IN 1848, and for many years before that, the Presbyterian Church, New School, and the Congregational churches carried on their home missionary work through 'the agency of the American Home Missionary Society.

It was the understanding that new churches organized by home missionaries should be Presbyterian or Congregational, according to the choice of those uniting to form them.

It was at the request of this society that the writer came to California, leaving New York, December 1, 1848.

My church relation had been first with the Congregational church in my native New England home, and next with the Dartmouth College church, and later, while I was in Union Theological Seminary, New York, it was with the Central Presbyterian church, Rev. Dr. William Adams, pastor.

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