A Sermon

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Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, June 18, 1865The question has frequently been agitated, whether the expenditure which' has been lavished upon monuments and statues is not an unreasonable and needless one. To my own mind, this is much like the question asked by one Judas Iscariot, when a certain woman anointed the Saviour's head with ointment of spikenard, very precious Why was this waste? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. We are creatures of sentiment, as well as utility. There is a time when lavish expenditure is no waste, and but a worthy tribute of affection and reverence, when the fragments of the alabaster-box speak more eloquently than words Let 'her alone, why trouble y'e her? She hath wrought a good work on me. She is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burying.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.