Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ministration and became one of the strong churches of theconference. One of the converts is now a useful minister in 368 Old Sands Street Church. the New York East Conference. Mr. Pilsbury rendered ac-ceptable service as delegate to General Conference in 1864 and1868. He received the degree of from the East Tennes-see University in 1875. During his first year as a conference preacher, on the 24thof April, 1848, Benjamin Pilsbury was married t
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ministration and became one of the strong churches of theconference. One of the converts is now a useful minister in 368 Old Sands Street Church. the New York East Conference. Mr. Pilsbury rendered ac-ceptable service as delegate to General Conference in 1864 and1868. He received the degree of from the East Tennes-see University in 1875. During his first year as a conference preacher, on the 24thof April, 1848, Benjamin Pilsbury was married to Miss Chandler, only daughter of Theophilus Chandler, ofMiddletown, Conn., and sister of the late Rev. T B. Chandler,of the New York East Conference. Two children have beenborn to them—a son and a daughter. The son, Benjai?iinChandler, was graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1875,taught Latin and Greek in two conference seminaries, studiedin Yale Theological Seminary, and is now a member of theNew York East Conference. The daughter, Sarah Maria,after sixteen beautiful years, departed to be with were converted <G^-£ {2cc*&*^, BISHOP EDWARD G. ANDREWS, D. D., LL. D. G. ANDREWS. ands-street Methodist people do not disguise their pleasure in numbering among their pastors the Rev. Bishop Edward Gayer Andrews, , The church desiring for its pastor the office of abishop, desireth a good work. The helpful influence ofpastors and churches is mutual; noble, godly laymen maytherefore expect not only to be gratified, but even honored andadmired, through the well-deserved promotion of the minis-ters with whom they have faithfully labored, and in whose suc-cess they have been personally and actively interested. Whilemany others among the eighty-nine pastors and presiding eldersof the Sands-street church may have been worthy of this office,Dr. Andrews stands alone among them as bishop. His ancestry was of New England, and related t
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