length one huge broadside is ready. The stout old oaken frame is no trifle to be hoisted in mid air. With the word of the master, it is raised from the ground; it is up on all their hands; the strong pike poles are applied; it creaks and groans as it moves slowly upward, and the anxious crowd, for a moment hushed as the sight greets their eyes, give utterance to a deep breathing sound of relief as it settles surely into its proper place. Then in their turn come the heavy timbers of the end, and then the last broadside, while the lookers-on watch with eager interest the runners on the dizzy spars, or laugh as the whizzing pins fly over the heads of those who fail to catch them. Ere the setting of the sun all is right; - the sills, the posts, the beams, the braces, the rafters, the ridge-pole. And the master builder a glad man is he that day, as he wipes the sweat from his sunburnt brow, thankful that nor witch, nor wizard, or worse than this, a careless hand, had wrought him mischief. Here posterity must regret the loss of the speech which, according to the custom of our ancestors, was undoubtedly delivered from the ridgepole, but no word of it remains. The winds floated it afar over the wild forest, and no man can decipher their phonography. 'Twas of course worthy of the occasion, and considered as the first sermon delivered from this ticklish rostrum, probably it had traits of genuine originality.

Now all are ready and impatient to do justice to the supper-the codfish, potatoes and butter. How they

ate, and laughed, and joked until the old mansion of Col. Carr fairly rung with merriment; while the hostess with flushed face and bustling air did the honors of the house, and (as she lived to tell often since,) "melted the clear butter for 'em, with not a drop of water in it;" what a height of culinary extravagance.

In February, 1767, ground for the wall pews was sold at auction. This ground was divided into lots, and sold before the pews were finished. At first long seats were placed in front of the speaker, the men sitting on one, and the women on the other, side of the aisle. Our fathers however had perhaps some misgivings about this tendency to Quakerism, for soon after we find it recorded in a solemn vote, that the "men and women's seats shall be moved two inches nearer together;" although some do assert that the record means simply, that the men's seats shall be moved two inches nearer together, and also the women's seats. If this interpretation be believed, then all room for controversy respecting the sectarian tendency of the thing vanishes, and the peg on which an ingenious historian might hang a long disquisition, is driven out of sight. Be this as it may, ground enough was sold to clapboard and shingle the house, and an additional assessment was laid on the members of the parish for the purpose of glazing the windows. For this object liberty was given each man to cut oak timber from the Parsonage lot and make hogshead staves, for which he should be

allowed 18 shillings per thousand, provided they were brought to the meeting house before the 16th day of February.

The first call to the work of the ministry, was given to Mr. Tristram Gilman, Sept. 1st, 1768, and it was voted that for the first year he should receive £40, lawful money, with the addition of £2 10s, each year afterwards, until the salary amounted to £60. He was also to have the improvement of one half of the Parsonage lot; and the Parish furthermore engaged to bring twentyfive acres of the above half, under good cultivation in six years from that time, and to build a house suitable for the minister to dwell in as soon as convenient.

It seems that these terms did not satisfy Mr. Gilman, and it was voted to increase the salary yearly until it should reach £70, and to give him the improvement of the whole Parsonage lot, but he did not accept their offer. In the meantime a Parsonage house was commenced, a well dug, and one hundred apple trees set out on the farm, which was rented to the highest bidder for improvement. A call was then given to Mr. Jonathan Searle. This, also, was unsuccessful, and finally after a day of fasting and prayer, appointed by the committee, as the record has it, they pitched on Mr. David Jewett, with an offer of £50 for the first year, and £5 more each year afterward, until the stipend should be £65. Mr. Jewett's letter of acceptance was as follows:

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To the Inhabitants of Candia:

CHRISTIAN FRIENDS,-The serious Concern you seam to manifest for the Enjoyment of the Stated Institu tions of the Gospel and in the most regular way by the preparations You are making for this purpose, and have proceeded so far as to give me an Invitation to settle among You in the Sacred office of the Gospel ministry and having voted me Such a maintainance as may be Sufficient, being so generally united in me and so agreeably harmonizing among y'selves, Having taken these things into the most serious and prayerful consideration, I Embrace this Opportunity to express my gratitude to you in having Such a Regard for me, which I trust with an Eye and aim to God's Glory has influenced you to act as you have; and would hereby signify to you that upon Condition a Church is incorporated in this Place in Christian love and friendship and on condition that you finish the Parsonage house by october or November in the year 1772, and Digg and Stone a well by December next and build a barn by July next You have my consent for tarrying-and should God in his alwise Providence so order that I settle among you may it be with an humble Dependance upon Divine Grace that I may be Enabled to behave agreeable to the character of a minister of Christ. Entreating your earnest and fervent prayers at the throne of Grace, that in the Course of my ministration among you I may prove faithfull and successfull, that I may not Run in vain, nor spend my strength for naught, while holyness and Charity are our mutual and resolute Endeavours.

from your real and serious friend,

DAVID JEWETT.

These conditions were probably complied with, for in 1770 Mr. Jewett began his ministry. In 1773, a pulpit was built, certainly a most elaborate piece of architecture, very high, grand and prison-like, over the deacons' seat, like Ossa upon Pelion. It was a queer idea, that of placing a preacher mid way between Heaven and his hearers, and perhaps to the designer of such high places, typical of the sacred office. Over the pulpit was a huge sounding board, and many a time of a warm summer's Sabbath afternoon, when the buzzing of a fly about my nose, or a sudden pause in the sermon roused me from vainly resisted slumbers, have I been seized with a sort of panic, lest it should fall and dash the unfortunate incumbent to atoms. This was in boyhood's day, but never since have I seen, or thought of it, but an involuntary comparison arises, between that and the sword suspended by a single hair over the head of Damocles, as we used to have it in the English Reader and I know not what classic author beside. However, this sounding board, if a bubble, was a harmless one, and seemed by custom quite a necessary part of the sermon.

While thus quietly and peacefully engaged in the common and pleasant duties of life, designs were maturing in the great world without, which might soon call the attention of our Fathers to sterner things. The cloud overhanging the country assumed a dark and threatening aspect. The colonies by their deputies in Congress