Our Country, Its Pride and Its Peril

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Excerpt from Our Country, Its Pride and Its Peril: A Discourse Delivered in Harvard Street Baptist Church, Boston, Aug, 11, 1861, on the Return of the Pastor From SyriaI think that the relationship between a faithful pastor and his flock will survive long after many of the ties of birth and blood are sundered and forgotten, it will never cease, but will grow deeper, stronger, purer, holier, when with those who have been redeemed through his instrumentality, he shall present himself before the Eternal throne, saying unto the Great Shepherd and Bishop of all - "Here am I, and the children which thou hast given me."But it is not this local application that I propose to give to the Scripture text announced. I think I have repeated this language a hundred times within the past few months. It has again and again recurred to me, while traversing the streets, or roaming over the cultivated hills of Protestant England, while watching the fancy pleasures of gay, voluptuous Paris, while wandering over the burning sands, or sitting beneath the beautiful palm trees of Egypt, and while slaking my thirst at Moses wells in ancient Midian. It floated through my mind like the music of home, as I stood years ago in the deserted Forum of Imperial Rome, and as I trod amid the fading glories of Papal power the marble pavement of St. Peter's.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.