A Sermon

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Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered Before the Maine Missionary Society, at Portland, June 27, 1865, and the Annual Reports of the Trustees and Treasurer The text speaks of a famine of the word of the Lord to come. Such a famine, already wide-spread in our land, assumes more alarming features, as we contemplate our near future. It will come, not directly as a judgment from Gods hand, but, in part, as the result of God's favor toward us, in the unequalled growth and prosperity of the country, and, especially, in the subjugation of the rebellion. One in-pouring tide of migration has been constantly setting westward, while the whole south, just beginning to be opened to free speech and free institutions, presents a field appalling for its vastness and its destitution. At the same time, the number of those who should proclaim the word of the Lord is diminishing, not only relatively, but absolutely. We cannot hope that, by any effort now possible, the supply can be made to overtake the demand. Multitudes must famish and die, not of a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. Well for us if the nation perish not. That it may not perish, let us consider the means by which, in part, the deficiency may be supplied, and, in the end, the demand overtaken. We will inquire, I. After the sources of supply - the material of which ministers are to be made. It is obvious and trite to say that parents must consecrate their sons to the work of saving the nation from that famine of the word of which, otherwise, it will die. Let none who have not dedicated to the ministry of the Word a son, sons, if there be sons to dedicate, hold themselves guiltless of the nations death, or worse, the death of the myriad souls that make up the nation. Let none such, I say, hold themselves guiltless: God will not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.