. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. ^ -l^ DURINGLONG ¥^RAYER,. September 2. 1900.—Dea. Black-mail was for many years a regular at- ^ I ,\;j J. tendant at the Sunday evening prayer-J * |k«/- meeting. He never failed to make a tew remarks, and always prefacedtliem with the words, Ahottt forty\ears ago. At that time I lookedu]u)n the good deacons form ofspeech as an amusing ])eculiarity. hutin recalling the things that are indelil^l}- fixed in my own memory, Tfind they all occurred aliout
. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. ^ -l^ DURINGLONG ¥^RAYER,. September 2. 1900.—Dea. Black-mail was for many years a regular at- ^ I ,\;j J. tendant at the Sunday evening prayer-J * |k«/- meeting. He never failed to make a tew remarks, and always prefacedtliem with the words, Ahottt forty\ears ago. At that time I lookedu]u)n the good deacons form ofspeech as an amusing ])eculiarity. hutin recalling the things that are indelil^l}- fixed in my own memory, Tfind they all occurred aliout forty years ago. and strangely enoughthe ini])ressions are not of childhoods pleasures or of school-daysand companions, hut of the interior of the old South Church and thememhers of the congregation. It was in the early years of the gingerbread ])ul])it when theministers family occupied the square pew on the north side of thebroad aisle and L^ncle \^ait Minor the one directh across. Re- \\()()l)llL•|<^, cowKCTiCL T 229 hind him sat Uncle Stoddard Strong with Hezekiah Booths familyopposite, and so 1 could name each occupant of every pew even tothe ])ack seat
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