. Old shipping days in Boston. ll you the old Gospel ship never sailedmore prosperously. The salt spray flew in every direction but themore especially it run down my cheeks. I was melted. ... I said,Why cant I preach so.^ Ill try it. That was how this Booth of the Boston pulpit began his preachingcareer that made the Boston Seamens Bethel world-famous and thatbrought to its congregations nany famous persons, among themCharles Dickens, Jenny Lind, and Walt Whitman. Here the manwho had been a sailor himself, and knew the temptations and hard-ships of the life, fought the battles of sailors the w
. Old shipping days in Boston. ll you the old Gospel ship never sailedmore prosperously. The salt spray flew in every direction but themore especially it run down my cheeks. I was melted. ... I said,Why cant I preach so.^ Ill try it. That was how this Booth of the Boston pulpit began his preachingcareer that made the Boston Seamens Bethel world-famous and thatbrought to its congregations nany famous persons, among themCharles Dickens, Jenny Lind, and Walt Whitman. Here the manwho had been a sailor himself, and knew the temptations and hard-ships of the life, fought the battles of sailors the world over. Young Taylors preaching career did not begin immediately afterhe visited Park Street Church. At that time he could not even read,so he decided to go back to the sea, this time sailing in the BlackHawk, a privateer. He was captured by a British man-of-war,taken to Melville Island and from there to Dartmoor prison, wherehe was confined for some time. In 1814 he was back in New England 25 OLD SHIPPING DAYS IN BOSTON! F. From a print, in Life oj Father Taylor Courtesy of the Boston Port and Seamens Aid Society SEAMENS BETHEL (AS IT USED TO BE), NORTH SQUARE, BOSTONThis interesting chapel is now the Sacred Heart ItaHan church, and sermons are stillpreached in it. again, peddling tin and iron ware in a handcart, and buying farmed a little, also, and every Sunday preached. It was aboutthis time, or shortly afterwards, that he began his ministry at theOld Rock Schoolhouse in Saugus. He kept up peddling and cir-cuit preaching for four or five years, and his facility in preachingaroused the interest of the Rev. George Pickering, who was influentialin securing financial aid to send Taylor to school. Mrs. Pickering 26 OLD SHIPPING DAYS IN BOSTON describes the young man in this way: When E. T. Taylor first cameto our house, he was buying up old junk. He had on a tarpaulin hatand a sailor dress. He would then deliver the most wonderful andunique exhortations ever heard and
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