Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . holiness,peace and love. On this occasion, as on manya subsequent one, this immense hall, then brandnew, was crowded to the doors, 1500 people inthe chairs on the main floor, 700 in the twonarrow galleries or balconies and a few hundredmore standing or overflowing upon the stagewhere a kind of body guard of Parkers personalfriends usually sat, a little withdrawn from thecentral figure who dominated the whole. Thecrowd was promiscuous and there was nocollection and no sittings, the expensesbeing
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . holiness,peace and love. On this occasion, as on manya subsequent one, this immense hall, then brandnew, was crowded to the doors, 1500 people inthe chairs on the main floor, 700 in the twonarrow galleries or balconies and a few hundredmore standing or overflowing upon the stagewhere a kind of body guard of Parkers personalfriends usually sat, a little withdrawn from thecentral figure who dominated the whole. Thecrowd was promiscuous and there was nocollection and no sittings, the expensesbeing met by voluntary contributions from aninner circle of devoted friends. The servicewas very plain: Bible reading with anythingomitted which offended the ministers moralsense and hymns sung by the choir from whatParker was wont to call The Sam Book —because it was compiled by Samuel Johnsonand Samuel Longfellow. The sermon, readfrom manuscript, was accompanied by nograces either of manner or of delivery. Butthe preacher had lived and thought and feltand read deeply, and his strong simple sinewy. ••---- -^ ?^•v^\/^ Copyright, 1900, by A. H. Rickards. OLD BOSTON MUSIC HALL, WHERE PARKER PREACHED.
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