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Excerpt from Influence of Christian Truth: A Sermon, Preached in Northampton, Mass. Sept. 21, 1825, at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Never discover, and giving certainty to truths, which philosophy could only conjecture. It furnishes, too, the strongest motives to investigation and intellectual improvement. Bringing life and immortality to light, it gives dignity to man and importance to the acquisition of knowledge. Without regard to this doctrine, We could feel but little interest in the future, and have but little inducement to draw instruction from the past. In the View of men, about to perish With the beasts - born yesterday, to die tomorrow without hope beyond the grave, intelligence would appear of little value - knowledge not worth the labor of acquisition. But in the View of beings, living for eternity, every thing pertaining not only to moral character, but intellectual culture, assumes an impor tance and exhibits a grandeur, which infinity alone can impart.
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