Full of these gratifying
anticipations and hopes, let us look forward to the end of that century
which is now commenced. A hundred years hence other disciples of
Washington will celebrate his birth, with no less of sincere admiration
than we now commemorate it. When they shall meet, as we now meet, to do
themselves and him that honor, so surely as they shall see the blue
summits to his native mountains rise in the horizon, so surely as they
shall behold the river on whose banks he lived, and on whose banks he
rests, still flowing on toward the sea, so surely may they see, as we
now see, the flag of the Union floating on the top of the capitol; and
then, as now, may the sun in his course visit no land more free, more
happy, more lovely, than this our own country! DANIEL WEBSTER.
From "The Character of Washington."
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I am now talking of the invisible realities of another world, of inward
religion, of the work of God upon a poor sinner's heart. I am now
talking of a matter of great importance, my dear hearers; you are all
concerned in it, your souls are concerned in it, your eternal salvation
is concerned in it.
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