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A meeting was called, and a long document drawn up and subscribed, in which the people of Elizabethtown, Yonge and Augusta, became bound to raise by subscription a stipend of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum [for William Smart to start the first Sabbath School in Canada]. This document was dated October 3rd, 1812, and was signed and sealed by the following: |
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| Late in 1815 and early in 1816 the subject was again energetically taken up, and various meetings held, at which the nature and design of a Christian Church was explained, and ultimately Tuesday, the 12th day of March, 1816, was set apart as a special day of prayer and fasting. During the exercises of the day another document was drawn up, containing certain rules for the guidance of the officers in managing the spiritual and temporal affairs of the congregation, and was signed by the minister and twenty-five others, as follows, viz.: |
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