Charles Francis Barnard a Sketch of His Life And Work
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Pierpont's to thoughtful adults was pure torment to children. Their heels went because their abounding nervous forces, concentrated neither in mind nor heart, must work off at the extremities. Strict justice compels one to say that here was a case in which " Wisdom was justified in both her chil- dren, " — in Dr. Pierpont's congregation in devoutly wishing to get rid of so much racket, and in Mr. Barnard's reacting con- viction that a new and decided step must be taken in the religious nurture ...of chil- dren. Meanwhile, as a makeshift till some- thing better could be done, a rather dismal hall over the old engine house in Common Street, where the Brimmer schoolhouse now stands, was occupied for about a year. Already, into the " Children's Church " established in the Hollis Street Vestry, had Mr. Barnard succeeded in bringing to- 62 CHARLES FRANCIS BARNARD, gether no less than two hundred and fifty- boys and girls, a part of them regularly connected with Dr. Pierpont's society, and the rest personally attracted to him in the course of his work of ministering to the poor in the lanes and cellars of the city.
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