Antiquities of the Parish Church, Hempstead, Including Oysterbay and the Churches in Suffolk County; Illustrated from Letters of the Missionaries and Other Authentic Documents
Antiquities of the Parish Church, Hempstead, Including Oysterbay and the Churches in Suffolk County; Illustrated from Letters of the Missionaries and Other Authentic Documents
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...their kidney neither wanted nor could bring them to), as also to repair an old, weatherbeaten parsonage-house they have here. Between both tbey raised about 200. I have a more constant and numerous congregation since I came here than ever was known when they had a dissenter, one of their own kidney, among them. This ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...their kidney neither wanted nor could bring them to), as also to repair an old, weatherbeaten parsonage-house they have here. Between both tbey raised about 200. I have a more constant and numerous congregation since I came here than ever was known when they had a dissenter, one of their own kidney, among them. This building will enflame the greatest part of them, and I must expect daily broadsides from them. Though all beginnings are difficult, I hope to live to make it a post easy enough for my successors. I baptized a dozen, Sunday was a sevennight, some of them adults. I am very much put to it here for witnesses; godfathers, &c, being a great bugbear among them. I am necessitated to qualify the charge given the godfathers, &c, by the words, 'endeavor and as far as God shall enable me'; for our baptism will not go down by any means in the strictness of our Liturgy, for it seems to them, as they say, too severe, the charge being absolute and unconditional." 1705, November 9. "Our parishes here are widely extensive (being eighteen miles one way and sixteen the other) and the people much scattered. Besides, two sermons a Sunday make my private visits and familiar conferences with them at their own dwellings fewer than I could wish. However, I embrace all occasions of converse with them, that are consistent with my studies." 1707, April 22. Mr. Thomas writes: "I have often laid before my vestry the necessity of a register book in the parish, but to no purpose. Having no method of raising a fund to defray that and such like public exi gencies, since I came here, I have converted the communion offerings (the poor here being very few and provided plentifully for by a public tax from the government) to buy some requisite necessa...
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