Excerpt from Need of the Sanctuary in the City: A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of the Indiana Street Congregational Church, Sunday Evening, December 12, 1847

These words are found in that vision of the prophet in which he foresaw the return of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon. Describing the divis ion then to be made of the land, he speaks of a por tion to be reserved for religious purposes, and in it, he says, shall be the sanctuary: that is, express provision shall be made in renewed Jerusalem for the temple of Jehovah. This explanation will excuse the use I now make of the text, since we are assembled tonight, to set apart, in the city, another most holy place.

Our churches are designed for public worship and Christian instruction. The need of these, here and now, in this community, comparatively so prosperous, intelligent and moral, is the subject to which 1 ask your attention, not on account of its novelty, but on account of its fitness to the occasion.

I wish to freshen the conviction, that where men most congregate, where material wealth abounds, where intellectual culture is carried to the highest point, there, for the preservation of society, for the purifying of a fountain - head from which good or bad in¿uences stream out over the land, as well as for the salvation of individual souls, the necessity for Chris tian temples will continue and increase.

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