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Excerpt from A Sermon, Delivered Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in St. Michael's Church, Trenton, New-Jersey, on Friday, September 11, 1801: On the Occasion of the Meeting of the Said Convention, and of the Consecration of the Right Reverend Bishop Moore, of New-York Stalks should be crowned with the full ears; the white hue of which would Show that they would be soon the golden grain, fit for the reaper's sickle. Not so the gospel harvest: for behold, says our Saviour, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, white already: that is, the time is come; the world is prepared; the means are at hand; and the event is sure. 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 Sermon, Delivered Before the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: In St. Michaels Church, Trenton, New-Jersey, on Friday, September 11, 1801, on the Occasion of the Meeting of the Said Convention, and of the Consecration of the Right Reverend Bishop Moore, of New-York To understand these words we must have regard to the occasion, to the time, to the proverb quoted, and to the contrast drawn. The occasion was our Saviour's having held discourse with the inhabitants of a Samaritan village: and as this was his first opportunity of addressing persons who were in the darkness of heathen error, it brought to his mind the splendid property of his mission, that he should be "a light to enlighten the gentiles, and for salvation unto the ends of "the earth." The time was the seeding season of Judea, as appears from the term specified - "four months;" that being commonly the interval between the seeding season and the harvest. The expression - "say ye not" that this is so, refers to what we are told of its having been a proverb among the Jews: and the ground of the proverb is in the satisfaction with which the husbandman, having lodged his seed within the soil, anticipates a joyful increase. 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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