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REMINISCENCES BY C. A. LAMB.
Written June, 1874
The Farmington church, or at least its leading members, sympathized with Elder Clark, and as I found, had become alienated from Elder Comstock, so that they would no longer call on him to preach or administer the ordinances. My first visit to the Farmington church was October 10, 1829, I met them in covenant meeting.
The next day I preached and broke bread. It was an. interesting season. The church at this time numbered about eighteen members, scattered over four townships. The church was organized in 1826, with ten members, three males and seven females. During the five years which had passed since Stony Creek church was organized, the churches of Troy, Farmington, and first church of Detroit had been organized. I find that in this year the Pontiac, Stony Creek, Troy, and Farmington churches united in forming the Michigan Association, incorporating in their constitution a law against the reception of members into their churches, unless they were baptized by a regular baptized minister of the gospel after the strictest sect a Baptist. When the first church of Detroit applied for admission it was held off because it could not subscribe to this article. As my commission as a missionary restricted me to no other parish bounds than the territory of Michigan, I made it my business to visit Elder Clark and Elder Comstock in my travels,
and to labor to conciliate them and the brothers.
Michigan
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