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Excerpt from A Sermon, on Occasion of the Late Fire, in the City of New York
Let us, then, meditate upon topics that are accordant with these words, and with the occasion that has sug gested them.
I. And first, as we most appropriately may - upon the impotence of man and the omnipotence of God.
It has been often said that man is the lord of this lower creation; that he holds empire over nature. In this age, which has, doubtless with some degree of propriety, been called the age of machinery, such assumptions are likely to occupy a large space in men's thoughts; and they are in danger of forgetting, in the signal success of their inventions and devices, how im potent, after all, they really are. We hear but too much, I am afraid, or at least too much in the tone of boasting, Of man's wonderful control over the elements - how that he has learned to stretch forth his mysterious wandof power over the sea; how he has lifted his pointed sceptre to the heavens, and disarmed the lightning, and caused its fiery bolt to fall harmless at his feet; how, in fine, he has conquered nature, and compelled its mightiest agents, fire, water, air, earth, to do his bid ding.
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