Although depicted nearby at Plimoth Plantation, the actual location of the Pilgrim’s first church is here. Later the church would move down the hill to First Parish Church. Site of the First Fort Built in 1621 Lower part used for church Also site of the fort built in 1675 which was 100 ft sq. Sides 10½ ft high Read more...
The Pilgrims did not seek to build fancy houses of worship like those of the Church of England that they left. Rather they met in the fort for collective worship. The church later had its own building at First Parish Church. Read more...
William Brewster was pastor to the Pilgrims during and after the Mayflower Voyage. The only University-trained member of the voyage, he was the spiritual leader of the group. The Pilgrim Voyage is the subject of the Brinkman Adventures series: Freedom. Read more...
William Bradford, signer of the Mayflower Compact, and Governor of Plymouth Colony for over thirty years. His memoir, Of Plimoth Plantation, preserves the history of the Pilgrim migration. Read more...
The Pilgrims who gathered first in Scrooby, then moved to the Netherlands, then they worshipped together in the Mayflower as they sailed in 1620. Their meetinghouse was the fort (depicted at Plimoth Plantation but originally located on Burial Hill), then moved down the hill to the current location. In 1801, the Trinitarians left in the split (identifying with the theological Read more...
Place where John & Abigail Adams, and John Quincy & Louisa Catherine Adams worshipped and are buried. Of interest is a letter from John to Abigail about his thoughts on church: Phyladelphia Octr. 9, 1774 My Dear I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly Read more...
President Abraham Lincoln spoke September 30th, 1859 at the Wisconsin State Fair. This campaign speech was his only speech on agriculture. He would create the U.S. Department of Agriculture two years after being elected as President of the United States. In recognition of then-Candidate Lincoln’s speech, a granite marker with a brass plaque was placed by the 4th Congressional District Read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From Wikipedia Lillian Hunt Trasher (27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961) was an American Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is famed as the “Nile Mother” of Egypt.[by whom?] Early life Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia.[1] According to one account, her Quaker family had moved to the South Read more...
Photograph and article from https://acl.asn.au/resources/eternity/ “There were suggestions that the city should erect a plaque to his memory. One idea was that there should be a statue in Railway Square depicting Stace kneeling, chalk in hand. In 1968 the Sydney City Council decided to perpetuate Stace’s one-word sermon by putting down permanent plaques in “numerous” locations throughout the city. Read more...
Photograph from Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Learn more at https://acl.asn.au/resources/eternity/ From Facebook: Arthur Stace, a homeless alcoholic lived in the Streets of Sydney, Australia. After a conversion to Christianity, he quit drinking, and spent the rest of his life writing the word “Eternity” all over the city in yellow chalk. He is said to have written it over five hundred thousand Read more...
Author: Grace Greater than All Our Sin I have partly learned some of my lessons, Some others but dimly I see; I was ever, I think, a slow learner: My Teacher is patient with me; So patient and tender and loving, So gentle and kindly His rule, I care not how simple my lessons, If they are but taught Read more...
Author: Sweet Sweet Spirit “Her music was a special gift, and she gave God all the glory for it. It wasn’t her, it was God that put that gift into her possession.” Rev. Willa Grant Battle, Founding Pastor of Grace Temple Deliverance Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota Born in Brookfield, Missouri, on May 21, 1923, Doris Mae “Dot/Doe” Akers Read more...
Author: I Will Sing the Wondrous Story What do slaughterhouses in Massachusetts have to do with the hymn “I Will Sing the Wondrous Story?” One man. A Baptist pastor. Francis Harold Rowley. Born in 1854, Francis was the son of a medical doctor. He accomplished his preliminary education at the Wilson Preparatory School in Rochester, New York, before graduating Read more...
Author: Just a Little Talk with Jesus The negro spiritual was a musical art form created by the African slaves of yesteryear to give voice to their misery and to communicate with one another. “The term ‘American Negro Spirituals’ speaks to the history, the suffering, the hope and the resolve of a people who were able to sing through Read more...
Author: I Am Resolved Palmer Hartsough was born in Redford, Michigan, on May 7, 1844, to Wells and Thankfull Barnes Palmer Hartsough. Named in honor of his mother’s maiden name, Palmer was raised in a Christian home – his father was very active in the fledgling Michigan Baptist Convention (established in 1836). Palmer attended both the Michigan State Normal Read more...
