The subsequent history of the church was published so fully at the notable anniversary five years ago that I need only repeat the chief head-lines in a very few sentences.  In 1863 Mr. William Wickes started a mission school, which afterward grew into the present Cumberland Street Church.  In 1866 occurred that wonderful work of grace that resulted in the addition of 320 souls to our membership, one hundred of them heads of families.  As a thank-offering to God for that rich blessing the Memorial Mission School was established, which was soon organized into the Memorial Presbyterian Church, now on Seventh Avenue, under the excellent pastorate of my Brother Nelson.  During the winter of 1867 a conference of gentlemen was held in yonder study which set on foot the present Classon Avenue Church, where my Brother Chamberlain administers equally satisfactorily.  Olivet Mission was organized in 1874.  It will always be fragrant with the memory of Horace B. Griffing, its first superintendent.  The Cuyler Chapel was opened on Atlantic Avenue in March, 1886, by our Young People’s Association, who are maintaining it most vigorously.  The little Corwin Mission on Myrtle Avenue was established by a member of the church to perpetuate his name, and is largely sustained by members of this church.

Of all the efficient, successful labors of the Lafayette Avenue Temperance Society, the Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society, their Benevolent Society, the Cuyler Mission Band, the Daughters of the Temple, and other kindred organizations.  I have no time or place to speak this morning.  But I must repeat now what I have said in years past, that the two strong arms of this church are its Sunday School and its Young People’s Association.  The former has been kept well up to the ideal of such an institution.  It is that of a training school of young hearts for this life and for the life to come.  God’s blessing has descended upon it like the morning dew.  Of the large number of children that have been enrolled in its classes 730 have been received into membership with this church alone, and to the profession of faith in Christ—­to say nothing of those who have joined elsewhere.  Warmly do I thank and heartily do I congratulate our beloved brother, Daniel W. McWilliams, and his faithful group of teachers, and the Superintendent of the primary department and her group of assistants, on the seal which God has set upon their loving work.  They contemplate the long array of children whom they have guided to Jesus; and they, too, can exclaim, “What is our joy or crown of rejoicing?  Are not even ye in the Lord?”

If the Sunday School has rendered good service, so has the well-drilled and well-watered Young People’s Association.  The fires of devotion have never gone out on the altar of their Monday evening gatherings.  For length of days and number of membership combined, probably it surpasses all similar young people’s associations in our country.  About three thousand names have been on its membership roll, and of this number twelve have set their faces toward the Gospel ministry.  Oh, what a source of joy to me that I leave that association in such a high condition of vigor and prosperity!  No church can languish, no church can die, while it has plenty of young blood in its veins.