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Excerpt from A Thanksgiving Sermon: Preached in the Presbyterian Church of Antrim, N. H., November 29th, 1855
d104: jude 3. Contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints.
The contest, enjoined by the text, has been no less a contest for human freedom than for religious truth. The Apostle, in a general address to christians, says, Contend. And for what? Not for the world's wealth or pleasure or glory. He had no need to exhort to a contest for either of these. Contend for the faith. And what faith? Not for human opinions; not for the dogmas of any earth-born philosophy. Many, without any entreaty, have ever been found ready to enter this field of warfare. But contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. Explain and de fend those truths which God has, at sundry times, revealed to his servants and his people, for their well-being and the well-being of the world. And how contend? Earnestly, - not slothfully nor in differently, but earnestly, with the whole soul.
And men have contended. They have sacrificed ease and plea sure and wealth and all that the world calls glory and honor, yea and life too in the con?ict. They have contended with earnestness. They would have sooner given up everything else than the truth of God. Great multitudes have died in the struggle. Others have come after them to enjoy the blessed fruits of the victory: and we, ' here assembled to-day, are among the most favored heirs to that inestimable inheritance which has been purchased at the expense of rivers of christian blood.
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