The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-10-08

prayer can bring down. His tam'ly--'i
Ne have one--shall come to no want. Ills
hearth.stone, however humble, shall be
sacred IN our eyes. His little ones shall
never lack for bread or friends. His
memory, II he falls, shall be tcnderly cher
ished. This congregation. il Is my pride
and my joy to say ii, has bad is rePreseu-
tatives on the tieid from the start. But |
would TO God they were doubled. No
Christian congregation can part With too
many Of its fellow-worshippcrs for the SER
vice Of the country. Il will be an cnsia-
bic distinction in coming times that some
were so lavish Of their choicest young
men.
HAVE COURAGE.
II should furthermore be characteristic
Of our loyalty that il is courageous. The
country has already heard white lips and
white hearts crying peace, peace, when
there is no peace. We have been remind
ed that Christ commands his servants TO
put put up the sword into its sheath, for
the sword drinks the blood as well OF him
who wields it as Of him against whom II
| is welded But on another occasion the
Prince of Peace said, " am not come to
send peace on earth but sword" and this
il the watchword Of those who mean TO
obey the injunction of the text, and "ren-
der unto Caesar the things that are Cm-
sar's." Our Caesar demands unsheathcd
swords to-day, and he who talks Of peace
and thinks Of peace is false to Caesar. IL
is the duty of the hour TO anticipate long
struggle and be prepared for il when 1t
comes Energy is enervating by fiaiter-
ing pictures OF a speedy settlement. There
is danger of collapse should these pictures
prove to be nothing more than castles III
the air. We must look through a vista Of
years to the settlement Of this difficulty,
and then fortify our hearts with a courage
equal to the time. 1t will tax the courage
of our men of business to face such a fu-
ture as the continuance OF this war will
bring about Possibly our counting-rooms
may have to show their heroism by hours
and weeks and months of silent anxiety
and manly struggles against adversely. In
them should be hearts of oak as upon cur
battle-felds. Ardently as we must long
for settled peace, yet we are dangerous
sons if we say not, let that sun never rise
which is to look down on peace wherein
miserable expediency, a truck and bar
ter policy, has thrown a noble loyalty fiat
upon its back.
That this injunction is pertinent TO the
hour we may be assured of from the fact
that no peace oyertures were hinted AT al
our arms had met with disaster, and a
panic had conquered the army, which
masked batteries and an overwhelming
odds could not conquer. These bleating'
of peace, coming from conventions anc
journals, whether heard on the platform ol
on the street, are the utterances of a COW
ardice which dare not face reverse. 9th
er reverses may be in store for us. W.
/ can accept the unwelcome prospect will
calmness and with mounting courage,fol
. we have at the head of our armies thos'
military chemists who can transmute re
| verses into strength, defeat into new an(
. better organization.
i Moreover, there is close connexion be
tween our camps and our homes. Th'
pulses which beat along these streets re
peat themselves along the banks of tn
Potomac. If they beat full and strong
9 with high-toned, hopeful, swelling cour
: age, there will be more impetuous charge:
u more valorous onsets in the day OF battle
!, If our pulses here are languid and despair
!, ing, the soldier had better forget us. L
u remember us would be to unnerye his ow
. arm.