This church was for many years especially noted for its missionary
enterprise. To this church Alabama owes many of her pioneer preachers.
The late Rev. Charles Leavens, who was pastor just after the close of
the war, sought to send a pioneer, an organizer, into every section
of the State. Their present house of worship cost, I am told, about
$24,000, and is a two-story brick structure. Since the war their
pastors have been: Revs. Charles Leavens, I. Grant, A. Butler, C. C.
Richardson, and the present occupant, Rev. Mr. Frazier. This church
seems now in full sympathy with its past missionary record, over which
no one rejoices more than the writer, since it is from this church that
he, under God, received his commission to preach the gospel of the Son
of Righteousness.