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way this ministry was remarkable. Dr. S. L. Caldwell, 

 one of his biographers, says : " He had what I may call 

 a i)astoral heart. Of large person, of lond, almost sten- 

 torian voice, he spoke with fluency ; often pathetic and 

 hortatory in his application of truth, always possessed 

 with a strong conviction of it, he had power over a large 

 audience, which during his time filled the house." 



Stephen Gano was filled with the missionary spirit that 

 characterized the early Baptist ministry. During a 

 journey to the West, while visiting his brother in Cincin- 

 nati, he organized the first Protestant church of anj" de- 

 nomination in the State of Ohio. It was located in a 

 little settlement known as Columbia, now within the city 

 limits of Cincinnati. The church continues in existence. 

 Interested in education, he stimulated the founding of 

 colleges and academies, as well as of churches, and was 

 a loyal supporter of Brown University. Two denomina- 

 tional leaders of their generation were thus contributed 

 to American life by that brave Huguenot who fled from 

 his home in France by night, and after many perils 

 found refuge in that freest of colonies, where Eoger Will- 

 iams guaranteed to all the religious liberty for which he 

 himself had twice been exiled. 



SECOND FRENCH CHURCH ON PINB STREET, I704, USED TILL l8ll, NEW YORK 



