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Horatio Stebbins, his ministry and his personality

 By Charles Albert Murdock

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Full view - 1921 - 269 pages - Biography & Autobiography


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Milton, Massachusetts - Page 110
father of the new minister, had come from Portland, Oregon, and the Reverend Roderick Stebbins, his close friend, had come from Milton, Massachusetts. ...
more pages: 42 129 131
Portland, Maine - Page 140
In early October he had the great pleasure of revisiting his old parish at Portland, Maine. It is something of a test to go back to a place left ...
more pages: 20 33 87 149
Friendship, New York - Page 16
Roderick Stebbins, then living at Friendship, New York : "Horatio's ordination went off finely. The day was bright and clear — a beautiful autumn day. ...
San Francisco - Page 155
I could not walk the streets of San Francisco by his side without being touched by the reverence and affection in which he was held by the people of ...
more pages: 12 19 29 30 57 66 79 149 150 153
Cambridge - Page 160
Roderick left this morning for Cambridge. The parting with him is very severe and has subjected my tired heart to a new strain. ...
more pages: 13 70 134 138 147 161 183
Santa Barbara - Page 155
AW Jackson, who formerly lived in Santa Barbara, California, later in Concord, Massachusetts, wrote :
more pages: 56 147
Berkeley - Page 236
Restricted to the choice of sermons already printed, I take one that was preached at the dedication of the Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California, ...
more pages: 71 128
Roxbury, Massachusetts - Page 1
After living in Roxbury, Massachusetts, for four or five years, he moved his family to Springfield, the site of which his friend Pynchon had bought ...
Boston - Page 133
villages, and cities are seen as flashlights in the darkness of night or flecking the brilliant landscape by day ; and we arrive at Boston, on time to ...
more pages: 13 15 32 36 97 101 123 148 265
Northampton - Page 1
With his son John he later removed to Northampton, while the elder son, Thomas, remained permanently in Springfield. ...
more pages: 10
Oakland - Page 71
It was located in Oakland, and represented large hopes. On June 7, 1865, he addressed a meeting of the alumni, and the next year he delivered the ...
more pages: 91 99
Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Page 16
Peabody, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, preached the sermon, and the Reverend George R. Noyes, the Reverend Converse Francis, the Reverend John FW Ware ...
Portland, Oregon - Page 110
Eliot, father of the new minister, had come from Portland, Oregon, and the Reverend Roderick Stebbins, his close friend, had come from Milton, ...
more pages: 87
Concord, Massachusetts - Page 155
AW Jackson, who formerly lived in Santa Barbara, California, later in Concord, Massachusetts, wrote :
Chicago - Page 80
Stebbins stopped at Chicago on his way eastward, and from there he sent me a note with news that concerned his future happiness, that I was delighted ...
more pages: 132
Leipzig - Page 118
WHITE: I thank you heartily for your speech at Leipzig on the Fourth of July. It is distinguished for wisdom, discretion, and independence, ...
Baltimore - Page 20
His mind was essentially poetic and saw truth as by spiritual vision. He was present at Baltimore when Channing preached the great sermon.
Los Angeles - Page 109
for even when he could rejoice in Eliot in Portland or Fay in Los Angeles, distances were so great that he had little companionship. ...
Epping, New Hampshire - Page 11
In 1845, he was invited to give the Fourth of July address at a celebration at Epping, New Hampshire. This address has especial interest as the ...
Berlin - Page 118
Stebbins felt moved to express his satisfaction at the public act of a foreign ambassador, then at Berlin. He sent this letter : "HON. ANDREW D. ...
Exeter, New Hampshire - Page 11
Before the Revolution one John Phillips founded a preparatory school at Exeter, New Hampshire, and here young Stebbins made his way. ...
Milwaukee - Page 115
Eliot, Jr., who after two years of service went to Milwaukee to take charge of its pulpit. He said he would make no elaborate aclicux to one "who goes ...
Plymouth - Page 137
The fame and interest of Plymouth will increase as time goes on and the mind of the country from East to West becomes more historic. ...
London - Page 247
1 The sermon in this chapter was printed by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association in London in August, 1893.
Fairfax - Page 84
Equally popular were the picnics, which usually alternated between Belmont and Fairfax. The attendance often numbered a thousand and the whole ...
Middletown, Connecticut - Page 5
who founded a college at Middletown, Connecticut. Mr. Stebbins was a reverent man, but he never took much interest in the revivals that recurred ...
Whittier - Page 238
Abraham and Isaiah, David and Whittier! Wesley said that Whitfield's God was his devil ! But amid all this change and passing away, the idea of God ...
Olympia - Page 83
David Utter came down from Olympia on Puget Sound, and the Reverend Edward Galvin from Walla Walla. The Reverend WW McKaig, an emerging Presbyterian ...
Omaha - Page 132
Onward through to Omaha the country shows increasing cultivation ; stations are more frequent. Pleasant farms and industrious populations tell of the ...
Exeter - Page 13
He left Exeter with little money in his purse. When he reached Boston, it was reduced to three dollars, and he probably had recourse to one of his ...
Ithaca, New York - Page 10
A friend of his father's conducted an academy at Ithaca, New York, and thither he went, riding ten miles in the family buggy and walking a hundred ...
Rome - Page 215
The protest that it makes against dogmatic Protestantism is of the same kind as that which Protestantism makes against dogmatic Rome. ...
more pages: 241
Sacramento - Page 99
The churches in Oakland and Sacramento united with us in the farewell service. In his announcement the previous Sunday, Dr. Stebbins had said: "Let us ...
St. Louis - Page 55
Stebbins came, and it was two years more before he had a neighbor nearer than St. Louis. In May, 1866, he went to Portland and counseled with the fine ...
more pages: 54
New York - Page 54
From the context it is indicated, that, in view of a contemplated trip to New York, he had the inspiration to take letters of introduction to ...
more pages: 28 55 80 81
Portsmouth - Page 24
James De Normandie writes : "When I was settled over the South Parish in Portsmouth, in 1862, Dr. Stebbins had been for seven years the minister of ...
New Orleans - Page 81
later between New York and New Orleans. He brought his family to Illinois in 1835 by way of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes. ...
Panama - Page 55
In December, 1867, when the chapel was completed, the worthy son of a worthy sire came out, by the way of Panama, to become their preacher. ...
Liverpool - Page 80
He became a much-beloved and honored sea-captain, who commanded packet- ships sailing between Liverpool and New York, and.
San Diego - Page 56
In 1877 Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego were added to the list. Up to 1869 we always spoke of our minister as "Mr." Stebbins, for he was not ...
Washington, DC - Page 126
elected him Pastor Emeritus ; and the Reverend Bradford Leavitt, of Washington, DC, was called as minister. Dr. Stebbinsrs health greatly improved and ...
Jerusalem - Page 261
mother that bore him, to him who with true angelic vision worships the Father neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem, but in spirit and in truth. ...
Damascus - Page 211
being and the not-me of things meet as sheeted ghosts, and sword cuts sword in viewless air, no Damascus blade of polished physical fact can ever win. ...

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For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.Page 245
I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.Page 148
Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.Page 240
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Page 246
See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...Page 152
Whose voice then shook the earth ; but now he hath promised, saying ; Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.Page 234
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect : and in Thy book were all my members written ; Which day by day were fashioned : when as yet there was none of them.Page 246
THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. AMEN.Page 149
AND he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.Page 245

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