To those who are interested in the infancy of our country and the wisdom of those who came before us …… Please go to site for entire read, for this is just a portion. (source: wallbuilders/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=153197) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sermon – ‘The Voice of Warning to Christians’ – 1800 John Mitchell Mason (1770-1829) was a minister from New York. He received a doctor of divinity degree from Princeton University in 1794 and was a pastor of two churches in New York City during his lifetime. Mason founded the first seminary of the Associate Reformed Church, in New York City (1804), was president of Dickinson College (1821-1824), and was a trustee (1795-1811) and provost of Columbia College (1811-1816). Rev. Mason, a close friend of Alexander Hamilton who attended Hamilton at his death, preached the following sermon in 1800 in opposition of the idea of Thomas Jefferson being elected President. (Read more about clergy opposition to Thomas Jefferson, along with other issues, in The Jefferson Lies.) THE VOICE OF WARNING TO CHRISTIANS, ON THE ENSUING ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Blow the trumpet in Zion – Who is on the Lord’s side? TO CHRISTIANS, Who price a good conscience, a consistent character, and the honor of their Redeemer, above all personal and political attachments; THE FOLLOWING PAMPHLET IS DEDICATED: With the single request, that, laying aside passion, they will give it such a calm, serious, and considerate perusal, as they owe to an argument relative to the best interests of themselves, their families, their country, and the Church of God. -N. York, September 30, 1800 --------------------------------------------- THE VOICE OF WARNING, &c. If a manly attempt to avert national ruin, by exposing a favorite error, should excite no resentment, nor draw any obloquy upon its author, there would certainly be a new thing under the sun. Men can seldom bear contradiction. They bear it least when they are most demonstrably wrong; because, having surrendered their judgment to prejudice, or their conscience to design, they must take refuge in obstinacy from the attacks of reason. The bad, dreading nothing so much as the prevalence of pure principle and virtuous habit, will ever be industrious in counteracting it; and the more candid, rational and convincing the means employed in its behalf, the louder will be their clamor, and the fiercer their opposition. On the other hand, good men are often led insensibly astray, and their very honesty becomes the guarantee of their delusion. Unaware, at first, of their inconsistency, they afterwards shrink from the test of their own profession. Startled by remonstrance, but unprepared to recede; checked by the misgivings of their own minds, yet urged on by their previous purpose and connection, the conflict renders them irritable, and they mark as their enemy whoever tells them the truth. ………..
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