Wakefield Congregational Church a Commemorative Sketch 1644 1877
Wakefield Congregational Church a Commemorative Sketch 1644 1877
Charles Robinson Bliss
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True to the spirit of their office, they proclaimed Christ to men, and with his aid evoked in many hearts high resolves, pure desires, and divine attections. They made full proof of their ministry ; and, though dead, they yet speak to us, and commend anew th(> truth wliich throuii'h two centuries has filled these homes with liulit. CONCERNING THE GATHERING. It would have been unpatriotic to allow the centenuial year to pass Avithout due recognition. The method of giving it tit honor, though for... a time in doubt, was satisfactorily set- tled. As the pastor who served the church in 1776, hastened with not a fcAv of his flock to the Concord battle ; and as the present meeting-house — still comely, massive and sound in all its timbers — is the very structure in which supplies for the arnw of Washington were stored, — it w^as deemed quite proper that the church should draw the plan of the observ- ance. The onh' ol)jection was that she was too old. This, however, was over-ruled, on the ground that, though she had been at w^ork more than a century and a quarter before the Revolution, and had never rested since, her spirit was as young as ever.
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