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It is a princely gift ; - for surely it looks as if the cunning workmen had wrought it for a prince and sent it here by some mistake. And yet, even this gift, costly and brilliant as it is, if I had not been very obtuse, might not have sur- prised me-it is so like my people always to do generously and nobly whatever they undertake. With your leave, Mr. Chairman, a word or two, only very few, to them.
Dear Brethren and Friends : Here and now you will per- mit me to reaffirm what I said yesterday, in referring to your many favors bestowed on the pastor and his family ; - which are multiplied this evening in various ways-in this new token of generous and loving hearts, presented with cordial and loving words by the chairman of your committee-in all the arrangements and decorations around us which meet the eye-in hymns and music and words of greeting-in the wisdom and taste and success of your committee in car- rying out your plans and wishes from the beginning. And to all this might be added what has come to me from private sources, but of which I do not feel at liberty to speak beyond this passing reference. My heart bids me add the renewed assurance, that it shall be my endeavor, while God is pleased
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to continue me with you, to prove that I am not unmindful of your numerous kindnesses to me and mine, including all the past and the present.
I desire also to express grateful acknowledgments to our friends who have come here this evening "to rejoice with them that rejoice." We are glad to welcome our children home, and rejoice to hear so good report of them as we have been hearing. For we " have no greater joy than to hear that our children walk in truth." The blessing of God rest on all the children of this parent church, giving them pros- perity and happiness in this life, and a future portion with the blessed in heaven.
And to my brethren in the ministry I would say, with many thanks for the fraternal greetings of this evening, it is good that we abide each with his own people. Doing this, may those of you who have not already passed the event, come to enjoy your twenty-fifth anniversary and find your people as ready as mine have been to make it a pleasant and joyful occasion. And may the venerable and beloved fathers in the ministry, whose kind and generous words we have heard this evening, long continue with us to participate in other occasions like the present, and to make glad many hearts by their wise counsel and words of cheer. . When they and we have seen "the last of earth," may we all meet where will be perfect love, with everlasting union and delight in Christ our Lord.
The "testimonial " consisted of a silver pitcher and goblet, with a large salver ; to which individuals added several other pieces of silver, ornamental and useful.
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The large water pitcher is covered, in richly embossed work, with a vine and clusters of fruit - the bird of paradise and one other enchased among the leaves. The goblet is also beautifully embossed with a design in flowers and lined with gold. Engraved on the salver is a forest scene, in the centre of which is seen an elk near a water- fall. The three pieces were from the establishment of Messrs. Palmers & Bachelders, Boston, and have been much admired for uniting richness and elegance with good taste.
The following inscription is on the pitcher, and with little variation on the other pieces.
1838.
TO
REV. JOSHUA EMERY.
1863.
A TESTIMONIAL OF REGARD
FROM HIS
CHURCH AND SOCIETY, ON THE TWENTY- FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
OF HIS SETTLEMENT,
January 25th.
The concluding prayer was offered by REV. L. R. EASTMAN, of South Braintree, in which a blessing was invoked on the refreshments about to be received. A collation, prepared by the ladies, was then announced, and served by the young people to the whole assembly. An hour or more was passed in friendly greetings, and many long-absent friends, to whom associations of the place were dear, enjoyed a happy reunion under the ancient roof-tree.
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The family of the pastor were all present, to give and receive the congratulations of this festive occasion.
The arrangements of the evening were successful in every particular ; the collation proved abundant, a large proportion remaining, much of which was sent next day to the " Disabled Soldiers' Home," Springfield Street, Boston, liberal distributions being made to friends at the Parsonage, and others in our vicinity.
Before dispersing, the large and joyous company united with heart and voice in singing the good old Doxology.
" Praise God, from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him, all creatures here below, Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
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Numerous letters have been received from clergy- men and other invited guests who were not able to be present at the celebration. The Committee assume the responsibility of causing a few of them, or extracts, to be printed in this memorial.
FROM REV. MILTON BADGER, D. D., NEW YORK.
F. E. LOUD, ESQ. - DEAR SIR :
As I am unable to accept the invitation, so kindly extended to me, to be present at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of your pastor's settlement, permit me, through you, to tender to him and to his people, on an occasion of so much interest, my cordial congratulations.
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Rev. Mr. Emery, I have long known and highly esteemed ; and it is not at all surprising to me that he is loved and esteemed most highly by the people of his charge, - and never more so than after they have summercd and wintered with him a quarter of a century.
I knew him when he was a boy, and saw in him the elements, the promise of the man. His parents, in his youth, were under my pastoral care, -intelligent, exem- plary, devoted servants of Christ, abounding in every good work, and, first of all, ordering their household aright, - training up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The recollection of their Christian consistency and their personal kindness, I shall carry with me to the grave.
One of these honored parents, in a good old age, and with the testimony of all who knew him, that he was "an Israelite indeed," has gone to his rest. The other - a true "Mother in Israel " - is yet spared to see the reward of her fidelity and the answer of her prayers, in the favor with which Heaven has crowned the ministry of her son and the affections of a devoted people so instinctively clustering around him. At evening tide, may it be light round about her.
I once heard a distinguished civilian say, that " he wanted, for his minister, a man whose life had always been pure, - who was known as a good boy and a " blameless youth." Such were Samuel and Timothy, and John the Baptist. And a kind Providence has blessed you with such a minister. The ground work of his character was in his early training. That character has been matured, under the genial influences of a sympathizing, appreciative, devoted people. You have lived, and labored, and prayed together,
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through many, many scenes of ever-memorable trial and endearment. Friendships have been formed, and a web- work of affections and hopes has been interwoven, to become more beautiful each day of life, and to be as imperishable as the reliance of our Redeemer's crown.
May this happy union long be continued, -a source of unspeakable blessedness to yourselves, and a light and joy to the communities around you, -to be made perfect and perpetual, when your loved pastor shall present you all faultless before the presence of eternal glory, with exceeding joy.
I cannot close without the mention of a loved and hon- ored brother of your pastor - Rev. Samuel Hopkins Emery of Quincy, Illinois-whom I also knew and loved as a son, in his boyhood, and whom I have twice met in his distant field, where he was earnest in his work, gathering golden sheaves into the garner of God. His sympathies, if not his presence, are with you on this occasion.
Happy meeting will it be, when these brothers, and their honored friends, and the people whom they have so faith- fully served and who have so kindly and steadfastly upheld their hands and encouraged their hearts, shall come together,
" Where rolling years shall cease to move."
FROM REV. S. PECK, D. D., ROXBURY.
PORT ROYAL, S. C., JAN. 26, 1863.
You see at once the impossibility of my being with you on this anniversary-this your " silver wedding"-except in spirit.
This presence, however, you shall have most cordially ;
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and had it been practicable I would had some share in the festivities personally. I remember with great satisfaction the years we spent together at Amherst College. They were among the happiest of my life ; and to this you contributed your full share. I can recall even at this day, after thirty or more years, your aspect and bearing, always attentive, kind and cheering, whether in or away from the recitation room. And it was for me a sure augury of what has proved your subsequent career. I congratulate you on the way in which God has led you, and that to you has come the rare felicity of spending the twenty-fifth anniversary among your own people. It speaks well for them no less than for you, and will be a token I trust for years to come.
I write in haste, for we have just heard that a mail is to go northward immediately, and it was only on Saturday that I received your letter. I can only add my best wishes and prayers. If God so please, may the years be doubled ; and though I cannot hope to receive a like invitation then, I trust I shall be able to rejoice with you in spirit as I do this day.
-FROM REV. W. S. TYLER, D. D., AMHERST COLLEGE.
I bow down with the profoundest reverence before any minister who, in these days of hurry and change, has remained the pastor of a church for a quarter of a century. I congratulate you on the great and good work you have been able to accomplish in Weymouth, and should delight to renew old acquaintance under the pleasant circumstances in which you will meet your people on the twenty-sixth inst. But my college duties will not permit my absence.
May you live to celebrate the close of another quarter of
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a century of constantly increasing usefulness among your people, with even more abundant proofs of their love and confidence.
FROM REV. E. RUSSELL, D. D., EAST RANDOLPH.
It would give me great pleasure to be present and partici- pate with you in the joys and the sorrows which the reminis- cences of twenty-five years must awaken. In heart I shall be with you, and rejoice in all the goodness that has crowned these years of your and your pastor's lives and dropped fatness in all your paths. A connection that has existed so long between pastor and people, and been so mutually happy in all its aspects and bearings, in these days of disaster and sorrow in church and in state, reflects the highest credit on both-on the pastor, as evincing his qualifications for his work and fidelity in its execution ; and on the people, as exhibiting their sound sense and kindness and love.
I rejoice that in these times of caprice and folly and sin in our churches, as it regards the pastoral relation itself, you have become an example that others will do well to imitate, and must follow if they would escape some of the confusion and evil works that abound. With your pastor I have been acquainted from the days of college life, and need not add, what must be to you a very superfluous statement, I know him to be a capable, faithful, devoted man, and worthy of the confidence and esteem in which by you he has been held. I rejoice, therefore, with him and with you in all the joys and prosperity that have crowned this period of your lives ; and trust that, after you and he shall have spent many more years on earth in the service of Christ and the great work of
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the salvation of lost men, you and he together will engage in a celebration and reap a reward faintly symbolized by any of the joys or the gatherings of carth. As the Association' : meets at my house on Tuesday, and I am suffering from influenza, I shall be compelled to forego the pleasure of an attendance on the services of Monday evening next at your place of worship.
FROM REV. H. D. WALKER, EAST ABINGTON.
I did intend to be present at your semi-semi-centennial. I remember the first time I visited North Weymouth. If I did not break the tenth commandment, I " cracked" it, as the boy said, very seriously. That parsonage nestling under the hill, so sheltered and warm, the glorious hill rising behind it and tempting one to climb to its summit for a view like that from Pisgah, led me to ask why I had not been born six years earlier, so that I might have been, if not in paradise, in a spot that seemed on the borders of it.
Give me credit for growth in grace, as I now congratulate you heartily upon having been so situated for a quarter of a century. There must be something peculiar in the breezes blowing from the west upon you and breathed by the three venerable men (our three worthies), STORRS, PERKINS and EMERY. A very constant wind that.
And now, brother, God give you the semi-centennial- twenty-five years more of service and joy where you have so " dwelt with your own people"-and if I live I will try to be present and greet you and them.
P. S. A few days since a committee from a certain parish wrote to me, making numerous and very particular
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inquiries respecting a good brother upon whom they had their eye. After answering them, I asked if they had for- gotten that ministers sometimes had wires, and that it was of some consequence of what sort they were. So I volunteered statements respecting that side of the house-very decidedly the best side. My impression is that side is always best where the marriage with the people lasts twenty-five years, and I do hope somebody will give the credit to-night where it is due !
FROM PROF. I. B. HACKETT, D. D., NEWTON THEO. SEM. 1
I have received a kind invitation to be present with you on Monday evening, January 26th. I should be glad, cer- tainly to be one of the happy company whom that occasion will bring together ; but the examination of our Seminary, on that very day, puts it out of my power. In his letter, your pastor is pleased to speak of me as " one of his earliest friends." It gives me pleasure to be recognized in that relation. We fitted for college at the same academy; were three years together in the same college, and afterwards were members of the same class at the Andover Theological Seminary. We have known each other, therefore, long and intimately ; and it would be pleasant assuredly, at this stage of life's journey, to take each other once more by the hand, and talk together of the past, and encourage each other for the future.
It was to be expected that my friend would be a faithful and successful pastor, such as he has proved himself to be; for I can testify that he laid the foundation of such use- fulness in his earnest devotion to his duties and studies
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in early life, and by his success in them gave proof that he would do well, whatever he might undertake in future years. " As present though absent," I beg to be allowed to mingle my congratulations with yours on so interesting an occasion ; to express my hope that coming years may be fruitful still in results like those of the past, of a min- istry which God has so prolonged and blessed to pastor and people ; and that when at length the earthly union shall end, it shall be to give place to one more perfect and endless between himself and the many precious ones of his charge who have been brought to heaven through his instrumentality.
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FROM REV. D. T. SMITH, D. D., BANGOR THEO. SEM.
I wish to express to yourself and to the respected chair- man of the committee of arrangements, my sincere thanks for the kind invitation to be present and to take part in the exercises of your approaching commemoration. There are various circumstances which will render it impossible for me to accept the invitation. Were it otherwise, I should most gladly be present. Such an occasion must always possess a deep interest for all who have at heart the welfare of the church; but in my own bosom, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the installation of a friend so long cherished and so well proved as yourself, awakens emotions which I will not attempt to express. You will allow me to say, my dear brother, that among all our old friends and classmates you would have been among the very first to be selected by all who were familiar with your characteristics, both of mind and heart, as most likely, if
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life were spared, to celebrate with your people a twenty- fifth, or even a fiftieth anniversary of your settlement among them. I can well understand, and all who know you can well understand, how, from year to year, your heart must have been continually, more and more closely drawn towards the people of your charge, and how theirs must in like manner have been more closely drawn to you; so that now the relation subsisting between yourself and them must be such an one as no less space of time could, under the most favorable circumstances form, and such as even in the same space would rarely be established.
That your ministry has been a happy and useful one, I am well assured. That it may continue to be so for many years to come, is my most earnest prayer.
FROM REV. LEWIS SABIN, D. D., TEMPLETON.
It would give me the greatest pleasure to be present on the evening of the twenty-six, but my engagements seem likely to prevent it. Be assured, my brother, you have my congratulations and good wishes. Such an occasion is always interesting, and is itself a testimony of honor to a people as well as a pastor ; so I was really disposed to interpret it to my people's credit last September, when they had been kind and loving to me through a quarter of a century. But in this case, it is not an ordinary celebration ; - it is a classmate and a brother beloved who comes to this great waymark of life. Memory runs far back to youthful days, when we toiled in honorable competition in classic study, and we knew not which was the better. Then came the girding on the armor, and the sober, long work of life and of the christian ministry.
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I doubt not that you agree with me in bearing witness that it is " a good work."
I have often heard with joy a good report of your ministry, and of the success with which the Head of the church has been pleased to bless your labors, and have been ready to thank God, and say, " The Lord hath done great things for them."
May the Lord spare you, my brother, and prosper you, and make you very useful for many years to come, and may he bless your people abundantly always.
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HISTORICAL SKETCH
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The early Records of the First Church in Weymouth, according to tradition, were lost in 1734, soon after the dismission of Rev. Mr. Paine. It is said that the house of the clerk pro tem. was burnt about that time. The records now in possession of the church begin with the settlement of Rev. Mr. Smith, in December, 1734. The baptism of his daughter, Abigail, is recorded November 18, 1744, and her admission to the church, June 24, 1759, at the age of fifteen years. The leaf which probably contained the record of her marriage to John Adams, if borrowed, has never been returned to its place.
We are indebted, chiefly, to the late Hon. Christopher Webb, who was a member of this church thirty-one years, for the following brief sketch of our early history.
A permanent settlement at Wessagussett, afterwards called Weymouth, was made in August or September of the year 1623, by Capt. Robert Gorges, with a considerable company from England; among whom was William Morrill, an Episcopal clergyman. Some of the company went to Virginia, some returned to England, and some remained.
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Mr. Morrill remained two years, at Weymouth and Ply- mouth, after which he returned to England.
The next year, or in 1624, came from Weymouth, in England, an additional number of settlers, "who," says Mr. Prince, "are another sort of people than the former. They have the Rev. Mr. Barnard, their first non-conformist minister, who dies among them." He ministered to the people about eleven years. He is several times mentioned in the book of Records, and always by the name of Mr. Barnard, with no other appellation.
On the 6th of May, 1635, Joseph Hull, a minister from England, with twenty-one families, settled in Weymouth. In September following, he took the freeman's oath. In 1638, he represented the town of Hingham in the General Court ; and on the 5th of May, 1639, preached a farewell discourse at Weymouth. He did not, however, preach in Weymouth much over a year ; for Thomas Jenner was there on the 12th of January or June, 1636, and in December following, took the freeman's oath. On the 9th of January, 1637, according to Hubbard and Winthrop, "divers of the ministers and elders went to Weymouth to reconcile the differences between the people and Mr. Jenner, whom they called there for their pastor, and had good success." In 1640, he represented Weymouth in the General Court, but left the place soon after this date. His name is often mentioned in the Records.
Robert Lenthal, whom the people had invited to become their minister, was in Weymouth previously to the 30th of January, 1638, a sufficient length of time to disseminate his new doctrine, make proselytes, and collect a strong party to oppose the new organization of the church, which took place on that day. Undoubtedly, Mather was right
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in saying he was there in 1637. Thus it may be considered an historical fact that Mr. Hull, Mr. Jenner, and Mr. Len- thal, were in Weymouth at the same time. It is said that Mr. Lenthal went to Newport in 1640; and after residing there for a time, returned to England.
He was succeeded in the ministry by Samuel Newman, in whom all the people united; and this put an end to the commotions and troubles of the five preceding years. He was born in Banbury, England, in 1600; was of Oxford University, and an able minister to seven different churches. In 1638 he came to New England, spent some time at Dorchester, and came to Weymouth in 1639, where he preached between four and five years; after which he emigrated to Rehoboth, where he died, July 5, 1663.
Thomas Thacher was born in Salisbury, England, May 1st, 1620; and succeeded Mr. Newman in the ministry at Weymouth. He was ordained the second of January, 1644. He resided and preached in Weymouth about twenty years ; after which he removed to Boston, and was installed the first pastor of the Third Church (Old South), on the sixteenth of February, 1670. He is represented to have been a very interesting preacher, beloved and respected by the people : and was the first minister regularly ordained in Weymouth. all his predecessors having received ordination in England.
Samuel Torrey had become the minister of the town instead of Mr. Thacher, in the year 1664. He was the eldest son of Capt. William Torrey; was born in England, came over with his father in 1640, and was educated at Har- vard College. He died the 21st of April, 1707, aged seven- ty-five years, and in the fifty-first of his ministry ; forty-three of which were in Weymouth. He was chosen by the Gen- eral Court to preach three General Election Sermons, namely,
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May 27, 1674; May 16, 1683; May 29, 1695. On the death of President Rogers of Harvard College, in 1684, he was chosen to succeed him, but declined accepting the office. Mr. Prince and others represent Mr. Torrey as possessing all those mental, personal and social qualifications which place a man at the head of his profession, and constitute him a great and leading character. His people loved him, and cherished his memory.
The successor of Mr. Torrey was Peter Thacher, of Bos- ton. He was ordained pastor of the church and people the same year Mr. Torrey died, 1707. His election on the part of the people was unanimous, and the pastoral relation prom- ised much prosperity and happiness to both minister and people. This state of things continued till Mr. Thacher was invited to become colleague pastor with Rev. Mr. Webb, of the North Church in Boston. The harmony between min- ister and people soon became disturbed, and a dissolution of the pastoral relation ensued, after it had existed eleven and a half years.
Thomas Paine, of Barnstable, succeeded Mr. Thacher, and was ordained the 19th of August, 1719. In four years after his ordination the south part of the town was formed into a separate parish. In 1734, Mr. Paine was dismissed, at his own request, though greatly beloved by his people, and highly respected for his talents and learning. He retired to Boston, with his family ; and after his death, he was buried with his children and people in Weymouth.
William Smith, of Charlestown, was elected in 1734 to supply the place vacated by Mr. Painc, and was ordained to the pastoral office on the first day of December of that year. He soon became a favorite of his people. They loved and · respected him highly ; especially the generation which grew
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up under his ministry. The following character is taken from his grave-stone: "As a divine he was eminent; as a preacher of the gospel, eloquent and devotional. In life he exhibited the virtues of the religion which he had taught. In death he felt its supports, and closed a long and useful life, with hopes full of immortality." Mr. Smith was the father of Mrs. Adams, wife of the elder President Adams. He died in 1783, aged seventy-seven years, and in the forty- ninth year of his ministry at Weymouth.
Rev. Drs. Storrs and Perkins were personally acquainted with the successors of Rev. Mr. Smith, and the reader is referred to their addresses in preceding pages. The date of the settlement of these successors may be sufficient in this place.
Jacob Norton, October 10, 1787. Josiah Bent, Jun., October 13, 1824. John C. Phillips, December 18, 1833. Joshua Emery, Jun., January 25, 1838.
The following notice, which appeared in the Weymouth and Braintree Transcript and Norfolk County Advertiser, February 6, 1863, contains some facts of sufficient interest to be preserved :
The recent semi-jubilee on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the settlement of Rev. Joshua Emery over the First Congre- gational Church in Weymouth, have led us to gather up a few historical facts concerning that ancient society. For of all the Pilgrim towns, Weymouth is second only to Plymouth in historical interest. It was settled in 1623-only three years after the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. It was originally comprised in the Indian territory belonging to Chickataubut.
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According to the Parish Records, it appears that the first meeting-house in this town stood on Watch House Hill, about a hundred and fifty rods north of the railroad depot in North Weymouth. The hill is now called Burying Hill. There are still found the graves of the early settlers -some of the stones requiring the chisel of Old Mortality to brighten their inscriptions, to make them legible. This is generally regarded to have been the first meeting-house in Weymouth, though it is described as " small, and remaining unfinished in 1645 and for some years later." This fact and the record of the settlement of the first minister as early as 1623, seem to furnish strong grounds for believing that there was an earlier, though probably a much ruder, structure standing on the same hill, which was used years before the building of this.
In 1682, a new house, forty-five feet in length, forty in width, and twenty in height (of walls), was erected on the site occupied by that in which the people now worship (and which stands on a beautiful elevation, on the south side of the South Shore Railroad, about fifteen rods from the depot, and in full view of Burying Hill). That house was built by Jacob Nash, for the sum of £280 besides the old house. It stood till April 23, 1751, when, on the evening of that day, it was set on fire and consumed.
The parish soon took measures to erect another of larger dimensions. They built a new house, fifty-five feet long, forty-two feet wide, and twenty-two feet walls. This house stood for cighty years. Once during that period it was altered and enlarged, and was finally taken down in 1832. The present house is still larger. Its length is sixty-eight feet, its width fifty-four feet, its height between joints twenty- four feet. It contains seventy-six pews on the lower floor
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and twenty-four in the gallery, is furnished with a fine large organ, and has in the rear a neat and commodious chapel. In less than five months after taking leave of the old, this new house was finished and dedicated. The building com- mittee were Col. Ebenezer Humphrey, Capt. Joseph Loud, Mr. Elnathan Bates, Dr. Timothy Gordon, and Mr. James Jones, 2d. All the pews in it were sold. The proceeds of the sale exceeded by $2,000 all the costs, including enlarge- ment of the meeting-house lot, exchange of bells, and all the expenses of the building committee.
The beautiful chapel in the rear of the church was built in 1856. On Sabbath evening, October 12th, of that year, it was dedicated. An appropriate address was delivered by Dea. Julius A. Palmer, of Boston, and prayers offered by Dea. Elnathan Bates, of this church, and Dea. John Proctor, of Boston- selections from scripture being read by the pastor.
The Chapel Building Committee were Messrs. Joseph Loud, Jr., Jacob Pratt, David Pratt, Jr., Hervy Cushing and Edwin Pratt.
The ladies of the Society, with their accustomed enthu- siasm and success in every good cause - of which we have been newly reminded by their part in the recent celebration - devised ways and means by which to bring the people together in a social levee, and to raise funds for furnishing the chapel with lamps and settees and carpeting. More recently, a sweet-toned melodeon has been placed in the chapel. The church organ was set up in 1852, and has been a very acceptable addition to "the service of song in the house of the Lord."
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