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Excerpt from A Plea for Union: A Sermon Preached Before the Special Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania, in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia, September 6th, 1844
I trust I shall need no excuse upon an occasion like this, for attempting to promote the cause, and to advocate the clainis of union among my brethren. Such an effort is equally the result of my solemn conviction of personal duty, and the spontaneous expression of the state and feelings of my own heart. We have never been called together, nor are we ever likely to meet in time to come, under circumstances, or for the performance of duties, which could make equal de mands upon us, for the cultivation of a tender spirit of mutual forbearance; for candid and generous concessions in mutual constructions of opinions and motives; for a calm, dispassionate, 'and discriminating exercise of individual judgment; and above all, for the simple reliance of every heart upon the presence and guidance of the Divine Re deemer, its fixed remembrance of unceasing responsibility to him, - and its earnest and affectionate offerings of secret prayer, for his special direction and blessing. And there are the strongest motives, arising from the importance of the duties which are now devolved upon us, the consequences Which must result from them, - the interests which must be affected by them, - and the extended observation abroad under which we discharge them, to lead us, to lay asideevery other feeling, than the single desire to know and to do the will of God, and to glorify him, in our present consulta tion for the care and edification of his Church.
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