The Substance Of A Discourse On Neh Xiii 15 18 On The Crying Sins Of The Nation With Notes Third Edition

Author : J. H. Macel'rey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333369330
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Substance of Two Discourses, Occasioned by the National Bereavement written by J. H. Macel'rey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Substance of Two Discourses, Occasioned by the National Bereavement: The Assassination of the President, the Position, the Lesson, and the Duty of the Nation; Delivered in the St. James Episcopal Church, Wooster, Ohio, Easter Day, 1865 And chief captain smitten to death, and our prime minister 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 which 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 Roman Catholic - but 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 - Good 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-father of his redeemed country, lay murdered in the 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 true 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.