Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ify rulers in making war uponrebellious subjects justify the people in making warupon rebellious rulers. These things from theSecond Church pulpit nearly created sympathyfor the British when they pulled down that nestof traitors at their earliest convenience. Joysare always reactionary and this act of a BritishGeneral did not detract from the exceedingly goodtime the people of Second Church had on thatday when Howe marched out of and Washing-ton marched into Boston. After this house was demolished, the people ofSecond Church were invited to worship with thesociety of the New Brick—child of the SecondChurch! Dr. Lathrop then preached to the unitedpeople. Probably the first crusade against intemperance,which was so great a curse of the colonies, wasundertaken in this pulpit by Henry Ware. It washe who had the courage to write against the evil,to preach against it, and who by reason of hisprecedence as a citizen and as a preacher, gave moreimpetus to the movement than could any organi-
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Photograph by Baldunn CoolidgeBUST OF EMERSON WHICH IS IN THE SECOND CHURCH Old North Church, Boston, Mass. 43 sation against rum drinking then have given.Channing was talking at this time, and the spiritof humanity and dignity was getting the upperhand of the old intemperance of feeling bywhich the Puritan had so long dominated. Thenafter Mr. Ware, came the tall, spare young manwith the sweet, mild face—Emerson. Mr.Van Ness discusses this accident of Emerson in theSecond Church pulpit beautifully and interestingly.The conventional Second Church and the free,strong-thinking, vital Emerson! Mr. Van Nessrepudiates the thought that he came to the pulpitby mere chance, any more than John Lathropcame by chance sixty years before. He puts it, No; like draws like, whether among the atoms,the stars, or among men. And in witnessingthe result of Emerson in the Second Church weare inclined to think Mr. Van Ness is right. Butcould the result of Emerson in relation to any-thing have been other t

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