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they called Conferences, and Mr. Watson’s father married a sister of Mrs. Gerardin, and the husbands of the two sisters became partners in a business under the name of Gerardin and Watson in Poland Street, which remains to the present They were partners in business and day. partners in religion. Hence, Mr. Watson had inherited the blessing both parents having of a New Church home themselves been educated in New Church prin;

from early childhood, and greatly esteemed as members of the Cross Street Society. They died within a few months of each other,

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leaving Thomas (Mr. Watson of our present sketch) at twenty-three years of age, in the winter of 1834-5, head of a family of five, three of them comparatively young. He attended well to the family and the business and probably the early responsibilities of which he acquitted himself so well, combined with his evident devotion to the New Dispensation marked him out for the respect of the Church. that few have It may be safely declared, laboured more assiduously in the offices of the Church, few have filled so many important positions, or exerted themselves for so long a period for her real and lasting welfare. In 1839 he became secretary to the Society then recently formed in Burton Street, and in a small memorandum book of that time he entered a representation of the place, and a drawing of the interior, giving a plan of every pew and sitting, and the name of each occupant, in his inimitably neat handwriting. When the friends of Burton Street united with the Society of Friars Street, Doctors Commons, ,

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