This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...be to make ourselves utterly unworthy of them. The heathens had their offering to Ceres. The Jews waved their first fruits before Jehovah. And unworthy are the people to be called Christians, who feel no gratitude, and express no praise, when the benevolent Creator hath " crowned the year with his goodness." ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...be to make ourselves utterly unworthy of them. The heathens had their offering to Ceres. The Jews waved their first fruits before Jehovah. And unworthy are the people to be called Christians, who feel no gratitude, and express no praise, when the benevolent Creator hath " crowned the year with his goodness." Another cause for which we are exhorted to give thanks is, that the means of education are extended and multiplied. In any region it is pleasant to behold, and honourable to promote, the expansion and improvement of the faculties with which man is endowed. But in countries like ours this is a thing of very great importance. It is equally true that a people must be ignorant before they can be quietly enslaved, and that they must be well informed before they can enjoy freedom. Hence, in some of the ancient republies, the education of the rising generations was made a public care. And hence, under all republican governments, the cultivation of the mind and manners, the diffusion of knowledge and civilization, is a matter of primary consequence. It must, therefore, afford pleasure to every patriotic American, to behold the seminaries of learning multiplied, and the means of education facilitated in all parts of his yet infant country. Of such great importance are our schools, academies, and colleges, and so rapidly do they increase, that we may apply to them a prophecy which related, originally, to a much higher blessing. " The wilderness, and solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall," through them, " rejoice and blossom as the rose." There is, perhaps, no place upon our globe, in which an ordinary education is more generally acquired, or acquired with more facility, than in New England. It is humiliating, however, to confess, ...
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Add this copy of Sermons on the Public Means of Grace, on the Fasts and to cart. $40.00, poor condition, Sold by Janet McAfee rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Travelers Rest, SC, UNITED STATES, published 1856 by Thomas N. Stanford.
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Poor. No Jacket. Book 535 p. No jacket. Dehon's Sermons in Two Volumes, Volume II. Cover worn, scratched, Stained, discolored. Back endpaper and back pages warped. Endpapers, pages, and edges of pages yellowed, foxed, dirty in some places.
