I was told that he called on the men who lived in the locality where we proposed erecting the new church, with his subscription, and that they subscribed to carry out his plans.

Some of those who had subscribed to build the new church, after he had made these calls, wrote me that they wished their names crossed off from my paper--Others came and told me the same thing, and wished their names erased.

I began at this time to understand that there were influences working against our enterprise and that this way of building a church must be given up.

I however, went forward myself, as is very well known, and built a church second to none in New England.

I should have built one that would not have cost one half of the money, had I acted on my own judgement, but I was influenced by a few others differently.