The Centennial of the Association: Held in Portland, May 28 and 29, 1888 |
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... Payson , as teacher of the Portland Academy , a private school incorporated in 1794. There can be no doubt but that the bold , ornate hand - writ- ing of the records , between 1788 and 1807 , is the work of this accom- plished penman ...
... Payson , as teacher of the Portland Academy , a private school incorporated in 1794. There can be no doubt but that the bold , ornate hand - writ- ing of the records , between 1788 and 1807 , is the work of this accom- plished penman ...
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... Payson , of Portland , became a member the same year . Soon after John Dutton , 1 of North Yarmouth , Asa Rand , of Gorham , and Francis Brown , 2 of North Yarmouth , afterward president of Dartmouth College , became members . It ...
... Payson , of Portland , became a member the same year . Soon after John Dutton , 1 of North Yarmouth , Asa Rand , of Gorham , and Francis Brown , 2 of North Yarmouth , afterward president of Dartmouth College , became members . It ...
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... Payson , Kellogg and Rand were appointed a committee to devise means to make the association more useful . Their report was accepted July , 1810 , of which this is the sub- 1 The Rev. Nathan Tilton was Benjamin Chadwick's successor in ...
... Payson , Kellogg and Rand were appointed a committee to devise means to make the association more useful . Their report was accepted July , 1810 , of which this is the sub- 1 The Rev. Nathan Tilton was Benjamin Chadwick's successor in ...
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... Payson objected to Mr. Nichols as the preacher , and some one else was therefore appointed to preach . The Rev. Mr. Nichols had been admitted to the association the previous year . The Cumber- and Association , sitting at a council ...
... Payson objected to Mr. Nichols as the preacher , and some one else was therefore appointed to preach . The Rev. Mr. Nichols had been admitted to the association the previous year . The Cumber- and Association , sitting at a council ...
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... Payson , in his stead , made , according to the record , “ a very feeling and interesting address on pastoral duty ... Payson's action . On July , 1812 , the vote concerning rotation of preachers was repealed , which restored to the ...
... Payson , in his stead , made , according to the record , “ a very feeling and interesting address on pastoral duty ... Payson's action . On July , 1812 , the vote concerning rotation of preachers was repealed , which restored to the ...
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Popular passages
Page 50 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God ; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
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 57 - But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
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 12 - He is the first begotten from the dead; the first fruits of them that sleep.
Page 14 - I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.
Page 58 - My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you...
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.