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American minister
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1764
Death:
1 January 1837
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Biography
Reverend Nathaniel Howe (1764–1837) was a Protestant Christian minister at the First Congregational church of Hopkinton, Massachusetts from 1791 until his death.
He is best known for a sermon delivered there in 1815 (the town's 100th anniversary) called the "Century Sermon" that was published and re-printed extensively worldwide.
"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."—Nathaniel Howe