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Excerpt from Desirableness of Active Service: A Sermon Preached to the Tenth Connecticut Regiment, at St. Augustine, Fla., On Sabbath, April 10th, 1864
The children of Israel Were engaged in a struggle for their own national inheritance. They were bat tling for possession of the land transmitted to them by Abraham and Jacob, their pilgrim fathers, and as sured to them by the Divine promise. The war, which seemed likely, at its Opening, to prove of but brief duration, had been prolonged beyond the anticipa tions (if any, and some were already quite tired of the contest. The army of Israel had been in the main successful in its many encounters with the stub born foe. 'it had seized and occupied cities deemed strongholds of the enemy. It had encircled fully the territory it claimed. And, although peaceful possession was still denied by disloyal inhabitants, it was gradually, at bloody cost, establishing rightful ride in all the land. In a severe pitched battle with the five confederate 'kings of Midian, it had been.
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