THE SOUTH CHUUCir. 4;j 



CHURCH AND SOCIETY FUNDS. 



Dr. Lucius Woodruff, who was a meinhoi- of this (Miurch 

 from 1850 until his decease in 1872, left tlie following legacies 

 to the Church and Sunday-school: 



Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to be invested as a perma- 

 nent fund, the income of which shall be expended, under tlie 

 direction of the acting pastor and Church committee, in such 

 manner as they shall deem best calculated to promote the inter- 

 est of the Church, particularly advising them that, in the ex- 

 penditure of the income of this fund, they be careful always to 

 remember the poor and indigent of the Church; and 



Five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be invested as a perma- 

 nent fund, the income of which shall be expended for the bene- 

 fit of the library of the Sunday-school, both for teachers and 

 scholars, under the direction of the acting pastor and the act- 

 ing superintendent of the Sunday-school. 



These funds are securely invested, and the income appropri- 

 ated as provided by the donor. 



Cornelius B. Erwin, a member of this Church from 1857 

 until his death, March 22, 1885, had been a liberal contributor 

 to its funds during his life, and had deeded to the Society as a 

 gift the site upon which the parish chapel was afterwards 

 erected. By his will, he gave twelve thousand five hundred 

 dollars ($12,500) towards the cost of the chapel; and also left to 

 the Society his premises on Washington street, with all the 

 buildings and appurtenances, for the uses of a parsonage, and 

 twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) as a fund, the use and 

 income of which should be used to keep the premises in good 

 order and repair, and to pay taxes thereon. 



He left to the pastor and standing committee of the Church, 

 •eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to purchase a suitable lot of 

 land in the town of New Britain, and to erect thereon a build- 

 ing or buildings, as a home for worthy and indigent women of 

 the town of New Britain, and for the maintenance of the same. 



These liberal bequests have been carefully managed, and 

 made to contribute not only to the enlargement of church work 

 and to the welfare of the members of this Church, but 



