I paid more than twenty thousand dollars out of my own pocket into this church.
Public opinion in the community was, that if the several ministers had given their influence in favor of this matter, a church would have been built by subscription.

They could very easily have influenced their friends in that part of the city to unite in this enterprise without detriment to their own congregation.

Had this course been taken, it is evident that by this time it would have been a large and prosperous church.
A correspondent of the Independent in writing upon the growth of Congregationalism, in New Haven, had a great deal to say about the Wooster Place church--calling the man that built it, "a sagacious mechanic, who built it on speculation etc." Yet; added "if they had called a young man for its Pastor from New England, it might have succeeded after all." It is well known that the Congregational denomination has made but very small advancement compared with others for the last twenty years.

It is supposed that the inhabitants of New Haven have doubled in number during that time; but only one small Mission church has been added to the Congregational churches.

Four Episcopal churches have been built, and filled with worshipers, many of whom formerly belonged to Congregational families.