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Excerpt from Historical Discourse: On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of Christ Church Parish Unionville, Conn;, June 17, 1896 But be this as it may, the parish of Christ Church, Unionville, was organized in the year ad. 1845. And in sketching briefly its history, it falls naturally into two periods of 25 years each. Services began to be held here with ever-increasing regularity, now in the house of some faithful member of the infant church; for some time in the basement of the Congregational meeting-house; and at length in the upper room of a building where Tryon's Hall now stands. Hartford and New Britain were then, as now, the centers of missionary work in this county. The young church soon began to call on the clergy of these cities for occasional services. And their request met a ready response. First, there rises before us the saintly Dr. Payne, long since gone to his rest after a long pastorate in that foster-mother of patriots and theologi ans - St. George's church, Schenectady. Under his vig orous, though only temporary supervision, this young church put on its characteristics of independence and hard work that have abided with it to this day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.