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liam F. Raymond, society committee. A committee was also 

 appointed for supplying the pulpit, and another to make ar- 

 rangements for the dedication of the House of Worship, then 

 nearly completed. More than half the members of tlie Society 

 have been members of the Church, ahd the most cordial and 

 harmonious relations have always existed between the Church 

 and Society. The Society provides for the general financial 

 needs of the Church, and has charge of the Church buildings 

 and parsonage. The greater part of the current expenses is met 

 by the annual rental of pews. Henry Stanley was clerk of the 

 Society from its organization until 1875, and, during the thirty- 

 three years of his service, carefully kept and preserved its rec- 

 ords, and by his excellent taste in church architecture contrib- 

 uted to the beauty of the Lord's house. 



Oliver Stanley was for forty years, or until his death, chair- 

 man of the Society's committee, and sixteen years treasurer, and 

 by his careful methods, exact accounts, painstaking, self-deny- 

 ing vigilance for the Society's interests, to a large degree pro- 

 moted the welfare both of Church and Society. The officers of 

 the Society for 1892 were as follows: 



Society's Committee, Philip Corbin, A. P. Collins, E. B. 

 Lyon, E. N. Stanley; Clerk, H. Dayton Humphrey; Treasurer, 

 Edward N. Stanley; Collector and Sexton, L. A. Gladding. 



HOUSES OF WORSHIP. 



The first House of Worship was commenced in the autumn 

 of 1841, more than six months before the Church was organ- 

 ized, and completed in the spring of 1842. Three brothers, 

 Seth J. North, then the leading manufacturer in the place, Alvin 

 North, and Henry North, all business men interested in the 

 prosperity of New Britain, and in its moral and religious char- 

 acter, believing the time had come for the organization of an- 

 other church, met and consulted together, and subscribed half 

 the amount necessary for the erection of a house of worship be- 

 fore asking others for contributions for this object. Their ap- 

 peal then met with willing responses, the necessary funds were 



