Excerpt from Righteousness and the Pulpit: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday, Sept, 30, 1855 Again, it is asked, What good can the pulpit promise itself from a discussion of this subject? The harm is evident. Where is the good? And where is it? I do not know; I do not care to know. Ask Him who formed the soul for truth, to find therein its sustenance and salvation, and whose kingdom is to come in the world only through his blessing upon the spoken and the manifested truth. Ask him who for this end was born, and for this cause came into the world, that he might bear witness to the truth, and who bore witness to it against scoff and sneer, the frown of power and the threatening of hate in the sublime faith that it would win for itself, at length, a universal triumph. Ask the thousands who, in a like faith, have lived and died for it, lived in persecution, died in martyrdom; scattering as they went, on the world's bleak waysides, its celestial seed, to spring and bloom above their graves. 0 friends! If we really believed that that kingdom of God for which we pray were indeed to come only through the fidelity of individual 'man, we should not ask, of the simplest word, from the humblest lips, in the narrowest sphere, spoken from the fulness of a loyal heart, What good will it do? 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.