Excerpt from The Old Evangelicalism and the New When he came to Bath in 1785 the congre gation was very small, and consisted of less than thirty persons; in the course of three or four years it rose to 700 or 800. They worshipped for a few years in a building on the Lower Borough walls, but this soon became too small for them, and they built a new chapel on this site, which was opened on Oct. 4, 1789. When the chapel was Opened, however, Mr. Tuppen's health was broken, and he was never able to preach in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.