History of Lowell and its people . - 17, 1825, James Flood and HarrietBowers became the churchs first bridal pair. The good Dr. activities, except his interest in costlv edu-cational innovations, as recorded above, were of a sort to justify theex]jectaiinns enterl;iincd of him by the directors of the MerrimackCompany. lie has hjld about them at a later date. My early rela-tions with the Merrimack Corporation, he related at the fiftieth anni-versary exercises in 1876, it having given the church and parsonage,and for the first few years gathered the pew rents for the support ofdi\ine wor
History of Lowell and its people . - 17, 1825, James Flood and HarrietBowers became the churchs first bridal pair. The good Dr. activities, except his interest in costlv edu-cational innovations, as recorded above, were of a sort to justify theex]jectaiinns enterl;iincd of him by the directors of the MerrimackCompany. lie has hjld about them at a later date. My early rela-tions with the Merrimack Corporation, he related at the fiftieth anni-versary exercises in 1876, it having given the church and parsonage,and for the first few years gathered the pew rents for the support ofdi\ine worship, as a provision for all the people in their AN ERA OF liMPROVEMENT 197 being it was but right to make the ministrations as generally and asextensively acceptable as might be, gave a very general claim upon myservices, and it is but a fair question to ask whether my pastoral laborfor the rich and poor, ministering to the sick and afflicted, the dyingand the dead, caring for the children and their education, and readydischarge of other ordinary items of ministerial duty, have been suchas to justify the original outlay and answer the reasonable expecta-tions of the Merrimack Company. Concerning the significance of this establishment of St. AnnesChurch at East Chelmsford, Bishop William, Lawrence dwelt at somelength in his sermon at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the church:Although a majority of the directors of the Merrimack Companywere Unitarians, they voted to build an Episcopal Church ; and anEpiscopal clergyman was called. We can hardly appreciate the sig-nificance of that now. Although the Episcopal Church was very littlek
Size: 1372px × 1822px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1920
