A Memorial of REV. Warren H. Cudworth (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Divinity School. The subject of his essay was The Importance of the Poetry of the Bible to the Preacher. A hymn he wrote for the occasion, I will here copy: As humble followers of thy Son, We come before thee, Lord, to-day; Help us the Christian race to run, Help us to labor and to pray. Let not the world's alluring voice Entice our feet from wisdom's way, But may thy service be our choice, Thy Spirit's aid our constant stay. While in Life's shadowy path we tread, O, fill our souls with heavenly light; And ever by its radiance led, May we be steadfast to the right And when Life's sacred work is o'er, And we from flesh and sense are free, O, may our raptured spirits soar To holy rest and peace with thee. Sunday, July 6, before he graduated, he preached his first sermon at Somerville (Rev. Mr. Pope's church), from Exodus xxiii., 2: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. July 13 hepreached at Medfield; July 20 and 27, at South Boston; August 3, at East Cambridge; August 10, at Manchester, N. H.; August 17, 24 and 3i, at Dorchester; September 7, 14, 2i, 28, and October 5 and 12, at Medfield; November 9 and 16, at South Boston, and November 23, his first sermon at East Boston, from Luke xxi. 19?in the morning: In your patience possess ye your souls; and in the afternoon, from Matthew xi., 28 and 29: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He also preached there the following Sabbath, and December 7, at Medfield. The churches at both Medfield and East Boston gave him a call, and provisionally he accepted the latter, thinking that both privilege and opportunity would be greater near Boston. He had engaged to travel that winter with a friend who was out of health, but if the East Boston ...