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ent me and eommodlouS parsonage was erected which was the home to which he brought his bride. Pursuant to call to the church and society he was on the 18th of February, 1890, installed as pastor of the church. But on the 17th of December, in the same year, he was dismissed at his own request in order that he might accept a call to the church in Willimantic. During his ministry sixty-eight new members were received by profession and twenty sev- en by letter; ninety-five in all.
 Rev. Charles Cutting began service as acting pastor of the church on the 1st of April 1891, and continued in that relation for just two years. During his ministry nine new members were re- ceived by profession and twelve by let ter; twenty-one in all. He was a good, and earnest, though unassuming man, very quiet in his ways. The time he spent here could hardly have been pleasant, beclouded as it was by severe illness in his family. One malady af
 ter another attacked its various mem- bers, and he himself succumbed to in- fantile diseases with his children. The grip was epidemic so that no
 help could be obtained at a
 time when it was sorely needed. His
 great, and he retired from his labors
 here much shattered in health. He
 did not take another field of labor, but
 resided in pleasant home which he
 purchased in New Haven, until his
 death, which occurred on the 24th of
 December, 1894, at the age of fifty-four
 years. He had previously labored in
 Hadlyme, Ledyard and Montville. His
 grave is in our cemetery, and the in
 scription on his tombstone is as modest
 and true as was his life. For twenty
 nine years a faithful preacher of right
 eousness."
 The present pastor began his labors
 here on the Fist of October, 1893, coming
 from Machias, Maine, to this his sec
 ond pastorate, under engagement for
 one year. In the following June the
 church and society extended call to
 him to become settled pastor at the
 close of his first engagement, and he
 was installed on the 18th of October,
 1894, by council called for that pur-
 pose. During his ministry up to the present time twenty-one new members
 have been received by profession and
 eighteen by letter, thirty-nine in all. And this growth, though not rapid,
 has been steady, some new members
 having been received at every com-
 munion.
 Looking back over the century we see many other things that might well be worthy of mention. The church
 has always had good deacons, as has already been partially shown-men of intelligence, common sense and piety- men who if they had had the proper advantages, might have taken promi- nent places in the various professions. Some such men God reserves from these other positions, that they may be the bulwarks of His churches What would this church have been had 1t not had good deacons?
 One of the most important features of the church's life has been the begin ming and growth of the Sunday school. It is impossible to date its beginning. The first work in that line was done by Mrs Mix, over in the old church. She had a class for the small children who remained in the intermission be- tween the church services. Students who came to preach also organized such work over there from time to time. But in the old church it was never regular school, but only one class. After the new church was oc- cupied, Deacon Ford started a Bible class which he led, and soon after, a regular school was organized, hav- ing, as I am informed, MT. James Au- gur for it's first superintendent The school has grown, and in modern years has been considered large in proportion
 to the size of the church. Its influence for good cannot be told. Those who have given their work to it have made an abiding impression. We shall nev- CT forget the hearty and earnest work of that trio of recent lamented super intendents, Charles F. Augur Eli G. Dickerman, and John H. Burton. The various other organizations, of which we have so many in our church life at this end of the century, have been and are useful in exact proportion, as | they have contributed, or do contrib ute, to make the regular work and in- stitutions of the church more success full and prosperous. Our choir, through | all these years, has been a most impor-