Download or read book Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Middletown, New Jersey, October 30th, 1888 (Classic Reprint) written by First Baptist Church and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Baptist Church, Middletown, New Jersey, October 30th, 1888 Brethren in Christ, and members of the two hundred Baptist Churches of New Jersey, as Pastor of this grand old patriarchal Church, and for my people, I extend to you Christian greeting, and bid you most cordial welcome to the old, historic spot, to our hospitality, to our hearts and to our homes. We stand on sacred ground, thickly clustered with noble names and grand achievements. They tell us we are the Old Mother Church, from whom eight daughter Churches have gone out, and are now as strong, as able, as ourselves but others tell us She is the mother of or more Baptist Churches. Be that as it may, we are vividly reminded today of the gathering home of children and grandchildren on some festive Christmas-tide around the old homestead. Children and grandchildren are delighted, and the dear old faces of grandparents just Simply beam with pleasure and delight over their happy descendants. We are reminded of the gathering of the tribes to Jerusalem of Old, at the great and joyous feasts Of the Lord, when even the desert paths through the valley of Baca were as wells of refreshment for the joy set before them. The old Church IS Joyous to-day in beholding what God hath wrought. The few have become the many, and the glory of God is in it. It is said that at the close of the war between France and Prussia, in 1866, the tri umphant army of Prussia came to Berlin for its reception and welcome. AS each regiment approached the city gate from the Thiergarten, it was halted by a choir demanding by what right it would enter the city. The regiment replied in song, reciting the battles it had fought, the victories it had won then came a welcome from the choir, Enter into the city. SO came on regiment after regiment, reciting its deeds and victories, each challenged and welcomed in loud chorus. And then they marched on in triumph up the Linden, between rows of captured cannon, with the banners they had borne and the banners they had taken, and all of them saluted the statue of grand Old Frederick, the Creator of Prussia. SO it seems to me to-day, the hosts of God's elect have gathered here to salute the grand old Mother Church, and with songs and tokens of victory are marching together, singing hallelujahs and laying their trophies at His feet who hath brought us Off more than conquerors. Trusting these anniversary services may make strong and lasting impressions on the Church here, and on all the Churches represented, and may be far-reach ing in their influences, far out beyond all our calculations, we bid you all again, most cordial welcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.