New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-08
yESPERS IN THE CHURCH OF THE
MESSIAH.

Very impressive and interesting services took place
in the Church Of the Messiah last evening An au-
dienee made up largely Of ladies filled the spacious edi-
fee. The exercises vero chosen WITH specia reference
10 their fitness for the first Sunday after National inde-
pendence and printed programmes were distributed
among the pews. The yesper services began with Col
Inns Requiem OF Heroes:
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
BY all their countys wishes blest"
Then followed the xlyh Psalm, slightly modified, the
minister reading verse and the congregation respond
in1 with the alternate one. DIR. Osgood made the
preyer. and aterward the choir sang the March Of
Liberty" The first stanza Of this sacred song Is:
.No battle-brsnd shall hsrm the FREQ,
Led on by Christ our hberty.
But shine for them, ths Spirit Sun,
O'er new-found Wales Of Ajalon.
Iumanitys divine redress,
Welcome from every land the slave;
Build gray oppressioh's hnsl grave
Arm, rim. 20 would be feeI
March on march on, heroic band,
For God and Freedoms land"
This was succeeded by Psalm cxlyi, read by minis
,sr and neople; lesson from the Old Testament-the
promised Iand-Deut. viii; chaned Psalm--cantate
domino; lesson from New Testament-Christ weeping
over Jerusalem-Matt. xiii; and gloria IN excelsls.
The subject Of DIR. Osgoods brief extempore dis
course WAS God with Nations" in which he showed
that the august feature Of modern civilization was the
consecration of nationality. Even the Vatican at
Rome had been obliged to wsit upon the DEGREES OF
nr;nces of cabinets and OF States. Modern history
ngs of courts but with nationalities. The man who
dared 20 lift his hadd against the Constitution was not
oply traitor toward man, but an infdel toward Al
mighty God. .,.,.
Dr. BELLOWS next spoke, and said that although
hardly forty-sght hours had elapsed since he stood
mon the banks of the Mississippi and the Missouri at
their junction; and though il had been less than week
since he was where the Mississippi and Ohio joined,
still he should speak to them of a great country.
CIR at and mighty as was the sound Of war, II was
hushed to whisper compared with the voice OF
peace now resounding over our broad land. True,
ho who should now go from dotted camp to dotted
camp. might imagine that the whole country was III
arns but no would pass hundreds Of miles where yas
elds would be swelling in their luxuriant growth, or
else ripe for harvest and ready to pour into the grana
ries of the Land their enormous wealth Ihe horses
heads could scarcely lie seen the animals piowed
through the co 80 tall did it wave overa vast area OF
wealth. The wheat was harvested, and there was
every evidence given that tanseendent harvest Will
bless us while the bone and sinew OF the country Is
engaged in bearing the sword and musket.
When he stood on the banks OF the Mississippi, ~
miles above St. Louis on the 4th OF July, and saw
1900 troops lifting up their hands as one man, and
shout ng for the oath TO be administered 70 them, he
said 10 Emself, "Ths Gauss 10 Of God; this country
has dateless desny this nation Is, indeed, one which
shs live forever this cause is, indeed, Precious-s
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