Rev. A. B. Burdick, the present pastor, was installed in 1848.
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, RHODE ISLAND.
This infant community was organized in 1843, and contains about twenty members. Its prospects, however, are highly encouraging, and it must be regarded as a very auspicious omen, that Rev. John Green has consented to assume the pastoral charge. Perhaps no one in the denomination is better calculated to encourage the timid and strengthen the weak.
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, SOUTH KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND.
This church, another infant community, was organized in 1843. Elder Henry Clarke is their present pastor.
Rev. Christopher Chester has also been a very efficient labourer in this region. His ministry has been blessed at different seasons with the outpourings of the Spirit of grace, and the hopeful conversion of many. This was particularly the case in 1841, when a First-day Baptist church, consisting of forty members, was gathered and organized altogether through his instrumentality. In 1847, he visited them again, and another revival was the consequence. In this the Seventh-day church participated.
EXTINCT CHURCH.
A church was organized, in 1791, at Oyster Pond, on Long Island, by Elisha Gillette, who came from New Jersey, 1789.
But he soon began to admit members who observed the first-day, in consequence of which intestine difficulties arose. This church soon fell into decay, and ultimately became extinct.