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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
the towns and parishes of New England at this period, for which the calamity of the time [the presence of British troops in their midst] was esteemed a judgment. Another (No. 1336—Aug. 16, 1772) states, We may well tremble under the apprehension of wicked and arbitrary power. In this year he preached a sermon on Eccles. 12: 14, to the youth— Sept. 13, 1772. They were professedly united for the worship of God on the evening of his day. Another evening sermon to the youth is dated Dec. 13, 1772, on Prov. 8: 17. In it Mr. Cooke alludes to the origin of this religious society thus: It is, as I am informed, near fifty years since this society was founded. Those who first thus united in this place to spend a part of the evening of the Lord's day in the worship of their arisen Redeemer, are probably all met in the grave, to which each-one of you with hasty steps are moving. The greater part of this discourse (No. 1351) was repeated as the funeral sermon of his cherished dau