A Historical Discourse: Commemorative of the Organization of the Congregational Church, in Marietta, Delivered at the First Semi-centennial Celebration, Dec. 6, 1846Intelligencer Office, 1847 - 30 páginas |
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Página 24 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So the Lord is round about his people From henceforth even for ever.
Página 3 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Página 9 - ... but admire that rich and free grace which triumphs over so great unworthiness. But with humble reliance on the aids of that grace, which is promised to all, who, with a true sense of their guilt and ruin, return to God for pardon and help, we thankfully laid hold on his covenant. Avouching, this day, the Lord Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to be our God, our Father, our Saviour, and our Leader, we humbly give up ourselves to him, and receive him as our portion for ever. We give up ourselves...
Página 27 - The field is the world," and the injunction to " pray the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest" has reference to the whole field, and not to any exclusively favored portion of it.
Página 23 - Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Página 9 - ... submit yourselves to the government of Christ in his church, and to the regular administration of it in this place; and that you would in brotherly love seek the peace and welfare of this church, so long as God should continue you here.
Página 20 - ... 22, 1832, when a meeting was held at the house of Rev. LG Bingham (on the north corner of Front and Scammel streets, for many years the residence of the late Weston Thomas), of which John Mills was chairman and Douglas Putnam secretary. A draft of a bill for the incorporation of an institution under the name of the "Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary " was presented and approved, and a committee appointed to confer with Mr.
Página 6 - form of church order and discipline fitted to a church to be erected in a new plantation." Reverends Judd, Strong, and Forward, were appointed a committee to draft such form " consonant with the scriptures," and deliver it to General Tupper.
Página 7 - ... Worcester, Mass., to go to the west as a chaplain to the settlement at Marietta. Mr. Story was born in Boston, in 1755, and graduated at the Dartmouth College, in Hanover, NH He was an uncle of the late Judge Story, of Cambridge, Mass. After a tedious and laborious journey over the Allegheny mountains, he arrived at Marietta, in the spring of 1789, and commenced his ministerial labors. The settlements were just beginning, and situated at various points, a considerable distance from each other....
Página 5 - ... the elders of Israel, adorning that religion instilled into their youthful minds by their pious mother. REV. DANIEL STORY. SOON after the organization of the Ohio Company at Boston, in the year 1787, it seems that the enlightened men who directed its concerns, began to think of making arrangements for the support of the gospel, and the instruction of youth in their new colony, about to be established in the western wilderness. Having been and brought up in a land where more attention was paid...