{"id":982,"date":"2022-03-28T07:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/?page_id=982"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:52:01","slug":"fall-1908-sermons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/fall-1908-sermons\/","title":{"rendered":"1908-1919 Undated Sermons from Pittsfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Among the manuscripts left by Earl Davis was a typewriter paper box that included several hand-twine-bound collections of sermons typed on half-sheets of paper. These cover most of 1908 through 1910, and three sermons from January 1911. These sermons and their transcriptions are here.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/02\/SermonsPapersPittsfieldMostly.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">SermonsPapersPittsfieldMostly<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there was a collection of sheets announcing services for 1908. These included several with the title, &#8220;Unity Church Paragraph Pulpit,&#8221; which provided a kind of abstract for the sermon. It seems almost certain that these sheets were used for announcements made in the local newspaper, The Berkshire Eagle, about upcoming services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a few of these sheets have dates on them. But the titles of the sermons coordinate with sermon manuscripts that are dated. In a few cases, I have extrapolated dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-October Earl Davis made a decision to offer a additional Sunday evening service. The announcement sheets include a short explanation for what he hoped to accomplish with the evening services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the announcement sheets:<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/01\/08SermonAnnoucementsFall1908-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">08SermonAnnoucementsFall1908-1<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here here are transcriptions of the announcement sheets:<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/01\/08SermonAnnoucementsFall1908Transcribed-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">08SermonAnnoucementsFall1908Transcribed-1<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the manuscripts left by Earl Davis was a typewriter paper box that included several hand-twine-bound collections of sermons typed on half-sheets of paper. These cover most of 1908 through 1910, and three sermons from January 1911. These sermons and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/fall-1908-sermons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":54,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-982","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}