whoever he was , he won most of the christians in town over to his own lively version of the faith by the time the corn was ready for picking c much to the despair of mr hartley , who ministered to the methodists of ilium and troy , and mr crowell , who looked after the spiritual welfare of baptists in ilium , troy , etna , and unity ( the joke in those days was that emory crowell 's parsonage belonged to the town of troy , but his piles belonged to god ) .