HALF CENTURY SERMON, DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1842, AT JAMAICA PLAIN. BY THOMAS GRAY, D. D. BOSTON: PRINTED BY I. R. BUTTS.... NO. 2 SCHOOL STREET. 1842. NOTICE. THE following Discourse was intended exclusively for the audience to whom it was addressed. Desirous to preserve the facts it contained relative to their origin as a Society, they have requested its publication. Some parts are here thrown into notes, that then occupied a place in the body of the Discourse-information being the only thing intended. It is still hoped that this consideration will both account for, and justify, a minuteness, which to a stranger may appear unnecessary, but to a Parishioner, will be interesting like family portraits estimable only to the domestic circle, whose ancestry they transmit. To that Society to whom the author has so long and so happily ministered, he now affectionately and respectfully inscribes it, with his most earnest prayers for their temporal and immortal welfare. JAMAICA PLAIN, April 28, 1842. |