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Volume four of The World’s Great Sermons includes: Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) • “The Government of God Desirable” William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) • “The Character of Christ” Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) • “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection” Alexander Campbell (1788–1866) • “The Missionary Cause” Edward Irving (1792–1834) • “Preparation for Consulting the Oracles of God”...

the charm by your moral and eloquent and affecting exposure of its illusiveness. You must address to the eye of his mind another object, with a charm powerful enough to dispossess the first of its influence, and to engage him in some other prosecution as full of interest and hope and congenial activity as the former. It is this which stamps an impotency on all moral and pathetic declamation about the insignificance of the world. A man will no more consent to the misery of being without an object,
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