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Excerpt from A Discourse, Preached in the West Church, on Theodore Parker
Not by our wits, but by the inexorable logic of events, as the divine providence marches on, is the debate, whether the gospel be a final lesson, to be closed. Meantime, the ablest critics of the Christian faith, from Porphyry and Julian to Voltaire and Hume and Paine, die at least in the era and reign of the wonderful person whose claims they discard. Our friend of whose candid compliments to the great Jewish youth let us not be unmindful, inade quate as they appear himself sickens in the realm of this head of the race, and will have the date of the Lord's kingdom graven on his tomb. So will it be with us all. Every undertaking, with our critical apparatus, to overlook and measure the Master, fails. We cannot, on this mountain of the Lord, get high enough for its downward survey. From no won drous balloon can' we see it dwindle. The verdict, not of twelve, but twelve thousands of millions of men, is for him as Redeemer and Guide.
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