Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 127

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AXNTAL
MKKIfNc; WD
KKroKlS.
XII.
1. On or about the
tirst day
<it' Jamnrv,
in each vcar, there
shall be an
annual
nicetinir of the Church
for
the
review of the
precedinor year.
2. A Comnnttee of three shall beanpointod at eacli ;uuiual meet-
ing", whose duty
it shall be to prepjue
t'or the n^xt aiinual
nieetiriL'
an
accurate list of the
ineniber.s of the ('hurch,
wirli the
|)lace
oi
residence of each nieinber.
It
shall also be the duty of
tiiis Com-
mittee
to report to the Church,
at the same meetincr,
tlic names
oi
such members
as
are
permanently abs(Mit
tVom
the town of \ew
Haven, includinfr all who
shall have been, at
that tmie, absent
for
more than six months.
Tiie same Committee shall furtliermore re-
port the names
of sucli members of other
churciies
as shall have
been at that time, for six months orlono'er, stated communicants
in
this Church.
Tlie same committee shall
report the names of such
as
shall have ceased
to be members
durino- the
pi-ecedinix year,
whether by death,
dismission,
or excommunic.ition
: and
also
tlio
names of such as have been added by profession or by
letter.
3. There shall be appointed, at each annual
meetinir,
a commit-
tee whose duty
it shall be to report, at the next annual meeting,
oi.
the state of religion in the Church, and on what
it has done, or
at-
tempted, for the cause of the gospel during the year.
THE CHURCH
I.THRARV.
A Library of religious books for the gratuitous use of all persons
statedly attending public worship with the First Churcli,
is kept
a'
the chapel of the church, and
is opened just
before
the
forenooi
service, every Lord's d;iy
;
also
after the
(Conference Meeting
oi
Tuesday evening and on
Friday alternoon. between
lour and
five
o'clock.
The lunnber of volumes
is now
]'2']7.
and
additions
o;
recent
and
valuable books
are
niiule
as
often
</s
fiuu/s
pervid-
Any worshiper
in
the
congregation may
obtain
a
copy
of the
Library
catalogue
and
rules, by
apply in<j
to
the
Librarian.
The Library Committee, which
is aj>[HMnted by the Church anni'
ally, are for the present year, the I^lstor, Deacon flyman, Mr. Henry

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0127. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 127. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n127/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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