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high square pews with their panelled doors, its
lofty and ample pulpit, its spacious galleries and
its round-topped windows must have constituted
it a very dignified and elegant structure in the
eyes of primitive Narragansett.
It was, no doubt, also a source of encouragement to the young incumbent to discover, upon
the list of vestrymen, one known to be so able
and devoted a Churchman as the famous Huguenot refugee, Gabriel Bernon, although his
residence appears to have been already removed
to Providence. Under the energetic exertions
of Mr. MacSparran matters began rapidly to
improve. Soon he was able to acquaint the Venerable Society that his congregation, though
small at first, consisted then of about one hundred and sixty and that he had baptized thirty
persons, six of them adults, the number of communicants being twelve. The next year the
congregation had increased, when he made his
return, to two hundred and sixty, while, in the
following one, all the Church people, young
and old, amounted to three hundred. At the Easter celebration ofthe Eucharist, in 1727, there
were twenty communicants. The pastor devoted
himself, with great self-sacrifice, to ministrations among also the Indians and negroes of
his cure, frequently catechizing and instructing, before divine service on Sunday, a class
of seventy of them. The baptism, in 1730, of a
man of such commanding influence in the com-
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| Title | A letter book and abstract of out services written during the years 1743-1751 |
| Creator | MacSparran, James |
| Publisher | D.B. Updike, Merrymount Press |
| Place of Publication | Boston |
| Date | 1899 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000035 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | an account of tfre author high square pews with their panelled doors, its lofty and ample pulpit, its spacious galleries and its round-topped windows must have constituted it a very dignified and elegant structure in the eyes of primitive Narragansett. It was, no doubt, also a source of encouragement to the young incumbent to discover, upon the list of vestrymen, one known to be so able and devoted a Churchman as the famous Huguenot refugee, Gabriel Bernon, although his residence appears to have been already removed to Providence. Under the energetic exertions of Mr. MacSparran matters began rapidly to improve. Soon he was able to acquaint the Venerable Society that his congregation, though small at first, consisted then of about one hundred and sixty and that he had baptized thirty persons, six of them adults, the number of communicants being twelve. The next year the congregation had increased, when he made his return, to two hundred and sixty, while, in the following one, all the Church people, young and old, amounted to three hundred. At the Easter celebration ofthe Eucharist, in 1727, there were twenty communicants. The pastor devoted himself, with great self-sacrifice, to ministrations among also the Indians and negroes of his cure, frequently catechizing and instructing, before divine service on Sunday, a class of seventy of them. The baptism, in 1730, of a man of such commanding influence in the com- [ xxiv ] |
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