. Home school of American literature: . thealtar till the storm passed. Others have been usedby farmers as wagon-houses, by fishermen to hangtheir seines in, by gatherers of turpentine as store-houses. One was a distillery, and another was abarn. A poor drunken wretch reeled for shelter intoan abandoned church of Chesterfield County—thecounty of the first Jeffersons—and he died in adrunken sleep at the foot of the reading-desk, wherehe lay undiscovered until his face was devoured byrats. An ancient font was found doing duty as atavern punch-bowl; and a tombstone, which servedas the floor of an
. Home school of American literature: . thealtar till the storm passed. Others have been usedby farmers as wagon-houses, by fishermen to hangtheir seines in, by gatherers of turpentine as store-houses. One was a distillery, and another was abarn. A poor drunken wretch reeled for shelter intoan abandoned church of Chesterfield County—thecounty of the first Jeffersons—and he died in adrunken sleep at the foot of the reading-desk, wherehe lay undiscovered until his face was devoured byrats. An ancient font was found doing duty as atavern punch-bowl; and a tombstone, which servedas the floor of an oven, used to print memorial wordsupon loaves of bread. Fragments of richly-coloredaltar-pieces, fine pulpit-cloths, and pieces of old car-ving used to be preserved in farm-houses and shownto visitors. When the late Bishop Meade began hisrounds, forty years ago, elderly people would bring tohim sets of communion-plate and single vessels whichhad once belonged to the parish church, long deserted,and be- him to take charge of FRANCIS PAKKMAN. HISTORIAN OF THE FKENOH AND INDIAN CONFLICT.
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