Monday, Feb. 6, 1871, a resolution was adopted, authorizing the nieiu-
bera interested in the Entaw Place movement, to hold a preliminary
meeting, which was convened on the following Monday, The neces-
sary arrangements were then made to organize and remove lo the new
building. Dr. Fuller was called to the paatorship of the Eutaw Place
Chnrch, and on Febrnary 17, one hundred and thirty members naked
for letters of dismission lo migriite to the new scene of labor. Addition-
al letters were granted from time to time, so that within a few months
they reached to one hundred and eighty-five.
Althongh Dr. Fuller did not send his resignation to the Chnrch nn-
K, til March 'i\,s. committee, conaisting of brethren Poulson, Bntcher, W.
Bayne, C. M. Keyeer, and J. Frank Brown, was appointed on Feb. 34,
to open up correspondence in regard to obtaining a new pastor. Dr,
Fnller did not separate himself from his old flock without manypangs
of regret, and his repeated visits and letters to the Church indicate the
iutenge interest he felt in the society where he had labored so faithfully
\ fora quarter of a century.
There seemed to be a great unauimity among the members, to call
fl their pulpit one of three able ministers who were known to hold most
I affectionate relations with their old pastor, viz : Rev. Dr, Jas. Cuthbert,
f Washington, D. C, Rev. Lucius Cuthbert, of Aiken, S. C, and Rev.
