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William Augustus Stearns
William Augustus Stearns (1805–1876) was an American Congregationalist minister and theologian who served as president of Amherst College from 1854 until his death, significantly shaping nineteenth-century American Protestant education and religious thought. His theological work, exemplified in sermons such as those delivered before Massachusetts's government, reflected the moderate evangelical Protestantism characteristic of antebellum New England intellectual life. Stearns's tenure at Amherst established the institution as a center for Christian education and moral philosophy during a period of considerable theological and social ferment in American Protestantism.
From A Sermon Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachuset
They therefore recommend that said Order, as reported, be adopted by the House For the Committee, CHAS. W. PALFRAY, Chairman. House of Representatives, January 21, 1864. Ordered, That five thousand copies of the Discourse delivered by the Rev. Dr. Stearns before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the State Govern¬ ment, on the 6th inst., be printed for the use of the Legislature. W. S. ROBINSON, Clerk. SERMON. 2 Samuel, x. 12. BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND LET US PLAY THE MEN FOR OUR PEOPLE, AND FOR THE CITIES OF OUR GOD: AND THE LORD DO THAT WHICH SEEMETH HIM GOOD. Thank God we have still a country. We have a country which treason, rebellion and the opinion of foreign nations notwithstanding, gives at this moment brighter promise of perpetuity and ultimate noble¬ ness, than it has given for a quarter of a century before ; a country whose prospects,…
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