Excerpt from A Sermon Suggested by the Death of Daniel Webster, Delivered by the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday Evening, October 31st, 1853 Since I last stood in this sanctuary that providence has rendered us a nation of mourn ers; a great light has been extinguished; a mighty mind has been called away. The great statesman and orator genera tion has passed grave and the nation mourns as in sackcloth, over the noblest and first born of her sons. And it were a mutilation of God's solemn oracles where we to pass such a idiic'ividence by with out solemn consideration'. Do not mistake us though it is with the simpler and mele pe1 son al, and not the wilder and sublimer lessons of this death we are just now to concern 0111 sel ves. We me not he1e to this holy place to ut ter w Olds of p1aise of him whose eloquenttaken her province and. 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.