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Excerpt from A Discourse: On the Imperative Duties of the Hour, Delivered in the E Street Baptist Church, Washington, D. C., Sabbath Evening, July 6, 1863
And we have sinned! Men and brethren, as a nation, We have sinned! We have been mad in our pursuit Of gain; we have been irreverent towards God; we have scoffed at his law; We have desecrated His Sabbaths; we have pro faned his name; we have cruelly oppressed the weaker race in our borders, and the cry Of four millions Of God's poor has gone up to Heaven against us - therefore, the judgments Of God are upon us, and His red artillery has started down the slope of the Heavens and opened upon us What shall We do DO as Nineveh did! The prophet cry rung through the city its terrible alarm. It was repentance or ruin The king rose up from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. The people followed the example; the people Of that great city bowed before God, humbled, and penitent, and believing. And God turned away his wrath and saved them! SO He will save us, if we humble ourselves, confess our sins, and turn away from our Wrong-doing. This, this is the first imperative duty Of the hour.
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