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 THE MOTHERS’ WINDOW 
 Dedicated May Ninth, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-Six 
 
OUR CHURCH 
 
 IfS HISTORY ITS BUILDINGS 
 ITS SPIRIT 
 
 The Second Church in Newton 
 
 West Newton, 1926 
 
 
 

 
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE 
 WHOSE LABOR AND SACRIFICE IN THE 
 PAST HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR OUR 
 PRESENT MEMBERS TO ENTER THE EC- 
 CLESIASTICAL HERITAGE AND THERE 
 ENJOY THE FELLOWSHIP, THE BEAUTY, 
 AND THE IDEALISM OF THE SECOND 
 CHURCH OF NEWTON, WEST NEWTON. 
 
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Authorized by the Church Committee, Second Church of Newton 
 West Newton 
 Fune seven, Nineteen twenty-six 
 
 For the use of many of the photographs the Committee ts indebted to 
 Bachrach, Ine. 
 
 THE COSMOS PRESS, INC. 
 HARVARD SQUARE 
 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 OST of us accept the heritage of our present 
 
 church — its buildings, its personnel, and its 
 spirit — without serious thought of its founders and 
 its long period of honorable history. We seldom think 
 of the hundred and sixty-six years that have made 
 their several and cumulative contributions to our 
 growth. 
 
 The editors of this volume, as they have delved 
 into the archives and examined the old documents, 
 have been brought face to face with the personalities 
 of that older generation — men who were subjects of 
 King George III, grew restive under his rule, and 
 finally joined the Revolutionary ranks. But whether 
 as English subjects or as American patriots, they 
 were steadfast in their religious convictions and for- 
 mulated here the polity and traditions to which we are 
 still individually loyal. 
 
 These documents of the past are very, very human 
 documents. Evidently a good deal of the carnal and a 
 good deal of the temperamental existed in those an- 
 cient days—as they exist in these more modern times. 
 Indeed, it is just such human touches that make the 
 sympathy closer and the story more diverting. 
 
 Naturally most of us will linger longest over the 
 paragraphs that relate to ourselves and to the period 
 in which as actors we conned our little parts. We have 
 lived our recent years intensely, and we feel propor- 
 tionately the quickened pulsations in the current 
 
record. We have been drawn into a very harmonious 
 life, a very harmonious spirit. A knowledge of achieve- 
 ment naturally comes, as we study our church roll 
 and contemplate the architectural beauty of our 
 church home, contrasting it with our first quaint build- 
 ing of 1764 sketched below. But there is something 
 more significant still; there is an understanding of a 
 spiritual triumph—not, of course,completely attained, 
 but clear in its outlines and radiant in its promise. 
 
 The Second Church of Newton 
 West Newton, Massachusetts, October, 1926 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Foreword ae 
 
 Historical Sketch of the Church 
 
 Dates of Interest . 
 
 Our Pastors 
 
 Chronological Record of the Officers 
 Deacons 
 Clerks . 
 Treasurers 
 
 Our Tribute to Dr. Park 
 
 The Building . 
 
 Memorial and Presentation Gifts 
 
 The Mothers’ Window . 
 
 Our Mothers’ Names 
 
 The Service 
 
 Holy Communion 
 
 Appendix Dae ; 
 Early Minutes of the Church . 
 Minutes of the Meeting, 1764 . he 
 Deed Conveying Ground for the Church Building : 
 Method of Raising Subscriptions . 
 Minutes of Meeting, March 1, 1781 . 
 
 Caterer’s Bill 
 Deed of the Cemetery, ae 
 
 Letter to Selectmen about an Intended Marriage 
 
 Letter Concerning the Division of the Town into Two 
 Parishes 
 
 Method of Raising Minister’s athe 
 

 
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 Sk ae 
 
 
 
 OUR CHURCH HOUSE OF FIFTY WINDOWS BEFORE ALTERATIONS 
 IN 1831 
 
Our Church: Its History, Its 
 Buildings, Its Spirit 
 
 The following historical sketch is founded upon the one hun- 
 dred and twenty-fifth anniversary sermon, preached by Dr. 
 Prudden, and revised by Dr. J. Edgar Park and Mr. Charles 
 Swain Thomas. 
 
 VEN the early settlers of New Town (or Cam- 
 bridge, as it is now called) petitioned for more 
 land, the General Court gave them, among other 
 tracts, nearly all of what is now Newton. After some 
 years this large township was divided, the part in 
 which Harvard University stands was called Cam- 
 bridge, and the name New Town was transferred to 
 our present city. It remained “New Town”’ till a 
 town clerk began to write the name as one word with a 
 ““w’’ omitted, and it has been Newton ever since. 
 
 Needing a church nearer than Cambridge, those 
 early settlers, numbering only forty-three freemen, 
 established public worship in 1654, built a meeting 
 house six years later, and organized the First Church 
 of Christ in Newton in 1664 (now the First Congre- 
 gational Church, in Newton Center). 
 
 After one hundred and seventeen years, the resi- 
 dents in this part of the town, now called West 
 Newton, thought the First Church too distant; and so 
 in 1764, though still belonging to the First Church and 
 taxed for its support, they bought of the innkeeper 
 eight rods of land on the north side of Washington 
 Street, opposite Highland Street, for about $12, and 
 built a very plain two-story meeting house, thirty by 
 forty feet in size, without belfry or porch, unpainted 
 within and without, but with an abundance of win- 
 dows in both stories, and furnished with a high pulpit 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 and rude benches; and it stood with its side, in which 
 was the main entrance, towards the street. 
 
 Here for fourteen years without organizing a church 
 the people gathered for worship, the school teacher 
 (who was usually a theological student) being engaged 
 to preach or read a sermon on Sunday, while they per- 
 sistently and annually, but vainly, petitioned the 
 stubbornly resisting mother church for a share of the 
 town tax to support public worship, and finally ap- 
 pealed to the Legislature, which, in 1778, divided the 
 town into an East and West parish by a line which ran 
 from Watertown to a point a little west of Echo 
 Bridge. 
 
 For many years this line was not wholly defined. 
 Mr. Seth Davis, writing in 1847, tells how the dispute 
 as to its location broke out in the midst of a winter- 
 squash yard at the junction of Pearl and Watertown 
 Streets shortly after 1778, and the line passing over a 
 large squash — the large end being east — the parties 
 separated with no kind feelings, after using the nick- 
 names “Squash End” and “Bellhack.” Years later 
 “Old Gentleman Ward,” as he was called, made a 
 famous reply to two gentlemen from another part of 
 Newton who were bantering him for residing in 
 “Squash End.” He replied that the * ‘seeds of that 
 squash were mostly in the end of it.”” Up to the latter 
 part of the nineteenth century the name “Squash 
 End” for West Newton was still heard among the 
 older inhabitants. 
 
 The new parish, therefore, included Nonantum, 
 most of Newtonville, West ‘Newton, Auburndale, 
 Lower Falls, Waban, and all that portion of Waltham 
 south of the Charles River — nearly half of the town- 
 ship, but containing only one-third of the population. 
 For there were but fourteen houses along this high- 
 way from Newtonville to Lower Falls; only one house 
 was between Newtonville and West Newton; only 
 
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 four houses were in West Newton, where one writer 
 affirms “there were but fifteen houses in a region two 
 miles square.”’ A tavern stood near the corner of Elm 
 Street, behind the elm tree that fourteen years before 
 this church was organized the landlord brought home 
 on his shoulder and set out to please his wife. South 
 and east were the wooded hills and rocky pastures. 
 North and west were the tilled farms reaching to the 
 river, and up the road a little distance was the school- 
 house. | 
 
 On October 21, 1781, the very day after Cornwallis 
 surrendered, and before the news could have reached 
 Boston, the people of this parish gathered one Thurs- 
 day on the plot of ground where later our old Wash- 
 ington Street church stood. Can you picture them 
 coming from several directions under the October 
 colors and sunshine, with tanned faces and hard hands, 
 clad in homespun, riding on horseback, men with 
 women behind them, the young people walking, the 
 land sloping more rapidly than now to the babbling 
 Cheesecake Brook, the horses tied to the nearest trees, 
 the wooded hills, the open fields, the crooked and ill- 
 made road? Probably all came who could, for to 
 organize a church in the new parish was an event of 
 universal interest. And when they had assembled in 
 the now seventeen-year-old meeting house and lis- 
 tened to a sermon from the pastor of the church at 
 Brookline, thirteen men, including the pastor-elect, 
 Mr. Greenough, who had preached for six months, 
 stepped forward as their names were called. The twelve 
 who responded probably symbolized the twelve dis- 
 ciples. Some of them lived in what is now Waltham, 
 and along the Charles River towards Nonantum, one 
 near the Pine farm, one in Waban, one north of Au- 
 burndale, and four on the Lower Falls road. Six of 
 them had probably served in the war; two, and per- 
 haps three of them, were over seventy years old; four 
 
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 were about fifty; and five, thirty or under. And stand- 
 ing there they assented to no creed, but covenanted 
 together to form a church of Christ, and devoting 
 themselves to the service of God, they agreed to walk 
 in brotherly fellowship as a church, and signed their 
 names to the covenant. | 
 
 It was voted: “In order to entitle any person to 
 either of the ordinances of the Christian Scriptures — 
 namely, baptism and the Lord’s Supper — he shall 
 make a public confession of religion and dedication of 
 himself to God; and that every person so doing shall 
 be entitled to both ordinances, and may come to them 
 without making any other profession of his faith and 
 belief. The Boston Independent Chronicle reporting the 
 services, adds:— ““A remarkable decency and good 
 order were preserved through the whole solemnity.” 
 
 It is true that, under the strain of theological con- 
 troversies in later days, the church did adopt elabo- 
 rate theological creeds as tests for membership, but in 
 the pastorate of Dr. Park, when the church was in- 
 corporated in Ig9i4, it returned to its earliest practice, 
 and the only creeda/ test included in its by-laws is now 
 that “this church shall consist of all disciples of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ who shall, upon recommendation of 
 the Executive Committee, be accepted by vote of the 
 church and shall enter into its covenant and subscribe 
 to its by-laws.” 
 
 The covenant 1s: “In accordance with your purpose 
 to live a Christian life, you now heartily unite with 
 this church, to share with us its work and worship; 
 covenanting with God and with us to be loyal to it in 
 all things, to attend (so far as possible) its appointed 
 services, to guard its good name, to promote its 
 usefulness and prosperity as God’s instrument for the 
 good of men, and to walk with us in love and faithful- 
 ness so long as your relations with us shall continue.” 
 
 Two weeks from the Monday following this mem- 
 
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 orable assembly day the young pastor (aged twenty- 
 five) was ordained and installed; a week later thirteen 
 women were added; and so the church was formed 
 with twenty-six members, all save two from the First 
 Church, which for seventeen years had fought the 
 existence of a second church, and for twenty years 
 longer continued to dispute with it about the minis- 
 terial wood lot, but sent it as part of the communion 
 furnishings a pewter dish and four pewter flagons. 
 
 Its first pastor, and its pastor for fifty years, was 
 Rev. William Greenough, valedictorian of his class at 
 Yale, and later a student at Harvard, from which he 
 received the degree of M.A.— a tall and genial gentle- 
 man of some wealth and great good sense, who dressed 
 in knee breeches and wore silver-buckled shoes and a 
 cocked hat long after that costume was generally 
 abandoned. In the pulpit he wore a white stock and 
 bands and a preacher’s gown. He was greatly be- 
 loved and wielded a wide influence, both within his 
 parish and beyond it. His hospitable home was 
 behind abundant lilac bushes and tall elms on the 
 west side of Washington Street, between Auburn and 
 Greenough Streets, where his farm was. For many 
 years his salary was about $266, paid in rye at four 
 shillings, or corn at three shillings a bushel, or pork 
 at three pence and two farthings, or beef at two pence 
 and two farthings a pound, together with fifteen cords 
 of wood; it never was very much more. Indeed, he is 
 said to have given more to the church financially than 
 it ever paid him. 
 
 For thirty years he preached in the old building, 
 with its glaring and shutterless windows, its bare walls, 
 its uncarpeted floor and its unpainted seats; and it 
 remained unchanged, except that a stove was secured 
 after eighteen years, and the rough benches gradually 
 gave place to square pews with hinged seats on each 
 side, which those who could afford to pay five pounds 
 
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 OUR BEAUTIFUL OLD HOME, BUILT IN 1848, BEFORE THE 
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 for a “pew spot” bought and built upon. And such 
 ““pew spots” were not all disposed of till 1804. 
 
 Mr. Greenough died in 1831, at the age of seventy- 
 five, four days after preaching his fiftieth anniversary 
 sermon in Squire Davis’s schoolhouse on Waltham 
 Street, as the meeting house was being repaired. His 
 body was buried in the old River Street cemetery. 
 He was succeeded immediately by Rev. Lyman 
 Gilbert, who for three years had been his colleague, 
 and was sole pastor for twenty-five subsequent years. 
 Dr. Gilbert was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1798 
 and was a graduate of Middlebury College and of 
 Andover Theological Seminary. In a paper con- 
 tributed by Dr. Gilbert for the one hundredth anni- 
 versary of this church, he describes the parish as he 
 found it in 1831, when there were but sixty houses and 
 four hundred and eighty people between Lower Falls 
 and Watertown, and only forty families connected 
 with the church, which had but fifty members. “In 
 the community were counted twenty drunkards, and 
 twenty more occupying a doubtful position.” There 
 was a private English school and two one-story dis- 
 trict schools of one room each. “I found no doctor, 
 yet the people were healthy; no lawyer, for the people 
 were peaceable; no ex-minister, for all the ministers 
 were needed in those days; no liberally educated man, 
 for his proper work was elsewhere. The people were 
 farmers, mechanics, and other laborers. Only one 
 piano was in the place. The church was lighted by 
 fifty windows. A bell for the first time had been put 
 up to ring in the coming of the new pastor. My salary 
 was $600, and raised by taxation. In the limits of the 
 parish were two corporations, which have no souls and 
 could not ‘sign off.’ The two paid about one-third of 
 my salary, but when the law was repealed three years 
 after, having no souls to care for, they ceased paying.” 
 
 But they were “a united and loving people, working 
 
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 REV. HENRY J. PATRICK, D.D. 
 Installed, September 26, 1860 Resigned, September 26, 1893 
 
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 together to the extent of their ability, and beyond, to 
 maintain the gospel at home, and contribute to the 
 various benevolent objects presented.” While Dr. 
 Gilbert was pastor, the new church was erected and 
 nearly paid for by the sale of pews, and the railroad to 
 West Newton was finished. 
 
 Dr. Gilbert was succeeded by Rev. Joseph P. 
 Drummond, who was born in Bristol, Maine, in 1824. 
 Mr. Drummond’s successor was Rev. George B. Little, 
 born in Castine, Maine, in 1821. These two young 
 men had been classmates at Bowdoin College and 
 were also graduates of Andover Theological Seminary. 
 Both were brilliant men; but each came to West 
 Newton with incipient tuberculosis upon him, and 
 died shortly after coming — the former in the first 
 year of his service, at the age of thirty-three, the latter 
 in the second year of his service, at the age of thirty- 
 six. The council that dismissed Mr. Drummond in- 
 stalled Mr. Little. 
 
 After three months, Rev. Henry Johnson Patrick, 
 born in Warren, Massachusetts in 1827, a graduate of 
 Amherst College and Andover Seminary, and D.D. 
 of Amherst, was installed as fifth pastor of the church. 
 He remained pastor for nearly thirty-four years and 
 was pastor-emeritus until the time of his death in 1909. 
 His connection with the church thus lasted for nearly 
 half a century. He became one of the leaders of church 
 life in Greater Boston. Under him the village church 
 became suburban. In later life he lost his sight and 
 called upon his wonderful memory to enable him to 
 preach, recite Scripture, and conduct services of wor- 
 ship for his beloved people. He and Mrs. Patrick 
 lived for many years in Newtonville, patron saints of 
 the church they had done so much to foster. 
 
 The council that dismissed Dr. Patrick installed his 
 successor, Rev. Theodore P. Prudden, D.D., who for 
 thirteen years was pastor of the church. Dr. Prudden 
 
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 REV. THEODORE P. PRUDDEN, D.D. 
 
 Installed, April 17, 1894 
 
 Resigned, December 30, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 led the church during the difficult years of theologi- 
 cal reconstruction, when the old views were being 
 modified by the new. He was a fearless exponent of 
 the modern standpoint, and taught the results of the 
 scholarship of his day with earnestness and power. 
 He was a man of tender heart, and his sympathy and 
 friendship meant much to those in sorrow. He lived 
 to see the walls of the new church rising, and en- 
 couraged both minister and people with his hearty 
 support in the enterprise. Dr. Prudden was succeeded 
 in 1907 by Rev. John Edgar Park of Andover, Mass., 
 who was born in 1879 in Belfast, Ireland, and is a 
 graduate of the Royal University of Ireland, Dublin, 
 and of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Park 
 resigned in 1926 to become President of Wheaton 
 College. 
 
 Let us not forget that for thirty-one years this was 
 the only church of any kind in this half of Newton; 
 and for sixty-eight years it was the only church, save 
 St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Lower Falls, and that 
 it has contributed of its members to form St. Mary’s 
 Church, in 1812; the church in Waltham, in 1820; 
 the Unitarian Church in West Newton, in 1848; 
 the church at Auburndale, in 1850; the Methodist 
 Church at Newtonville, in 1863, and at Auburndale, 
 in 1864; the Baptist Church, West Newton, in 1866; 
 the Central Church at Newtonville, which grew out of 
 a prayer meeting appointed and regularly attended by 
 Dr. Patrick, in 1868; and finally the Church of the 
 Messiah at Auburndale, and St. John’s Church, 
 Newtonville, in 1898. In territory which was once its 
 sole parish, there are now scores of churches. When it 
 was founded there were in Massachusetts only the 
 following number of churches: Roman Catholic 1, 
 Universalist 3, Quaker 6, Episcopalian 11, Baptist 68, 
 Congregationalist 330. Unitarianism appeared the 
 next year, and Methodism nine years later. 
 
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 OUR FORMER CHURCH HOME ON WASHINGTON STREET, 
 VACATED IN 1916 
 
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 Since that first building, reared one hundred and 
 sixty-two years ago (in 1764), it has had but two new 
 meeting houses, but it has made frequent enlarge- 
 ments and improvements. In 1812 the primitive 
 structure was moved back, lengthened fourteen feet, 
 and adorned with porches, a belfry, larger galleries 
 and aricher pulpit. Nineteen years later (1831) it was 
 turned around facing the street, its galleries removed, 
 and it was furnished with more modern pews. The next 
 year its first small vestry was made in the basement. 
 
 In 1848, when it was sixty-seven years old, the new 
 church, with graceful spire and basement vestry, was 
 built, and the old church, some of the timbers of which 
 are in the present city hall, became a town house. 
 
 In 1885-1886 the church was again moved back, its 
 graceful spire removed, and transepts added and the 
 commodious parish house built in front. Again, in 
 1894, the auditorium was extended from the pillars 
 outward and fitted with new pews and furniture; and 
 in 1898, the large assembly room became a complete 
 chapel and Sunday School room. 
 
 In December, 1908, a meeting of the congregation 
 was held upon the recommendation of the church 
 committee, at which the question of rebuilding the 
 church was mentioned. It was felt that for reasons 
 both of economy and dignity the time had come to 
 plan for a new church. The suggestion was well re- 
 ceived, and the congregation pledged itself by a rising 
 vote to support the movement heartily. The sum of 
 $37,500 was raised at Easter, 1909, for this purpose, 
 and an Faster offering was devoted annually to this 
 new church building till, on October 1, 1916, it was 
 dedicated, free of all debt. The old church building 
 became a part of the city property. A map had been 
 constructed showing the location of every family in 
 the parish and the new site on the side hill above the 
 railroad station was found to be the geographical 
 
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 A GENERAL VIEW OF THE PARISH HOUSE, SPIRE, CHURCH, AND GROUNDS 
 
Peto me OA Des kik DiC Ho OF Che Bil CoH UR CH 
 
 center of the parish. Many hundreds of individuals 
 contributed to the building. A plan of the spire was 
 circulated and contributions of the cost of a stone or a 
 pinnacle came in just in time to make it possible to 
 build the spire, also, before the dedication. The 
 ladies of the parish held a memorable fair on the site 
 of the new church which realized the cost of the fur- 
 nishings. At one of the offerings for the building fund 
 the following circular was distributed in the homes of 
 the people. 
 
 64 the earlp pears of the Twentieth Century, a 
 
 iat Netw Church was built in West Newton, Mas 
 
 sachusetts by the People who called themsel 
 bes Congregational, which bas been Justly Famed 
 ever since as one of the Most Beautiful Churches 
 in the Country. 
 q “flanp Reasons habe been giben for its Wonder 
 ful Beauty. But an Old Document from the pear 1911 
 by been recently Discovered which Explains the twhale 
 atter. 
 q “Ht is therein Stated that this Church was not bu 
 ilt ta Order bp a Few Men, as so manp readp-made 
 Churches of that Time were, but that Every Man, Hom 
 an and Child in the Whole Parish helped to Build the 
 Church, there not being a Single One who Leaned back 
 and said “Let the @thers do it!’”’ 
 q ‘“‘Cberpone Rich and Poor, Doung and Old alike brou 
 ght of their Werp Best. Three great Easter Sundaps 
 were held as Festivals of Generosity upon which Coe 
 n the filost Liberal surprised themselves and the More 
 Prudent Ones bloomed out into Glorious Prodigality of 
 Cheerful Gibing. 
 q ‘ut of the Generous Lobe with which these people 
 loved their ew Church before it was Born, there came 
 to light this World-famed Sanctuary, built not so much 
 of Wood and Stone as out of the Love and Self-sacrifi 
 ce of a Whole Generation. 
 q “That is whp in our Prapers we thank God for the 
 Early Twentieth Century. That is whp we Journey 
 even from Japan to sap our Prapers within it, and aft 
 er these Manp Dears amid the Multitudinous Ruins of 
 Later Churches it still Remains and will Eber Remain 
 a Joy Forever.” 
 Extract from 
 ‘‘The Early Chronicles of 
 the Twentieth Century”’ 
 (Tokio, 2131 A. D.) 
 
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 The church for long did not grow rapidly. From 
 1781 to the end of Dr. Patrick’s ministry in 1893, 
 1,022 members joined it; while under the pastorate of 
 Dr. Prudden 209 united. After that the suburb grew 
 rapidly and during Dr. Park’s leadership more than 
 1,000 members were added. Its membership on the 
 day of the acceptance of Dr. Park’s resignation was 
 exactly 1000. 
 
 This church has always been progressive. It was a 
 pioneer in the custom of reading the Bible without 
 comment as a part of worship, it having been voted at 
 the first business meeting ‘‘that a portion of Scripture 
 be read in public on each part of the Lord’s Day.” 
 It was a pioneer in church music, being among the 
 first to adopt singing by note, which many other 
 churches opposed because their fathers had sung in 
 another way, and before it was eight years old it voted 
 fifty dollars for the improvement of psalm singing. 
 It was a pioneer in having a choir, in using a bass viol 
 and other new musical instruments, and in adopting 
 congregational singing, in which for years it greatly 
 excelled. It was a pioneer in the custom of having 
 separate communion services. It has progressively 
 used as musical instruments, a pitch-pipe, a bass viol, 
 a violin, a flute, a melodeon, a small reed organ, a 
 pipe and reed organ, a small pipe organ, and an organ 
 which, having been purchased of the First Congrega- 
 tional Church, Manchester, N. H., after twenty years 
 of use, was set up here in 1876, and remained in use 
 till 1916. 
 
 The church was among the earliest to establish a 
 Sunday School, which met for the first time at nine 
 o'clock on Sunday morning, with thirty children to 
 start with, in the spring of 1819 in a little schoolhouse 
 on Waltham Street, opposite the Davis school. After 
 two or three years, the church authorities were con- 
 vinced that it was a good thing, and allowed it to 
 
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HISTORTCALD SKE TCH) OF (THE CHURCH 
 
 convene in the “meeting house.” It is doubtful if any 
 school in any church can show such a record of long 
 and always successful labor as that of Miss S. Maria 
 Clarke, who was connected with the primary depart- 
 ment for nearly fifty years. 
 
 The progressive spirit of the church has been mani- 
 fested especially since the erection of the new build- 
 ing. This was the first church of our order ever to 
 build this type of building with chancel and stone 
 altar, and the first to inaugurate such types of service 
 as have been used here. The musical services, also, 
 in many of their features were first instituted here in a 
 church of our communion. Our special confirmation 
 and vesper services, with their beauty of form, color, 
 and lights, and our early celebration of the Sacrament 
 first appeared here in a Pilgrim church. New types of 
 young people’s society, of prayer meeting and of church 
 school came into being here for the first time. Even 
 the main features of our methods of raising money for 
 benevolences and church support were new. During 
 Dr. Park’s pastorate the parish organization was abol- 
 ished, the church incorporated, and the pews made 
 free; the women’s organizations were amalgamated; 
 chorus choirs and children’s choirs succeeded the old 
 quartette; symbolism was introduced as an aid to 
 worship. 
 
 During the sinking of the tracks of the Boston and 
 Albany Railroad, a number of Italian immigrants came 
 to the city as laborers. They settled in West Newton 
 and the colony rapidly increased. The church held 
 classes and socials for them in the church rooms till 
 the public schools and other agencies took up the work. 
 
 In the year 1908 a Men’s Club was formed. For 
 several years it was conducted by our own members. 
 Its scope and membership were finally extended until 
 now it is acommunity club, vitally concerned in the 
 welfare of West Newton. 
 
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YVM GTUOM AHL ONIUNA SUAWAOM SSOUD GIA NOLMAN LSAaM JO dNOUSD TVOIdAL V 
 
 
 
 
 
Pipe Ora S sRoBV Ci Ha O Fy TeRibyC H. UR CH 
 
 During the terrible years of the World War the 
 church was the scene of incessant activity. The Red 
 Cross meetings occupied all the rooms of the parish 
 house, and services of prayer were largely attended. 
 A memorable scene took place when a score of young 
 men, members of the church, were shortly to leave for 
 active service. Coming into the chancel, they knelt 
 down, quite filling it, and received communion to- 
 gether. The remembrance of the intensity of petition 
 which went up from every heart at that service is 
 vivid in the minds of all who partook in it. 
 
 Another most impressive service was the dedica- 
 tion of the Parish House on October 1, 1916. There 
 the children solemnly repeated the following vow. 
 
 In time of Great Wars our fathers have built in peace this House 
 of Prayer. 
 
 We, their children, pledge to it our honor and respect. 
 
 We promise to love it as our parents’ gift to us:— its spire lifted 
 up amid the sailing birds and silent air, its songs and music, the 
 light of its windows, and this the Chapel of our Sunday School. 
 
 As MEN we will protect it from all injury as we would our city. 
 
 As WOMEN we will keep it fair and beautiful for our children’s 
 children. 
 
 We promise to enter into its services with gladness, to behave in 
 it with reverence, and to help fill it with the joyful, friendly 
 spirit of Jesus. 
 
 We will do our part to make it the best church in all the world. 
 SO HELP US GOD. 
 
 The new church building lent itself to the antiph- 
 onal music of answering choirs and to the loveliness 
 of the Children’s Day service when the glory of young 
 life flooded up the chancel and the great cross of 
 kneeling children touched the aisle and transepts. 
 
 During the first quarter of the twentieth century 
 the church building has been uniformly filled at 
 morning worship and has taken its place as one of the 
 
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MOANIM SdITTIHd AHL FO MAIA V GNV LdoSNVUL HLYON AHL NI UIOHD §S NAUGTIHO FHL 
 
 
 
 
 
Pile hen tk AS KOR On Or OT Be CHO RiG-H 
 
 leading churches of Greater Boston. Special services, 
 such as that in which the children themselves dedi- 
 cated the new font, or when the Mothers’ Window 
 was consecrated in 1926, brought home to people a 
 sense of the inherent loveliness of true worship. 
 
 Second Church Day was inaugurated early in the 
 twentieth century as a festival when the material 
 foundations of each new year’s work should be laid in 
 democratic manner by all the people. 
 
 An interesting feature of the church’s life in later 
 days has been the revival of interest in the Wednes- 
 day evening prayer meeting. With something of 
 Quaker simplicity and a genuine desire to practice the 
 healing power of God in man, the prayer meeting has 
 ceased to become an ill-attended minor edition of a 
 preaching service and has attracted a group of those 
 who are interested in making use of the power of God 
 for the health and happiness of themselves and of 
 others. 
 
 The benevolence of the church has gone far and 
 wide throughout the world. The reading of the 
 treasurer's reports for the past years brings out the 
 fact that no great human end has been neglected, 
 whether in the United States or in the uttermost parts 
 of the earth. 
 
 In conclusion a word may be said of the growth of 
 West Newton itself and of its relation to wider 
 affairs. 
 
 Early in the nineteenth century West Newton first 
 came into prominence among the adjacent villages. 
 It became a regular stopping place for stage-coaches, 
 as many as thirty a day making a halt at the inn on 
 Washington Street. The academy of Master Seth 
 Davis did much to bring the village into prominence. 
 
 In the year 1834 West Newton was made the 
 terminus of the railroad. Mrs. Caroline J. Barker, 
 who lived in West Newton until the year 1925, re- 
 
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WUOdLV1d AHL NO XUVd “Yd GNV NAGanwd ‘ua °*$161 “Er aANnf ‘ANOLS YANUOD JO NOLLVOIAGIA 
 
 
 
 
 
Peter Aen Qaeda is ey LC ra OF BUI EB: OH) OU Ry Cry 
 
 membered the first train on that railroad, an object 
 of great curiosity to all the inhabitants. 
 
 The first preaching services were held in 1760. The 
 minister was hired to keep the public school during 
 the winter months and to preach on the Sabbath. 
 The history of the church thus begins somewhere 
 about 1760. We know that in the year 1660 there 
 were probably only three settlers in the part of the 
 country known now as West Newton. They were 
 Thomas Park, John Fuller, and Isaac Williams. Isaac 
 Williams’s house was near the brook. He was a 
 weaver by trade and was a selectman representing the 
 town in the General Court for six years. 
 
 For many years all that we know of West Newton is 
 contained in the history of the church. It sent of its 
 young men to the ranks of the Revolutionary Army, 
 and many of them lost their lives in the battles of 
 that war. ; 
 
 A scene that remained in the minds of many was 
 the funeral of three soldiers of the Civil War who were 
 killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. The three caskets 
 ranged in front of the pulpit with the mournful drap- 
 ings of the house and the sad service recall a day of 
 darkness when the hearts of all were oppressed with 
 anxiety. The church granted leave of absence to the 
 minister in 1865 for a term of two months’ service in 
 the Christian Commission at City Point, Virginia. 
 (In the World War a similar grant of absence was 
 made to the minister of the church in connection with 
 the Y. M. C. A. at the army camps. A large number 
 of young men of the church served at the front during 
 that war, and one of them, a young colored bugler, 
 Clifford K. Meekins, made the supreme sacrifice.) 
 
 And what has the church accomplished during 
 these one hundred and sixty-six years? God only 
 knows it all. But it certainly nurtured and molded 
 the moral and religious character of this part of 
 
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THE3S £C.ONID*C HaULRICiH 7B OO 
 
 
 
 
 
 Newton during this long formative period. It not only 
 led men to fear God and keep His commandments, but 
 educated them to listen to closely argued sermons 
 Sunday after Sunday. It brought this village here; 
 for the meeting house was not placed where it is be- 
 cause the village was here, but the village grew where 
 the church was. During all these years it has main- 
 tained a sanctuary amid the temptations and sorrows 
 of life, and the services which have tended to make 
 duty more clear and imperative, life more beautiful, 
 trials more endurable,courage more strong,and mercy, 
 patience, hope, and faith more abundant. To the 
 doubting and the despondent it has given visions of 
 God. The atmosphere it has created has made better 
 citizens, fathers, mothers, homes, children. Without 
 what it has done, you would not wish to live here. It 
 has ministered materially to the poor, the distressed, 
 the weak, and the needy, and reminded the sick, the 
 aged, and the mourning of the eternal love within and 
 about them. But the best part of its history cannot be 
 written, because it has not yet been made. 
 
 
 
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DAVEE SO°R DN OTE Rees 
 
 DATES OF INTEREST 
 
 Giureniga thered'in schoolhouse 'i))).)) 4.08 6 Sas, 1760 
 MISE CUULCDONCINE 9% Pari a” Gah ree Pore ede nytin. ek 704, 
 BIREOMTEATHZEC ect Lhe teny LAID eed WMH fete, SETS 
 Sauren organized | |. ete RAR ESN a de 
 Rev. William Greenough teenie’ nese Ph NOVe Seat? 
 Stove to heat meeting house presented . . .. . . 1799 
 muurcne enlargediand re-dedicated) «0 4 bei ee eae RTD 
 Pere SO NOOLSLACtEC Ir iG): Sab yitul i eM o Mke) | RENO 
 Church bell presented . . . Pe nace weal | fs '2 43 
 Rev. Lyman Gilbert, D.D. Rineralled eee WOOL MAB h abl iie. bd: 
 Old square pews removed, vestry made under church. . 1831 
 West Newton made terminus of newrailroad . . . . 1834 
 PeNnrereae to cownor towed Waller hile 6 <i) lk bak eae 
 New church built with neworgan . «0. 4. we es 1848 
 Rev. Joseph Drummond installed pastor . . . . Jan. 2, 1856 
 
 Rev. George B. Little installed pastor . . . March 12, 1857 
 Rev. Henry J. Patrick, D.D., installed pastor . Sept. 26, 1860 
 
 Ee IC ACER tg hoe! igh sign ia aut os Lanta dae x tet hO7 
 New organinstalled. . ... AUN EON eee RD a teRe ecto. 
 Parish house built in front of ae ana 1885 
 
 Rev. Theodore P. Prudden, D.D., installed Pah Aoelie 17, 1894 
 Transepts added to church and new pews purchased . . 1894 
 Rev. J. Edgar Park, D.D., installed pastor . . Dec. 12, 1907 
 
 Congregation votes torebuild church . . . . Dec. 13, 1908 
 SS OTEIMIaCeOLatcGir iim ee tanya. eel ea eR Si TOTS. 
 Corner stone of newchurch laid. . . . . . June 13, 1915 
 Mr. William L. Bates becomes choirmaster . . April 1, 1916 
 Dem GROUT ca edicatcde atu ware eeh ti eid) Octats 1916 
 Dore Renicated’) hawaii reine teh ay ©. UP UNe? E2\ TARO 
 Mother’s window dedicated . . .. . . . Mayg, 1926 
 
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TH Es S'EACiON- D> C AOU RC HB OlOuk. 
 
 OUR PASTORS 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM GREENOUGH 
 
 Ordained, Nov. 8, 1781 Deceased, Nov. Io, 1831 
 Rev. LyMan GILBERT, D.D. 
 Ordained, July 2, 1828 Resigned, Jan. 2, 1856 
 Rev. JosEpH P. DRumMMonpD 
 Ordained, Jan. 2, 1856 Resigned, Nov. 12, 1857 
 Rev. Georc_E B. LItTLe 
 Installed, Nov. 12, 1857 Deceased, July 20, 1860 
 Rev. Henry J. Patrick, D.D. 
 
 Installed, Sept. 26, 1860 Resigned, Sept. 29, 1893 
 Rev. THEoODoRE P. PruppeEn, D.D. 
 Installed, April 17, 1894 Resigned, Dec. 30, 1906 
 Rey. J. Epcar Park, D.D. 
 
 Installed, Dec. 12, 1907 Resigned, Oct. 4, 1926 
 
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CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 OF THE 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH 
 
 JosepH Warp . 
 JosepH JACKSON . 
 Enocu Warp . 
 JosepH FULLER 
 Tuomas Eustis, JR. 
 JosEpH ADAmMs 
 BENJAMIN FULLER 
 Jor. FULLER 
 
 JosEpH STONE . 
 SAMUEL WARREN . 
 Orin F. Wooprorp . 
 JosepH W. SToNnE 
 SAMUEL F, Dix 
 LEMUEL E. CASWELL 
 J. B. Wuirmore . 
 Jutius L. CLarKke 
 Harzan P. BarBer . 
 Rurus W. KrenDALL 
 
 GRANVILLE B. Putnam. 
 
 N. Emmons PAINE 
 
 S. Epwarp HowarpD 
 Cuar_es E. BRAMAN 
 ArtTuur F. Hotpen . 
 Wo. G. FoLtsom 
 
 Won. G. BELL . 
 
 M. Frank Lucas. 
 Wa LteER B. Davis 
 Epwarp M. Ha.u 
 CuaArRLEs E. Gipson . 
 Henry B. Day 
 Rosert H. Gross 
 WILLIAM KELLAR 
 Epwarp A. MarsH . 
 ARTHUR S. KIMBALL 
 
 DEACONS 
 
 1897-1902, 1903- 1905, 
 
 1900-1904, 
 
 910-1 914, 
 IgIO-I917, 
 
 1913-1 920, 
 
 1781-1784 
 1781-1803 
 1789-1789 
 1793-1811 
 1800-1806 
 1806-1813 
 1817-1828 
 1817-1848 
 1845-1852 
 1845-1852 
 1852-1856 
 1853-1886 
 1856-1876 
 1868-1871 
 1871-1887 
 1868-1900 
 1876-1900 
 1885-1892 
 1887-1897 
 1907-1911 
 1906-1910 
 1900-1905 
 IgOO-IgoI 
 IgOI—1904 
 1902-1906 
 1905-1909 
 IgOg-IgI2 
 1921-1923 
 1918-1923 
 
 1897-1900, 1904-1908, edn 1918, 1919-1925 
 
 IgI2-1919 
 1922— 
 
 18921 897, beta te 1914-1915 
 
 1914-1916 
 
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THE SECON DOCIHIOIR CHB O08 
 
 GeorceE P. Hatcu 
 
 James W. Hammonp 
 Epwarp G. PERRY 
 
 Dana LisBEy . 
 
 BENJAMIN J. BowEN 
 JosepH A. SyMonDs . 
 HersBertT M. Coie : 
 FREDERICK J. FESSENDEN . 
 CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS 
 FREDERICK S. Harpy 
 
 CLERKS 
 
 Rev. WILLIAM GREENOUGH 
 Rev. Lyman GILBERT 
 Henry L. Wuitinc . 
 SAMUEL F. Dix 
 Juuius L. Clarke 
 Cuares A. WyMAn 
 FrANK R. BarKER 
 Cuares A. WyMAN 
 Henry B. Patrick . 
 CuarLes A. Wyman. 
 GeEorGE F. Larcom . 
 JosepH D. Woop. 
 
 TREASURERS 
 
 JosEPH JACKSON . 
 JosEPH FULLER 
 NATHAN FULLER . 
 JoeL FuLLER 
 SAMUEL WARREN. 
 Orin F. Wooprorp . 
 JosErpH W. Stone 
 SAMUEL F. Dix 
 Jutius L. CLarKE 
 Joun J. Eppy . 
 Cuinton L. Eppy 
 CuHaARLEs R. FIsHEr . 
 Wa ter B. Davis 
 WiiiaM F. CuHase 
 
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 IgI§—1921 
 Ig16-1922 
 1917-1920 
 1920-1926 
 Ig2I- 
 1923-1923 
 1924- 
 1924- 
 1925~ 
 1926— 
 
 1781-1831 
 1831-1853 
 1856-1863 
 1853-1856 
 1863-1900 
 IgOO-1g902 
 1902-1903 
 1903-1910 
 IQIO-I9I4 
 Igi4—I916 
 1916-1920 
 1920- 
 
 1782-1799 
 1799-I8I1I 
 1811-1822 
 1822-1845 
 1845-1853 
 1853-1856 
 1856-1864 
 1864-1875 
 1875-1890 
 1890-I90I 
 1901-1908 
 1908-1912 
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Our Tribute to Dr. Park 
 

 
 REV. J. EDGAR PARK, D.D. 
 Installed, December 12, 1907 Resigned, October 4, 1926 
 
Aer DON FOR KoDN GS)a0-0 
 
 AA Pioneering Soul 
 
 Why laud alone the distant pioneer 
 
 And stress the havoc of our ancient wood? 
 The hewing of those olden pathways should 
 Indeed command the tribute of the seer — 
 Should bid us in a reverent spirit rear 
 
 The shaft which honors a grim hardihood 
 That kept its faith in time’s unhalcyon mood 
 And wrested harvests from a prospect drear. 
 But pioneering moments are not dead; 
 
 A soul among us blazes forth new ways; 
 
 The vigor of his stroke is echoing now. 
 
 As workers venture whither he has led, 
 
 The wide wastes quicken under prophet rays; 
 A newer challenge prompts a loftier vow. 
 
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OUR TRIB U TE TOreD R.FPA RK 
 
 OUR, FRIBU TE? TO:. DR. PARK 
 
 A® the more recent years, under our present pastor, 
 are to many of us of most significance, it is worth 
 our while to pay to him here the tribute which his ser- 
 vice has made so abundantly deserving. 
 
 For nineteen years, Dr. J. Edgar Park has been 
 the minister of the Congregational Church of West 
 Newton, where he has not only gathered together a 
 great congregation and built one of the most beautiful 
 churches in New England, but has gained and held the 
 love and respect of all with whom he has come in con- 
 tact. Himself an accomplished scholar, Dr. Park comes 
 of distinguished ancestry. For fifty years his father 
 was minister of the leading Presbyterian church in 
 Ireland, while his grandfather and great-grandfather 
 were professors of theology. Educated in private 
 schools, Dr. Park graduated from Queen’s College, 
 Belfast, and the Royal University, Dublin, where he 
 won honors in mathematics and modern and Oriental 
 literature. He did post-graduate work in Leipsic, Edin- 
 burgh, Princeton, and Oxford, and studied theology in 
 the Assembly’s College, Belfast, and in New College, 
 Edinburgh. At Belfast he received the gold medal for 
 distinction, and at Tufts College he was granted the 
 honorary D.D. He married Grace Burtt of Andover, 
 formerly a teacher of mathematics and Greek. His 
 four children have all been educated in our Newton 
 schools. 
 
 Intensely human and finely sympathetic with the 
 next generation, Dr. Park has been welcomed as 
 preacher and lecturer in many colleges and other edu- 
 cational centers. At intervals he has published a dozen 
 or more books and has contributed to the 4étlantic 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 Monthly and other leading magazines. Small wonder, 
 then, that Wheaton College, deprived of leadership by 
 the death of its president, the late Dr. Samuel V. Cole, 
 should turn for aid to the pastor of our church. 
 
 We measure the worth of a man by the influence he 
 exerts on us in both collective and personal ways. 
 Judged by either of these standards, the influence of 
 Dr. Park has been most significant. 
 
 For nearly two decades we have listened to him as 
 he preached his Sunday sermons, as he conducted the 
 ritual services, as he led the worship in his more in- 
 formal talks at the mid-week meetings, and on other 
 occasions when he has spoken in public or addressed 
 us through the medium of Second Thoughts. Always 
 he has spoken or written the appropriate, the perti- 
 nent, the inspiring word. The congregated listeners 
 have become a welded unit as they have responded to 
 his thought and his emotion. 
 
 During the years of his pastorate, the practical 
 affairs of the church have been largely shaped by his 
 fine executive spirit. Here, too, we have felt the in- 
 fluence of collectivism. We have been willing to fol- 
 low a leadership that we have recognized as highly 
 intelligent and highly spiritual. We have felt the pride 
 and the exaltation that rest with the consciousness of 
 harmonious and unified movement — the satisfaction 
 that comes when toil is coSperant toward a previsioned 
 end. And this we have all felt in a collective way. 
 
 Deeply as we appreciate this congregational in- 
 fluence, it is, after all, in personal and individual ways 
 that Dr. Park’s influence has been most keenly and 
 most delicately felt. As a guest in our homes and at 
 our social gatherings, he has entertained us with his 
 rare, original humor; he has shared with us the results 
 of his intellectual adventures; he has come to us in the 
 hour of our perplexity and has made us see truth in a 
 finer and more restricted focus; he has spoken to our 
 
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OU LRA RL BU TEST OO D Rene ALR 
 
 children in tones that won their willing attention and 
 secured the quickened individual response. 
 
 And when the greatest of all griefs has come to us, 
 he has always understood. His silence, or the pressure 
 of his hand, or the words and tone of his utterance 
 have revealed his great sympathy and yielded us a 
 very tender and a very personal consolation. 
 
 All these qualities in our pastor we, in quiescent 
 ways, have all the while known and valued. But when 
 word came that he was leaving us, the very sense of 
 oncoming loneliness and withdrawal somehow brought 
 his worth into clearer outline and to a higher level. 
 We had to summon all our philosophy to reconcile us 
 to his going. We knew that he had thought his prob- 
 lem through. The high motives that had directed his 
 decision should, we determined, dictate our acquies- 
 ‘cence. Our own deep regret has made all the clearer 
 those intellectual and spiritual qualifications which 
 promise so much for the future of Wheaton College. 
 On that high altar we lay our personal sacrifices. 
 
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 THE SPIRE THAT SYMBOLIZES OUR SPIRITUAL YEARNING 
 
aon Ek BUBLID ING 
 
 THE BUILDING 
 aa early builders planned their churches to be 
 
 seen by oncoming bands of pilgrims from afar, 
 and so they erected the spire, like a great finger reach- 
 ing to heaven, above the nave. A church such as this 
 might be first caught sight of by such a band of pil- 
 grims winding in and out among the Waltham hills, 
 the spire seen at every rise and turn in the road and 
 then lost again as the pilgrims descended into the 
 valley. As an observer approaches the church and 
 makes his way up towards the door two strange 
 objects greet him at either side. A dragon-like figure 
 is perched as though in the act of springing out at 
 either side of the main entrance. A quaint old legend 
 clings to these two gargoyles. The story is that once, 
 while an exceedingly eloquent monk was preaching to 
 his congregation, his gospel proved so persuasive that 
 the devils who made their familiar abode in the hearts 
 of his congregation, one by one were frightened off, 
 and leaving the listening people, escaped out of the 
 church in terror. But there were two gospel-hardened 
 listeners, a man and his wife, so impervious to the 
 preaching of the good father that their devils refused 
 to be exorcised. They remained crouched within the 
 two hearers’ souls, peering wickedly out of their eyes. 
 The good monk increased his eloquent appeal and at 
 last dislodged these two recalcitrant spirits. They 
 left the hearts of the two sinners, but had not time 
 before the benediction to get through the walls of the 
 church. At the words of the blessing they were caught 
 three-quarters through the walls; and were there ever- 
 lastingly turned to stone. A cynical male observer 
 has differentiated between our two gargoyles by 
 noticing that the mouth of one is open and that of the 
 
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 OUR CHURCH SPIRE AS VIEWED FROM HIGHLAND STREET 
 
pent BOUT Di tcN G 
 
 other is closed. He holds that the one with the open 
 mouth is the female gargoyle, but this is not in the 
 tradition as it is told in the Fathers. 
 
 Christianity is an open-air religion. Our church is 
 set in a yard kept as neat and fair as is possible: it is 
 one with the grass and the trees and the sky. Only 
 from a world made as lovely as one can make it does 
 one dare to point to heaven. 
 
 In the church tower hangs the bell directing, like 
 the spire itself, the distant pilgrims to the goal of their 
 pilgrimage. It is interesting to note that, so far as we 
 know, a church bell was never thought of until after 
 the coming of the Savior. Other religions used clang- 
 ing cymbals, mysterious gongs, or harsh strips of 
 metal to summon their people to the rites of religion. 
 Christianity wanted something loud enough to sound 
 far and clear and yet be full of sweet music like the 
 gospelitself,to remind thecountryside,beforeclocksand 
 watches were invented, that it was the hour of prayer. 
 
 If you make such a pilgrimage to our house of God, 
 long before you come within sight of the gargoyles 
 caught in their fruitless attempt at escape, you will 
 join other pilgrims bent upon the same mission. One 
 of the tenderest memories of the human heart has 
 been associated with the common approach to the 
 house of worship on the Sabbath Day when the sound 
 of the church bells fills the air. In the Book of Psalms 
 one reads the first description of that experience given 
 by one who, unable to go to church, remained in his 
 sick room and longed for the companionship which 
 otherwise might have been his. “‘For I had gone with 
 the multitude; I went with them to the House of God, 
 with the voice of joy and praise, with the multitude 
 that kept holyday,” and one remembers the beautiful 
 words of Coleridge, | 
 
 Oh, sweeter than the marriage feast, 
 It is sweeter far to me, 
 
 To walk together to the kirk, 
 With a goodly company. [51] 
 

 
 A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF MAIN AISLE AND THE NAVE 
 
Peak BU BLD IN DG 
 
 These things remind us that Christianity started in 
 the walks made by the Master with his Disciples in 
 ‘the open air of Galilee. And when one enters the 
 church one is again reminded of this origin of our re- 
 ligion. The interior of the Gothic church is evidently 
 modeled upon the place in which the Christians of 
 northern climes met to worship. The colder climate 
 made it impossible for them to gather in the open, 
 by the sea or in the fields, as they did in Galilee, so 
 they met in the shelter of a glade in the woods. The 
 design of the nave of a Gothic church is reminiscent of 
 that ancient sanctuary. The pillars are the trunks of 
 the sacred trees. At either side in the groined roof 
 one sees remembrances of the branches meeting over- 
 head, and in the windows of stained glass the glint of 
 blue recalls the sky at either end, while sometimes in 
 the glorious windows of the thirteenth century one 
 sees all the golden colors of sunrise and sunset. 
 
 The church centers upon the altar, on which is 
 placed the cross, symbolic of the faith. The audito- 
 rium is not a lecture hall with a platform for the 
 speaker; it is not a concert hall built around an organ 
 or a choir of singers. It is a house of prayer centering 
 upon the altar behind which shine the words, “An 
 Everlasting Covenant.” For it is the purpose of this 
 building that in it human beings may meet and com- 
 mune with an invisible presence. The minister and 
 choir are so placed that they do not face the congrega- 
 tion during prayer and singing. The minister does 
 not pray to you; the choir does not sing to you; 
 they pray and sing for you, to help and inspire you to 
 express your own devotion and aspiration. Therefore 
 they do not face towards the seated people, but sit 
 sideways, themselves part of the worshipping congre- 
 gation. The central altar, the psalms, and the prayers 
 suggest that you come in here not to hear something, 
 but to do something yourself — to pray. 
 
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 THE PULPIT, CHANCEL ORGAN, AND A SEGMENT VIEW OF THE 
 PHILLIPS WINDOW 
 
THE BUILDING 
 
 On the floor of the church are to be found the pews. 
 A pew is an ancient method of symbolizing that the 
 unit of true religion is not the individual, but the 
 family, so our fathers had family pews where father, 
 mother, and children could sit together. There were 
 elements of exclusiveness and constraint in this 
 method, but still the pew remains as a sign that in the 
 family the spirit of religion has its roots; it divides the 
 crowd into smaller groups in the interest of friendli- 
 ness. 
 
 There are eight steps up the chancel to the altar. 
 These represent the six days of creation, ending in the 
 long rest on the Sabbath, when the old world was fin- 
 ished. The eighth step leads behind the chancel rail 
 into the New World — the Kingdom of God. 
 
 Carved upon the choir stalls and the deacons’ seats, 
 you find Christ’s friends around Him, the Twelve 
 Apostles. The congregation in the Middle Ages could 
 not read; and so the church itself was made, by carv- 
 ings and paintings and stained glass, to be for them a 
 kind of pictorial Bible. 
 
 Let us go around the carved stalls beginning at 
 the right as you approach the chancel. Each of the 
 Apostles bears a symbol, often representing the in- 
 strument with which he suffered martyrdom for the 
 love of Christ. First is St. Andrew with St. Andrew’s 
 cross on which he was crucified. Then comes St. 
 Matthew with a hatchet by which he was beheaded. 
 He also bears a book, because he wrote one of the 
 books in the Bible. Similarly, St. James, the next in 
 order, bears his book and the fuller’s club with which 
 his brains were dashed out by the heathen. St. Philip 
 and St. James, next in order, bear the staff of the pil- 
 grim. St. James also bears a shell. This was the early 
 sign of the missionary — just why it is hard to dis- 
 cover. Some think it was because the early mission- 
 aries used shells from which to drink at the brooks as 
 
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 THE BAPTISMAL FONT, A GIFT OF THE CHURCH SCHOOL, IN MEMORY 
 OF MISS S. MARIA CLARKE 
 
Meee aoe By Uo, Ly DD ToNuG 
 
 they passed on their journeys; others believe that the 
 shell was the symbol of the traveller when he wan- 
 dered amid inland people who had never seen the sea 
 and wondered at this shell which had been picked up 
 by him on his distant journeyings. Next in order is 
 St. Peter, bearing the keys of Death and Hell, deliv- 
 ered to him by the Master. On the opposite side in 
 the same way St. Simon bears the saw with which he 
 was sawn asunder, and St. Thomas the lance which 
 pierced him. St. Jude, besides his book, bears a 
 knotted club, and St. Bartholomew a knife. St. 
 Matthias, who occupies Judas’s place, has a battle axe. 
 And last, nearest the altar, is the beloved St. John, 
 holding a chalice from which a serpent is escaping. 
 The priest of Diana is said to have given him poisoned 
 wine to drink, but St. John made the sign of the cross 
 above the chalice and the poison escaped in the shape 
 of a serpent. 
 
 Above the altar there shines a light upon the cross 
 as though coming down mysteriously from heaven, 
 and so the invisible Christ upon the altar stands amid 
 his earthly friends. 
 
 The pulpit in the church is distinct from the lectern 
 because the lectern contains the Bible, the history of 
 God’s revelation to the world, while in the pulpit one 
 has man’s interpretation. Above the pulpit is the 
 symbol of the Ten Commandments of God, the moral 
 center of the Old Testament. The carvings on the 
 pulpit represent the vine and its branches, symbolic of 
 Christ’s relation to believers, and on each panel there 
 is an angel portraying one of the true graces of the real 
 preacher: the Angel of Justice with the scales (Job 
 31: 6); the Angel of True Eloquence with the burning 
 coals of fire from God’s altar (Isaiah 61:6); the Angel 
 of Sacred Learning with the Book (Psalm 1: 2); the 
 Children’s Angel with little faces clustered around his 
 robes (Matthew 18: 10). 
 
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THE BUILDING 
 
 The newel posts, as has been noted in the section 
 describing the memorial gifts, represent Thomas 
 Hooker, the most noted preacher of early Congrega- 
 tionalism, who in 1633 was ordained pastor of the 
 church at Newtown, Massachusetts, and John Eliot, 
 who in the same city of Newton was the great mis- 
 sionary preacher to the Indians. 
 
 The lectern has four figures carved upon it, repre- 
 senting the four Evangelists. Beneath one of the fig- 
 ures is aman. This is St. Matthew, who, in his gospel, 
 dwells especially upon the human Jesus and begins the 
 book with the pedigree of His human ancestors. Be- 
 neath another figure is the lion, because St. Mark 
 opens his gospel with the voice of one crying in the 
 wilderness. Beneath the third is the ox, because St. 
 Luke opens his gospel with the picture of the shep- 
 herds and the manger, and beneath the fourth figure 
 is the eagle, because St. John begins with a flight far 
 off into the heaven of heavens, soaring like the eagle, 
 with the words, “‘In the beginning was the word.”’ 
 
 At the door of a church there should always stand a 
 font. The baby should grow up inside the church, not 
 outside of it and so in infancy the child is brought to 
 the door of the church and received into the arms of 
 the Master. Around the font are figures of a child 
 which give us the whole of a child’s day — morning, 
 when awakened by the song of the bird, daily bread 
 with its little porringer at breakfast, then play, and 
 work, and prayer, and finally good-night. Beneath 
 the figures of the child are all the symbols one could 
 find in the Bible of the mothering love of God. 
 
 Beside the font stands the font registry in which are 
 preserved the names of the newly born, guarded by 
 two kneeling angels, God’s love and care. 
 
 We cross the front of the church again, looking as 
 we pass at the altar made of Caen stone. At one side 
 of it is the figure of St. George of England who has the 
 
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 THE PULPIT, ORGAN, AND THE OAK TABLET SYMBOLIZING THE 
 COMMANDMENTS 
 
 
 
 
 
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 sword in his hand with which he has just slain the 
 great dragon of sin. He represents all the riches which 
 England has given to our common faith. On the other 
 side stands St. Martin of Tours, the patron saint of 
 France. In his left hand is the garment and in his 
 right hand the sword with which he is dividing his 
 cloak to give half to a poor widow perishing in the 
 cold. The two saints stand for the valor and charity 
 of our faith. Around the altar one finds the carving of 
 the fish, which was an early symbol of Christianity 
 because the Greek word for fish consisted of the first 
 letters in the words, “Jesus Christ, Savior of Man- 
 kind”’, and the ark, symbol of the Christian way to 
 salvation. We in our Pilgrim church may also see 
 there the Mayflower crossing the broad Atlantic for 
 the New World. As we go across the front of the 
 church we come to the Fuller Chapel, designed for 
 smaller services, weddings, funerals, and corporate 
 communion celebrations. It is a part of the church, 
 yet a little service held in it is not lost as it would be 
 were it held in the larger building. 
 
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TadVHO UATTNA AHL NI VUAVTIAGNVO GNV ‘F1qVL NOINQWWOO ‘MOCUNIM 3HL 
 
 
 
MEMORIAL AND PRESENTATION GIFTS 
 
 MEMORIAL AND PRESENTA- 
 TION GIFTS 
 
 i Rice pulpit, carved by Mr. J. Kirchmayer of 
 Oberammergau and Cambridge, is in memory of 
 the Rev. Henry J. Patrick, D.D., minister of the 
 church from 1860 to 1893, presented by his family and 
 a number of his former parishioners. In addition to 
 the symbolism of the vine, the four great guardian 
 angels of true preaching occupy the four panels. 
 The newel posts represent Thomas Hooker, the most 
 noted preacher of early Congregationalism, who in 
 1633 was ordained pastor of the church at Newton, 
 Massachusetts, and John Eliot, who, in the same city 
 of Newtown, was the great missionary preacher to the 
 Indians. 
 
 The lectern and the chancel furniture (also the 
 work of Mr. Kirchmayer) are in memory of the Rev. 
 Theodore P. Prudden, D.D., minister of the church 
 from 1894 to 1907. Surrounding the lectern are the 
 figures of the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, 
 and John. Upon the choir and deacons’ stalls are the 
 figures of the twelve apostles. The lectern and the 
 Bible are the gift of Dr. Prudden’s family; the 
 chancel furniture of friends in the parish. 
 
 The communion table in memory of Captain S. 
 Edward Howard, presented by his family and a 
 friend, is constructed of Caen stone. The motive of 
 the vine and the branches runs around the table. At 
 one side stands St. George, the representative of the 
 Christian soldier, and at the other St. Martin of 
 Tours, the type of Christian chivalry, in the act of 
 dividing his cloak with his sword that he may share 
 
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 A DETAIL FROM THE WINDOW OF THE FULLER CHAPEL 
 
MEM OR LAL AN D:PRESENTATILVON GIF TS 
 
 it with the beggar. At the side the words “‘He always 
 faced the dawn” remind us of Captain Howard’s 
 personality. 
 
 The altar Bibles are in memory of Mr. Benjamin S. 
 Palmer. 
 
 The chancel organ is the gift of the late Mr. Frank 
 Ashley Day, in memory of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Robert Lansing Day, who attended this church in 
 1860-1862. The echo organ at the rear of the church 
 is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Gross. The 
 chapel organ is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. 
 Day. The organ chimes, added in 1925, are in mem- 
 ory of William Alvin Barker, organist in 1872, the gift 
 of Orrin F. and George J. Barker. All these organs are 
 the work of Casavant Fréres of St. Hyacinth, Canada. 
 _ The east window “in affectionate honor of all 
 Mothers” is the gift of many friends and was dedi- 
 cated on May g, 1926. It is the work of Reynolds, 
 Francis, and Rohnstock of Boston. 
 
 The window in the chapel is in memory of Mrs. 
 J. Franklin Fuller, presented by her husband; and 
 the communion table and candelabra in the same 
 chapel are the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton L. Eddy. 
 At the extreme left of the window is the Angel of the 
 Annunciation bringing the news of the coming of the 
 Lord to the Virgin. At the right is the Angel of Con- 
 solation comforting the Mater Dolorosa with thoughts 
 of the Resurrection. The window in the north tran- 
 sept is the gift of Mr. Charles G. Phillips, in mem- 
 ory of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Phillips. 
 The window, the motive of which is the beatitude, 
 “Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be com- 
 forted,’’ represents a saint, surrounded bya multitude 
 of the angels of the spiritual world, comforting the 
 widow and children in their affliction. Both these 
 
 windows and the temporary west window are the 
 
 work of Mr. Henry Wynd Young of New York. The 
 
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 THE BAPTISMAL FONT AND THE FONT REGISTRY IN THE SOUTH 
 TRANSEPT 
 
MeEeORDAL AND PRESEN TATION <-GIU-F T'S 
 
 temporary aisle windows are the work of Mr. Charles J. 
 Connick of Boston. 
 
 The baptismal font, in memory of Miss S. Maria 
 Clarke who was head of the Primary Department of 
 the church school for nearly fifty years, was dedi- 
 cated June 13, 1920, the gift of the children of the 
 parish. The font registry for preserving the names 
 of the baptized children was added November 22, 
 1925. The font was the work of Miss B. Lillian Link; 
 the registry was made by W. F. Ross and Co. 
 
 The furniture of the minister’s room is the gift of 
 Mr. and Mrs. William C. Safford. 
 
 The clocks in the church are all the gifts of Mr. 
 Herbert E. Fales. 
 
 The flags in the church are the gift of Mr. Herbert 
 M. Cole (except the one in the chapel which was pre- 
 sented in memory of Roger N. Griffin, 1894-1910); 
 and the stone gargoyles at the doors of the church are 
 the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gibson. In addi- 
 tion to these, many of the members of our parish have 
 given their personal time, skill, and service to make 
 the building and the grounds what they are. Every- 
 one has had a generous part in this church which has 
 in very truth been built by all the people. 
 
 The architects of the church were Messrs. Allen and 
 Collens of Boston, and the builders were Norcross 
 Bros. of Worcester. 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 The idea of our Mothers’ Window is an 
 evolution from the older custom which 
 honored by specific tribute the memory of 
 a single person —a memorial that only 
 individual or family wealth could grant. 
 Our chancel window is a tribute to all 
 mothers —mothers who are gone, mothers 
 who are with us still, and mothers who are 
 yet to be. We bow in reverence before this 
 general, all-embracing idea of Mother- 
 hood; but in the very act, the faces that 
 are dearest come to view and individual- 
 ize for each of us the spirit of our devotion. 
 
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THE MOTHERS’ WINDOW 
 
 THE MOTHERS’ WINDOW 
 
 As the morning star in the midst of a cloud, 
 
 As the moon at the full; 
 
 As the sun shining upon the temple of the Most High, 
 
 As the rainbow giving light in the clouds of glory; 
 
 As the flower of roses in the early morn, 
 
 As lilies at the waterspring, 
 
 As the shoot of the frankincense tree in the time of summer; 
 
 As fire and incense in the censer, 
 
 As a vessel of beaten gold adorned with all manner of pre- 
 
 cious stones, 
 
 As a fair olive tree budding forth new fruits, 
 
 As a cypress growing high among the clouds, 
 
 When she put on the robe of honor, 
 
 She was clothed with the perfection of glory. 
 Ecclesiasticus 50 : 6-11 
 
 OUR window is dedicated ‘“‘To the Glory of God 
 and in affectionate honor of all Mothers.” It is 
 mother love which has warmed the cold heart of 
 nature. When the age of the great brutal reptiles was 
 over and their successors in the world began to nurse 
 and fondle and love their young, then began all the 
 tenderness and poetry and color of life. This window 
 is in affectionate honor of all mothers — the hen that 
 gathers her chickens under her wing, the mare that 
 licks her ungainly long-legged foal with whinnying, 
 anxious solicitude, the tigress that fights to the death 
 to protect the little balls of fur whose frightened eyes 
 glow green from the depths of the dark cave within, 
 the mother whom the world calls bad, who yet had in 
 her warped nature an unsuspected heaven of tender- 
 ness for her little one, the mother who was saint and 
 friend and guardian angel for her wayward children, 
 the mothers who throng the steeps of light in the 
 better country and look down upon us now unseen, the 
 mothers we disobey and argue with and love today, 
 
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THESE COND CAD RCA OOr 
 
 the mothers yet unborn whose faces will be lit by the 
 glory of this window as the old, old story of human 
 love blossoms anew in their young lives — to all 
 mothers. This window is like the jewelled robe our 
 ancestors used to give for the image of the Virgin in 
 their churches. The windows at Chartres are lovely 
 today because the soft wings of the years have been 
 brushing them now for so long that a film has eaten its 
 way into the glass, softening and making the colors 
 less glaring and more mysterious every year. So may 
 it be with this new window! Its design was thought 
 ty with much care. Everything in it speaks of Mother- 
 ood. 
 
 In the early days, many of those who went to church 
 could not read, so the story of the gospel was told to 
 their eyes by painting and carving and stained glass 
 filled with the feeling of the good news. So is it with 
 this window. Everything in it means something. 
 
 The body of a child comes through its long line of 
 ancestors with impulses and tendencies good and evil 
 mixed, but in every child there is that mysterious 
 unique something which comes from God. In the 
 quatrefoil at the very centre of the window at the top, 
 you see the dove of the Holy Spirit descending to 
 earth from Heaven with the soul to be born on earth. 
 Surrounding it are the angels of heaven as a guard of 
 honor, angels whose heads are flames of fire and who 
 bear their names on shields before them. They are the 
 angels of the Madonna and bear the flower for purity, 
 the fleur-de-lis associated for centuries with the motto 
 “Tchdien” — “I serve’’; the crown for honor and the 
 - star for mystery. 
 
 But there is the other, the earthly origin of the child, 
 and in the central medallion of the left vertical row 
 you see Eve, the mother of all living, with her foot 
 upon the head of the serpent. The first prophecy of 
 Christ in the Old Testament is that verse in Genesis 
 
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THE MOTHERS WINDOW 
 
 which: tells that Eve through her great descendant, 
 Jesus Christ, shall bruise the head of the great serpent 
 of sin in the world. The child in part is the very Holy 
 Spirit of God from heaven and in part this human 
 nature of ours which is ever struggling against the 
 sinful impulses of the flesh, but with certainty of vic- 
 tory, for her foot is upon its head. 
 
 The large central medallion is the Virgin with the 
 Holy Child in her arms against a background of glory. 
 The whole design refers to her as the supreme example 
 of a mother’s expectant Joy, tragedy, and triumph. 
 
 On the immediate left-hand side of the large central 
 medallion you see the shepherds adoring the Babe. 
 Mary sits proudly with the child in her lap, while the 
 star shines above her head. Peeping out from under 
 the folds of the garment of one of the shepherds is the 
 head of a lamb which the shepherd has rescued from 
 the cold and danger of the night and is keeping safe 
 and warm. 
 
 On the right of the central medallion the wise men, 
 kings of the Orient, present their gifts and are just 
 kneeling down before the Mother and her Babe. 
 Above the shepherds is the moon, queen of the even- 
 ing skies; above the wise men in the circular medal- 
 lion, Christ’s lovely picture of mother love — the hen 
 with her brood of chickens. There are many animals 
 in the window, doves, hen and chickens, lambs, a 
 donkey, and even the naughty snake. 
 
 Just below the large central medallion you find the 
 scan of the Nativity — Mary and Joseph and the 
 child. 
 
 Now when Mary expected to be a mother Heaven 
 and Earth both united in loving her and congratulat- 
 ing her. 
 
 In the center horizontal row, the second medallion 
 from the left, is the Annunciation — an angel from 
 heaven, pointing upward, with a scroll upon which are 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 the words, “Hail, Mary, full of Grace.” Mary’s Bible 
 from which she found the words of her song is in her 
 hand. The second medallion from the right in the 
 same horizontal row shows the congratulations from 
 earth in the visit of Elisabeth, who has her arm around 
 Mary’s neck. There are two scenes from the child- 
 hood of Jesus with His mother. In the lowest hort- 
 zontal row the medallion to the extreme left shows the 
 Holy Family on their way to Jerusalem for the feast, 
 Mary on the ass, Joseph with his bundle of baggage on 
 the end of a staff over his shoulders, and Jesus, hand 
 in hand with his mother, trudging on beside her. It 1s 
 His first trip into the wide, wide world, away from the 
 home seclusion seen in the second medallion from the 
 left in the lower row where Jesus in the workshop of 
 Nazareth is holding a plank for Joseph to saw, while 
 Mary with her distaff sits by spinning and looks with 
 love upon her two men. How Jesus lived out his 
 mother’s heart and acted in her spirit of tenderness 
 is shown in three medallions. In the lower row, the 
 second from the right, the picture shows His pity for 
 the widow of Nain, as he raises her son to life again. 
 The extreme right medallion in the same row shows 
 Him blessing little children while the mother of the 
 children beams behind. One child is on His knee while 
 the other little one has plucked a flower and is bring- 
 ing it to the Savior. Just above this medallion the 
 Good Shepherd is seen with the lost lamb now found 
 and safely on his shoulders, emblems of the mother 
 love of Jesus for the lost and wayward. A mother 
 often seems to love the most troublesome child. 
 
 The central panel in the lower row shows the scene 
 at the cross where Jesus bids an earthly farewell to 
 His distracted mother, commending her to the care of 
 His beloved disciple: “Son, thy mother; Mother, thy 
 son. 
 
 The cross is green, for its wood is living forever and 
 
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THE MOTHERS WINDOW 
 
 growing for the life of the nations; and John bears an 
 instrument of music in his hand, for his gospel has 
 sung the glory of the cross to all people. 
 
 The last two medallions — those in the extreme 
 left and right of the top row — show two scenes in 
 heaven. On the left Mary is arriving in heaven and 
 Jesus is crowning her as she bends her head. On the 
 right sits the Virgin, Queen of Heaven, enthroned 
 with the Everlasting Child in her arms, while on her 
 shoulder gleams the star —her suffering past, she 
 shall glow in heaven like the stars, forever and ever. 
 
 Every side of a mother’s life is here — the bearing 
 of children, household work, anxious days, pride in 
 her son’s honors, joy in her son’s success and char- 
 acter, neighbors’ calls, heavenly visitations of joy, 
 ambition for her son, tender friendship with him, 
 tragedy unspeakable in his loss — all are here — and 
 twice the veil is lifted and the Unseen is sighted but 
 for an instant in the rapturous greeting upon that 
 farther shore and the eternal honor which is hers unto 
 the world’s end. Here for all time are set to gleam the 
 colors of the precious stones, to touch all hearts in 
 tender gratitude for the love that makes our home of 
 life so pleasant and is a foretaste of joys beyond, that 
 shall exceed all that we can desire. 
 
 The long list of names, remembered by the contri- 
 butions to the fund for the memorial window, reveals 
 the keen and loving interest which our members have 
 taken in this significant tribute to motherhood. 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 OUR MOTHERS’ NAMES 
 
 CornELIA A. ABBOTT 
 
 - SaraH J. ABBOTT 
 
 LovisE SHELDON ADAMS 
 Mary MarceLitA ADAMS 
 Auice RicHArpDs ALLEN 
 Eve.tyn Farco ALLEN 
 ANNIE ALLINGHAM 
 
 Mary FrANcES ATHERTON 
 
 HetLen Pratr Bacon 
 Hexen Moore BAILEY 
 LAURETTE JoB BARBER 
 CAROLINE JENISON BARKER 
 Emma Frances BARRETT 
 Eva Lain BARTHOLOMEW 
 Miranpa D. BARTHOLOMEW 
 Emity BARTINGTON 
 
 Jane Vicroria BARTINGTON 
 Eutia E. Barton 
 FLORENCE RuWE BARTON 
 HE EN P. BaTEs 
 
 Mary Frances BATES 
 Eten L. Batson 
 
 ETHEL G. Batson 
 TueoposiA |. BATSTONE 
 AxicE Guy BEAN 
 
 Mary Ann BEAN 
 GERTRUDE BECKER 
 ELizABETH RoBeERTS BELL 
 Mary H. G. BELL 
 
 Bessie W. BENSON 
 
 Ipa C. BENSON 
 
 Mary ANNA BENSON 
 Ne.ire McLeop BLAIR 
 CaRRIE GouLpD BLAKE 
 Epona S. BLuNT 
 
 Lucy CATHERINE BOLSTER 
 SARAH JANE BoLsTER 
 SaraH BonpD 
 
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 AppiE Ex1iza BosworTH 
 
 Dianna Day BosworTH 
 
 MarGARET ELIZABETH 
 BosworTH 
 
 Mary A. ForsyTHE BowEN 
 
 NELLIE CRANDELL BOWEN 
 
 ELizABETH Noves BRAMAN 
 
 Watty V. BRANDT 
 
 CarriE M. BrigHAM 
 
 Mary Brison 
 
 Dorothy ELLEN Broprick 
 
 Maup H. Broprick 
 
 Maup Hoxie Brown 
 
 SARAH FRANCES BUNKER 
 
 AticE BURNELL 
 
 Marcretra Goop BuRNELL 
 
 Harriet C. BuRNETT 
 
 Annie McKissock BurR 
 
 Emma JEFFERSON BurRTT 
 
 Rusy CuiarreE BUSWELL 
 
 ELIzABETH A. CAMPBELL 
 
 HELEN Orr CAMPBELL 
 
 BERTHA CAPODANNO 
 
 MarGArRET ‘A. CARLEY 
 
 ELizABETH W. CARLYLE 
 
 M. JoseTtre BALLARD 
 CARPENTER 
 
 Mary J. CARTER 
 
 LILLIAN BowEN CATE 
 
 Lots R. Cate 
 
 MaupeE VIRGINIA CHALMERS 
 
 Mary Paine CHAMBERLAIN 
 
 Epna Emerson CHASE 
 
 Lina A. CHASE 
 
 Maupbe WILLISTON CHASE 
 
 AnniE M. CHESLEY 
 
 Epirs H. Cuurcu 
 
 Auice M. CarPENTER CLARK 
 
OUR MOTHERS NAMES 
 
 EvizABETH WHEELER CLARK 
 
 Harriet Appotr CLarK 
 
 Lyp14a Burt CLark 
 
 Mary O.Lney CLarK 
 
 Mary E,Lten WALLACE 
 CLOUGH 
 
 Mary Coe 
 
 Dorotuy ELIzABETH COLE 
 
 Maria Hart Cote 
 
 VENILA SPAULDING COLSON 
 
 HeEten Frances Cook 
 
 Mary Evita Bowes Cook 
 
 Mary Hatui FLANDERS Cook 
 
 SARAH ANN DILLINGHAM Cook 
 
 Jane BELL Cooper 
 
 MartHa DEMAREE COPELAND 
 
 Otive S. B. Cram 
 
 Mary ELizABETH CRANDELL 
 
 AucusTA REBECCA CROSBY 
 
 Bessige V. A. Crossy 
 
 GRACE GREENE CROSBY 
 
 Jane Crump 
 
 Jane CUNNINGHAM 
 
 Mary A. Curtis 
 
 Exiza A. CUSHMAN 
 
 EmiLty FrENcH CUTLER 
 
 Hopte S. DALE 
 
 Jennie Murieu Dates 
 Luiu Bertua DALES 
 Mary Porter DANIELL 
 Evuen M. DanieE.s 
 ELFREDA BorpDEN DARLING 
 Mituicent M. Darracu 
 Betry Miiis Davison 
 Mary Graves Davison 
 MiILprRED JonEs Davison 
 Juiia STEVENS Day 
 KATHARINE Munroe Day 
 Mary Ann. Gopparp Day 
 Grace P. DELANO 
 
 Mary Perkins DENISON 
 
 Muropina A. DEWIRE 
 Exiza DEWoLF 
 
 Lavina WentTwortu D1x 
 Mary A. Dort 
 
 Auice Wuitney Downs 
 Amy W. Downs 
 
 Fanny Reep DowsE 
 Bonney L. DunBAR 
 Harriet Watton DUNBAR 
 
 ANN Eviza Eacer 
 
 RutH HELEN MacurpDA EAGER 
 Assy ALLEN Eaton 
 
 BerTHA CLARK Eppy 
 GEORGIANNA WINSLOow Eppy 
 LovisE THORNDIKE Eppy 
 EvELYN ELDRIDGE 
 
 HELEN ELDRIDGE 
 
 ETHEL JOSEPHINE ELLIOTT 
 Mary J. Evuiotr 
 
 NataLie M. ELwetu 
 Martua T. BARBER EMERSON 
 OLIVE EMERSON 
 
 HELEN Avucusta Estes 
 
 Nettie L. FAtEs 
 
 Jennie A. FARNHAM 
 
 FLtora BaiteEy FAaRNUM 
 
 NicoLena M. FENNEBERG 
 
 Louisa E. FERREICA 
 
 Emma Brown Harr 
 FESSENDEN 
 
 SusAn LANE FESSENDEN 
 
 Grace E. Marsu FIscHer 
 
 Nancy TApPAN FISHER 
 
 Atma FursusH FLAHERTY 
 
 ABBIE O. FLEMING 
 
 Ann Victoria FoLsom 
 
 FLora Forss 
 
 Jane E. Francis 
 
 VicToriA FRANCIS 
 
 GERTRUDE KISTLER 
 FREDERICKS 
 
 Juuia P. Frencu 
 
 Beruia T. L. Frost 
 
 SARAH E. Frost 
 
 [75] 
 
THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 Giapys CHANDLER FULLER 
 Mary Ewine FuLLER 
 RutH BroDHEAD FULLER 
 MABEL FULTON 
 Maria L. FursBisH 
 GERTRUDE SANDERSON 
 FuRBUSH | 
 JENNIE Ricuarps FursBuUsH 
 
 HELEN WoopBRIDGE GANSE 
 
 Exiza ALIicE GARDNER 
 
 EpitH S. GARRISON 
 
 SaRAH Dornan GAW 
 
 NANCIE KILLMAN GERRITY 
 
 LIBERATA GIANFERANTE 
 
 Mary GriIpDLey GIBBS 
 
 Susan E.izABETH GIBBS 
 
 ELIZABETH STEWART GIBSON 
 
 HELEN KNow.tton GIBSON 
 
 Marian B. Gisson 
 
 Emma Coss GILE 
 
 CasstE May GILLARD 
 
 Grace ATwoop GLAZIER 
 
 HELEN SopHIA GLAZIER 
 
 Acnes Prescotr HALE 
 GLIDDEN 
 
 CarRIE J. GLOVER 
 
 Harriet Harrer GODDARD 
 
 MartTHa BREWER GODDARD 
 
 Jennie A. GODFREY 
 
 E.izABETH G. Goop 
 
 Emma Harriet GORDON 
 
 GLapys GouGH 
 
 Jessie J. GRANT 
 
 Emma BRAITHWAITE GRAVES 
 
 Exiia Witson GREENE 
 
 Mary A. E. GREENLEAF 
 
 Susan CROWELL GREGG 
 
 CynTu1a HAvEN Gross 
 
 Mase t B. Gross 
 
 Mary B. P. Gross 
 
 EmILIE GROSSMANN 
 
 Jennie L. GrusuH 
 
 CANDORA SEELEY GUERNSEY 
 
 GRACE RAE GUIRY 
 
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 SARAH SHERMAN HAIGHT 
 
 Ipa Frorina ACKERMAN HALL 
 
 FRANCES HAMANT 
 
 A. EL1izABETH HAMMOND 
 
 BertHa Hunt HamMMonpD 
 
 Mary HAanion 
 
 MatitpA KNow.ton Harpy 
 
 ELizABETH Price Harris 
 
 ALMIRA MARSHALL Hart | 
 
 LovisE SANDERSON HART 
 
 AMELIA M. HartTer 
 
 Weattuy A. Harvey 
 
 JANE EvizaBETH HASKELL 
 
 ELIzABETH Parsons HatcH 
 
 HE En N. Hatcu 
 
 HELEN Preston HauGHWOUT 
 
 Acnes HaypDEN 
 
 Exixia Oat HInMAN 
 
 BELLE Dixon HopDGMAN 
 
 ANNIE Hope 
 
 LovisrE TuLLock Hopkins 
 
 MatTitpA TAayLor HopxKINSON 
 
 Mary JANE HoucHTon 
 
 HELEN Marsyu Howarp 
 
 Emma Jupp Hoyt 
 
 Mase. Avis Hoyt 
 
 MariA FREEMAN HULL 
 
 Exiza Gerry Hunt 
 
 Mary Susan HUNTER 
 
 Auice Estes HuNTSMAN 
 
 ZERVIAH Fitz RANDOLPH 
 HuNTSMAN 
 
 Jane Howes HutTcHInson 
 
 Lucy A. HutcHINSON 
 
 Harriet LESTER Isaac 
 
 Frepa M. JAMES 
 
 FrIEDA PHILLIPS JAMES 
 Eva RacHEL JENKINS 
 FLORENCE Cary JENKINS 
 AcneEs L, JEPSEN 
 
 Ese Ess—ENn JEPSEN 
 SELMA E.. JOHNSON 
 
OUR MOTHERS’ NAMES 
 
 Emity JONES 
 HeEven Dinc.ey Jones 
 
 LisetreE KAatTrwiInNKEL 
 
 Rosa E. KatrwinkEL 
 
 Assy A. KEENE 
 
 CAROLINE S. KELLAR 
 
 Ciara Maup KELLAR 
 
 Mary Ann KELLAR 
 
 Fannie E. KEMBALL 
 
 SARAH ELIZABETH KENT 
 
 Hortense Kino 
 
 Emity Ham KincMAn 
 
 ELLen THompson KINGSBURY 
 
 HENRIETTA KISTLER 
 
 Mary EvizaABetH KNEELAND 
 
 Mary Bennitr KNIBLOE 
 
 Matitpa Hircucock 
 KNOWLTON 
 
 EvizABetu W. Lapp 
 
 Fannie A. LaForce 
 
 Jane LaMonp 
 
 Mary DeWotr LaMonp 
 
 SarAH K. Larcom 
 
 Epna A. LARNED 
 
 Mary T. Lester 
 
 Grace R. LIBBEY 
 
 Resecca M. LInneELi 
 
 Exinora Waitt Lovejoy 
 
 GERTRUDE TROWBRIDGE 
 LovELL 
 
 THERESA A. LyMAn 
 
 Mary A. Macpona.p 
 
 HarriEtTTE Foircer Mac- 
 GREGOR 
 
 MarGARET PowErR MacGuire 
 
 Grace CLARK MacoMBER 
 
 Marion MEEK Locan Mann 
 
 Extia E. Mason 
 
 Mary EizABetH Mason 
 
 Frora BELLE McCauLpER 
 
 Bertua B. McGarey 
 
 MartTuHa JANE McGarey 
 Florence McCutTcuHEeon 
 McKee 
 Ottve A. McLENNAN 
 Lucy Lester MILNER 
 Vittoria D. MiIncAcE 
 MATTIE JOSEPHINE Morcan 
 Lucy JeEnnincs Morse 
 Assy S. Morton 
 Mary A. Moutton 
 KATHERINE MUIRHEAD 
 
 Luu Hunt NEssitr 
 
 Lipa P. NEwHALL 
 
 A.icE NewrTon 
 
 Anna H. Newron 
 
 Kate Morton NICKERSON 
 Exviza Erra NopEN 
 
 Jutta GLaziER NoDEN 
 Rancuitp M. Norpstrom 
 CAROLINE P. Nowers 
 
 Ipa J. Nowrers 
 
 Fannie Patron Ott 
 Marita HopcMan Orr 
 Lyp1a DExTER OWEN 
 
 Mase. C. Pace 
 
 Persis A. PAGE 
 CHARLOTTE MANN PAINE 
 Harriet GoutD PAINE 
 MARGUERITE TAYLOR PAINE 
 Mary Woo.son PAINE 
 Vio.a C. PAIne 
 
 Marion C. PALMER 
 
 Grace Burtr PAarK 
 
 Susan Epcar PARK 
 
 ALICE Paine Pau. 
 
 May PERKINS 
 
 Dorotuy L. PERRY 
 
 Mary S. Perry 
 
 HE LEN R. PETERS 
 
 Mary F. Puister 
 
 Lovu1sE Fow.Ler PICKHARDT 
 
 [77] 
 
THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 KATHERINE PETERSON 
 PoLLocK 
 ETHEL VARS PoTTER 
 LILLIAN WARNER POTTER 
 Evia WINIFRED PRATT 
 Eien EvizABETH PLIMPTON 
 PRATT 
 ELIzABETH PRICE 
 CHARLOTTE Hart PRIDE 
 MarGArReET Butt PRUDDEN 
 FLORENCE J. PUTNAM 
 HELEN Preston HAauGHWOUT 
 PuTNAM 
 
 Heten Morton RAE 
 Emma EvizABETH RAMEE 
 SARAH ELIzABETH RAMEE 
 SaraH MatTitpa Ray 
 Eta S. RAyLe 
 
 NELLIE BENson RAYMOND 
 Noant Francis RayMonpD 
 CarriE GRAVES REED 
 Mary J. REED 
 
 Iretra Hicut REetTAn 
 Resecca G. REYNOLDS 
 Apple S. RIcr 
 
 Maupbe E. RicE 
 CAROLINE WILLSON RICHARDS 
 CarRRIE FE. RicHARDSON 
 Lucy HELEN RIPLEY 
 Ann RosBINsON 
 
 OsiLpA V. RoBINSON 
 ErHe. M. RocGeErs 
 
 Lucia RoHNSTOCK 
 
 Errie Rounps 
 
 Marion AGNES RUSSELL 
 CLEMENTINE U. RuweE 
 
 Eunice CARTER SAFFORD 
 Lucy MeETcatFr SANDERS 
 ELIZABETH CUTLERSANDERSON 
 Oxive JANE SANDERSON 
 Lucy T. SANGER 
 
 [78 ] 
 
 ANNIE A. SARGENT 
 Maria J. SARGENT 
 Eruet N. ScARBOROUGH 
 CHARLOTTE C. SEAVER 
 Mary EstTELLE SEAVER 
 Lyp1A CLARK SHEDD 
 Mary A. SHELDON 
 Mary Evia SHURBERT 
 Ciara J. SMITH 
 ELIzABETH J. SMITH 
 Marion C. SMITH 
 Mary Lewis SMITH 
 Mary E Lia SNELL 
 Harriet P. Snow 
 SaRAH BARTON SNOW 
 SoOPHRONIA SOULE 
 CaROLINE E.. SoUTHARD 
 Lucy A. SpuRR 
 EvELYN STAFFORD 
 Eva GILLAID STEARNS 
 Mary BaLpwin STEARNS 
 BerTHA BLANCHE STEELE 
 Lucy PHEeBpE WHEELER 
 STEVENS 
 SIBELLA KirRK STIMETS 
 SARAH JANE SYMONDS 
 
 CHRISTINE [ANGE 
 
 Mary BRADFORD TAYLOR 
 
 Maupbe ExizABETH TAYLOR | 
 
 Rose TAYLOR 
 
 Auice May CHANEY THOMAS 
 
 CAROLINE SWAIN THOMAS 
 
 CHARLOTTE [THORNTON 
 THOMAS 
 
 FLORENCE CoPELAND THOMAS 
 
 SARAH JANE THOMAS 
 
 ApvELIA M. THOMPSON 
 
 Emma H. THompson 
 
 Annie Martin THORNTON 
 
 AticE RACHEL TOoMBS 
 
 ELIzABETH ANN TOWNLEY 
 
 ApDELIA J. TROWBRIDGE 
 
 Susan W. TROWBRIDGE 
 
OUR MOTHERS’ NAMES 
 
 JosEPHINE Oat UNDERWOOD 
 
 IsaABEL GUILBERT WALES 
 Lyp14a A. WALES 
 
 Harriet M. WarREN 
 
 CiarA BELLE WEAVER 
 AGNES SmitH WEBSTER 
 Avucusta J. WEBSTER 
 CurISTINE McLeop WEBSTER 
 MaAyFLoweER Lyman WEBSTER 
 Marion W. WELLS 
 HENRIETTA Harrison WEST 
 ELIzABETH Lorinc WESTON 
 ELten May WHEELOCK 
 
 Amy E. Wuirtinc 
 
 MarGARET WEBSTER WHITING 
 
 SARAH LEARNED WHITMORE 
 
 LAURINDA Co.Liins WHITNEY 
 
 Mary Bonp Wuiton 
 
 Juiia W. WILDER 
 
 FLtora Harvey WILSON 
 
 Marion N. WItson 
 
 Mary E. Winc 
 
 Gunpa H. Wirric 
 
 Rutu A. Wo.LLeEY 
 
 ELizABETH K. Woop 
 
 Lucy M. Woop 
 
 IsABELLA Larcom Woop- 
 BERRY 
 
 SaraH Metcatr WyMANn 
 
 [79] 
 

 
 THE FRONT ENTRANCE WITH THE MASSIVE OAK DOORS 
 
 
 
 
 
DH EVS:h Riv 1D C.E 
 
 THE SERVICE 
 
 Ae you approach this church, you find everything 
 designed to produce the worshipful effect. You 
 enter, kneel for a moment and offer prayer alone with 
 God. In the distance the organist is playing softly, 
 giving you a chance to close out the outside world — 
 to listen, and to think. If you ask God to speak to 
 you and wait for His voice, the still small voice answers 
 in your heart as you sit or kneel in quiet. In a mo- 
 ment from the distance you hear the sound of voices 
 singing without the doors of the sanctuary. Slowly 
 those doors are opened, the voices come nearer and 
 nearer, just as God’s voice comes if you give Him a 
 chance to speak to you. You rise and sing yourself, 
 knowing that if you can join your own voice with the 
 congregation’s you are no longer a spectator, but a 
 part of God and his people, and will find both body 
 and spirit renewed. So the choir passes up the aisle. 
 They are vested in black cassocks covered with white 
 cottas, a symbol of the white forgiveness over black 
 sin and also a way of making the service of the church 
 democratic so that rich and poor are dressed alike. 
 The minister is vested either in a surplice or a black 
 gown. The black gown was used in ancient times to 
 show the scholar, the man who devoted his life to 
 learning about God and sacred things, and it is worn 
 today to remind the minister to speak not his own 
 words and fancies, but God’s eternal truth as he can 
 find it. The “Amen” to the hymn is sung by the 
 people. 
 
 In every land there is a call to worship, as, for 
 instance, in Mohammedan countries a cry rings out 
 above the market places from the tall towers in the 
 temples. So in this church, the minister calls the 
 
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 THE CHANCEL CHOIR SINGING THE RECESSIONAL 
 
DEY SERV Cle 
 
 people to worship with verses from the Scripture full 
 of great promises and inspiration. 
 
 There are three historic approaches to the Unseen 
 — self-abasement, ritual, and silence. In the general 
 confession one finds the first of these methods of ap- 
 proach. We abase ourselves before God. He is so 
 much purer and nobler and loftier than we that with 
 all our righteousness we confess ourselves to be miser- 
 able sinners, and this can be sincerely done when we 
 compare ourselves, our morbid moods, our fears and 
 doubts and selfishness, with the calm serenity and 
 charity of the Christ. At the close of the general con- 
 fession the minister pronounces absolution. Chris- 
 tianity teaches that God does not hold grudges; He 
 forgives and forgets and is always willing to give us a 
 new start. The minister does not forgive. He tells the 
 people God forgives us if we feel sincerely sorry and 
 gives us this new start. 
 
 During all this time the ushers have been perform- 
 ing the most useful task of keeping the few late comers 
 from interrupting the beginning of the service. At 
 this point there is an interval when late comers may 
 take their places without disturbance. Then come the 
 call to the people to praise the Lord, the prayer of the 
 minister, ““Oh, Lord, open thou our lips,” the anthem 
 in which the choir strives to express for you your in- 
 expressible aspirations. 
 
 There is always a hush in the church when the 
 Scripture lesson is read. For many today it is the only 
 opportunity of the week to hear the Bible, and if the 
 people will see with the minister whathe seesashereads, 
 the Scripture lesson marks a high point in the service. 
 
 Then come the prayers — the general thanksgiving 
 and the national prayer, and all join together in spirit 
 in the pastoral prayer which is the incense of the 
 Protestant church rising up to the roof of the church 
 and through that to the very gate of heaven. 
 
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 A TYPICAL GROUP LEAVING THE CHURCH AFTER A SUNDAY SERVICE 
 
 
 
Mika? Sera oy Pol ine Vie ty Gree 
 
 The offering is a part of the service, not an intru- 
 sion, and no great human need has been neglected in 
 the offerings made in this church on historic occasions 
 in the past. 
 
 The sermon consists not of abstruse theology nor 
 pious platitudes — but of truths that one can live by. 
 
 The benediction is not an idle gesture; something 
 actually happens then — good will passes from God 
 through the hands of his minister into the hearts 
 of the people. The congregation united in common 
 thought and common feeling by the songs and prayers 
 and sermon are melted into new unity at the moment 
 of the benediction; life seems more worth while, God 
 more real, hope more radiant, conscience more keen, 
 and good will and blessing are communicated to all. 
 The aim of the service is to bring every member of the 
 congregation up the seven altar steps in spirit and on 
 into the sacred place beyond, where stands the Ever- 
 lasting Cross and where glows the light of God’s - 
 eternal presence. But even on the Mount of Trans- 
 figuration one cannot abide. One must return to life 
 again, its tasks and problems, and so the chancel is 
 again at the close of the benediction filled with song 
 which slowly withdraws down the steps and down the 
 aisle and past your pew and fades away with a far 
 “Amen” without. Then comes a moment of silent 
 prayer as the minister’s voice is heard in the distance 
 communing in devotion with the choir. With the final 
 “Amen,” we are back to the world again, and, washed 
 in God’s love, we turn out to our streets and homes, 
 and the light of the candle of the Lord burns in our 
 hearts all through the week as this or that event re- 
 minds us of the thought or inspiration of the Holy 
 Place. 
 
 The people are dismissed and go their ways, and 
 when they enter their homes it is as if an invisible 
 ‘presence entered with them; as though they had with 
 
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LIGIHXSY TVIOdadS V YO GAONVUUV “TAdVHO AHL 
 
 
 
DHE Ss EB RVit CoE 
 
 them by the hand, all unseen, one of the little children 
 of the font; or as though one of the brave Evangels on 
 the choir stalls, the first friends of Jesus, came with 
 them ready to help them endure all things with cheer 
 and faith; or as if the song of praise that filled the 
 House of God continued to fill their home and all its 
 rooms with melody; or as if the light above the altar 
 shone on their hearth; or perchance as if One greater 
 than all, the Master Himself, came into the house with 
 them and His mystic presence made all the sands of 
 time run golden and all the limitations of this present 
 life seem as nothing compared with the promises of the 
 future which in very truth pass man’s understanding. 
 “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en- 
 tered into the heart of man, the things which God 
 hath prepared for them that love Him.” 
 
 [ 87 ] 
 

 
 A VIEW OF THE CHANCEL, SHOWING THE OLD BLUE WINDOW, THE CROSS, 
 
 AND THE COMMUNION TABLE IN THE CENTER 
 
 
 
HOLY COMMUNION 
 
 HOLY COMMUNION 
 
 By this church the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper 
 is observed in two ways. At our early services and 
 upon special days the sacrament is dispensed at the 
 chancel rail by the minister to the kneeling communi- 
 cants. 
 
 The individual comes forward and kneels down and 
 receives each for himself and herself the body and 
 blood of the Lord. The method used is that of intinc- 
 tion. The minister dips the edge of each wafer in the 
 wine. The communicant receives this in the hand and 
 immediately raises it to the lips, as the minister says 
 the words:— “The body and blood of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and 
 soul unto everlasting life. Take this in remembrance 
 that Christ died for thee, and be thankful.” 
 
 This way of celebration emphasizes the individual’s 
 part in the sacrament. Each one has to rise, come up 
 the chancel steps and receive individually among the 
 kneeling row of communicants at the rail. 
 
 It seems to many to show a greater reverence and to 
 be more fitting in its seemliness than any other form. 
 For each communion ought to be a new beginning for 
 every one who partakes. The value of the rite lies in 
 that which transpires in each individual’s mind and 
 heart. It is the interior devotion for which the ex- 
 terior rite is but an occasion, a suggestion, a frame. 
 Here also is felt most deeply the intimate relation be- 
 tween minister and member. One who as Christ’s 
 servant has been companion and helper through life’s 
 bright and dark days, here often gives directly in the 
 spirit of deep understanding of the hopes or triumphs, 
 of the problems and joys, of the communicant. 
 
 Each communion becomes for the participant an- 
 
 [89] 
 
 
 
THES BrC!Oin- Dy Ci UR Ear O Oak. 
 
 other pearl in the lengthening string of a life’s devo- 
 tion. 
 
 A beautiful silver communion service, designed for 
 this particular form of administration, was given to 
 the church by a friend in 1926. 
 
 On Easter Day at the early service the confirmation 
 and first communion of new members is held. | 
 
 Those becoming members of the church kneel at the 
 chancel rail. The minister asks each in turn, “‘ Dost 
 thou believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?”” The answer 
 is, ““I do believe.’”’ After this, baptism from the small 
 font by the altar takes place. The minister then places 
 his hands on each head in turn and offers up the 
 Confirmation prayer: “Defend, O Lord, this thy 
 Child by thy heavenly grace; that he may continue 
 thine forever; and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit 
 more and more, until he come into thy everlasting 
 kingdom.” The group kneeling at the rail then re- 
 ceive at the hands of the minister the communion. 
 
 Once in every two months during the year, in con- 
 nection with morning worship, the communion is held 
 in the other form. Here the deacons distribute first the 
 bread and then the wine to the communicants seated 
 in their pews. This form of celebration seems to many 
 to have about it more of the primitive feeling of the 
 earliest Christians. It is the festal form, and the hush 
 that pervades the whole church as the deacons pass 
 among the pews gives a sense of a worshipping con- 
 gregation united in common devotion. 
 
 So in our churches, when we have striven to express 
 the mystery and greatness of our life by spoken word, 
 by cathedral, and by song, when picture and poem 
 have done their best to impress upon the worshipper 
 the mystic depths of meaning which life holds, at the 
 last, having found that all these fail to express the 
 truth in all its richness, we return to what we call the 
 sacraments. It 1s as though we should say: After all, 
 
 [ 90 ] 
 
HOLY COMM UN TON 
 
 it is in the common responsibilities and personal ties, 
 the common social relations, the meal times and the 
 daily tasks of life that this evanescent mystery lies 
 which we have been trying to express by song, and 
 carven stone, and spoken word. Our passing life, with 
 its trivial duties, its familiar associations, is the mys- 
 tery of mysteries; it is the holy ground. After all the 
 aspiring attempts of music and eloquence and archi- 
 tecture to express the unexpressible, we come at last 
 back to the common water and bread and wine of our 
 daily lives, and passing them around among us, we 
 spend a few moments in trying to realize the sacred- 
 ness of the common day. A few moments once in a 
 while are spent in realizing that this time, this life, 
 which we are bartering away daily for the things that 
 perish, has in itself possibilities of priceless beauty and 
 value. It was this that Christ did when he instituted 
 the Lord’s Supper. He took a quiet time in which he 
 might hold, as it were, the passing moment in his 
 heart, that he might realize afresh how good the fel- 
 lowship and life of the present were, before they be- 
 came things of the past. 
 
 When we have been able to forget all our own little- 
 nesses in great loyalty to Him as Redeemer and 
 Friend, then some of the consecration and inspiration 
 of that first communion season shall descend upon the 
 remembrance of it in our church. And, lo, we shall all 
 feel with us the mystic presence of One who loves us 
 all as individually and tenderly as He did those first 
 friends of His. To each of us He will speak in accents 
 no child of His can doubt. In His own voice we shall 
 each of us hear those great words of personal affec- 
 tion and trust:— 
 
 This is my body which is given for you. 
 
 This is my blood which is shed for you. 
 This do in remembrance of me. 
 
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SONIHSINUNA AGNV ONITIAO AAILONILSIC ‘MOT SLI HLIM YWOTUVd odIdvT AHL 
 
 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 On the following pages are printed a few 
 of the interesting documents preserved in 
 the church archives. It was no easy task to 
 transcribe these yellowed records, scrawled 
 as they were by careless writers of an 
 earlier day. Modern type can keep the 
 curious tricks of spelling and of capitaliza- 
 tion; it can set up, though awkwardly, the 
 punctuation and the paragraphs as they 
 once were; but it cannot retain the 
 scratched deletions and the numerous in- 
 terpolations that individualize the crum- 
 bling pages now half illegible but still in- 
 tensely human. 
 
 [93 | 
 
HS SEA. OeNeD CHU RR Crespo onrGrs 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 Early Minutes of the Church 
 
 March 30%. 1763. . 
 Mete upon an adjournment & Voted that there 
 be a petition Sent Into next May Meeting for to know 
 wheather the Town will Grant the westerly Inhabitants 
 four months preching In the winters Seasons 
 In a House that they Shall provide to meet In 
 and Chose a Committy to Draw up a petition upon 
 this Vote: Viz Mr. Alex. Shepard Mr. Thomas 
 Miller & Mr. Joseph Hide. 
 
 The Meeting is adjourned to this Day fortnit 
 
 Minutes of the Meeting, 1764 
 
 The Socitey met at the House of Mr. P. Bond on Adjournment 
 The Socitey was pleased to make Choice of Mr. Moses 
 Wheat as Clark for this Evining. 
 
 1. itis Noted that the uper Window frames of the Gallery is to 
 be Left till the House is up 
 
 2. Voted that the pulpit Window be arching atop & four 
 Quarreys Wide 
 
 3. Voted that the Timber and slit work Bee on the Spott on the 
 Midle of May Next. 
 
 Voted that you meet at the School House this Day fortnight 
 CU Ross agen tpe ete Magee to Settle Accounts with the Minister. 
 
 March 16: 1764 Met at the School House on Adjornment to 
 Settle the Subscription and to make up what is wanting to 
 pay the minister and to pay Doc Moses Wheat for Enter- 
 taining the minister 
 Voted that this meeting be adjourned to the 21 Day of 
 March to finish the settlement and anything else to act on. 
 
 Newton December 3, 1764. 
 
 Meet at the House of Mr. Phinihas Bond on adjornment and 
 the meeting was opened and voted to Chouse a Committee 
 to Lay out the money that is or Shal Be Subscribed for 
 Preaching in the winter Season in the meeting House or sum 
 other Convenant House and made Choyse of Mr. Jonathan 
 Williams Thos Miller and Ens Jonathan Fuller for S4 Com- 
 mittee 
 
 Voted to Adjorn the meeting to the 17 Day of this Instant 
 December at the House of Mr. Phinihas Bond at three oclock 
 on S4 day 
 
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 2, 1764, 1n consideration of the sum of two pounds, eight shillings, 
 conveyed to the Society eight rods of land in the “westwardly 
 part of Newton” on which to erect a meeting house. This docu- 
 ment, in form and penmanship, is similar to those here reprinted 
 in the appendix. (See next page.) 
 
 [95 
 
THE S‘E.COW D CHURCH BOOK 
 
 Deed Conveying Ground for the Church Building 
 
 KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I Phinehas Bond 
 of Newton in the County of Middlesex, Innholder. In Con- 
 sideration of the Sum of Two Pounds Eight Shillings by me 
 received of Thomas Miller, Innholder, Jonathan Williams, 
 Yeoman and Samuel Hastings, Tanner, all of Newton afore- 
 said, a Committee Ghosen by the Society Concerned in Build- 
 ing a Meeting House at the Westwardly part of said Newton 
 Do hereby Give, Grant and Convey to the said Thomas Miller, 
 Jonathan Williams and Samuel Hastings, and all others be- — 
 longing to the Society aforesaid, or that may hereafter belong 
 thereto, TO BE HELD and Enjoyed by them their Heirs and 
 Assigns forever, One Certain Tract of Land Lying in Newton 
 aforesaid to Erect a Meeting House on, Meeting House and no 
 other use, Containing about Eight Rods and Bounded West- 
 wardly and Northwardly by my own Land, Eastwardly by the 
 Country Road, Southwardly by the land of Isaac Williams; 
 And I do Covenant with the said Society, their Heirs and As- 
 signs, That said Premises are free of all Incumbrances, and 
 that I will Warrant & Defend the Same to them, their Heirs 
 and Assigns forever against all Lawful Claims. WITNESS my 
 Hand & Seal July 2d A. D. 1764 
 
 Signed, Sealed & Deliv. in Presence of Phinehas Bond 
 John Rogers 
 Lemvel Pratt 
 
 Method of Raising Subscriptions (before the call- 
 ing of aregular minister) 
 
 Newton September 13th, 1775 
 
 We the Subscribers do promise & engage each one for himself 
 that we will pay unto Mr. Alexander Shepard the sum affixed 
 against our names for contribution each Sunday that preaching 
 is performed in the Proprietors meeting at the West part of this 
 Town from this time until the next Spring unless any of us should 
 
 remove from the town. 
 Lawful Money 
 
 Joshua Fuller, of 1%0 
 John Pigeon, a Sundays dinner 
 for the minister 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
 Meeting of the Inhabitants of the West Precinct 
 
 in Newton, March 1, 1781 
 
 At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of the West Precinct in Newton 
 on the first day of March A. D. 1781. 
 
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 Di. 
 
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 Voted that Col Nathan Fuller be moderator of y* Meeting 
 
 Voted Alex. Shepard Jun. be Precinct Clerk for the Ensuing 
 Year 
 
 Voted that the remaining part 24 Article be referred untill 
 the 3d Article shall be considered 
 
 Voted to proceed forthwith to the choice of a Public Teacher 
 Religion among us 
 
 Voted to choose a Committee to consist 9 persons to consider 
 of Ways & means for the support of a Public Teacher of 
 Religion among us, who are to report at the adjournment 
 of this meeting & then made Choice of Mr. N. Greenough, 
 Doc. Parker, Joseph Jackson, Alex. Shepard Jun., Col. 
 Nathan Fuller, Capt. Jenks, Joseph Adams, Sam. Wood- 
 ward, Josiah Fuller, Alex. Shepard. 
 
 Voted that Col. Nathan Fuller be treasurer......... Lt. 
 Josiah Fuller, Joseph Jackson be Assessors. 
 
 Voted to excuse Alex. Shepard, Jun., be excused from serving 
 as an Assessor the present year And that Sam. Woodward 
 be an assessor in person of A. Shepard Jun. excused 
 
 voted: Lilat.2...., the Collecting the Precinct Taxes the 
 Present Year be sold at Public Vendue to the person who 
 shall bid the lowest sum for said Collection... . Which was 
 accordingly immediately sett up at public sale as afores# 
 & Moses Craft bid it off at 34 upon the pound, he Giving 
 Bond for the Performance. 
 
 Voted that Moses Craft be a Collector of Precinct Taxes for 
 the year ensuing 
 
 Sworn at the time of choice 
 
 Voted That List or Tax Roll of the last Grant made by the 
 Precinct to be paid into the Treasurer on or before the 
 first day of FebY shall be committed to Moses Craft the 
 present collector for him to collect & the past year as- 
 sessors are Directed to compleat s‘ List before the as- 
 sessors for the ensuing year be sworn & committ the same 
 to st Collector. 
 
 Voted to adjourn this meeting to the 34 Monday in this 
 Instant at 2 oClock P. M. at this place. 
 
 Met agreeable to the above adjournment at time & place. 
 
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 Meeting continued 
 
 1. Voted that Mr. Nathan Greenough, Col. Fuller, Mr. Francis 
 Wright, Joseph Jackson & Moses Craft for a Standing 
 Committee to manage the Prudentials of the Precinct the 
 ensuing Year. 
 
 2. Voted that such persons now present as were absent at the 
 Choice of a public Teacher of Religion on the 1st Days of 
 this Meet? now give in their Votes for a choice as afores®. 
 
 3. Voted the Sum of £180 Silver money at 6/8 p. ounce 
 or other money equivalent be and hereby is granted to be 
 assessed on the Polls Estates in this Precinct £60 of Said 
 Sum to be paid in one year after Mr. William Greenough 
 shall be ordained as a public teacher in this Precinct. £60 
 more of s4 Sum to be paid in within two years after s¢ ordi- 
 nation & the other £60 to be p? in three years after s4 
 ordination, which sums are to be appropriated as a Settle- 
 ment for st? Greenough. 
 
 4. Voted that the sum of £70 Silver Money or other money 
 equivalent to be estimated in Rye at 4/p Bush! Indian 
 Corn @ 3/p Bush!, Beef at 23 p lb. & Pork at 33 p lb. be 
 and hereby is granted to be assessed in such manner as 
 shall hereafter be directed, which Grant shall be appro- 
 priated as a Salary to be paid annually to Mr. Wm. 
 Greenough should he settle as a pastor of the Church in 
 the West Precinct untill he shall choose to receive £80 in 
 Silver Money to be paid in s? Silver or other money equiv- 
 alent, & also 12 Cords of good wood to be delivered annu- 
 ally unto s? Greenough at his Dwelling house. 
 
 5. Voted to choose a Committee to treat with Mr. William 
 Greenough & to lay the aforesaid grants before him, & in 
 behalf of the Precinct to make the aforesaid proposals to 
 him and make a report of their doing to the Precinct at 
 the adjournment of this meet®. ..& then made Choice of 
 Joseph Jackson, N. Greenough, Capt. Jenks, Sam. Wood- 
 ward, A. Shepard Jun, for st Com‘ 
 
 6. Voted that this meet® be adjourned to tomorrow fortnight 
 at this place 2 oClock P. M. 
 
 At a Meeting agreeable to adjournment the 3¢ April, 1781. 
 
 1. Voted That the use of pew No. 12 be immediately set up at 
 public sale for the Term of one year which was accordingly 
 done & Mr. Nathan. Greenough bid off the same for 1543 
 pecks of Indian Corn 
 
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 THE S.B.C.Q.N-D'C Bi ROH BO Ock 
 
 Meeting continued 
 
 Voted That the use of the Ministerial Pew be set up at Public 
 Sale for the Term of one year from the date & in case the 
 Precinct Standing Committee shall find it necessary to im- 
 prove Sd Pew for the use of a Minister, the person who 
 shall purchase the same, shall relinquish his purchase, & 
 pay only for the time he shall improve s¢ Pew in propor- 
 tion to the time hired for — and Mr. Nathan Park bid off 
 the same for four Bushel of Indian Corn.— 
 
 Voted That Mess. Nathanl Greenough & Nathan Park be 
 esteemed meet persons to improve the Pews N° 12 & the 
 Ministerial Pew the present Year. 
 
 Voted that 3 Cords of Wood be hereby granted in addition 
 to the 12 Cord of Wood already granted to Mr. William 
 Greenough to be delivered as the afores4 12 Cord at time 
 & place. 
 
 Voted to Choose a Committee to join with a Committee of 
 the Church to invite Mr. William Greenough to Settle as a 
 Pastor of the Church in this place & a public Teacher of 
 Religion & then made choice of Alexd Shepard, Nath! 
 Greenough, Lt. Josiah Fuller for sd. Committee. 
 
 Voted & Chose Lt. Josiah Fuller, Mr. Jonathan Williams, 
 Mr. William Hoogs for auditing the treasurers accts. 
 
 Voted that 4 Pew Spots be sold in the 4 back body seats. 
 
 Voted that a Committee be appointed to estimate ye quan- 
 tity of ground for 4 Pews in ye back body seats & the value 
 of the same & make report at the adjournment of this 
 Meet®, & then made Choice Alex? Shepard Jun., Col. 
 Nathan Fuller, Lt. Josiah Fuller, Nathan Park, & Capt 
 Sam! Jenks, Joseph Jackson, & Elisha Severns be s? 
 <comn "oF. 
 
 Voted that this meet® be adjourned to the first monday in 
 may next at 2 °Clock P M. at this place 
 
 At a Meet® of the Freeholders & other Inhabitants &c met 
 on y® 1 Monday in May agreeable to adjournment made 
 on the 3d day of April last. 
 
 Voted that the Sum of Four Thousand pounds be assessed 
 on y® Polls &c to be p4 into ye Precinct Treasury on or 
 before the 1 day of July next 
 
 Voted that the 7 Article in the Warrant be adjourned to 
 the next meet? of the Inhabitants of this precinct. 
 
 & the meeting was then disolved. 
 
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THE: S:E COND CH UR CiH. 3B 0 O78 
 
 The Deed of the Cemetery of the West Parish 
 Church in Newton 
 
 TO ALL PEOPLE to Whom these Presents shall come, 
 I Nathan Fuller of Newton in the County of Middlesex & Com- 
 
 monwealth of Massachusetts Esquire... .. 2.0.02. ..0 20.0, wee 
 
 KNOW YE, that I the said Nathan Fuller 
 
 In Consideration of the love & Esteem I have for the West Pre- 
 cinct in Newton & also sixpence...to me in Hand paid before 
 the Delivery hereof, by a Committee of said Precinct.......... 
 The Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, Have given, 
 granted, bargained, and sold, and do by these Presents, give, 
 grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto the said Committee...... 
 CAPE CUP IN AOR Yen may | hE their Heirs and Assigns forever, 
 to the sole use and improvement of said Precinct to be improved 
 only as a Burying place for the repository of the Dead in said 
 Precinct one Acre & an half Acre of Land be the same more or 
 less bounded as follows — Viz. Beginning at the Southeasterly 
 corner, then Easterly on Land of Nathaniel Greenough, North- 
 erly & Westerly of land of said Fuller—Southerly on the Town 
 Way—as the Stone Fence round said Tract now standeth. The 
 said Fuller, reserving to himself and his Heirs the Liberty of feed- 
 ing said Tract at all times as there may be occasion with Calves 
 & Sheep only — also reserving the fruit that shall be produced 
 from the Trees now standing on said Tract.— Said Precinct to 
 Maintain the fence on said Town Way. 
 
 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said granted and bargained 
 unto said Committee for the Use of the Precincts as aforesaid 
 AE EW ee together with all their Appurtenances, to their the 
 said Precincts use as aforesaid and. .;...)...... see 
 
 And'T the said NathanjFuller.) / 0.0... 2... he 
 for myself, my Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, do hereby 
 Covenant to and with the said Committee & Precinct that at the 
 sealing hereof I am the lawful Owner of said granted Premises, 
 with the Appurtenances, and stand seized thereof in my own 
 proper Right, as a good Estate in Fee Simple, that I have lawful 
 Right to sell the same as aforesaid, that they are free of all En- 
 cumbrances whatever. And further, that I, my Heirs, Executors 
 and Administrators, shall and will warrant and defend said 
 pranted Premises cami EE ae eas unto the said Com- 
 mittee & Precincts. ii)... i 2s dae eo ee 
 their Heirs and Assigns forever, against the Claims of all People. 
 
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Ned Sat vil ON Bt hah < 
 
 In Witness whereof I the said Nathan Fuller 
 have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Twenty-fifty Day of 
 September Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
 SE Nag 0G Tae See OR I ote UI 48 Td Re Oc ae Re MMe Tp LOR 
 
 Signed, Sealed and Delivered 
 in Presence of us, 
 Sam! Jenks 
 Josiah Fuller Nathan Fuller 
 Middlesex S*— January 28th 1782 
 
 The above-named Nathan Fuller 
 personally appeared and owned this Instrument to be his 
 free Act and Deed before me. 
 
 John Woodward Just. Pacis 
 
 Letter to the Selectmen about an Intended 
 Marriage 
 
 Newton November 4th 1782. 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 We the subscribers, are informed that there is an intention 
 
 of Marriage between Mr. Isaac Williams of this Parish and a cer- _ 
 tain Vagrant woman by the name of Crosby alias Crosman... we 
 are so fully acquainted with her Character as to make it appear 
 to us an indispensible duty, which we owe to this Town... .to 
 ourselves & indeed to humane society....faithfully to remon- 
 strate against such a marriage which we humbly conceive would 
 be attended with evil consequences to this town, if not to the 
 - sacred ordinance of Matrimony..... 
 We therefore humbly pray you Gentlemen, (the Civil Fathers of 
 this Town) would be pleased to use every lawful endeavor in 
 your power to prevent such a marriage..... and to that end 
 Gentlemen we beg leave to recommend the speedy & immediate 
 removal of this Vagrant Woman to the place to which she be- 
 longeth, if such place may be found, relying on your wisdom to 
 conduct and abilities to execute 
 
 We are Gentlemen with unfeigned respect your 
 
 To the Gentlemen 
 
 aletemenvab Newton Friends & very humble Servants 
 
 Josiah Fuller Alex. Shepard Jun’r Joshua Jackson 
 Peter Drall Joseph Adams Jun’r Sam. Jenk 
 Nathan Fuller William Upham Jr. David Fuller 
 Daniel Cheney Daniel Jackson Sam. Woodward 
 Joseph Fuller, Jun. Phinehas Jackson Elisha Seaverns 
 Joseph Adams Benjamin Prentice 
 
 Nathan Parkhurst Samuel Jackson 
 Jonathan Stone 
 
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T.HvE S'EsCO N D\ CRU, RC Hy BeOvouk 
 
 A Letter Concerning the Division of the Town 
 
 SIR 
 
 into Two Parishes 
 (About 1778?) 
 
 Were you sensible of my feeling, and with what Reluc- 
 tancy I give y® y* trouble it would be a sufficient apology. 
 Nothing but an ardent zeal, faithfully to discharge the 
 trust reposed in me by a respectable N°. of the Inhabi- 
 tants of this Town could induce me so often to intrude 
 on y™ patience. It is now more than 40 years since the 
 aforesaid Inhabitants and their predecessors first pro- 
 cured preaching by Subscription and for 16 year last 
 past have procured Preaching the whole or part of each 
 year in like manner frequent applications we'® made to 
 the Town for relief — but as often refused 
 
 on application to the Hon. Assembly a Com*e was ap- 
 pointed and after a full & fair hearing on the Spot — re- 
 ported in our favor, but was stoped..... a New Comittee 
 appointed — which Com‘ after a fair hearing reported 
 in our favor — but at this day objections again take 
 place.) ... which objections I Wd conceive is confined 
 to this single point whether the line shall run straight 
 or whether there shall be Three Different courses... . 
 the former will take in no land subject to a Tax to the 
 Precinct withouy y* consent of y® owners 
 
 but about 18 Acres of unimprov4 non-resident lands 
 The whole taken in wili not (I am almost certain) be 
 100 Acres. . . The latter will leave out one or More Fami- 
 lies one Mile from the Meethouse and take in others at 
 Two Miles distance which must pass by those very 
 houses left out to get to s? Meethouse. it also leaves 
 out 3 of the Petitioners........... from whence I can- 
 not see but my Opponent give the Hon", Assembly all 
 this trouble only for the small Tax on the 18 Acres of 
 Non Residents lands which I am confident never was 
 Taxed 2/ in One Year to the Minister...... these naked 
 as they appear are all they hold up to view — but I mis- 
 take if another Tax on the Precinct is not their object 
 ...which they most certainly will obtain if the Bill is 
 not Enacted this session....Excuse me Sir when w* 
 importunity I beg y* kind assistance in forward®. the 
 progress of the Bill that the oppressive burthens of those 
 Inhabitants may be removed...... I cannot but sug- 
 
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AP PEN DT X 
 
 gest our unhappy Situation, that we are now to be op- 
 posed by all the Rhetoric & great powers of Maj? Fuller 
 not as a party in y® town nor as a Com*e of the town 
 nor as a party Councellor. ..as he says — but I humble 
 conceive it is all Three in one......... he says he should 
 not have made any objections now, only as I informed 
 him the Comte meaning y® Comte of Newton Col. 
 Hammond agreed to y® Bill which I at that time pre- 
 sent? to him for his approbation...which I really did 
 meaning the Honble, Comttee of the Assembly whose 
 right alone it was to agree to said Bill..... poor subter- 
 fuge for giving all this trouble to the Assembly for 2/ 
 Annual income. 
 
 In haste can only beg you would pardon my freedom in 
 thus loosely communicating my sentiment....... 
 
 Method of Raising Minister’s Salary 
 
 To Mr. Adolphus Smith, collector of taxes for 
 the West Precinct in Newton: Greeting,— 
 
 In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are 
 required to levy and collect of the several persons named in the 
 list herewith committed unto you each one his respective portion 
 therein set down of the sum total of such list it being four hun- 
 dred and eighty dollars and eighty four cents, granted by the in- 
 habitants of the West Precinct in Newton, at their annual meet- 
 ing in March last, for paying the Rev. William Greenough his 
 salary, and for defraying the contingent charges of the Precinct, 
 the present year, and you are to transmit and pay in the same 
 unto Captain James Fuller, Treasurer of said Precinct or to his 
 successor in that office, and to complete and make up an amount 
 of your collection of the whole sum, on or before the first day of 
 November next; and if any person shall refuse or neglect to pay 
 the sum he is assessed in said list, to distrain the goods or chattels 
 of such person to the value thereof, and the distress is taken to 
 keep for the space of four days at the cost and charge of the 
 owner, and if he shall not pay the sum so assessed, within the 
 said four days, then you are to sell at public vendu the distress so 
 taken for the payment thereof with charges; first giving forty- 
 eight hours notice of such sale by posting up advertisements 
 thereof in some public place in said precinct; and the overplus 
 arising from such sale, if any there be, besides the sum assessed 
 and the necessary charges of taking and keeping the distress, you 
 are immediately to restore to the owner, and for want of goods 
 
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THE SECOND CHURCH BOOK 
 
 
 
 and chattels, whereon to make distress (besides tools or imple- 
 ments necessary for his trade or occupation, beasts of the plough 
 necessary for his cultivation of his improved lands, arms, utensils 
 for housekeeping necessary for up-holding life, bedding and ap- 
 parel necessary for himself and family) for the space of twelve 
 days, you are to take the body of such person so refusing or neg- 
 lecting, and him commit unto the common gaol of the County, 
 there to remain until he pay the same, or such part thereof as 
 shall not be abated by the assessors for the time being, or the 
 Court of general sessions of the peace for said County. Given 
 under our hands and seals this 12th day of July, A. D. 1828. 
 
 Ephraim Jackson 
 Tea srt \ ASSESSORS 
 
 
 
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