A discourse delivered in the Chapel Church, Boston, before the Humane Society of Massachusetts, 9 June, 1812 / By Henry Colman.

  • Colman, Henry, 1785-1849.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A discourse delivered in the Chapel Church, Boston, before the Humane Society of Massachusetts, 9 June, 1812 / By Henry Colman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he diffused about him. Like a splendid me¬ teor, passing over the face of night, it bright¬ ened the whole hemisphere, but not like the meteor, were its rays suddenly extinguished ; they still appear with transcendent and undi¬ minished brightness. It is enough, that we are exhorted to copy his example, and to be merciful as our Father in heaven is merciful. II. It is for us then, my brethren, to be kind, tender-hearted, and prompt to every office of compassion. The cultivation and practice of humanity in ourselves, and the dif¬ fusion of its principles and feelings among others, should be an object of our habitual and ardent exertion. The heart of man, we well know, is most sus¬ ceptible in youth. Those of us then, who are parents, and those who have an influence upon the rising generation, cannot better discharge the duty which we owe to God, nor bette serve the cause of humanity, than by preserv¬ ing that tenderness, which God has planted in the breasts of our children, endeavouring to in¬ crease and direct it, and forming in them the