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Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached at the Dedication of the Congregational Church at the Upper Falls, Newton, February 27, 1828
The important object for which this house is built, explained in my text, may afi'or'd us useful reec tions, not unappropri'ate to the occasion on which fwe are convened, and to the present state of society. 'the request, which St. Paul en'treats the Thessa flonians to make in their prayers, implies that ob structions then existed to the spread of Christianity, for the removal of which Christians should pray and consequently labour. It may be useful to consider some of those obstructions which then existed, and which have since existed, to the spread of pure Christianity; and to show the connexion between the free course of 'the Gospel and its being glorified.
I. I will mention some of the obstructions tothe introduction and spread of Christianity.
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