Call number
Publication
Philadelphia: Inquirer Book and Job Print, 304 Chestnut Street, 1873.
Physical description
176 p.; 22 cm
Notes
This book may be found online in digital format at https://archive.org/details/twosermonspreach00boar
Dr. Boardman's inaugural sermon at Tenth Presbyterian Church was delivered on 10 May 1833, an extract of which is included in his fortieth anniversary sermon.
Sermon I, delivered in 1858. [p. 5-81]
Sermon text - Psalms xxvi. 6, 7. - "So will I compass thine altar, O Lord; that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works."
Opening words:
As I appear before you this morning, my mind goes back irresistibly to the scene presented in this house on a Friday evening, just twenty-five years ago. The Presbytery to which the church belonged was convened here, and with it a crowded auditory, who had come together, as might be, to indulge a rational curiosity, or to testify their Christian sympathy in the solemnities of that hour. In such a presence, after an impressive sermon by my venerable predecessor in this pulpit, I knelt in yonder aisle and was ordained to the ministry, "by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery;" after which, I was installed as the Pastor of this congregation. The aged preacher, yielding to accumulated bodily infirmities, has long since ceased from all active ministrations; and the voice which charged you to be faithful to your trust, is silent under the pressure of a living death. Of the hands which were first lifted in response to the prescribed demand, "Do you profess your readiness to take this man to be your minister?" and then, as the benediction closed, were stretched forth to give me a generous and hearty welcome, many are paralyzed in the grave, and still more are dispersed over the broad earth. Only here and there, as I look around my congregation, do I recognize one who participated in the services of that evening, and went home to offer at the household altar a prayer for the youthful Pastor who had dared, possibly unsent of God, to assume a charge so disproportionate to his years and his powers.
Sermon II, delivered in 1873. [p. 83-164]
Sermon text - Deuteronomy viii. 2. - "And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years."
Opening words:
Had I consulted simply my private feelings, this day would have passed without any public commemoration. But I was given to understand that you were expecting me to take some notice of it, and I surrender my personal preferences to your wishes--the more so, as my own life has, during "these forty years," been so blended with the life of this Church, that neither could be considered apart from the other.
"I come to the Sanctuary, then, to greet this Anniversary with two Psalms upon my lips, a Psalm of thanksgiving and a Psalm of penitence. It is impossible for me to review the countless mercies of my pastoral life without exclaiming, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name." Equally impossible is it for me to recall the countless deficiencies and sins of my pastorate, without crying in deep contrition, "God be merciful to me a sinner!"
Dr. Boardman's inaugural sermon at Tenth Presbyterian Church was delivered on 10 May 1833, an extract of which is included in his fortieth anniversary sermon.
Sermon I, delivered in 1858. [p. 5-81]
Sermon text - Psalms xxvi. 6, 7. - "So will I compass thine altar, O Lord; that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works."
Opening words:
As I appear before you this morning, my mind goes back irresistibly to the scene presented in this house on a Friday evening, just twenty-five years ago. The Presbytery to which the church belonged was convened here, and with it a crowded auditory, who had come together, as might be, to indulge a rational curiosity, or to testify their Christian sympathy in the solemnities of that hour. In such a presence, after an impressive sermon by my venerable predecessor in this pulpit, I knelt in yonder aisle and was ordained to the ministry, "by the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery;" after which, I was installed as the Pastor of this congregation. The aged preacher, yielding to accumulated bodily infirmities, has long since ceased from all active ministrations; and the voice which charged you to be faithful to your trust, is silent under the pressure of a living death. Of the hands which were first lifted in response to the prescribed demand, "Do you profess your readiness to take this man to be your minister?" and then, as the benediction closed, were stretched forth to give me a generous and hearty welcome, many are paralyzed in the grave, and still more are dispersed over the broad earth. Only here and there, as I look around my congregation, do I recognize one who participated in the services of that evening, and went home to offer at the household altar a prayer for the youthful Pastor who had dared, possibly unsent of God, to assume a charge so disproportionate to his years and his powers.
Sermon II, delivered in 1873. [p. 83-164]
Sermon text - Deuteronomy viii. 2. - "And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years."
Opening words:
Had I consulted simply my private feelings, this day would have passed without any public commemoration. But I was given to understand that you were expecting me to take some notice of it, and I surrender my personal preferences to your wishes--the more so, as my own life has, during "these forty years," been so blended with the life of this Church, that neither could be considered apart from the other.
"I come to the Sanctuary, then, to greet this Anniversary with two Psalms upon my lips, a Psalm of thanksgiving and a Psalm of penitence. It is impossible for me to review the countless mercies of my pastoral life without exclaiming, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His holy name." Equally impossible is it for me to recall the countless deficiencies and sins of my pastorate, without crying in deep contrition, "God be merciful to me a sinner!"