Excerpt from Commemorative Services at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Pastorate: Of the Rev. John Pike, Rowley, Mass., November 19, 22, 23, 1865 The first time this parish was untrue to the general feeling for a permanent pastorate, was in the case of Mr. Tullar, in 1810. The contention was sharp to retain him; to give him up, seemed to the church, like resign ing one of its vested rights. He was by no means deo fee-tive in intelligence or piety, though somewhat rough in his statements, selecting such passages of discourse, as the nine and twenty knives of the book of Ezra, and pointing them all to Christ. He was cut off, and the idea engrafted upon the church that the permanence of its pastors was henceforth to be a matter of expediency, rather than of right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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