. Old New England churches and their children. to pews on either Fhotograpk by P. H. CaswellFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SHOWING PARSONAGE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I. 281 There was an entrance on the south side of thebuilding—doubtless because at high tide thewater flowed nearly up to the west end. The names Brown, Winsor, and Burlingamebecame identified with this pulpit during the fiftyyears that followed. There was a considerabletime of passivity then, and in 1770 the RhodeIsland College, an enterprise of the First BaptistChurch, was transferred to Providen
. Old New England churches and their children. to pews on either Fhotograpk by P. H. CaswellFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SHOWING PARSONAGE, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I. 281 There was an entrance on the south side of thebuilding—doubtless because at high tide thewater flowed nearly up to the west end. The names Brown, Winsor, and Burlingamebecame identified with this pulpit during the fiftyyears that followed. There was a considerabletime of passivity then, and in 1770 the RhodeIsland College, an enterprise of the First BaptistChurch, was transferred to Providence from itsmother town of Warren. The college infusednew life into the community and brought with itthat liberality which belongs to culture andscholarship. The Great Awakening came toProvidence, as to the other colonies, in more waysthan one, but not entirely through the fine University Hall in its sight, theparish was spurred on to new deeds and decidedit must have another meeting house, more ornate,more in keeping with the development of thetown.
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