Excerpt from Voice of the Rod: A Sermon, Delivered at Albany, May 14, 1841, the Day of the National Fast, Occasioned by the Death of the Late William Henry Harrison, President of the United States It has not been my custom to apologize for my own productions on the contrary I have suffered even the most hasty of them to go to the publick for What they were worth 5 considering it a good general rule, that if a sermon is too poor to print Without an apology, it is too poor to print at all. In consenting, however, to the publication of this discourse, as I am aware that it very imperfectly meets the expectation which the occasion might reasonably justify, it is due to myself to state that it was necessarily prepared in a few hours, when I had but partially recovered from the fatigue of a jour ney; to say nothing of the fact of which you are already apprized, that I had previously delivered two other discourses on the same subject, in the same place, and to some extent to the same congrega tion so that for this there remained little else than the gathering up of the fragments. But for the mysterious disappearance from my study of the mss. Of the two former, one of them, would have been given to the publick instead of this, which is now somewhat hesita tingly yielded to your wishes. I beg you will accept, Gentlemen, the assurance of my highest regard. 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.