CHAPTER XXIV. 



UP TO DATE. 



THE work of this chapter is to spin out a few of the 

 unfinished threads of our narrative and to bring 

 them together at the close. 



Taking up the story of the churches at the point where 

 it was interrupted, the year 1825, it may be followed 

 down to the present year. The original parish was 

 divided, as we saw, by the planting of a Methodist 

 Church * in Jerusalem, and of a new Congregational 

 Church in the center of the town where it now stands. 

 With these three bodies of worshipers, the town continued 

 its religious life for about thirty-seven years before a 

 fourth congregation was organized. During those thirty- 

 seven years the old town-church was forced to readjust 

 itself to several serious chano-es. The oreneral lack of 



*THE LIST OF MINISTERS IN THE METHODIST CHURCH OF 

 COHASGET. 



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