Rogers, William M. A Sermon, Occasioned by the Loss of the Harold and the Lexington, delivered at the Odeon, January 26, 1840. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1840. Second Edition. [12092]
Removed, newly sewn into an acid-free wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 18 clean pp. Very good. Pamphlet.
The text is Jeremiah 49:23, "Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint-hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."
The SS Lexington was a paddlewheel steamboat in service along the Northeast Atlantic coast from 1835 to 1840. It was commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt and was one of the fastest and most luxurious steamers in operation. It caught fire on Long Island Sound, and all but four of its 143 passengers were killed. It remains as the worst shipping disaster in Long Island Sound history.
William Matticks Rogers (1806-1851), b. Island of Alderney, Guernsey; d. Boston, Massachusetts. He was sent to the United States when a boy, and lived with his uncle at Dorchester. He graduated at Harvard College (1827), studied theology at Andover, and became pastor of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Townsend Mass. (1830). In 1835 he became pastor of the Franklin Street Church, Boston, where he remained until his death in 1851.
