He was converted at age twenty-two and began preaching the following year in the Methodist church in New England. Reynolds was ordained deacon in the Vermont Conference by Methodist Episcopal Bishop Andrews in 1884, and was ordained elder in 1886 by Methodist Episcopal Bishop John Fletcher Hurst.
He converted at age twenty-two and began preaching in the Methodist church in New England.  Reynolds was ordained as a deacon in the Vermont Conference by Bishop Andrews in 1884, and then ordained as an elder by Bishop Hurst in 1886.