[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] organized as early at least as 1834. Unfortunately, there are no records attainable, and it is difficult to ascertain the date with certainty, but it is learned front some old printed minutes of the conference thai a pastor, the Hev. John S. Ambler, was appointed in 1X34, which implies, of course, that the church was already in existence. The first church building oc-cupied for public worship stood west of the railroad track on Power Main Street, leading to the Point Dock, and near the hotel now known as Democratic Hall. The congregation afterwards removed to a small building on the southeast corner of Cortlandt Street and College Avenue. Pater still they removed to the building on the south side of Cedar Street, west of Cortlandt; and finally, when St. Mark's Ppiscopal Church removed into its new edifice on Broadway in 1XUX, the Methodist Protestant congregation pur-chased their" church building on Beekman Avenue, and soon after removed into it, where they have wor-shipped ever since. The church has a membership of one hundred and twenty-live, with one bundled scholars in the Sabbath-school. Its present pastor is the Rev. R. S. Hulsart. St. Teresa's Roman Catholic Chuhi h — The