Three Measures of MealRiverdale Press, Brookline, 1910 - 38 pages |
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Page 14 - This languishing head is at rest ; Its thinking and aching are o'er ; This quiet, immovable breast, Is heaved by affliction no more. This heart is no longer the seat Of trouble and torturing pain • It ceases to flutter and beat — It never shall flutter again.
Page 12 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 20 - Lady Moody took a patent of land from Governor Kieft at Gravesend, with the guaranty of " the free liberty of conscience according to the custom of Holland, without molestation or disturbance from any magistrate or magistrates, or any other ecclesiastical minister that may pretend jurisdiction over them.
Page 13 - Affliction sore long time I bore, Physicians skill was vain; Till God was pleas'd to give me ease And free me from my pain.
Page 20 - Island, and with liberty to build a town, with such necessary fortifications as to them shall seem expedient ; and to have and enjoy the free liberty of conscience according to the customs and manners of Holland without molestation, and to establish courts, and elect magistrates, to try all causes not exceeding fifty Holland guilders.
Page 30 - These the clerk properly arranged before service, so that everyone might readily prepare to sing. It was also the clerk's duty to have an hour-glass properly placed near the minister at the commencement of the sermon, and as the last grains of sand left the upper for the lower cavity, it was a reminder that the time had arrived for the conclusion. Some preachers, however, quietly allowed the sand to run out, and then informed their audience that, as they had sat so patiently through the one, they...
Page 32 - It required considerable dexterity to handle them well, to avoid pillars and bonnets. Previous to 1802 there were no stoves in the churches. The ladies were accustomed to bring their footstoves, and to replenish them at a house near by. ... In those days, when the ladies went out to spend the day, or to make an afternoon visit at the parsonage, they carried their spinning wheels and flax with them. Among the old social customs was to furnish the persons invited to funerals with tobacco, pipes and...
Page 11 - She left a husband with an infant 10 weeks old to mourn her loss, words are wanting to say what. What a wife and mother should be she was that.
Page 15 - ... for time and eternity all her energies of mind and body under God were consecrated, for her they will ever cherish the warmest affection and the most lively gratitude.
Page 11 - She done her duty on earth as a wife & a mother and gave evidence here on earth by her good conduct of her reception in heaven.