Practical Error, and the Test of True Holiness; A Sermon at the Ordination of Josiah Moore in Athol, December 8, 1830 [Appendix.] - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Excerpt: ... may the tokens of his presence be here, as when of old he sat upon his throne, and the train of his splendid robe filled the temple! May the pledges of Christ's love be here, and inward light and strength and peace be found; so that they who in coming time shall gather here, may contemplate unmoved the awful vicissitudes of human life, calmly survey the changeful and heaving billows, and await in cheerfulness the hour when time shall be no more, and they shall be summoned to join in the worship of the upper world, and share in the bliss of heaven! I have now done. I have delivered my message. I have shown to what purposes this house is to be dedicated and devoted. But, brethren and friends of this Christian society, I linger a little longer. There are thoughts crowding into my mind, there are associations clustering about my heart, which I cannot dismiss if I would. I have spoken of the future: the past also, with all its solemn memories, is present with me; for to-morrow closes just twenty-four years since I was ordained in the midst of you. How fresh in my mind are the objects and events of that day! -- the humble church in which I made my ordination vows, still surviving; the fathers and brethren in the ministry who then gathered around me, and took a part in the service, all gone with a single exception! There were Harris and Brazer and Kirkland and Thayer and Allen and Ripley (who is no longer in the ministry), all here; and now I call them by name, and they are not. And there was another, from whose lips I received the charge to be faithful to you, and the cause with which we are entrusted, -- he who is never to be mentioned here but with veneration and affection, with whom I walked so pleasantly for twelve years, and whose presence in our assemblies shed the fragrance of sanc...

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