Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 99

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51
Plan of Organization.
The objects of tho Society shall be,
1. To iiicreurie tho Sabbath School and Bible Classes from amoug the
young people
of the
church and
congregation, including
tho.<e who
only occijsi'jnally u urship with us
;
to provide the occasional worship-
ers with [)er(i)anent seats in the church, and to promote their acquaint-
ance with tlie Pastor and the church
liiembers
:
also to form
a band
of teachers to take the places
of those who may
t>e
temporarily
ab-
sent.
2. To visit the poor and neglected, carryuig to them sympathy and
aid. giving them tracts, and in other ways supiying them with suitable
religious
reading,
leading them
to the
Sabbath
School
and
the
church, and in every wa}'
encourauing and
aiding them
to
improve
their material and spiritual welfare.
3. To carry out such
plans
as the
church may
from
time
to time
form for establishing and maintaining mission Sai/oath Schools, chapels
and prayer meetings in destitute districts; and to persua<le the neglect-
ors of divine worship to connect themselves with some
relit:i(jus con-
gregation.
Section
I. The Pastor
shall be
ex-otllcio
Pre.-ident
of
tlie
Society.
There shall also be a Secretar}' and Treasurer, who shall be ch{.>sen by
ballot.
These officers, together with the chairmen of the several com-
mittees
hereafter
provided
for,
shall
c( institute an
Executive
('om-
mittee, who shall have the general direction of the ntf.drs of the Society.
Section II.
Conutiittoes shall l^e constituted for carrying out the sev-
eral objects specified above, and such other siutilar objects as the Soci-
ety may approve,
to be
coinp'isod
of those who may
volunteer
their
services, and
choose
the Committee to which
they
will unite
them-
se ves.
Section
III.
Kacli Committee
shall
elect
l»y
ballot
its own
chair-
"lan. who shall keep a record of the
proceedings
of this
Committee,
and make report to tlie church at such times as the church may direct.
Kach Committee shall make such
regulations
for
its own
action
as
experience in their work shall show to
be promotive of their greatest
efficiency.
The
plan having
bfjon approved,
the church
meetinnf was ad-
journed, and
all were invited to
ren)ain who were disposed to join
»n the organization
proposed.
At
this
subsequent
meeting* the

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0099. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 99. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n99/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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