The biography and phrenological character of Deacon John Phillips : with the addresses, poem, and original hymns, of the celebration of his C birth-day.

Date:
1860
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Credit: The biography and phrenological character of Deacon John Phillips : with the addresses, poem, and original hymns, of the celebration of his C birth-day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the whole town! With her he lived happily in the marriage relation sixty-four years, and by her had nine children, seven of whom grew up to have families, and five still live. She died at the age of eighty-two years. He has, with and from these seven children, twenty-five grandchildren, and thirty-four great-grand- children now living — sixty-four in all. In 1799 he was chosen deacon, to take the place of his father, who died in June of the year previous. He took two months to consider on it, when he made up his mind and consented to serve according to the best of his ability. Four of the leading articles, and, perhaps, as comprehensive an any of his religious creed are, and have ever been — 1. That God is good. 2. That Christ is divine. 3. That there is power and reality in revealed religion; and 4. That man, by nature, is totally morally depraved. His three greatest, most potent enemies, against whom he says he still has to fight, are: The World, the Flesh and the Devil. These he hopes to overcome by the Blood or the Lamb. In August, 1856, he called on the writer and passed a night, when the occasion was taken to gather the facts and write the notes for this biographical sketch. The next day, at Southbridge, he sat to Metcalf, for the daguerreotype picture, from which the cut of the prefixed portrait has been executed. He was then in the enjoyment of good health, walked off two or three miles at a time without weariness, and his eyesight and sense of hearing were less impaired than that of many others at the age of three score years. He could read plain print without spectacles. and hear without recpiiring any one addressing him to speak but little above the ordinary tone of voice. His health is still very good. He relishes his food, eats heartily and sleeps well. In October following, he had a little shock of palsy, and has not since been able to labor or walk about as much as formerly, though he now walks half a mile or so without difficulty. His sight and hearing are failing; and, he says, he is conscious that his mental powers too have failed during the last four years. On« tooth remains. He has ever sustained the reputation of being an honest, upright, and industrious man, a kind and obliging neighbor, and good eiti- f 3D.