The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 255

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Publication date: 1874
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Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at one o'clock P.M. Prayer meetings on Wednesday even- ings.


Officers .- John Truebody, Annis Merrill, John R. Sims, J. M. Johnson, Elisha Higgins, J. T. McLean, Robert Beeching, and R. G. Davisson, Trustees ; R. G. Davisson, Superintendent of Sabbath School.


Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, south side of Howard Street, between Second and Third. Rev. F. F. JEWELL, Pastor; resi- dence, 8 Hubbard Street.


The society, organized in 1852, under the superin- tendence of Rev. Isaac Owen, erected and dedicated December 5; 1853, a plain, but substantial, neatly furnished house of worship on Folsom Street. The present building was erected in 1862, under the pas- torship and superintendence of Rev. J. D. Blain. The building is Gothic, of the fourteenth century, ninety-six feet long by fifty-eight feet wide. It seats about twelve hundred persons. Value, including lot and parsonage, $100,000, entirely free from debt. After setting off the Central and Mission Street churches, there are now more than four hundred communicants, and a Sabbath School, numbering sixty officers and teachers and six hundred scholars, with an average attendance of four hundred and fifteen, and a library of two thousand volumes. Services every Sabbath morning and evening at the usual hours. Prayer meeting, etc., on Sunday, at half past six o'clock P.M., and on Wednesday, at half past seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at two o'clock P.M.


Officers .- Charles Goodall, Robert McElroy, James Harlow. S. Mosgrove, S. H. Hancock, S. S. Sprague, William Booth, J. W. Duncan, and J. F. Byxbee, 'Trustees.


Central Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, north side of Mission between Sixth and Seventh streets. Rev. T. S. DUNN, Pastor; residence, 531 Jessie Street.


The church was organized in 1864 by Rev. J. D. Blain, and a small building erected on a leased lot nearly opposite the present site. The present lot was purchased in 1866 under the pastoral charge of Rev. J. B. Hill, and is seventy-five feet front on Mission Street, running through one hundred and sixty feet to Jessie Street. The church edifice is fifty-six by one hundred feet, besides Sunday School and Class rooms, which are accommodated in an L on the back of the main church building, forty-six by fifty feet. The present church was placed on the lot in 1872 under the pastoral charge of Rev. A. M. Hough, who remained in charge until September, 1873, when the Rev. T. S. Dunn succeeded him. The society now numbers, including probationers, one hundred and fifty.


Since the present Pastor took charge, the debt of the church has been reduced from $20,000 to $4,000, with a fair prospect of the balance being paid before the close of the present year.


Services every Sabbath morning and evening at the usual hours. Sabbath School and Bible classes at half past nine o'clock A.M. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Class meetings Sabbath noon and Tuesday evenings.


Officers .- E. Burke, President ; W. H. Codington, Secretary; D. A. Mckinley, Treasurer ; J. W. Nye,


C. H. Holt, George Waterson, N. Anderson, D. B. Finch, and J. C. Hoag, Trustees.


Mission Street Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, east side of Mission Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. Rev. WESLEY DEN- NETT, Pastor; residence, Twentieth Street near Va- lencia Street.


The building occupied by this church, erected on a lot, sixty-five by one hundred and twenty-two feet, presented by John Center, is a neat and substantial frame structure, fifty by ninety feet, with a lecture room fifty by fifty-two feet, and so constructed that it can be extended whenever the wants of the society demand it.


Services on Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and at half past seven o'clock p.M. Prayer meetings on Wednesday at half past seven o'clock P.M. The Sab- bath School connected with the church has a library of six hundred volumes. Meets at half past two o'clock P.M .; D. Henderson, Superintendent.


Officers .- C. S. Holmes, N. J. Rogers, E. B. Kings- ley, E. Bryans, G. W. Lemont, and J. L. Culin, Trustees.


Kentucky St. Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Tennessee Street south of Solano, Potrero. Rev. A. M. BAILEY, Pastor; residence, at the church.


The lot is fifty by one hundred feet, for which $1,300 was paid. Size of building thirty-two by fifty feet. Value of property, $7,500, free from debt.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Prayer meetings, Friday evening.


Broadway German Methodist Episcopal Church


Location, north side Broadway, between Stockton and Powell streets. Rev. C. H. AFFLERBACH, Pastor; residence, 728 Broadway, rear.


This church was organized February 29, 1859.


Services every Sabbath at half past ten o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M .; also, every Wednes- day evening in the German language. Sunday School at nine o'clock A.M.


German Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, Folsom Street, between Fourth and Fifth. Rev. H. W. AXTHELM, Pastor; residence, 864 Folsom Street.


This church was organized April 4, 1858.


Services every Sunday at forty-five minutes past ten o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Al- so, every Wednesday evening at half past seven o'clock in the German language. Sabbath School at nine o'clock A.M.


Officers .- Theodor Fuchs, President; August Mul- ler, Treasurer; Charles F. Krebs, Secretary; Her- man Shrader, F. Jansen, Christian Kobicke, and Carl Stein, Trustees.


Methodist Episcopal Church, South.


Rev. E. E. Hoss, Pastor; residence, 2010 Folsom Street.


This church was organized in October, 1858, by the Rev. O. P. Fitzgerald, Kovs. W. R. Gober, Morris Evans, Samuel Brown, E. K. Miller, Jesse Wood, and Dabney Ball, having severally had pastoral charge. The congregation formerly worshiped on Minna Street, between Fourth and Fifth, but have recently purchased a lot on the corner of Ninth and Mission streets, where a church edifice will soon be erected. For the present, services are held in the Pythian Hall Building, 913 Market Street.


Services overy Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and at half past seven o'clock P.M. Sabbath School at close of morning service. Class meeting at half past nine o'clock A.M. Prayer meetings on Friday evening.


Officers .-. C. L. Newman, Class Leader; Rufus k. Cain, J. A. MeClelland, Wick B. Parsons, and David Markell, Trustees.


Bush Street M. E. Church.


Location, Bush Street, between Scott and Devisa- dero. Rev. E. R. DILLE, Pastor; residence, 2520 Bush Street.


This house of worship was built, at a cost of $5,500, from the proceeds of the sale of the Seaman's Bethel,


FARNSWORTH & CLARK, Gen'l Fire and Marine Insurance Agency ; office 230 Cal. St.


EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, corner of Clay and Leidesdorff Streets.


930


C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny St., Importers and Jobbers.


CHURCHES.


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in 1869. A Sabbath School with about two hundred | two school rooms, also connected by folding doors, members and a library of three hundred volumes, is connected with the church.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Class meeting immedi- ately after morning service. Prayer meeting Wed- nesday evenings.


Officers .- Henry Mahan, C. A. Morrill, C. C. Lom- bard, Paul Bunker, and D. L. Hadley, Trustees.


South San Francisco M. E. Church.


Location, Fifteenth Avenue, South S. F. Rev. A. M. BAILEY, Pastor; residence, Tennessee Street, south of Solano.


This society have erected a small edifice, at a cost, including furniture, of $3,500. The lot, seventy-five by one hundred feet, was donated by Messrs. Wil- liams & Case.


Services are held every Sabbath at seven o'clock P.M. Sunday School meets at two o'clock P.M.


African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Colored).


Location, west side of Stockton Street, between Clay and Sacramento. Revs. W. H. HILLERY, resi- dence, south side of Greenwich Street, between Lar- kin and Polk, and R. T. HOUSTON, residence, 324 Du- pont Street, Acting Pastors.


The congregation was organized by Rev. John J. Moore, August 1, 1852. In April, 1864, they pur- chased the Unitarian Church on Stockton Street, for $15,500, on which there is a debt of $800. Connected with the church is a Sabbath School of eight teachers and ninety scholars, and a library of four hundred volumes.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and at three and half past seven P.M. Sabbath School at half past twelve o'clock p.M.


Officers .- J. W. O. Bryant, President ; S. E. Free- man, Secretary; Lewis Berry, Treasurer; John Har- ris, James Hargrove, W. Heywood, W. J. Parker, J. S. Ross, and E. Cooper, Trustees.


African Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, west side of Powell Street, between Jack- son and Pacific. Rev. I. N. TRIPLETT, Pastor ; resi- dence, 106 Bernard Street.


The society worshiping here was organized in 1859, and is the same that formerly occupied the St. Cyprian Church. Under the pastorship of Rev. T. M. D. Ward they reorganized in 1856, and secured the Scott Street Church property, where they con- tinued to worship until March, 1862, when they pur- chased the property which up to that time had been known as Grace Church, for $5,500. Having paid the debt in March, 1864, on the first day of January, 1865, the society made extensive necessary repairs, requiring the sum of $6,500 ; $5,300 of that has been paid, leaving a balance on the main debt, including interest, of $1,300, and a floating debt amounting to $400-total, $1,700. Rev. J. B. Sanderson was Pastor from May, 1857, to June, 1859. At this time Rev. T. D. M. Ward again took charge, and remained Pastor until May, 1868, when he was consecrated Bishop. From July, 1869, to June, 1870, Rev. John R. V. Morgan acted as Pastor. The Rev. R. Dorsey next took charge, and was succeeded by the Rev. J. H. Hubbard March 30, 1872. The present Pastor took charge during the year 1873. During the year 1865 three deacons were ordained by the Right Rev. Jabez P. Campbell, Bishop of California.


Officers .- Isaac Pearson, George Richardson, Wil- liam H. Carter, James Dizard, Jacob Scott, Isaac West, James Reader, William Davis, and Alfred C. Garrison, Trustees ; William H. Carter, Secretary.


Chinese Mission House of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


Location, north side of Washington Street, between Stockton and Powell. Rev. OTIS GIBSON, Superin- tendent ; residence, 916 Washington Street. Chau Lok Chee and Chan Bar Kui, Native Helpers.


This Mission House, erected in 1870, is a neat and commodious edifice, fifty-six by seventy feet, and three stories high. On the main floor are three school rooms, with double folding doors between, so that when desirable they can all be thrown into one room for general school exercises or religious services. On the second floor of the Chinese department are


and rooms for the family of the native preacher. The third floor of this portion of the building contains four fine rooms, designed for, and used as, an Asylum for Chinese women and girls, who may be saved from lives of slavery and shame. Miss Laura S. Temple- ton is employed as teacher and missionary in this department. The entrance to the Chinese depart- ment is on Stone Street, and to the Parsonage de- partment, 916 Washington.


The total cost of the property is $32,000, one third of which has been contributed by friends on this Coast, and the balance has been paid by the Mission- ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which society the property is deeded.


The schools are graded into four classes, employing four experienced teachers, and are open every even- ing during the week except Saturday. Tuition $1 per month. Bible Class meets every Sabbath at half past ten o'clock A.M. Sabbath School at half past six o'clock P.M. Service in the Chinese lan- guage every Sabbath, at twelve o'clock M., at the Mis- sion House, and every day of the week at two o'clock P.M. at the Chapel on Jackson Street, between Dupont and Kearny.


PRESBYTERIAN.


First Presbyterian Church,


Location, west side of Stockton Street, between Washington and Clay. Rev. ROBERT PATTERSON, Pastor.


This church was organized May 20, 1849, under the direction of Rev. Albert Williams, and was the first Protestant Church organized in San Francisco. W. W. Caldwell, Frederick Billings, Dr. George F. Tur- ner, Mrs. Sarah B. Gillespie, Mrs. Ann Hodgson, and Mrs. Margaret A. Geary were the original members; Capt. B. Simmons, E. Woodruff, and H. Grimes were the first Trustees.


During the summer of 1849 the congregation wor- shiped in a tent on Dupont Street, afterward in a store room of the Custom House, and in the Superior Court Room, City Hall, until January 19, 1851, when a neat Gothic edifice was erected on Stockton Street, near Broadway, capable of holding seven hundred persons. This house was destroyed by the great fire of June 22, 1851. A plain building was immediately erected on the same spot, in which the congregation worshiped until August, 1857 ; and from that time until May, 1858, their meetings were held in the Chinese Mission Chapel. Their present fine house of worship was built in the summer and autumn of 1857, at a cost of about $60,000, including the lot, furniture, and fixtures. It is in the Gothic style of architecture throughout. The main building is one hundred and seventeen feet long, or to the outside of the tower, one hundred and twenty-three feet, and is sixty-one feet wide. Rooms for the Pastor's study and social meetings are on the same floor with the audience room, which last is eighty-one by fifty-eight feet, with a ceiling thirty-nine feet high. A Sabbath School room, fifty-seven by thirty-six feet, is over the front apartments; on the north-east corner of the house is a brick tower, ninety-six feet in hight. There is an organ gallery that will seat a choir of forty persons, and contains one of the largest and handsomest or- gans in the city. In all its arrangements the editice is admirably adapted to its purpose, and at the same time is in accordance with true architectural taste.


The church is entirely free from debt. Present number of communicants is about one hundred and fifty.


Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M., and half past seven o'clock P.M .; lecture on Wednesday evening.


Officers .- N. Gray, S. Hopkins, J. K. S. Latham, R. J. Trumbull, and John Wright, Elders; C. L. Kel- logg and S. B. King, Deacons; David Hewes (Presi- dent), J. F. Heston (Secretary and Treasurer), H. L. King, J. B. Painter, William Bosworth, Joseph Gor- don, L. B. Edwards, R. B. Fordham, and W. A. Holcombe, Trustees.


There is a large and flourishing Sabbath School connected with the church. Average attendance, three hundred and ninety. Number of teachers, fifty. A choice library of over eight hundred vol- umes is attached to the school. Sabbath School and Bible Class meet at one o'clock P.M.


PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY contains Addresses of over 50,000 Merchants.


ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, has been identified with every large fire in the Country.


KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.


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SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.


Officers .- C. L. Kellogg, Superintendent ; H. L. King, Jr.,, Assistant Superintendent ; A. L. Hum- phries, Treasurer ; James Wier, Secretary ; George Leonard, Librarian.


Calvary Presbyterian Church.


Location, northwest corner of Geary and Powell streets. Rev. JOHN HEMPHILL, Pastor; residence, Grand Hotel.


This church was organized July 17, 1854. The first Pastor was the Rev. W. A. Scott, D.D., who com- menced his labors in this city on the twenty-first of May previously. Dr. S. continued to officiate until the close of the year 1861, when he was succeeded by the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, D.D., who continued in charge until the summer of 1869. In 1854 this con- gregation erected a church on Bush Street, between Montgomery and Sansom, where they worshiped until the dedication of their present house of wor- ship. The construction of the new edifice was com- menced in 1868 and completed in May, 1869. It occu- pies a fifty-vara lot, and is one of the most beautiful and convenient churches in the city. It will com- fortably seat about one thousand persons. The Lecture and Sunday School Room is handsomely furnished, and will accommodate from six hundred to eight hundred persons.


The church has a splendid organ, built by Henry Erben, of New York, which cost over $8,000, and which is one of the largest and most costly instru- ments on the Pacific Coast ; for excellence of work- manship and brilliancy of tone it has been pro- nounced to be unsurpassed.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and seven o'clock p.M .; in summer at half past seven o'clock P.M. Public lecture Wednesday evening. Prayer meeting every Sabbath, one hour before the evening service. Young Men's Prayer Meeting on Friday evening. Sabbath School meets at half past twelve o'clock P.M.


Officers .- R. McKee, James B. Roberts, H. H. Haight, William H. Stowell, Henry B. Underhill, and Cyrus Carmany, Elders; Edward Hagthrop, John Dunn, H. Nelson Wright, and Charles W. Gordon, Deacons; Thomas H. Selby, H. H. Haight, James B. Roberts, J. H. Applegate, William Blackwood, Charles Clayton, H. P. Coon, David Meeker, and Alexander R. Baldwin, Trustees; Thomas H. Selby, President; James B. Roberts, Secretary; and Wil- liam Blackwood, Treasurer ; James B. Roberts, Sabbath School Superintendent ; C. R. Brumley, Sexton, residence 13 O'Farrell Street.


Howard Presbyterian Church.


Location, south side of Mission Street, between Third and Fourth. ( Vacant), Pastor.


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The church was organized September, 1850, under the auspices of the Rev. S. H. Willey, who continued in the pastorage for twelve years. The building then occupied by the congregation was dedicated June 17, 1851; was enlarged and ropaired in 1864, and in 1867 was sold to the Third Baptist Society. The Rev. H. M. Scudder, D.D., who was for many years a missionary in India, was installed by the Presby- tery of San Francisco, July 23, 1865, and prosecuted his work with great success until March, 1871, when he resigned. The Rev. Hugh Smith Carpenter, D. D., supplied the pulpit from February 1872 to March 1874, when he resigned. The number of communi- cants enrolled is about five hundred.


The present church building was erected in 1866, and dedicated January 6, 1867. It will seat comfort- ably nearly one thousand four hundred persons, and is considered in all respects well adapted for the pur- poses designed in its erection.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock p.M. in winter months, and forty-five minutes past seven o'clock P.M. in summer months. Prayer meeting, or lecture, Wednesday evening. Sabbath School at forty-five minutes past nine o'clock A.M .; Samuel I. C. Swezey, Superintend- ent. Teachers' meeting every Friday evening. Num- ber of teachers and scholars about four hundred. Volumes in the library about one thousand


Officers .- Samuel I. C. Swezey, William A. Mook- er, Wales L. Palmer, Milton H. Myrick, Ebenezer K. Hawley, George McDonald, Elders; E. A. Upton, George T'. Hawley, Colin Sinclair, Andrew McLure, and Robert T. Roberts, Deacons; James E. Gordon,


Cyrus Palmer, Ebenezer R. Hawley, S. I. C. Swezey, James Patterson, and George MeDonald, Trustees. Wales L. Palmer, Treasurer; Herbert H. Judson, Secretary.


Larkin Street Presbyterian Church.


Location, corner Larkin and Pacific streets. Rev. CALVIN A. POAGE, Pastor; residence, 1507 Clay Street. This enterprise was commenced by Rev. J. D. Strong, in the Spring Valley School House, in April. 1862. A Union Sabbath School, under the superin- tendence of E. R. Waterman, had previously existed in the neighborhood for more than two years, but was not formally connected with the church move- ment till near the close of that year, when an effort was made to erect a house of worship, but failed for want of the requisite funds. During the following summer the effort was revived, and in September, 1863, a Board of Trustees was incorporated, a lot pur- chased at an expense of $1,000, plans and specifica- tions prepared by S. H. Williams, and the contract for building the church edifice let to J. W. Duncan. On the fourth of September, 1864, the building was completed and dedicated. It is of wood, seventy-two feet long and forty-two feet wide, and has seats for about four hundred persons. Its architecture is plain and unpretending, but neat and tasteful. Its whole cost was a little over $10,000.


Services every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. The Sabbath School has an average attendance of one hundred and forty, and a library of four hundred volumes. Meets immedi- ately after morning service.


Officers .- Warren Holt and Arthur W. Post, Eld- ers; E. R. Waterman, S. C. Baldwin, W. D. Chilson, Henry Dutton Jr., John Dunn, and Warren Holt, Trustees.


Central Presbyterian Church.


Location, north side of Tyler Street, between Tay- Ior and Jones. Rev. THOMAS N. CUNNINGHAM, D.D., Pastor; residence, 1817 Sacramento Street.


This church was organized May 14, 1865, with fifty- three members. At present it has on its roll the names of about four hundred, and is rapidly increas- ing. In the summer of 1865, the congregation erect- ed an edifice on Mission Street, between Fifth and Sixth, where they worshiped until the summer of 1869, when a second house of worship was completed and formally dedicated to the service of God on Sunday, November 28, 1869. The building, furniture, etc., exclusive of the lot, cost about $25,000. The Rev. John G. Fackler, through whose labor the con- gregation was gathered, officiated from April, 1866, until the present Pastor took charge in November, 1870. The congregation and Sabbath School increas- ing so rapidly, it was determined to sell this edifice, which was done in the month of August, 1872, to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, who removed the building to their lot on Mission Street, between Sixth and Seventh, paying $7,500 for the building and furniture. The organ was sold to the Presbyto- rian Church of San José. In September, 1872, the contract for the present building, called the "Central Presbyterian Tabernacle," was signed, and the work commenced to erect a building which is free to all persons, and completed in 1873. The building is an octagon shape, surmounted by a dome from which sus- pends a sunburner which is the only light used. The walls are handsomely frescoed and contain appro- priate mottoes from the "Beatitudes." A splendid organ fills up the entire east wall. The basement is divided into lecture room, two class rooms, kitchen (used at the social meetings of the congregation), study, and library.


Sabbath services held at eleven o'clock A.M. and half past seven o'clock P.M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday in the lecture room at half past seven o'clock P.M., and on Sabbath evenings at half past six o'clock P.M. Praise service is hold till half past seven o'clock p.M., when the usual service is held. Sunday School and Bible Class, numbering four hundred children, at half past nine o'clock A.M .; A. Hemme, Superintendent. The Library contains two thousand useful volumes, which are eagerly read by the chil- dren.


A preparatory sermon is preached on Friday even- ing before each administration of the Lord's Sup- per, which sacrament is observed on the first Sab- bath of March, June. September, and December.


FARNSWORTH & CLARK furnish Safe and Reliable Insurance against Firo.


O. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Trunks and Valises.


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Officers .- A. Hemme, James D. Thornton, Asa Harker, George I. N. Monell, Henry F. Crane, Duane Ballard, and W. E. Seil, Elders; Rufus Keyser, Jas. Dunn, and James Moore, Deacons; Asa Harker, A. Hemme, J. D. Thornton, James Dunn, Rufus Key- ser, G. I. N. Monell, Jacob Schreiber, Robert McIn- tyro, and A. T. Farish, Trustees; G. I. N. Monell, Treasurer; A. J. Chambers, Secretary.


Emmanuel Presbyterian Church.


Location, Harrison Street, between Fifth and Sixth. Rev. JAMES WOODWORTH, Acting Pastor; res- idence, 302 Montgomery Street.


This church was organized in the month of July, 1867, with twenty-seven members, under the direction of the Presbytery of California. The Sabbath School connected with the church was organized January 6, 1867, at the corner of Seventh and Folsom streets; number of scholars at the time, thirty. It now has three hundred scholars, with a library of five hun- dred and fifty volumes.


Services are held every Sabbath at eleven o'clock A.M. Sabbath School at two o'clock P.M. Rev. James Woodworth, Superintendent; Miss Alice McGuire, Librarian.


United Presbyterian Church.


Location, west side of Mason Street, between Eddy and Ellis. Rev. M. M. GIBSON, Pastor ; residence, 8 Liberty Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first. This church was organized January, 1866, by the Rev. J. T. Cooper, D.D., with thirty-eight members ; it now numbers about two hundred. It uses the metrical version of the Psalms of David in praise. It is sustained entirely on the voluntary system, pews free.




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