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Excerpt from The Pilgrim Fathers and American Independence: An Address to the Sabbath School Children in Dunbarton, Delivered July 4, 1831
But it is not simply the day we celebrate, which inspires this occasion with so much interest. It is rather the new mode' of celebrating it; the exchange we have made of the roar of cannon for the voice of prayer; the exchange we have made of mirth and wine, folly and licentiousness, for the rejoicings of piety - the devotions of the house of God.
Nor is this all. The occasion is rendered peculiarly interesting in view of the character of the assembly to be addressed an assembly, not of reverend sages, or learned civilians and statesmen, - but of Sabbath School children - an assembly of young immortals who are associated to gether for the study of the Bible, and who are fitting, by Sabbath School instruction, for the high employments of heaven. It is to such an assembly as this, that I am called brie?y to relate the story of our forefathers, and of our national independence.
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