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Title: A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church

Author: W. H. Furness

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A

DISCOURSE

FOR THE TIME

DELIVERED JANUARY 4 1852

IN THE

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITARIAN CHURCH

BY

W. H. FURNESS

PASTOR

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PHILADELPHIA

C. SHERMAN PRINTER

1852

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DISCOURSE.

ROM. 14:7.

'NONE OF US LIVETH TO HIMSELF.'

In speaking from these words last Sunday morning, and in endeavoring to
enforce the great truth which they express, I began with referring to
certain facts which characterize that most brutal and ruthless military
revolution which has just commenced in France, and the recent news of
which made every heart, that cherishes any regard for Freedom and
Humanity, burn with indignation. The first statements to which I alluded
have been more than confirmed. Unarmed, unoffending citizens, utterly
ignorant of what was going on, and taking no part in it, were shot down
by hundreds in the streets, and then transfixed with bayonets. If but a
window was opened, a shower of bullets was poured into it. Cannon were
brought to bear upon whole blocks of private dwellings. In one instance,
a woman who rushed out of the house to the help of her husband, who had
fallen under the fire of the soldiery, was instantly despatched and
laid dead at his side. Bloodshed and terror filled the place, and
scenes were enacted, so eyewitnesses report, that baffle description,
and that can find a parallel only when cities are sacked.

Now, I refer to these facts, not to harrow up your feelings, my he