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Excerpt from Sermon Preached at the Consecration of Saint Alban's Church, D. C., May 24, 1855
As with associations of natural affection, so with those of time and place. How powerful they are! Powerful, alas for evil as for good. The first positive sins that men commit, what a struggle they bring with them Ilow all the early, hallowed associations seem to rise, like warning angels, to protect the shrine their presence has sanctified! Llow thev seem to veil their faces, and to fold their sheltering wings when they are defied Then, alas, association, that providentially designed angel of light may become a spirit of darkness; the book, the company which first taught lessons of evil, may be first links in one connected chain of evil passion, and profligate action and daring unbelief. Yet, even here, the mercy of God may convert these awful instruments of evil into good; and, doubtless, there is many a peni tent creature, for whom the very things associated with his downfall and estraneement from God, become perpetual monuments and mementos of humiliation, reminding him how he had used them, telling him what a creature he had been, and how lowly and how adoringly his soul must how before that Lamb of God that taketh away.
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