The Commemorative Services of the First Parish in Hingham on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Building of Its Meeting-house: Monday, August 8, 1881parish, 1882 - 169 pages |
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ADDRESS OF REV ancestors ARTHUR LINCOLN Benjamin Lincoln blessing Boston brought building built CALVIN LINCOLN century CHAIRMAN CHARLES CHARLES ELIOT NORTON Christian Cohasset COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES Committee congregation Cotton Mather creed descendants Ebenezer Gay edifice EDWARD England exercises faith fathers Governor Harvard College heard heart HENRY HENRY STEPHENSON honor hundred Hundredth Anniversary interest invitation JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE John Albion Andrew John Norton John Otis JOSEPH OSGOOD land liberty Lord Loring Loring Hall Massachusetts Michael Wigglesworth minister morning occasion OLD CHOIR old church Old Meeting-house old parish pastor Peter Hobart Pilgrim Pillar of Salt pleasure prayer preached Psalm pulpit Puritan QUINCY BICKNELL religion religious remember RICHARD HENRY STODDARD sermon Sewall singing society spirit stand Sunday sung thank thee Thomas thou thought tion to-day town truth Unitarian unto venerable walls WATERS BURR WILDER Winthrop women word
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Page 63 - From all that dwell below the skies, Let the Creator's praise arise ; Let the Redeemer's name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue. 2. Eternal are thy mercies, Lord ; Eternal truth attends thy word : Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Page 21 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 33 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 144 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 134 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
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Page 20 - Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, Nor go up into my bed ; I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids, Until I find out a place for the Lord, A habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.