Henry Ward Beecher: “But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own…”

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But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher believes that New England was divinely sent as a messenger of mercy for future generations.

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The whole North will become provincial; it will be but a fringe to a nation whose heart will beat in the South.

Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.

Authority would go with productive greatness, as gravity goes with mass in matter.

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

Henry Ward Beecher: “But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far…”