MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 26

CHAPTER I. 

CHARLES HENRY GREEN

thirty members. He was forced to work four days in the week for the support of his family, and attend the Mission the best he could. At the next conference he was brought before the committee on examination but was left in the hands of the Bishop who returned him to the Rochester Mission. During this year he hired a hall to worship in at a cost of one hundred and twenty-five dollars a year, and went out as agent for his church, in the meantime selling books and the Christian Recorder. He succeeded in placing one hundred dollars in the bank to the credit of Rochester Mission Church, which still remains in bank. At the next conference, held at Binghampton, he was received on trial and sent to Flushing, L. I. There he succeeded in paying three hundred and fifty dollars on a debt of one thousand dollars; he also left one hundred and seventy-five dollars in bank for repairs on the Flushing Church. At the following conference, held in Sullivan Street Church, N. Y., he was recommended by the Rev. J. M. Williams, his elder, for Deacon's orders, and was ordained and sent back to Flushing with Weeksville attached. At the conference of 1876 he was appointed to Glen Cove, L. I., and there remained a few months, when at his own request he was removed by Bishop D. A. Payne. He then became agent for the Melrose Church, which was about to be sold. At the next conference, which was held in Oswego, N. Y., he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference and appointed to Mount Friendship, Del., the State in which he was formerly a slave. Here he found an old church which had been built some twenty years but had never been completed or dedicated. He completed the same at a cost of three hundred and ten dollars, and had it dedicated by the Rev. B. T. Tanner, editor of the Christian Recorder, in 1877. The entire indebtedness was raised on that day, Dr. Tanner officiating all day. A notable feature upon this occasion was that of an old man between seventy-five and eighty years of age, who united with the church. During this same year he built a church at Blanco, Del., this church having been burned down during the war. At the next conference he was ordained elder by Bishop D. A. Payne, and sent to Smyrna, Del. Having the oversight of two licenciates, he raised three hundred and twenty-nine dollars for his own church, and assisted his licenciates to raise money

Rev. T. A. Cuff.

Rev. Theodore Gould.

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