Excerpt from Trinity College Commemoration Sermon: Preached in the College Chapel, December 15, 1838 And as the general commands of the first teachers of our faith direct us to such a course, the special arrangements of the institution to which we belong, urge it upon us in a more peculiar manner. For we, who continue, in our maturer years, to belong to and abide in this christian community, are called upon by its ordinances, on this and on other occasions, to offer, 111 this sacred place, a word of exhortation, each in his turn to the others. The various solemnities of the christian year, and the sure and constant progress by which one year follows another, bring to us in suc cession such tasks as I have now to execute; invest us for a time with the office of monitor; make it our place to endeavour to provoke you to love and good works. Above all, on this day it is our business to invite you to the love and the good works, which have for their object this community in which we live, this institution of which the interests are committed to our hands, this family of which we are members. We stand here, as many have for centuries before us stood, as many others, we trust, of generations yet unborn, shall hereafter stand, to remind you of the blessings. 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.