CONFESSION OF FAITH AND FORM OF COVENANT, OF THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH, IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, -^ WITH LISTS OF THE FOUNDERS, THE PASTORS, THE RULING ELDERS AND "One is your Master, even CHRIST; and all ye are brethren." BOSTON: PRESS OF CROCKER AND BREWSTER, 1855. 20. 1900. (977) At a Meeting of the Brethren of the Old South Church, held at the Chapel, Oct. 10, 1854, Voted, That a list of the Members of the Church, together with the Church Covenant, be printed. Voted, That a committee of five persons be chosen to attend to this subject. Voted, That this Committee consist of the Pastor, Deacons Cutler, Stoddard and Lathrop, and Brother Henry H. Jones. Voted, That one thousand copies of the Covenant and list of Members be printed, and that each member of the Church be entitled to a copy; also that each pew proprietor who is not a church member be furnished with a copy; and that the Pastor furnish each candidate for membership with a copy previous to a public profession. NOTICES OF THE HISTORY OF THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH. THE THIRD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH in Boston, now usually styled THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH, was formed at Charlestown, on the 12th and 16th of the third month, i. e. of May, 1669, O. S. *Mr. Thatcher had been Pastor of the Church in Weymouth, Mass., from which he had been dismissed, and had removed to Charlestown, and united with the First Church there, from which he was dismissed to be united with this Church at its formation. |