Excerpt from The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, Vol. 3: From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five It is an important question for Waterbury Christians whether the growth of religion has kept pace with our growth in material things. Does the church in this busy city keep pace with the world? Do the Protestant churches keep pace with the Protestant world? The question is a difficult one to answer; for there are many sides to it. But I would point you, this evening, to the answer given ...
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Excerpt from The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, Vol. 3: From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five It is an important question for Waterbury Christians whether the growth of religion has kept pace with our growth in material things. Does the church in this busy city keep pace with the world? Do the Protestant churches keep pace with the Protestant world? The question is a difficult one to answer; for there are many sides to it. But I would point you, this evening, to the answer given by our church edifices. Some fifteen years ago, those living near the centre, if they looked out of their windows between Christmas eve and Christmas morning, might have seen a strange and startling brightness in the sky, revealing the fact that the old St. John's church was on fire, - a Christmas gift ascending to heaven in flames. That noble edifice, worthy to protect the worshippers of generations to come, was succeeded by the still nobler edifice which occupies the old site today. This was the first of a series of new churches, the erection of which our own eyes have wit nessed. Since that time the congregation of St. John's has divided, a new parish has been formed, and the corner stone of Trinity has just been laid. Its mas sive walls are now rising heavenward. In 1875 the church and society which I represent completed and dedicated their new edifice - the fifth which they have built in two hundred years - thus providing accommodations under one roof for a thousand worshippers. Our sister and daughter church - the Second Congrega tional - is only waiting a little while, ere it follows our example. Some six or seven years ago the Methodist society disposed of the old house of worship and built another, large enough, with its spacious chapel and parlors, to serve as a hospital for the state. And now the Baptist church has completed its new church house, and to-day it has been dedicated to sacred uses. Here, then - to say nothing of what our Roman Catholic friends have done - is a partial answer to the question whether the church, in this prosperous city, has kept pace with the world. Compare these new and stately edifices with the houses in which we ourselves have worshipped during the past fifteen or twenty years, and you will see what progress has been made. If we had stood still, we might well feel that we had gone backward; but our religious organizations have shared in the general pros perity, and I believe our progress has been genu1ne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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