An Address Delivered in the Mercer Street Church, New York: December 2, 1858, at the Funeral of the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler, Late Attorney General of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the Mercer Street Church, New York: December 2, 1858, at the Funeral of the Hon. Benjamin Franklin Butler, Late Attorney General of the United States Level with the humblest of the race. But to others his death takes on a peculiar type, from the fact that it closes a life of public service and honor. They have watched, perhaps admired, possibly envied, him, as they have seen the laurels accumu late upon his brow, have heard the congratulatory welcome by which he has been introduced to one lofty station after another, and have marked the impress of his high and honorable deeds upon the surrounding comn1unity, - perhaps upon the country at large. He has seemed to them to be walking through the world in glory; and possibly they have had no higher aspirations than to be in this respect like him. But now that the time of his departure has come, they follow him in their imaginations and their inquiries at least, to his death-bed, curious to know the history of his passage through the Clark valley. And the grand revelation that is made to them there is, that there is nothing stable but religion. It is not the great man or the honorable man that appears now, but it is the humble Christian - the Christian in communion with the Conqueror of death, and becoming entranced with visions of immortality. To his View all earthly distinctions have faded into insignificance; while the one grand distinction of. 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.