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Title: A history of the first Unitarian church, of Portland, Oregon. 1867-1892. Together with a sketch of the life of Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot, its first pastor. And an account of the exercises of the twenty-fifth anniversary
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wilbur, Earl Morse, 1866-1956
Subjects: Eliot, Thomas Lamb, b. 1841 Portland (Or.). First Unitarian church
Publisher: Portland : First Unitarian church
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ith eyesiglit so inipaiied tliat formontlis, while in college and Divinity School, he hadto have his books read to him. After graduatingfrom college, he was engaged for twoyeais in the min-istry-at-large in St. Louis, in charge of the missionliouse connected with his fathers churcli, doing muchwork in its large Sunday-school, and among the poor.During the same ))eriod he spent a i)art of his time astutor in Latin and Greek in Washington University.In the early part of this i)eriod. also, he enlisted intiie First Missouri Volunteers, was mustered in, andwas in active service for some months, though nevercalled out of the State. Even before entering college he had resolved toenter the Christian ministry, and though, on accountof his weakened eyesight, lie was discouraged fromthis puri)ose by all except Dr. Eliot, his father, he ad-liered to it, and after graduating from college studiedmore or less under his fathers direction. In fur-ther pursuance of his purpose he went, in tlie fall of
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Mrs. Henrietta R. Eijot. REV, TH0;MAS LA:NrB ELIOT. 45 1864, to the Harvard Divinity IScliool, where he com-pleted the course the next year, having done two yearswork in one. Among his fellow-students there wereJoseph May, now of Philadelphia; S. C. Beach, ofBangor, Maine; James Vila Blake, of Chicago; W. E.Copeland, of Salem, Oregon; II. G. Spaulding, of New-ton, Mass.; and Charles C. Salter, since deceased.Having left the Divinity School in the summer of 1865,he supplied the pulpit of Eev. John H. Heywood, inLouisville, Ky., for several weeks, and then returnedto St. Louis, where he was elected associate pastor ofhis fathers church. He was ordained there Novem-ber 19, 1865. Eev. C. A. Staples, of Milwaukee, Wis.,preached the sermon from the text, Who is sufficientfor these things? Rev. Dr. Eliot offered the ordain-ing prayer and gave the charge; and Rev. A. D. Mayoot Cincinnati, Ohio, gave the right hand of fellowship.He was married November 28,1865, to HenriettaRobins Mack, who has

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