Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian Church of Genoa, Kings Ferry, N.Y.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... CENTENNIAL SERMON By Rev. J. Spencer Jewell. Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.--Deut. 32:7. These words suggest the purpose which calls us together this morning. Events go hurrying by--for a passing moment they are with us and are gone. Memory goes after them, brings them back and lives in their companionship. Sometimes a whole circle of events is grouped together; we call it history, and then with delight we turn back over the pages and read the record of many generations. As the shuttle flies in and out, weaving ever its beautiful web of cloth, so the hurrying days are fashioning human lives and weaving the history of churches, communities and nations. Thus for 100 years this church has been making history. How many threads of human lives have gone back and forth to make this cloth-of gold. To-day we desire to stop the loom long enough to examine the texture and admire the beauty of this fabric. The value of a fraction is determined by its denominator; 100 years placed over a cipher is very different from 100 years placed over eternity. With God, a thousand years are as one day. With man, 100 years require the lives of two or three generations to write its history. To the frail plant whose life is measured by only a few brief days of a single summer, a century is an eternity. But to those giant trees of California, whose size sounds like the legendary tales of childhood, a century is but the maturing of the sapling, that some time may aspire to be a tree. One hundred years in the history of Egypt, China or even Spain is not worth the mentioning. But 100 years in United States history carries us back to our country's childhood. Of those whose lives have touched this community, only one, old Mrs. Fallen's, has been long ...