A sermon, preached at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, on the Lord's day after the decease of John Warren, M.D. Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, corr. member of the Lond. Medical Society &c. &c. &c. who died IV. April, MDCCCXV. aged LXII.

  • McKean, Joseph, 1776-1818.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A sermon, preached at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, on the Lord's day after the decease of John Warren, M.D. Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, corr. member of the Lond. Medical Society &c. &c. &c. who died IV. April, MDCCCXV. aged LXII. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    presentative forfeited his first estate, we know, from infallible authority, that one condition of his spar- ed life and protracted years was, In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return un- to the ground.* The earth was doomed to u bring forth briers and thorns, choakiug its flow- ers and stinting its fruits ; except where the indus- try of its cultivators should subdue its stubbornness, and cause herbage to spring, and food to grow. It is industry, which, by the blessing of the Almighty, converts the desert into a garden ; which causes cities to rise on the barren shore ; which furnishes man with commodious mansions, instead of the dark cavern or the earthy hovel; which, exerting its potent influence in commerce, manufactures, and the various arts, improves a commonwealth ; raises and adorns the edifices, which may tell posterity of its wealth and greatness; rears and embellishes the consecrated domes and turrets, which bespeak its pious and literary munificence. It is industry, which enables genius to guide the chisel and the pencil, with that combination of power and skill, which produces imitations of nature that vie with the originals, in all, but breath and sense : which, copying from the mind, the results of meditation, reflection, and study, devises and matures those works, which astonish and improve the passing age, and secure an immortality of fame. This, in a woj'd, it is, which gives to one man among his associates his chief distinction ; which places one * Gen. iii. 19.