 God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie...  Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs - Page 556by Charles William Eliot - 1926Full view - About this book
 | Lyman P. Powell - 1898 - 656 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Accordingly, on the 28th day of October, 1636, Sir Harry Vane—Milton's " Vane, young in years, but... | |
 | Harvard University - 1898 - 700 pages
...was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." New England's First Fruits, in respect of the progress of learning, in the Colledgc at Cambridge in... | |
 | John Castell Hopkins - 1898 - 544 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." No sooner, therefore, did the Pilgrim Fathers plant their principles upon this continent than they... | |
 | Lyman Pierson Powell - 1899 - 664 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." Accordingly, on the 28th day of October, 1636, Sir Harry Vane — Milton's " Vane, young in years,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 406 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust" * In this spirit it was ordered by the General Court, as early as 1642, "That in every town the chosen... | |
 | International Congregational Council - 1900 - 676 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." The Congregational body simplified the ritual and ceremonial side of worship, and magnified the unwritten... | |
 | Harvard University - 1901 - 898 pages
...necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civill government : One of the next things we longed for...when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." New England's First Fruits, in respect of the progress of learning, in the Colledge at Cambridge in... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1904 - 614 pages
...exile and not silence. They set up a school for shepherds, " dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." You may read it at the College gate. Now, to pass from the figure, they saw the connection between... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1904 - 518 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as wee were thinking and consulting how to effect this fjreat work ; it pleased God to stir up... | |
 | George Emery Littlefield - 1545 - 384 pages
...after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great work, it pleased God to stir up the... | |
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