Historical Sketch Of St Pauls Churches Beaver Township Clarion County Pennsylvania PDF Download

Excerpt from A Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Wellsboro, Pa: October 26th, 1913 Mr. Breck, now ordained deacon, came on, arriving here Aug ust 2lst, 1838, being Tuesday of the week. On the next Sunday, Tenth Sunday after Trinity, August 26th, 1838, in the court-house, was held the first public services of the church in Wellsboro. The following Sunday the deputy sheriff, at the door of the court-house, refused Mr. Breck permission to use the court-house. Why? No reason was given - likely because of disappointment over the decision of the meeting referred to above. Evidently some disappointment or bit torness had been kindled because just a short time afterwards the court house was used by a religious body for public worship, and continued to be used by that body, without interruption, for a period of ten years. Undeterred by the refusal of.the county officials, Mr. Breck withdrew to the school-house, and there held services until the upper part of the academy was duly prepared with a vestry room, desk, seats, and a small organ, kindly lent for the use of the con gregation by Mr. Levi I. Nichols. Mr. Breck did not find a single communicant of the church in either the town or the immediate neighborhood. Indeed, practically the entire community was entirely ignorant of the church's liturgy and offices. After two months, October 3oth, a meeting was held at the office of Mr. Lowrey, when the parish was organized by the adop tion of the form of charter, recommended by the convention of the diocese. At that time and place wardens and vestrymen were elected. Thus began the history of St. Paul's Parish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.