Excerpt from A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of Mr. Lyman Cutler, as Pastor of the Evangelical Congregational Church in Pepperell, Mass: January 22, 1851
In this connection may be noticed a remarkable illustration of the inevitable physical evil resulting from sin, in the fact that all men die. The good and the bad alike, the penitent and the incorrigible, die. Repentance in this respect makes no dif'erence. Death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Repentance often makes no difference in the humiliation and the physical sufferings of the death-bed. A good man dies often by as severe a process, with disease as revolting, with struggles as long protracted, as are those suffered by the wicked. How dieth the wise man? As the fool.
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Austin Phelps, American Congregational minister and educationalist, was born at West Brookfield, Massachusetts.
He studied theology at Union Theological Seminary, at the Yale Divinity School, and later at Andover. Circa 1840, he was licensed to preach by the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. During the Autumn of 1842, he married Elizabeth Phelps (nee Stuart, August 13, 1815 - December, 1852). Around the time he got married, he was pastor of the Pine Street (Congregational) Church in Boston. In the Spring of 1848 his family moved to Andover and from then till 1879 was professor of sacred rhetoric and homiletics at Andover Theological Seminary. Later to become president from 1869 to 1879, when his failing health forced him to resign.
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