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The preacher preached to millions of money every 

 Sunday, and Nantucket churches were built out of full 

 pockets as well as full hearts. The Unitarians, had 

 they been so minded, were rich enough to build their 

 church of mahogany, and gild it all over." 



The visitor to Nantucket, when he enters these 

 churches, need not be told that they were built when 

 the town contained a much larger population than it 

 does at present. So far as the congregations of to-day 

 are concerned, outside of the summer season, it would 

 be much better if the church societies would sell all 

 but one of their houses of worship and hold union 

 services ; for it is fair to presume that on Sunday the 

 combined congregations of all the churches would not 

 amount to over five hundred people at any ordinary 

 service, and yet here are nine different societies wor- 

 shipping and paying for the support of as many differ- 

 ent sanctuaries, when either the Methodist, Unitarian, 

 or Congregationalist churches would accommodate all, 

 and more. 



During the summer, services are held simultane- 

 ously in all the churches, commencing at 10.45 A. M. 

 and 7. 45 P. M. Sunday school at 2 r. M., prayer meet- 

 ing 6 P. M. The following is a list of the churches in 

 the town, with the dates (as far as can be ascertained) 

 of their erection : — 



Unitarian, Orange Street, erected 1809 ; Methodist, 

 Centre Street, 1823 ; Friends, Fair Street, 1834 ; 

 Friends, Centre Street, 1850 ; Congregational, Centre 

 Street, 1834 ; Baptist, Summer Street, 1840 ; Baptist 

 (colored), Pleasant Street, ; Episcopal, Fair Street, 



