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I could not complain that I had not a choice of places of worship.
The Roman Catholics have an archbishop, a cathedral, and five or six
smaller churches, French, German, Spanish, and English; and the
Episcopalians, a bishop, a cathedral, and three other churches; he
Methodists and Presbyterians have three or four each, and there are
Congregationalists, Baptists, a Unitarian, and other societies. On
my way to church, I met two classmates of mine at Harvard standing
in a door-way, one a lawyer and the other a teacher, and made
appointments for a future meeting. A little farther on I came upon
another Harvard man, a fine scholar and wit, and full of cleverness
and good-humor, who invited me to go to breakfast with him at the
French house,- he was a bachelor, and a late riser on Sundays. I
asked him to show me the way to Bishop Kip's church. He hesitated,
looked a little confused, and admitted that he was not as well up in
certain classes of knowledge as in others, but, by a desperate
guess, pointed out a wooden building at the foot of the street,
which any one might have seen could not be right, and which turned out
to be an African Baptist meeting-house.
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