Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, January 8, 1854: On the Sunday Following the Death of Hon. Thomas Greenleaf With a mind true in its allegiance to the supreme rule of right, and keeping in view singly what he owed to God, from whom he had received his powers, and whose work he had been commissioned to do at all hazards, he proceeded directly to the performance of an act of duty, which, he must have known, would change the hosannas he had just received into the vindictive cry of Crucify him! Away with him! Let that act to which I refer be described in the simple language of the Sacred Record. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. 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.