Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 95

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49
of
about $16,000.
Tliat church
is
not
yet
ten
years
old
and
the
Society which is its orpran has
only
completed
its
fourth
year.
Tlie
systematic
distribution of books and tracts has been carried on in one
of the towns in this
iState
for
eighteen
years
with
innrked
success
Tlie
advantaij^os
derived
are
reported
to
be the
mnking
useful
the
social power of the cliurch
;
brini^ing children into tlie Sabbatli school;
the relief of the necessities of the poor; and
it is found to be
a
very
important aid in the work of home evangelization.
One
of the
epis-
copal churches of this city has within itself an oriranization
for
some
of these purposes, chartered by the legislature, which
has now been
in operation eigliteen
years, with
very
satisfactory
results.
These
are given as instances and exatuples
of what
other
churches accom-
plish and seek to accomplish by union of
effort.
The cocumittee would especially call the attention of the church
to
the importance of the work at Xewhallville.
The small chapel which
was erected there some time since is comfortably tilled on the Saljbath,
and the Sabbath School
is moderately well attended.
The
exi.'c rience
of about three months work in the Summer and early Autunm of
last
year showed
that
the
field
is
a
promising
one. that
the systematic
nsiting of the people of the neighborhood would much increase
their
interest in the church and in the school.
There
is now quite a
settle-
ment
there, and
the number
of inhabitants
is
increasing.
As some
naanufictories are in successful operation and others are contemplated^
it seems to the committee that that part
of the
city must soon grow
rapidly and largely, and that this mis-ion enterprize promises a favor-
ible result.
We are already m possession of the ground, and tlie com-
3iittee earnestly
reconmiend that
the churcli
should take
this
enter-
prize under irs care,
in the hope and expectation that
it will soon grow
^der our
t^ostering
aid
to
be
a
Sclf sustaining
church,
needing a
•arger house ol
worship either on the present location or in
the same
vicinity.
In order that what may be done in any or all of
ilie ways
indicated
5hall be prosecuted with
rhe
most
vigor, and
that
those who
labor
^ay have the encouragement which comes
t'rom
the
united
coun.sels
of co-laborers
the committee recommend that an association be formed
in the church, of which
the pastor
shall
be
the head, to be mainly
^nder the direction
of the younger members
of the
church,
for
the
pirpose of carrying out such of the objects referred
to
as
th.e mem-
'^'^ra of the association shall decide to engage in;
it being understood,

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0095. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 95. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n95/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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