Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . t a journal of his THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 22 voyage from England, and of the proceedings in the colony upto his decease, which was edited by James Savage. Some ofthe admirers of Governor Winthrops character have declaredhim worthy of canonization, had we like Eome a sacred cal-ender. The Old South still stands, one of the monuments of OldBoston. Its existence has been often threatened, and erelong per-haps will be swept from its foundations, to appear in new andstrange habiliments in aremote part of the is the richest churchc
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . t a journal of his THE OLD SOUTH AND PROVINCE HOUSE. 22 voyage from England, and of the proceedings in the colony upto his decease, which was edited by James Savage. Some ofthe admirers of Governor Winthrops character have declaredhim worthy of canonization, had we like Eome a sacred cal-ender. The Old South still stands, one of the monuments of OldBoston. Its existence has been often threatened, and erelong per-haps will be swept from its foundations, to appear in new andstrange habiliments in aremote part of the is the richest churchcorporation in the city,and, next to Old Trinityof New York, in thecountry. The Winthropestate passed throughThatcher and Mrs. Nor-ton to the church, andin consequence of itscentral location has be-come of great value. Itsparishioners once dwelt j£»within sight of its stee-ple, but now few can befound within sound ofits bell. Milk Street,Franklin Street, Sum-mer and Winter, Brom-field and School, havehardly a residence of them at least. THE OLD SOUTH. Were once filled with the abodes of the most respectable inhab-itants of the city, but commerce has said Move on ! and thethe population has vanished before it. Curiously enough, the Old South, arising from a schism inthe First Church, like it originated in Charlestown, where alsowas organized the First Baptist Society. Like the Baptists, 228 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. also, this society was proclaimed against, but erected a houseof worship, the third in Boston. The theological disputes,questions of doctrine or church government in which thissociety originated, however interesting, cannot be given Thatcher was the first minister, settled in February,1670. The first house was of wood, and stood until 1729,when it was taken down to give place to the then new brickedihce. In the front was placed, in 1867, a tablet bearing thefollowing inscription, so that all who run may thus read a littleof the history of the church
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