A Discourse Delivered At The Dedication Of The First Meeting House

Author : Samuel L. Caldwell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484188548
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Discourse written by Samuel L. Caldwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discourse: Delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House, Providence, Sunday Morning, May 28, 1865, Ninety Years After Its First Dedication A meeting-house comes to have a life, a biography, of its own. It enters so much into the life of succes sive generations of worshippers, it is so invested with their feeling, it so invests itself in their desire and rev erence, Sabbaths have dropped into it such precious de posits, that its dead wood becomes vital and redolent with Spiritual qualities. Its beginnings, its improve ments, its decays, take all the interest of a human his tory from the uses it serves, and the spiritual facts it rep resents, from the purposes it embodies, and the per sons whose religious life it nourishes. Like a person, it gathers character, influence, associations, history, even love, as it does spiritual offspring, with years. It stands a venerable witness of the changes and fortunes of soci ety, to whose stability and better life it has been a min ister. It is born of the religious spirit of a people, and lives out of their deepest life; it draws their frequent feet to its doors; it is the great minister to their moral wants and education; it becomes involved with their history, and is part even of their material civilization. It is the house of the son], the meeting-place of the finite and the infinite, the gate of heaven. It is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. It is dedi cated to Christ, and his holy, ever coming, everlasting kingdom. And so by all that goes into it, and all that comes out of it; by what we give and what we take. 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.