down. I began my regular ministry here September 9th, 1883, as a "supply." I was that year a senior in Yale Divinity School and could be with the Church only over Sundays. At the Ecclesiastical Society's annual meeting in December of that year a unanimous call was extended to me to become the pastor of the Church, and some months later this call was heartily endorsed by the Church, and September 17th, 1884, I was formally ordained to the Christian ministry and installed pastor of the Church by a Council of the neighboring churches of which the Rev. Father Putnam of Whitneyville was Moderator. In the meantime, I had graduated from the Divinity School, and had been married, June 10th, 1884, to Miss Alice M. Beecher, of Madison, Ohio, and we had taken up our abode in the Orange parsonage. During the two years' ministry of Mr. Otis there had been a revival movement in the Church and about forty had been added to its membership. My work, therefore, was at first almost necessarily confined for the most part to instruction and training. There was, however, apparent in the early part of the year 1885 a quiet quickening of spiritual life in the community, the result of such means of grace as prayer-meetings and missionary concerts in which the people took part with so much of conscientiousness and cheerfulness that they could hardly fail of rich spiritual blessing. Seven individuals united with the Church on profession of faith at about this time. These were, Messrs. F. C. Woodruff, W. S. Hine, D. E. Russell, Lawrence Mallory, Mrs. Etta Hine, Mrs. Annie Clark, and Mrs. E. L. Sturges. It was at about this time that the pastor's wife, at the suggestion of a State Worker, organized and successfully led for some months, a Juvenile Band of Hope, and thus laid the foundations of temperance sentiment in the rising generation. In the fall of 1887, a Juvenile Mission Band was undertaken by the pastor with good results, which was afterwards for a time carried on by others. About this season Christian Endeavor came to us like wind from the Spirit, as one of our members, Miss Minnie Clark, returned from attendance upon the great