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native of Woburn, a graduate of Amherst and Andover, 

 a good, worthy and pious man, but an unsuccessful 

 preacher. Rev. Benjamin Hovve, our present pastor, 

 succeeded him. Mr. Hovve is a native of Linebrook ; he 

 fitted for College at Meriden, N. H., Aeademy, graduated 

 at Amherst College, and at Hartford, Conn., Seminary. 

 He is a worthy Citizen, is generousandcharitable, a good and 

 diligent student, a faithful and fairly successful preacher, 

 a pious man. The infirmities of age have un fitted him for 

 parochialduties, except on occasions, and he has retired to 

 his farm in Hudson, N. H. Serus in coelum redeas. 



There have been stated supplies by the Eev. Messrs. 

 David Tullar, Moses Welch, J. \W. Shepard, Eliphalet 

 Burchard, E. E. Abbott and J. W. Healy, now Doctor 

 of Divinity and President of Sierra Madre College, Pas- 

 sadena, California, and others, whose labors have been 

 blessed with fruitful harvests. 



The internal life of the church has been an averao^e 

 harmony. Her worldly goods and favors have been 

 scanty, yet in moral worth and religious fervor she has 

 kept abreast of her sisters. The Master of the Vineyard 

 has evidently been lovingly watchful of his own, as at- 

 tested by his Spirit. The membership now is forty-nine, 

 about forty of whom are resideuts. 



Through all these years the church has been a power 

 for good ; and no well-minded, thoughtful parishioner, 

 who loves his own, who cherishes his neighbor, who 

 seeks good society, who would purify social life, who 

 would help to elevate the moral Standard, would throw 

 wholesome influences about his children, and so make his 

 own name redolent with praise, — will stand complacently 

 by and see the old society need any good thing. 



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