Cambridge Sketches by Cambridge AuthorsEstelle Minerva Hatch Merrill Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association, 1896 - 264 pages |
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Page 86 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 246 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered and fed thee ? or thirsty and gave thee drink ? when saw we thee a stranger and took thee in ] or naked and clothed thee 1 or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee...
Page 109 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating...
Page 8 - Gentlemen first, and then the Elders, and all the congregation of men, and most of them that are not of the church, all single persons, widows, and women in absence of their husbands, come up one after another one way, and bring their offerings to the Deacon at his...
Page 102 - THIS HALL COMMEMORATES THE PATRIOTISM OF THE GRADUATES AND STUDENTS OF THIS UNIVERSITY WHO SERVED IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION AND UPON THESE TABLETS ARE INSCRIBED THE NAMES OF THOSE AMONG THEM WHO DIED IN THAT SERVICE...
Page 8 - The Lord to mee a shepheard is, want therefore shall not I. Hee in the folds of tender-grasse, doth cause mee downe to lie: To waters calme me gently leads 3 Restore my soule doth hee: he doth in paths of righteousness: for his names sake leade mee.
Page 8 - Brethren of the congregation, now there is time left for contribution, wherefore as God hath prospered you, so freely offer.