The Nation´s Sins and the Nation´s Duty
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Excerpt from The Nation´s Sins and the Nation´s Duty: A Sermon, Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on National Fast Day, April 30, 1863 The world so regards our mission. Religious liberty, of course, implies civil liberty. In fact, the true idea of government is to secure to man the rights of conscience. All his other rights are subordinate, or implied in the rights of conscience, properly understood. Our Pilgrim Fathers were driven from their native land and the graves of their ancestors by the hand of tyranny and oppression, and forced to seek a home in America, where they might enjoy "Freedom to worship God." This was their grand idea, and the grand object of their mission to the shores of America; and the design of the Government which they formed, was mainly to protect them in the enjoyment of this liberty. They regarded the Lord Jesus Christ as their King, and themselves as the rightful subjects of his mediatorial kingdom. According to a certain writer on this subject, "they undertook nothing which they did not ask him to prosper, and they accomplished nothing for which they did not give him the praise: they suffered nothing without carrying their sorrows to his throne, and they ate nothing which they did not ask him to bless." And when the time came, in the providence of God, for their separation from their mother country, these same immortal principles of liberty were embodied in their Declaration of Independence. Yes, the great experiment of self-government, according to the word of God, was to be made in America; and having formed our noble Constitution, the eyes of the world were turned to behold the results. The despots of the old world looked with alarm, lest the experiment might be successful; and their oppressed subjects looked, with anxious hearts, lest it might prove a failure! The experiment has not failed, however, although it is now being tested by a most fiery ordeal; but I have no doubt, we shall yet come out of the fire, a better and a happier people, with a freer and a purer Government. No, no; the great American experiment, notwithstanding our national sins, has not failed, and shall not fail, for God has a great work for us to do. We have not yet fulfilled our mission. We shall be, for ages hence, the asylum of the oppressed, and the hope of the downtrodden of other lands. The time is coming, when the foul blot of negro slavery shall be wiped from our national escutcheon, and when the air of America, to borrow the figure of Lord Mansfield, will be too pure for a slave, and when every man who breathes it shall be Free. The letters which our Divine Master has given us to inscribe upon the banners which he would have us unfurl to the nations of the earth, is, "Ye shall know (he truth, and the truth shall make you free." 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.
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