Excerpt from The Appeal of the Nation: Five Patriotic Addresses

From the early days of American history the Old South Church has been a centre of wise and bold patriotic feeling. In the Colonial period, with others of its order, this church saw clearly the importance of the State as the form of political freedom. In proof of this it is perhaps enough to name Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the leading layman of the Old South Church of his time, whose voice against human slavery, and in behalf of uni versal freedom, was one of the first to be raised in the Colony. The history of the American Revolution cannot be written with Samuel Adams left out of the account. Adams was the leading layman of the Old South Church of his generation. In the Civil War the church maintained its place as one of the great centres of patriotism and humanity. Perhaps the chief significance of this little book, if it has any significance at all, is as a witness to the apostolic succession of good citizens, as a testimony to the fact that what the fathers loved their chil dren and their successors revere and cherish, that the fire which the earlier generations kindledon the altar of patriotic devotion still burns in full ¿ame, and that no hand will be allowed to extinguish it.

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