Excerpt from Old Things and New: A Sermon, Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, on Wednesday, December 15, 1852, Being Commemoration Day It was, indeed, this truly catholic recognition of these deepest and most universal principles of our common human nature, which enabled St Paul to per ceive that the divine message with which he was entrusted was not a message to the descendants of Abraham only, but to all who were made in the like ness of God, and partakers of that light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world: but for which recognition, struggled against both long and fiercely by his brethren of narrower views, Christianity would have been, what to the heathen it appeared, but one albeit the purest and most profound - of the numerous sects of Judaism. 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.