The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-01

hdcn year a special course OF Scrip
ture study is selected and the lessons
which are prepared by Mr. Carver pur-
sue a regular sequence of thought along
this line. Last year the course of study
was the life of Jesus, and this year it
is the lives of the saints. If a scholar
mas attended all the lessons of the year
ana received the photographs, at the
end OF the year he has a book written
and illustrated by himself which is eX-
tremely valuable as we'll as interesting
The interest in the study of the Bible
and IN the welfare of the school which
TINS system engenders is remarkable
and the scholars refuse to stay away
from Sunday school for a single Sab
| path because the photographs are not
given out to abSentees except in case of
sickness, and the loss of a single pic
ture spoils the good looks of the book.
Aside from the interest displayed in
the making of the books, it is found
| that the illustrated study of Scripture
SUBJECTS has wonderful attraction for
the children, which never seems to be
generally evinced where some such
method is not used. The method has
oeen IN use for seven years at the First
Unitarian Church, and each succeeding
twelve months only serves the better to
convince the teachers that it is ire
mendous success.
The officers of the Sunday school are:
j. +. X. Otis, superintendent, and the
pastor, Mr.. Carver, assistant superin-
tendent; Miss Mertie Nelson is treas
urer
That the church has been eminently
| successful in all it's corporate life is
amply attested by it's present prosper
lty. AS was stated exclusively in the
columns of The Spy, last week. the
church today takes into its membership
over 100 members. This is not indeed
the result Ofs a sudden revival of re-
ligious enthusiasm. but is the effect of
change that has recently been made
IN the covenant of the church. The old
covenant of the church under which it
was founded and which was abandoned
last week, was as follows:
THE ANCIENT COVENANT
OF THE SECOND (FIRST UNFAIR
IAN CHURCH OF WORCESTER.
1855.
In the first place, we humbly renew
the dedication of ourselves and off
spring to the great God who is over
all, blessed evermore.
And We do hereby profess our firm
belief of the Holy Scriptures contained
in the Old and New Testaments. And
taking them as our sole and sufficient
NiN VI LeAltIl anu III dCLlCe, we no CONtIl-
ant to and with each other. that we will
walk together as a Christian society, in
the faith and order of the gospel. And
we Go hereby engage, as far as in our
power, for all under our care, that we
VIII live as true disciples of Jesus
Christ in all good carriage and behav-
Tor towards God and towards man. Pro-
Tossing ourselves to be in charity with
all men who love the Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity and truth.
All this we engage faithfully to per-
form, by divine assistance, for which We
are encouraged to hope relying on the
mediation of Jesus Christ for the par
don of our manifold sins, and praying
the God of all grace, through him, to
establish and settle us, that at the sec
ond coming of Jesus, we may appear
before his presence with exceeding joy.
This document was felt by the major
ity of the membership of the church
to be Anticipated and not to express the
real sentiments under which a church
should bind itself together in Christian
fellowship. AS a consequence, the COW
enant has now been changed to read:
THE NEW COVENANT.
In the love of truth and in the spirit
of Jesus, we unite for the worship of
God and the service of man.
Illlo GllSlllSG II lllC cause vi lLiG clNA-
dition of 100 names to the rolls of the
parish, that being the number of peO
pie who have been DESTROYS of joining
the church in the past, but have been
deferred from doing so by unwilling
ness to sign the old covenant. Thus
the march of the church towards lib
erality of thought and views, progresses
in time and step with it's material pros
perity and welfare.
In its long history the church has
numbered among those who worshipped
within its walls many of the names
that have made Worcester famous in
all walks of life. There have been on
the rolls of the Second Parish the hon
ored names of clergymen, physicians
lawyers, statesmen, soldiers, merchants,
mechanics and men in every sphere of
life and action who shaped careers that
shed bright lustre on their home city
and on the church in which they We're
wont to humblY acknowledge the might
of that great being by whom their
earthly prosperity was Youchsafed.
Among the men who have been ia
nous in past years, and who have at
tended divine worship regularly at the
First Unitarian, may be mentioned the
following: Judge Levi Lincoln, limo
thy Paine, Isaiah Thomas, Winthrop
Chandler, John Green, Stephen Sails
bury (the ELDER. Hon. Daniel Waldo,
Dr. William Paine, Ephraim Curtis,
Aaron Bancroft, Joseph Allen, Timothy
BigeloW, Palmer GOulding, Gov. Levi
Lincoln, Rejoice Newton, Samuel NJ.
Burnside, Pliny Merrick, justice of the
supreme judicial court, Edward d
Bangs, secretary of state of Massachu-
sets, Isaac Goodwin, DR.. John Green,
founder of the public library, Judge
Thomas Kinnicutt, Francis Blake the
great barrister, United States Senator
John Davis, DR.. John Park, Justice
Benjamin f. Thomas, Judge Thomas
L. Nelson and many others.
The officers of the church at the pres
ent time are as follows: Austin S. Gar
YER minister, assessors, Waldo Lin
coin (chairman), j. p. X. Otis, George
F. Barnard. Maj. f. r. Raymond L. n
Kinnicutt, j. Stewart Brown, f. w
Ward, J. b. Stone, Francis II. Dewey,
II. A. Farwell, w. F. Abbott, F. l.
Hutchins; treasurer and clerk, Nelson
G. Keyes.
The pew holders of the church con-
tain many of The best known names of
the city. The following is very nearly
complete list: Miss Mary E. Sayward,
Col Il. b. Glasgow, DR.. A. c. GetchelI
j, T.. Otis, J. p. X. Otis, +. p. King, DR..
j. f. Adams, Samuel Utley, Henry A.
Marsh, G. G. Drew, William Marcy, w
e. Buck Thomas h. Eaton, Stephen
Salisbury, Francis H. Dewey, Mrs.
Frances w. Haven, Nathaniel Paine,
Daniel Kent George b. Witter. John
w. Disco, J. E. Sargent, Miss Harriet
L. Turner, Mrs. n. w. Houghton, Mrs.
$. l.. Wyman, Mrs. S. G. Carver, Joseph
Sargent, Miss Mary f. Sargent. Miss
X. Allen the Misses Burnside, Col. A.
| George Bullock, l.. n Kinnicutt. Prof
l., p, Kiunicutt, Waldo Lincoln Mrs.
p. S. Garfield, Miss Mary f. Barnard,
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