“The membership, though small, is thoroughly united and intensely loyal.
“Others have labored, and we have entered into their labors, while they, in continuous procession, have passed on to receive the reward of the faithful.
“The present membership of the church is eighty-eight.”
BY REV. ELISHA J. ELLIS, OF DANBURY
IN THE ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
“Early in the history of the movement which resulted in the formation of the Advent Christian denomination, the seed of the doctrines which distinguished this people were sown here by pioneer hands. So far as ascertained, the first preachers to arrive on the field were Elders Ira Morgan and Samuel G. Mathewson, about 1844. Quite a number of conversions followed, and Elder Mathewson baptized quite a number in the stream which flows near the present church site. Rufus Way, Horace Gregory, and Richard Heacock were converts about this time—also A. S. Calkins, who afterwards became a talented preacher in the West.
“Joshua V. Hines preached here in 1846 or 1847. Afterwards, in the sixties and seventies, representative men like
