Charles Smith
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 28
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Excerpt from A Discourse: Delivered on the Day of National Thanksgiving, December 7, 1866, in the South Church, Andover This Psalm was written by some unknown Hebrew poet, to celebrate, probably, the return of the Israelites from exile and captivity in Babylon. The portion of it selected as the text of discourse, though written many hundred years ago, and referring to the condition and trials of people long ago at rest, not inaptly describes the circumstances in which, as a people, we have been placed. God has "proved us," and "tried us as silver is tried," in the heated furnace of civil war. He "brought us into the net," when, under the lead of men who had held prominent places in the Government, rebellion was inaugurated with fearful celerity in eleven States of the Union, while prominent cabinet and military officers treacherously betrayed their trust, and the Chief Magistrate pleaded a want of constitutional power to preserve the nation from dismemberment. 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.
