Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house (1894)
Bliss, William Root, 1825-1906 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 193
XII. THE NOTORIOUS MINISTERS. ERY different from the poor parsonswere the notorious ministers. Therewas one in the colonial meeting-house whose name was Samuel Parris. Hewas in Harvard College awhile ; then he wasin commercial business in the West Indies ;then, being forty years old, he drifted…
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