Haskell, T: Life and Death of a Christian Are Our Teachers

Excerpt from The Life and Death of a Christian Are Our Teachers: The Funeral Sermon of Elder David M. Wilson, the Useful Layman and Unassuming Benefactor of Washington City; Delivered in the Western Presbyterian Church, March 9, 1856

Gentlemen: Your letter of March 31st is before me; and with this reply you will receive the manuscript copy of the sermon for which you ask. Although the discourse was not intended for the press, I do not find it in my heart to withhold the facts which it contains from the public, especially not against the expressed wish Of my people. Instead of the appendix, which you suggest, I find it as congenial to my feelings, and less likely to disappoint any public anticipation that a more extended memoir will some time be written, to preface the sermon with the touching address delivered on the day of burial by Rev. Dr. Sunderland.

Hoping that the statements which you give to the public by publishing this sermon may be found generally correct and become highly useful, and that the tribute so Spontaneously paid to the memory of one whom I venerated and loved may be more than justified by the verdict of a grateful community, I have the honor of subscribing myself your servant in the Christian ministry.

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