Shall We Build?

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Excerpt from Shall We Build?: A Sermon, Delivered March 1st, 1840, in View of Building a New Church EdificeBrethren! With such dependence, and in such a spirit, we can accomplish any practicable object. If we have the glory of God in View, as I trust we have, and are not in¿uenced by vain and foolish notions of pride and ostentation, as I am persuaded we are not, we can, under God, accomplish the building a house to the honor of his name. The first question is - Do we need a new church edi fice, or cannot the present house be made to answer all necessary purposes? The answer will be made by a statement of facts. This house is of wood, and, having been built for some years, requires considerable repairs. With all the repairs that could be put on it, it could not, at most, without additional repairs, nor, indeed, with them, last but a very few years. It is, then, a question of calcula tion ought we to repair this house, and thus lay out a considera ble sum, when we are sure that this will eventually be a waste 22 Practical men, who have not been much in favor of building, say that this house ought not to be repaired. The repairs heretofore put on it, have made all afraid of any further expenditures in this way, for after all we have but a frame building. The judgment of practical workmen is in favor of a new church edifice, instead of repairing the house which we now have.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.