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Excerpt from The Church and the Press: Or, Christian Literature the Inheritance of the Church, and the Press an Educator and an Evangelist; A Sermon Preached in Richmond, at St. Paul's Church, October 12, 1859 at the Eleventh Triennial Meeting of the S. S. Union and Church Book Society
The policy of increasing religious knowledge by books of human authorship, originated with the wisest of mankind. He was a penman of the sacred oracles. In the dark sayings _of his Proverbs, in the melody of his Canticles, and in the sublime morals of his Ecclesiastes, spake the Everlasting Word; But, of his own lofty enterprise, he was the father of the Hebrew literature. As such, he is the source to which the literature of Christians traces its majestic current. His works, as we learn elsewhere, were those of the moralist, the natural philosopher, and the poet. And in the context the Spirit of inspiration sets a seal to the inferior wisdom of his human author ship, in permitting him to say of it the Preacher sought to find out acceptable words!
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