[Recollections of a Long Life by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler]@TWC D-Link bookRecollections of a Long Life CHAPTER XX 17/39
The fires of devotion have never gone out on the altar of their Monday evening gatherings.
For length of days and number of membership combined, probably it surpasses all similar young people's associations in our country.
About three thousand names have been on its membership roll, and of this number twelve have set their faces toward the Gospel ministry.
Oh, what a source of joy to me that I leave that association in such a high condition of vigor and prosperity! No church can languish, no church can die, while it has plenty of young blood in its veins. What has been the outcome of these thirty years of happy pastorate? As far as the results can be tabulated the following is a brief summary:--During my pastorate here I have preached about 2,750 discourses, have delivered a very large number of public addresses in behalf of Sunday Schools, Young Men's Associations, the temperance reform, and kindred enterprises for advancing human welfare.
I have officiated at 682 marriages.
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