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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)
Mr. Kendall, of Weston. Sermonby the Rev. Doct. Fiske of Brookfield. Chargeby the Rev. Mr. Cushing, of Waltham. Right Hand of Fellowshipby the Rev. Mr. Hilliard, of Cambridge. Ordaining Prayerby the Rev. Mr. Clark, of Lexington. Concluding Prayerby the Rev. Mr. Osgood, of Medford. The labors, duties, and trials of a minister, the substance of which is recited in this sermon, were discoursed upon by the author, and which he then conceived were in prospect before him, on Lord's day, May 4, 1788, being the first sabbath of his preaching after his ordination, from these words in Acts XX. 24: For none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God! — Fiske's Anniversary Discourse, April 23, 1809, note, pp. 5-6. In the month of November, 1788, after entering on his work, Mr. Fiske was visited with a fever, which brought