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An Historical Discourse, Commemorating the Centenary of the Completed Organization of the First Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey, Preached - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1888 Excerpt: ... Psalm Cxlv: 4. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. The writer of a discourse like the present girds himself for a task of no small difficulty. He aims to bring again to view a vanished and almost forgotten past; to retouch and freshen pictures that have well-nigh faded from the tablets of memory; to wave an enchanter's wand over the graves of by-gone generations and evoke from lips long silent counsel and instruction for the living present. For the accomplishment of such a work the means are not abundant. Early records, if not wholly wanting, are often scanty and unsatisfactory. Sources of information, once available, are now sealed up forever. Stores of personal biography and reminiscence, and of family and social history, which would have greatly enriched the narrative and given it a completeness not otherwise attainable, have sunk into the gulf of oblivion. Even when precise statements of fact are at hand it is not easy to read between their lines the story of the hopes and fears, the straggles, disappointments, and triumphs, which make up not the least important chapters in the annals of a Christian congregation. After the best has been done we have but the colorless picture of distant scenes over which the shadows of twilight are gathering. Yet it is meet and right to make the attempt, however difficult; not indeed for the mere sake of the entertainment to be derived from a story of by-gone days, nor for the purpose of gratifying an antiquarian taste; but rather that wholesome and cheering lessons concerning the persistence of spiritual force, the stability of the divine covenant, the goodness and mercy of the Redeemer in all His dealings with His Church, and the assured progress toward ultimate triumph ...
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