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Excerpt from Commemorative Discourse, Delivered in Christ Church, Watertown, Conn;, On the Twenty-First Sunday After Trinity: October 28th, 1855
There is, therefore, a sacred aspect in which rever ence for the past exhibits itself. Our Holy Religion makes use of this sentiment in accomplishing the objects of her sublime and peaceful mission. What ever comes down to us from a remote period, devoted to the service of piety, from the very circumstance of its origin, is invested with peculiar sacredness. It takes a powerful hold of the imagination, like objects seen in the twilight, magnified by distance above their relative proportions. With what feelings of awe and reverence does the Christian traveler gaze upon those famous works of art, in our fatherland, consecrated to purposes of Religion! How does his soul burn within him as he stands in contemplation of the old cathedral, moss grown and ivy-mantled. 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.
