highest quality, was formally organized in the early months of 1817.22 A Congregational church, soon to become Presbyterian, was organized at Adams.23 When Finney returned to his father’s house in 1816, or somewhat later, it was no longer to a community in which the stated means of grace were inaccessible, and no longer to a household to which the grace of God was a stranger. A brother had given himself to God during his absence.24 If he himself still knew nothing of the grace of God, that could