The Nation's Blessing in Trial: A Sermon Preached in the South Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1359618775 ISBN 13 : 9781359618771

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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SmG IN TEIAL. and moral contrasts of this great struggle. Traitors claim the right to dismember this nation at their pleasure, to secede from it, and erect another within its territorial limits. To repel and utterly blast this attempt to introduce the infamous doctrines of free love and divorce into the code of nations, is the righteous object for which the Government has taken up arms in its own defense. Tliere is hence a great political and moral principle at stake in this contest: and to crj peace, without any regard to this principle, is either a weakness of feeling, or the very next thing to treason itself. To surrender to an armed rebellion without an effort to crush it, would be a delinquency, alike condemned by the laws of God and the reason of man. Peace on such terms is not desirable. I do not rejoice in the necessity of fighting: but the necessity being upon us, then I do bless God, that we can appeal to our own consciences, to the moral sense of mankind, and to the Searcher of all hearts, in respect to the equity of the principle for which we contend. I believe in the righteousness of our cause, and also in the duty of doing our utmost to maintain it, as truly as I believe in the existence of God. Morally considered, we are not at liberty to be indifferent. We are bound before God as well as man, to be heartily loyal. Complicity with treason in such a struggle, is sin. Special force is given to these thoughts when we remember, that the Government of these United States is not despotic and oppressive, but built on the broad foundation of Human Rights. I know that the institution of slavery exists within its bosom, that it did so exist when the Union was formed, and that the Fathers who adopted the Constitution, did incidentally recognize it as a local institution of the States, providing for the rendition of fugitive slaves, and also granting an i
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1359618775
• ISBN 13: 9781359618771
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 50
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible