Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . called. Thepulpit is now in the brick Congregational Church atColrain City, built in 1834. The old church was takendown at that time and some of its timbers used in thenew building. The old pulpit was used in the TownHall, in the lower story of the church, for seventy yearsas the moderators desk, but in 1904 it was taken upstairs into the audience room, repainted white andrededicated. It is wholly as it was when it was made,no change having been made. There was simply areplacing of posts broken or decayed. From this pulpit Priest Taggart
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . called. Thepulpit is now in the brick Congregational Church atColrain City, built in 1834. The old church was takendown at that time and some of its timbers used in thenew building. The old pulpit was used in the TownHall, in the lower story of the church, for seventy yearsas the moderators desk, but in 1904 it was taken upstairs into the audience room, repainted white andrededicated. It is wholly as it was when it was made,no change having been made. There was simply areplacing of posts broken or decayed. From this pulpit Priest Taggart delivered a eulogy on GeorgeWashington immediately after his death, and all theboys of the town marched to the church with blackfeathers in their caps. Mr. Griswold modestly refrainsfrom stating that it was through his interest in the oldpulpit and his generosity that it was repaired in 1904and placed in its present home. Roswell F. Putman,Northampton, Massachusetts, was the architect whoreinstated some of the old lines and lost parts of thepulpit. 29. FIHST CHrnCH OF CHHIST. SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 1819 The First Church of Christ Springfield,Massachusetts THE following lines were written by Miss I. , of Springfield, and express the feelingsof a great multitude of people who haveknown and loved the old First Church: How dear to our hearts is the scene of our church home,When fond recollection presents it to view;The white pillared entrance, the greensward before it,And all the fine elms which our infancy court house beside it, the city hall nigh it;The bright sparkling stream flowing swiftly so near;The sound old First church with a fair record held dear old First church—many years may she last. How dear to our hearts is the old First church rooster, When near or when far hes presented to view; For years he has stood there with never a murmur, And never a whisper of tales that he knew; How much he has seen from the top of the steeple, So true to his post
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