Tabernacle Church
Published: 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from The Claims of the Tabernacle Church, to Be Considered the Third Church in Salem: Or, the Church of 1735 In the arrangements for the last celebration of Independence in this city, it was agreed that the procession of the Sabbath Schools should be formed, according to the time of the organization of the respective churches. A member of the South Church Committee objected to the place of the Tabernacle School, and claimed it for the school, which he himself in part represented. As soon as the circumstance was made known to some members of the Tabernacle Committee, the claim was decidedly protested; but with the expression of a strong desire, that the difficulty, which was so entirely unanticipated, might he adjusted as quietly and fraternally as possible. Snell was the predominant feeling in each of the Committees, that there was a prompt acquiescence in the proposal of the General Committee, to decide the question by lot. The lot was cast, and in " the disposal thereof, '' the Tabernacle School had the appropriate place of the Church of 1735. In one or two instances, the claims of the South Church to this priority have recently been set forth in such a manner, that intelligent and disinterested persons, both clergymen and laymen, have expressed much surprise, that 011 the part of the Tabernacle Church no decisive appeal should be made to facts and documents. We refer particularly to the publication of the Sermon of the respected pastor of the South Church, at the "Thirty-Eighth Anniversary of his Ordination." In the paragraph, which purports to be an outline of the history of the Third Church of 1735, and the notes in the Appendix, the Tabernacle Church is presented in a relation to the South Church, and with a date of formation, which was as new and as unexpected, as if it had been stated to be a preshyterian branch of the Howard Street. A venerable member of the Tabernacle Church, who, ill respect to the subject before us, has "a perfect understanding of all things from the very first," immediately prepared a candid review of that part of the Sermon, to which in the sequel we shall ourselves have occasion to direct a more special attention. 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.
