Excerpt from The Central Principle: An Oration Delivered Before the New England Society of New York, December 22, 1853 I would indeed, if it be his good pleasure, live yet with you to help you bear that grievous and hard yoke which ye are like to sustain, either here or in a strange land. And if the Apostle had had a wife and child ren, he could hardly have committed them with stronger faith to exile and the promises. And here, says Penry, I humbly beseech you, not in any outward re gard, as I shall answer it before my God, that you would take my poor and desolate widow, and mess Of fatherless and friendless orphans, with you into exile whitherso ever you may go, and you shall find, I doubt not, that the blessed promises of my God made to me and mine will accompany you. 'x' ii Only I beseech you, let them not continue after you in this land, where they must be forced to go again into Egypt. 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.