[724] Taylor’s Thanksgiving Sermon, p. 13.
[725] A Sermon, delivered on the Anniversary Thanksgiving, November 29, 1798, with some additions in the historical part. By Jonathan French, A. M., pastor of the South Church in Andover. Andover, 1799. p. 23.
[726] Ibid., pp. 23 et seq.
[727] Ibid.
[728] A Discourse, delivered on the Public Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1798. By Joseph Eckley, D. D., minister of the Old South Church, Boston. Boston, 1798, pp. 9, 15, 18.
[729] Connecticut kept a state thanksgiving at the same time as Massachusetts.
[730] Political Instruction from the Prophecies of God’s Word,—a Sermon, preached on the State Thanksgiving, Nov. 29, 1798. By Nathan Strong, pastor of the North Presbyterian Church in Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford, 1798. This sermon is characterized by an ingenious effort to remove the stigma “mother of harlots” from the Catholic hierarchy and attach it to the Revolutionary leaders in France. “It is the Talleyrands and their associates,” said Strong, “whom I conceive to be the most properly designated by the mother of harlots, in the present period of the great apostacy.” (Ibid., p. 17.)
[731] A Sermon preached at Billerica, November 29, 1798, being the day of the Anniversary Thanksgiving throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By Henry Cumings, A. M., pastor of the church in said town. Boston. 1798, p. 22.
[732] Ibid.
[733] The following excerpt from a letter of Jedediah Morse to Timothy Pickering, under date of Feb. 11, 1799, is significant in this connection: “An editn. of 450 of my Sermon and Appendix is nearly gone—& a second of 800 is in the press. A number of gentlemen in Boston have thought it might be useful to send a copy to every clergyman in the commonwealth, & have agreed with the printer to furnish them, & they will be distributed when the members of the Legislature return home.” (Pickering Papers, vol. xxiv, 71.)