Address of Alpheus S. Packard, D.D: Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church at Wiscasset, August 6th, 1873 (Classic Reprint)
Address of Alpheus S. Packard, D.D: Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church at Wiscasset, August 6th, 1873 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Address of Alpheus S. Packard, D.D: Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church at Wiscasset, August 6th, 1873 The nature of the occasion does not require, or admit of, much historic detail, nor could much beyond the most general statements he made of What is properly the church history of the earlier period in consequence of the almost entire lack of records. In fact I find no means of forming an estimate of the Spiritual life of the church during the first two ...
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Excerpt from Address of Alpheus S. Packard, D.D: Delivered on the Occasion of the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church at Wiscasset, August 6th, 1873 The nature of the occasion does not require, or admit of, much historic detail, nor could much beyond the most general statements he made of What is properly the church history of the earlier period in consequence of the almost entire lack of records. In fact I find no means of forming an estimate of the Spiritual life of the church during the first two pastorates of which there are no church records. While of the third, a large portion of the records have been lost. From the Parish records, which are pretty full, the first pastorate of eighteen years seems to have closed under a cloud. Of the second pastorate, of seven or eight years, I have found no records of the parish after 1794 and, as just said, none at all of the church. It should be remarked, however, as afford ing an explanation or apology for the absence of such documents, that until about 1819, the whole town or precinct constituted the parish, and all who were qualified to vote in town affairs were summoned by warrant to meet and act on all matters of the parish, and thus the pastor, on whom it might devolve. As it did in the first fifty or more years of this church to keep the church records, might not feel special responsibility, as a clerk, when he had a right to presume that the transactions were entered on the records of the town or parish. It may be, moreover, that in all churches of earliest date the importance in an historical View of method and exactness, in this respect, was not comprehended, or that it depended on the peculiar turn of mind and the habits of the incumbent. Still further, the value of a careful and full transmission of historical data was not estimated anywhere in those earlier days. The fathers did not know what a history they were working out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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