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Excerpt from Frederick Newman Knapp, Sixth Minister of the First Parish in Brookline 1847 1855: A Sermon Preached in the First Parish Meeting House November 22, 1903
When the chorus of congratulations at his jubilee had died away, Dr. Pierce wondered if he were grow ing old. Truly, a minister who had been fifty years in the service might be pardoned for the suspicion. Yet he was still vigorous and enthusiastic. Few men have reached seventy-four with their natural force so little abated. His fellow-townsmen had gathered about him in that notable celebration, and had poured at his feet the gathered love and respect of half a century, and he knew that he might count on their loyalty so long as he lived. He had seen his parish grow in numbers and in consequence. The little meeting-house down the street on the other side had given way to a large and handsome temple on the higher ground where its successors have stood since. He had guided his parish safely through a bitter theo logical controversy, with no schism or quarrelling among its members, or any trace of sectarian dispute in its records. It had been a most happy and in every sense successful ministry. Yet fifty years is a long time, and the man of seventy-four might well have longed for a division of burdens.
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