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building to another not much better, which was on 

 the same side with the church itself, and which was 

 the house occupied previously by the clergymen of 

 the church. Here they lived, pursuing their mission 

 of love and mercy, until necessity compelled them 

 to remove their frame building and erect another in 

 its stead. After years of privation, they at last 

 succeeded in building their present splendid and 

 spacious house on the ground that was sanctified by 

 their early labours and sufferings. 



On Wednesday the qth day of November, in 

 this year, the church of St. Mary in Sheriff-street 

 was burned to the ground. The loss was a heavy 

 one, "but steps were immediately taken, (under the 

 direction of Rev. Luke Berry, the pastor of old St. 

 Mary's,) by some active members of the congrega- 

 tion, to secure a handsome site for a new church." 

 The lots selected and purchased are those on the 

 corner of Grand and Ridge streets, upon which the 

 present church of St. Mary's stands. 



The congregation had many, (and to a less 

 devoted and enterprising people) almost insur- 

 mountable difficulties to overcome, before they 

 could again assemble under the roof of a church they 

 might call their own. In one month and five days 

 (Dec. 14th) after the conflagration of St. Mary's, 

 and before they had recovered from that shock, a 

 new calamity befel the congregation in the death of 

 their beloved pastor. Thus the church and the 

 pastor, in the space of a few short weeks, existed 

 only in remembrance. Still, though the shepherd 



