Boardman, Charles A. The Duties and Embarrassments of Rulers : A Sermon, addressed to The Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at the Annual Election in New-Haven, May 5, 1830. New-Haven: L. Huntington Young, Printer, 1830. First Edition. [11440]
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The text is Exodus 18:17-24, in which Moses' father-in-law directs him to delegate the work of judging to qualified subordinates.
Boardman makes the duties of rulers to be I. To plainly define the rights and duties of the people, and to protect them in those rights. 2. To provide for the education of the people. 3. To resist vice and protect, and give scope to the institutions of religion.
The embarrassments of rulers consists in 1. The magnitude and complicated nature of the interests committed to them. 2. The nature and power of existing influences contrary to the great interests of the nation.
The conclusions are 1. The temerity of those who covet political elevation, merely for the distinction it confers. 2. The spirit of violent and indiscriminate censure of rulters is rebuked. 3. The importance of personal piety in rulers.
Charles Adolphus Boardman (1788-1860), b. New Milford, CT; d. Monroe, WI. A Presbyterian, he was the pastor of Congregational Churches in Connecticut, later of one in Ohio.
