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Michigan Macomb County
My first Sabbath with you was November 12,1849. Your village was then by no means the pleasant place of residence it now is. Not a rod of sidewalk had been built, and as the winter proved to be an open one the mud was of course deep, and navigation in the streets on foot difficult. It required a good deal of courage to get to church on the Sabbath, and it could only be accomplished by wading. The houses on these streets, too, were anything but the elegant residences you now see. Most of them were of a very humble order. But the people themselves were joyous and comfortable. Scarcely was extreme poverty known
among them."
Dr. Hurd proceeded to describe the old church, with its inconveniently high galleries, its pews with their locked doors, and the uncarpeted floor. It was, moreover, a joint-stock association, many pew-owners being members neither of the church nor of the society, and renting their pews for their own profit.
"The new pastor soon penetrated the difficulty, and resolutely undertook its removal.
Early Macomb County
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