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Sermon – Solar Eclipse – 1806
Joseph Lathrop (1731-1820) Biography: Lathrop was born in Norwich, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, he took a teaching position at a grammar school in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he also began studying theology. Two years after leaving Yale, he was ordained as the pastor of the Congregational Church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. [...]
Sermon – Military – 1755
Samule Davies (1724-1761) was licensed to preach in 1746. He moved to Hanover County, VA in 1747 and wound up preaching a circuit of seven churches there. He served as President of Princeton University for eighteen months before his death. This sermon was preached by Rev. Davies in Hanover County, VA [...]
Sermon – Christian Patriot – Boston, 1840
Rev. Mellish Irving Motte (1801-1881) was originally from Charleston, South Carolina. He obtained a Bachelors of Arts from Harvard in 1821 and became pastor of the South Congregational Church in Boston on May 21, 1828. In this 1840 sermon, Rev. Motte encourages Christians to fully engage the culture, especially in the [...]
Sermon – Eulogy on John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams' Death Joshua Bates (1776-1854) Biography: Born the same year that Congress penned the Declaration of Independence, Bates grew up helping with the family farm and serving as a clerk in the family store. Self-taught, he was able to enter Harvard in 1797 as a sophomore, and [...]
Eulogy – 1813, Massachusetts
Isaac Parker (1768-1830) Biography: Born in Boston, Parker graduated from Harvard when 18. After teaching for many years, he began studying law. Admitted to the law profession in 1789, Parker relocated to Castine, Maine, and became its first lawyer. In 1796, he was elected to Congress as a Federalist and served [...]
Sermon – Artillery Election – 1814, Massachusetts
Samuel Cary (1785-1815) Biography: Cary (whose father was a minister) graduated from Harvard in 1804, when nineteen. He entered the study of theology and in 1808 he took a probationary position at King’s Chapel in Boston (which began as an Anglican Church in 1686). Successfully performing his assigned duties, in 1809 [...]
Sermon – Artillery – 1828, Massachusetts
John Pierpont (1785-1866) Biography: Born in Connecticut to a well-known family, he graduated from Yale in 1804. He worked as an educator for several years, then began studying law. In 1812, he passed the bar and went to work as a lawyer in Newbury, Massachusetts. But being dissatisfied as an attorney [...]
Sermon – Artillery – 1835, Massachusetts
John Gorham Palfrey (1796-1881) Biography: Palfrey’s grandfather, William Palfrey, had been active during the American War for Independence, working for John Hancock, being aide-de-camp for George Washington, and then serving as the Continental Congress’ diplomat to France. The grandson was born during George Washington’s presidency and graduated from Harvard in 1815, [...]
Sermon – Fasting – 1843, Massachusetts
Our Political Idolatry. A Discourse Delivered in the First Church in Roxbury, On Fast Day, April 6, 1843 By George Putnam, Minister of that Church Published by Request of the Parish. Boston: William Crosby and Co. 1843. Isaiah 10:11 Shall I not, as I have done [...]
Sermon – Modern Emigrant – 1832
The Modern Emigrant; Or, Lover of Liberty: Being A DISCOURSE, Delivered in the city of New-York, By The Rev. J. M. Horner, Author of ‘Immersion the only scriptural mode of Baptizing;’ of ‘Modern Persecution A Poem;’ and of ‘Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Collected, arranged, and composed for the use of the [...]
