Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered Before His Excellency John Davis, Governor, His Honor George Hull, Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts at the Annual Election, on Saturday, January 7, 1813

The usage which has assembled us is a memorial of Christian piety. Good men have gone before us. Their impress is upon our religious customs, upon our laws and institutions. This occasion, consecrated by similar convocations, for more than two centuries, reminds us of the Christian rulers who, for so many generations, have come up hither, - who came in times often of thrilling interest, from changes of administration and dynasty in the mother-land, from the revocation of charters, from the tyranny of foreign governors, and from the scenes and hazards of revolution. What men were they! With what integrity of purpose and nobleness of spirit did they come to this metropolis, to share the honors and responsibilities of government! Would that their successors, in our halls of legislation, would wrap themselves in the mantles that fell from them, and catch from their memories inspirations of virtue and patriotism!

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