1784 MOSES HEMMENWAY. First Election Sermon Preached After American Revolutionary War - Celebrating Freedom & Liberty. Methodist The Blessedness of the Christian

The Blessedness of the Christian in Death: Two Sermons Occasioned by the Death of the Rev

Held at Okehampton in the County of Devon

Where the Healing Waters Flow

also author of the immortal hymn

1784 MOSES HEMMENWAY. First Election Sermon Preached After American Revolutionary War - Celebrating Freedom & Liberty. Methodist The Blessedness of the ChristianA wonderful little piece of history; this was the first annual election sermon preached after the end of the American Revolution, just 8 months earlier. It is preached before the famed John Hancock, and our author understands his moment; he chooses for the day's text, Galatians 5. 13, "For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another." Also, signed by prominent early