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| | Samson Occom, Christian Convert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | On his death at New Stockbridge, N. Y., in 1792, Occom was greatly lamented. |
 | | Occom was the author of the hymn beginning "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound," and of another, "Now the Shades of Night are Gone," which gave Bishop Huntington delight that the thought of an Indian was made part of the worship of the Episcopal Church; but it was omitted from the present hymnal. |
 | | He was a regularly ordained minister, having been examined and licensed to preach by the clergymen of Windham county, Conn., and inducted in 1759 by the Suffolk presbytery, Long Island. |
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