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HISTORY OF con ASSET. 



house was built in the spring of 1823. Another which 

 yet stands was dedicated September 3, 1845. 



This Methodist church did not encounter the severe 

 trials that might have been predicted for a church that 

 should endeavor to divide the one parish of the town. 

 Those trials were reserved for the center of the town, 

 where the people who must form a new parish must seri- 

 ously cut into the prerogatives of the old parish. 



To relate the circumstances of that painful division of 



Photo, Harriet A. Niclterson. 



Methodist Church, Hull SiREiir. Built 1845. 



This building has been called the Huckleberry Church because the devoted 

 women raised so much money to build it by picl^ing huckleberries. 



the year 1824 in a way satisfactory to all prejudices would 

 be impossible, but it was an event of so great significance 

 and excitement to the town as to merit rehearsal. 



At the closing period of the eighteenth century the 

 religious life of New England was at a low ebb. We have 

 seen that in our own community the amount of money 

 spent upon religious services in 1797 was considerably 



