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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 712, 11 January 1910, Page 6

"John' Bunyan Day," which was cak- , brated on November 14 in tho Sunday ,'schools : and. churches throughout . tho land -as ' the • 249 th -anniversary oftthafirst.'day the "iminortal' dreamer": spent • in - Bedford' Gaol, recalls ' his? connection : with " an. old .mooting ? place : in: ;. ;Zoar, ': Street, ; Southwark, . a turningout of Gravel Lane leading to the. historic Bankside, i.whoro stood-..the:'old ; Globe, Theatre- ? of Shakespearean fame. It was in. Zoar Street that' Oliver Goldsmith, isettled' a.-: century later, and became tlio poor man's . doctor and friend. Closo by in Park Street Chai>el,-now; occupied: by ; a firm of manufacturing chemists, : Charles * Haddon Spnrgeoa electrified London by'ha • pulpit, eloquence: , Bunyan. preached-'M<: Zoar.Street on several occasions previous v.; to his death in : ;i6BS, and it 'is 'recorded i, thai thousands of people flocked to hear him. On ono occasion ho had to _br lifted over the Iheads of the' congregation; to the; pulpit, v It. is 'said that ono dar ■; he made his escape from tho offioers In pursuitvof him by a window .it tlio Kick of tho house.' In 1710 tho "Zoar • Street congregation removed . to Deadman'a Place, so named from a Dissenters' burial • : ground, and about fifty years later they migrated, to Union Street . in. the Boroogi. i'J. Tho Zoar Street; premises were iised-as-*/ joiners' workshop until .a fewyear&.'aco^; 'ivdion -ther jvcro. derßoiisM, ...