One Hundredth Anniversary Of The First Baptist Church Sedgwick Maine PDF Download

Excerpt from Centennial of the First Baptist Church in Paris, Maine: Observed October 1st, 1891 If now we had a letter, or a diary, written by some one of those engaged in that work. And telling something, even if not much, about it, we should deem it almost priceless. Something of this kind we have in a faded but still legible manuscript from the pen of Elder Hooper. It is dated, May the 30 day It is not a letter though, nor a diary. It is a part of Elder Hooper's Dedication Sermon. It contains the Introduction, and the first and part of the second divisions of the discourse. It ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence of the second division, the following pages having in some way become separated from these and lost. The Introduction precedes, instead of followingtthe announcement of the text, thus having the place recently given to it by German preachers, instead of that which it has in English and American sermons. In it Elder Hooper spoke of the great changes made in Paris in the twenty-four years passed between the coming of the first settlers and the time when he was speaking; of the state of things then existing; of the movement which resulted in building the meeting-house; and of the raising of the house, which was a work of difliculty and danger, which those of the present generation, who have never seen such structures raised, and raised without the appliances and helps of modern art and machinery, - can hardly realize. Elder Hooper said In the year 1780 the first settlers came into this Town, the[n] called No. 4, the plase being then entirely new and no roads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.