Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . lives n It he was in the Seri|)tures and knew the ]])le nl their day. To them, with tlieir em belter tiian many who teach them as nnfei,i;ned ln\ e ..f the Irutli, their piety, their eir -^acred calling, i le onld say with David, sturdy maintenance nf llaptist principles in lli\ word have I hid in m_\ heart. Mis .i^ift face (if all opposition, and to their wise and exhortation was wonderful. llis appeals dilioeut lead


Historic Groton : comprising historic and descriptive sketches pertaining to Groton Heights, Center Groton, Poquonnoc Bridge, Noank, Mystic, and Old Mystic, Conn. . lives n It he was in the Seri|)tures and knew the ]])le nl their day. To them, with tlieir em belter tiian many who teach them as nnfei,i;ned ln\ e ..f the Irutli, their piety, their eir -^acred calling, i le onld say with David, sturdy maintenance nf llaptist principles in lli\ word have I hid in m_\ heart. Mis .i^ift face (if all opposition, and to their wise and exhortation was wonderful. llis appeals dilioeut leadershi)) is due the impressions )n ]>eculiar to his race cndiined with snch lieconie s|)ecial .ground. That such is Ldinn and sensilile application of ilivine truth, the fact, the live llonrishin,^- r,a[)tist churches id expressed in \. .icr and manner so elTec- in the town of ( ir. .t. .n, and tive more in the ad- •e that his audience d inld r;irel\ refrain j,,inin- towns ,,f Stonin-ton and .Xorlh .^ton- II is c- .\ftcr W. \. II witnesses. ^ John (.ano \\i,-;lnma member of the Fort II. .irdained in .\pril. 1842. 1 Jurini^- his short .ibont oiK year the church seems to havebeen nnusntilly acti\e, and a chansje of the lo-cation of the meetiui; house was advocated. ( )n the of Iebrnary, 184,^ avote was ],asse(l remove t- .Mystic, as OldMystic was then called, wheiuwer a suitablehouse ,if worshiji should be erected at that vJiich had been mainlaiued f. .r a tiiue at 1-cd-\:ird was constituted an church.\ls(. (.11 the sixteenth of March ;i (lele,-.;ationfrom this church assisted in a council at Gro-lon Heights in eslablishiuL; the present (irotonllei-hts church. In .\pril, 1S4J. StephenIeckhani, .\very ( iallnp and Daniel (.diipnianwere ordained deacons. ^?k^^P^^bhhk m m B .Mr. lledden was succe. ?ded m 1S43 by Rev. ; Jmrch less than one yea remained with ther. In the meantime The first .Simda\- s


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