The Centennial of the Association: Held in Portland, May 28 and 29, 1888 |
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... continued to be , a central source of spiritual and intellectual edification to the ministers , and of wisdom and counsel to the churches of Cumberland county . This ministerial association was the first organization of its kind in the ...
... continued to be , a central source of spiritual and intellectual edification to the ministers , and of wisdom and counsel to the churches of Cumberland county . This ministerial association was the first organization of its kind in the ...
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... continued to live for thirty - two years , without any formal statement of doc- trine , as a basis of union . We propose now to review its progress , in the light of its own records , during the interval between its origin and the ...
... continued to live for thirty - two years , without any formal statement of doc- trine , as a basis of union . We propose now to review its progress , in the light of its own records , during the interval between its origin and the ...
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... continued to reside in the place , respected for his virtues and public spirit until his death in 1807 , at the age of seventy - two . Speaking of his settlement twenty - three years before , in his journal , Parson Smith says , under ...
... continued to reside in the place , respected for his virtues and public spirit until his death in 1807 , at the age of seventy - two . Speaking of his settlement twenty - three years before , in his journal , Parson Smith says , under ...
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... 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 discussions , when I was present , were uniformly in a pleasant mood . The new members after ...
... 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 discussions , when I was present , were uniformly in a pleasant mood . The new members after ...
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... continued to preach to va- rious societies , and at the almshouses in Westbrook and Portland until his last sick- ness in 1861. He was scribe of the association for fifteen years , and is well remem- bered by older citizens as a ...
... continued to preach to va- rious societies , and at the almshouses in Westbrook and Portland until his last sick- ness in 1861. He was scribe of the association for fifteen years , and is well remem- bered by older citizens as a ...
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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.