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Excerpt from The Witness to the Founder's Faith: A Sermon Before the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting, Held at Boston, Mass., October 13, 1885 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. And these all, having had witness borne to them through their fai...

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Excerpt from Reverend George Leon Walker, D.D: 1830-1900 Dr. George Leon Walker passed peacefully away at four o'clock this (Wednesday) morning at the Walker home on Prospect street. There were gathered about the bedside when the end came the doctor's son, Prof. Williston Walker, and his wife, the doctor's brother, Dr. Henry F. Walker of New York , their sister, Mrs. Boardman, and her husband, Professor George N. Boardman. The immediate cause...

Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in State Street Church, Portland, November 24, 1859 Rev. Geo. L. Walker, - Dear Sir: - The undersigned, members of State Street Church and Society, having had the pleasure of hearing your sermon on Thanksgiving day, are desirous that those who did not hear it may have the privilege of reading it. We therefore respectfully request a copy of it for publication. Wm. Oxnard, R. Cram, Woodbury Davis, D. W. Clark...

Excerpt from Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat One striking difference in the advantages possessed by a biographer of the more distinguished personages of the Massachusetts and of the Connecticut colonies is the comparative destitution, in the latter case, of the aids afforded by contemporaneous diaries, his tories, and portraits. The lack of such writings in the Connecticut annals is a little surprising, the want of portraits may be...

Excerpt from Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England: With Special Reference to Congregationalists, Lectures Delivered on the Carew Foundation Before Hartford Theological Seminary in 1896 The ecclesiastical story of New England has often been told, but with primary reference to its external, institutional, and political aspects. The religious life itself - its dominating motives, its characterizing experiences, its manifestations of...

Excerpt from A Sermon on the Death of President Garfield: Preached in the First Church of Hartford "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils." "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth: in that very day his thoughts perish." How solemnly these words utter themselves in our hearing to-day, sounding out of the cloud which darkens all the land! The frailty and vanity of human power, the might and mystery of mortality, the gre...

Excerpt from Address at the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Church of Christ, Hartford, October 11, 1883The particular manner of this self-erection of a band of Christians into a church body-politic, was the solemn adop tion of a Covenant, by which visible document of agreement and sacred confederation, the signers regarded themselves as made into a Church of Christ, having all necessary powers of admission, discipline, choic...

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Excerpt from History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883 In contemplating the undertaking, the writer was well aware that there are many men in Hartford better qualified by nature and by long familiarity with the place and its literature, to fulfill this service than himself, a comparative stranger. Things which to them are a part of family tradition or of early and scarce avoidable acquaintance, would come to him only by painstaking i...

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