This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...our beloved brother to the work of the ministry among you. At this moment, I recollect the exultation of that day, and the bright and agreeable prospects which were before our eyes! Your union, your spiritual advantage, and the prosperity of this town, newly rising from its ashes, were prospects not too flattering for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ...our beloved brother to the work of the ministry among you. At this moment, I recollect the exultation of that day, and the bright and agreeable prospects which were before our eyes! Your union, your spiritual advantage, and the prosperity of this town, newly rising from its ashes, were prospects not too flattering for us rationally to indulge." Thus suddenly and mournfully were the prospects of our church cut off, just as the people were beginning to fancy themselves secure once more in the enjoyment of their religious privileges. And when this bereavement is taken in connection with the external condition of the town at that time, it will appear the more severe. The people were few in number, and limited in pecuniary means. In the year 1785, the houses and inhabitants of the town were numbered, and the buildings on the peninsula, many of which were temporary and soon taken down, were found to be 151, and the population 550. The buildings without the neck, were 128, and the population 449.1 Mr. Paine was the last of a long series of pastors who died in the ministry of this church, and were interred in this town. For more than one hundred and fifty years an unbroken line of ministers, whose united ministry amounts to two hundred and seventeen years, died, as they had lived, in the pastoral office, and laid down their bones with those of their people. The ashes of Symmes, Harvard, the Shepards--father and son, Morton, Bradstreet, Stevens, Abbot, Prentice and Paine, all now rest, lag his illness. He contented himself with discovering a savor of religion upon his spirit, and expressing his submission to the will of heaven. But on the last night of his life, in which he was attended by his reverend father and another Christian friend, he appeared to give mo...
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