. Bethany sketches and records . Thepastor of the Methodist church tookpart in the morning service. Much ofthe success of the occasion was due tothe fact that everyone in town, with-out regard for denominational differ-ences, gave their hearty support, mak-ing it an Old Home Day as well asan anniversary celebration. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHURCH. BY WALLACE D. HUMISTON. Nearly three hundred years ago anumber of the wealthy residents ofLondon conceived the plan of a set-tlement that should be governed withthe Bible for Its law. They came toNew England and in 1638 laid thefoundations of New Ha
. Bethany sketches and records . Thepastor of the Methodist church tookpart in the morning service. Much ofthe success of the occasion was due tothe fact that everyone in town, with-out regard for denominational differ-ences, gave their hearty support, mak-ing it an Old Home Day as well asan anniversary celebration. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHURCH. BY WALLACE D. HUMISTON. Nearly three hundred years ago anumber of the wealthy residents ofLondon conceived the plan of a set-tlement that should be governed withthe Bible for Its law. They came toNew England and in 1638 laid thefoundations of New Haven. For along time it was deemed Imprudent tosettle far from the cluster of dwell- ings erected there, but as the yearspassed the danger from hostile In-dians decreased and we find our hardyforefathers pushing out into the for-ests which surrounded New Haven Insearch of land fit for farming. Just about a hundred years afterthe founding of New Haven, a suffi-cient number of families had settled THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 175 ^^^. Photo by F. H. Slmonds. New Haven. BETHANY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,OCTOBER II, I913. 176 BETHANY. in the region which is now Included inWoodbridge and Bethany to warrantthe organization of a church. Accord-ingly the region was formed Into theparish of Amity. On the Lords Dayand other occasions our fathers, thehardy pioneers of this forest town, as-sembled at the Amity meeting-houseFor seven or eight miles in all direc-tions these men of God descendedfrom the breezy, life-giving hills, tothe temple down in the vajlley, to paythis debt to the Supreme Ruler of theuniverse. But the population of the northernhalf of Amity Parish was steadily in-creasing. By 1750 a school house wasneeded, the first in this town. It notonly served as a school house butlater, we learn, served as the houseof worship for this community. Thefirst step toward separation fromAmity Parish occurred in 1755. TheGeneral Assembly granted winterparish privileges to the inhabitants ofthe no
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