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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Centennial Celebration Of The Planting Of The Presbyterian Church, Of Mountpleasant, Penna., October 9Th, A.D. 1874: Together With The Addresses Of Re

Centennial Celebration Of The Planting Of The Presbyterian Church, Of Mountpleasant, Penna., October 9Th, A.D. 1874: Together With The Addresses Of Re

I. Brownson, James

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral ChristianityGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 9354500404
ISBN13: 9789354500404
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On 9 October 1874, a small Pennsylvania congregation paused to mark a hundred years of faith and settlement. A town remembers its roots. Centennial Celebration of the Planting of the Presbyterian Church, of Mountpleasant, Penna. gathers the spoken heart of that day: a church anniversary booklet built from a commemorative sermon collection and a centennial proceedings transcript. Within these pages are the sermons and addresses 1874 delivered by Rev. James I. Brownson, D.D., Rev. John M. Barnett, and Rev. John M'Millan, D.D., alongside the recorded proceedings and exercises that framed the service. Read it for the rhythms of nineteenth-century worship, the civic pride of a local church centennial, and the careful recollection of presbyterian church founding in Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania and wider Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. For readers drawn to American religious history, it offers an intimate slice of American Presbyterian heritage in the voices of its ministers and organisers. For family researchers, it is a genealogy local history source that can illuminate names, networks, and community memory. Church historians and archivists will value its documentary clarity and period diction, while collectors of regional Americana will appreciate a focused primary record from a formative era. It also captures how doctrine, schooling, and frontier resilience shaped a borough's public life. An absorbing witness to communal continuity here. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, presented as a historical reprint edition.

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