Boston illustrated; . thin and without, are evidences of excellent taste andjudgment, such as can seldom be seen in the churches of this country. Thechurch can seat nearly one thousand persons. On the corner of Boylston and Arlington Streets stands the first churcherected on the Back Bay lands of the Commonwealth. This society, like thatof tile First Church, is attaclied to the Unitarian denomination. It is, however,tlie successor of the first Presbyterian church gathered in Boston. It was es-tablished in 1727, and its first place of worship was a barn, somewhat trans-formed to adapt it to its
Boston illustrated; . thin and without, are evidences of excellent taste andjudgment, such as can seldom be seen in the churches of this country. Thechurch can seat nearly one thousand persons. On the corner of Boylston and Arlington Streets stands the first churcherected on the Back Bay lands of the Commonwealth. This society, like thatof tile First Church, is attaclied to the Unitarian denomination. It is, however,tlie successor of the first Presbyterian church gathered in Boston. It was es-tablished in 1727, and its first place of worship was a barn, somewhat trans-formed to adapt it to its new use, at the corner of Berry Street and LongLane, now Channing and Federal Streets. The second house, on the same site,was erected in 1744, and within it met the Convention that ratified the Consti-tution of the United States on the part of Massachusetts, in 1788. It wasfrom this circumstance that Federal Street received its name. In 1786 thechurch had become small in numbers, and by a formal vote it renounced the. 60 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. Presbyterian form and adopted the Congregational system. Having ocenpiedfor fifty years the thii-d house on the origuial site, erected in 1809, the soci-ety was compelled, by the invasion of business and the removals of its people,to build the bouse in which it now worships. During the long period ofyears since the foundation of this famous society, it has had but seven pastors,though there was one interval of ten yeais when it had no regular pastor. The ^. ^ -- most noted of this brieflistwas theRev. Dr. Chan-ning, who waspastor from1803 untU hisdeath in Rev. EzraS. Gannett wasordained andinstalled as col-league pastorin 1824, and re-m a i n e d col-league and solepastor until hisme lancholyd e a t h i n Au-gust, 1871, inthe terrible ac-cident at Re-vere. Dr. Gan-nett was suc- Arlington Street Church. CCeded by tile Rev. John F. W. Ware, formerly of Baltimore. Mr. Ware dietl in 1881, andin 1882 the Rev. Brooke Herford, then o
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