Seven Features of Christianity: A Sermon, Delivered at the Dedication of the Meeting House of the Second Church and Congregation in Beverly, Feb. 1, 1838 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Seven Features of Christianity: A Sermon, Delivered at the Dedication of the Meeting House of the Second Church and Congregation in Beverly, Feb. 1, 1838

One of the earliest acts of Cyrus on ascending the Persian throne, was to release from bonds the people of Judah and Ben jamin, who seventy years previously had been enslaved by Na buchadnezzar. This was done from an earnest desire to fulfil a prophecy preserved in the sacred books of the Hebrews, ' with which he had been made acquainted. Availing themselves of the royal permission, the rulers of the tribes with the people and servants, amounting in all, to forty nine thousand six hundred and ninety seven souls, returned to the land of their fathers, and the city of their love.

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