Background: Ebenezer Maxwell was born in 1783 and graduated from Union College in 1805.  He was ordained as pastor of the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Delhi, NY in 1812. In 1813 he married Margaret Foote, daughter of Ebenezer and Jerusha Foote of Delhi.  He died in 1840 and was buried at Arbor Hill, in Delhi, NY. The inscription on his tombstone reads: "To the memory of the Rev. Ebenezer K. Maxwell who for 27 years preached the Gospel of Christ in the Town of Delhi with fidelity, enforced by purity of moral character in the hope of glorious immorality.  He rested from his labors July 2, 1840 aged 56 years, 6 months, 2 days."

Note: Hard to read, as is the original.  Originally written in 1818. First sermon preached at the Delaware County Poor House, January 15, 1829: 26 paupers.

...reflections are too superficial to produce habitual superiority to the world uniform sublimation to the will of God, and [] in [] of eternity[] Our hearts are so much under the influence of sin, and our affections so much captivated by them things of time or sense, that we are to apt to forget that we are strangers or sojourners as all our fathers were. But the voice of nature and the voice God, hear the melancholy tiding of man’s mortality, and direct us to the tomb, the house appointed for all the living? To hear the warning voice, to mark the revolving liaisons, and to prepare for the eternal world, will be at once our [], our interest, and our everlasting glory! Oh how solemn, how interesting, how [] the thought that in a few days, or years at most, our connexion with the things of earth shall be dissolved forever, and we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; should we not from ...

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Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753.