, 1861-04-23

Ct. James Church, On Sunday morning, the
2lst inet., was crowded. 80 The congregation do
mi reared to be very much affected, and the
ser1 lees were very solemn, Is many young
;nen from this church had enlisted: and were
snnder orders to march the same night.
The Rev. DR.: Clarkeon chose for his text
the words " Be still, and know that lam Cod !,
Psalms 80 10. After calculating and explain.
Ing the text, he CT included as follows: ],
49, II ther,s Is any thing this aide OF the faifh
ior which carly, martyrs yielded their lives,
worth dying for, 1t seems to me It must ,Js; d
land and laws like ours. cannot see why Il /
Is not aa much mans religious duty to sacri- /
fee, to suffer, and to fight for righteousness
and iastice, as to say his prayen, or
to, sing palms. Solemn, therefore, as
! the hour is, dear, as are all the tender
| ties Of kinshipt terrible as is the SCARED
Viaape Of war, and tremendous as are the Issues
| Of lfe and death, I cannot feel any thing but
pride, sobered and chastened, indeed, yet pride
still, that 80 many precious youths OF my own
beloved flock, and so fnanJ thousands Of the
| flower Of cur land, have responded to the
bugle OF battle, calling them to fight, and If
need be to die, for their Country and for Law.
l We should, indeed. as who would not, choose
peace. More yet; there is nothing short Of
/
| the calm and tranquil benedictions Of peace;
! but far more terrible than the hundred plagues
| ofa present war are the ten Thousand plague6
Of rampant rebellion, endless anarchy, and the
generations Of wretch hedness, insecurity, crime
aad bondage that must surely follow any sub
mission to armed and organized treason.
/ Il is hard and trying alternatfyethat the
| God of nations and Of history has placed be-
| fore u.s. harder far than our fathers ever had.
| Yet no man deserves the protection Of law or
.z4rA
would notsuffer a in mind, IN body, or In e.
tate" for their support and maintenance. In
. | exulicable as the mystery is that in q Chris
: tian land, In an age like oura, the members Of
:, one National family should be ar1ayed in hos
4 fila attitude to each other, he cannot but feel
q that the isaue must be for the furtherance Of
:, truth and Justice On Gods earth.
cannon think as look AHEAD and See the
) nations elsewhere wheeling into line at Gods
t. | command and marching to the sublime an.
thems Of liberty, that any thing is & too hsRp2 !}'
shall set back one step the progress of Blight
would rather think that our National Life
l. reborn, as It were, amid these mighty throes
]. and fegenerated by this baptism Of blood. L
to enter upon new and nobler careeE. Tit
J. diemembered fragments Of old Italy are re
enacting, under the prestige Of names honor
ce ed the world over, aud under formulas OIL!
30 | next to those Of freedom-the fetters Of mill
y, u ions Russian serfs arc melting OF ~ eontac
7
~ ~ believe that whilst these things are going o.
- across the ocaan, that God ia going to 10y hi
hand upon these thirty millions Of his '' che
sen people, and drag us back from our splen
did nation al advance, or to the eclipse Of
military despot1sm, or unto the Humiliation
IF a perpetual disintegration. I can't be
F. Heye 1t,
lnere may be for you and for me, suffering
and peril:, and poverty, and perhaps eudde
es and speedy death. Distress may wiring OF
hearts, and war decimate our households, an
changing values ruin our estates, but as SUI
ny as there is a God in. heaven, the issue vi
rs prove that humanity and Righteousness wi
be everywhere the gamers.
al individuals are nothing in the great marc
Of Gods purposes, except 90 far as he emplo.
no them for his own majestic plans, and Jet ind
viduals must for their own eternity's sake
H. their duty for the day and the hour #itho'
ainching and without murmnr. Give then
money, your prayers, your sons, and If net
be vour lives, for the protection of Cover
meat and the defence Of Constitutional libe
ty. God never placed before men plain
and holier dnty. Set about It with et'
that has no falteIing and heart for any fate
We may live to welcome back the armi
that 90 forth from us now flushed with &
hope Of certain victory-but whether We Il
TO welcome them back or not; whether th
shall find their graves in distant scenes, OF !
turn to uR soon laden with the trea- -ures
yindIcated IaV, this we know-that God ruiz
I. and that not long shall treason prevail, a
not far Rhal oppression's legions advance,
has be not said, as if to quiet all fear, and P
l. to rest all anxiety. and to clear away Ihe fo
Of doubt, +" Be still, and knou atat latp God.