Storrs, Richard S. A Sermon, delivered at North Bridgewater, Oct. 31, 1821, at the Ordination of the Rev. Daniel Temple, and Rev. Isaac Bird, as Evangelists and Missionaries to the Heathen. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, Printers, 1822. First Edition. [12099]
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Rev. Daniel Temple (1789-1851), for 23 years an American missionary to Malta, Syria, Smyrna and Constantinople; Rev. Isaac Bird (1793-1876), one of the first Protestant missionaries in Syria, sailing in 1822 to Malta for language training, and teaching and preaching in Syria from 1824 to 1836.
The text is Acts 13:2, "As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them."
Two main points, 1. The work in which missionaries are employed; and, 2. The evidence, which they ought to possess, that they are called by the Holy Ghost.
The Charge, by the Rev. Daniel Thomas, A.M., Pastor of the Second Church in Abington; The Right Hand of Fellowship, by the Rev. Samuel Green, of Reading.
Includes Address to the Palestine Missionary Society, by the Rev. Sereno E. Dwight, of Boston. And the Constitution of the Palestine Missionary Society.
Richard Salter Storrs, D.D. (1787-1873), a prominent New England Congregational minister, a descendant of the Puritan Richard Mather, and one of many generations of conservative ministers in the Storrs family. He was for many years the pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts.
