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Title: Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West ..
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Freeman, Alden, 1862-
Subjects: Abbey, Thomas, 1731-1811 Abbey family (John Abbey, ca. 1613-ca.1689) Freeman family (Henry Freeman, d. 1763)
Publisher: (East Orange, N.J., The Abbey printshop)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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dents of heroism as we find them in the Word of God, andwe come back to them, that there is a duty to be performed bythe ministers of God, which resembles that of this CaptainThomas Abbey in 1775, when it is our duty to drum the peopleout of church in order to go after some people who do not goto church. For the service of the very church itself, we go outand find our neighbors and bring them back to the household offaith. The missionary spirit is the spirit that should characterizeevery church. We have frequently advised you that the congregation ofthe disciples of Jesus Christ is a force as well as a field. It isa field to cultivate, for you come here to listen, to worship Godfirst of all, and then to listen to words which inspire you andwhich instruct you, perhaps—they ought to do so, they arevalueless unless they both instruct and inspire and urge you toyour duty. The worship of God is in the street as well as in thechurch ; it is in the homes of your neighbors where you may 186
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MAJOR GENERAL PETER MUHLENBERG Statue in Philadelphia City Hall by J. Otto SchweizerIn 1775 this clergyman was preaching in the Episcopal Church at Woodstock Virginia. He said: There is a time for all things—a time to preach and a time to pray; but there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come! Throwing off his gown, he displayed the full military uniform of a colonel, having just accepted a commission from General Washington. Leaving his pulpit, he went into the field with nearly 300 members of his congregation under his flag. go to bear an invitation to enter the sanctuary, and you aredrumming out to drum others in, for there is a drum waitingeveryone who would be in the faithful service of Jesus Christ, torouse to the military spirit those people who fail to attend theservices of the sanctuary and who are thus derelict in their dutyand false to their faith. But this is not all. We would drum the people out ofchurch that they may enter into the civic life of the commun

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