Coi, I.EC TION

THE SUBST^I^OE OP
TWO DISCOURSES,
OCCASIONED BY THE NATIONAL BEREAVEMENT,
THE ASSASSINATION OP THE PRESIDENT.
THE POSITION, THE LESSON, AND THE DUTY
OP THE NATION.
DELIVERED IN ^Hgf
Wooster, Ohio, Easter Day, 1865,
BY THE ^RECTOR,
REV. J H. MAC EL'REY, M. D.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to
every living heart aud hearthstone all over the broad land, wUI yet swell the ohoins of
the Union, when again touched, aa surely they will be, by the better angela of era na-
Jinre."— iiMcoin'* Ina-ugural, 1861.

THE 8UBSTA.]SrCE OF
TWO DISCOURSES,

OCCASIONED BT THE NATIONAL BEREAVEMENT,
THE ASSASSINATION OP THE PRESIDENT,
THE POSITION, THE I.ESSON, AND THE DUTT
OF THE NATION.

DELIVERED IN THE

Wooster, OMo, Easter Day, 1865,
BY THE RBCTOE,
EEY. J. H. MAC EL'REY, M. D.

"The mystic chords of memory, stretehing from ewry battle-field and patriot grave to
every living heart and hearthstone all over the broad land, will yet swell the chorus of
She Union, when again touched, as surely they will he, by the better angels of our na
ture," — Lincoln's Inaugural, 1861.

REPUBLICAN STEAM POWER PBSSS, WOOSTER, GHre,
1865.

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Tlie Substance of Two Discourses,
BY
Hev. J. H. ]?d:^0 EL'REY, IS/L. D,
Wooster, April 17th, 1865.
Rev. j. H. Mao El' Ret,
Dear Sie : — We respectfully request for publication
the discourses delivered by you on yesterday in the Episcopal Church,
«u the occasion of the national bereavement. Believing the publica
tion of them will be productive of much good in this community, ond
hoping that you will accede to our request, we remain
RespectfuUy yours, A. WRIGHT.
JAS. D. ROBISON, M. D.
J. H. BAUMaARDNEE.
JAS. L. DRAKE.
GEO. H. LEHMAN.
G. W. HBNSHA.W.
W. CHILDS.

/ Wooster, April 18th, 1865.
Messrs. Weight, Robison, Baumgardner, Henshaw, and others,
Gentlemen : — Justly proud of being by you thought
capable of uttering upon the issues of these days of unparallelled
events anything promotive of that loyalty to the government without
which there can be no love to God or man, I h ive unfeigned pleasure
in complying with your request. As much-of the substance of the dis
courses yon ask for publication as can now be recalled — one having
been wholly extempore, and the other given from a few brief notes — ^I
proceed to place at your disposal. It is due to all to remind the reader
that those surroundings always necessary to render even profound con
ceptions effective, and which often make weak words most potent,
were abundantly supplied during those ever memorable religious hours
of that lone, sad Easter Day, to stimulate the moral powers and t<i
guide the tongue to thoughts that speak in words that burn. We had

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on the' one hand the' inspiring emotions of all loyal and affectionate?
hearts throbbing in pressing numbers the deep refrain of the nation's
©rphanage, contritely confessing her errings and strayings from God's
ways, like a far backslidden people, and the unutterable groanings of
contrite spirits for sparing mercy in the midst of deserved wrath. We
had on the other hand, in all the coldness of nether-hardness of un-
sympathy against the deep humiliation in what should have been unex-
cepted grief,, the presence- of harder than steel — chilled and colder
than frost-smitten hearts — hearts estranged from' God and the Govern
ment through vicious amours for the- perpetuation of sn institution the
quintessence of all the villainies, founded by fiends, fostered by the fu
ries and fed to the full stature of diabolical maturity, upon, the bodies
and souls of men, the living temples of Deity. Thankful I am for
th«se opportunities of bearing emphatic testimony in such presence, for
u-nconditionai loyalty and against all and every shade of coinplicittf
with crimes which astound the demon — spirits of Herod and Nero,
and deepen the darkness of the Inferno — I estimate- the fervanoy of
your desire to reach a still wider class than, those who heard them, by
words whose' only intrinsic value is that they homely tell plain truth in'
due season and are enhanced- by the merit of your approbation. In
humble concert with the conscience to duty which invokes the reitera
tion of words which will prove as seasonable in the portentious future-
as they have in the momentous past, and praying for peace by right
eousness, permit me to remaiin
Yours for the Gospel and the Government,. J. H. MAC EL'REY.

Exodus 12th chap, and St. Luke chap. 21, verses 22, 28, 32 & 34..—
Isaiah 35th chap., 3, i. 2d Chronicles chap. 32, verses 3, 6, 9, 13,. 15,
17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23. Hebrewschap. 10 v. 36. Ephesians 6, v. 12, 13.
My Dear People ! — 'What an Easter Bay I Did ever any nation
called Christian pass the like since days when princes and people were-
' martyred for righteousness ? The days of martyi?dom are not ended.
Indeed they have been rife of late. The murder we lament is but the
last on lists of thousands. What has this rebellion been but a vast
series of assassinations ?
Amid' such surroundings, what can I say to you ? This draped and
thronged house — this draped town — this mourning land— your aching
hearts and suffused eyes — these cloud-craped heavens,. are all tongue-
less proclaimers of the unutterable grief. Let these tell what worJs
eannot — ^tell of anation bereft, a people orphanieed — tell of our leader

and chief c.\ptaix smitten to death, and our prime minii?ter of State
and his two sons now lying within the shadow of his dark portal, and
all this by the most desperate act of extremest infamy, an infamy whinh
is but the aggregation of all those measures which culminated in this
rebellion. What has brought this quadruple of calamity upon us ?
Do troubles like ours come forth of the ground ? Is there not a cause ?
Is this a day to let the heart have way, to weep and mourn the mighty
fallen ? No ! It is a time to go up to the house of the Lord, to stand
in the ways and ask for the old paths, saying, where is the good way,
that -we may walk therein and find rest for our souls ? It is a time for
all God-appointed watchmen, as they have done since the first, to "lift
up the voice like a trumpet and show the people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins." This, all but hirelings in the ser
vice of the enemies of God, and this good government, will do. And
when better this, than on this day of remembrance on which our true
Catholic Church — not Boman Catholic— rbut Catholic Church, through
out all the world, doth read the same covenant — making word of the
covenant — keeping covenant, exacting God. Let a review of these, by
us, undesigned coincidences, which blend into each other during this
season of commingled sorrow and joy in our church, and in the land,
teach us the greatness of our defection, the exactions of God and the
way of reformation. Think of the night of the crime — Oood Friday —
saddest and fittest of the year for such an act. The night the God-man
lay slain for the sins of the world— the Saviour, Deliverer, God-Pather
of his- redeemed country, lay murdered inthe Jerusalem of this pro
phetic land. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
through these years of unparallelled degeneracy. While joy for the
nation' s victory swelled every trne heart from Maine to Eldorado —
while a race was by his act redeemed from chattelism, to a freedom as
wide as our own — while that race, worthy of him, were crowning him
as their Saviour — and all those worthy of being named as of the na
tion, hailed him the Moses of the whole people — for we were all bound
— then, the man more loved than Washington, was cut off out of the
land of the living, in the twinkling of an eye, by a heart possessed by
the blackest spirit that ever came outside of hell. Jesus was crucified
because he would make men holy. This model man was murdered be -
cause he would make men free. But I do not essay to speak his eulo
gy, or name his epitaph. The universal grief of every unpolluted
heart throughout the nation, to-day pouring out in kindred affection
for him, speaks the one. The nation Regenerated, Perfected, Glo
rified, will be the other.
The world never s^en "the exceeding sinfulness of sin" until she

saw it in the betrayal and crucifixion of Rim who embodied all the
treasures of Deity. We never saw the pure sensual and devilish na
ture of this rebellion, the most wanton in the universe save that of the
rebellion in Heaven — and hence the deviUshness of the essential spirit
of all secessions — as we see it now in the murdered embodiment of Hhe
Republic. The only appropriate expletives of this rebellion, and for all
connivers at it, sounded more like rhetorical hyperbole than the unex-
aggerable descriptives of facts, which they were. Who could over-state
the case ? There is nothing like it in the annals of nations. A rebell
ion of freemen — ^fratricidts and regicides — the first such rebellion in all
the world ; Republicans revolted against their own unviolated consti
tution, whose chief corner stone was cut out of the rock of ages by the
hand that built the living temple of the Holy Ghost, and which corner
stone has upon it in beautiful pharaphrase the title of the inalienable
dowery of the Creator to all His creatures, "life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness." Was, or will ever be found, save in those who will
not have Christ Jesus to reign over them, more incontestable demon
stration of the totality of human depravity than we have in the wan
tonness of this rebellion against liberty, for the express purpose of
setting up an oligarchy, having for its corner stone a stone of stumbling
to man, and a rock of offence to God, such as the basest usurpers of
right that have disgraced depraved mankind since the days of Cain un
til the year of grace A. D. 1860, never dared if they ever dreamed of
setting up ?
"The new constitution," said the "Vice President of the Confeder
acy," "has put at res,t forever all agitating questions relating to our pe
culiar institution — African Slavery — as it exists among us, viz : the
proper status of the Negro, in our form of Government. This was the
immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson
anticipated this as the roek on which the old Union would split. He
was right. But whether he comprehended the great truth on which
that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas en
tertained by him and the leading statesmen of the time of "the forma
tion of the old constitution,. were, that the enslavement of the Afriean
was in violation of the laws of nature, that it was wrong in principle,
socially, morally and politically, aud that somehow or other, in the or
der of providence, it would be evaiiescent and soon pass away. Those
ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the as
sumption of the equality of the races. This was an erroi-. It was a
sandy foundation, and the government built upon it, when the storm
came and the wind blew, fell. Our new government is founded upon
ideas exactly the opposite ot these. Its foundations are laid" its corner

stone rests) upon the great truths that slavery of the negro to the su
perior race is his natural normal condition. This our new government
is the first in all the world based upon this great physical, philosophi
cal and moral truth. " Isnot this the most gigantic physical, philo
sophical and moral monstrosity the world ever saw? Does not the na
tion in her bounden duty of extirpating the infernal incarnation "wres
tle a.gainst the rulers of the darkness of this world ?' '
Oh! the depth of the apostacy! To see millions of ingrate sons of
a continent first consecrated to the sign of the son of man, twice won
from monarchy to freedom, now for the third time in the arena of mor
tal strife in which the life of the Divine Goddess of Liberty is the stake,
and that Divinity set as the target by fathers, sons aud brothers
to her manor born 1 It is a spectacle at which the whole world stands
up upon the tip-toe of astonishment, a contest at which the good on
earth and the blest in heaven lift up their heads, because by it the re
demption of humanity draweth nigh. In an uprising so defiant to God
and man, aud in the collision of principles so antagonistic, the devas
tation must be of corresponding extent. pL£-ii
— Biaood leagues which for long ages travailed in pain under their wie*-
burdens of increase of helpless bondage, are now moistened with the sweat
aud blood of two of earth's vastest armies. The shocked bosoms of
those leagues are scarred and furrowed over with the graves of noble
and ignoble combatants, slain, the one for the testimony of Jesus that
Se will break the oppressor in pieces, and the other for the establish
ment of the rulers of a despotism the basest this world ever saw, and
surpassed only in the regions of the blackness of the darkness of hell.
It is with shame of face for the utterness of human abasement, and
because I would not hold back one item in the black list of supera
bundant demonstration of the totality of mortal depravity, that I add
the one yet darker and more ineffaceable proof yet to be named of the
innateness ot his sin. It is this, that in addition to all former pitiably
vile records of the sinfulness of sin, I throw in the superlatively fiend
like one, that tens of thousands of free-born souls, born on soil free
from actual slavery, and self-styled disciples of the son or man, and
among them not a few ecclesiastically constituted, but mis-named am
bassadors of the " glad tidings of great joy unto all people " of "the
common salvation," sympathize and "gather with" a "confederacy"
whose corner stone rested upon the rock of offence to God, that chat
tel slavery of the negro and his descendants on either side, to any de
gree of progeniture, is his natural, normal condition. It were useless
to utter against such gross-souled creatures the pungent style of satir
ical rebuke, or the dispassioned proofs of phylosophical refutation, nor

scarcely the energetic tones of righteous indignation. Of such are
these "of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping,
that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose glory is their
shame, who mind earthly things." They know and love the " U. S.
Fugitive Slave Law," better than they know or care to love the Higher
Fugitive Slave Law of the Bible. They are the enemies of Christ who
crucify him afresh in the house of His friends, those because of whom
judgment begins at the house of God, and because pf whom cometh
the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Difficult though
it may seem to believe it, now that the earthquake like force of moral
and political overturnings, rebellious states, and military necessities,
have shivered the rimmon of their love from foundation to chapiter,
leaving the Dagon of their idolatry in atoms, these incorrigible mis
creant negro crucifiei'S, constitution -loving, (?) administration-hating,
woe-procuring criers ot peace, when because of such there can be no
peace, stand ready at an opportunity to fetter the land with heavier
chains than she has yet endured. Most pertinent to these are the words
of David, descriptive of those deceitful pretenders for tha support of
the kingdom, while they were cunningly teaching by secret and open
sophistical counsel and example, the overthrow of the nation, and His
assassination — "The words of their mouth are smoother than oil, but
war — rebellion — is in their heart. Their words are smoother than but
ter, yet they are drawn swords. ' '
But, you ask, raust the whole laud go into the vesture of mourning,
the sack cloth of confession, and tears and blood, for the iustituted
villainnies of separate sovereignties ? I answer this No and Yes. No,
because we are one. Yes, because the sin is one.
Oh, sirs ! believe me, we are fuller of misdeeds, wrong theories and
great sins than we are of sufferings and sorrows. If for any cause a
people forget to incorporate God into the state, so that she will thus
fail to teach men that God doeth His will among the inhabitants ofthe
earth, that the nations may know that they are but men, He will visit
for these slights to his prerogatives, with one Or all of His sore chas-
tisers. We had committed the prime sin of legislating God out of,
aud Atheism and Slavery into, a continent discovered in the search for
souls, and when discovered consecrated to "the heir of the world."
It was by the power which is above and behind thrones— the blood of
Christ— Ferdinand and Isabella were moved to equip from their Armada
the man who proposed to find a new world to His blood-sprinkling.
Would I had space to trace the course of this new nation, in relation
to older familiea of nations, since then till now, that we might see
whence we came, whence we are fallen and to whom we must return

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that we perish not. I can but name chapter headings, sketch jutting
promontories, mark shoals, warn of quick sands, and direct to a safe
haven in the Rock of our salvation, tho God of nations.
Your conscience and judgment impel you to ask for at least a rapid
review of the causes of our woes. The cause is the old one, covenant-
breaking — not with the South — that we never did. Nor is it that of cov
enant-breaking hy the South, although that they did, and are even yet
doing, and if they can will do in the future, to the absolutest extent,
for they are estranged by the spirit of all sin and most unconquerable —
Secession. The cause of all our trouble is the sin of national cove
nant-breaking, which we did both with God and the world upon that
which made and can alone preserve us one nation — The inalienable
equality of man.
Allow me, on all this spirit-inspiring easter day, in the train of this
appropriate, Calender Lesson of our church, to gird up the loins of
your mind by thoughts becoming us on this occasion of inexpressible
bereavement — thoughts and facts which, if the admonitions they echo
be heeded, will turn us again in the unity of one spirit and that national
repentance and reformation which alone can gettle and perpetuate us
to all generations.
Let me open the ark of the covenant and read the testimony wherein
lie the laws of our life. But lo 1 as I open the sacred inclosure I find
sad evidence that we first must have forgotten, or foresworn, and then
violated them. As I unfold the Magna Charta of Human Rights, I
discover that unholy hands have infolded therewith the corrupt manna
of violated statute and covenant law, ' ' the offence of which is rank and
smells to heaven." " Secession is not the result of a day. It is not
produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or bythe non-execution ofthe
Fugitive Slave Law. I doubted its constitutionality, and said so ou the
floor of the Senate. The States, acting in their sovereign capacity, re
sponsible for the rendition of slaves, was our best security." — Senator
R. B. Rhett, secession convention, 1860.
If we will at all retain the foul deposit, let it lie hidden as a relic of
the tortuous wilderness history of the nation during her mergings into
newer life from her debasement in worse than Egyptian bondage. Let
it never see light after we have now even tasted the clusters of our
new regenerated land of promise, a land now being literally purged of
the bane of all our offendings and the essence of our dissolution— se
cessionist and secessionist. Freedom under God's Law was the es
sential principle of our being and growth. Slavery, regardless of
God's Law, was the breach in that covenant of life. Hear ye, and
feel to the depth of your affections, those laws of our life which I now

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ntter-as- the watchword of events so mighty, amid scenes so moving^
Hearthemi asinortal and yet immortal beings, passing through the-
valley of fche shadbw of death, througli which death itself the Joshua
of our REDEMPTION has just passed to light us. See ye now what the
whole people refused to see till now. See through these deep shadows.
the sharpness of the contest, the malignancy of the resistance all over
that blazing- field of rebellion where the captain of our salvation fell,
wrestling in the spirit of the Divine Saviour, not against flesh and
blood only, but against the rulers of the dark^aess of this world, viz,
against fallen, wicked, revolted spirits and against their hellish usur
pations in the persous of their emissaries, of heavenly places and pow
ers. Hear, and then, as if looking into- the grave untimely opened to-
swa/llow u.p in one — the nation's favorite — the life of the nation, renew
and seal and pay yourvow of fealty thereto- as did those immaculate-
men who made it, saying', "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator
with certain inalienable- rights, that amongst th-ese are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. For the support of this declaration, with s;
firm reliance upon Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, our fortunes and our honor."
This is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the
world. "God. that made the.world and all things therein, seeing that
He is Lord of heaven and earth'. He giveth to all life and breath and
all things. And hath made of one blood all nations — or races — of
men to dwell on all the face of the earthj and hath determined the
time before appointed, and the bounds of their habitations ; — not that
the strong and selfish should debase and chattelize the weak — But that
all should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him and find
Him." "And God said, let us make man in our image, after our like
ness, andlet thera have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the
fowls of the air aud over the cattle, and over all the earth, and. over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." "And God saw
every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good." Here
are three voices, speaking upon one theme, at distances of five thou
sand years. The voices are- distinct but not discrepant. There can b 3
but one sense dra-wn from them all, that Liberty and equality are God-
given, inherent and innate. These words which wing their echos from
the verges of two times, and from the centre of this last time, tbe
days of the Son of Mak, whose dominion shall be over all the world,
should be the Ritual and Litany of this nation through all this her last
conflict with the powers of wickedness, until the unshackled millions-
uf earth shall be prepared to join her i a this chorus of Te Dslm, ands

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¦when througliout an emancipaited world the everlasting Gospel shall
have free course to prepare the earth as a bride for her Lord.
Much has been sophistically said, especially since the breaking out of
this rebellion, about our unprecedented advancement in all things
which compose national greatness, "notwithstanding our asserted guilt
in the assumed sin of slavery." It is a burning shame that men surely
knowing better, if competent to form sentiment and mould and wield
masses, should for partizan and selfish ends sophisticate the credulous,
by, to them, ascribing our growth in power to our derelictness to the
principles of our life, and ts our unstinted aid in stremgthening the
l)Ouds of thraldom even t© the meshing of the whole land with chains.
Every one familiar with our history knows that the phases of our pros
perity — of eourse I meam it not in respect of mere material, numerical,
¦iirbitrary power — have been remarkably coincident with our moral
bearings. This is worthy of our closest attention, aud yet requires no
¦elaborated argumentation. The philosophical and christian Adams
•saw the weakness of the inconsidera'te attempt to consolidate even ho
mogeneous particles into that cohesive solidity necessary to form com
pact national basis, without invoklRg the plastic hand of the God of
nations to gather up, to temper and mould together that great human
-composite, known as the American Republic. Ner was this a mere
¦circumstance, a, fortuity. It was the index finger upon the dial indi-
'cating from then until now that every light and shade, sun-hiding and
storm which has passed over the face of the land, have been visited
-and graduated by that Son or God, who received of the Father the
nations for his possession, and to whom the Father hath given to judge
them, "because He is the Son of Man."
You will not receive in the spirit of vain-glorying what I must .add
to this striking coincidence to make it complete, viz, that the clergy- '
man who had the honor of first invoking the Throne of Mediation for
favor upon the organization of the Republic, was ©f our church. She
has incorporated in her Own statute laws and Articles of Religion,
standing testimonies of fullest and most implicit loyalty adapted to
meet every possible emergency of the nation. Nor has she left it op
tional with her clergy and members to graduate the tene and substance
•of their "public prayers" "for the President of the United States and
all others in authority,", according to the degree of their own personal
¦estimate for "the Administration 1" Neglect to respond from the pew
for "deliverance from all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion," in
these times when these sins rage, is taken as an evidence of as vile a
teart as would be indicated by neglect to respand to the prayer for
^ 'deliverance from hypocrisy, envy, hatred and malice— from blindness

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of heart, the deceit of the -world, the flesh and the devil," or from any
other evidence of "reprobacyof mind" and "contempt of God's word
and commandments." With what graceless savor, then, comes that
mawkish demurring from any Episcopalian, which is common now to
oM whose loyalty is not above susfiicion, against " politics in the pul
pit," which being interpreted means "distaste for bold, plain, unpar-
tizan loyalty in the pulpit." Is it politic or impolitic to denonnce or
vindicate in the pulpit what we pray for or pray against in the reading
desk and in the pew 'I
Surely the Episcopal church is no horae for sympathizers with re
bellion. She has- no cloak for schismatism either in church or in state,
holding it to be self-evident that the spirit of secession, wherever man-
fested, in religion or politics, is earthly, sensual, devilish. You will
understana me as speaking words ot truth and soberness when I say to
you that I would not give the cup of blessing to the lips of any oue I
suspected of being in sympathy with this diabolical rebellion. Nor
would I, after due admonition aud instruction, permit their names to
disgrace the communion list longer than I could scratch them. Note
anothes significant thiug in our history. A clergyman meeting Alex
ander Hamilton on the- street, said to him, I see you have not put God's
name to the constitution. Upon ray word, sir, said Mr. H. , we forgot
it. Hamilton fell, under the guise of the duello, by the little less than
assassin hand of the first traitor who lifted impious hand agains't the
life of the Uuion. God says that the nation and people that will not
confess. Him shall perish. God is in the Declaration of an Independ
ence not independent of Him. He is noi .ire the Constitution, capable
of being if not intended to be interpreted in the interests of an institu
tion which legitimately ignores God in Christ and Christ in Man.
We stood up before the world the most stupendous absurdity the world
ever saw. A RepubUc with chattel slavery. A Constitution without
God ! But this was contrary to the flrst intention. (See "Articles of
Association," 1774.) In this lies Our salvation. The covenant-k'iep-
ing God will treat with us on flrst principles. It was whatever of ad
herence we had to these that made us as truly great as v,fe were. It
was our departure from these that brought isis wbere we are. It will
be th.e re-assertion of them which, will settle us in Union and keep us-
in peace.
Our birth and ga-owth were alike wonderful. It waa not from any se
lect few or exclusive tribe we came. It was from the one world wide
family of Adam, a few from here and there, of exiled demizens. They
come from out of vallies of death and caves of banished freedom.
They came as by the wand of Columbia from the breadth of the eartlr,

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who were nowhere a people. They were not "fine fat sleek Men, w\iB
fllept well o' nights, and gave "n^ lords" no trouble." They were
wakeful vigilants, who had songs iu the night, and had night and morn
ing watchings for deliverance. The spirit of holy freedom, then all
abroad, to separate then, as always, the weak from the strong, and then
to strengthen them to glory in the Lord, who is a strength to the weak,
blew from the fonr wiiids, and thus arose upon the breadth of this
great continental basis for a freedom as broad as humanity, this mighty
nation. Thus did the fathers covenant with God that if Hc would be
with thera in founding and maintainiHg a nation upon the inalienable
principle of the innate right of all meu to freedora, then this should
bethe fatherland of liberty and equality. This they signed as with
their blood and sealed with their sacred honor. They did this also for
those that should -come after. They inscribed their thought of liberty
upon their banner in the colors of day. In bars of blood red of the
morning, significant of the baptisra of blood which must ever purify
the way for the day star to shower the white light of liberty over the
world, that as she approaches the sun setting of time beneath a canopy
of blue, syrabolical of tlie Infinity beyond, she might settle into the
freedom and light of eternal day. They perfected their great concep
tion of that ensign for the nations by studding it above with the lamps
of the firmaraent, a lamp for a State, that they might throw their con
stellated bearas upon the land by night, whilst the central sun of .the
system would smile upon it by day. They then swung the star-fastened
emblem into the blue of heaven, symboled also in its background, to
.speak of a freedom as pure and free as the unclouded and .uncolored
atmosphere which fanned it.
The stars in their courses fought for it, until it floated like a sea-bird
from island to island, and sped as with wings of light around the world.
The nations saw it and were lightened, until even the sons of Btheopia
stretched forth their hands for the olives of liberty. All the world saw
our greatness. The kings of the earth stood up for us, and feared us.
The oppressed everywhere read our principles, knew our prestige and
begged our patronage. Onr arms they did scarcely dare to ask. But
they instinctively and boldly clairaed what were heavier blows upon
the mailed -heads of despotisms, thau those of our swords. They
claimed the majesty of our sympathy, our God speed to freedom. Nor
did any people that ever struck for freedom in the pure days of this
nation ever fail of her attainment for lack of anything ever guaranteed
in our stipulations with the world, save and except where and when the
the setting up of free institutions would have cramped our own slavery,
and in such cases we did always throw our weight with the strength of
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"I want Cuba, I want Tamaulipas, Potosi aud one or two other Mex
ican States, and I want them all for the sarae reason — for the planiing
and sprtading of slavery. A footing in Central America will power
fully aid us in acquiring those other States. Yes ; I want these coun
tries for the spread of slavery. I would spread the blessing of slavery,
like tbe religion of our Divine Master, to the uttermost ends of the
earth ; and rebellious and wicked though the Yankees have been, /
would even extend it to them." — Senator Brown of Miss., 1860.
"Citizens of the United States in the spirit of this policy, subverted
the free Republic of Nicarauga, and opened it to slavery and the Afri-'
can slave trade, and held it in that condition awaiting annexation to
the Uuited States, until its sovereignty was restored by a combination
of sister Republics opposed to the same danger and apprehensive of
similar subversion." — Secretary Seward in the Senate, 1860.
When the principles of '76 sprang upon their European career in the
revolution of 1789, with a force that raade those raonarcWes tremble
and quake, the United States uttered warm and firm words of cheer.
When in 1792 Louis XVI announced the new constitution to the na
tions, as might be expected, kings spurned it. But our President im
mediately sent the notice of his acceptance of it to Congress. The
representatives of the nation unanimously expressed their sincere par
ticipation in the interests of the French Republic, hoping that the de
fenders of the constitution might be rewarded by the full attainment of
their object, the permanent freedom and happiness of so great a peo
ple. Immediately upon this our first salutation to our own Goddess in
the new Republic in Europe — Sardinia, Austria, and soon Russia, The
Netherlands and Great Britain formed the combination known as "The
Allied Powers" and "The Holy League." A holy league to kill Lib
erty. Those powers were not friendly previously, but fear " made
them wonderous kind." They "became Confederate" to girdle aud
check the growth of the olive of liberty aud peace, to annihilate the
vBODY, and thus compel the flight of the spirit, of American Republi
canism from Europe. The Alliance was an armed intervention to re
store the ancient order of things in Europe, and against the principles
of the French Revolution, deemed to be of dangerous example ^nd
contageous influence upon the neighboring monarchies. They loved
oppression and hated liberty. The 22d of April, 1794, found France
clothed in her new robes of freedom, already established in the palace
of her lately executed king, and in full exercise of every function of
the new state, having also driven beyond her territories those powers
who had entered them to assume the vindication of the eqtisAi-y as
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announced to our Congress— "A National Government is born in
Prance, and with it victory over the conspirators against the new Re
public. We desire to draw closer than ever those bonds of friendship
whicli unite the French nation to the United States." The Senate as
sured the committee of their friendships and good will ^to the French
Republic. On the first day of the year 179fi, the standard of the new
Republic was unfurled in the Senate of the United States, and over the
cradle of Araerican Independence, amid the fervors of an unsullied
enthusiasm seldom if ever witnessed there since our Goddess came
thence in instant maturity from the brain of her God-like fathers. On
that great day Washington said — ¦ 'My anxious recollections, ray sym
pathetic feelings and ray best wishes are irresistably excited when I
see in any country an oppressed nation unfurl the banner of freedom.
I rejoice that liberty finds an asylura in the bosom of France, and un
der a regularly organized government which gratifies the pride of every
citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own."
Those masures of the French Republicans, which made the fother
of This utter such paternal expressions of sympathy , with them, were
consummated under the folds of our dear old flag, festooned around
the chamber of their deliberations. Note especially here, that while
all this fraternizing was being indulged in between us and our trans
atlantic brethren, the Atlantic was all aglare with those lurid fires of
wars which then raged all over western Europe, and when Englaud
was still able to, and did, in open violation of her recent treaty of
peace, hold al! our western posts, and when all those belligerants, pi
rate-like, supplied theraselves frora our peaceful, unarmed merchant
men. I know mercurial, capricious France soon became factious, was
first rent by mere notional discords, and then was conquered bya dic
tator, and then crouched back beneath the old throne. Bat for all
that, we should have beeu faithless to our own principles had we with
held the hand and voice of fellowship. But, although panther-like,
she is ready now, were she able, to spring upon us, she
"Cannot shake her goary locks at na,
And fifty **ye did bo" n-ntn v« in our trial "
Liberty, heaven-born aud heaven-guiding, could not live in France,
on the principle that the last relic of a bad religion is instituted
irreligion. When France ignored Gou, liberty fled. Says La'Martine,
"France has no stability — no government— because France has no
While I canuot stop to further specify instances of proof of my pro
position that it i^as not in any sense the increase of our slavery, and
our neglect ot higher law, that made us powerful ; I am sure I
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«nir history, than by saying that we won our respect and establishe(J
our greatness very early, and that our estimate by the nations has beer»
in exact proportion of our faiithfulness to the spirit of the Declaration
of Independence.
Flushed with the blood of conquest, and maddened with rage at our
— to them — gauling prosperity — unprecedented since the days of Greek
pre-eminence — Britain struck at us (let us pray for her sake, and for
that of humanity) her final blow. She did not prostrate us. (We held
in the mean time, and ever since 1778, a standing proffer to Canada to
"accede" to the measures, aud be entitled to all the advantages of this
Uuion. ) Why were we not prostrated ? I cannot give you the fata
listic answer of the mechanical philosopher, and say it was owing to
some fortuitous law of natural progression. All that kind of abstract
ing and distracting generalizing makes nothing plain. Nor will I of
fend your devoutness by insinuating th'S more plausible but really
Atheistic aphorism of Boneparte, and tell you our success lay in the
secret that "God is always on the sidethsit has the strongest artillery."
Our whole life, especially so in this rebellion, to this moment, has been
a visible refutation of such infidelity. This nation had her greatest
achievements in days when she was weak in artillery and strong in
integrity. The record of our life-course is as remarkable as that of our crea
tion. Just as long as we mediated for, and heartily cheered on, the
cause of liberty abroad, and purposed with all honesty, no doubt, as is
amply evident in the doings of our fathers, to destroy the relic of bar
barism at home, with a united Europe to intimidate us, God restrained
the whole menagerie of beasts from us. Twice He broke the Lion's
mouth, and always held the paws of the Bear within their shaggy
sheaths. Two of our wars were purely defensive, and for the estab
lishment and maintenance of the purest principle of human govern
ment the world has had since the fall of the Theocracy.
They were marvellous successes. The first especially was a system
of retreats made more successful than advances. They were real
Jericho campaigns. The formidable enemy melted down as by the
breath of the people. But how is it now, that what most of us at first
counted a mere Ai skirmish — "a breakfast job" — those of us who did
not so reckon, but gave the rebellion a five years' rage, were actually
accused of sympathy with it — has turned out to have an Ai sequel ?
Is it not because our sin was as the sin of Achan ? Did not our whole
camp cover it until we were well nigh ruined ? Four years— yes, three
years ago, were not the people, with the exception of a few "imprac
ticable enthused abolitionists," more anxious to save the Union with

^he accursed thing init, 'than to save it by casting the cause of the
curse out of it? But worse yet. Two years ago, after so many foun
tains of precious blood had been poured out upon the land so cursed
by men beiug made as cattle, we said— <Ae people said— "we would
rather save the Union with chattelism in it than without it. " Then
there was but one man among all our chief captains, great enough to
lift his hand and his voice to heaven with the hyssop of purgation, that
'the flow of blood might be stayed, by blotting out the cause of our of
fending. But the people reasoned according ts their accustomed logic of death,
and said, we shall not surely all die because of the sin of Achan.
"Every state is responsible for their own sin." But God said, "The
•#hole land is -defiled." We said, "Nay, we are sovereign, independ
ent states. Wilt thou slay the righteous with the wicked?" But God
said, "Are ye not oree, and -yo-a-i: President oue? Are ye not federal
parts composing oue indivisible nation ? Are ye not fighting to estab-
'lish the principle of your unity? How reasonest thou, then, that the
¦whole land is not defiled by complicity in the sin in the interests of
which this re-bellion was waged?" And the people said, "That is not
¦what we wish to hear. We insist that we are one, but our sin is not
>X)ne. We will not hear nor answer thee 1" But during all this, our
armies had terrible slaughter, but little or nothing was achieved.
There went out a man -with a small command, and he put a torch in
the hand of every man. His enemies said "he raeant indiscriminate
slaughter." The torch was called, "Proclamation of Freedom unto
•all the slaves within my command." Now, this commander did
"march with a rapidity unequaled since the days of Washington."
The torch of freedom made a great light before the camp of the enemy,
' and was very terrifying to them. And they said, "This is not civilized
Tvarfare." All this was very displeasing to all those Generals whose
war-cry was, "look at me," and "now for the White House." Also,
there were in that region, and in the breadth of the land, many
"conditional Union men." But they were also worshippers of BaaL
Now all these, with those jealous Generals, whose ambition was "the
White House," cried out, "Why hast thou served us thus," &e., and
they did chide him sharply. But he said unto them, "What have I
done in comparison with ye?" Ye have ¦ had great slaughter, audi
have but proclaimed liberty unto them that are bound, and have used
¦ the sword of the Lord. Is nOt the gleaning of the grapes of freedom
better than those vintages of 'blood which ' have marked the course of
your armies, like the rolling of the wine press of the wrath of God.
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Generafe, cried unto the President and said, "Thy servants love tEe*
Uniom and would like to defend it ; but thy servants have always be
lieved i-n the domestic institutions of the South, and have scrupled at
nothing in defending them. They also believe it is right to confiscate-
the property of enemies in time of war. But they hold that inasmuch!
as chattel property 'is peculiar, and is specially guarded bythe Fugitive'
Slave Law, therefore slaves should not be confiscated, for they are
especially dedicated to Baal. We pray, therefore, that the Proclama
tion of Freedom to slaves be revoked, or thy servants will altogether
worship Baali" The President, convinced that the proclamation was
right, held this petition under consideration a long time. But the peo
ple became clamorous, and the faithful servant of the people was com
pelled to revoke the proclamation. In the mean time he remonstrated
with the rash General about casting down the altar of those Baalites^
so soon. Buf! the General said, wilt thou plead for Baal ? If Baal be
a God let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.-
And on that day he called Baal Jerub-Baal, which by interpretation is,
Let the shameful thing plead for itself. So the proclamation against.
Baal was revoked. The war went on. Much blood was shed. The-
lebellion appeared to gain strengtki at home- and in Europe. While*
many hopeful yet fearful hearts were girding up the loins of their mind.
to meet the national martyB(fom, God was preparing the people, by the^
discipline of suffering, to receive-jpeoce by righteousness.
"And the Lord said nnto me, (from the days of Pierce to Buchan
an,) hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done ? She hath spo
ken, and done evil things as she could. And I said, after she had done
these things — compromising and' foaming iniqui'ty by law — ^turn thou
unto me ; but she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw
it. And her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played
th'e harlot also, and tumed not unto me with her whole heart, but
feignedly. And the Lord saith unto me, The baeksliding Israel hath
justified herself more than treacherous Jndah.
"fto and proclaim these words toward the North, and say, Return'
thou backsliding Israel, and I will not cause miae anger tO' fall upon
you, for I am merciful, only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast
transgressed against the Lord thy God. Turn, 0 backsliding children,
saith the Lord, for I am married unto yon, and I •will take you, one of
a city, two of a family, and -will bring you to Zioa. And I will give
you pastors according. to mine heart, which shall feed, you with knowl
edge and understanding'. ' ' ' 'But ye would not. ' '
Iilfe iprlnglng from aeeming deatrnctlon deelareg
TtuiiiHitation'a the veil tbat eterattS' weara,
And tbat wbich we monrn for aa if it Would atrand
In the gulf of obliTisn, ia safe Id Ood'a band.

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Oh ! what days of praise the country will yet have when her warfare
is accomplished, and she have received of the Lord her demerit for all
;Sier sins. What praise she shall sing that GoD gave her an incorrupti-
Sh\e President at such a time. He regarded himself as the mouth-piece
vof the people, and having no interest not theirs. He saw it was not
'the confession of our sins bythe mouth of any manin his own ciroum-
-scribed sphere the nation needed, but that she needed that confession
'made in the person of the embodier of the national will. He knew
•that individual hearts must be made right before any mere hypothetical
utterances of his personal wishes or policies could create or contribute
•the strength of active support of it. He knew it was with the uation
¦God was dealing, and not with any select number of herintegers. The
nation was rushed upon the yawning ,gulf of destruction by a domi
neering hoard of God-defying leaders of the Atheistic doctrine that
politics knows no religion, and congresses have no souls and eannot
•sin ; that Csesar's accountability at the chancel does not follow Cffisair
to the Capitol.
' In the midst of this sore .grief and heavy judgment, let US'sing ofthe
mercy that gave us a ruler who, like David in the time Israel's rebell
ion and degeneracy, "would hear what God the Lord would speak to
the people, that they turn from folly." We were enduriiig'the great-
¦est humiliation of a Republic — liie administration of a disloyal Chief
Justice and Chief Executive. Ah! my people ! Thence comes the
wail which mingles so equally with songs of mercy — ^that, -as it was on
¦a day of mingled joy and sadness of old, when a desecrated temple
was about to be re- erected, so it is now. It isthe echo of Israels and
Rachels refusing to be comforted for their children that are not — ^that
.are not, because 200,000 of their graves are no where to be found.
Commingling with this sorrow, are the groans of uncounted hetacombs
of the flower ofthe land, sacrificed to the Satanic treachery of the
man — and his colleagues in the crime — "always more southern than
'the South." "I fear our country is lost, because the President of the
^United States -will not do his duty," said the patriotic and christian
'¦Justice McLain, on his way tothe bench on the Supreme Court, on
¦that memorable 4th of December, 1860. "I have just spent three
, 'hours supplicating with tim by all that is sacred t3 remember the obK-
¦gations of hiS'Oath aud maintain, protect and defend the ConstitutiO'n
of his country. This day he will send you a message, in which he-de-
•clares that the people of the United States have not the right to defend
and uphold their govemment. All, I fear, is lost." At noon of that
day, that message eame. It contained these words — "The purse and
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Was this treason? This, in the mouth of the Presidiant, and the Chief
Justice deciding that "neither the class of persons who had been im
ported as slaves, nor their descendants — often as white as their owners;
— are acknowledged as a part of the' people in the intention of the Dec
laration, or in that of the Constitution, as citizen) but are to be re--
garded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate-
with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far -
inferior that they have no rights which the white man is bound to re
spect." The Lieutenant-General was also more intent on finding a<
safe way through which the erring sisters might go in peace, than im
finding trees on which to hang their seducers. Shall these things ever-
be forgotten ? Shall those who aided and abetted all those things ever
be trusted, until they openly renounce the faith in defense of which
those infamies were perpetrated ? He that gathereth not with me, scat
tereth, and thus is for or against me. Is the Saviour's logic too sharp
for us ? "When we in om own vicioneness grow hard,
Oh I miaery on't, the wise goda seal onr eyea,
Make na, in onr own filth, drop onr clear jadgments,
Adore onr errora
Then langh at na while we stmt to our confbaion "
"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which fram
eth mischief by law ?' ' ' 'Shall I not visit for these things, saith God ?' '
Do some whisper, "God is merciful ?" I know He is; but let a stream
ing Cross and a dying Saviour-victim, signify the, order of it. Repent
and be converted — pardoned — confess and be absolved. There is a,^
time for repentance. But that may be sinned away. Then comes ret
ribution. I do not wonder that those who have done all within their
power to stimulate to wholesale ruin, by plunder, fire, riot, local revolt,.
upon the loyal at the North, and to produce disaffection and disaster
in their ranks in the field, and chuckle over a system of prison starva
tion by traitors in arms, and in a word, were party to a rebellion conr
ceived and carried out in the apirit of assassination ; I do not wonder
that now, when abettors and actors have done their worst, and thus
have undone themselves, they should plead for some of that kind of
meroy upon their ignoble selves, which they, Ahithophel-like, sought
fbr their nobler open accomplices in the crime which has but culmi
nated in the murder of the President. Neither the law of God or
man knows any repentance or pardon for traitors, or any plea for
rebellion. But some one may say, "This is the language of revenge,"
and "vengeance belongeth unto God." I know it. But I also knowj
that sympathisers with treason are not reliable advocates for loyalty^,.
nor very orthodox theologians. Either they are not familiar, or are-

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snot faithful, with the; laws of Gonor the land. Vengeance is an unde
niable principle of law. God never set it aside, and always gave it due
satisfaction. The nation that will set it at naught will meet it again in
sin outraged populace, in the shape-of Lynch law and mob violence.
Blood will ery to and for blood. Crirae will have vengeance. Unwa
vering, instituted punishment of the crirainal is the only safeguard of
society, of the nation. But you say, "If thine enemy hunger feed
him." I reply, Amen. Anything else would be to set constituted au
thority aside, and for the individual offended against to take the pre
rogatives of judge, juror and executioner into his own partial hand.
Shall my enemy not therefore be brought to justice ? My country will
commend me for feeding hers, and my, hungry enemy. But should I
neglect to capture and deliver him into her hand for punishment, she
will hold me guilty in his stead. "Is God unrighteous who taketh
vengeance? God forbid, for how then could God judge the world?"
"Dearly beloved, avenge uot yourselves — rather than this give place
to wrath — for it is writteu, 'vengeance is mine,' saith the Lord, I will
repay." How, then, does He revenge treason, rebellion, national con
tempt of Him ? Absalom's rebellion, and the manner of his death ,
the history of David's reign, and his change of policy in reference to
the treatment of rebels, will tell the story of treason, and God's method
with it, in old times. The teachings of Christ and His Apostles upon
these things must be our guide in this dispensation. We shall here
find that God ever had but one dispensation for nations, and one set of
ministers with which to punish those offences named. These are^esi'i-
ience, famine, war. Kings, Governors and Judges have always been
God's mimsters in the nations. These were always what they are, or
should be, now — "Ministers of God, revengers of wrath, upon evil
doers." "They are ordered of God. Whosoever, therefore, resisteth,
resisteth God, and they that resist, rebell, aid or abet rebellion, shall re
ceive damnation. Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the
evil. If thou wilt not be afraid of the power, do that which is good,
and thou shalt have praise of the same. But if thou do that which is
evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain, forffhe is the
minister of God. Therefore, ye must needs be subject not only for
fear of wrath, but for conscience sake. Render, therefore, to all their
dues'" Give traitors theirs that justice may have hers.
Will the administration elevate and make honorable the statute law
upon treason by applying it ? If not, let the law be repealed. Let
enforced law be a terror to evil doers, now and in the future. Do uot
Ihiii'k I expect for this discourse the approval of men who would rule
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reason to fear justice do not admiringly contemplate her beauty. Let
such men know that their approval is black reproach ; their reproba
tion is high praise. Men who have no reprobation for rebels, can have
no reverence for religion. By their fruits ye shall know them. Let
no one say the crisis is past, that rebels have done their worst, and
this is the time for pardons. Be not deceived. God will not be
mocked. That which hath been is that which shall be. Let the his
tory of the past presage the conduct necessary for the future, and show
us our danger in the present. Let our lax leniency towards treason-
plotters in the past, instruct to our course in the present. "Ye shall
not surely die," is the logic of traitors. The events which now astound
us are the comment upon their unchastised impunity. Let us learn th«
wisdom, in the lesson of the time, from the significant leniency of tliait
most self- convicted 'of traitors, who on the eve of his most wanton
treachery said, "We have had a surfeit of liberty, an exuberanr-e of
priceless blessings, for which we have been ungrateful." "Disloyalty
breaks fealty with man, and sin's against the highest majesty of heaven. ' '
Not to visit vengeance upon such traitors is to offend God and provoke
His vengeance. The bonds that bound us in brotherly affection to
covert enemies, tightened beyond cohesive integrity, have snapped
with wide recoil. Are we sure that no man will venture to reunite us
again with those very Iscariots, and with similar bonds? We should
by this time have learned not to be astonished at anything. We should
settle it in our hearts that souls so utterly debased as to conspire the
destruction of the American Republic, would stop at nothing which
could consummate the infamy. The developements of each day shonld
convince us that this nded not fail for lack of accomplices. The valor
of the nation has been tried. She suffers scarcely a pang of exhaus
tion. Her danger is like that of a stalwart youth coming up from
victorious contest. In the magnanimity ofa young and relenting heart,
she would pardon in haste — and — repent at leasure. Her moral value
is now in the crucible of the essayer of nations. God has come down
among us with "vengeance" for past sins of omission and commission.
He is now*among us with a "recompense," to save ua.
Long has military victory been delayed. Why ? That God might
achieve moral victory for us.
The two ministries of God mnst now, as ever, be united in showing
how God in very deed dwells upon the earth. "Give unto the Lo^'d, ye
kindreds of the people, the glory due unto Ms name. Let men say
among the nations, the Lord reigneth. He shall judge the world in
righteousness. ' The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed in time of
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them. He forgetteth not the cry of the afflicted." Patriotism and
religion are parts one of another. God will not be separated from the
laws and raorals of a nation by hypothetical reasoning. The whole
people must know that loyalty to the constituted authority, which is a
divinely ordained order in the state, as well as loyalty to the divinely
ordained ordering of God in the church, is alike sacred and imperative.
See yonder, far off upon the rim of the horizon, are three men on the
Mount Horeb, just above the gushing waters of strife. They are Mo
ses, Aaron and Hur. See on yon blue etherial back ground of the
heavens, the grandest combination of national strength ever embodied
before the world. Israel had just skirted the wilderness of sin, and
had settled into a state of apparent repose, after having been in great
strife with their leader and ofiBcers. Amalek, envious at their advance
ment, aud emboldened by their dissensions, attacked them at Rephi-
dim. Moses orders Joshua to defend Israel. Moses, with Aaron and
Hur, ascends the hill to direct the battle, with the rod of God in his
hand. When Moses held up his hand Israel prevailed, and when he
let down his hand Amalek prevailed. Then Aaron, the embodiment
of the church, and Hur, the representative of the people — the right
and left hand powers of all government— took Moses, the embodiraent
of God — appointed nationality, and incorporating in a very Trinity in
Unity in the people, and the church — the government. Aaron and
Hur, the one on the one side and the other on the other side, held up
Moses' hands until Joshua discomfitted the Amalakites with the edge
of the sword. "Andthe Lord said unto Moses, write this in a book
for a memorial, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua^— the Lieutenant
General of Israel — for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Am
alek from under heaven, because the hand of Amalek is against the
Throne of the Lord. Therefore, the Lord will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation, until I blot him out from under heaven."
Let us here see our position, our lesson, and our duty. Let us faith
fully perform it, and soon it will be written in a bo^k for a memorial,
and be laid up in the ark of our covenent, in the Horeb of our strength,
to be rehearsed in the ears of all generations that God did blot out all
but the remembrance of this Amalek rebellion against the Throne of
the Lord in this world — against equal government, equal sovereignty,
and equal happiness of man.
', Therefore, thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring
thee again, and thou shalt stand before me, and if thou take forth the
precious from the vile, thou ahalt be as my mouth. Let them return
unto thee but return not thou unto them. And I will make thee unto
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they shall not prevail against thee. For I -will deliver thee out of the
hand of the wicked and will redeem thee out of the hand of the terri
ble." Let God's Statute- Book, and the covenants of our fathers, be
our guides in rcconsft-uc/iora. God has long since anticipated us. Let
God tell us how we must re-possess and fully mature a regenerated*
NATION. "How shall I put Judah among the children again ? and give
her the pleasant laud, the godly heritage ? And I said, Thou shalt
call me, "My Father, Thou art the guide of ray youth," and shalt not
turn again away from me." Oh, my nation, wa,sh thine heart from
wickedness that thou mayest be saved. To this the land must come.
Peace and peacefulness can come only by slaying 'the enmity — the
spirit of secession — and so making of the twain one new nation, amd
so making peace. Thus confirmed at the Altar of the true Theocracy,
the world, through us, shall be brought to the fullness of christiani
nationality, under which the united embassadry of God, in the church
and in the state, shall preach peace by righteousness to them that are
afar off, and to them that are nigh. "In those days the house of Ju
dah shall walk with the house of Israel. And they shall come together
out of the land ofthe north to the land that I have given for an inher
itance unto your fathers." "The envy also of Ephraim — viz, envy at
increase — shall depart, and the adversaries of Jndah shall be cut off.
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraira. ' '
"And there shall be an highway for this people, like as it was to Israel
in the day that he carae up out of the land of Egypt. ' ' ' 'Israel shall
then dwell safely alone, the fountain of Jacob shall be upon the land
of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down' dew." Happy,
thrice happy, shalt thou then be, 0 thou nation, saved by the Lord, the
¦shield of thy help and the sword of thy excellency.
And hi all the people say Amen.

YALE UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

Gift of
STUART W. JACKSON
Yale 1898

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