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Portrait of John Eliot

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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Phillips Brooks Statue

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Phillips Brooks wrote “O Little Town of Bethlehem” – but as David Larsen pointed out, “like his preaching, even the hymn lacks strong Christological affirmation.” Larsen quotes from his successor’s biography of Brooks: His mother had in the earlier years of his ministry feared for his faith, and she had prayed mightily that he might remain true. She warned him Read more...
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Park Street Church

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From the website: ” the founders of Park Street Church pronounced the standard upon which they could not compromise: Jesus Christ was no mere messenger sent from God—He was God himself. This stance on the divinity of Jesus had fallen out of favor in the early 1800s, in favor of the doctrine of Unitarianism. Unitarians believe that Jesus was a good Read more...
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Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Boston

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On this site in 1855, was where Edward Kimball, taught Sunday School. A young D.L. Moody came to his class one Sunday. Kimball was impressed to visit his at the shoe store that his uncle operated nearby. Read more...
Portrait of John Eliot

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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Obadiah Holmes Whipping Post

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Obadiah Holmes was born in England and came to Massachusetts Bay. After adopting credobaptism (baptism by belief) as opposed to the Puritan pedobaptism (infants), he was evicted from Rehoboth, MA and joined John Clarke at his Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island. On Sunday, July 20, 1651, Clarke, Holmes, and a John Crandall held a small Baptist service in the Read more...
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