[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Broad Street, between Park and Brown. The church has had numerous pastors, but at present (1884) is without any. The number of members does not ex-ceed twenty-rive. The church is popularly referred to as the " Pond-Lily Church," from the fact of its being located in a lot which formerly flourished with pond-lilies. The Protestant Methodists and the Chris-tian Disciples. —In 1827 a society of Protestant Methodists was organized in Peekskill, and Novem-ber 23, 1830, was incorporated, John Spock, Wil-liam R. Steel and Thomas Blaekney being trustees. Their meeting-house, a small frame building, has been located on Park Street for many years. The congregation fell into decline, and in 1880 sold their meeting-house to a congregation of Christian Dis-ciples, otherwise known as Campbellites, and passed out of existence. The Disciples began to hold their meetings in 1872 in the house of R. Harrison, a potter doing business on Broad Street, north of Main. December 13, 1873, they were organized as a congregation by Elder Dex-ter Moody, of Troy, N. Y. The number of their originators was three, but in 1882 the church had over fifty adherents. In that year a split occurred, owing to the teaching by one party of doctrines held by the other to be unscriptural, such as the theory of evolution, the impersonality of the devil, etc., and the portion calling themselves the orthodox party with drew, leaving the congregation considerably reduced in size. The First Baptist Church.