A Brief Account of His Ministry, Given in a Discourse, Preached to the Church of the Messiah, in Syracuse, N. Y

Excerpt from A Brief Account of His Ministry, Given in a Discourse, Preached to the Church of the Messiah, in Syracuse, N. Y: September 15th, 1867 The 18th day of next December, it will be forty seven years, since I was examined by the Boston As sociation of Ministers, and received their approbation as a candidate for the. Christian Ministry. The fol lowing Sunday, Dec, 24th, I preached in Springfield for my particular friend, Rev. W. B. O. Peabody. It is not an insignificant fact in my history, that, though in the trepidation of the moment, my voice must have been very little like a trumpet, I read in the morn ing service, the 58th chapter of Isaiah. I know not what prompted me to do so, unless it may havebeen the. Impressive words on Slavery, uttered a few days before at Plymouth, by Daniel Webster, whom I then revered more than any of our statesmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.