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Excerpt from The Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, New York: Its Character and Work, With the Changes Around It, During Forty Years of Pastoral Service
A certain reserve has therefore characterized it, such as used to be more common in churches than it has been of late. There has never been felt here the passion for publicity which finds the church-life most exhilarating when public mention of it is frequent; to which the church appears walking victoriously on high places when the newspapers are occupied with what is said or done within it. We have preferred to live in the privacy secured to us, and to do our work, in our special Sphere, without proclamation. It has never been our wont to advertise our services, except on the rarest public occasions; and the many strangers whom we have gladly welcomed to them have come from an impulse in themselves, not as attracted by notices in the papers. I imply in this no adverse criticism on a different plan. I see, indeed, that that. May have advantages. I speak only of what our own custom has been, as naturally suggested by the particular composition of the church.
The families thus associated have by no means been wholly from New England, or descendants of the Puritan stock; nor have they been such, only, as had previously been accustomed to the Congregational order or worship. English, Scotch, and German families have been as pleasantly at home in the church as have been those of American origin so have families of the Holland lineage, or those springing from a Huguenot ancestry; families from the North of Ireland, or from Canada; from the West, the Middle States, or the South, as well as those from New England. We have had among us, and have to-day.
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