Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . appy New Year, yes aHappy Mew Century. Hut prog-ress, long ere the next century has ended, willhave compelled the destruction of the veteran. tlie Kev. Alon/o Hill became his colleague andthis pastorate, thus begun, lasted till the deathof Dr. Hill in 1S71, February ist. Before thelatters death, or in 1869, February 10, he toowas given an associate in the person of H. Hall, who remained in Worcestertill 1SS2, leaving the church in this city to be-come the pastor of the Unitarian Church inCambridge. Then in 1885, ca
Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . appy New Year, yes aHappy Mew Century. Hut prog-ress, long ere the next century has ended, willhave compelled the destruction of the veteran. tlie Kev. Alon/o Hill became his colleague andthis pastorate, thus begun, lasted till the deathof Dr. Hill in 1S71, February ist. Before thelatters death, or in 1869, February 10, he toowas given an associate in the person of H. Hall, who remained in Worcestertill 1SS2, leaving the church in this city to be-come the pastor of the Unitarian Church inCambridge. Then in 1885, came the Rev. Austin , who is still in care of the parish. Heis a native of Pennsylvania and was educatedat Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, and atthe Andover Theological Seminary. He cameto this city from Hopedale. His three prede-cessors were graduates of Harvard College. There is not wanting material to make aconnected story of these hundred years. , Hill and Hall, all preached histori-cal discourses which told graphically the re-. c^ A There will be a Second Parish and an edificebut the scene of .Bancrofts long years of ser-vice will have disappeared. The Pastors. Only four settled ministers in more than ahundred years! Few parishes, even in NewEngland, with its long settlements, can record. It February, ist, 1786, thatthe Rev. Aaron Bancroft was ordained to hispastorate which did not terminate till his death,August, 29, 1839. How many people have vis-ited his old home, still standing on SalisburyStreet, the birthplace of his famous son, thehistorian ? What a benignant face his picturepresents and what wonder that he drew to hisside so much of the culture and wisdom ofthe Worcester of his day. Twelve years before his death, or in 1827, cord of their pastorates. At our side, as wewrite, are Dr. Hills sermon on the death ofhis venerable colleague, his sermon when hehad been twenty-five years minister and alsothe exercises, when he had been f
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