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Hiram Bingham Memorial

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Inscription: A Centennial Memorial of Hiram Bingham. Born in Bennington, Vt., Oct. 30, 1789. Died in New Haven, Ct., Nov. 11, 1869, Aged 80 Years. This slab is placed here in grateful remembrance of a pioneer Missionary by descendants of Hawaiians (aided by his Children) among whom he preached Christ for more than twenty years. He preached the first sermon every delivered Read more...
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Billy Graham First Sermon

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Inscription: William (Billy) Franklin Graham preached his first sermon on Easter Sunday night, March 28, 1947 at the Bostwick Baptist Church near Palatka, Florida. Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. He was saved in a Mordecal Ham crusade when he was 16 years of age. He preached his first sermon at Bostwick Baptist Church while Read more...
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John Wesley lands in America

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John Wesley (1703-1791) was an Oxford graduate, an Anglican priest, and led the “Holy Club” where they prayed for three hours a day to try to be a better Christian. He even became a missionary to the Native Americans in Georgia. On October 14, 1735, John and his brother Charles Wesley departed England for Savannah aboard the Simmonds. On February Read more...
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First Indian Meetinghouse

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John Eliot (1604-1690) was born in Widford, England, and graduated from Cambridge. He worked for Thomas Hooker (founder of Connecticut) at his school in Essex. When Hooker escaped England for the Netherlands, Eliot came to Boston in 1631, where he helped compile the Bay Psalm Book. For over forty years he would preach in Roxbury. Many of the Christians who came Read more...
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John Eliot Grave

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From Wikipedia: John Eliot (c. 1604—21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called “the apostle to the Indians”[1][2][3] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. Produced the first Bible published in America Read more...
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Thomas Hooker Statue

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Thomas Hooker was born in Leicestershire, England, and graduated from Cambridge with a Master’s in 1611, the year the translators produced the Authorized (King James) Bible. Hooker pastored in Surrey starting in 1620, and then in Chelmsford in 1626. But in 1629, because of his Puritan sympathies he was forced to flee to Rotterdam, and then in 1633, following the Read more...
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Thomas Hooker Grave

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Thomas Hooker (see his statue nearby) would continue to minister until his death in 1647. He was buried in the “Ancient Burying Ground” near the original site of the church. In 1739, First Church would move to its current spot, adjacent the Ancient Burying Ground, where it is now known as Center Church. The marker by his grave reads: Thomas Read more...
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Mayflower Compact

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Inscription: A group of Separatist from the Church of England, later named Pilgrims, left England for Holland in 1608 in settled in Leiden in 1609. After staying there for 11 years, the group sailed back to England on the ship Speedwell, where they joined by more immigrants along with a larger ship, the Mayflower. Although both ships set out together, Read more...
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Cross of Gold first delivered

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William Jennings Bryan test-drove the greatest speech in American history, “The Cross of Gold” in Perry, Illinois, on the lawn of Perry Presbyterian church. Bryan would go on to deliver this speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The speech would propel the “Boy orator of the Plains” to be the 1896 Democratic nominee for President of the Read more...
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William Jennings Bryan began legal career

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Inscription: On this site on July 4th, 1883, distinguished American William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) began his practice of law and journey to national prominence. The forthright, spirited Bryan would become a Congressman from Nebraska, three-time Democratic nominee for President, and Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. Photo by Jason Voigt, May 12, 2020 HMDB.org Read more...
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Charles Tindley Grave

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Charles Albert Tindley (July 7, 1851 – July 26, 1933) was an American Methodist minister and gospel music composer. His composition “I’ll Overcome Someday”[1] is credited as the basis for the U.S. Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome“.[2] Another of his hymns is “Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There” (1916), as well as “What Are They Doing in Heaven?” (1901). Often referred to as “The Prince Read more...
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Miles Coverdale Grave

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Romans Chap. XVI. Verse XVII. The Holy Bible To the memory of Miles Coverdale who convinced that the pure Word of God ought to be the sole rule of our faith and guide of our practice laboured earnestly for its diffusion and with a view of affording the meaning of reading and hearing in their own tongue the wonderful works Read more...
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York Minister Library

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Miles Coverdale c.1488 – 1569Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell. He was a major figure of the English Reformation and the Authorised Version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms in the Book Read more...
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Grave of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

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Photograph Dr. Bernd Gross   Wikipedia: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (* 26. May 1700 in Dresden; † 9. May 1760 in Lord’s hat) was a German Lutheran–pietistic self-taught[ 1 ] theologian, Imperial Count, Founder and bishop the Herrnhut brothers ( „ Brothers’ Union “ ) as well as poets of numerous hymns. Read more...
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Clarence W Jones Grave

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From Reach Beyond (HCJB):   One Sunday morning at Lake Harbor, Paul Rader gave a missionary challenge, and at the invitation, Clarence, who had been leading the singing, went forward to give his life for missionary service.  Rader was greatly moved. “God bless him.  We need Clarence Jones here in this work.  But if God wants him in missionary work, Read more...
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