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Excerpt from An Historical Discourse Commemorative of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the Belleville Congregational Church, Newburyport, Mass: Delivered on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1858Whereas, we the Subscribers, Members of y Old Church, and of Several other Societies in Newbury, yet living in y? Easterly and South erly Parts of the Second Parish, and Westerly part of the Third Parish in Newbury, Do hereby agree to Imbody ourselves into a Society, and to Improve the said old Church for the Public worship of God, in the Dis senting way (as is commonly called) it we should obtain the Parish Pro posed.And if we Should not Like the Church for the Purpose above said, We Do Hereby Covenant and agree to build a Meeting House. Said House shall be built in manner and form according to y Instructions that may be given to a Committee. Who may hereafter be Chosen By us to Effect the Same. And that we will Pay towards the Building thereof, the Sev eral Sums to which we have affixed our Respective Names, Said Sums to be in Cash o'r Materials to the Acceptance of the said Committee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.