The Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the First Church, Burlington, Vt: February Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth, 1905First Church (Burlington, Vt.) |
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Page 51 - Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire ; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Page 63 - She had an eager, questing mind, which was ever seeking the answer to some unsolved problem. Was she a bit of a ' mystic,' visionary? If she was, it was because she had the vision; she was always looking forward from things as they are to what they ought to be and might be.
Page 55 - A Roman lady, named Fabiola, in the fourth century, founded at Rome, as an act of penance, the first public hospital, and the charity planted by that woman's hand overspread the world, and will alleviate, to the end of time, the darkest anguish of humanity.
Page 50 - ... one of them;" Acts ii, 3. Women as well as men were to be living stones in the temple of grace, and therefore their heads were consecrated by the descent of the Holy Ghost as well as those of men. Were women recognized as fellow laborers in the gospel field? They were! Paul says in his epistle to the Philippians, "help those women who labored with me, in the gospel;
Page 55 - She was very ill, and she felt that the time of her departure was at hand.
Page 63 - She gathered the children of Water Street into a Mission Sunday School. She tried to establish a coffee house in that part of the city. She was the earnest ally of Mrs. Adams for whom the Adams Mission was named.
Page 13 - The First Society for Social and Public Worship in the town of Burlington.
Page 78 - It was small, ill heated, ill ventilated, ill lighted; cold in winter and hot in summer; altogether unsuited to its use.
Page 77 - Main had a sidewalk only on one side, and that only half-way up the hill.
Page 38 - But these plays had been sometimes produced on the stage; and the stage, as all honest folk knew, was a thing to be shunned.