Publication
Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Prs., 52 & 54 N. Sixth Street, 1876.
Physical description
24 p.; 19 cm
Notes
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Opening words:
Action of the Tenth Presbyterian Church.
A Special Meeting of the Tenth Church and Congregation was held at 5 o'clock, P.M., on Monday, May 22d, to take action upon a Letter received from their Pastor, asking for a dissolution of the pastoral relations. On motion, the Hon. William A. Porter, LL.D., was called to the chair, and Charles E. Morris, Esq., was chosen Secretary. The meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. John McArthur. Judge Findlay then read to the meeting Dr. Boardman's Letter, as follows:
Dr. Boardman's Letter to the Tenth Presbyterian Church and Congregation:
Beloved Brethren in Christ Jesus:
While yet a student in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, you invited me to become your Pastor. The unsought call greatly embarrassed me. Submitting the question to our venerable Professors, they with one accord bade me interpret your voice as the voice of Providence. So "in weakness and in fear and in much trembling," I came to you, and was ordained and installed on the eighth day of November, A.D., 1833.
Little could it have been anticipated, either by the youthful Pastor, or by the congregation that welcomed him to their Sanctuary and their homes (of whom seven communicants only remain with us) that the union consummated on that memorable evening was to continue for nearly forty-three years. Of the various proposals, academical, pastoral and theological, which have reached me, looking to the sundering of this tie (and of which, with a single conspicuous exception, you have known nothing) it would ill become me to speak. Let it suffice, that feeling assured I had followed the Pillar of Cloud in coming here, I could never see that the guiding symbol had lifted from our humble Sanctuary, and have therefore been constrained to reply to every such appeal, "I dwell among my own people." Strange if I could have answered otherwise. For not only had you borne with the deficiencies and errors of my early ministry, but the suspension of my labors occasioned by repeated illnesses, instead of weakening, seemed rather, through your kindness, to give new strength and tenderness to the bond which united us. Once and again has my resignation been placed in your hands and promptly returned to me with demonstrations of sympathy and affection which I can never forget.
It is impossible for me to review this long pastorate, without a deep sense of the negligences and sins which have marked and marred it. I keenly feel to-day how much more thorough and faithful it might and should have been.But your forbearance and generosity have left me no room for invoking your charity. And I can only hope that, sadly imperfect as the service has been, it may be accepted of God for the sake of His dear Son whose precious blood can avail to cleanse us and ours from all fault and defilement. . . .
[p. 5-7].
Opening words:
Action of the Tenth Presbyterian Church.
A Special Meeting of the Tenth Church and Congregation was held at 5 o'clock, P.M., on Monday, May 22d, to take action upon a Letter received from their Pastor, asking for a dissolution of the pastoral relations. On motion, the Hon. William A. Porter, LL.D., was called to the chair, and Charles E. Morris, Esq., was chosen Secretary. The meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. John McArthur. Judge Findlay then read to the meeting Dr. Boardman's Letter, as follows:
Dr. Boardman's Letter to the Tenth Presbyterian Church and Congregation:
Beloved Brethren in Christ Jesus:
While yet a student in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, you invited me to become your Pastor. The unsought call greatly embarrassed me. Submitting the question to our venerable Professors, they with one accord bade me interpret your voice as the voice of Providence. So "in weakness and in fear and in much trembling," I came to you, and was ordained and installed on the eighth day of November, A.D., 1833.
Little could it have been anticipated, either by the youthful Pastor, or by the congregation that welcomed him to their Sanctuary and their homes (of whom seven communicants only remain with us) that the union consummated on that memorable evening was to continue for nearly forty-three years. Of the various proposals, academical, pastoral and theological, which have reached me, looking to the sundering of this tie (and of which, with a single conspicuous exception, you have known nothing) it would ill become me to speak. Let it suffice, that feeling assured I had followed the Pillar of Cloud in coming here, I could never see that the guiding symbol had lifted from our humble Sanctuary, and have therefore been constrained to reply to every such appeal, "I dwell among my own people." Strange if I could have answered otherwise. For not only had you borne with the deficiencies and errors of my early ministry, but the suspension of my labors occasioned by repeated illnesses, instead of weakening, seemed rather, through your kindness, to give new strength and tenderness to the bond which united us. Once and again has my resignation been placed in your hands and promptly returned to me with demonstrations of sympathy and affection which I can never forget.
It is impossible for me to review this long pastorate, without a deep sense of the negligences and sins which have marked and marred it. I keenly feel to-day how much more thorough and faithful it might and should have been.But your forbearance and generosity have left me no room for invoking your charity. And I can only hope that, sadly imperfect as the service has been, it may be accepted of God for the sake of His dear Son whose precious blood can avail to cleanse us and ours from all fault and defilement. . . .
[p. 5-7].