The Railroad Jubilee: Two Discourses Delivered in Hollis-Street Meeting-House; Sunday, Sept; 21, 1851 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Railroad Jubilee: Two Discourses Delivered in Hollis-Street Meeting-House; Sunday, Sept; 21, 1851

The old prophets, for instance, were not far sighted enough to see the effect of their words upon the intellect and heart of after-time's. They supposed that the greatness and limit of their office were reached in, announcing the approach of some judgment or mercy. Upon their Hebrew race. But it turns out, that their fidelity, to a perilous summons, and thesublime and tender language in which they clothed their messages of doom or love; remain long after the events they promised arefor gotten, and kindle the religious sensibilities of generations whose advent was concealed from their eye. How could David imagine that the prayers for aid to which the forest-leaves of Hareth stirred, and the trustful hymns which filled the dim caves of Adullam, and the rap turous odes which he sent from his palace to be chanted in the tabernacle on Mount Zion, and the penitential' br'eathings that brought back the divine presence to his breast, should be used as part of Christian worship in the cities of an unknown hemisphere, and furnish the souls of millions, of all latitudes and times and tongues, with a liturgy of devotion, gratitude, remorse, and hope? Had David been an irreligious man, had he never prayed, and sung, and wept for sin, what a sad blank would be left in the forces of 'civilization! How many thousands less. Would have known the peace of communion with God! How different might be your condition'and mine! His heartdevised the utterance of aspiration and en deavor as a private necessity, and God directed their agency to the help of countless needy souls.

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