A Sermon Preached On the National Thanksgiving Day November 26th 1863
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The reaction from the warlike is always towards the womanly and the tender, be- cause the overworked passions collapse from sheer necessity of nature, and in their sleep and inanition they can only dream of the horrors which they have not strength enough to re-produce, and they shudder as they dream, and take on compunction. And at this first sign of sensibility the kindly sentiments raise their modest lips to the ears of the soul, and whisper " love, fraternity, forgiveness, peace, " and when ...the nature wakes it is warlike no more. When the ugly passions have been thus quenched and drowned in blood, war leaves for its generation a surer heritage of peace, security and social advance- ment, through the energies, moral and mental, that it waked into such forceful play. There is blood upon the arena ; but it is the price that manhood 11 paid for a higher style of manhood. It was a strenuous leap of society for the next foothold of civilization. It was the last and critical struggle of a people for the stability of the government and the unity of the nation, in which is garnered up all possible prosperity, through an indefinite and progressive future, and when that last warlike struggle is successfully achieved, the patriot may die with the prayer on his lips, that is both a prayer and a prophecy : " My country, be thou perpetual as the ages.
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