CHAPTER XVII

WORK   RESUMED:  THE   CIVIL   WAR:

1858-1863

*' We enter upon our new career under few circumstances of discouragement and
many of bright anticipation. ... In the name of the Lord, therefore, we set
up our banners. It is an eventful age of the world in which our enterprise receives
this new impulse."—Gardiner Spring, 1858, " The Brick Church Memorial," pp. 74 /.

"Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for
all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."—Matthew 24 : 6.

THE members of the Brick Church had not
waited for the new building to be ready be¬
fore they began to revive the work which was
to occupy it. At least one discontinued enterprise
had been zealously taken up again as soon as the
new site had been purchased, and even before the
plans for the new church had been fairly begun.
This was the Sunday-school. At the call of Dr.
Spring, eighteen persons came together in Hope
Chapel on a Sunday afternoon in November, 1856,
"to organize a Sabbath-school which should be con¬
nected with the Brick Church and located for the
present at the Hope Chapel." One of the first acts of
the teachers, after the school had been started, was
to inquire whether during the interval the old title,
"School No. 3," had been assigned to any other in¬
stitution. If not, they voted to reassume it. We do
not know whether they were successful, for this is
the last time that the old name appears in the records.

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