This is a transcription of the conclusion section from The Men Who Called Dr. Bullions 104 Years Ago, written by Rev. John C. Scott, D. D., The Washington County Post, Cambridge, NY, 1911.
This call was approved by the Presbytery at Barnet, Vermont, on July 13, 1807, and was formally presented at Cambridge (now Coila) September 16, and was declined. The presbytery still pressed the call at Florida on October 12, Mr. Bullions in the meantime supplying the Cambridge pulpit. It was renewed by the congregation on February 1, 1808, and accepted on the 15th of the same month, when the Presbytery assigned the following subjects for trials for ordination:
“For Exercise and Addition, Ephesians, 1:3; for lecture, Psalm 8; for popular sermon, Acts 16:31; for exegesis, An Benejicia Salutaria Federis Gratia Acquisita sint per Christun?; Hebrew, Psalm 1; church history, the “First Century.”
Part of these trials were given at Cambridge a month later, and there were satisfactorily completed on April 13, when Mr. Bullions was ordained and installed at a meeting which was held in the open field just back of the old Coila blacksmith shop. The relationship thus established continued until it was broken by the death of Dr. Bullions on the morning of June 26, 1857.
Now that my task is finished I drop it with regret, for closer acquaintance with these men has given me an affection for them. With all their faults, they were a noble company of men, Puritans all, through a century and a half later than those who laid the foundations of New England at Plymouth Rock, and none the less worthy of honor.
I can hardly hope to have escaped making some errors in the handling of so many details, and will gladly receive any corrections or additional information.