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Excerpt from The Northern Iron: A Discourse Delivered in the North Church, Hartford, on the Annual State Fast, April 14, 1854 Absurd as it may be, there yet are many signs in our time that, for once, it is going to be done. And yet we do not quite despair of the harder metal. This harder metal, called steel by us, was, in the prophet's day, called indifferently northern iron and steel, [chalybs, ] because it was from the commercial town or city of Chalybs, a port of the Black Sea. Accordingly it became a proverb, so familiarly known was the superior hardness and strength of this metal, that "northern iron is not cut by iron," just as "biting on a file" has become a proverb with us, to indicate the absurdity of attempting to demolish a character without character, or a firm cause by weak arguments. Of course it is not my design, this morning, to occupy you with a dissertation or lecture on the comparative properties of steel and iron, or on their mutual action one upon the other: these are matters sufficiently well understood. 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.
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Excerpt from Parting Words: A Discourse Delivered in the North Church, Hartford, July 3, 1859 He affirms it even of a bad man, though not that it will be, of course, his sentiment. He is such a man as may well enough be much afraid to die, and he may naturally hope that he will somehow be restored to his country and throne. It is only the prophet's own sen timent, knowing that he will not. Far more clear were the truth of it, if he were a good man, consciously ready to die. He could well enough go home to God; but to be separated from the acquaintances, and scenes, and works, in which he has lived, without going home, is a very different matter. He loses the mortal state, without gaining the immortal; goes away alive into exile from his own life itself, the associations it has constructed, the works it has done, the sympathies it has attracted, the very seeds it has planted and fondly hopes to see in their growth. In tracing brie y the truth of this sentiment, far be it from us to speak lightly of death. To close one's eyes on all that is earthly, to sunder all the ties of mortal love, to wind up the grand affair of trial that we call life, and enter on the fixed result of it, makes the point of death a center where so many mountain like thoughts crowd heavily in, that we may not think of it as being otherwise than a most trying ordeal to pass. We are only to see that there may be a separa tion more trying even than this. 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."
Excerpt from An Historical Discourse: Delivered in the New North Church, October 1, 1854 A Contemplation of the past, if it lead to emulation of its good deeds and avoidance of its errors, if it stimulate men to do nobly by showing what already hath been thus done, is often a wise employment of the passing hour. And if it testify the undying nature of virtue by showing that each true action lives ever in its effects, such meditation may nerve our hearts to exertion by the sweet hope that the good we do need not in its influence slumber in our graves, but shall live on when the poor body in which the active spirit once dwelt has crumbled to the dust. In entering once more our house of worship, which has now been for three months closed in order to be remodelled as to its interior, it seems fitting to vary from the routine of discourse and speak of somewhat which shall prompt us to renewed and increased effort that this church of the fathers shall long remain a monument of the zeal and piety of the past, and a witness to the faith and self-sacrifice of the present. And when I remember that this very year in which the present improvements have been made completes the half-century since the dedication of this edifice, I seem to hear a voice, speaking in the words of our text, and saying of all who meet here this day, "Let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them." 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.
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