The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-11-27
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Look on the past year. There are new attestations
Christianity must ever weep over war She must de-
peca'e y, because OF her love 10 that human family
she would bless 70 that Gospel she bears to that Redeem
Ell sue ioows With her utmost tolerance she can only
regard as necessary evil Yet with all this. she can
not forget the allegiance and reverence due from her to hu
man governments She signs for that fairer time when
wars shall cease in all the world and God sshall break
he spear IN sunder You hear her pray INCREASINGLY for
unity peace and concord among all nations" But vel she
can ana s4e does approve the virtues elected by that
NC ey one approves in the warrior that forttude which
she ue,huS IN her martyrs; she approves, after victory
that attribute OF mercy from which she came and which
she came to form The brilliant deeds OF our noble army
IN me asl lew MONTHS as they declare those qualities
may draw mat approval Honor then, in her name and
from her affairs 70 that brave, that magnanimous army
aono 10 fe vaior tried IN every form Of action and en-
durance honor to their gencness which sought sof
ten wars horrors for their foes honor to the fobeaf
ance which would not be provoked by barbarsn or ex
the dlsepne formed BY the country in that academy
which the helds OF Mexico declare TO be the strength OF
the nations arm, and the nursery of heroes For high
endowments, therefore, in the race to which we belong
we may tins day offer our thanksgvings They were be-
slowed by the King of all the earth to Him are we to
sing praises with understanding
come TO another cause for gratitude find il in that
period OF time wherein God has called us to exist
In the age wherein il breathes, each generation finds
great sorehouse OF influences In government in religion,
in morals, which act with forming power each sin
gle mind
Had the age assigned to us been other than the pres
emit our blessings might have been great but they
would have varied our allotment That allotment had
been, before the advent of Christ, deprivation Of
Christianity in the decay of the Roman empire cortvp-
ton out of the Church, or within her. persecution inthe
Middle Ages, semi barbasm or spiritual tyranny; in the
Revival OF Learning vexng tempests or isolaon in the
last lew centuries, commissions or restitution.
But in this age does it not if selectest in
uences had met for the purpose OF human improvement
Science is daily startling with discoveries Art apply
ing science conqueng space and time by steam and the tel
egraPh is covering earth with veins and arteries, along
which may the throbs OF human thought Invention,
stimulated by this ready contact Of each thinker with
other thinkers is devsng new and perfectng old COM
bnalons Morals, religion, Christian activity are ex-
aiming with new intensity for new manifestations of
goot-tte demands OF conscience the njunctoIs OF Rev
elahon the wants and capacities OF society The saying
Of the Prophet seems in our day exemipifed "Many
shall to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased
with understanding" Of these better influences of our
day, let render thanksgiving and sing praise to the
King Of all the earth. OH be it ours under that Ma
stlc Ruler to pour along these neW channels His grace
Yet another cause for praise to the King Of all the
earth is found in the land wherein we dwell
The finger OF that God, who marked out their dwell
ing place for His ancient peoples has drawn arouad OUR
Israel in majesty the bounds of our habitaon On the
side, the Atlantic dashes on the other the Pacific
poses As ancient Palestine placed for its mission
European, the other with Oriental mind; this country
space shrinking beneath the hot breath of steam-com
munes BY the one with Europe, and by the other with
Asia n one and the same peoples the south breathes its
glowing inspirations Tor farley and fo elevated sentiment
the north infuses its stern energy of purpose the west
M vansss in her rivers ,h her lakes her na h
deep iniuitions which carry the race onward in hui
man thought o fresh fields and [tol pastures new" In
ing OF their Former He has called us to dwell II, as
you heard in the appointed lesson of the day. His chosen
people were called by Him who never errs to gratitude
for their little yet lovely land, surely should be CRATE
full for such magnificent dwelling place. Well indeed
is to-day that the thanks of His people should ascend
in temple so noble
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seat OF one OF earths mightest empires may also well
call forth our emotions
ii the increase OF the land shall bear onward has
done. then what scene will but century present
1t has been well depicted in statement whose beauty
may have won for trteness: "One hundred millions OF
stretching from Atlantic to pG6c waters M
OF Shakespeare and of Milton" If nation become all
this in its earliest centurya nation with all the une
centuries have equalled those of Rome's duration
We belong to such nation with such promise; and
we belong to it in that most interesting perods youth
and Wondering batilements, telling Us Of the past is
not ours to say, with the jewellers Of Asia Minor, or
Greece or Italy, EngandHere fought Achilles; here
spoke Demoshenes; here thought Plato here wrote
Cicero here sung Milton; here fell knighthood; here
assembled maryrdom. But it is ours to look into the fu-
tnre 1 IS ours to say gazing on the wilderness on
the solitary pain on the green seas OF forests rip
ping to the sky, and on the winding shore OF the cir
cling ocean, Here will spread mighty, cities; here will
ing; here will kindle Poetry; here will go about
blessed Charity; here will embark for nations long in
darkness the sefdenylng missionary Living in the
youth OF a naton we have an unequaled agency. We
do our part in framing the influences to be felt along its
futurity. We are acting when it is forming.
Behold oh, behold over what sphere they send
well. See that sphere both in space and time great
thought good example, sent forth the English Ian
guage, may traverse in that tongue America, Oceanca
Australia, the Indies the Canadas the British islands;
Tor that language has truly gone forth into all lands
and its words to the ends OF the world Thus wide and
realm OF time In the future, that thought example
sent along the generations of this land, may penetrate
families mould character, kndle muudes form public
principles, guide public councils enter halls of egsla
ton Such influence we have already. 1t is their
high privilege to live in the midst of great naton-a
young national nation the language of whose Sabbath
hymnngs follows along the lips OF two mighty people
land should feel each should feel, that duty and
truth may here be faught with magnificent and SIN
with most disastrous consequences. Animated by the
enklnding requstons of the present and the future
church., country, people, should burn with purpose
moulded after that of the Apose--for God and for the
human family we can we will do all things, through
Christ Strengthening
To all these great things add the institutions of the
country.
The sun of the general government reposes in its cen
tire py beamng in legisatng, executing, Judging. The
State governments hang in their orbits neither seek
ing nor stunning the centre The power of the people,
like ether In space s dihused through ALL investing ALL
law and liberty oes in other lands) here and kiss
each other But admirable in vain is all this balanced
harmony, II there be not in the people intelligence
passed by virtue May all the energies OF bodies and in
dviduals unite in that task-the diffusion of know
edge, virtue, religion. May it be sentiment living in