The Peculiarities Of The Age A Sermon Preached Before The General Assembly Of The Presbyterian Church Of The United States At Their Meeting At Washington City May 1852

Author : Artemas Bullard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396714597
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book The Peculiarities of the Age written by Artemas Bullard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Peculiarities of the Age: A Sermon, Preached Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, at Their Meeting at Washington City, May, 1852 They are marked. Every day strengthens the conviction, in each reflecting mind, that our times are eventful, far beyond any which have preceded us; and that they are pregnant with causes of change, surpassing all the strongest imagination has been able to conceive. Man appears roused from the dreamy sleep of ages, and, discarding all historic instruction, seems intent upon exploring every path in the physical, intellectual, and moral world, which he can possibly enter. Every thing stable, which ages have proved safe, useful and right, is now to be abandoned for some wild, untried experiment. Europe, in all matters of civil, political and religious interests, is like a boiling caldron, or a vast, burning, pent-up volcano. Her prisons, inquisitions and gallies, are crowded to excess and the arm of her executioner has grown weary in its cruel, bloody work. Thou sands have forsaken their homes and native land, to seek an asylum where constitution and law still have power to save. Millions more are waiting, yea, even sighing for the eventful hour when they may plunge into the bloody strife which shall close their eyes in death on the battle-field, or aid in hurling princes, kings and priests from their high places of oppression and power. Multitudes there have identified the Christian religion, and its teach ers, with the worst enemies of their rights and the most cruel authors of all their suffering and woes. The influences under which they have been crushed and excluded from the light and all opportunity for intelligent self-control, have led them to hate the gospel and its friends, in common with all whose wealth and official standing have given them power to oppress the laboring poor. 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.