Theodore Parker, the Reform Pulpit, and the Influences That Oppose It: A Sermon Preached at the Melodeon, Nov. 7, 1852 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Theodore Parker, the Reform Pulpit, and the Influences That Oppose It: A Sermon Preached at the Melodeon, Nov. 7, 1852

Seeing, as he does, the danger of this popular disease, the unqualified homage which is paid to the worldly great, the disposition to overlook their moral defects for the sake of their political availability, how obviously is it a part of the mission of a true preacher to break the spell of that fatal enchantment; to disabuse the public mind of that mon strous error as to the venial nature of certain crimes, if they are only committed by great men beneath the robes of otfi cial station; to show up the fallacy of their mistakes, as of all other wrongs of society; to tell the plain truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, even of the greatest men, especially when the claim is attempted for their deification? Seeing also, as he does, how infatuated we have become as to the claims of military chieftains in our government; en throning them, one after another, in the chief places of power, and turning their very swords into sceptres, - what wonder that he should start into his position of protest, and draw his sword the sword of the spirit across those bloody blades of the worldly warriors, and, looking them in the face, cry out in the name of God and humanity.

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