. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . He afterward arose in the church and ex-pressed deep contrition for his share in the wretched business. Here Lovcll, Warren, Church and Hancock delivered their ora-tions on the anniversary of the State Street Massacre. BenjaminFranklin was baptised in the old wooden church and there wor-shiped. The famous tea party meeting adjourned from EaneuilHall to the Old South, the former being too small to accommodatethe assemblage. Washington stood in the gallery of this church alter the evacua-tion and looked down upon the ruin wrought by the riding o
. Antique views of ye towne of Boston . He afterward arose in the church and ex-pressed deep contrition for his share in the wretched business. Here Lovcll, Warren, Church and Hancock delivered their ora-tions on the anniversary of the State Street Massacre. BenjaminFranklin was baptised in the old wooden church and there wor-shiped. The famous tea party meeting adjourned from EaneuilHall to the Old South, the former being too small to accommodatethe assemblage. Washington stood in the gallery of this church alter the evacua-tion and looked down upon the ruin wrought by the riding old building had two narrow escapes from tire. Many yearsago it was saved by the superhuman efforts on the part of IsaacHarris, the mast-maker, who ascended to the roof while it was onlire and succeeded in extinguishing the names For this brave acthe received a silver pitcher. During the great fire of November0 and 10, 1872, that reduced the greater portion of the businesssection of the city to ashes, it had another very narrow OLD SOUTH CHURCH. ANTIQUE VIEWS OF BOSTON. 311 The fire was fought resolutely at this spot and the Old South stop-ped its further progress in that direction. The building caught inseveral places, but the fire was extinguished before doing muchharm to it. The Old South society arose from a schism in the First Church,and, like it, originated in Charlestown. Directly over the mainentrance a tablet bearing the following inscription was placed in18G7 : Old Gathered, House Built, House Erected, by British Troops, 1775-6. Again, within five years after this tablet was placed there thewheels of time turned the tables and the Old South was desecrated(that is, if this term is not a misnomer, for the place was neverconsecrated,) and this too by the consent of the society that wor-shiped there, who had been seeking for an opportunity of dis-posing of the old edifice without offending public sentiment, andbuil
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