Excerpt from Redemption's Dawn, or Biographical Studies in the Old Testament History and Prophecy: In Eleven Lectures

First impressions have a value. Entering a strange country, every thing peculiar in its appearance, and in the manners and fashions of its people, is presented with a vividness never afterwards produced, and we are at the moment better qualified to give a description of the country and people, correct in certain particulars, than we shall be upon more extensive, and familiar, and thorough acquaintance.

What is true in case of countries and people, may be true in intellectual matters. The writer well remembers the delight with which he regarded the subject of Biblical History and Prophecy, when, in its aspects as a science, it first opened to his view. So many former impressions at once vanished, so much that was new at once arose, - at that moment, with the natural desire always felt in such circumstances - that of sharing our joy with others, and with the hope which it is the whole tendency of his then anticipated profession to inspire - that of being useful to others, - he resolved that upon entering the ministry he would endeavor, as soon as possible, and while his first impressions were still remembered, to reproduce those impressions in the minds of the people of his charge.

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