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Title: An account of the celebration by the First parish of Weston, Massachusetts of its two hundredth anniversary on Sunday, the nineteenth of June and Sunday, the twenty-sixth of June, MDCCCXCVIII, also sundry addresses and other papers therewith connected, 1698-1898
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Weston (Mass.). First Parish
Subjects: Weston, Mass. First Parish
Publisher: Weston, Mass., Printed for the Parish
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: UMass Amherst Libraries

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ber twilight, and filled the old church withtheir fervid appeal. They are the words of a manin deadly earnest, for whom Duty was a term ofsolemn import and imperial command. The dialectis strange and harsh as that of Cromwells Ironsides,but it has the ring of a downright and fearless man-hood. We recognize the spirit of the covenant of1630, and are introduced to men whose words were 52 The First Parish of Weston TxOt intended to conceal their thoughts. They weremen with a mission, each man of them was hereon Gods business, to build his life into the divinecommonwealth, and so they began by bindingthemselves by oath and solemn protestation toGod and to each other in a covenant never to bebroken. The spirit of that old covenant is needed still.That and that alone is the true state and churchbuilder. Across the years the fathers call on us tostand up and stand together^ for God, and man, andthe worship that keeps earth in loving and safealliance with Heaven. 53 The Biographical Addresses
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REVEREND JOSEPH MORS ANDREVEREND WILLIAM WILLIAMS By Reverend Charles Frank Russell THE Reverend Joseph Mors, first minister ofthis precinct or parish (though never thesettled minister of this church) was born at Medfield,Massachusetts, May 25, 1671, the son of Joseph andof Priscilla (Colburn) Mors. His ancestors wereof that excellent company that came from Englandabout 1630, when nearly fifteen hundred souls wereadded to the inhabitants of Massachusetts Colony.He was probably fitted for college by the schoolsand the minister of Medfield, and he then enteredHarvard, graduating in 1695, twenty-first in a classof twenty-two. The records of the University forthat period are most scanty, and a search of itsbooks only reveals that he spent very little money,that he was sometimes fined as a punishment, andthat he broke more window glass than his incomejustified. It would appear that he was poor inpurse and in scholarship, with inclination towardmischief, but in none of these matters was ext

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