Synopsis
Excerpt from A Series of Discourses, on Fundamental Religious Subjects: Including a Preliminary Discourse on the Divine Revelation of the Holy Scriptures
I could not hope to acquire fame, in a walk of literature so far from being popular, as that of religious Discourses, even though I could have been vain enough to imagine that I was competent to secure a place in the first rank of those who have published in the same line. How much less, when I knew that I could not sustain a respectable competition with writers of. That class As little could I hope to derive pecuniary profit from such a publication; What motive, then, could have prompted me to the toil and hazard of such an enterprise? I humbly submit that there was still one very effi cient motive which might have actuated me in the matter - a desire to advance the interests of the highest order of truth. If I shall have failed in this, I feel that my failure will have been absolute. If, on the other hand, I shall, though but to a limited extent, have succeeded in advancing the interests of this truth, I shall consider myself amply compensated; though eneither fame nor pecuniary advantage shall have been promoted by the Operation. For the advancement of those interests ever tends to promote the glory of God' and the salvation and eternal happiness of mankind. Could I be assured of success in this particular, I should be abundantly satisfied, let the fate of my Discourses be, in other respects, what it might.
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