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Excerpt from Sketches of New England Divines
Tm: following sketches, fragmentary in character, make but humble pretensions. It is not our purpose to write a complete history of the pulpit, even in New England; but to present a specimen group of clerics, a few clusters from that fruitful vine which has branched forth beside the altar established by the Pilgrims, spreading, in its healthful luxuriance, well-clustered boughs even beyond the old denominational pale.
The selection of subjects has been made without much reference to order, chronological or otherwise; but presents such a variety as will, it is hoped, afford a fair sample of the New England pulpit.
The world, which has proved so remis in acknowledging the services of the sacred order in advancing its civilization and ameliorating its itiou, both physical and moral, appears of late to ming sensible of the neglect, as well as to be disposed to make abundant reparation for the wrong.
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