Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at the Celebration of the First Centennial Anniversary of the South-Carolina Society, in Charleston, on the Twenty-Eighth Day of March, Anno Domini, 1837 Christians in respect to its national character, as it was of the principles on which it was founded - that principle of Christian benevolence, which knows no limits to its exercise, but the claims of want and its own capacity to relieve. 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.