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Professor Phelps's eminence and usefulness as an author were scarcely second to his great work as a teacher. The Year-Book gives twenty-five titles of his publications. The Still Hour, 1859, has had a very large circulation, both in this country and by reprints and translations in foreign lands. The Theory of Preaching, 1881, and English Style in Public Discourse, 1883, preserve the substance of his Andover lectures. Other well-known volumes were: The New Birth, 1866; The Solitude of Christ, 1868; Studies in the Old Testament, 1879; Men and Books, 1882; My Portfolio, 1882; and My Study, 1886. He was also joint compiler, with Professor Park and Dr. Lowell Mason, of The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book, 1859, and joint author, with the former and Dr. D. L. Furber, of Hymns and Choirs, 1860. His last book, My Note-Book : Fragmen- tary Studies in Theology, was finished a few days before his death, and has since been published. He also made many contributions on important subjects to the religious press, especially in later years to the Congregationalist. He was the preacher of the Massachusetts Convention Sermon in 1859, and of the Election Sermon in 1861, the title of the latter being The Relations of the Bible to the Civilization of the Future. Amherst College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1856.
Professor Phelps married, September 28, 1842, Elizabeth, daughter of Prof. Moses Stuart, of Andover. She died November 30, 1852. Their children were Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Prof. Moses Stuart Phelps (Andover Seminary, 1872), who died in 1883, and Rev. Lawrence Phelps, of Chelsea, Mass. Professor Phelps married, second, April 20, 1855, Mary, also daughter of Professor Stuart. She died September 24, 1856. He married, third, June 10, 1858, Mary A., daughter of Samuel Johnson, of Boston. She survives him with two sons, Francis Johnson Phelps, of Baltimore, and Edward Johnson Phelps (Yale College, 1886), journalist in Chicago.
Professor Phelps died of heart failure, at Bar Harbor, Me., October 13, 1890, aged seventy years, and was buried in the Chapel Cemetery, Andover.
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OLASS OF 1843.
George Francis Cushman, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Apollos Cushman and Anna Maria Barton ; born in Pawtucket, Mass. (now R. I.), February 24, 1819; prepared for college at Pawtucket Academy ; graduated at Amherst College, 1840; spent one year in the Seminary, 1840-41. He taught in Alabama from 1843 to 1849, studying the- ology the last two years at Tuscaloosa, where he was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, May 13, 1849, and priest, May 29, 1850. He labored as home missionary, especially in connection with the Church of St. John's in the Wilderness, until 1851. His health failing, he spent two years in his native town, where he organized and ministered to Trinity Church. In 1853 he returned to Alabama, and was for twelve years rector of St. Luke's Church in Cahaba. He was then thirteen years in Illinois : as rector of St. Peter's Church, Sycamore, 1866-69; Church of the Redeemer, Princeton, 1869-74; St. Stephen's Church, Chicago, 1874-79. While in Chicago, he was for four years associate editor of the Province, and for one year of the Living Church. From 1879 to the time of his death, he was assistant minister of Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and from 1880 associate editor of the Churchman. He pub- lished several addresses, and a volume of sermons entitled Doctrine and Duty. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Brown University in 1846, and that of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Alabama in 1860. He was a trustee of Jubilee College, Illinois.
Dr. Cushman died of pneumonia, in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 26, 1890, aged seventy-one years. He was never married.
CLASS OF 1844.
Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D., LL.D.
Son of Rev. Elijah Dexter (forty-four years the minister of Plympton) and Mary Morton (sister of Governor Marcus Morton) ; born in Plympton, Mass., August 13, 1821 ; prepared for college under the instruction of his father ; took the first two years of his college course at Brown University, and graduated at Yale College, 1840 ; principal of Rochester (Mass.) Academy, 1840-41 ; in the Seminary, 1841-44. He was ordained pastor of the Franklin Street Church, Manchester, N. H., November 9, 1844, and remained there until 1849. He then succeeded the late Professor Phelps as pastor of the Pine Street Church, Boston. Under his leadership the church built the new meeting-house on Berkeley Street (the present Berkeley Temple), the site of which he selected, and the plan of which he prepared, with the design of making it, quoting his own words, "an Orthodox people's home, where the common people could hear the gospel gladly." In 1867 he closed this pastorate to become one of the proprietors, and the editor-in chief, of the Congregationalist, with which he had previously been connected as associate editor, 1851-56, and editor, 1856-65. This position he held until his death, his residence from 1873 being in New Bedford. He was also one of the founders of the Congregational Quarterly, and its leading editor from 1859 to 1866. Among his published volumes, twenty-five of which are named in the Year-Book, are : Street Thoughts, 1859 ; Congregationalism, 1865, which has passed through several editions, and is the accepted authority regarding the principles
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and usages of the denomination ; The Church Polity of the Pilgrims the Polity of the New Testament, 1870; As to Roger Williams, 1876; The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as seen in its Literature, with a Bibliographical Appendix (of 7,250 titles), 1880. In his preparation for the last-named work, as well as for another, unhappily left incomplete, Study of the English and Dutch Life of the Plymouth Men, he had visited Europe nine times, and, unquestion- ably, made larger researches into the early history of the Pilgrims than any other man.
Dr. Dexter, when residing in Manchester, N. H., was a member of the school committee, and afterwards filled the same office in Boston. He was Southworth Lecturer on Congregationalism in this Seminary, 1876-79, Moderator of the National Congregational Council at St. Louis, 1880, and a member of the " Creed Commission" authorized by that body. He was a corporate member of the American Board, a director of the American Congregational Association, and a member of almost innumerable church councils, far and near. He was a mem- ber of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the American Historical Asso- ciation, and corresponding member of other similar bodies. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Iowa College, 1865, and Yale College, 1880, the latter institution making him also Doctor of Laws in 1890. Three days before his death he was elected to preach the opening sermon at the Inter- national Congregational Council in London.
He was married, November 19, 1844, to Emeline, daughter of Simeon Palmer, of Boston. She died in Boston, February 24, 1891. Three daughters died in childhood; their only son is Rev. Henry Morton Dexter (Andover Seminary, 1870), one of the present editors and proprietors of the Congrega- tionalist.
Dr. Dexter died of heart failure, at his home in New Bedford, Mass., November 13, 1890, in the seventieth year of his age.
Henry Child Morse. (Non-graduate.)
Son of David Morse and Hannah Child; born in Exeter, N. Y., May 22, 1811 ; prepared for college at Penn Yann (N. Y.) Academy; graduated at Yale College, 1839; was principal of Nichols Academy, Dudley, Mass., for two years; studied theology in this Seminary, 1841-42, and afterwards with his uncle, Rev. Willard Child, Norwich, Conn. He was licensed by Windham (Conn.) Association, August 28, 1844, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church, Lima, Ind., 1845-47, having been ordained by council at Union City, Mich., February 12, 1846. After one year's service at Tyrone, N. Y., he became pastor of the Congregational church in Union City, Mich., in 1848, and remained there five years. From 1856 to 1858 he was acting pastor at Ontario, Ind., and at same time principal of Lagrange Collegiate Institute. He then settled on a farm at Union City, and resided there until his death, the Sunday- schools and feeble churches of the vicinity profiting through all these years by his efforts in their behalf.
He was married, November 17, 1842, to Sarah May, daughter of Dea. Luther Child, of Woodstock, Conn. She died January 10, 1849, and he was
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married, August 29, 1852, to Mrs. Caroline F. (Lincoln), widow of Samuel J. Mills Hammond, of Union City. She is still living in that place, with their only son.
Mr. Morse died of bronchial disease, in Union City, Mich., November 9, 1890, in his eightieth year.
Charles Richards. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Noyes Richards and Sally Mather ; born in Darien, Conn., Decem- ber 9, 1814 ; prepared for college in his native town ; graduated at Union Col- lege, 1841; in this Seminary, 1841-42; taught in Darien, and in Bronxdale, N.Y., 1842-43; in Union Theological Seminary, 1843-44; in Auburn Theolo- gical Seminary, 1844-45. He was licensed by the Manhattan Association, New York City, July 1, 1844, and ordained by the Ontario Presbytery, May 25, 1847. He was pastor of the Presbyterian churches in Lakeville, N. Y., 1845- 49; Hector, N. Y., 1849-51 ; Rensselaerville, N. Y., 1851-55; Monroeville, Ohio, 1855-58; Maumee City, Ohio, 1858-68 (during most of these years preach- ing also either at Waterville or Springfield); Pardeeville and Wyocena, Wis., 1868-73. He was afterward without charge at Maumee (South Toledo), Ohio, and from 1886 at Hampden, Ohio. " He was an able preacher, a good pastor, a faithful minister in every respect."
He was married, September 10, 1845, to Christianna B., daughter of Andrew McMuldrock, of Schenectady, N. Y., who died March 30, 1885. They had four sons and two daughters, of whom one son and one daughter are deceased. The three surviving sons are all ministers of the gospel.
Mr. Richards died of typho-malarial fever, at Hampden, Ohio, August 29, 1890, in his seventy-sixth year.
CLASS OF 1845.
Rowland Ayres, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Edward Ayres and Rachel Kent; born in Granby, Mass., May 1, 1817 ; prepared for college at Amherst and Monson academies; graduated at Amherst College, 1841; was principal of the Southampton (L. I.) Academy, 1841-42, and again, 1843-44; entered the Seminary in 1842, and remained one year ; was tutor in Amherst College, 1844-46; completed his theological study at Princeton Seminary, 1846-47. He was ordained January 12, 1848, as pastor of the First Church, Hadley, Mass., continuing as such for thirty-five years, and remaining pastor emeritus from 1883 to his death. He was a member of the school committee of the town for thirty-eight years; one of the trustees of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, twenty-three years, and since 1865 president of the Board; overseer of the Charitable Fund, Amherst College, thirty-five years ; represented the town in the Legislature in 1882. Amherst gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1878. He published five sermons, and, shortly before his death, the History of the Hopkins Fund, Grammar School, and Academy.
" A man of great force of character, of strictest integrity, an eloquent and successful preacher of the gospel, loved and honored by the community in which he lived."
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He was married, June 12, 1849, to Jane E., daughter of Chester Webster, of Farmington, Conn., who survives him with one son and three daughters, a daughter and a son having died in their youth.
Dr. Ayres died at his home in Hadley, January 31, 1891, of peritonitis, in his seventy-fourth year.
William Coffin. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Nathaniel Coffin, Esq., and Mary Porter; born in Wiscasset, Me., January 19, 1822; from the age of fourteen lived in Jacksonville, Ill. ; graduated at Illinois College, 1841 ; in this Seminary, 1842-44 ; also in Bangor Theologi- cal Seminary. He was professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy, in Illinois College from 1844 to 1852. He then removed to Batavia, Ill., and was for a few years engaged in farming, and afterwards in banking, until in 1877 he lost his sight. He was never ordained, but frequently preached while in Jacksonville, and occasionally in the Congregational church in Batavia, of which he was for many years a deacon. A local newspaper says : " His simple, fresh, clear expositions of the gospel were always listened to with the greatest respect and attention. His honesty in business and his fearlessness in holding an advanced position on the question of slavery before and during the bitter years of the Rebellion, and on the temperance question in later years, made his opinion respected and his counsel sought." He published in 1889 the Life and Times of Hon. Samuel D. Lockwood.
He was married, June 29, 1847, to Mary E., daughter of Judge Samuel D. Lockwood, of Jacksonville, Ill. She died June 23, 1877. He next married, June 13, 1883, Sophia M., daughter of Jed Sawyer, of Batavia, who survives him. Of seven children, three sons and two daughters are living; two sons are deceased.
Mr. Coffin died of congestion of the brain, at Batavia, Ill., August 2, 1890, in his sixty-ninth year.
CLASS OF 1846.
Philip Titcomb. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Berry Titcomb and Katy Noyes; born in Newburyport, Feb- ruary 29, 1812; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; graduated at Yale College, 1843; in this Seminary, 1843-44; completing his course at Bangor Theological Seminary, 1844-46. His first charge, 1846-48, was in Hillsdale, Mich., where he was ordained April 7, 1847. His subsequent pastor- ates were in New England: Cherryfield, Maine, 1848-51 ; Dexter, Maine, 1852-54; Kennebunkport, Maine, 1854-64; Limerick, Maine, 1865-68 ; Plymp- ton, Mass., 1868-79; Kensington, N. H., 1880-91. He had delivered his fare- well sermon on the last Sabbath of 1890, but continued to preach to his attached people, and officiated on the Sabbath preceding his sudden death. His thorough goodness and faithful devotedness to his calling won for him the confidence and esteem of his brethren in the ministry, and the communities where he labored.
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He was married, October 1, 1846, to Eliza Wilder, daughter of Erastus Briggs, of Bangor, Maine. She died June 9, 1870. Four daughters are living, two daughters and one son having died.
Mr. Titcomb died of heart failure, at Kensington, N. H., January 24, 1891, having nearly completed his seventy-ninth year.
OLASS OF 1847.
Charles Noyes Todd. (Resident licentiate.)
Son of Jonathan Todd and Jane Noyes ; born in Rowley, Mass., Octo- ber 25, 1812 ; prepared for college at Dummer Academy; graduated at Amherst College, 1839; taught in Baltimore, 1839-40, and in New York City, 1840-44 ; student in Union Theological Seminary, 1841-43 and 1845-46; resident licentiate in this Seminary, 1846-47. He taught in Rowley, preaching also for a few months, 1847-49. A throat disease developing, he reluctantly retired from the ministry, and devoted the remainder of his life to teaching and business. From 1849 to 1854 he was principal of an academy in Honesdale, Penn. He then went to Indianapolis, Ind., and was associated with Dr. C. G. McLean in the management of the McLean Female Seminary, of which, after Dr. McLean's death, he became principal. In 1863 he engaged in the book trade, principally in the line of Sabbath-school and religious publications. In war time he was Corresponding Secretary of the Indiana State Christian Commis- sion. An Indianapolis newspaper spoke of him as "a citizen whose life and character have been an inspiration for ' whatsoever things are honest, whatso- ever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report'-one of those who gave to life in this community its tone of strength and soundness."
He was married, December 25, 1854, to Margaret M., daughter of Rev. Charles G. McLean, D.D., of Indianapolis, who survives him.
Mr. Todd died of bronchial disease, in Indianapolis, Ind., September 3, 1888, in his seventy-sixth year.
OLASS OF 1848.
Abel Wood.
Son of Dea. Benjamin F. Wood and Lucinda Merriam; born in West- minster, Mass., January 7, 1818; prepared for college at Westminster Acad- emy; took the freshman year at Amherst College, and graduated at Dartmouth College, 1843; in the Seminary, 1844-45 and 1846-48. He was instructor for a year in Beloit, Wis., and for a year in the academy at Canton, N. Y. He preached in Warner, N. H., 1851-52, and in the First Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1853-54, and was called to the pastorate in each place, but decided to devote his life to teaching. He was principal of the Collegiate Institute, Gilbertsville, N. Y., 1854-56, having previously taught there, 1852-53. He was instructor in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., for thirteen years, 1856- 69, and principal of Albany (N. Y.) Academy, 1869-70, returning in 1871 to the charge of the Institute at Gilbertsville, which he retained until 1887. He resided afterwards in Kingston, N. H.
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He was married, July 21, 1849, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Aaron Patten, of Kingston, N. H., who survives him, with their only son, a physician in New York City.
Mr. Wood died of heart failure, at Kingston, N. H., August 19, 1890, in the seventy-third year of his age.
OLASS OF 1849.
Edward Hanford Greeley, D.D.
Son of Edward Greeley and Hannah Eaton; born in Hopkinton, N.H., April 23, 1817; prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H .; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1845; preceptor of Atkinson (N. H.) Academy, 1845-46; in the Seminary, 1846-49, from Claremont, N. H. He was ordained pastor of the church in Haverhill, N.H., November 7, 1849, and remained there until 1858; was pastor of the Pearl St. Church, Nashua, N.H., 1858-60, and at Methuen, Mass., 1861-66. His health then being seriously impaired, he was without charge for three years, with residence at Claremont, N.H., but occasionally preaching, and acting for a part of the time as financial agent of Kimball Union Academy. In 1869 he returned to his early charge at Haverhill, N. H., and filled that pastorate until his removal in 1874 to Concord, to take up the work of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society, of which he had been elected Secretary. This important service for the smaller churches of the State he performed with great energy and devotion for the remainder of his life. His only publication was in the line of his chosen work: An Essay on Systematic Beneficence. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1885, and was a trustee of Kimball Union Academy from 1871 to 1885.
He was married, May 7, 1850, to Jane Jewett, daughter of Moses Richards, of Rowley, Mass., who died April 24, 1852. June 6, 1854, he was married to Louisa Maria, daughter of Reuben Ware, of Needham, Mass. She survives him, with three sons and a daughter, one son having died in infancy. The sons are graduates of Dartmouth College, two of them being lawyers in New York City, and one assistant examiner in the Patent Office, Washington. The daughter is a teacher in Abbot Academy, Andover.
Dr. Greeley died of kidney disease, at Concord, N.H., August 27, 1890, aged seventy-three years.
CLASS OF 1851.
Ransom Bethune Welch, D.D. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Welch and Hannah Van Etten; born in Greenville, N. Y., Jan- uary 27, 1824; prepared for college at the academies in Gallupville and Green- ville, N.Y .; graduated at Union College, 1846; principal of Red Hook (N.Y.) Academy, 1846-47, and of Jonesville (N.Y.) Academy, 1847-48 ; in this Seminary, 1848-50; in Auburn Theological Seminary, 1850-52. He began preaching at Oswego, N.Y., but ill health prevented him from continuing there, and as col- porteur of the American Tract Society he traveled on horseback in the Southern States, 1853-54. He was ordained by the Classis of Schoharie, January 9, 1855; was pastor of Reformed (Dutch) Church, Gilboa, N.Y., 1854-56 ; Catskill, N.Y., 1856-59. His health failing, he traveled in Europe and the East, 1859-60.
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On his return he took a pastorate in Albion, N.Y., but was soon compelled to resign, and remained without charge for five years at Clifton Park, N.Y. He was professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and English Literature in Union College, from 1866 to 1876, and from the latter year to the time of his death filled the chair of Christian Theology in Auburn Theological Seminary. He was a member of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, was associate editor of the Presbyterian Review, and of the Presbyterian and Reformed Review, besides contributing largely to other magazines and to the weekly press. He published, in 1876, Faith and Modern Thought, and in 1882, Notes on Theology. In 1881 he was a delegate to the Presbyterian Alliance in Belfast, and to the World's Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations in Berlin; in 1888 to the Alliance and to the World's Missionary Conference in London. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rutgers College and the University of the City of New York, both in 1868, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1872 from Maryville College. " He not only gave to Auburn Seminary his ripest years and powers in ungrudging service, but he left the munificent bequest of $36,000 to enlarge its usefulness."
He was married, June 5, 1861, to Miss Lydia G. Kennedy, of Clifton Park, N.Y., who survives him.
Dr. Welch died of cystitis, at Healing Springs, Va., June 29, 1890, aged sixty-six years.
OLASS OF 1855.
Edward Aiken, M.D.
Son of Rev. Silas Aiken, D.D., and Mary Osgood ; born in Amherst, N.H., April 10, 1830; prepared for college at Boston Latin School ; graduated at Dart- mouth College, 1851 ; entered the Seminary at once, and graduated in 1855, spending one year, 1853-54, as teacher in Castleton (Vt.) Seminary. He was ordained as foreign missionary at Rutland, Vt., September 7, 1855, and sailed for Syria the following month. His principal service was at Beirût, although also stationed at Homs, and at Kefr Shima. He was compelled by ill health to leave the mission, and returned to the United States in 1858. He then pre- pared himself for the medical profession, studying for a time with Dr. Stephen Tracy in Andover, and graduating at Yale Medical School in 1861. He settled as physician at Fitzwilliam, N.H., in 1861, and at Amherst, N.H., in 1865, fill- ing also the professorship of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Chemistry, in the New England Female Medical College, Boston, from 1864 to 1872. From 1883 Dr. Aiken was engaged in literary work, for one year in cataloguing a private library in New York City, and afterwards at the Secretary of State's office, Concord, N.H., in indexing the laws and records of the State.
He was married, September 5, 1855, to Susan D., daughter of Hon. John O. Cole, of Albany, N.Y. She died at Homs, Syria, June 20, 1856, and he was married, July 22, 1857, to Sarah Cheney, daughter of Dea. Cyrus Cheney, of Phillipston, Mass., a teacher in the Female Seminary at Beirût. She survives him, with two sons and a daughter, two children having died. One son is in preparation for the ministry. Dr. Aiken died at Amherst, August 14, 1890, of acute Bright's disease, following la grippe, aged sixty years.
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CLASS OF 1856.
Samuel Chase Dean.
Son of Isaiah R. Dean and Betsey W. Chase; born in Oakham, Mass., March 28, 1823; prepared for college at Williston Seminary ; graduated at Amherst College, 1853; in the Seminary, 1853-56. He was ordained August 13, 1856, at Reading, Mass., as a foreign missionary, and labored in the Mah- ratta Mission of the American Board in Western India for eleven years : at Ahmednagar, 1856-60, and Satara, 1860-67. Ill health obliging him to return to America, he resided without charge at Mt. Vernon, N.H., 1867-69, preached in Nacoochee, Ga., 1869-72, and afterwards was engaged in arduous home mis- sionary service in Nebraska until his death. He was at Steele City, 1872-81 ; Wymore, 1881-82; Plymouth, 1882-85; South Bend from 1885, preaching also for three years at Mainland.
He was married August 9, 1856, to Augusta Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Amos Abbott, of the Mahratta Mission, who survives him, with their seven sons and one daughter. One of the sons is preparing for the ministry, and the daughter is preceptress in Gates College, Nebraska.
Mr. Dean died of internal cancer, at South Bend, Neb., September 9, 1890, aged sixty-seven years.
William Ripley Tompkins.
Son of Rev. William Brownell Tompkins and Margaret Briggs; born in Madison, N.Y., March 19, 1826; prepared for college (in part) at Stockbridge (Mass.) Academy; studied one year at Columbia College, but graduated at Williams College, 1850; taught one year in Schoharie and two years in Geneseo, N.Y .; in Seminary, 1853-56, from Columbus, N.Y. He was ordained Octo- ber 9, 1856, as pastor of the New England Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., remaining there until 1864. After a vacation of two years spent in regaining his health, he began pastoral service in Wrentham, Mass., which continued for twenty- five years, until his death. He represented Wrentham in the Legislature in 1877 and 1880. When suddenly stricken down, he was in his study, engaged in the preparation of his sermon for the coming Sabbath, upon the text, " Behold, a sower went forth to sow," and in a few hours he himself went forth to " reap life everlasting."
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