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SERMON I.

CHRIST

IN THE MIDST OF A CONGREGATION:

PREACHED ON THE RE-OPENING OF ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, ALBEMARLE STREET, ON SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1836.

MAT. XVIII. 20.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

IF a human being has some important object in view, which he cannot accomplish without the aid of some one else more powerful than himself, it becomes a matter of anxiety to know how that person may feel disposed towards him, in what way he may gain access to him, how he should accost him, and whether he is likely to obtain the required assistance; and if this more powerful person, whose aid was requisite, should be one far removed from him in rank and dignity,-as a monarch, for instance, and if the supplicant should happen to be one of the humblest classes of the community, there would be the more fear, as to the success of the application, in proportion

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