. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. y, having not far fromthree hundred members, several of whom were laymen widelydistinguished for their piety and business ability. The aggregatemembership of the church to date is eight hundred and two,with a present enrollment of one hundred and these there are a goodly number who are regular wor-shipers and faithful supporters of the church but who have notso far become active members. The following auxiliary societies each have a worthy historyin connection with the church: Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor,
. Early years in Smyrna and our first Old home week. y, having not far fromthree hundred members, several of whom were laymen widelydistinguished for their piety and business ability. The aggregatemembership of the church to date is eight hundred and two,with a present enrollment of one hundred and these there are a goodly number who are regular wor-shipers and faithful supporters of the church but who have notso far become active members. The following auxiliary societies each have a worthy historyin connection with the church: Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor, organized1888. Present membership, thirty-five. Womens Home and Foreign Missionary Society, organized1879. Present membership, twelve. Young Ladies Mission Circle, organized 1886. Present mem-bership, twenty-three. The Path Finders organized 1904. Present membership,eighteen. The Church Officers for 1905, are: Pastor, Rev. WilliamD. Eddy; Deacons, William D. Hopkins, Robert H. Knowles,Christopher C. Clapper and Leonard S. Enos; Trustees, Edwin 158. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH. Our First Old Home Week S. Billings, Dwight L. Sweei, Robert H. Knowles, Loren R. Col-lins and Gardner N. Willcox; Clerk, Miss Anne Martin; Treas-urer, Murray Boyden; Assistant Treasurer, Miss Martha Northup;Superintendent of Sunday School, Leland L. Ferris; Superin-tendent of Primary Department, Mrs. Laura G. Eddy. FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. In the year 1816 a Methodist Class was organized at theTobey farm on Smyrna Hill in a building now used as a horsebarn, on the opposite side of the road from the house. It wascomposed of eight members, as follows: Joseph and ElizabethTobey, Lillibridge and Anna Willcox, Huge Cagwin and wife,and a brother named Sebry and his wife, both of whom after-wards joined the Mormons. Its. first minister was Rev. GeorgeDensmore, and the charge was on the Lebanon Circuit, andlater on the Hamilton Circuit, until the Smyrna Circuit wasformed in 1836. At a meeting held on April
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