The New Crime Against Humanity Author:Theodore Parker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 0 THE NEW CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. SERMON PREACHED AT THE MUSIC HALL, IN BOSTON, ON SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1854. By Theodore Parker, Minister of the... more » XXVIII. Congregational Society. WITH THE LESSON OP THE DAT FOE THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY. BOSTON: BENJAMIN B. MTJSSEY and CO. chapter{Section 4The Sermon which follows was printed in the " Boston Commonwealth," on Monday, from the Phonographic Report of Messrs. Slack and Yerriuton. They copied out their notes at my house, and I revised them. We did not complete our labors till half past three o'clock Monday morning. It may easily he imagined that some errors appeared in the print — for the perishable body weigheth down the mind, and though the Spirit be willing, the flesh is too weak to work four-and-twenty hours continuously. Yet the errors were surprisingly few. In this edition of the Sermon, some passages have been added which were omitted in the Report, and some also which, though written, were not delivered on Sunday. Boston, June 10, 1854. T. P. Boston: I.'ues3 Of Pbentiss And Bawteb, No. 19 Water Street. chapter{Section 5INTRODUCTORY. On Sunday, May 28, after the usual introductory services, Mr. Pabkeb pronounced the following LESSON FOE THE DAY. ,1 see by the face of each one of you, as well as by the number of all, what is expected of me to-day. A young man, sometime since, sent me a request, asking me, Cannot you extemporize a sermon for this day ? It is easier to do it than not. But I shall not extemporize a sermon for to-day — I shall extemporize the scripture. I shall therefore pass by the Bible words which I designed to read from the Old Testament and the New, and shall take the Morning Lesson from the circumstances of the past week. The time has not come for mo to preach a sermo...« less