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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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,it was decided that the timbers were to be loanedby the citizens, to whom the town would give abond to replace them when needed. After the sitefor this meeting house was chosen, it was changed,for the loving satisfaction unto some neighbours,to the east side of the river which was to be knownlong after as Dwights Brook, and building lotsnear the church were given to those who livedat a distance. John Allin was among the firstthus to homestead. When it came to themeeting house roof, the town delegated certainpersons to mowe, gather up and bring it(material for thatch) home with such assis-tance as they might need, to be had at the towncharge. But years were to elapse before thefirst meeting house should be finished, and it wasnot until 1647 ^^^^ the aesthetic developmentof the town had reached that point wherethe citizens should declare that they will havethe meeting house lathed upon the studs, and sodaubed and whitened over workmanlike. That first house occupied less ground than the
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FIRST CHURCH, DEDHAM, AUSSACHUSETTSWhose vestry is larger than the original meeting house of this society First Church, Dedham, Mass. 159 vestry of the present one, and yet it was not inorder until 1658. The extreme Hberality of church rule in thecommunity is worthy of record. Dedham andNew Haven shine in their respective ways bycontrast. The former church declared itself noway intending hereby to bind the conscience ofany to walk by this pattern, or to approve of thepractice of this church further than it may appearto be according to the rule of the Gospel. Thesentiment of brotherly love rather than of ecclesias-tical admonition seems to have dominated thecommunity. In the beginning people assembledat each others houses every fifth day for the pur-pose of becoming familiar with the spiritualtemper and gifts of each other, and they metlovingly to discourse and consult togetherupon civil and ecclesiastical questions. Mr. John Allin, R. Wheelock, John Luson,John Frayry, Eleazer Lusher,

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