Excerpt from Sermons, in the Order of a Twelvemonth
Then Said Samuel To The People, Come, And Let Us Go To Gilgal, And Renew The Kingdom There. - 1 Sam. xi. 14.
You will not think that on the first day of the new year I can mean to call much of your attention to the scene of an old history, - to the record of a fallen throne and a scattered people. It would be ill-suited to an occasion like this, to be retracing the faint lines of a perished antiquity. What to us is Samuel, the gray-haired prophet of an infant nation; or Gilgal, a spot of ground, once sacred but now forgotten, by the river of a distant land? What to us is the renewing of a kingdom that so soon and so ingloriously went to decay? And yet it is the same course of unceasing time that has swept away those elder generations, and that rises over us in this morning"s sun. It looked upon them all in their birth and their ruins. Time connects us rather affectingly with the remotest of its clear traditions.
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