Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 83

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APPENDIX
D.
The Scxdvv
S-.-hool of the
('Hritcii
and
( 'oniiklu a riox.
During the year
18(>!), the Siirul.iy School had an aogregate nicin-
^ersliip of about two hundred and thirty-tu o.
The
largest attend-
ance of Scholars and Teachers, on any one Sabbath, was one hun-
dred
and
sixty-three,—the
average was
one hundred and
thirty-
seven.
In April, Deacon Whittlesey, who, for seven years, had earnestly
and fiithfully served the Sciiool as
its Superintendant, resigned his
office into the hands of Mr. J. Henry Root.
During the
year,
Mrs. Edward
S. Scranton, a
faithful
Teacher,
and A. Frank Barnes, a nicuiber of Dr. Bradley's class, were called
from faithful testimony for Christ on earth, to the perfected service
of His saved ones in heaven.
The rnenibership of the School at the present time, (Jan.
J, 1870),
IS one hundred and
ninet\ -three, classified as follows:—One infiint
class, numbering
thirty
:
eiohteen
clusses
of
older children
find
youth, numbering in all eighty-eight:
four Bible Classes,
nunfuer-
ing forty-three.
The contributions
in
behalf of benevolent objects
were
as
fol-
lows:— For the Cretan Orphans at Atliens, Greece, >'4ti.08
;
for the
City Tract Society and
tlie IJroadwav Mission S. S., s42.'J7
;
for the
Sunday School Union, SIJ^-.M):
to supj)ly Ship's Libraries, s3t2.()G.
During a larire
part of the
year,
a Teachers' meeting has been
held weekly
;
it has been well attended, and has grown
in interest.
A pniyer meeting of the lady teachers has also been held weekly.
Above
all
other evidences of prosperity, God
has shown some
hopeful results in a deepened
religious
interest among the present
members of the School
: some
of whom
hfvve manifested their de-
'^ire to be Christ's, by becoming members of His visible Churcii.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0083. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 83. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n83/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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