Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Newburyport, November 28, 1856: On Occasion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Building of the First Presbyterian Church
Xerxes wept, we are told, as he looked down from the hill of Abydos, to think that in one hundred years, of all his vast army, not one would be alive. Over this church the century has rolled. From the summit of these years, to which time has brought us, we look down the vale through which they travelled, and ask, the fathers where are they? If all had been godly, we need not weep to think they are gone; but many, who can doubt it went from these seats, even from under the Sound of Whitefield s voice, whose tongue dropped manna which they gathered not, to the place of weeping.
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