History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . August, and again the first Sab-bath in September, from which time to the present day, I have had theoversight of this church and congregation as its pastor. Mark the Provi-dence of God in directing me to my future field of labor, for had I notmade an appointment to preach at North East Center, or had I not passedthrough this village in reaching that appointment or had I not called atthe Public House on my way, the whole course of my life would doubtlesshave been otherwise than it has been.
History of Little Nine Partners, of North East precinct, and Pine Plains, New York, Duchess [!] county . August, and again the first Sab-bath in September, from which time to the present day, I have had theoversight of this church and congregation as its pastor. Mark the Provi-dence of God in directing me to my future field of labor, for had I notmade an appointment to preach at North East Center, or had I not passedthrough this village in reaching that appointment or had I not called atthe Public House on my way, the whole course of my life would doubtlesshave been otherwise than it has been. When I commenced my ministry here in the year 1833, the churchbuilding was in a very different condition from what you see it to be in to-day. It had been painted, but after sixteen years but little of that paintremained. There was a high fence in front of the church, in a very dilap-idated condition. There were two small box stoves, in the front end of thechurch, the pipes going out of the window, for the heating of the building. You may well suppose that very little of that heat on a cold Sabbath. REV. WILLIAM N. SAYRE. THE CHURCHES. 191 day ever reached the pulpit sufficiently to render it a comfortable pulpit was reached by a flight of stairs of some ten steps at least, there-by placing the preacher in a very elevated position. If at no other time,the people on the Sabbath had occasion to look up to him; for only inlooking up could they see him. Such was the condition of the churchbuilding in 1838. During the closing years of my ministry it has been rebuilt, sixteenfeet added to the audience room, with a convenient audience room in therear, and both appropriately furnished and paid for, with sheds for the ac-commodation of teams—a manifest improvement. Before I came heie in 1833, the whole town of Pine Plains and An-cram and most of Milan presented an uncultivated missionary field. came and passed as in other places, but no Sabbath bell called thepe
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