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Excerpt from A Sermon on the Present National Troubles, Delivered in the Winter Street Church: January 4, 1861, the Day of the National Fast
Joel n z 2. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains.
IN these striking words the prophet describes a dark and desolating day that had come upon the favored land of Judah As the morning comes on, lighting up the mountains, suddenly and irresistibly proclaim ing its advent to all the earth, so with this period of disaster and sorrow.
A similar unfavorable day has come to our own beloved land. For the most part, indeed, we have had abundant harvests no mighty foreign power has invaded us; no desolating epidemic has been mowing down our thousands; the channels of commerce and of trade, until of late, have been full; and yet now by the voice of the chief magistrate, all parts of our country are called to fastn and prayer to Almighty God for aid when help seems to fail us in all other quarters.
I confess myself very incompetent to speak as the proprieties of the occasion demand. I am not acquainted with great matters of political interest, as I am with those of a theological and biblical character; and although I entertain opinions in regard to the causes of our troubles and their cure, yet I feel myself unable to throw any new light upon subjects upon which the profoundest thoughts of millions of our countrymen have been turned, and concerning which so many of our ablest and wisest men have spoken; and yet, after all, there is great division of opinion in rev gard to them.
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