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- catalog abstract "The hand-sewn notebook contains a manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by William Symmes on September 6, 1786 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Mark 7:7, 8. The copy includes edits and struck-out words. The lecture was not printed.".
- catalog contributor b9696155.
- catalog date "1786".
- catalog description "Harvard’s oldest endowed lecture, the annual Dudleian lecture, is funded by a bequest from the 1750 will of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts Paul Dudley (1675-1750/1). Dudley specified that the topics of the annual sermon were to rotate among four themes: natural religion, revealed religion, the "Romish church," and the validity of the ordination of ministers. The first lecture was given in 1755, and the series continued uninterrupted until 1857, when the fund was suspended to allow for accumulation. The lecture series began again in 1888. In 1911, the Trustees voted to discontinue the third lecture topic, and the series continued rotating among the three topics until 1956, when another lecture topic, "Catholicism and Protestantism," was voted into the rotation.".
- catalog description "The hand-sewn notebook contains a manuscript draft of the Dudleian lecture delivered by William Symmes on September 6, 1786 at Harvard College. The sermon begins with the Biblical text Mark 7:7, 8. The copy includes edits and struck-out words. The lecture was not printed.".
- catalog description "William Symmes (1729-1807), a minister in North Andover, Mass., was born August 21, 1729 in Charlestown, Mass. He received an AB from Harvard in 1750, an AM in 1753, and a DD in 1803. He was ordained at the First Congregational Church of North Andover on November 1, 1758. He delivered the Election Sermon to the Massachusetts General Court in 1785. He died on May 3, 1807.".
- catalog extent ".03 cubic feet (1 volume)".
- catalog extent "p.".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. Personal archives. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Collections of the Harvard University Archives. University records. hua".
- catalog isPartOf "Dudleian lecture, 1786.".
- catalog isPartOf "Dudleian lectures. 1786.".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. hua".
- catalog issued "1786".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog subject "Religion Early works to 1800.".
- catalog title "Dudleian lecture September 6, 1786 by the Revd. William Symmes of Andover.".
- catalog type "Lectures Massachusetts Cambridge 1786. rbgenr".
- catalog type "Sermons 1786. rbgenr".
- catalog type "collection".