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Title: Senatorial Character
A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March,
After the Decease of Charles Sumner.

Author: C. A. Bartol

Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #25900]

Language: English

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SENATORIAL CHARACTER:

A SERMON

IN

WEST CHURCH, BOSTON,

SUNDAY, 15TH OF MARCH,

AFTER THE

DECEASE OF CHARLES SUMNER.

BY C.A. BARTOL.

BOSTON:
A. WILLIAMS & CO., 135 WASHINGTON STREET.
1874.

SERMON.

"_He made him to teach his senators wisdom._"--Psalms cv, 21, 22.

The common theory of the pulpit is of a place devoted to expound some
old situation, abstract scheme of salvation, or article in a creed. It
has a higher end,--to give the meaning of the scenes of real life, in
which we observe the actors and play ourselves a part. If history be
philosophy teaching by example, and of all history biography be the
soul, then human character, when rare and conspicuous in its traits or
achievements, gives as pattern or warning the chief lesson. Christian
edification comes less si