Excerpt from Delivered in the Middle Church, New Haven, Con; Sept; 12, 1822: At the Ordination of the Rev. Messrs. William Goodell, William Richards, and Artemas Bishop; As Evangelists and Missionaries to the Heathen Blessed renovation! Happy world! When these prospects, in which the Lord causes his people to hope, shall be gloriously realized! I will not attempt to de scribe the scenes which the generations of the millen nium are destined to witness. I dare not Venture on the task. Take away from the world all the malig nant and Violent passions, which now disquiet and de grade the children of men;-take away the intemper ance, the impurity, and the injustice, which are daily destroying individuals and families; take away the bigotry, party-spirit, discord, and strife, which unceas ingly agitate society, ecclesiastical as well as civil; take away the war, famine, pestilence, oppression, and slavery, which have been, for so many generations, the scourges of our race; - take away earthquakes. 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.