The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-18
pEArH oF HoN. w. !. MARoY.
Sruron Preached IN the h Sired Bapha Church Sunday,
July H. by Rec. q. w. Samson


are in the hands of God man knoweth either love
hatred by all that is before him. 'Eoole 9: !.
II belongs to intelligent pety TO consider diligently
the dealings of Maker with His creature man es
pecaliy to study His sovereign employ for His own d.
vine purposes of those good and great men, worthy TO be
designated the righteous in spirit and the wise IN intel
ec II is great thing TO learp also, that this consd
Grafton of Gods dealings with should be exercise
of the heart well of the intellect for Gods spirit
ual for designed to redeem his moral and re
gous nature rather than show in him superior nteec
tual greatness His dealings with speak to the heart
of man, and comprehended by religious faith
rather than When thus the essential princi
pie of Gods dealings with and His employ Of their
powers has by careful consideration been discovered
did solomon in his old age the inspired preacherso
should the minister of Christ 'dare' what is the
manifest counsel of God and His purpose for
statesman truly great, has ended his work and He
that rules all saw it fitting that just at the period of his
life when in the eyes of all the world and OF all parties
in his country, he had reached the of great
ness and finished his that the very Of going
to meet abroad fame that had become universal at
home, he should be called from earth truly patriotic
American statesman has finished his mission for his
trys welfare and honor and God it fitting that he
should be another in the specially honored line whose
birthday into the world of spirits is linked with the
birthday of their native landthe land of civil and
ligous freedom More than ALL public of rare phi
vate virtue and of most decided reverence for religion
he appreciated while he felt he might not possess it,
has gone to the awards of that world in which shall
all soon take places.
quaintance of twelve years. the result of Christian
friends consideration of the departed and what the
abiding impression of his hearts deep convictions ought
the Christian pastor to declare in the sanctuary in
DRY of hghly-esteemed by the world and not
worthy of esteem by the church of Christ The words of
the inspired solomon home to his very soul
expression utterg the sentiment which must sponta
neously have already risen to every mind and heart
The righteous and tie ucic are hands Of God;
knoweth either love hatred by all that before them
As to his earthly his intellectual mission God did not form
such to be employed for the mere temporary ends OF
human ambition. The wise and his works were all in the
hands of God, the fire and the hammer of the
master workman in the quarrcs of Lebanon and all the
powers Of the great God employed but his nstru
ment in preparing tried and precious stones for his glo
rious spiritual temple of living men on earth AS to his
religious character who looketh, the outward APP
pearance by all that appeared in his character could
know neither love nor hatred as his spirit towards his
Maker his Makers favor towards him spiritual
child On these two points SO prominent in solomons
words, marked in the deceased statesman history
may fifty dwell in the meditations of the House OF
God where for twelve years past ne has been FREQUENT
attendant religious worship.
The intellectual character, the political history, the
official ability of those who die among in high station
far it the honor of party the treasure
of nation belong not to the themes of the pulpit 1t
is only men, made by God the Great Father of ALL to
be his servants actually prove his servants for goodt
only they to be brought into being at the
time and in the place in which they manestly are en-
ployed designed instruments to promote His great ends
for racet is only in this relation and in this their
fulfilled mission that the Christian preacher is authorized
and required to speak Of them.
In the Book of Judgesthe history of that instructive
period when for $50 years the thirteen tribes of Israel
like confederated States, lived God would
have them under chief magistrates chosen by the suf-
fages of the peoplewe read this expressive and sgni
can't mention sThe Lord raised up judges who deliver
ed the people of the hand Of them that spoiled them
o And when the Lord raised them up judges then
the Lord with the judge and delivered them out Of
the hand Of their enemies all the days of the Judge As
p,ino rnfI tylant
testify has been with land whose history has been
marked in its civil it has in its religious aspects for its
likeness to that of the chosen people Of God No
men have felt this than the very whom God
has employed for His divine work and President
of the United States, from Washington down, has
failed to recognise the hand of God the Being whose
ends to be accomplished in the history of country
First, nation had its infancy and fearful were the
birth struggles and imminent the dangers of its years Of
infant helpessness Then God raised up judges pre-
pared deliver the people out of the hand of their
mics; such men Washington and host of Others
whose household words not only in our land
but the world And how every heart in those try
ing days beat in unison TO sentiment OF gratitude to
God the Giver Of ALL every American should learn by
the possession and perusa of such book that entitled
1.-THE Presidents Speeches "a word mbodyng the ad-
dresses of States of societies. and associations from Mas
sachusets Carolina and of Christian bodies of Qua
kers, Baptists Methodsts, Episcopalians and Roman
Catholics sent to George Washington the first presi
Dental Inauguration all breathing spirit, looking
through the whom they addressed to God who gave
him and accompanied by Washington's replies in all
of which, when appropriate the same humble avowal
that God and not man. had been countrys delivercr
is and again made If those men had not recog
missed the hand of God thus, should say 'the right
and the wise and their works in the hands of
God" But they could not have been the they
unless beneath the spirit of sacrifice for their country
there had been deeper foundation of devotion to the
Father Of the Spirits Of all men.
Then the second age of countrys history the
period of forming childhood following infancy the period
when all institutions newly established to be-
settled and fixed in form the time in which the
constitution the charter of civil blessings
be interpreted and its guarantees fixed and especially
when the great experiment of religion, separated from
State support, such character for nte
gent faith and pure practice and inherent divine power
to redeem men the world had before And
in this period God again raised up judges fitted to their
mission and need not mention the Of that IL
lustrous band Who during the last twenty years. have
till the present day been finishing their and leav
ing their work for other hands
And now, mistake the characteristic OF the
age in which called to live and act The vigorous
and ambitious period of youth has the period
in nations history, perhaps, in individuals, when
temptation to is most powerful, and whom strong,
calm councillors most needed Since his leaving of
ce the universal voice of the press the voice of
people, echoed from other lands has up with gen.
era ucrance of acknowledgment perhaps not sufficient
ly religious that William L. Marcy has been of the
first spirits prepared of God to be the trainer of the mpu
sive youth of his country.
Now that God has taken him from our midst how
Deep how spontaneous the conviction God 'raised up
the Judge the counsellor - 1.-THE righteous and the
wise and their works in the hands of God to use
for the purposes of His wisdom and His love- God has
taken the first of this third patriotic band He will raise