Righteousness and the Pulpit: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday, Sept, 30, 1855 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hall, Nathaniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331840856 ISBN 13: 9781331840855

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Righteousness and the Pulpit: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday, Sept, 30, 1855

Again, it is asked, What good can the pulpit promise itself from a discussion of this subject? The harm is evident. Where is the good? 'and where is it? I do not know; I do not care to know. Ask Him who formed the soul for truth, to find therein its sustenance and salvation, and whose kingdom is to come in the world only through his blessing upon the spoken and the manifested truth. Ask him who for this end was born, and for this cause came into the world, that he might bear witness to the truth, and who bore witness to it against scoff and sneer, the frown of power and the threatening of hate in the sublime faith that it would win for itself, at length, a universal triumph. Ask the thousands who, in a like faith, have lived and died for it, lived in persecution, died in martyrdom; scattering as they went, on the world's bleak waysides, its celestial seed, to spring and bloom above their graves. 0 friends! If we really believed that that kingdom of God for which we pray were indeed to come only through the fidelity of individual man, we should not ask, of the simplest word, from the humblest lips, in the narrowest sphere, spoken from the fulness of a loyal heart, What good will it do?

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Excerpt from Righteousness and the Pulpit: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday, Sept, 30, 1855 Dear Sir, We, the undersigned, members of the First Parish in Dorchester, fully responding to the Christian sentiments expressed in your sermon of Sunday morning, Sept.30, request, in behalf of ourselves and many others, a copy for the press, believing its publication will aid the cause for which you have so manfully contended; viz., the independence of the pulpit. Gentlemen, I have received your communication, containing a request for a copy of my sermon, of last Sunday morning, for publication. Confiding in your judgment, that its publication may serve, in some measure, a cause I have much at heart, I place its manuscript at your disposal. Its personal allusions the dictates of good taste would lead me to withhold from the public eye; but considerations, which I deem not unworthy, prevail with me to do otherwise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331840856
• ISBN 13: 9781331840855
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 33