The tempest of civil war was raging, with Lincoln's steady hand at the helm.

We got our share of the gale; but we set our storm-sails, and every one that could handle ropes stood at his or her place.

Just think of the money contributions that small church made during the first year of my pastorate--$20,000, not in paper, but in gold.

The little band in that chapel was not only generous in donations but valiant in spirit, and it was under the gracious shower of a revival that we removed into this edifice on the 16th of March, 1862.
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.