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Excerpt from God's Voice, and the Lessons It Teaches: A Sermon, Preached on the Occasion of the Death of General Taylor, Late President of the United States
Micah Vi., 9.-the Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wis dom shall see thy name; hear ye the rod, and Who hath appointed it.
True patriotism, scarcely less than sound piety, will lead us to mark the footsteps of the Almighty in great public events. We are not only servants of the Most High God, but citizens of a free and favored land; and as such are bound to take a lively interest in whatever concerns the common wel fare. Any thing that stirs the sensibilities of the country, and plunges the nation into grief, may well be made the theme of pulpit inquiry and address.
We all feel that it would be criminal to suffer so instruo tive a calamity as that which has recently befallen us, to pass without notice. Our beloved Chief Magistrate, honored and revered even more for his noble personal qualities than for the high military and civil stations he held, has been suddenly cut off from the land of the living and laid low in the dust. While office was still new to him, and the laurel unfaded on his brow, the destroyer came to do his allotted work. The country is in tears, and the speaker but falls in with the sorrowful emotions of a whole bereaved people, when he seeks to turn the general lamentation into a useful channel. A sub ject is assigned us, and all we have to do is to illustrate and apply it as best we can.
God himself is speaking, and it becomes us all, high and low, rich and poor, to stand in awe, and keep silence before him. His voice cries to the metropolis of the land, and through that.
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