All Items 3 Collection 2 Archives & Special Collections 3 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Contributor 5 Amherst College 1 Amherst College. Class of 1958 1 Clark, Charles H. 1 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 1 Location 2 Massachusetts 2 Amherst 1 Topic 7 Bishops 1 Commencement ceremonies 1 Correspondence 1 Installation sermons 1 Ordination sermons 1 Poets, American 1 Sermons 1 show more 2 show fewer Part Of 3 Amherst College Commencement Collection 1 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 1 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Genre 3 Correspondence 1 Programs 1 Sermons 1 mods.shelfLocator 1 Box 9 Folder 13 3 Amherst College Commencement program, 1958 June 8 Amherst College The program for the 137th Amherst College Commencement. Beginning with the program for the first Commencement in August 1822, commencement programs contain the order of exercises for commencement ceremonies. Since 1826, most programs also provide a list of candidates receiving their bachelor of arts degrees. Other information contained in programs has varied over the years. Amherst College Commencement program, 1958 June 8 Edward Hitchcock ordination and installation sermon, 1844 June 19 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 A sermon by Edward Hitchcock delivered at the ordination and installation of several different ministers throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut: Asa Mann in Hardwick, Massachusetts; Henry B. Smith in West Granville, Massachusetts; William Smith in Warren, Massachusetts; and William Vaill in Somers, Connecticut. Hitchcock has written the information about whose ordinations and installations this sermons was delivered at and the dates of delivery, between 1844 and 1850, on the first page. The main subject of this sermon is a consideration of the line from 1 Timothy 3:1 that a bishop "desireth a good work." Hitchcock discusses the difference in meaning between the word "bishop" as it is used in the scriptures and the word bishop as it was thought of in Hitchcock's time. Hitchcock claims a bishop was one who preached the gospel, and had no authority over other ministers. He explains several things he considers deficiencies in European churches and the European approach to the office of bishop, and then explains how the work of a bishop should be done to make it "a good work." Hitchcock emphasizes that a bishop should strive not only to make every man a Christian, but to make every man a perfect Christian. He also discusses his own return to pastoral duty and some challenges he has encountered in his return. Edward Hitchcock ordination and installation sermon, 1844 June 19 Emily Dickinson letter to Charles H. Clark Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 Emily Dickinson letter to Charles H. Clark
