Excerpt from A Valedictory Sermon, on Leaving the Old Meeting House in Brookline, 8 June 1806, And, a Dedicatory Sermon, on Entering the New House of Worship, 11 June, 1806 The regard, which saints feel for houses of pub lick worship, is not on account of the worldly pleas ures, which they have there enjoyed. This would imply, that they had devoted them to uses for eigh from their design; that, instead of meeting in them for the solemn worship of God, they had converted them into edifices of amusement, or of business. 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.

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