The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-22

the edifice was demolished by the
British because 1T harbored ga nest of
traitors, 1t was from the pulpit of
the present church that the first cru
SADIE against liquor in this country was
begun, the leader being Henry Ware
Emerson was a member of this congre-
CATION.
st. James Episcopal church. Goose
Creek. s. c.. has the distinction OF be
ing not only the oldest church in South
Carolina, but of being the only one in
which hatchments still hang on the
wall back of the pulpit, IT was a Gus
tom long ago to carry the hatch
mcnts of the dead on their coflins,
and then place them among the church
memorials. In this church the armorial
bearings are those of the lizard family.
The present church building was
erected in l7l4. and the British coat
been preserved so far by the fund be-
queathed it by Rev. Richard Ludlow,
an early rector. 1t was in this church
that daring Archie Campbell, q British
officer, calmly held a pistol IN the face
of the patriot rector l25 years ago, and
had that trembling worthy read the
marriage service for him and the
The First Presbyterian church on
Judiciary square. Washington, D c., is
remembered as the one to which Presi-
dent Jackson transferred his allegiance
when the New York avenue church re-
fused TO recognize the eligibility oof
the dashing Peggy O Neil Eaton for
dent Jackson had disrupted his Cabinet
on account of this pretty daughter of
an inn-keeper, but found he could not
manage the church. Presidents Polk,
Pierce and Buchanan also attended the
First church at times. while Lincoln
was member of the New York
avenue church.
Sir Thomas Dale. High Marshal of
Virginia. had always been eager for an
opportunity to found a colony of his
own, and when that opportunity came
in 1911 he took $50 German colonists
up the James river and built Henri
copolis, later abbreviated to Henrico
Across the river he had his own planta-
tion, Bermuda Hundred. To this settle
ment came Pocahontas as prisoner IN
1872 Here she was instructed and
baptized by the Rev, Alexander
Whitaker, and here she was afterward
married 10 John Rolfe. For over
century the annals of old Henrico
parish and its churches are fragmen-
tary 1t is known, though, that the
salary of the preachers was liked by
law at 1900 pounds of tobacco and
sixteen barrels Of corn a year, and
that when one of these parsons had TO
sue for his salary the case became ia
nous as 'fthe parson s cause. The
young lawyer who sprang into fame IN
its prosecution was Patrick Henry.
The Henrico church was on what is
now the Dutch Gap canal, At Bermuda
Hundred was small chapel known as
the Ferry chapel In 1876 new
church was planned to take its place,
and because the tithes were small and
the rector the Rev. George Robertson,
offered TO serve without pay until The
debt was lifted, trusting to the stony
soil of the church glebe for living:
This brick building, now Iyy-coyered
and venerable. is the famous 'Old
Blanford church., which the women OF
the South are now seeking to restore.
1t has been deserted since lSoZ, inc
Petersburg churches having drawn the
congregation away. Among tho famous
men who served this church as rector
was James Blair. founder and first
president of William and Mary col
lege.
The "Old Church" at Quincy, Mass,
is known as ''the church of states
men," 1t was built of stone cut from
John Adams quarrics, and both ne
there, At the .'Old Slip Church,
bingham. Mass. one Matthew Hawke
anticipated present repertorial methods
2 hundred years by taking down the
sermons in shorthand. Those who Of
Tended and were tried by church
authorities were sent TO stand in tho
public places with scarlet letters, mt
als Of their crimes, tied conspIcuously
about the neck. The present pulpit OF
the First church of hlngham is tho
one placed there in 1855. There was
no organ until 1867, and the first in
strumcnt was characterized By scan
dalized member as being only god
less box of whistles.
ST. John g, at Ashwood. Maury coun
tv. Tenn, is built of brick given by
Bishop Polk of Louisiana and his three
brothers. II was finished in lS42 and
is Gothic in style, Bishops Otey and
Quintard of Tennessee are buried there,
as are also three Confederate generals,
who, passing that way one day, cX-
there in the quiet churchyard, These
men were Patrick r Cloburne, Ohio
f.. Strahl and States Rights Gist, and
the fortunes of war gave them their
wish.
There arc said to be more legends
clustered about old ST. Johns Ports
mouth. \. H., than about any other
church in America. The communion
service WAS the gift of Queen Caroline;
the bell was taken from cathedral in
I.ouisburg by the brave Peppercll, and
when the old chapel was burned the
metal was recast by the successors Of
Paul Revere and hung in the present
cdifice. which dates from 1906. All
thc Wcntworlhs nre buried here, and
il was only a decade or so ago that
the old custom Of ringing the curtew
and sentneling the town after 10
clock was Abandoned II was here
that Mr. RousseIct courtcd the beauti
full Catherine Moffatt. One glorious
spring morning when all the rest of
the Congregation were rigidIy observ-
ant Of the dccorum Of the day, he
marked his Bible, the fifth verse of
the second cpistlo Of John, and she
bushingly returned the book with the
l. 4.