Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Hollis Street Church From Mather Byles to Thomas Starr King: 1732-1861; Two Discourses Given
Other gifts from people to church are pleasantly recorded. One of these is especially interesting for its date of the time when the Bible was first publicly read here. On May 2d, the pastor, in the name of the Hon. William Dummer, late lieutenant-governor and commander-in-chief over this Province, presented the church with a large and rich folio Bible, on con dition that it should be read as a part of the publick worship on the Lord's day among us. The thanks of the church are voted to the honorable donor for his stately church Bible, and one week later, May 9, 1742, reading from the Scriptures is introduced.
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