A Discourse on the Life and Character of Daniel Webster (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of Daniel Webster

Tch Is now engrossmg all mmds, should be excluded from the pulpit We are a smltten natlon The symbols of mournmg meet the eye In our crowded c1t1es, In our tranquii Vlllages, In the remotest hamlets of the mountalns A great man has fallen In Israel God has taken from us the honow able man, and the counsellor, and the eloquent orator If such a man 18 one of the choicest earthly nts heaven can bestow upon a people, his removal may well be regarded as one of them greatest bereavements We are admo nished that the fall of a sparrow has Its lesson of In.

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