Stuart, Moses; Worcester, Samuel. A Sermon preached in the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Nov. 5, 1818, at the Ordination of the Rev. Messrs. Pliny Fisk, Levi Spaulding, Miron Winslow, and Henry Woodward, as Missionaries to the Unevangelized Nations. Andover: Printed by Flagg and Gould, 1818. First Edition. [12100]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, 44 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
The ordination of a group of men sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Miron Winslow, Levi Spaulding and Henry Woodward went to Ceylon while Pliny Fisk went to the Middle East.
The text is Galatians 4:9-10, "Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due time we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have, therefore, opportunity, let us do good unto all men." In addition to encouraging words for the missionaries, he takes up some objections to missionary work and answers them.
The Charge or Address to the Missionaries is by Samuel Worcester, D.D.; the Right Hand of Fellowship is by the Rev. J. Huntington.
Moses Stuart (1780-1852), born at Wilton, Connecticut. Stuart graduated with highest honors from Yale College in 1799, afterwards teaching at several posts, including as Tutor at Yale. He studied theology under Dr. Dwight and was ordained pastor of the Church in New Haven in 1806. From 1810 to 1848 he was Professor of Sacred Literature at Andover.
“Mr. (for he refused the title of Dr.) Stuart’s life was one of incessant labor, devoted chiefly to Biblical literature. In this he led the way in his own country with most happy results. His own contributions to sacred learning are very valuable; but perhaps he did even more by the impulse he gave to Biblical study, and the sound principles of Biblical exegesis which he instilled into the minds of his younger brethren, especially in America, than by the works which he himself published.” – M’Clintock & Strong.
