ABSTRACT
The new voice gains new attention; the preacher whom they have always with them is considered “poor.” However, the effect of the author's continuous work was that they gradually formed a small nucleus of some who might have been called “converts,” or “adherents,” although it would never have been wise to measure their conversion, or adhesion, by any definite tests. Two or three of them, nevertheless, were young men of intelligence and promise. Unluckily, Death, the great anti-Positivist, took them from us in the course of a few years. In 1887, after they had been for four years in the Pilgrim Street Room, they took what was, for a small and experimental congregation, a bold step—the authors bought a piece of land in St. Mary’s Place, and an iron church to set upon it. The afternoon service was held to confer one of Comte’s sacraments, the “Sacrament of Presentation” on our infant daughter. Dr. Congreve performed the ceremony.
