James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier: The Pioneers as History

Chapter 10: 

[Progress in Templeton] En route to the Christmas Eve service at the Academy, 

Elizabeth stops to talk with the Hollisters, proprietors of the Bold Dragoon tavern. Description of 

the unfinished new church, New St. Paul's, which Temple and Richard Jones plan to complete as 

an Episcopalian edifice.  

Chapter 11: 

[Christmas Eve service] Description of the Academy, prepared for the Christmas-

eve service, and of the frontier families who have come to attend it. Natty Bumppo and John 

Mohegan arrive. Rev. Mr. Grant gives an Episcopalian service, though only his daughter Louisa, 

Elizabeth Temple, and Oliver Edwards know how to give the responses. He reads a sermon, on 

the necessity of Faith because not all of God's Truth is revealed to Man.