewise
engaged  one year in the most efficient and valuable
hospital service.
These are our representatives in the army and ~pon
the field of battle: for such  a representation we may
)e both grateful and proud.  There are those who are
now with us who served the country with equal fidelity and courage, although they were not of us when
these services were rendered.
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HENRY D. EDWARDS entered  the 1st Massachusetts
Cavalry Regiment at the commencement of the war,
and was transferred to the Navy  as MAaster's MAate in
February, 1862, and served most efficiently and gallantly until August, 1865, and was promoted to
Paymaster in the Navy.
PHILETUS W. NORRIS entered an Ohio regiment as
private, in the spring of 1861, and the next year raised
and commanded a company; was wounded, and, from
poor health, compelled to leave active service, but was
most efficient in promoting the good cause at home.
WILLI.AM  STOCKING enlisted in 1864 in the 60th
Massachusetts  Regiment,  and rendered service  as  a
private in the ranks.
CONCLUSION.
Such, my friends, is the sketch I have to offer you.
It is meager and imperfect from the stern necessity
laid upon me of rejecting an immense mass of material at my hand for a fuller history.  However imperfectly recorded in these pages, our history of the past
is recorded above, and that record cannot be chaiged.
Imperfect as have been our efforts and our service, we
may well hope that the Master's blessing has rested
upon us.
The wide-reaching influences for good originating
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mate work, and will continue to do that work for all
time. The future is yet before us; its history has not
only yet to be written, but is yet to be made;  weyou, and I, and those that come after us-are to
make that history. This Church should be a living
power in this city for good. We have no secret roots
of bitterness in our midst, no discord; harmony prevails among the people, and between Pastor and people.
We have a good church edifice, paid for, after much
tribulation, and in a central location, and a large
Church membership. But these are not ends, but
means-elements of a living, vital force to be used as
such.   We are to do our part in  the great work of
converting the world to God. While we forget not
this work abroad, our great work is at home; and
the order of this "work is Christian being, Christian
living, and Christian doing.
I have already stated, that, at the time when this
Church was organized, Congregationalism had not a
strong position in the West. Many of its ministers
were graduates of Oberlin; and, while it was admitted
that thev were earnest Christian workers, either with or
without cause, Oberlin was not in good repute as to
orthodoxy among other denominations. This Church
immediately became associated with the other Congregational Churches of the State, and with them suffered
from whatever prejudice existed on this subject. But
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that prejudice no longer exists, either against this
Church  or Congregational  Churches  at large.  They
have the entire confidence of other evangelical denominations, and  Congregationalism to-day needs  no vindicationii inii Michigan.
There are in this State one hundred and seventyfive Congregational Churches, with aii aggregate of ten
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four members
and one hundred and forty-five ministers; and these
Churches compare favorably with the Churches of any
other denomination in all the elements that make
efficient, working Christian Churches, while the ministers are an intelligent, cultivated, earnest body of men,
comprising a full average amount of ability of the
highest order. The Church polity, too, has been found
not only adapted to the West, but peculiarly fitted for
the Western mind, that not only theoretically recoyuizes, but believes with practical earnestness in the
perfect equality of men before God and the Law, and
has little faith in ecclesiastical domination.
At the conmm enement of this address, I referred to
Detroit as it was in 1844.  What it is now, I need not
describe. The recent census of the school children
indicates a population of from eighty to one hundred
thousand.   It has  become  a great commercial  and
manufacturing  metropolis.  Its increase throws upon
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women of this city, great duties and important responsibilities.  The element of religious power, so far as
Churches and Church members are concerned, has increased somewhat in proportion to the growth of our
city.   There  are  forty - nine  professedly  Christian
Churches in this city, as follows: ten Catholic Churches,
two of which are German and one Colored, with a
Catholic population numbering about thirty thousand
five hundred, served by one Bishop and twenty-two
Priests; four Presbyterian Churches, numbering  ten
hundred and seventy- seven members; one Scotch
Church, numbering three hundred and fifty members;
one United Presbyterian Church of two hundred and
eighty members; six Episcopal Churches, with a membership of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight; four
MAethodist Episcopal Churches, with a membership of
ten hundred and sixty-six and eighty-one probationers;
one Protestant Methodist Church, with a small number of members; five Baptist Churches with eight
hundred and four members, including one German,
one French and one Colored; seven German Protestant Churches, with a membership of about two thousand; three Christian Churches, or Churches of Christ,
with two hundred and ninety-five members; two Congregational Churches, with four hundred and fifty-five
members; one Unitarian Church, with three hundred
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bers. These Churches are a power for good in our
midst, and that power ought to be, and might be,
almost indefinitely increased. That increase of power
must, under God, depend  mainly  upon two things;
first, the true Christian character of the professed
Church members; secondly, their wisdom, earnestness
and faithful efficiency in Christian work.
The  masses  of  the  people  need to  be  brought
more directly under Christian influence. We need
to bring within the walls of our churches, and
within the embrace of a warm Christian sympathy,
the men who wear blouses and have faces begrimed
with the sweat and soil of shops, and hands hardened
with toil. These men need to be made to feel that,
beneath the rough exterior, we recognize and appreciate their genuine manhood, their oneness with ourselves, their childhood of a common Father, and that
they are mcst cordially welcome  among us.  As  a
class, they will not accept our condescension, nor
will they meekly take the back or cheap seats in
our churches, nor be gathered in mission chapels.
As one element in a better state of things, I lok
forward with hope to the time when some other
way will be devised of supporting our ministers and
the expenses of our Churches than by pew rents. All
seats should be alike freely open to all, and here,
of all places on earth, should there be true equality,
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and ino htuman soul  should be driven from the house
of God because he cannot, or does not desire to
pay the rent of a pew, or because he is too proud
to confess  his  poverty  and  take a cheap seat,  or
one free of  rent, wvhile others pay.   Our  ministers
and our Church  members  need more fully to appreciate and sympathise with the trials and temptations
of common men  and  women  in covmvon life, and to
understand the good there is in unchristian men,
and to acquire at the foot of the Cross and in the
careful study of  the character and  history of our
Savior, the power of awakening  in sinful souls the
aspirations slumbering there for a nobler and spiritual
life. If the Churches which claim to be evangelical,
and  can, therefore, to some extent, work in concert,
were, in the spirit of their Master, each in its ownl
sphere, to unite to extend the power of a living
Christian faith in our city, it would  be difficult to
fix limits to the good which could be accomplished.
We cannot neglect the exercise of this power and
be guiltless. As members of this Church and Society, let us not be behindhand in this work, which
demands, in the name of God and our common
humanity, our noblest and most earnest efforts.
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MRS. JULIA P. BALLARD,
Or DETROIT.
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ET Fancy fold her eager wings,
Let present cares and joys give way,
While Memory from her store -house brings
Visions that hold a surer sway.
Fling back the curtains of the past;
Just five- and twenty years gone by,
I see beside this hallowed spot'
A Master - Builder drawing nigh.
"Here will I build," I hear Him say,
"A glorious temple to My praise;
Foundation stones of colors fair
With precious stones thy walls I'll raise.
"And, first, that it unshaken stand -
The storms that round it beat, endure -
I'll lay beneath its massive walls
A  Corner- Stone, well tried and sure
"Thy walls the sapphire's brilliant blue;
Of glowing carbuncle thy gates;
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Thy windows the pellucid light
That on the crystal agate waits.
"Here great shall be thy children's peace -
Terror and fear are born of guilt Taught of the Lord, thy children here
In righteousness shall be upbuilt."
He spoke, and, lo, the building rose
In fair proportions to my sight;
And when His Spirit was invoked
His Presence filled it with delight.
Through all the changing yeais since first
God met us, one by one,
Stone-pillowed, sleeping, careworn, lost,
And called us for His own; -
Through sun and storm, through light and gloom
Our Leader has been by,
Till now, divided in two bands,
Our strength we multiply.
When God has chosen to remove
For His own fairer courts above
Some prop our blindness would have kept,
Has He not wrought the change with love?
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And placed beneath the vacant spot,
That He might not our beauty mar,
Supports that fitted to their place,
Without the semblance of a jar?
Among those whom we are greeting
With mingled smiles and tears,
Are some whose hearts are swelling
With the thoughts of other years.
He who first, the Under-Shepherd,
Gathered in the flock with care,
Going in and out before them,
Seeking springs and pastures fair
He who followed, rich in feeling,
Who the lambs so kindly led,
Skilfully the word divided,
And the sheep so wisely fed -
Who the one he held the dearest,
And the lamb his bosom knew,
Left amid your sacred sleepers,
Cherished tenderly by you;
Where the blossoms of each spring - time
Still by loving hands are strewn -
He to- night is weeping with you,
Ye who thought to weep alone.
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But if we turn from earthly circles broken,
Faith's finger points to the bright home afar,
Where angel bands our ransomed ones have welcomed
To share a bliss which Death may never mar.
Oh, could we see the dim, half-polished jewel
Which here we fondly owned our fairest gem,
Freed from its clay, reset in heavenly splendor,
To sparkle in the Savior's diadem;
Might we not deem it almost selfish sorrow
To mourn our loss for such eternal gain;
Or learn, at least, from Faith's sweet light to borrow
A sacred solace for our bitter pain?
Here are others gladly welcomed,
Sharers of our hopes and fears,
Who have joined our sweet communion
In the days of other years.
They are marking still our bulwarks;
They are telling still our towers;
They our very dust are counting
Fairer than dew-laden flowers.
There are those to-night among us,
Tried helpers not a few,
To whom in one great volume
A shower of thanks is due.
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And first we gladly mention
Him who has kept good note
Of all the Church has witnessed Each motion, act, and vote,
For a quarter of a century,
With only thanks rewarded;
Each change of Pastors, Deacons, all
By the same hand recorded.
Thanks to our TRUSTEES we offer,
Always faithful in their calling,
Who, for credit and for safety,
Keep our funds and spire from falling.
And next we thank the USHERs
Whose constant joy has been
To welcome every stranger,
And kindly take him in.
And next we thank the SINGERS,
Whose skill our praise has won,
And the'players upon instruments'
Shall have our glad'Well done!'
And we must bring our SEXTON
Great share of our good will,
Though bowed beneath the weight of years
A faithful worker still.
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Thanks, too, for every LEADER
Of our SABBATH SCHOOL is due,
And each TEACHER, from his store - house
Bringing treasures old and new.
Leaving now the past behind us,
Let us bring for future days
Richer offerings, sweeter incense,
Nobler tributes to God's praise.
Then shall he who overcometh
Stand beside the Emerald Throne,
Take, with new name written on it,
From the King, a pure white stone:
And within that glorious City,
Jasper- walled and garnished bright
With all manner of fair jewels,
Flashing in celestial light;
He shall see the finished temple
Perfect from the corner-stone,
And shall shout as he beholdeth,
"Grace unto it, grace alone."
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Thus far these Memorial services have simply borne
the  aspect  of a glad  thanksgiving  for  the signal
favor of God towards  this Clhurch.  We have traced
with  gratitude the leadings of a b)enign Providence
in all tile stages of its history.  A  Divine purpose
has chosen its times and shaped its course, and we
rejoice as we look back over thie )way in which we
have'been led, in the assurance  that the supervisioir
of a wise and loving Father has never failed us.
We have marked wvith joy the same  manifest grace
which founded it still defending  and  sustaining  it
through the trials of its infancy;  still building  it
into order and strength; ever watchfully ministering
to its needs, and, above  all, visiting  it abundantly
with the reviving and  culture of the D)ivine  t)irit.
Thanks be  to God  this  day  that  He  gave  this
Church place and growth,  and so speedily set it in
favor and power among the Christian agencies in this
citv  and  State.   " Hitherto  hath  the  Lord  helped
us!" and well may we rejoice together with hearts full
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of gratitude as we review the history of this nowcompleted  Quarter  of a Century.
There  remains  now   a  service  which  has  been
deemed essential to this commemoration, which I have
feared  may  bear  a different aspect, and may  seem
to pitch itself on a key of regretful sadness. As far
as we may, we make this a re-union of the Living
AMenibership of this Church.  With this large company
of its present members, are assembled those who have
gone from it to repeat its history in another part
of the city;  and  many of us  who  shared,  at one
period or another, inll its fortunes and labors, but
have  been  thrown  into  other  fields,  gather back
to-night to this dear old Home of ouLir Hearts, and
are here, one Church of the Living, to comnmemorate
the Church of our Dead. We are met to remember
those who through these years have parted fronm us
at the summons  of the Master;  who,  laying  with
us these foundations, and building for a time by
our side, dropped, one by one, their earthly work and
went  on  before Lus into  the  Church  Triumplhant.
Remembering  the  darr day  when  they left us,and
all our sense of loss, and how sorely we felt that, we
needed them here more than they could be needed in
Heaven, it  may  seem  only  natural  that  such  a
MAemnorial  service  should cast itself in  a  mournful
mood.
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But  I  am   persuaded  that our  second  thought
will go far to relieve this service from the tone of
sadness.   Nay,  this  is  not  the  record  of  defeat!
These  are  )tot the  names  of the  fallen!  Rather,
this is a triumphal procession of the Victors! We
rise  by  the  warrant  of  our  Christian  Faith  to
commemorate our precious Dead as the very crown
of our  work  and  the  seal of God's grace.  If any
of all these beloved graves have not been so washed
with tears, if our hearts have not so yearned over
them, as to prove the fulness of our grief and love,
for  such  we  may  mourn  to-night.  But for those
whom we have so loved and longed for, we will.
speak in the fit terms and tone of our Faith.  We
count  these departed  ones  in  reality  the  precious
First-fruits of this Church  Enterprise,  the  trophies
of its achievement wherewith  God  has honored  this
Church.  Let it be, then, with a serene and tempered
gratitude, and with a sentiment of chastened triumph,
that we commemorate now the souls that have  here
been  trained and  ripened in grace,  and that  have
been called hence in their order to higher wals of
service and joy in the Church of the Saved.
For is not this the very function of a Christian
Church, the very end and purpose of its being, to
nurture and train and perfect the souls of God's
children; first of all to win them to Christ, and
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then to receive them as the heirs of life and handle
them in all the gracious methods  and  appliances of
a  Christian  nurture and  education.   Here, in the
Churclh, the rude  and shapeless  masses, fresh  from
the  quarry,  are  modeled  and  hewn  into  polished
stones to enter by-anld-by into the spiritual  Temp)le
above.  For  such space  as pleases the Master, thev
are with us in training, under tuition, in the earthly
Church.  But their place is not here.  Tlhey do but
tarry here  provisionally, and for a defined  purpose,
till thev shall be nurtured for their true place alnd
ultimate service; and when  they  have reached that
point, their  education  is completed,  and they  are
sulmmoned home. It is, indeed, the sore trial of
our faith  when these  ripe solis  depart.  Ah! how
the black clouLd  of this sorrow, never long  absent,
goes shifting around this congregation, from slip to
slip, symbolizing with its dlark drapery the hearts
that are bleeding beineath! htow can we spare them?
And the fitter they are to go the less we can spare
them! God's  work  here  so  needs  them   and jist
when  ripe  and  on  the  wing  for Heaven, Garth
wants them most, and we bewail them with deepest
regret.  Ah! if Heaven were to wait for our consentif none might pass to  it till our suiffrage dismissed
them,  when  would  they  ever  be  spared  from  us!
God  only is the  competent  Judge.  Ile knows  His
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-)owl  perfect  pturpose   in  each   redeeme(l   soul,  aIId
w-hen  each  has  come  to  thatt  stage  of  comrupleteiess
whlichl  fits it fo   juist thle  place  an(id w'ork  designled
foi  it, wiselvy, hbut  sov-eeignlyv,   tle fiat  c(imes,,   ll(
they  are gone  firom  as,  havig  tlei         r plaC  ce hecefotl
amoong  the  Inmmortals.
MAv  h)rethren.  it  is  of  God's  w'isd()on, doul)tless,
tlat  ourt  eves should  t)e  so  hol(len  that  we  slhould
see ouly  ill  part,  an(d so iso      0111'  li)ldiess  hewail
as  oiur  uttermiost  sorrow   what   is  hailed   of   the
augels  as a  coimmemorat,ioi   of  joy.          What  we  call
)eath. 1and  coiunt  for  )ir  T)itterest  grief, tlhey  hail
as  ini  reality  tle  cleariing  of   Life   from   all  its
():)strLctr iols, the  -)irtlh of  a  soul iuto mn(oe abundan    t
Life.
We call this Life; hIut Life's a naime
That nothing here can truly claim.
This wretched InnI where we scarce stay to l)ait
We call our dwtelling-l)lace!
We call one stop a race!
But angels in their full enlilghtened state,
Angels who live and know what'tis to be,
Who all the nonsense of our language see,
Who speak thinitgs, and our words and ill-drawn pictures scOq11,
When we by a foolish  figure say,
Behiold an old maan dead," - then they
Speak properly, and say, "BEHOLD A MAN-CHILD BORN."
And  just  then  while  we  mourn,  heartbroken,
atnd fill the  air  with  wailings for  our dead,  they
crowd with glad  expectance  on  the other  shlore to
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welcome another immortal and crown with amaranth
one  more   life  begun!   We  will  not  complain
of this salutary blindness. Death must needs be to
us a riddle mis-read. We could not beer to be wise.
The Sphinx must hold its secret, in tragic and
stony mystery, inexorable because merciful to the
questioning of mortals.   To open  our eyes on  this
one point, and give us to comprehend Death,
would  involve  an  utter  revolution  in  the whole
scheme and process of our earthly life. A child
must be childish and grope toward the light through
illusions,  and  climb   by   half-knowledge   to  the
wholeness  of Truth.   The  glass we  must  yet see
through  darkens  all, warps  very  much,  and  some
things inverts. And Death is one of these inverted
images- our own death, and that of those dear
friends- and just as we must needs be tied to our
life,  each   one  by  a  blind,  unreasonili-g,  often
unreasonable, instinctive passion for living, so we
must needs clasp those we love, and passionately
hold  them down  with us by the uttermost  tug of
our hearts, blindly, and feeling as our keenest sorrow
what is, to every son of God, his birth into Immortal
Life.
And  yet  we  do  suspect the truth even  in  the
agony of our grief. Thanks be to God! as we gaze
upward in faith, almost we see through our tears
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that it is well the  good  should die.  A  little our
eyes are  opened.   The dawn of Immortality begins
to make  twilight around  the grave,  shining  more
and more, till wve cry, "Oh Death! this was victory
which  we  thought  defeat!"  and  presently,  when
"afterwards the peaceable fruits" appear,  we begin
to consent to  the  Divine  wisdom,nd goodness of
Death, and  see that when  the  full corn is in the
ear, it ought to go to the garner.
It is to be well considered, too, in estimating the
influence of this blindness  which  happens to us on
the whole matter of Death, how largely it serves
to the needed trial of our faith and discipline of
grace. Perhaps not another element enters more
deeply into Christian culture than that of sorrow
and trial from the dispensation of Death. Here it
is our faith in God is tested and developed. Here
resignation, fortitude, and all that group of kindred
graces, have scope and culture. Far more than we
are wont to think, the effective tuition of Character
in all the more robust and hardy virtues, comes of
that feature  in  God's  economy  which  wraps from
mortal apprehension the mystery of Death.
With this juster view, we gain the true criterion of
the  efficiency of  a Christian  Church,  the measure
of the real service it has rendered, and of the
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this: How many souls of God's saints has it trained
and graduated into the Churchl:  of the Redeemed  in
glory?  Those yet left in it here  are souls in  their
infanlcy, under tutelage, still encompassed by infirmity
and  marred  by  defect - candidates,  racers  still  on
the  course,  amid  the  agony  and  hazard  of  an
unfinished  race.  But they  whom  thie Father  hlath
taken  home   are  finished  products,  forever  secure.
The ripe fruits are gathered into the garuler.  These
are so many  trophies of victory acheieved, the golden
wheat  ripenled,  reaped  and  winnowed  from   these
seed-fields of  the Lord  ill His  earthly Church,  the
harvests  they  have  been  blessed  and  honored  to
bear to the glory of God's grace.  The husbandman,
as  he  watches  in  the  spring-time  the  seed just
shooting from  the soil, has  indeed  the joy of hope
- and  a  still  bolder  trust  whenl  summer   gives
ripening  promise  of  the  harvest- and  yet  more
confident joy when  the yellow fields begin to beckon
the reaper-but it is a joy mingled  at every stage
with  fear, and  tempered  by  his  sense  of  many  a
peril.  But  with what serene and  happy security he
showrs  you  the  gathered   sheaves,  the  full  fruits
safely garnered  at last! Our  garnered  firuits  are
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tempered joy, as we  count up the souls that have
risen from  our  number, year by year,  through  this
Quarter of a Century, and passed into  the presence
and service of the Lord.
Yes, verily, the very crown of honor on this
beloved Church is, its fruitfulness ill souls ripened
for the Kingdom.  And  already  what riches it has,
laid up beyond  all hazard! And  as the years roll
on, and, name  by  name, God calls His  own, and
our jewels go from  us to be set in the diadem of
the King,  we will comfort our sadness by sharing,
as we may, in the joy that is felt among the angels
of God.  And  as this  dear Church  grows  old, as
one  after another  the Quarter-Centuries go by-as
this  company  of  our  Dead,  whom   we  tenderly
commemorate  to-night,  shall  welcome  us  and  our
successors co  their growing  number, how  venerable,
how  precious   and   honorable, this   Church  shall
become, still yielding its large harvests of ripened
souls, well known in Heaven as one of its feeders,
and watched of all the expectant hosts above for
the ample income it yields to their ranks. Mother
and Nurse of Souls! what a company of her
children  are  gathering  already  there,  graduates  of
this   school  of  grace,  still  holding  it in  dear
remembrance  and  fonid  regard,  and  watching  to
welcome us who  still linger below!
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Yes, tenderly they remember this scene of their
earthly training, and yearn with affectionate interest
toward  this spot consecrated by their  conflict  and
victory.   I  seem  to  speak  even  now  in another
presence than yours whom  I see, as one compassed
at this moment by another company whom our
eyes may  not behold.  An  assembly  of  the  Unseen
seems   to  gird  us  around;  a   silent   concourse,
claiming their places, with no token of their coming
save to that inner sense by which we know and
feel them near.  We know not, indeed, the conditions
of that higher Life now  theirs: but if, as we trust,
it be within the permitted franchises of the redeemed
ever to revisit the scenes of their earthly course,
surely  that  company  of  dear  souls  gone  before
draw   near   to-night,   and   share  with   us  the
memories that swell our hearts. They who through
all these years dropped, one by one, from our sidethe faces that looked up to me from these seats -
they are here, not less than the faces I see.  Almost
their well-remembered voices greet our ears, and the
clasp of their hands seems warm in our palms
to-night.   Was  it  not  yesterday  they  trod  these
aisles with us and sat with us in these slips?
Years have scarce dimmed the freshness of the joy
we had in their living, and the anguish that wrung
our hearts when the grave shut them from our
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sight. It cannot be but that it is given them to
know very much that passes here on earth, much
of all that touches God's glory in the Church and
in us, whom  they can never cease to love.  And if
it be so, we need no other assurance that they are
with us now, and that'they mingle with our
emiotions the gladness and the congratulations of all
those  who  have gone  fromn  this  Church  to  the
Church Triumphant.
Looking forward to this occasion, I have turned
over, page by page, and year by year, my records
and my memories, and lived over again, scene by
scene, the sixteen years of my Pastorate with this Church.
Strange record, as of some pre-existence, it starts
into fresh life, all aglow with its rapid changes-its
love, joy, trial, pathios! I despair of reproducing these
memories in any fit and adequate terms.  With this
Roll of our Beloved andl Hionored  Dead-this  List
of our Promoted - with  these Nine and Fifty Names
of those dying while I was  with you — with  these,
and the memories that cluster around each namewhat can  I worthlily  do?  Others  more recent'.nud
fresh in your remembrance, who have gone firom your
number since November, 1864, will be appropriately
commemorated by your present Pastor. Briefly I will
speak of those whose departure I witnessed.
My   ministry   among  you   commenced  in  the
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autumn  of  1848 - my  first Sabbath  October  1st of
that year, and my  installation the  6th  of December
following.  The first work had been done in ga'thering
and organizing this Church,  and  the trials incident
to the infancy of such an enterprise had, in good
measure, been passed under the care of my predecessor,
Rev.  HEiENnY  L. HAMIOND,  to whose  faithful  and
self-denying labors this Church owes a debt of honor
and  gratitude.   Under  him,  by   God's  favor,  this
Church had settled its first three-sided question, that
it ouy7it t-o be   that it could  be- and  that  it wvas.
It was  fairly entered in the field which it has since
occupied.   But  its  numbers  and  strength were yet
small,  and  the  members  of  the  Church  and  the
families   which  made  up  its  Congregation    were
scattered quite widely over the city.
I recall only a siolele  death - that of  Miss  ANN
MCLEOD,  firom  our  number,  until  the  following
summer of 1849.  In that season the cholera appeared,
and for a few days wrought quite fatally among  us.
It  was  mv   first  acquaintance  with  tlhat  terrible
disease.   Miami  avenLue  seemed  the  center  of  its
ravages, and,  for  a short time,  the  alarm in  that
street and  the vicinity rose i-iearly  to a  panic.  T'lhe
sick, or dying, or dead, were in nearly every house.
Many  fled, and the faitli and  firmness of all  were
severely  tested.  The  older members of this  Church
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will recall that  season  of alarm,  and the death of
b)rother  R. W.  WARNER.  His  was a  loss severely
felt in  our then  feeble  condition,  and one  which,
from his character and worth, was deeply deplored.
The  same  season took  from  us  Mirs.  MAnY A.
WA:RRENx,   C.ATH:ARNE   BATES,   and   JOSEPh   A.
C1TRISTIE; and brother WILLI-:AM T. AVEnny died in
the fobllowing spring.  FAxNNY  VAN TASSEL and Mrs.
ELIZASBETn T. Sn:Aw left us in  1851, and the next
year was made memorable by four deaths of members,
each  bringing  us its  especial burden of grief.  Our
venerable father TLUDDnEN  dropped  all infirmity and
was crowned with immortal youth.  Brother GEORGE
Coaflox  left the mnemorv of an  emiineltly faithful
and  prayerful  man.   Mrs.  BAGG - the  CELIA  M.
BALIT)WINx,  whose  personal   loveliness  and  refined
Christian excellence gave such beauty to her life and
so much  sadness  to her early  death- left  us  in
June;  and  in  August,  far away in hlis California
sojoul], brothler NATHANIEL T. TAYLOR was struck
down bv cholera.  The  burden of that bereavement
is scarcelv lightened yet among us by the seveniten
years since he went to his distant grave.
The   next  season   opened  with  many  stricken
families and swept from us in succession Mrs. NANcY
WATKINS,   brother   WILLIAI   F.  STEVENS,   Mrs.
KETURAXH  C. JAMES, Mrs. SARAH  PARK,  Mrs. ANN
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ELIZA  GUILE,  Miss  MARY  BISSELL,J  and JOHN  M.
TENEYCKE.
To  many of you,  the following names will  sadly
recall the  second visitation of cholera in 1854, more
afflictive  to  me as most  of  them  died  during my
absence abroad.  The hand of God  seemned heavy on
us,  while,  one  after  another,  JAMEs  H.  GREEN,
WTLLIA-  HAIALYN,  CHAnLES  HALL,   and  B.  A[.
SHELDON  fell in our foremost ranks, anld when  the
ripe  dignity  of  MArs.  EUNICE  E.  BATES, and  the
gracious Christian ladyhood of Mrs.  HETTY  MONDS
went fromn us.  And to these were added in the next
year  the  names of Mrs. JANE  CONIMON,  and Mrs.
NOBLE.   In  1856, our  losses were peculiarly trying.
MAlrs.  MARIA   WILKINS- whlat  a  shlock  of  agony
tore that gentle spirit from  us! and the anguish, so
swviftlv  renewed,  whlen  FRnANcES   NALL bore  away
with her the flower  of young wifely  and  motherly
grace to bloomi ill the Garden of the King.  Brother
PERKINS, was soon added to thlese; and our l)eloved
young brother, EnwARiD S. TYLER,  went soon to the
Savior  in  the  fi'eshness  of  his  first  love.   And
ill the followin g o vear the fatlher went, brotlher ELISIIA
TYLER; and MRS. MARY RYI(E,  closed in great peace
a long life of vicissitude.
On  that sad  roll of widowhood  and orphanage
and  broken homes,  which has  grown so numnerous
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amnong  us,  many  names  were written  in the  dark
mo  ths  of   18.8S.   The   names   of  AMrs.   MARY
AxNDERSON,   Mrs.  CUARLES  BRADLEY,   IIMrs. A:Nx  S.
KITCHEL,  lMrs.   MELVIXA   MESSENGER,  anld  Mrs.
BETSY W.  RICE, will sufficiently  recall that year of
trial.  And  the  tide  of  sorrow  rose  still  in  the
succeeding year and added  many precious names  to
the list of our memorable dead.  Out of the furnace
of long  pailn, GEORGE HOLMlES  entered  at  last into
incorruptible youth.  CELESTIA A. POWELL followed -
i a maiden of rare loveliness and  Chlristianl experience.
MIrs.  ADXLINE   BULL,   and   Mlrs.  MIARY   BULL,
followed  these.  Then  came that  mystery  of bitter
suffering and  madness,  in which  Mrs.  FRANCES  C.
MURRAY  broke  her  way  out of  hir miseries,  we
trust,  into  heavenly  r(ason   and  rest.  And  as  I
name  these  four,   Mrs.   ELECT.A  DIMMICK,  Mrs.
ItARRIET  B.  WARINER,  MArs. E.IILY  STEBBINS,  and
IMrs.  AIARIA  L.  WHEATON, our  achling  hearts feel.
almost as  keenly  as we  felt inl  the depth  of that
ogreat darkness in which they left us, at what  cost of
our  dearest and  best  Heaven  grows so rich! Oiur
other  sister, MAIrs.  HIORACE  \WIIE.ATON,  went  soon
after,  and  Mrs.  HESTER   BOD)MAN,   and  brother
SQUIRE W.  PATCIEN.   MIrs.  MARY   SA N'OFRD  died
IMay  8,  1862.  TI0OIAS  FDARRELL  left  a  memory
very  precious  and   imperishable  among   us.  His
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bright promise, his devoted  piety and manly  worth,
his  mysterious and  sudden death, and  the anguish
of his broken home, give him a mournful distinction
in the annals of thlis  Church.
We have also our Roll of Honor.  We, too, as a
Chutrch, paid  part in  the  price  of  blood  for our
delivered  Country.   Brother  WiLLI -Ni  BLISS  was
captured in service at Corinth,  and  wantonly slain
at Montgoomery, in Alabama, in July, 1862; and in
the same season Dr. DWIG1T STEBBINS fell by disease
while  rendering professional  service after the bloody
days of Shiloh and Pittsburg Laiding.  We received
back  only  the  remains  of  our brother HERBERT
ADAMS,  dying in  the  service;  and  Major  HENRY
W. N-xLL returned only to linger for a season,tid
die of a  malady  contracted  in the  service.   And
in this  list, though  not of our  mlembership, Capt..
CIIARLES  J.  SNII)EI  and   EJ)WIN   M.   CONKLIN
should have honorable record.
Of those still living who stood for us at the front,
and bore our hea[rts and prayers on many  a bloody
field, worthy mention has alreldy been made by our
historian.  But  their names can never  too often be
repeated.   LAXNE. WoMIER,, SWIFT, and NALL-TRowBRIDGE,  RICE, RAYMIOND  and  CUR TIS THOMPSON
and  HARTEi - ACKER  and  ACKER - they did  our
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work, and  shall never lack our honor  tlhat they did
it well, nor our gladness that they did it and lived.
Early   in  1863,  we  parted  with  our  beloved
sister Mirs. RUTH  L-ANE.   Death  gives us  many and
varied lessons.   It was reserved for our sister,  Mrs.
C.  I. WA-LKER,  ill  the ripeness  of a serene  and
steadfast faith, to show us how a Christian, through
pain  and  slow   decay,  can  face  and  wait   and
welcome the sure and well-knownu  coming of death.
The names  of Mrs. BARROws, and  Mrs.  CAROLINE
E. WmITrwooD close the record of those dying
during my pastorate, from the membership of this
Church.
Over all these sixteen years are scattered thickly
the  recorded  deaths  of  dear  children.   Evermore
the Savior has stretched IHis arms toward us and
cried, "Suffer the little children to come  unto  Me!"
Ah! the Kingdom  is  full of such!  In  their  fresh
brightness they pass away unstained, like the dewdrops of a summer morning at the first look of
the sun.   Ever  the  souls of our sweet  little  ones
are rising as an exhalation from Earth  to  Hea3en,
while our fond, yearning hearts follow heavenward
this flight of our fireside angels. They hid their winigs
from us as they lay on our bosom for a time, till
we  almost  deemed them  our own - then, suddenly,
at the MIaster's call, they lifted their pinions and soared
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homeward!  I have before me  a long list of these
dearly cherished names.  KITTIE HIOWAiRD, FREDDIE
and EDD)IE HIIOLM:ES, WILLIE NOI3LE, MATTIE WALCOTT,
CHARLIE EDWARDS, little ANNIE,* WILLIE PARSONS,
MAIARI  PARTRIDGE, JENNIE BARNARD, MARY HALL,
KITTIE  DJ)tNCKLEE,  1BEN  and  EMuMIE  RUSSELL,
FREDDIE  ADAMS,  KITTIE  RICE,  EMMIE  CLOUGH,
WILLIE  CASE   KITTIE  ACKER,  NANCY  HIBBARD,
FRANKIE  BIGELOW,  EMAIMNIIE JONES,  FRANKIE  and
CHARLIE   ADAMS,  FRANKIE   BAKER,   G-EORGIE
BOSTWICK,  CHARLIE  HOLMES,  LIZZIE  and  EMAIMIE
KING, MIINNIE  LAPHAM, JOHN  S. 1IITTEL, EFFIE
WALKER, little OPHELIA,* FREDDIE TARBELL, WILLIE
and JENNIE KEITH, GEORGE CAREY, LEVERETT
DUDLEY BACKUS, SUSIE SELDEN, JOSEPH HOWARD
HILDRETH, JOHN JAMES.
Gladly would I commemorate others, not a few,
once members with us, who have been removed,
and died in other fields; Mrs. MARY J. HAMMOND,
Dea.  CHARLES  HOWARD,  Mrs.  MARY  TILLMAN,
JOSEPH C. BAILEY and ROBERT PURDY and wife.
Of these, one name deserves to be tenderly recalled
by us- that of Dea. CHARLES HOWARD, whose
prayers and faith entered deeply into all the spiritual
history of this Church. He left us in 1861, and
five years  later, it was  my  joy to possess  him
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again in my Church in Chicago. A little later, God
called him home by a fatal hurt received in the
discharge of his duty on a railroad. And others
still, not members of our Church, but intimately
associated  with  its interests  and prized  for their
noble  worth, or tenderly  held  in our  Christian
solicitudes-such names as those of CHARLES AVERY,
JEDEDIAH HIBBARD, JOHN B. DAVIS, Rev. EBENEZER
COLMIAN, GOVERNOR and Mrs. WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE,
WILLIAM H. RUSSELL, Mrs. J. P. CLARK, Mrs. LIBBIE
BUTLER,  Mrs.  FLETCHER,  D). P.  BUSHNELL,  Mrs.
OPHELIA S. KITCHEL and GEORGE F. PORTER. And
still another class compels remembrance - that group
of dear youth whose early death still saddens our homes
- Mrs. HENRY NALL, ALFRED  MINER, Miss ALICE
HULBERT, young BISSELL and NEWHALL, Mrs. DELPHINE CUTTER, Mrs. CHAS. TOWN, Miss FLORINE
TEFT,  GEORGE  COOK,  RICHMOND  HOLMES, WILSON
BROOKS, and SHERMAN  BARNARD.   Pardon me if I
linger among these sacred memories.  Name by name,
what histories rush on my thought, what forms start
freshly to life, as if the  utterance of  their names
to-night were  a spell stronger than  the grave, and
gave them back to us for a little space, to appease
the hunger of our hearts.
It  remains  that we  gratefully record one other,
the most central and crowning favor of God toward
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this Church.  It will most fitly close this Memorial
to  renmember  now  with   devoutest  gratitude  the
precious  scenes  of  Reviving  Grace  that  crowned
these critical years of our history. Many souls were
born  to Christ among  us.*  In  the  early  months
of 1848, under the special labors of Rev. J. T. AVERY,
many had  indulged hope of renewal,  and  sixty-one
were added to us in the course of the year, many
of whom united with us soon after I assumed the
pastorate.   In   1851   the   gracious   work   was
repeated with happy and  very abundant fruit, and I
have assurance that about seventy of the converts of
* I   find   from   my   records  that  additions
the  Church, year by  year, as follows:
In 1844, by letter and profession,..
1845,;.
1846, 
1847,.......
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1852,
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1854,
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1858,
"1859,  ".
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The number who joined in 1864, I cannot state.
Of the original thirteen who  formied this Church, Decembl)er
25, 1844, there are now in its living membershlip, Dea. LYMAN
BALDWIN and wife, Dea. BARNARD, Dea. FRANCIS RAYMOND
and wife, Brother  WILLIAM  COOK  and wife, Mrs.  ROBEIRT
WARNER, and Miss RHODA COWLES.
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that revival were added to this and other Churches.
Again, in 1855, through all the spring and sLmner,
we rejoiced in a continued and deep-working reviva],
and that season and the following added 104 to our
number, in large part the fruits of that gracious
harvest. In that year of signal grace, 1858, when
a  peculiar  spiritual   activity  was  witnessed  very
widely in  the Churches, and when  the  power of a
quickened and devoted lay agency was singularly
developed, this Church shared long and largely in that
happy impulse, and seventy-four were that season gathered to our fold.  These were our chief' harvest seasons;
but at least three other gracious quickenings were
granted  us, with  considerable  product  of  renewed
souls, deserving our grateful remembrance. Inl all,
as nearly as I can gather, fromnt the organization to
the tinie of my leaving, we received six hundred and
seventy-three to our membership, of  whom  a  large
proportion were of those hopefully renewed among us,
and many others, born here, found homes in other
Churches.
This, then,  is  our Memorial  before  God.  After
this  manner,  "hitherto  hath the Lord  helped  us."
Dear Church of my early love and fondest hope!
Dear Flock, the scene of my best years and sweetest
toils and dearest affections, nmyv joy and the crown
of my  life-work, if any God's  grace shall give me
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in heaven!  Dear  Church of Christ's love and care!
precious to so many pleading hearts that still yearn
toward it on the earth, and precious to so many
who watch you from the other shore, with ministries
of sympathy and undying tenderness beyond all we
can know! Dear Company of God's own, to you
now, and to this honored mait of God, your Pastor,
we bequeath this Inheritance of prayers and toils,
this History of God's Grace, this unfinished Work
of the Lord.   God  grant  you a Future  that shall
fulfil the Past!  Build well and faithfully on  these
foundations.  Many  of us will not be seen with you
in the'flesh when you celebrate your Semi-Centennial.
But I think we shall be here. Long ere that day
comes round, a still larger company of us will have
joined  that  band  already gathered on high, caring
evermore and tenderly, even in Heaven, for this
dear Mother, and Nurse, and Home of our souls.
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It is with very  great  reluctance  that I mention
before you the names of those who died among
you after the dismission of your former Pastor, and
before  the  coming of your  present one.  Some  of
these I did  not  know  at  all,  some of  them  but
slightly, and  almost  all  of them  must  have  been
better  known  to you and  to my  predecessor than
to myself.
In  November,   1864, Mr.  J.  H.  CARPENTER,  a
member of this Church, passed away from earth.
A few days since we followed to their resting place
beside her father's remains, those of his youngest
daughter, Mrs. STEWART, the first of his family to
rejoin him.
In December, 1864, on  the day before my  afrival
in Detroit, died Mr. C. L. SIFFORD.  He  left behind
himn a reputation for business integrity and Christian
character more precious than gold to those that
loved him.
Two months later, Death came to a family where
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he  was  then no  stranger,  and where he has  twice
since crossed the threshold, and called out of the
congregation Mr. JONATHAN  EDWARDS, the oldest son
of his widowed mother. In his sickness and death
there was a blessing  upon him  and upon  those he
left behind him.
In  that same month  of February,  1865, the Lord
sent His messenger for two others, members of this
Church.  Mr. SERENO  C. HAIMMOND, brother of Hon.
CHARLES  G. aid Rev. HENTRY  L. HAMIOND, came
to his rest after a long, and, at the last, very
painful  illness.   He  closed  a  manly  life with  a
Christian death.  His  daughter,  ISABEL, who  clung
to him with a peculiar and fully reciprocated
fondness, has, within a few months, followed him
to the land of rest.  Mrs. JANE  T. CARVER, wife of
Mr. DAVID CARVER, died of an attack of malignant
erysipelas. A lady of brilliant parts and captivating
manners, her death left vacant a place in she Church
and in the social circles of her every-day life, which
her friends felt it would not be easy to fill.
On the  day in  which  tidings  had  come to  us
of the assassination of President LINCOLN, April 15th,
1865, we bore to his burial Mr. HEFNRY ARNOLD,
who had passed away more suddenly than the President.  In almost usual health, he had gone from  his
home to his business, and at his work fell dead
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upon the floor.   Anl unobtrusive but decided Christian, his prompt response to the sudden call to a
higher work, must have been given with great joy,
thlougih he left in his earthly home a great sorrow.
In the month following, an iniifant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. ERVIx  PALMEIt, was  taken up  out of
loving arms by loving angels, for the Lord had bidden
them do it.
In the same  month, May, 1865, died Mr. CHARLES
C. TYLER,  one of the young business men of the
city,  whose  energy  and  Christian  character  gave
promise  of  success  and  usefulness in  the future
but consumption had marked  him  for a victim, as,
just  one  year  later, in  May,  1866,  the  same  disease brought his wife, Mrs. ELISABETH  C. TYLER, to
lie beside him in the "city of the dead," as it already
had sent thither, three months after his departure,
his  sister,  Miss  SUSANNA  TYI.ER,  who  had vainly
sought health by a sojourn in England, and who at
last met the Lord's messenger at Warwick, R. I.
These three had all been members of this Church
for a number of years, and  in the early prime  of
manhood and womanhood, they entered the Clhurch
Above.   Sweet  are the  memories  they have  left to
those that loved them.
The four weeks of my vacation absence in July
and August, 1865, were a time of especial enriching
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of the Family in Heaven with those taken from the
bosom of this "MAothler and Nurse of souls."  Mrs.
DEBORAHII C. NASH, mother - in - law of Mr. JAMES
NA LL, Jr.;  Mrs. LAURA  A. SELDEX,  wife of Mr. J.
G. SELDEN;  Mrs. GEORGE  WINTER, whose sweetlychastened little daughter soon followed her to rest;
the infant children of Mr. and Mrs. JOIIN A. WILKES,
Mr. and  Mrs. A.  D.  PIERCE,  and Hon. and  Mrs.
WILLIAMI WARNER,  these all passed away  in those
weeks, leaving vacant seats, and empty arms, and
aching  hearts behind  them- places all their  own,
which will never quite be filled by others.
In October, 1865, little JENNY NILES passed
quickly away, the water of parental baptism lying
almost fresh upon her brow.
In the December following, FLORA ALICE GEER,
at the age of fourteen years, eldest daughter of MArs.
R. GEER, seemed to take the hand of her Savior
and go away with Him to walk in the light.
In  November of that same  autumn,  there came
to die among us Deacon MILLER, of the then newlyformed Congregational Church of Alpena.   He  had
stopped on his journey to the East, to spend a few
days with his daughter, MIrs. GEORGE  N. FLETCIIER,
when Death met him.  He fell as the veteran falls,
with his harness upon him.
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In the early spring of 1866, at the beginning  of
Marclh, the Lord came for his long-tried, auxiouslywaiting servant, Mrs. CATHARINE A. iHOWARI), wife
of ion. JACOB  M. HOWARD.   Richly endowed with
gifts of nature  and of grace;  fitted  fully for  her
position as wife, and mother, and friend, and Christian worker; her family, and friends, and the Church
could  ill  spare  her  from  among   them,  but  the
ansvwer  to their questioning grief, as  they  saw her
fading,  as  the  consumptive  fades,  was  only  this:
"What I do, thou knowest tiot now; but thou shalt
know hereafter."
Two months later, when the flowers were coming,
and the song birds told of newness  of life on  the
earth, there was newness of life in thq land of endless
spring for another of our number, Miss JENNY SMITH,
second  daughter  of'Mr. and  Mrs. R.  C.  SMITE.
Sweetly she fell on sleep, and, we doubt not, sweetly
awoke where they slumber not any more.
"Blessed are they that do His commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter
in through the gates into the city."
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Continuing  this' roll  of  the  departed  ones, the
first  nanile recorded by  the  present Pastor, is that
of Mrs. JAMIES hIOLIES, of Waterbury, Conn., who came
hither an invalid, hoping for restored health in the
atmosphere  of  the lakes.  Disappointed  in this, on
her  return from  M-arquette, she found a home  and
ministrations of Clhristian sympathy with her relative,
M[rs. S. M. HIIBBAnD, until  she  was  taken  to  her
relt, June 12, 1866.
August 31.  On  the last day of  the  same  summer, we laid away in Elmwood, the form  of FLOREXCE BOSTWICK; and on the last day of the spring
following, May 31, 18S67, we laid by her side her
infant  sister,  little  BELLE  ASHLEY.   The  God  of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobl, the God, not of the Dead,
but of the Living, will one day tell the thrice-stricken
parents why  He sometimes gathers our fairest lilies
so  soon,  and  why  He gathers so  many  from one
garden.
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October 23.  THOMIAs W. BISSELL.  This precious
young man God  took, as we believe, from  the imperfections of earth to the home of the pure and
gentle-hearted in Heaven.
November 3.  Mr. and  Mrs.  E.  MINER  CLARK
lost a dearly-beloved son, RICHMOND  HOLMES, at the
age of four years.
December 7.  Mrs. N. G. WILLIAIS.  Not forgetting in health the thi1.ngs that are unseen and eternal, she went forward to meet them, leaning on the
Savior whom  she loved, and whom it was her desire
to confess  before men  by uniting openly with  his
people.   On  the 25th of  the month  following, she
received again to her embrace, the infant daughter,
a few weeks old, to whose life she had given her own.
December 11. Hon. CHAUNCEY GRIGGS died at
the  house of his son-in-law,  Mr.  G. O. WILLIAMS.
Two years previous, he removed to Detroit from
Tolland, Conn., where the various public trusts committed to him for a long course of years evinced
the confidence which his  fellow  citizens reposed in
him as a man of sound judgment and incorrupltible
integrity.
THIE YEAR 1867.
March 20.  Mrs. MARY  LEONARD  RICE, who died
in Washington, D. C., was buried from Westminster
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church in this city, where, less than six months
before, she had given and received the vows of
plighted love at the bridal altar.
March  31.  Mirs. MARY  DAVIS.  She manifested in
a striking manner her great love for the public
worship of God, by her faithful attendance in the
sanctuary, notwithstanding severe bodily afflictions.
April 15. This day witnessed the beautiful end
of a beautiful life in the passing away of ISABEL
R. ADAIS, whom her Lord lovingly took from great
and prolonged suffering, patiently borne, to fullness
of joy in His own presence, to the pleasures which
are at His right hand forevermore.
MAay 25.  Mrs. GEORGE W. BARNARD died at St. Clair.
From her youth she had been a member of this
Church, and was highly esteemed and tenderly
beloved by all with whom she was brought into
intimate companionship, for the steady and undimmed
brightness  of  the  quiet,  consistent  and  faithful
Christian example which she displayed to all who
took knowledge of her that she had learned of Jesus.
Her early departure saddened  many hearts.
June  21.   WILLIAir PURDY,  once  a member  of
this Church, during his last days expressed  a greatly
revived  tenderness  of  affection  for  the  Church of
his earlier years, and passed away in the peace of
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a re-awakened penitence, and of renewved trllst in the
mercy of his Redeemer.
July  23.  Captain  and  Mrs. ROiERT  J. HACKE TT
were afflicted in the loss  of an  infant daughter by
the  siummer  scourge of children   and, one  month
later,
August  22,  MIr. and  AIMrs.  NEwELL  AvERY  SUStained a like  bereavement in  the death of  a little
daughter of like age, and by the sanme malady.
November 24.   MIr. RUSSELL A.  COE  died at the
house  of  his  sister,  MIrs.  S.  M.  HIBBARD.   Anl
expected reunion of  friends tunder this sister's roof,
after long and wide separation, gave  the prospect of
an unusually happy winter.   But the first congratulations were scarcely over ere the shadows of this
atflictioni began to darken.  The heart was saddened
just as it was most buoyant with  hope.  The ashes
wvere cold on the hearthstone just as  - e neared the
borders of  that  time  when, of all the  year,  the
fires  of  domestic  love  are  wNont  to  glow  most
brightly.
TiI  Y:EAR  1868.
Mar  15.  MAIGG,IE  P. B:ROOKS.   With everything  at
her  disposal  to make  life desirable  hee,  she  chleerfully  resigued  all  tbr that  EterIaLl  Life  which  is
the  gift  of  God   to  the  believer  through] Jesus
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Christ  our Lord.  Finding  Christ in prayer,  in  Hlis
Word, in  the brolken  bread  aLud poured  wine of the
Supper, in  the communm ion  of  Christian  hearts, she
did not want,  she  did  not  fear.    ier  cup  overflowed.
Alay  30.  HENRY HowE,  an affec(tioniate  son and
brother, in his friendships  singularly strong and steadfast.
July,9.  Hon. WILLI-AM WAXNER  died in Quincy,
Illinois, while  stuperintending  the erection of an iron
b)ridge  over  the  Mississippi.   Notwithstanlding  Mr.
'ARnExn's rare gifts and attainments, his great grasp
and  reach  of intellect,  the  crownv  and  radiance of
his character  was  his  Christi,ti  humility.    A  few
days before his death, he said, in the self-distrust of
conscious weakness and imperfection, but at the same
time in the joy of a calm trust in Jesus,  "In many
things I have come short of mny duty, but the Lord
is my  Shepherd.  If it were the ILord's will, I should
be  glad  to live  that  I might  round  o?, t w y  1[,fe
by-  giving  imyself  more  earnestly  to  prayer,  and
the study of HIis Word."   But his work  was  dmie.
While  viewing from the window of his sick chamber,
wvithl  thle help of a field glass, the  progress  of  the
iloth)e structure spanning the mighty Father of WVaters,
an  airy link in one of  the great highlways  of  the
Continent  to bind its two ocean shores together, an
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gel-builders  were  silently  laying the beams of that
mysterious  crossing,  hidden  from  mortal  eye, over
which the feet of God's released pilgrims pass to the
Heavenly Shore.
July 31 and August 11.  Little HELEN  and JULIA,
twin daughters, but a few weeks old, of Mr. and
Mrs. ALFRED  HOWARI).  Will they ever know  any
other birthplace but Heaven?
August  22.   Mr.  and Mrs.  CHRISTIAN:  MELLUS
were deeply afflicted by the drowning, in Detroit river,
of a son of eight years of age.
October 17.  RUSSELL A.  HIBBARD.   The  friends
most intimately atcquainted with his inner life, had
seen, for some time before his death,  how  God was
leading  this  dear boy in " paths of righteousness"
and Christian peace, but, alas, they little thought that
it was because he was so soon  to walk  without fear
by the side of the Good Shepherd, through the shadows
of the Dark Valley.
November 17.  In  the  unlooked-for departure of
MfIrs. H. WT. STAnDART, Sen., while her husband, and
a large circle of children mnourn  one of the best of
wives and mothers, they are comforted by memories
of her exemplary life, and the tranquility with which
she met an exchange of worlds.
November 22. Mr. HUGH H. WRIGHT, after a pro
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tracted and very painful illness. which we cannot but
hope was blessed to his convers on and salvation.
November  24.   CHARLES  TW.  KEITHI,  son of  Mrs.
G. W.  LATIMEn,  aged ten years, whose love for the
Bible, and the Sunday  School, and Christian hymns,
gave good reason to believe that, prepared by the
Holy Spirit, his youting  heart, as good ground, had
already received the good seed of the Kingdom.
December 20.  MIrs. D. M.  RICTARDSON.   During
her illness her mind dwelt with peculiar pleasure on
that beautiful scene, where, in the form of a dove,
purity, gentleness, and peace, driven from  the world
bv sin, came to it again in the person and throuigh
the work of the Lord  Jesus Christ.   On the Lord's
day, the heavens opened  to  receive the spirit of this
now sainted sister, who breathes the pure and peaceful atmosphere of that same Heaven where Jesus is.
THE YEAR 1869.
Jalnuarv 2.  At  this date we  lost another of the
most faithful  of  our  members,  Mrs. E.  D.  JoNEs.
She loved  the  ordinances  of  God's  house,  and, it
was a  great  solace  to  her  in  her  sickness  that,
when  in health, she had never failed in her attendance on  the means of grace.
March  25.  In  the death of  Mrs. ABBY P.  COLtMAN,  who  died  in Princeton,  Ill., but was brought
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hither for interment, the deep grief of her children
at the loss of so precious a mother was mingled
with so much of thanksgiving that she had so long
been  spared  to them, that  they  found it easy  to
say:  "'Blessed be the name  of Him  who gave and
who has taken away."
April 5.  ISABEL HA-M'OXD.   It seemed strange to
us that one so well fitted by sanctified intelligence
and  culture  for Christian usefulness in  so  many
places, should be removed from us; that a light
which shone with so much purity  and  constancy in
the  Church,  in  tle  Sunday  School,  and  in  the
family, should  be so soon extinguished.  But in the
light of that higher service to which the Mlaster
has called her, it no longer  seemi's strange  to her;
it will not long seem strange to us.
April 30.  Mrs. TIiOMIAS  Munpi Y.  The unfeigned
and deep sorrow which the death of this dear friend
occasioned   here,  evinced  how  tenderly   she  had
endeared herself to those who had been happy
enough  to know  her  well.  Her  presence  was  a
blessing in the Sunday  School, whether as Teacher
or as a menmber of  the Bible Class, in the prayer
meeting, and in the social circle.  As'her Pastor,  I
cannoi t recall without a pang  of regret for my great
loss, the pleasant and affectioniate mainner with which
she  uniformly  greeted  me  whenever  and  wherever
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we met. So perfectly did she seem to understand
the manifold engrossments of a Pastor's time and
thoughts, as to convey the impression that she took
more pleasure in looking after him, than she would
take in the feeling that he must be looking after
hIer. This was due to her beautiful spirit of selfforgetfulness, enhanced, doubtless, by the experience
gained  by being reared  in  a  Pastor's  home.   She
was the daughter of Rev. J. A. THOME, of Cleveland, Ohio.
July 12.   Mr. and Mrs. ALBERT  D. PIERCE  were
called, a second time, to taste the bitterness of
affliction  in  burying  an only  child,  their beloved
JENNIE, at the age of seven months.
August  19.  Mrs. Rev. JAMES  NA-LL closed  a life
of active, ardent piety which had proved a rich
blessing to multitudes, first in England, the place
of her nativity, subsequently in Canada, and, later
still, within the bounds of our  own  State.   Hers is
the blessed memory of the just.
September 20. Mr. WILLIAM B. COLBURN, after
a distressing illness of  eighteen  months.   I do  not
remember ever to have met with a more marked
case of sanctified affliction. Scarcely had God sent
his arrows, before He came after with the precious
balm  of consolation.   He  felt  that  God  was  not
against him, but with him in his affliction, calling
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him to a more earnest attention to the things of
salvation, to come back to the Savior from whom he
confessed that the engrossments of business hadc
caused him  to stray.  He heard this call, but found,
as he expressed it, that our Heavenly Father does
not wait for his son's return, but runs out to meet
and embrace him, and to welcome him home.
October 22.  With the name of our latest departed,
TURNER STETSON, this Memorial Record is closed, and
closed most worthily. This dear brother was one of
God's noblemen, a wonderful trophy of His transfbrming grace;  one  who  ever found a home  in the
Church, because he came forward manfully and made
himself at home in it; a man of whom an intimate
friend and keen discerner of character once said: "I
know of 1no man in the city of Detroit, whose  life
for the last thirty years has been so uniformly consistent."
Dear  Friends  of  the Church  and Cougregation'
The list of those of our number who hlave finished
their earthly trial and gone to their account is ended.
The cloud  of witnesses, at first no  larger  thni  a
man's hand, is overspreading the heavens. Very soon
for each one of us the record will be closed and
sealed up forever. Let Lus, with all diligence, earnestness  and  promptitude,  finish,  and finish  well, the
work which God has given us to do.
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FROM REV. W. W. ATTERBURY.
N. Y. SABBATH COMMITTEE ROOMS,     #
NEW YORKi, December 6th, 1869. 
DEAR BRETHREN:   I very much  regret my  inability to
accept the invitation you have kindly sent me to be present
at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of your Church.
Brief as was my connection with the Church, it was
under such circumstances as to impress very deeply all its
incidents upon my  memory, and to exert a most important
influence upon my subsequent ministry. I came to you just
from the Theological Seminary, very young in years and
without experience. The Church, too, was young, and its
members (many of them recent converts of a precious revival
under the labors of MAr. FINNEY) were ardent and active.
Much work was to be done outside the study and the pulpit,
and to this, as promising more immediate results, I was
encouraged by zealous brethren, and gave perhaps a disproportionate  attention.   But  the influences  of  God's blessed
Spirit were not withheld.  Many were led to Christ, some of
whom are with Him now, and others continue to this day, I
remember well the first inquiry meeting of that winter.  It
had been appointed with a good deal of trepidation, but when
I went there  I was encouraged to find a group of eight or
ten, most of whom  were  professors of religion in darkness,
seeking light.  One  young man  of seventeen  was  led that
evening to decide for the Lord, and over him I rejoiced
greatly as the first fruits of my ministry. Two weeks after,
he came to my study with a young friend of his own age,
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whom he was seeking to bring to Jesus. This friend devoted
himself that day to the service of his Lord as we three knelt
together in prayer, and after a short but useful life among
you,  serving  with great  fidelity, and adorning the doctrine
which  he  professed,  was  called home.   The  memory  of
CHARLES TYLER will long be dear to the many  who  knew
and loved him. The other, first mentioned, the Philip who
brought this Nathanael to Christ, still lives among you, as
true, I trust, to the standard of the Cross, as he was to his
country's flag. Many other scenes of that winter linger in my
recollection, fresh and fragrant.  Amid the labors of subsequent
years, I have never ceased to feel a peculiar interest in, and
attachment to, that company of Christ's disciples whom it
was my first privilege to serve in the ministry of His Gospel.
May the smile of the Master gladden your hearts at your
Anniversary, and may your beloved Church be made in years
to come, as in the years that are past, a chosen instrument for
promoting the honor of His Dear Name.
Faithfully yours,
W. W. ATTERBURY.
FROM HON. CHARLES G. HAMMOND.
OFFICE OF GENERAL SUP'T OF THE UNION PACIFIC R. R. f
OMAHA, Neb., December 6, 1869.
DEAR BRETHREN: I amii detained here, and prevented from
uniting with you  in the deeply-interesting occasion of your
approaching anniversary, by duties which it is not possible to
avoid. Accept assurances of, and present to the brethren of
the Church, my profound regret that I am to lose so precious an opportunity to renew friendships which have given
me great joy, and to unite with them in thanksgivings that so
feeble a vine has produced so much  fruit.  Planted in weakness and amidst the doubts of some, against the wishes of
others, surrounded by evil forebodings, and, worst of all, overwhelmed by the pity and condolence that mocked our feebleness, God graciously gave to that feebleness His strength,
until, in time, you have become "two bands."
In that effort, long and arduous though it was, I did what
I could, but not having done anything more than my duty,
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as I then viewed the ground, and as, in the retrospect, it now
appears, I desire with gratitude to give all the praise to God,
and to instrumentalities of His appointment, whose agency was
made effective.
While I should not thus allude to myself at all, were I
not forced to do so by the terms of your invitation, I must be
permitted to ask you to assure the brethren  and sisters who
my  remember  me  in connection  with our  early  struggles,
that I am so deeply imbued with a sense of the value of that
and such organizations, upon "the foundation of the Apostles
and Prophets, Jesus C!irist Himself being the Chief Corner
Stoae," that I have not ceased to do what I could to lay their
foundations.  In my subsequent efforts, often amid  darkness
and doubt, I have not tailed to behold lilght and gain courage
firom Detroit's successful achievement.  Often have I called to
mind the noble  )baud of faithful ones associated there,  and
said, MIay not other bands, equally noble, be gathered and toil
on to an equally assured success?
God has given success to the organization which you celebrate and to other  Scriptural  Congregational organizations,
widely extended within these twenty-five yehrs.  He has made
these organizations thc happy earthly home of many of His
dear ones here, and the stepping-stone to a more enduring
home above.
There, my brethren and sisters, we have many dear  ones,
once co-laborers, now at rest, and reaping the rich rewards of
their faithfulness here. I trust I need not entreat you, as you
join your glad  thanksgivings for  all the  mercies you  have
received for these many years,  that you tail not to thank our
beloved Lord that He has remembered His promises, has been
faithful to His word, and taken so many to b)e forever with
Him.  Do not for a moment wish them back, but rejoice that
their conflicts are past, and that  they  are  safe  " beyond the
River," forever at home.
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In cutting short what I long to utter, let me say that my
wife joins tr,ily in all that I write, and while we  offer up our
prayers that you may have a joyful, happy time, be filled with
the Spirit, and gain  strength  and resolution for  further  conquests in the name of our dear Savior, let us ask your united
remnembrance of us at the "sweet hour of prayer," that we
may stand up manfully for the right and meet you all in God's
good time, and join that Song which is sung only in Heaven.
With Christian salutations, I am, dear brethren, yoiirs,
C. G. HAMMOND.
FROM MYRON H. CRAFTS, ESQ.
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., November 23, 1869.
DEAR BRETHREN:  Your printed note of invitation of Novemiber 1st, to be present at the Twenty-Fifth  Anniversary of
the organization of the First Congregational Church at Detroit,
came to hand after some delay, too late for anything to appear
from me at the time of your anticipated exercises. I could not
be present in person, although I can think of no one thing
that would afford me more unalloyed pleasure, than to be
with you on the joyous occasion.
The relations I once sustained to that Church, its individual friendships and its rich spiritual privileges are treasured
up in my heart, very gratefully to you and the blessed Master,
who ordained for me nearly three years of such profitable and
happy fellowship.
Isolated, as I have been these many years, from such rare
blessings, makes  me  the  more  deeply  and fully appreciate
them, and long to be with you and participate in the exercises
of the occasion. But I can only be with you in spirit and
tender remelbrances..
May the Great Head of the Church be with you and make
the days full of blessing and cheer to all hearts present   And
may all the members gird themselves to do more manfully for
the Master in the days that yet remain, for the advancement
of His Cause and the upbuilding of His glorious Kingdom.
I am very truly yours in Christian bonds,
MYRON H. CRAFTS.
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FROM DECEMBERi 25, 1844, TO DECEMBER 25, 1869.
AVERY, WILLIAM T.
AVERY, OLIVIA M.
ALLEN, RICHARD
ADAMIS, NANCY
ADA.IMS, LAURA
ATWOOD, MARY L.
ADAMS, HERBERT
ATWOOD, H. S.
ADAkIS, JOSIAH
ALLEN, JANE
ACKER, SAMUEL
ACKER, BETSEY ANN
ADAMIS, SARAH F.
ARNOLD, IHIENRY
ARNOLD, WINNIFRED
AVERY, MIARY
ACKERMAN, MARTHA F.
ARMSTRONG, A NNA H.
ARNOLD, MARY
ADAMS, THOMAS K.
ALDEN, JOHN M.
ALDEN, AUT USTA M.
AUSTIN, CYNTHIA F.
AUSTIN, MARY H.
AUSTIN, JOSEPH H.
ADAMS, CAROLINE E.
ADAMS, ISABEL
ADAMS, LAURA S.
ALLEN, ELLEN
ANDREWS, GEORGE P.
ANDREWS, SARAH G.
ADAMS, WILLIE D.
ALLENDYCE, MARGARET
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BALDWIN, LYMAN
BALDWIN, -MANCY
BARNARD, SHERMIAN S.
BULL, ADALINE
BARNARD, MARY J.
BAILEY, JOSEPH C.
BAILEY, ANN
BATES, CATHARINE
BRUSH, AMIANDA
BISSELL, MELESENT W.
BALDWVIN, CELIA M.
BURNELL, EM.ILY J.
BLACKADER, JOHN
BACKUS, JULIANA T.
BARNULI, MIINERVA
BEEBE, MARY
BROWN, EM)IMA 
BLACK, CATHARINE S.
BUSHINELL, HIAXNAH H.
BROWN, EMIILY
BARROWS, LURANIA
BARROWS, STEPHEEN S.
BUFFUM, JOSHUA
BUFFuMI, RUTEI H.
BRAIAMN, CYNTHI.A
BARNARD, JOHN Q.
BARNA.RD, ABBY
BARNUM, EDWIN W.
BARNUMND, MARY E.
BRADLEY, MATILDA
BRECK, ANGELINA
BEATTIE, MARTHA
BEATTIE, MARGARET
BRUNDAGE, HARVEY H.
BOYD, ROBERT W.
BRONSON, IRA
BLISS, WILLIAMNT
BROWN, SAVRAIH
BEECHER, MiARY
BROOKS, CAROLINE
BRONSON, LAURA E.
BRADLEY, Mrs. CHARLES
BIGELOW, MARY G.
BECKER, MDAiRIA I.
BEATTIE, ELIZA
BUTTERFIELD, HAIRRIET A.
BARNARD, EMNILY L.
BAIRD, ELLEN A.
BURNELL, ELISABETI-I.,E.
BRADLEY, ARTIE -M.
BARRETT, CH.ARLES H{.
BLISS, L-ucy
BLISS, FRANCES H.
BLACKADER, MARTHA
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BARNUM, LUCRETIA S.
BOSTWICK, SOPHIA A.
BEEBE, ABIGAIL
BEATTIE, MARTHA
BUTLER, HANNAH
BA'TES, FREDERIC D.
BURROUGHS, LOUISA L.
BATES, JOANNA
BAKER, HENRY S.
BALDWIN, JOHN A.
BELLOWS, JANE A.
BUTLER, ENiMA M.
BIGELOW, CHARLES P.
BEARD, ROBERT R.
BELL, DANIEL P.
BELL, CLARISSA E.
BROWN, SYLVIA
BURR, WILLIAM H.
BUTLER, CHARLES W.
BROOKS, MARGAR ET
BROOKS, MARY
BARNARD, MARY
BISSELL, MIARY S.
BEATTIE, ROBERT
BROWN, MIARIA E.
BEACH, MARY N.
BOCHMAN, HIESTER
BATES, EUNICE E.
BALDWIN, FRANCES
BEEBE, JOHN E.
BULL, MIARY
BRONSON, WILLIAMII H.
BURGESS, HENRY A.
BURGESS, JULIA E.
BOSTWICK, HENRY E.
BARTLEY, IARY E.
BARTLEY, SARAH E.
BRADNER, ADDIE S.
BATES, JANE
BURGESS, MIARY P.
BIGELOW, JOSEPH E.
BAKER, HIENRY E.
BAKER, EMILY P.
CRAN E, JAMES. G.
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CHURCH, PHILETUS S.
CHURCH, ELISABETH D.
COIT, SAMUEL
CUSHING, MARTHA A.
CO E, ISRAEL
CRAN-E, LOUISA M.
COlT, MARY E.
COE, HULDAXLY
CHRISTIE, JOSEPH A.
CHRISTIE, JUDITH
COE, CORNELIA
CUSHING, CHARLES S.
COMMON, GEORGE
COMMON, JANE
COE, SARAaH M.
COE, ADELAIDE E.
CAMIPBELL, MIARIA
CHArFFIN, PATIENCE B.
CARPENTER, J. H.
CHASE, JOHN A.
COOK, ANN
CONKLIN, ANNA
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CASE, MARCIA L. C.
CROSS-,AAN, MARTHA
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CRAFTS,'i4YRON H.
CRAIG, PHIDELIA A.
CARRIER, FRANCES M.
CROss,wA.N, Lucy
COOPER, ELLEN E.
CARLISLE, FREDERIC
CARLISLE, CHARLOTTE
CHANEY, LUCIEN C.
CURTIS, LEWIS M.
CURTIS, CHARLOTTE S.
CLARK, ELIZA D.
CLARK, MARIETTA L.
CARRIER, MARY E.
CUSHING, LIZZIE S.
CHEYNE, GEORGE
CLARK, GARDNER K.
CARRIER ALBERT E.
COCHRANE, SARAH A.
CLARK, GEORGE H.
CLARK, FLORA
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DONALDSON, AGNES
DUNCKLEE, MARY C.
DWIGHT, PH(EBE
DWIGHT, MIRIAMDI
DUNCKLEE, WILLIAM S.
DUNCKLEE, LYDIA L.
DIMMNIICK, ELECTA
DAVIS, WILLIAM W.
DUNCKLEE, HUBBARD H.
DRAPER, VMINERVA. L.
DAVIS, NANCY
DOREMfUS, HARRIET J.
EDWARDS, WILLIAM R.
EVERETT, JANE
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DAVIDSON, ELLEN
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DUNCAN, H-,-VRRIE'F
DOLSON, LuRv
DAVIS, iAlARY
DUI[TAND, EMILY M.
DURAND, E-,Nl, —qA C.
EDWARDS, ELISABETH
EL-MORE, ALMIRA
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EDWARDS, MARY P. L.
FARRAND, BETHUEL C.
FARRAND, HELEN W.
FARRELL, CATHARINE H.
FARRELL, THOMAS
FARRELL, CATHARINE
FISHER, SUSAN T.
FULLER, AMELIA
FLORENCE, MARY A.
FOSTER, Mrs. JOSEPH
FOSTER, Mrs. JOSEPH Jr.
FREELAND, Rev. SAM'L M.
FREELANI), ELISABET]H I.
FERRY, FANNY B.
FISHER, CATHARINE
FOWLER, STEPHEN
FISHER, MARY
FROST, MAHLON S.
FERGUSON, SARAH
FOOTE, PH(EBE
FISHER, ESTHERF
FARRAND, RHODA E.
FITCH, EDWARD D.
FISHER, GALEN M.
FISHER, SUSAN
FLOWERS, Mrs.
FITCH, ELISABETH A.
FOLSOM, SARAH A.
GARD)INER, MARGARETTA M.
GRIGGS, STEPItEN
GRAY, EMILY R.
GRAHAMS, EILIZA A..
GRIFFITTI, JOHN H.
GORE, HARRIET L.
GLEASON, AMIELTA
GILBERT, NIARIETTA
GRIGGS, L. LAVONNE
GREEN, IRENE E.
GILBERT, ANN C.
GILBERT, HARRIET L.
GIEKIE, WALTER D.
GREEN, CALVIN H.
GREEN, ESTHER E.
GREEN, JAMES H.
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HOLMIES, JABISH
HOLMES, LYDIA
HIGGINS, MIARY T.
HICKOK, WILLIAM H.
HARTER, CATHARINE
HOLLYWOOD, THEODOSIA
HOLMAN, SULLIVAN
HOLMAN, Mrs. S.
INGERSOLL, EMILY M.
JONES, MARY J.
JAMES, JOHN
JONES, MARY A.
JONES, JANE
JONES, RICHARD L.
JAMES, KETURAH C.
IIENDE-RSON, J ANIES -U'.
HU, BBELL, iIrs. N. J.
HOLBROOK, HATTIE B.
HOWARD, ALFRED
HOWE, SARAH.
HOLDSWOP,TI-1, JAMES
HENRY, WILLIAM G.
HENRY, HULDANIVH S.
HENRY, FAYDELIA S.
HENRY, AURELIA S.
HEPBURN, JAMES 1-1.
HEPBup,N, GEO-E,GIE
HOWE, i4r,-,. G. W. 
LIST OF ME]MBERS.
JOHNSON, ELISABETH
JONES, ANGELINE M.
JONES, MARY J.
JONES, DAVID
JONES, CHARLES S.
JONES, EDAIuND D.
JONES, FANNY E.
JONES, ADALINE
JONES, REBECCA M.
KIMLBALL, M[ARY J.
KING. ROBER T W.
KIBG, ELISABETH
KITCHEL, REV. HARVEY
KITCHEL, A-N N-A
KING, BERIAH
KING, MIARY A.
K~-IGHT, ELLE-N J.
KERR, POLLY P.
KITCHEL, COR:NELIUS I
KNIBLO, CLARA
KELLOGG, EMIILY C.
KELLEY, GEORGE B.
KELLEY, AMELIA F.
D. KINNEY, EURETTA A.
KITCHEL, COURTNEY S.
KANADY, WILLIAM S.
KANADY, CALISTA M.
KANADY, SARAH C.
KICNG, C. FRAN CES
KANADY, HARRIET B.
KTNAPP, AVERY
LUDDEN, SILAS
LAING, EDWARD S.
LITTLE, ANN
LOW, LUCY
L.ANE, AIINOT Tr.
LANE, RUTH F.
LANE, GEORGE 1IM.
LEICKE, SEVILLA
LATHROP, SOLOMON JR.
LEE, HENRY H-.
LAPHAMI, MARIA A.
LILLYBRIDGE, MINERVA
LOOSE, JOHN   F.
LAWRENCE, GERTRUDE M.
LAPrANi, NOAHI D.
LOWE, EUGENE S.
LYLE, SUSAN
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POWAELL, A. C. 
PARSONS, PHILOP
PARSONS, AxNx E.
PARSIlALL, CORNELI AM
PURDY, WILLIIAME
PARTRIDGE, TIO()TIIY L.P
PA YNE, DOUGLASS
PURI)Y, ROBERT
PURDY, Mrs. ROBERT
PURDY. MA RY
PURDY, HARRIET A.
PARK. SARAH
PATC(HEN SQUIRE W.
PATCHEN. ABBY B.
PERKINS. ASA  E.
PARRISH, LEE
PARRISH, HANNA-H J.
PORTER, ELIZA G.
PERKINS, SARA H A.
PERRIN. HIIRAMI M.
PERRIN, EV-ELINE
POWELL, CELESTIA A.
PERT, ELISABETH
i    RAYIMOND, FRANC OIS
RAYMOND, RUTH
RA-YMIOND, JAMIES lM.
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PE-NFfELI), I)IVVID 0.
PE-FIELD, SARAH
PRITCHARD,'I'l-NIOTT-IY
PIERCE, AL13ERT 1).
PARKER, I)ELIA A.
PAL —NIER, CALVI —,r D.
PAL —NlEu, Eipvi-,N
PP,ESTOIN, J U, LIA E.
PRO]UTY, CATHARINE
PHILLIPS, E. D.
POIITER, C. HELE-N
P-,VL —NIER, E —Nl-NIA L.
PENFIELD, COR-NIELIK
PE,XIIL, HVRRIET L.
PROUTY, WILLIAAI
PIERCE, CAROLINE B.
PEASE Ti-fo —Ni-A-s H.
PE.-,-FIELD, SARAH E.
PIURDY, I-VIARY
PURDY. JOSEPH W.
P-A-P,KER, EDWIN
PtTRj)y, ELLA J.
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ROLEFSON, ANNA
ROBEIITSON, JAMES 
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LIST OF
ROB FRTSON, JANET
RE-l), ELISABETH, A.
RICE, M-1ARY
RAYMIOND, CHARLOTTE
REDFIELD, ALIEX. 11.
RICE, BETSEY W.
RICE, 3[rs. - MARX1Y
RICE, MAR-Y
RICE, ANNA  TW.
RICE, HARRIET
RANDOLPH, JAN-E
ROBINSON, MARTHA        R
ROBINSON, MARY
RICHARDSON, DAVID M.
RICHARDSON, ELLEN L.
STROUD, MARY A.
SACKETT, SOPHIIRONIA      I
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STEBBINS, EMIILY
STEVENS, AMios 2d
STEEVENS. SEARS
SMITH, RALPH C.
SMIITH, JA NE
SUM[NER, FREDERIC M.
SU-MNER, ELISABETH E.
SHAW, ELISABETH T.
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ROBERTSON, ELLE-K
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R,OBI-NSON, ToliN
RUSSELL, EAiiily L.
P-,,ICIIART),SO, LEVI
Ilf( —H.,VP,T)SON, JINE B.
ROBI-.N-SON,'LDARTT-TA
R'-)BITSON, RUTH
ROBERTS, ANN
ROSE, MELISSA
RAN1)ALL, FR,EE.AIAN R.
RANTDOLPH, EiilLY
ROBERT,',O,-N, MARGAPET
RIC]EI.1,RiDs(5.N, LA-LTR,A
SELDEN, LAUR, A.
SIRARD, LOUIS
S]IRAltD, -,Urs. L.
SWIFT, i4ARY A. li.
STETSON,, TURNER
STETSO-N, SAR,,l-f
SILSBEE, CITARi,Es E.
SILSBEE, il-RY -E.
SCOTT, LYI)IA
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STEVE-NS, M'ARGAkRET    SEES   ESl
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SM-NITH, PHTILA J.SAFR,LREA
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
THOMPSON, Rev. ORRIN C.
THOMPSON, Mrs. ALICE
TEN EYCK, JOHN M.
TEN EBYCK, ELISABETH
TATE, M   ARY
THOMPSON, LAURA C.
TODD, JAMES
THOMpSON. ALICE
TARPBELL, LYDIA B.
TYLER, EDWARD S.
TROWBRIDGE, LUTHER S.
TUCKER, GEORGE
TARBELL, FRANCES J.
TAYLOR, FRANK D.
TROWBRIDOE, HARRIET A.
TYLER, ELISABETH C.
THOMpSON, ORRIN C. Jr.
TAYLOR, N. TERRY
TORRENCE, JAMES
TYLER, ELISHA
TYLER, MARY G.
TOWN, REUBEN
TOWN, MARY H.
TYLER, ROWLAND G.
TowN, SEMANTHA A.
TUTTLE, NANCY
TAIT, ELISABETH
TYLER, CF[ARLES C.
TYLER, SUSANNAH
TIB.BETTS, HELEN
TYLER, OLIVE
THOMPSON, ELISABETH
TAYLOR, NATHANIEL T.
TAYLOR, LAURA N.
TAYLOR, SARAH E.
TAYLOR, FRANCES M.
TILLMAN, MARY
TYLER, MOSES C.
THOMAS, ELEANOR
UTLEY, KATE
VOORHEIS, HARRIET K.
VANDERMEER, MARTHA L.
VANDERMEER, ABRAM J.
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VAN VALEN, SARAI-I
VOORHEIS, JACOB E.
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VAN HOUTEN, HARRIET R. VAN TINE, AILMIRA
VAN TASSELL, FANNY
WARNER, ROBERT W.
WARNER, CAROLINE A.
WEL~S, CALVIN Jr.
WTHITCOMIB, LUCIA A.
WATKINS, JOHN
WATKINS,'NANC Y
WATKINS, MARY J.
WALCOTT, ALBERT
AVALCOTT, MARTHA
WHITTEMORE, GIDEON  O.
WHITTEMIORE, HARRIET
WHITTEMIORE, JAMIES O.
WHITCOMIB, JAMIES M.
WOODBRIDGE, DUDLEY B.
WATSON, RUBENA
WALLACE, NANCY
WALCOTT, JULIA
WHEATON, Mrs. HORACE
WILKINS, MARIAR
WATSON, JANE
WALCOTT, GEORGE
WAGNER, CHARLOTTE
AWELLS, BARENT V. B.
WALKER, MARY A.
WIGHT, NANCY M.
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WARNER, WILLIAM
WARNER, HARRIET B.
WEY —NIOUTH, MARY A.
WILNER, AUGUSTA
WANZER, SARAH H.
WIGHT, EI)WARD 111.
WARNER, HELEN
WARNER, HARRIET
WOODLEY, J. W.
WOODLEY, iNIrs. J. W.
WALKER, H. W.
WARNER, FRANCES R.
WHITE, THomAs
WATSON, HORACE C.
WATSON, ELISABETH A.
WATSON, SARAH A.
WALKER, -,Al rS. W.
WARNER, FRANCES S.
WILKINS, J ULIA.
WALKER, HARRIET
WILKES, JOHN A.
WILKES, ALICE
WA]FTD, SARAH P,.
WATSON, AN-NA 1). 
LIST  OF MfEMBERS.
WOODBRIDGE, MARTHA J.
WHEATON, ALIDA M.
WATSON, ANDREW
WARNER, MART,CA S.
WATSON, ISABELLA
WILKINS, ALICE G.
WILLIAMS, KATE C.
WOOLSEY, FIDELIA
WATSON, JOSEPH E.
WEED, ARTHUR B.
WEED, PORTER L.
WEED, CARRIE L.
WILLIAMS, MORYS L.
WOLCOTT, Rev. WILLIAM
WILLIAMS, RICHARD P.
WHITWOOD, CAROLINE E.
WILLIANIS, DAVID
WEBB, J. G.
WARING, MERRITT J.
WARING, ANNA W.
WHEATON, WILLIAMI W.
WESTON, ANDREW J.
WALKER, CHARLES I.
WHEATON, MARIA L.
WRIGHT, FRANCES C.
WOODRUFF, W. WARREN
WELCH, JOSEPH A.
WILKINS, ALVAN
WILKINS, CHARLOTTE
WILKINS, FANNY
WORMIER, GROVER S.
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LIST OF MEMBERS
CONSTITUTING THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH DEC. 25, 1869.*
ADAMS, NANCY
ACKER, SAMUEL
ACKER, BETSEY A.
AVERY, MARY'
ADAMfS, THONIAS K.
ADA-IS, SARA- F.
ADAMS, LAURA S.
ADAMS, WILLIE D.
ALLEN, RUTH
ANGELL, SARAH M.
ALDEN, JOHN M.
ALDEN, AUGUSTA M.
ADAMS, CAROLINE E.
ANDREWS, GEORGE P.
ANDREWS, SARAH G.
ALLENDYCE, MARGARET
BALDWIN, LYMAN
BALDWIN, MANCY
BALDWIN, JOHN A.
BARNARD, SHERMAN S.
BARNARD, MARY J.
BARNARD, EMILY L.
BISSELL, MELESENT W.
BLACKADER, JOHN
*For list of members constituting the Church, December 25, 1844, see
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BLACKADER, MARTHA
BOSTWICK, HENRY E.
BOSTWICK, SOPHIA A.
BATES, JANE
BAKER, HENRY.E.
BA-KER, EMILY P.
BEEBE, ABIGAIL
BURROUGHS, LOUISA L 
LIST OF ME]MBERS.
BACKUS, JULIANA T.
BUSHNELL, HIANNAH H.
BROOKS, CAROLINE
BROOKS, MARY
COOKE, WILLIAMC
CooKE, 1MARIETTA P.
CASE, SIDNEY C.
CLARK, SUSAN A.
COWLES, RHODA
COE, ADELAIDE E.
CROSSMIAN, CHARLES
CROSSMIAN, MARTHA
CROSSMIAN, CAROLINE
CROSSMAIlN, LUCY
CRAIG, PHIDELIA A.
CA IPENTER, ALIDA
CLARK, E. MINER
CLARK, MIARY
CLOUGH, ELIZA A.
CASE, CAROLINE iM.
CARLISLE, FREDERIC
CARLISLE, CHARLOTTE
CLEMENT, ANNA
CHANEY, LUCIEN C.
CLARK, ELIZA D.
CLARK, FLORA
CLARK, JAMES
CLARK, NANCY
CARVER, DAVID
COLBURN, BETSEY M.
CAREY, SARAH E.
CAREY, ALICE A.
COLWELL, Mrs. M. L.
COOK, MARY A.
CLARK, OLIVE J.
CAREW, CHARLOTTE
D UNCKLEE, WILLIAM S.
DUNCKLEE, LYDIA L.
DAVIDSON, ELLEN
DOLSON, EEMIILY J.
ELMORE, ALMIRA
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BELL, DANIEL P.
BELL, CLARISSA E.
BECKER, MARIA L.
DUNCAI,T, LouiSA
DUP,AND,O E —,uILY Al.
])AY, MAipy R. 
Q UARTER CENTENNIAL.
FISHER, ESTHER
FARRELL, CATHARINE H.
FARRELL, CATHARINE
GILBERT, GEORGE
GILBERT, ANN C.
GRIGGS, STEPHEN
GRIGGS, Lucy E.
GRIGGS, FRANCES E.
GRAY, EMILY R.
GRIFFITH, JOHN H.
GRIFFITH, ELLA AM.
GORE, HARRIET L.
GILMIORE, GEORGE N.
GILM1 ORE, SARAH
HAMMIOND, RACHEL J.
HAMMOND, SERENO P.
HOLMlES, EMIELINE W.
HAWLEY, Lucy A.
HALL, EDMIUND
HALL, EMIELINE C.
HINSDALE, EDWIN C.
HINSDALE, ELLEN J.
HINSDILL, CHARLOTTE
HOLMES, SILAS M.
HOLMIES, ELIZA A.
HENRY, D). FARRAND
HALL, ELIZA 
HALL, SARAH
HOYT, HARRIET AM.
HOLMIES, JABISH
HOLMES, LYDIA
HOLMAN, SULLIVAN
HOLNIAN, Mrs. S.
HEBBARD, CHARLES B.
HOLBROOK, HATTIE B.
HOWARD, ALFRED
HOWARD, C(JAROLINE B.
HOLDSWORTHI, JAMES
HENRY, WILLIAM G.
HENRY, HULDANAH S.
HENRY, FAYDELIA S.
HENRY, AURELIA S.
HEPBURN, JAMES H.
HEPBURN, GEORGIE
HOWE, Mrs. G. W.
HOWE, SARAH
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FOSTF,R, CLAIPA
FOSTER, Mrs. JOSEPH 
LIST OF MEMBERS.
HIBBA-RD, SAR-\H M.
HICKOK, WILLIA. H.
HARTER, CATHARINE M.
JAMIES, JOHN
JONES, EDMUND D.
JONES, IMARY J.
KINNEY, E]URETTA A.
KLEIN, SEVILLA
ROBERT W.
ELISA BETH
C. FRA-NCES
LANE, MINOT T.
LANE, GEORGE lM.
LANE, MIARY P. L.
LA-THROP, WILLIA I H.
MIOTHERWELL, ISABELLA
MICCRAE, JOHNM
M-CCRAE, ELISABETII
MIILLER, FRANCES
MAIELLUS, CHRISTIAN
MELLUS, CECILIAM
MU-NROE, HULDAH A.
MAIOTT, MArs. J. T.
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H.-VSKELL, CEL-ESTIA A.
JO-,NES, I)AVID
JO-,N,ES,, M-,X-RTI-I-,'.
JERO —qE, DELIA
KI-NG,
KI-NG,
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LEONARD, JOIFIN J.
LAIBLE, M.A-RY L.
*L,,WP,ENCE, Mviiy A.
MOTT, MARIA F.
i,JCKENZIE, D.
I.4cKENZIE, -Nlrs. D.
MOIR, -'Lqrs. WILLIANI
MOIR, JENNIE M.
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NATL, IDA A.
OXNARD, MARIA H. P.
PARSONS, PIlLO
PARSONS, AxN  E.
PARTRIDGE, TIMOTHY L.
PARTRIDGE, MINERVA
PARRISH, LEE
PARRISH, HANNAH J.
PORTER, ELIZA G.
PIERCE, ALBERT D.
PIERCE, CAROLINE B.
PALAIER, CALVIN )D.
RAYMIOND, FRA NCIS
RAYM YOND, RUTH
RAYMOND, GERTRUDE M.
RANDOLPH, JANE
OXNAltD, JOH-N E.
PAL-4ER, ADDIE S.
PROUTY, CATHKRINE
PROUTY, W]ILLI[AN
PORTER, C. HELEN
PEASE, THOMAS H.
PURDY, MA]FTY
PURDY, JOSEPH W.
PURDY, ELLA J.
PARKEU, EDWIN
POND, HARRIET L.
ROBINSON, MARTTIA
TZOBIINSON, MARY
]PuT-CTIARDSON, I)AVII) M.
RICI-IARDSON, LAURA. 
SANFORD, THOMAS
STETSON, SARAH
SCNITHP  5Irs. H. C.
STEWART, SARAH
SCRIPPS, JAMiES E.
SWIFT, ANGELINA B.
SHEPARD, ELLEN A.
TUTTLE, NANCY
THOMiPSON, Rev. ORRIN C.
THOMIPSON, ALICE
WOODBRIDGE, DUDLEY B.
WOODBRIDGE, MARTHA J.
WELLS, B ARENT V. B.
AVIHEATON, WMW'. W.
WHEATON, FANY W-Y
WHEXTON, ADELLA M.
WVALKER, CHARLES I.
WILKINS, ALVAY N
WILKINS, CHARLOTTE
WILKINS, ALICE G.
WYMIAN, JULIA A.
WHITE, EDWARD IHI.
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SHELDON, NETTIE
SWIFT, 1IENRY F.
TARBELL, LYDIA B.
TARBELI, FRANCES J.
TORRENCE, JAMES
WRIGHT, FRANCES C.
WARNER, FRANCES S.
WARNER, HELEN
WAR,-ER, HARRIET
WARNER, MARTHAa S.
WHITE, THOMAS
WATSON, ANDREW ~'
W-ATSON, ISABELLA
WILLIAMS, MORYS L.
WILLIAMS, KATE C.
WILLIAMS, RICHARD P.
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LIST OF MEM!IBERS
DISMISSED TO, AND ORIGINALLY CONSTITUTING, THE SECOND CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH.
ALLEN, ELLEN E.
ARNOLD, WVINNIFRED
BRONSOX, WILLIAIM IHI.
BRONSON, LAURA E. L.
BROXNSON, MIARY
BARRETT, CHARLES H.
BARRETT, FRANCES M.
COCHRANE, SARAH A.
CARRIER, ALBERT E.
CARRIER, IRENE S.
CARRIER, ~MARY E.
CARRIER, FRANCES AM.
CUSHING, CHARLES S.
CUSHING, MARTHA A.
DOLSON, LURA
EDWARDS, ELEANOR
ARNOLD, MARY
BLIss, Lucy
BURR, WILLIA-,AI H.
BAKER, HENRY S.
BUTLER, ENI-vIA M.
BUTLER, HANNAH B.
CUSHI[NG, LIZZIE E.
CHEYNE, GEORGE
CURTIS, LEWIS M.
CURTIS, CHARLOTTE S.
CURTIS, CHARLES. H.
CLARK, ELLEN
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
EDWARDS, CATHARINE
E DW-ARDs, DAVID
EDWARDS, ELISA BETH
FOSTER, HENRIETTA
11    FISHER, CATHARINE
FISHER, PMARY
FREELAND, Rev. SAMUEL M.
FREELAND, ELISABETH L.
GRANT, AMIANDA
GLEASON, AMIELIA
GEER, ROSETTA
GILMIORE, LENORA S.
HENDERSON, CLARA L.
HENDERSON, J.AMES F.
HUBBELL, Mrs. N. J.
KANADY, SARAH C.
KANADY, HARRIET B.
KANADY, MARTHiA E.
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MUIN(GER, ALONZO P.
MAL UNGER, MELISSA
UMVNGER, ELLEN J.
*MOTT, MARIA F.
PALMIER, ERVIN
PALMER, EMMA L.
PRESTON, JULIA E.
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RANDOLPHII, MIERRITT
RAN-DOLPH, E-AILY
RAOSE, - EEEMI SSA
RAV:NDAXLL, FREE-IANl-  R.
SABINE, ALFRED
SABINE, MAARTH-A
SILSBEE, CIHARLIES E.
SILSBEE, MARY E.
SILSBEE, SARAPH C.
SILSBEE, JAMIES D.
TERRY, FANNY B.
TAYLOR, LA URA N.         TH
TAYLOR, N. TERRY
IUTLEY, KATE
SCOTT, LYDIA
SABIN, ORRIN T.
SABIN, LAIJRA A.
SHEPHA.RD, HELEN N.
SEYMOUR, FRANCIS H.
STEVENSON GEORGE E.
TA-YLOR, FRANK D.
TAYLOR, P.H(EBE E.
VAANDERMEER, MIARTHA L.
VA-XDERMEER, ABRA[I J.
WATSON, HORACE C.
WATSON-, ELISABETH A.
WA.TSON, SARAH A.
WATSON, ANNA D.
WATSON, JOSEPH            E.
WORMIERP, GROVER S.
WOR,MIEn, MARIA C.
WOOLSEY, DELIA E.
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WEED, CAROLINE Al.
WEEI), ARTTIUR B.
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