Asa Turner: A Home Missionary Patriarch and His Times (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Magoun, George F.

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ISBN 10: 1332073603 ISBN 13: 9781332073603

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Asa Turner: A Home Missionary Patriarch and His Times

On Boston Common, June, 1732, the Narraganset claimants all drew lots for townships. A hundred and twenty of them drew land west of Penacook and Sun cook. This was afterwards judicially found to fall within Captain Mason's grant,1 and exchanged for a township on the back of Rutland, Worcester County. From not knowing of this exchange a writer in the Maine Historical Collections is perplexed. This Templeton township back of Rutland comprised, according to the History of Worcester County, acres; for the six miles square, 300 for the Mine Farm [so called], and 100 for a pond. From this and Athol, Gerry was taken, 1774, and incorporated as Phillipston, From its eastern side3 something was taken in 1785 for the town of Gardner.

It was required by the General Court of those who secured one of these townships that they should pass such rules and orders as shall effectually oblige them to settle sixty families at least Within said township, with a learned Orthodox minister, Within seven years from date of grant. It is said of the Templeton proprietors4 that the four great things they were determined to have, whatever else they might go without, were roads, mills, schools, and church institutions.

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Death is not a rare visitor. He comes often, and takes our greatest and best, as well as the unknown, unloved, and unmissed. But not often does he bear away a man like Asa Turner. This world of the dying has few such men to lose. When such a man is taken, the Christian brotherhood is left vastly the poorer. It is therefore a sacred duty to keep fragrant and influential, so long as it may be kept, a memory so precious. Only those who have tried it can know how hard a task it is - not simply to record the outward events of a long and busy life, but - to reproduce, for those who never saw him, the man, his personality, his work, his spirit, his influence on the churches, the ministers, the denomination that he loved, and on the great states into whose early material and spiritual development he put so strong a hand, so wise and wide a mind, and so warm a heart. But the friends of Father Turner have in this been greatly favored. The task of painting his picture for the instruction and cheer of those who come after has fallen to friends and brethren with whom it is a labor of love. Few men knew Father Turner longer or more intimately than did he who has borne the chief responsibility of this memoir; and fewer still wield pens that could so deftly outline his strong, marked, forceful, well-nigh unique character. But other friends, well fitted for the work, have lovingly brought in their lights and shadows, till here in bold relief stand out - as vividly as the engraved portrait gives the lineaments of his face - the intellectual and spiritual features of the man as they knew him well, at home, in the pulpit, the parish, the multifarious fields of humane, educational, reformatory, moral, and Christian effort, filling to the brim a life of more than fourscore years.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332073603
• ISBN 13: 9781332073603
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392