Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Country: A Sermon
As a Christian people we meet to-day, to celebrate again a time-honored festival, established by the wisdom and piety of our pilgrim fathers. But not as in years past. Then war's dark cloud had not risen. Law and order prevailed throughout the whole country. Peace and uninterrupted prosperity brightened our skies. Our once glorious Union was everywhere shedding its rich and impartial blessings upon a land unrent with civil feuds or drenched in frater nal blood. Peace was within our walls and prosperity within our palaces. Each State rejoiced in the privileges and blessings of the Federal Government, and the woes of Re bellion, the folly and madness of Secession were unknown. But though a terrible civil war has befallen us, yet we are not without occasions Of gratitude and praise to God.
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