Anniversary Celebration of the New England Society in the City of New York, 86. number

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Page 68 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 73 - Secretary: who shall each severally hold office for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected.
Page 53 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Page 53 - I charge you before God and His blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry: for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of His holy word.
Page 32 - The learned class were indeed an order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee.
Page 73 - York, and by mailing through the post-office a written or printed notice to each member of the Society. At such Annual Meeting, officers of the Society shall be elected in the manner and for the term and times following, namely: The several officers named in the charter shall be elected by ballot...
Page 71 - Romeyn, the present trustees of the said college, and their successors, shall be and remain forever hereafter, a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name of "The trustees of Columbia College, in the city of New York...
Page 71 - The said corporation shall have the power to make and adopt a Constitution and By-Laws, Rules and Regulations...
Page 40 - ... thereafter for the privilege of treating the transaction with levity, I cling with childlike faith to the belief that there actually were Pilgrim Fathers, and that they did land. (Laughter...

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