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Michigan Macomb County
(2) that this system is to be maintained in its simplicity while carried up to completeness; and (3) that it will ultimately prevail, for it is the conceded polity of the apostles.
The address of Mr. Ross was followed by a paper by Rev. M. W. Fairfield, the present pastor, on "The History, Equipments, and Outlook of the Church."
The church was organized here in a log school house, August 16th, 1828. The town then consisted of a handful of houses of most primitive architecture, and was called the Indian Village. Rev. Isaac W. Rug-gles, a missionary, bearing a commission from the "mother of churches," the American Home Missionary Society, and residing at Pontiac, came into this settlement and looked up the few scattered sheep, and organized them into the church, and from time to time thereafter came, always on foot by an Indian trail, from Pontiac, and broke to the little church in the wilderness the bread of life.
Early Macomb County
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