A Discourse Delivered in the Second Congregational Church, Dorchester, Monday, Dec: 27 (Classic Reprint)
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And this cloud of witnesses is daily enlarging. Every year it becomes a more glorious object of contemplation; and as it advances to cover the whole face of the heavens, the voice of its testimony to the preciousness of faith and the strength of divine promise, waxes louder and louder. Well may it inspire more than human courage in the bosoms of the timid; invincible fortitude and heroic resolution in the bosoms of the feeble and desponding. However we may estimate the privilege of living in millennial days, it is a privilege not necessary to the vigorous growth of the principle of faith, which enters so essentially into Christian character. The ancient patriarchs died in faith, not having received the promises. They had seen them afar off, embraced them, and confessed that they were pilgrims and strangers on the earth. We have in part received them. The Messiah has appeared. His earthly kingdom is established. Nations are joining themselves to it. True it is, Satan is not yet bound; righteousness has not an universal reign, nor are the sons of God unmolested by the machinations of the children of men ;there are fears within and fightings without, not to be shunned by the most holy and devout. Still, the Christian, planted on the Rock of A ges, may sing, Jehovah Jireh !T he billows of human and infernal wrath may swell, and roll onward, and dash upon the shore at his feet, but they harm him not. The Lord will provide. The everlasting arms surround him.
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