The Church Record: A Sermon Preached in Grafton, Sunday, December 27, 1846, Containing Historical Notices of the Congregational Church in Said Town (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Church Record: A Sermon Preached in Grafton, Sunday, December 27, 1846, Containing Historical Notices of the Congregational Church in Said Town

Matt. XIII: 31. The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.

It was on the 28th of December, 1731, Old Style, (corresponding to the 8th of the following month according to the New Style,) that the First Congregational Church was gathered in this place. Only a few days therefore are wanting to bring us to the one hundred and fifteenth anniversary of its organization. As this is the last Sabbath of the year, a fit time to turn to the past for instruction, I shall take this opportunity to commemorate the planting of this church by giving an outline of its history.

Some may have a curiosity to learn why this is made the occasion for a commemorative discourse, since it is more usual to select the end of a century, or half century, as the most appropriate time for such historical retrospections.

It would be a sufficient reason for doing what I propose, that no time is unsuitable for paying a tribute of grateful respect to the memory of the men of pious heart who laid the deepest foundation of our Christian institutions - that no time is too late nor too early to be taught by their examples and experience. Another and sufficient reason is, that it has not been done, so far as I am aware, before. But that which has most influenced me to attempt it is, that I have recently for the first time obtained access to the early records of this church. From these records I have supposed it would be interesting to you to hear, as they have been for several years withheld not only from the possession, but even from the inspection, of the members of this church, to whom they legally, and, as I conceive, rightfully belong.

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