Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut. ΤΟ ALL CHRISTIANS WHO REVERE DIVINE TRUTH MORE THAN THE DOGMAS OF SCHOOLS; WHO, RECEIVING THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AS A SUFFICIENT RULE OF FAITH AND PRACTICE, BOW TO THE AUTHORITY OF NO OTHER CREED; AND WHO, THINKING FOR THEMSELVES, ALLOW ALL OTHERS TO ENJOY THAT SOUND BIRTH-RIGHT, ANTIQUATED ERROR OR ARROGANT POWER; IS FRATERNALLY AND CONFIDINGLY INSCRIBED, BY ONE WHO IS CONSCIOUS OF NO HIGHER AMBITION OR AIM THAN TO BE OF THEIR NUMBER, AND WITH THEM GLORIFY GOD; BEING SANCTIFIED BY HIS SPIRIT THROUGH THE TRUTH, AND REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF HIS SON. MAY, 1850. |