Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ?w&. REV. B. PILSBURY, D. D. PILSBURY cuth Long Island District was in charge of theRev. Benjamin Pilsbury, D. D. from June, 1864, toApril, 1868. These were years of great prosperityto the church. Large sums were contributed in the cente-nary offerings, and many debts of long standing were liq-uidated. Sands-street church paid a debt of ten thousanddollars. Several new societies were organized, and somedead ones revived; several new
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ?w&. REV. B. PILSBURY, D. D. PILSBURY cuth Long Island District was in charge of theRev. Benjamin Pilsbury, D. D. from June, 1864, toApril, 1868. These were years of great prosperityto the church. Large sums were contributed in the cente-nary offerings, and many debts of long standing were liq-uidated. Sands-street church paid a debt of ten thousanddollars. Several new societies were organized, and somedead ones revived; several new houses of worship werebuilt, and thousands of souls were converted to Christ. Thenumber of pastors employed increased fifty per cent., andthe amount paid for ministerial support nearly one hundredper cent. Benjamin Pilsbury was born in Boscawen, N. H., October25, 1824. His ancestors came to this country from England,in 1651, and settled in that part of Newbury, Mass., calledBelleville. The site where the first log-cabin was built hasdescended from father to son through all the subsequentgenerations. Here Daniel Pilsbury. the grandfather of Ben-ja
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