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Arguments and Evidence in Behalf of Pew-owners Desirous of Preserving the Building for the Continuance of Public Worship Therein

Author: Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Arguments and Evidence in Behalf of Pew-owners Desirous of Preserving the Building for the Continuance of Public Worship Therein

Author: Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description

Arguments and Evidence in Behalf of Pew-Owners Desirous of Preserving the Building for the Continuance of Public Worship Therein

Author: Old South Church
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230088280
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...is not enough to show that most of those once worshipping there, can be better accommodated somewhere else, since they can have that accommodation elsewhere at the expense of this very gift, and without touching the ancient building. The testimony before the legislative committee of the advocates of removal, went mostly wide of the mark. It is admitted on all hands, that the meetingbouse is not well situated for the uses of an ordinary parish. But it is contended that there is an extraordinary use to which it is exactly adapted. The homes of established families are being removed from the city, and the churches must generally go with tbem. Yet population will not be wholly withdrawn from these districts devoted to business. Here are numerous hotels and boarding-houses. They must remain, and are more likely to increase than diminish in numbers. There is a vast population here to be fed for some part of the day; and the men and women that do it cannot live far from their business. Suburban property, meanwhile, is rising in value, and is being rapidly taken up. Attention is likely to be the more directed, as it is beginning to be already in New York, to arrangements for living in the upper and cheaper rooms of the warehouses. The business parts of the city will not be and are not uninhabited. Places for public worship will be needed. It will be a matter of great expense to furnish them. An ordinary society can hardly do it. This society can, and suffer nothing, but be rather the gainer by it. The gift seems providentially designed for this purpose. There has been no proof that a congregation could not be gathered in that house. The Old South people think they have tried it, because they have sometimes opened the house, and made the seats...

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