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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

CHURCHES.

   Of the religious denominations in Petaluma, the Methodist is the oldest, and
had the first church-building; the Rev. S. B. Clifford is the minister in
charge. The Baptist Church is in charge of Rev. A. Hitchcock. Rev. Geo. A. Allen
is rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Father Cleary of St.
Vincent's Church. Rev. C. J. Hutchins has the Congregational Church, and the
Rev. T. B. Page the Methodist Church South. Some of these congregations have
handsome church-buildings, which are well filled every Sunday. For each church
there is a Sunday-school, which is patronized by bright-faced boys and girls,
and here we will say that there is no sweeter melody than that of the mingled
voices of many children singing praises to Him who, in the words of the
Psalmist, "covereth the heavens with a cloud, and prepareth rain for the earth;
and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains, and herbs for the use of man;
who giveth fodder to the cattle, and feedeth the young ravens when they call on
him."


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HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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