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business meetings the first officers of the church were elected, thus : 

 Deacons — for four years, W. T. Clapp ; for three years, John Ross ; for two 

 years, A. A. Burrows ; for one year, Geo. A. Green. Church clerk, I. B. 

 Clapp ; church treasurer. Dr. H. A. Reid. Superintendent of Sunday 

 school, Geo. A. Green ; S. S. secretary and treasurer, James A. Gates. The 

 council and installation services occurred on December i and 2, 1885 ; and 

 the VaHej Union of December 4, said in its report : 



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"Then came the ceremony of instituting the church, by the members 

 all rising and giving their assent to the creed which they had themselves 

 publicly prepared and adopted, not as a cast-iron jacket which all must 

 wear alike, but for "substance of doctrine," as held in common, and with all 

 reasonable christian liberty of conscience ; then the solemn and affecting 

 mutual covenant with each other in their new church brotherhood ; then 

 the ordination of four deacons previously chosen by the church ; then the 

 warm, genial, and inspiring presentation of the fellowship, sympathy, and 

 prayerful " God speed ye," of the sister churches ; all concluding with the 

 memorial service, or Sacrament of the Lord's supper." 



