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Excerpt from The Life, Services, and Character of Edward Everett: A Sermon Preached in the First Church, Jan; 22, 1865 There is an exaltation of man, which is a forgetting of God. Born of irreverence and of folly, it can issue only in mischief. What is the ray without the sun? what is the branch without the vine? what is the creature without the Creator? what is the Son without the Father? - God's image, when God himself is withdrawn? I need not say that this is not the spirit of the Psalmist. He is celebrating the Divine Majesty, the nightly heavens, with the moon and stars which God has ordained; and, at first, in the presence of such sublimities, his soul is overawed, and man seems to him utterly insignificant: but soon he takes courage, with looking, it may be, upon a fair and noble face, or upon some form of majesty and beauty, and the being which he had almost been ready to despise becomes radiant wdth divine light, - a splendid illustration of the power and love which pervade the world, and are best manifested in the mind and heart and bodv of man. The words of the Psalm are strong beyond our English rendering of them. 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. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.