Pearson, Eliphalet. A Sermon delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Ephraim Abbot to the Pastoral Care of the Congregational Church and Society in Greenland Oct. 27, 1813. Andover: Flagg and Gould, Printers, 1813. [12098]
"Presented by the Author" in brown ink at the top of the title page. Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/4 x 5 inches, 39 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is Matthew 10:16, "Be ye therefore wise, as serpents; and harmless, as doves." A discourse on preaching the gospel.
The Charge, by the Rev. Huntington Porter, of Rye; the Right Hand of Fellowship, by the Rev. Jonathan French of Northampton.
Rev. Ephraim Abbott (1779-1870), b. Newcastle, Maine; d. Westford, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard College and at the Andover Theological Seminary. He was the pastor at Greenland, New Hampshire, from 1813 to 1828. From 1829 to 1845 he preached at several Unitarian churches in New England, and during the same period was the principal of Westford Academy at Westford, Massachusetts.
Eliphalet Pearson (1752-1826), graduate of the Harvard Class of 1773, the second Hancock Professor in Hebrew and Oriental Languages at Harvard College, and acting President from 1804 to 1806. A dispute over the appointment of the Unitarian minister Henry Ware as Hollis Professor caused Pearson to resign his post at Harvard, and to briefly serve as Professor of Sacred Literature at Andover. Pearson then devoted the rest of his life to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a society he had joined in 1803, when it was called The American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry.
