Produced by Gerard Arthus, Joseph R. Hauser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) A DISCOURSE FOR THE TIME DELIVERED JANUARY 4 1852 IN THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITARIAN CHURCH BY W. H. FURNESS PASTOR * * * * * PHILADELPHIA C. SHERMAN PRINTER 1852 * * * * * DISCOURSE. ROM. 14:7. 'NONE OF US LIVETH TO HIMSELF.' In speaking from these words last Sunday morning, and in endeavoring to enforce the great truth which they express, I began with referring to certain facts which characterize that most brutal and ruthless military revolution which has just commenced in France, and the recent news of which made every heart, that cherishes any regard for Freedom and Humanity, burn with indignation. The first statements to which I alluded have been more than confirmed. Unarmed, unoffending citizens, utterly ignorant of what was going on, and taking no part in it, were shot down by hundreds in the streets, and then transfixed with bayonets. If but a window was opened, a shower of bullets was poured into it. Cannon were brought to bear upon whole blocks of private dwellings. In one instance, a woman who rushed out of the house to the help of her husband, who had fallen under the fire of the soldiery, was instantly despatched and laid dead at his side. Bloodshed and terror filled the place, and scenes were enacted, so eyewitnesses report, that baffle description, and that can find a parallel only when cities are sacked. Now, I refer to these facts, not to harrow up your feelings, my hearers, but because these facts, and such as these, speak trumpet-tongued, as to the vital interest and the sacred religious duty which every private man, no matter how humble and obscure,--nay, which every woman has, in those great questions that agitate nations, in what are designated as matters of public concern and the public welfare.