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Common terms and phrasesALFRED WAYLAND CUTTING blessed Boston Bow Road Bridge in 1801 Bridge's pastorate Brown University building causeway Christian church was built citizens Colony commemoration Concord death Divinity School doubtless duties East Side Edmond Browne Edmond Goodenow Edmund Hamilton Sears England England town existing feet forest fortified free public library graveyard Harvard College Harvard Divinity School honored hundred Israel Loring James Sherman Joel Foster John Burt Wight Josiah Bridge leader light lives Massachusetts Massachusetts Bay Colony Master of Arts meadows meeting-house ministry Musketahquid Valley Names Settled Resigned old church Old Sudbury Road old-time Olden parish pews pioneers preaching present church pulpit quiet Reeve's Hill Revolution river Sears's seats Seth Curtis Beach settlement spirit Sudbury Plantation Sudbury Social Library tablet thank thee thatched thou tion to-day town library town records Watertown WAYLAND CHURCH west side Weston and Wayland wilderness William Cook young pastor Popular passagesPage 33 - ... earth, good-will to men, From heaven's all-gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. 2. Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world ; Above its sad and lowly plains They bund on hovering wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. Page 4 - Who here, in peril, stood And raised their hymn. Peace to the reverend dead ! The light, that on their head Two hundred years have shed, Shall ne'er grow dim. Ye temples, that, to God, Rise where our fathers... Page 5 - Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of those who depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity ; we give thee hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy servants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours. Page 31 - Pictures of the Olden Time, as shown in the Fortunes of a Family of the Pilgrims. Page 9 - Petition of the West Side people of Sudbury to Governor Dudley and the General Assembly. The petition of us who are the subscribers living on ye west side of Sudbury great River Humbly showeth that wereas ye All wise and over Ruling providence of ye great God, Lord of Heaven and Earth who is God blessed forever moore, hath cast our lott to fall on that side of the River by Reason of the flud of watare, which for a very great part of the yeare doth very much incomode us and often by extremity of water... Page 10 - Earth who is God blessed forever moore, hath cast our lott to fall on that side of the River by Reason of the flud of watare, which for a very great part of the yeare doth very much incomode us and often by extremity of water and terrible and violent winds, and a great part of the winter by ice, as it is at this present, so that wee are shut up and cannot come forth, and many times when wee doe atempt to git over our flud, we are forced for to seek our spiritual good with the peril of our Lives.... Page 34 - ... that change which is peaceful progress. Revolution is God's remedy when a people are past reformation and need punishments. It is the cup of the divine anger. National retribution must follow national crime persevered in and unrepented of. And it may be as a reward for all our servility and all our compromises with wrong ; because we have joined hands with oppression ; because we have set the commands of kidnapers above the laws of Jehovah ; because we have hunted the poor man and the unprotected... Page 17 - House well fortified yet badly scituated, as advantageous to ye Enemys approach & dangerous to ye Repellant yet (by ye help of God) ye garrison not onely defended ye place from betweene five or six of ye clock in ye Morning till about One in ye Afternoon but forced ye Enemy with Considerable slaughter to draw-off. Page 34 - ... despotism, and the duty of the hour. We will give two extracts from the discourse, partly because they contain prophecies, which were fearfully fulfilled and are fulfilling now, and show how distinctly in those darker days the events of coming time cast their shadows before them. " It is not very likely that God will throw away three hundred years of history. It is not likely that a resurgent barbarism will bear us all back to the middle ages. But it comes to that if this encroaching and brutal... Bibliographic information
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