A Sermon Preached At The Annual Election May 25 1831 Before His Excellency Levi Lincoln Governor His Honor Thomas L Winthrop Lieutenant Governor The Honorable Council And The Legislature Of Massachusetts Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached at the Annual Election, May 25, 1831, Before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts Hannibal and his rhetorician and I was anxious to select some theme which I understood. I hope, I shall not be considered as forgetting the objects of this day, when I inform you, - that I come to speak in defence of the clergy of our land. They are constituent members of the State. They have their rights and duties like other men. Their motives have, I fear, sometimes been misunder stood. If religion has a connexion with govern ment, and if the characters of those who adminis ter the sacred functions have a connexion with re ligion, then my subject is not wholly foreign to the purposes of this day. Fathers of our land, legis lators, I solicit your patience, While I. Speak of those, who bring down the sanctions of Heaven to earth, in order to support your laws. 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.