HISTORICAL SKETCH OI“ THE ICAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

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DEACON .[OHN STEWART

Deacon Stewart was ordained to thc oil‘icc of Deacon in 1835 and scrvcd till his death in 1873. ”Damn John". as he was frequently called. was a gt‘ntli‘ (“Ml lx'lHLllY maniwa good citiyvn and a good ncighw hor, loval to his church. anti popular in {hr community. His reverent manner and amiahlr charartr liticd him to income an acceptable cup- hcarcr for [lit King. Ills long puma oi wrx'icc as deacon, covering al- most half a ccnturv. linkcd him with thv Church in its infancy, and with the church in its strcngzh and pli)~p:‘l‘l[\' alter the revival of 1874. He had known hut one pastor. Rm: john Shaxx: and one Church, the Bap- tist Church on the lIIllSlClL‘. overlooking his home. \thn the great rc- vival of 1874 was over h: .xaicl to this writer. “I find m many new face; af the Lord} tab/c that I foul like a (Irangcr. but I‘ll X0071 be among ola’ fricna’r on f/)(‘ other ridi'.” He died l\larch, 1875.

—J. A. F.

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