The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich . ministry, mightthink that they had to do, not so much with disciplesas with judges. Though the antiquarian demurs when we suggestthat they built their original house of worship onyonder rock, I am sure that the founders of the earlychurch did rear on a spiritual foundation that wasas strong as the solid rock; for all the years thathave passed have never shaken it, and the storms havepassed over it in vain. I offer you as the nextsentiment, The Founders of the First Church in fysioich, and
The celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Ipswich . ministry, mightthink that they had to do, not so much with disciplesas with judges. Though the antiquarian demurs when we suggestthat they built their original house of worship onyonder rock, I am sure that the founders of the earlychurch did rear on a spiritual foundation that wasas strong as the solid rock; for all the years thathave passed have never shaken it, and the storms havepassed over it in vain. I offer you as the nextsentiment, The Founders of the First Church in fysioich, and will call for a response from the worthy pastor,the Rev. E. B. Palmer. ADDRESS OF REV. E. B. PALMER. Mr. PREsroENT, AND Ladies and Gentlemen, — When amember of the committee general, to whom was assigned thebusiness of designating those who should make responses toindividual toasts, asked me to respond to this sentiment, Isaid, Yes, with an interrogation-point after it. I have beenshivering in my shoes from the time these exercises began,only regretting that I had not written an interrogation-point. THE MEETING-HOUSE OF THE FIRST PARISH, IPSWICH, 1749-1846. (See page 147.) ADDRESS OF REV. E. B. PALMER. 81 as long as yonder tent-pole. For, if the distinguished gentle-man at my right found nothing to say after what had beensaid by the orator of tlie morning and by his Excellency theChief Magistrate of the State, what shall I have to say ? Andif this gentleman [Mr. Saltoustall] who has so interestinglyand profitably addressed ns could run an intended speech offive minutes into one of twenty minutes, and make lis thinkthey were only five, what shall I do with a whole church fullof Winthrops ? I want from now until the time the old Tro-jan traveller spoke of, When the sinking stars would inviteto slumber, to treat worthily a theme like this. If I wereto be put under oath, in the presence of the representative ofthe legal element of the State, to tell the truth, the wholetruth, and
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