The new Church had been completed during the preceding year, and had been dedicated by Rev. Drs. Eddy and Ives on the Sabbath before Conference, Oct. 8th, 1871.  The building is a fine brick structure, one hundred feet in length by eighty in width at the transepts.  Besides the auditorium, it has a large lecture-room, three parlors, a Pastor’s study, a library room, and a convenient kitchen.  The entire cost of buildings and grounds, including the Parsonage, was sixty thousand dollars.  At the dedication subscriptions were obtained to meet the indebtedness of twenty thousand dollars with a satisfactory margin.

The new year opened with all the Church appliances in vigorous operation.  The class and prayer meetings were well attended, and the intervening evenings were occupied by the meetings of the Ladies’ Aid, the Literary and other Church societies.  The Sunday School, under the superintendence of Rev. Edwin Hyde, was in a flourishing condition, ranking, doubtless, as one of the most numerous and successful schools of the city.

The Milwaukee District was now in charge of Rev. C.D.  Pillsbury, who entered the Maine Conference in 1843.  He filled the following appointments in that Conference:  Dover, Atkinson, Sagerville, and Exeter.  At the division in 1848, he fell into the East Maine Conference, where his appointments were Machias, Summer Street, Bangor, Agent of East Maine Seminary, and Presiding Elder of Bangor District.  He was transferred to the Wisconsin Conference in 1857, and stationed at Racine as the writer’s successor.  His subsequent appointments have been Racine District, Chaplain of the Twenty-Second Regiment, Beloit, Agent of the Freedmen’s Aid Commission, Janesville District, and Milwaukee District.

After leaving the District Brother Pillsbury has been stationed at Bay View and Menasha, but, his health failing, he took a supernumerary relation at the last Conference, and at this writing is residing at Minneapolis.  He has done considerable literary work, in connection with his Ministerial labors.  Brother Pillsbury has a well balanced mind, and is thoroughly versed in the great questions of the day.  He is sound in theology and faithful in administration; a good, strong Preacher, and is universally respected, both as a man and a Minister.

Asbury Church was greatly delighted with the return of Rev. W.W.  Case to its pastorate.  He entered the Erie Conference in 1859, and in that Conference he had been stationed at Ellington, Cattaraugus, and Little Valley.  He was transferred to the Wisconsin Conference in 1864, and had now been stationed three years each at Edgerton and Beloit.  During his year at Asbury, he had gathered a fine congregation, and was now in great esteem among the people.  He remained three years at Asbury, and was then stationed at Division Street, Fond du Lac, where he is at the present writing, serving the second year.

Brother Case is still a young man, and is blessed with a pleasant countenance, agreeable manners, and an affable spirit.  In social life he is a great favorite.  He is well read, and has an entertaining delivery.  In the selection of his pulpit topics, and in the manner of their treatment, he dwells more in the sunshine than in the storm.  He has already reached a position among his brethren that gives promise of great usefulness in the Master’s work.