ANNALS OF THE BAPTIST CHURCHES IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE. A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE NEW--HAMPSHIRE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION, AT ITS TENTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT DEERFIELD, OCTOBER 20, 1835. BY EBENEZER E. CUMMINGS, PASTOR OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH, CONCORD. CONCORD, N. H. BY MARSH, CAPEN & LYON. 1836. US 11560.15 C80357.5 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1860, Jan. 2. REV. E. E. CUMMINGS, DEAR SIR, The subscribers having been appointed a committee to request the publication of your valuable Historical Sermon, delivered this day, before the New-Hampshire Baptist State Convention, would express the hope, that you will favor the public with an early compliance with the request. JEREMIAH HIGBEE, J. NEWTON BROWN, Committee. DURA D. PRATT. Deerfield, Oct. 20, 1835. Stevens & Young, Printers. N. H. BAP. REGISTER PRESS. H.: SERMON. Deuteronomy, XXXII, 7, 8, 9, 10. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel: for the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. We are permitted to meet on another anniversary occasion of our benevolent Associations. Influenced by feelings of fraternal regard, we have with one heart come up to this place. Here we have been permitted to mingle our prayers to the Great Head of the church, and interchange the friendly greetings with each other. And now having assembled from different parts of the State, we are prepared to unite our counsels and labors in promoting the common interests of our beloved Zion. And thus assembled together as a holy brotherhood, we have the greatest reason to raise our notes of thanksgiving to our great Redeemer, for the blessings he bas so plentifully shed upon our paths. He has blessed us with peace in all our borders, and with the most firm bond of christian union and brotherly love. And prompted with a sense of the obligations under which we rest, for blessings so richly bestowed upon us, it becomes us to exhibit to the world a bright example of the beauty of holiness, and the purity of a zeal becoming the disciples of our blessed Redeemer. But, beloved brethren, while these considerations should occupy our thoughts, there are others equally solemn and affecting that should find an application. To day, as we meet on this interesting occasion, we are admonished of the wasting hand of time. Some of our Fathers in the ministry have "entered the home of redeemed spirits," since our last anniversary. Rev. Otis Robinson of Salisbury, and Rev. J. Cram of Plainfield have in their turn entered into the joys of the Lord. The events of time-fleeting, wasting time, urge us to the solemn |