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JUBILEE
OF THE
South Congregational Church
November the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Sixteenth,
NINETEEN HUNDRED
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts PRESS OF THE PITTSFIELD JOURNAL COMPANY
1900
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ERRATA
Page 8-Mr. I. C. Smart should be Mrs. I. C. Smart.
Pages 40, 55-William M. Ward should be William W. Ward. Page 76-Oroomish should be Oroomiah.
Page 156-Avery Carey died in 1864 not 1834.
SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., L.L. D. 1814-1819
THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE.
The South Congregational Church in Pittsfield at its annual meeting held on the evening of December the twenty-second, 1898, voted, on motion of Mr. Frank E. Peirson, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in November, 1900. At the same meet- ing the following persons were chosen to prepare for the cele- bration : The Rev. I. C. Smart, Deacon George Shipton, Mr. Frank E. Peirson, Mrs. Henry H. Richardson, Miss F. Isabel Dunham, Miss Mary E. Porter.
At the annual meeting of the church held on the evening of December the twenty-ninth, 1899, the same committee was con- tinued and given power to act. The committee met, made plans and divided the work. A calendar of the celebration was mailed a few days in advance of the meetings to members of the congregation residing in Pittsfield, to former members and absent members residing elsewhere, to the clergy of the city and county and others. The Congregational ministers of Berkshire county and their wives were invited to attend the anniversary service on Monday evening and be our guests over night. Those who came were the Rev. and Mrs. Henry M. Bowden of Middle- field, the Rev. L. D. Bliss and Mrs. Bliss of Gt. Barrington, the Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Curtis of West Stockbridge, the Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Langford of New Lebanon, N. Y., the Rev. and Mrs. T. C. Luce of Richmond, the Rev. J. H. Laird of Hinsdale, the Rev. and Mrs. Frederick Lynch of Lenox, the Rev. A. B. Penniman of Adams, the Rev. and Mrs. Charles S. Rich of Stockbridge, the Rev. A. F. Sherrill of Lee, the Rev.
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J. C. Seagraves of Hinsdale, the Rev. and Mrs. George Sterling of Windsor, the Rev. W. L. Tenney of North Adams.
The first service of the Jubilee was held on Sunday morning, November the eleventh at 10.30 o'clock. The lessons from the Holy Scriptures, which were read by the Rev. William Carruth- ers, were Genesis 28: 10-22, and Acts 2: 1-36. Psalm 84 was read responsively. The music was as follows :
Prelude The Priests' March from Athalie, Mendelssohn
Te Deum in B minor, Dudley Buck
Bread of the World Dudley Buck
Response, W. H. Way
Postlude Prayer from Rienzi, Wagner .
Hymns "From all that dwell below the skies," Isaac Watts closing with the doxology by Bishop Ken.
Tune "Old Hundredth,"
L. Bourgeois
"Oh where are kings and empires now," Coxe Tune "St. Anne," W. Croft
"For all the saints who from their labors rest,"
W. W. How
Tune "Sarum," J. Barnby
A sermon for the occasion was preached by the minister of the church, Isaac Chipman Smart. The following persons were received into the church : By letter from sister churches, from the Congregational church in Adams, Mrs J. D. Ainslee, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hoag; from the Asbury First Methodist Episcopal church in Springfield, Mr. Walter M. Fernald; from the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. Charles N. Warner; on confession of faith, Mrs. Flora Knowlton Fernald, Samuel Chipman Smart, Mr. Alfred White. The service closed with the celebration of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The Rev. William Carruthers officiated at the distribution of the bread.
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The second service was held on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. The lessons from the Holy Scriptures were Ezekiel 47: 1-12 and The Revelation 4. Psalm 65 was read responsively. The Rev. Lewis P. Atwood offered prayer. Mr. Edward Tolman and the Rev. William Carruthers spoke in the service and Mr. Frank E. Peirson read a history of the church. The music was as follows :
Prelude Cujus Animam from the Stabat Mater, Rossini
Jubilate Deo, Dudley Buck The Heavens are Telling, Haydn Response, J. C. Warren
Postlude Hallelujah, Handel
Hymns "Before Jehovah's awful throne," Isaac Watts Tune "Park Street," F. M. A Venua
"O Jesus King most wonderful,"
Bernard of Clairvaux
Tune "St. Agnes," J. B. Dykes
"I love thy kingdom Lord," Timothy Dwight
Tune "State Street," . J. C. Woodman
"The church's one foundation," S. J. Stone
Tune "Aurelia," . . S. S. Wesley
"Forward be our watchword," Henry Alford
Tune "Watchword," Henry Smart .
The First church courteously gave up its evening service and the Rev. W. V. W. Davis D. D., made the closing prayer and pronounced the benediction.
The third service was a Women's meeting held in the chapel at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon November the twelfth. Mrs. Henry C. Clark, president of the Ladies' Benevolent society, presided. Miss Emma White sang "Good bye Summer." Mrs. Clark said a few words about the object of the meeting and called upon Mrs. J. F. Hemming to read a paper on the history
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of the "Ladies' Benevolent Society." The other exercises were as follows: Remarks by Mrs. Mary J. Brewster, a paper by Mrs. Harriet Peirson Ritchie read by Mrs. W. B. Foote, a paper by Mrs. H. H. Richardson read because of the writer's absence through illness by Mrs. Charles W. Dewey, remarks by Miss F. Isabel Dunham on the early missionary interests of the church and the missionaries who have gone from it, letter from Mrs. Kitty Howard Bartlett read by Miss A. E. Walker, history of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society by Mrs. W. R. Edgerton, remarks by Mr. I. C. Smart about the Ladies' Fortnightly club, a few words in appreciation of the Dorcas society by Mrs. Clark, address by Miss Anna L. Dawes on "Our Heritage of Liberty." soprano solo, "The Lullaby of Life" by Mrs. George W. Edwards. At the close of the formal exercises Mrs. Clark spoke a pleasant word of appreciation and thanked Miss Dawes and the others who had helped to make the meeting interesting. Tea was served by the ladies of the Fortnightly club.
The fourth service was the Anniversary service held on Mon- day evening November the twelfth at 8 o'clock. The prayer of invocation was offered by the Rev. Raymond Calkins minister of the Pilgrim Memorial church. The Old Testament lesson, Isaiah 61: 1-3, 62, was read by the Rev. W. V. W. Davis D. D. minister of the First church. The New Testament lesson, Ephesians 1: 15-23, 3: 14-4: 16, was read by the Rev. J. W. Thompson, D. D., minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Charles H. Hamlin of East- hampton. Psalm 132 was read responsively. The Rev. George Harris D. D., LL. D., president of Amherst college and neph- ew of Samuel Harris D. D., the first minister of this church, gave the anniversary address. The Rev. J. H. Laird of Hinsdale, offered prayer and pronounced the benediction. The music was as follows :
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Prelude Marche Pontificale, Gounod
Sanctus,
Waldo S. Pratt
Festival Te Deum, Dudley Buck
"The Heavens are Telling," Haydn
Benedictus,
N. B. Sprague
Response, "Heavenly Father," Beethoven
Postlude Gloria from the twelfth mass,
Mozart
Hymns "O God we praise Thee and Confess," Latin, fifth century
. Tune "Dundee," Scotch Psalter
"A mighty fortress is our God," words and tune by . . . Martin Luther
"O Lord beneath thy guiding hand,"
Leonard Bacon
Tune "Duke Street," J. Hatton
The fifth service was held on Tuesday evening, November the thirteenth at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Joseph E. Peirson presided. Deacon George Shipton offered prayer, and the following gentle- men spoke: Deacon William Robinson, John Bascom D. D., LL. D., Mr. Robert W. Adam, Deacon William B. Rice, the Rev. C. H. Hamlin. The chairman read letters from the Rev, Samuel Harris, D. D., Mrs. Helen Dunham Little, and extracts from a letter of Prof. A. M. Fletcher. Mr. Smart read an extract from a letter written by the Rev. R. A. Robinson of Onancock, Vir- ginia. At the close of the speaking Mr. A. A. Fobe's of the com- mittee to raise subscriptions for the debt made a brief report. Col. Henry H. Richardson, chairman of the Prudential commit- tee of the Parish, then set fire to the mortgage deed, which was burned in a brazier kindly loaned for the purpose by Mrs. Jennie A. Maxim. The congregation rose and sang the doxology while the paper was burning. Midway in the speaking the choir sang "Adore and be still" by Gounod. The remainder of the evening
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was spent socially in the chapel, where the Ladies' society served tea.
The following persons were appointed to act as a reception com- mitee: The Deacons and their wives and Mrs. Henry C. Clark, Mrs. A. W. Crossman, Mrs. Daniel J. Dodge, Mrs. F. E. Peirson, Mrs. H. H. Richardson, Mrs. R. B. Richmond, Miss Minnie A. Wolfe, Mr. Henry C. Clark, Mr. James S. Mattoon, Mr. Henry R. Peirson, Mr. Frank Walker.
The closing service was a prayer meeting held on Friday evening, November the sixteenth. The First church and the Pilgrim Memorial church united with us in this service. The following letters explain themselves:
Pittsfield, Oct. 20, 1900.
"To the First Church of Christ in Pittsfield.
Brethren :- The South church will celebrate its Jubilee dur- ing the week beginning Sunday, November the eleventh. At a meeting of the church held October the nineteenth, it was unanimously voted to invite the First church to join with us in a union prayer meeting to be held in our chapel on Friday even- ing, November the sixteenth. In view of the fact that through so many years our history was your history, and in view of our common traditions and loyalties, as well as to express a cordial good will and a real unity of spirit, we count ourselves happy to be charged with the pleasant office of transmitting to you this invitation from the South church.
F. E. PEIRSON, Church Clerk. Pittsfield, Oct. 24, 1900.
To the South Church.
Brethren :- Your kind invitation to the First church to join with you in a union prayer meeting on Friday evening, Novem- ber the sixteenth, was read at the midweek service of the church
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this evening, and it was unanimously voted that it be accepted.
Yours truly, HENRY A. BREWSTER, Church Clerk.
The topic of the meeting was "Inheritance and Duty." The Holy Scriptures read were I. Kings 8 : 54-62, Luke 12: 35- 48. The following persons participated in the meeting: The Reverend W. V. W. Davis, D. D., Mr. William G. Harding, Mr. William L. Adam, the Reverend S. P. Cook, the Reverend Ray- mond Calkins, Deacon George Shipton, Deacon William Robin- son, Mr. Harry W. Myers, Deacon H. W. Partridge, the Reverend William Carruthers.
No account of our Jubilee would be complete which did not include a grateful acknowledgment of the labors of the com- mittee appointed to raise money to pay our debt. The whole sum brought together was about $4,900. When the committee had collected what it could by private appeals, a special meet- ing of the congregation was held on Monday evening, October the first, to raise the sum needed to complete the fund and provide for the expenses of the Jubilee. Mr. Henry R. Peirson, mod- erator of the parish, presided at that meeting and Mr. F. E. Peirson acted as clerk. A statement from the committee prepar- ed by its chairman Miss F. Isabel Dunham was read, and in a few minutes $940 was subscribed.
The committee was constituted as follows: Miss F. Isabel Dunham, Miss Mary E. Porter, Mrs. James Denny, Jr., Mr. A. A. Fobes, Mr. H. W. Myers.
Two bequests, one of five hundred dollars from Mrs. Barbara Haustein and one of five hundred dollars from Mrs. Lydia A. Stone of Worthington, formerly Mrs. Jason Parsons of Pitts- field, together with generous gifts from former members and friends of the church, counted heavily in making up the whole
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sum. A bequest of $500 received from Mr. Joseph W. Foote several years ago was used to reduce the mortgage on the church and therefore should be brought to mind at this time with fresh gratitude.
The decorations of the church were the special care of Miss Mary E. Porter. They were beautiful in themselves and beau- tiful in their simplicity and fitness and harmony. The wood- work about the organ was covered with laurel. Across the organ pipes, on a background of dark green were the gilded figures 1850-1900. Pine trees stood in the spaces on either side of the The pulpit and baptismal font were decorated with white chrysanthemums. Copies of famous religious pulpit.
pictures loaned for the occasion by several persons adorned the walls of the Sunday School room. In the Ladies' parlor from portrait and photograph, faces of former ministers and others well known in the history of the church brought back to many the very "form and pressure" of other days. These pictures collected by Mrs. H. H. Richard- son included a photograph of Dr. Harris kindly sent from New Haven by Mrs. Harris, a portrait of Dr. Humphrey loaned by the First church, a protrait of Calvin Martin loaned by Mrs. Edwin Clapp, portraits of Deacon and Mrs. Fenn loaned by the House of Mercy, and photographs loaned by their respective families, of Mr. Henry B. Brewster, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Clark, Mrs. Sarah M. Booth, Deacon Daniel Day, Mr. Daniel J. Dodge, Deacon Albert Tolman, Mr. William M. Walker, Mr. Solomon Wilson, Dr. N. J. Wilson. Besides those named above were the photographs which hang permanently on our walls of the Rev. Thomas Crowther, the Rev. Edward Strong, D. D., and Deacon Henry M. Peirson. A fine photograph of Deacon James Harris Dunham the gift of his daughters is to re- main in the room where for seventeen years from the organiza-
INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH DECORATED FOR THE JUBILEE
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tion of the church he served as superintendent of the Sunday School.
The following persons assisted Miss Porter in the work of dec- oration: Miss F. I. Dunham, Miss Leila Frost, Miss Carrie Gamwell, Mr. and Mrs. James S. Mattoon, Miss Catherine Mat- toon, Mrs. F. E. Peirson, Mrs. E. S. Osteyee, Jr., Mrs. W. K. Rice, the Misses Rice, Miss Helen Rickheit, Mr. Charles Rein- hardt, Miss Ada Thickens, Miss Florence Williams, Miss Maude Wheeler.
The Ushers during the celebration were Mr. James S. Mat- toon, Chairman, Mr. Charles Acly, Mr. Selden D. Andrews, Mr. Henry Denny, Mr. Ralph Elmer, Mr. Arthur Feeley, Mr. A. G. Kingman, Mr. Charles H. Mattoon, Mr. Frank Mattoon, Mr. Harry W. Myers, Mr. William Reinhardt, Mr. John C. Thickens.
Coats and hats were cared for on Tuesday evening by Miss Catherine C. Mattoon, Miss Ida Reinhardt, Miss Virginia Sayles, Mr. Henry Denny, Mr. Arthur Feeley, Mr. Myron Sayles.
The music of the celebration which was worshipful and in- spiring throughout the services, was rendered by the church quartette, Mr. L. K. Willis, tenor and leader; Miss Emma White, soprano; Miss Minnie A. Shaw, alto; Mr. Fred T. Francis, bass, and Mrs. F. A. Cooley, organist, assisted by Miss Stella Chapin, Miss Jessie A. Clapp, Miss Sadie Johnson, Mrs. N. J. Lawton, Mrs. Marshall S. Wellington, Miss May Wolfe, Miss Grace Wood, Mr. J. P. Fryer, Mr. T. L. Jones, Mr. N. J. Lawton, Mr. W. M. Prince and the Kingman string quintette composed as follows: Mr. Carl Franz Escher, violin; Mr. W. A. Kingman, violoncello; Mr. R. D. Kingman, second violin; Mr. W. H. Adams, viola; Mr. Theodore Kilian, bass viol.
The story of the Jubilee cannot be told with justice and chivalry without inscribing upon these pages in large letters the
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names of two women who both in the collection of money to pay the debt, and in the preparations for the celebration have given constantly and heartily and without stint of their time and strength and tact and taste and skill to make this anniversary the triumph it has been.
FRANCES ISABEL DUNHAM.
MARY ELECTA PORTER.
ISAAC CHIPMAN SMART.
SERMON
PREACHED BY ISAAC CHIPMAN SMART, MINISTER OF THE CHURCH,
ON SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER THE ELEVENTH.
Reading one day in the first book of Kings, I came upon these words. I stopped and read them again. I looked up and thought a moment. The words began to glow. They illumined my mind. They lighted me the way that I shall take this morn- ing. They are in the 8th chapter at the 16th verse. "Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Is- rael." You see they had been fighting-these Israelites had -- all of them together. They had dropped their differences and jealousies. They were marching as one man behind David. And a splendid time of it they had had, winning battles and conquer- ing territory. For once they were a nation and proud enough of the new unity and glory. But what will happen, some of them said, when David is gone, when this fire of patriotism dies down and common doings and piping times of peace, heaped up- on the embers, make a suffocating smudge. Unless we take care anarchy will return with the Philistines on his back. Let us build a temple, build it in our new capitol, Jerusalem, which we all helped to wrest from the Jebusite, build it for a symbol, for
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a fountain, for a rallying point of national feeling. Let us make a tug of the heart towards Jerusalem to keep us together when sectional and tribal quarrels threaten to disrupt the kingdom. It was a statesmanlike project, a shrewd device to forestall human nature, a way to get around it, a substitute for enthusiasm a storage battery to save the electricity of David's army for the charging of future generations, an honorable effort to leave be- hind some sacrament in which a world which had forgotten the heroes might still commune with their spirit. But now comes in a long-headed Puritan. His feet are on the rock. His eyes are full of light. His voice rings like an oracle of God. Gen- tlemen, you cannot find a substitute for character. Institutions did not save the nation. David saved the nation. If you would keep it safe, you must breed men like David for your kings, you must breed men like his soldiers for your citizens.Institutions are well, but they cannot be worked to advantage without men. Men in their supreme moments outstrip institutions. The apostles outstripped the synagogue. The reformers outstripped the Church. Institutions have glamour. One looks and is blinded. "We have Abraham to our father. We have the oracles of God. We have the temple. Our institutions are fed from mysterious spring's of life within them." So the blind boast their security. But Titus burns Jerusalem. But Rome the eternal is sacked. But conservative England breeds a Cromwell as thunder clouds breed lightning. Men make nothing so great, so interesting, so important as themselves. At least our men made noth- ing, did nothing to compare with themselves. The charm of our history is not in events and measures.
It is not in outward successes. The building burned.
The spires fell. The institution rocked on its base. But men have been a wall unto us. Men have been our pillars of fire and cloud. Men have been a canopy over our
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Zion, our hiding place from the wind, our covert from the tem- pest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Some of those men I knew. Some I know. Some I see as stars in the night, when you who are left say with affection and reverence, this one and that one shining as the stars forever, were ours. A few men stand in a focus of light, and do sightly, striking things which in some measure represent them. Their lives make a good story. Others never do anything which wakes the echoes, never anything which seems above the commonplace when you tell it. The facts hard- ly justify the emphasis which you give them, because you knew the men. Their biography has to be chiefly a study of charac- ter. Our men have been of that kind. They have made nothing, they have done nothing, so great, so interest- ing, so important as themselves. They have not been idle. They have not held aloof. But they have distrib- uted tokens of their spirit through so many inconspicu- ous services and fidelities, they have fetched so much wood and water, they have brushed by us in so many touch and go con- tacts that when a stranger asks the reason of our hero worship, we can tell no story which does not seem like the play of Ham- let with Hamlet left out. We have to say, as we do so often of the deep things in our minds, "if you do not ask me I know." Ah, but we did have splendid men here. I loosen the cords of the tenses. We have had, we have still splendid men, men of force, of grasp, of insight, some of them hard to beat in an intellect- ual bout, some of them enriched with the wealth of a whole- some culture, some of them endowed with genius for religion, men of truth, men of honor, men of Christ. They stand out in our vision to-day like some mountain crag; mosses and flowers may soften its face, sunbeams and breezes may play in the sweetness and waft a pleasant perfume on the air, but underneath the ten-
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der beauty, underneath the kindly mirth and gentility, lies the solid rock steadfast forever. A sermon about this church must be first of all a sermon about men.
The time when this church was getting under way, had in it many forces which went to the making of strong men. The re- port of the Selectmen of Pittsfield dated April 1st, 1847, is or- namented on its first page by a rude cut of Aurora. The god- dess is standing in her car and driving her unbridled steeds over a mass of black clouds. A horn of plenty under her arm pours out a stream of things which look like coins. At the bottom of the page is this note which discloses the reason of the picture and the politics of the selectmen. "Memorandum, April 1, 1847. Weather cool but pleasant, snow abundant, thermometer 6 de- grees above zero at sunrise. It is thought the springs and streams will be late rising, also the General Court, but General Taylor is riz" The allusion, of course, is to General Taylor's re- cent victory at Buena Vista in the Mexican war. Taylor was the popular hero. The Whigs fastened to him like a tail to a kite. He was nominated to the Presidency, as some one said, by "spontaneous combustion." That rude picture on the old town report symbolizes the spirit of the time. It speaks of hope, of energy, of new ventures, of idealism spurning the ground and riding among the stars. The horn of plenty stands for ma- terial growth and prosperity. The black clouds underneath are the black clouds of slavery. There you have three conditions favorable for the making of strong men, an atmosphere of hope, a rising tide of prosperity, and the discipline of a great moral question-a question which kept mind and conscience on the rack and often thrust them into a burning, fiery furnace. An atmosphere of hope renews the face of the world, puts the fresh- ness of the morning into life, and calls forth human powers with trumpet tones. Prosperity brings confidence and leads to large-
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ness and boldness of thought and action. A great moral ques- tion gives life a turn towards the things of the spirit. It re- quires men who are building new barns for overflowing goods to set apart a space in them for conscience.
Progress marched with sure and rapid step through the dec- ade from 1840 to 1850. Wealth sprang up in its path. It travelled all over the North. It made excursions into the West. Forty-niners took it to California. The population of Pitts- field increased from 3747 in 1840 to 6052 in 1850. The old church was crowded. Dr. Todd wrote in 1847, "There are not less than fifty families and one hundred and fifty young men who have found it literally impossible to get into my church." Eighteen hundred and forty-four, the year of the Jubilee, was a year of unusual prosperity. A list of the manufactures of Pittsfield in 1845 includes cotton, woolen and other machinery, musical instruments, hats, caps, saddles, harnesses, trunks, rail- road cars and other carriages, soap, candles, chairs, tin and cabi- net wares, combs, leather, boots, shoes, blocks, pumps, mechan- ics' tools, bricks, building stone, marble, lime, wooden ware, corn and other brooms and rifles. Wagons in those days were hitched to stars to make them light and to an iron horse to make them go. A railroad was opened between West Stock- bridge and Hudson in 1838, We were connected with Albany in 1842, with North Adams in 1846, with Stockbridge and Bridgeport in 1850. It was a time when there was courage for new enterprises, a time of expansion, some of it in gassy bal- loons. Dr. Todd alluded to this energetic temper of the times in his address at the laying of the corner stone of this church, on Christmas day, 1848. "I did not know," he said, "to be sure, but your energies would first rebuild a house of worship on the old homestead worthy of you, of the town, and of the age, but that they must and would find an outlet somewhere I have been
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