This allowed the day school much needed expansion of its facilities. Today there are eight of the original 71 members left in the parish. Over 200 years ago a man by the name of Samuel Sewall lived in the Boston area. He was a preacher who later became a chief justice and wrote various papers, one of which was the basis of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. In the human cornfield ripe and sound, And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own The precious seed by the fathers sown.
History is the precursor of the present and the future.
The original members of St. Thomas strove hard to sow precious seed. Succeeding Christians at St. Thomas have grown and ripened. God willing, we will continue.