A Discourse Delivered in the Meetinghouse on Church Green: Boston, on Monday, March 20, 1854, at the Funeral of the Late Rev. Alexander Young ...Crosby, Nichols,, 1854 - 24 pages |
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Page 8 - Jesus took in his arms and said, " Of such is the kingdom of heaven...
Page 29 - ASLEEP in Jesus! blessed sleep! From which none ever wake to weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes.
Page 15 - No nation or state has a nobler origin or lineage than Massachusetts. My reverence for the character of its founders constantly rises with the closer study of their lives and a clearer insight into their principles and motives.
Page 15 - Divinatione, lib. i. 40. PREFACE. xi reader shall derive from its perusal the same satisfaction which I have found in its compilation, I shall feel myself abundantly remunerated for this labor of love. Regarding these documents as the only authentic chronicles of those times, I have considered all deviations from them in subsequent writers as errors, and when they have fallen under my notice, I have not scrupled to point them out. In this I have no other object in view than historical accuracy...
Page 16 - Whilst the mutilated fragments of classical antiquity are gathered up and cherished with a religious zeal, and are made the subjects of a constant and careful study, it seems neither creditable nor grateful, that the beautiful and venerable remains of our own ancestral literature should repose on the shelves of public libraries, deposited in cumbrous volumes, in undisturbed security. In this age of books, when everybody is sipping of the shallow and ofttimes poisoned fountains of an ephemeral literature,...
Page 35 - Prescott, Dec. 15, 1844. 10. A Discourse on the Twentieth Anniversary of his Ordination. January 19, 1845. 11. The Dudleian Lecture. May 13, 1846. [Published also in the Christian Examiner.] 12. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of Benjamin Rich. June 8, 1851. 13. A Discourse occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Catharine G. Prescott. May 23, 1852. EXEMPLIFICATION OF THE JUDGMENT FOR VACATING THE CHARTER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND. [The following paper is copied from a contemporary manuscript...
Page 35 - ... Dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624 ;" and "Chronicles of Maritime Discovery on the Coasts of North America"; which it is much to be regretted that he did not live to complete. The following is a list of Dr. Young's publications in pamphlet form : — A Discourse on the Sins of the Tongue, 1829. A Sermon at the Ordination of the Rev. James W. Thompson, at Natick, 1830. A Sermon at the Ordination of the Rev. William Newell, at Cambridge, 1830. A pamphlet entitled Evangelical Unitarianism...
Page 15 - Plymouth, from 1602 to 1625, and in 1846 his Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from 1623 to 1636.
Page 29 - after he had served his own generation according to the will of God, fell on sleep, and was gathered to his fathers.
Page 21 - ... implying that the reasons for this conduct, which he has in his own mind, and which are perfectly satisfactory to his infinite wisdom, he has not made known to us, nor made us, in our present state, capable of discovering ; — so that we can only bow down in humble submission and adoration, and say, Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.