Plymouth Congregational Church
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- Jul 1, 1889The Great Seattle Fire Erased Our RootsAn early record of Seattle’s vanished architecture and the displacement of its first churches following the devastating 1889 fire.Great Seattle Fire, Seattle, WA
- Jan 25, 1892The Pulpit vs. The Lottery: Seattle's 1892 War on GamblingWhen the Louisiana Lottery sought to expand its influence across the nation, a fiery Seattle minister took to the pulpit to denounce the 'giant evil' of state-sponsored gambling and its corrupting hold on American politics.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- May 30, 1892The Minister and the SaloonA fiery Memorial Day sermon calls out the city's corrupt politics and the vice rampant in the very shadow of Seattle's churches.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- Jun 6, 1892The Pulpit Against the SaloonRev. Wallace Nutting argues that legal prohibition is the only way to shield Seattle's youth from the moral decay of the saloon.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- Nov 21, 1892Sunday Statistics: The War for the Soul of Seattle's YouthRev. Wallace Nutting takes a census of the city’s saloons and churches to prove the moral decay of young men in the West.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- Jan 9, 1893A Compassionate Life Cut Short by SmallpoxA dedicated social worker dies after contracting the disease while visiting a local house of charity.Seattle, WA
- Jan 9, 1893The Pulpit vs. The PressRev. Wallace Nutting fires back at local editors, defending the right of the clergy to speak out on political and moral matters.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- Oct 10, 1893Street Harassment Met With JusticeTwo men intervened when a stranger began assaulting women on a downtown Seattle street corner.Seattle, WA
- Feb 18, 1894The Miracle of the Magnetized SpikesA visiting electrical engineer stuns a packed Plymouth Congregational Church with a massive 5,000-candlepower lamp and a demonstration of magnetic force.Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA
- May 14, 1894The Fight for Religious Education in SchoolsClergy call for the inclusion of formal religious instruction within the public school curriculum, arguing that secular education creates a moral vacuum.Seattle, WA
- Jan 2, 1895The Pioneer Pastor Who Counted Seattle's Weddings and FuneralsRev. John F. Damon arrived in 1869 and spent a quarter-century marrying and burying Seattle—often without enough in return to cover his car fare.Seattle, WA
- Mar 16, 1895The Bell in the Woods: How Seattle Built Its First UniversityA 34-year anniversary feature on the Territorial University: 48 laborers, $2-a-day wages, lumber from Port Blakely, and an old bell that warned ships in fog and rang for hangings.Seattle, WA
- May 1, 1899The Man Who Jumped the Fence: A Tale of Love, Debt, and DisappearanceA Seattle man recounts a twenty-year-old mystery involving an English defaulter who fled to Australia, married his way out of disgrace, and left behind only a letter and a fortune.Seattle, WA