My first message many of you remember.

It was, "I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." Of that little company the large majority has departed.

Many of them are among the white-robed that now behold their risen Lord in glory.

Of the seventeen church officers--elders, deacons and trustees--then in office, who greeted me that day, only four are living, and of that number only one, Mr.Albion P.Higgins, is now a member of this congregation.

I wonder how many there are here this morning that gathered before my pulpit on that Easter Sunday thirty years ago?
As many of you as there are present that were at that service thirty years ago will do me a favor if you will rise in your pews.
(Thirteen people here stood up.) God bless you! If it hadn't been for you this ark would never have been built.
Ah! we had happy days in that modest chapel.