Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Salem, Mass., Nov, 13, 1866: In Behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West

Now, it seems to me wholly unnecessary, before such an audience, here in the heart of New England, where these thoughts are as familiar as the alphabet.

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