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August , 1806 , had granted them an oratory ; their number being found ^ to amount to upwards of 6000 souls ; their Church was rendered Consistoxial by a decree of the 11 th of August , 1808 , given at Nantes .
The Consistory of this Church is composed of two pastors and twelve lay-elders ^ it is subordinate to the general Consistory of Strasburg ; each of the two pastors presides alternately for three months .
The service is performed in the French and German languages by turns , every Sunday and festival-day , at noon . Though the pecuniary means of this Society be very limited , the pastors , with the assistance of the Consistory and the contributions of the faithful ,
have succeeded in establishing a school on religious principles , ( the first Protestant school formed in Paris , ) where the young people of the community are instructed in the branches of
knowledge requisite for the middle classes of society . It is divided into two classes , and taught by two masters ; the number of children who attend at present is about a hundred .
George David Frederick Boissard , oi * e -of the Pastors of this Church , was born 16 th August , 1783 , at Montbeliard , a town on the frontiers of Alsatia and of Switzerland , formerly depending on the Dutchy of Wurtemburg , now united to France . After receiving from his father , who exercises the functions of a minister
of the gospel , the elementary instruction necessary to prepare him for the study of divinity , he followed , during five years , the course of the Central School and the Theological Academy at Strasburg . He was ordained to the sacred ministry at the end of the year 1803 , and continued his studies till the
termination of 1804 . The Reformed Churches of France being at this period in want of an augmented number of ministers , M . Boissard , with the consent of his ecclesiastical superiors , accepted the call of V Oratoire R 6 form 6 9 of Lille , of which
he was the first pastor . He entered upon his office in the month of January , 1805 ; he was installed by M . Marron , President of the Consistory of Paris . Two places being annexed to the Oratory of Lille , one at lilies , at a
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distance of four leagues , the other , at JLaunoy , at a distance of three leagues from Lille , rendered the duty extremely fatiguing : M . Boissard was consequently obliged to quit this situation after filling it two years and a half , and then accepted an invitation from the Oratory of Nancy , united tp the Consistorial Reformed Church of
Strasburg . He commenced his ministry there 12 th July , 1807 , the day of the dedication of the Church ; he was installed by M . Peterseau , President of the Consistory of Strasburg . He continued at Naney till 1809 , when an invitation from the Consistory of the Church at Paris recalled him to the
service of the Churches of the Augsburgh Confession . He began to exereise his functions in the Church at Paris , in conjunction with M . J . J . Goepp , on the last Sunday in November 1809 ; on which day they celebrated the dedication of thfit Church .
In 1813 , M . Boissard published a very useful work for young people , entitled Histoires de la Bible ou R&cits tir&s des Saintes Ecritures . In 1815 , M . Boissard and his colleague jointly published two religious works , one entitled Prlcis de la Doctrine
Chr&tienne expos&par le Teocte de VEcriture Sainte ; the other , Prieres & I Usage du Culte domestique , suivies des Exercises de Preparation & la S - Cene .
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An Account i > f tke Protestant Churches in Paris . 126 J
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M . Jean Jaques Goepp , the other Pastor and President of the Christian Consistorial Church of the Confession of Augsburgh , at Paris , was born 6 th April , 1771 > at Heiligenstein , a village in Alsatia , at the foot of the T ^ osges , six leagues distant from Strasburg .
The son of a vme-dresser , he appeared destined , as well as his six brothers and sisters , to pass his life in rural labours ; but having early shewn a decided taste for religious studies , particularly for the composition of sacred poetry , several pious persons at Strasburg , with whom his father transacted business , induced the latter
to devote his youngest son to the theological profession , at the same time facilitating his means of doing it : M . Hebeisen , distinguished on the bagks of the Rhine , in Switzerland and in great part of Germany , for his seal in every thing which iliay contribute to the success of the gospel , was of this number . Goepp , the lather , who him-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/11/
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