Centennial Celebration of the Cumberland Association of Congregational MinistersB. Thurston & Company, 1888 - 75 pages |
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... Clark , of Cape Elizabeth , was one of the most active originators of the association . His name heads the list in the record , and his history - by no means a placid one - reveals him as a man of great energy and determination . Amid ...
... Clark , of Cape Elizabeth , was one of the most active originators of the association . His name heads the list in the record , and his history - by no means a placid one - reveals him as a man of great energy and determination . Amid ...
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... Clark preached for hire , for we are informed that in 1780 , when it required four pounds sterling to buy a bushel of corn , his entire salary amounted to but seventy pounds . The Rev. Mr. Clark was an army chaplain in 1776 , but soon ...
... Clark preached for hire , for we are informed that in 1780 , when it required four pounds sterling to buy a bushel of corn , his entire salary amounted to but seventy pounds . The Rev. Mr. Clark was an army chaplain in 1776 , but soon ...
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... Clark , they were all graduates of Harvard college . The Cumberland association began its existence , and continued ... Clark's successor in the Cape Elizabeth parish . Mr. Gregg was a schoolmaster by profession , and succeeded Dr ...
... Clark , they were all graduates of Harvard college . The Cumberland association began its existence , and continued ... Clark's successor in the Cape Elizabeth parish . Mr. Gregg was a schoolmaster by profession , and succeeded Dr ...
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... Clark , Gilman , Wil- liams and Johnson1 were appointed missionaries " to go into the back part of the county two weeks each , and preach as often as they conveniently can . " This was the first missionary enterprise of our association ...
... Clark , Gilman , Wil- liams and Johnson1 were appointed missionaries " to go into the back part of the county two weeks each , and preach as often as they conveniently can . " This was the first missionary enterprise of our association ...
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... Clark Perry , of Standish , John W. 1 There were some members previous to 1838 who have not been ¡ mentioned , who were in the Association but a short time , e . g . , the Rev. Thomas M. Smith , of the Chapel Church Portland , and the ...
... Clark Perry , of Standish , John W. 1 There were some members previous to 1838 who have not been ¡ mentioned , who were in the Association but a short time , e . g . , the Rev. Thomas M. Smith , of the Chapel Church Portland , and the ...
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Popular passages
Page 7 - Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Page 10 - O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 62 - And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 11 - To die, — to sleep, — No more ; — and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep ; — Perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled oft...
Page 14 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.
Page 42 - ... to Dr. Dwight when he preached in a Cambridge pulpit, which for a time his son supplied, and he has still a vivid impression of the dignified personality of this eminent preacher, and of the mingled sweetness and power of his discourses. " He was," says one of our Maine pastors, his contemporary, '' a man of mark, inheriting a great name and bearing it worthily and well.
Page 11 - Nor death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any created thing shall be able to separate us from the love...
Page 33 - A Portland gentleman being in England happened to speak to an Englishman of the place where he hailed from. 'Portland! Portland!' exclaimed the Englishman. 'Are you from there? Is that Payson alive yet?' 'Why, what of him ?'
Page 28 - ... Association, viz. Dutton, Payson, Rand, and Brown. We consulted together, and agreed to join, and see if we could induce the brethren to have some exercises calculated to be more useful to us as ministers than had been wont. We had no special reference to Unitarianism in this movement, if I remember right, but the question soon came up, and the discussion was continued. I do not think the older members would have moved in the matter for years, if we juniors had not joined the Association. The...
Page 28 - Armeiwmt. into the Association ; and when Francis Brown (afterwards President of Dartmouth College) came, in 1810, and settled in North Yarmouth, there were four of us who had not united with the Association, viz. Dutton, Payson, Rand, and Brown. We consulted together, and agreed to join, and see if we could induce the brethren to have some exercises calculated to be more useful to us as ministers than had been wont. We had no special reference to Unitarianism in this movement, if I remember right,...