New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-27
THE SOLEMN FAST.
ny THE REV. DIR. CHEEyER

this the ,. that have chesenl re loose the
bands Of wckede to undo the heavy bordcnS ana 70 e. 's
oppressed fee, and that Je break every ' "
The Church of the Puritans was filed to the doors
last evening to hear sermon by the Pastor on the
soemnty of the Fast proclaimed by the President OF
the United States. He commenced by saying that
there never was time of such critical solemnity for
this nation az the present-never time when there
was 80 much need to PROSTATE Ourselves before God
while waitiDgunder bisjudgment. But for Gods long,
suffering ami tender-mercy to as a nation we would
have been annihlated long since. If he should gave
the nation up 10 impous politicians we wooid DC IRE
medically lost. Our case was IN nowlse diierent 10
that of The children Of Israel 10 whom Gods wofd
first revealed for their impurities HIS warnings
by his prophets cling to us as they dld 10 tnehn'
To-day God spsaks as be never before spoke,
calling us TO repentance or destruction All
things considered, the greatest FIN OF when
we were guilty just at tins time was .ne
heavily upon as a nation, while the Judgments OF
God in civil upon rs for the sln oil slavery,
which was the cause OF our distress Inc present war
was the elimination and development OF slavery
God had chosen in former times 10 athct nations for
their sins by the sword war; famine, wild beasts,
and pestilence And If we would escape these things
we must work for the abolition Of Slavery. lie then
referred 10 the threats which had been made IN the
newspapers and at political meetings about sending
ministers Of the Gospel TO Fort Lafayette for preaching
against Slavery. Our condition and our history was
in no particular different TO those of JUDAH aud when
our history is developed, the development will be the
same. flood had blown trumpet $500 years ago,
delnea'iDg our history and our condition by
name it could not have been more accurate
than the facts of the present crisis teen forth
every day. When compared with the guilt OF
Judah, ours was the worst. Judah oppress-
ed 5000, we Cypress 100000; Judah's oppression
was temporary, ours 10 hereditary, and what made
our transgression still deeper in Gods sight was the
fact that we justified it by very religion. lie re-
ferred to the absence of the name OF Slavery in
the various proclamatioDs of the Fast Day, and
after describing the course which had been pnr-
sued first and last in reference 70 this sin, ne
said that the heavens never witnessed such
ueanpess ana madness, Slavery was at this mo.
ment beleaguering the capital Of our country and
slaughtering cur citizens, and yet we declined TO
acknowled,e that as the cause Of our calamity. IL
was even attempting TO curtail the freedom of speech
and amidst all this were assuring the very rebels
,hst w4 narer ntencea 10 toucn the irStiinf!"= OF
Ssverv but meant to preserve y ED protect it. lie
also re6earsed statement which he had mace IN
Great Britain in which he set forth thst the slSVe
holding Cunfederacy bad set itse mp as indcpehoent
on the very basis Of its crime lie had come back TO
hi. own country learn that what he had said was
false and that FOR preaching agsns, Slavery he was
traitor. lie would deem himself unworthy the name
of man il he Kept silence while his beloved country
was in danger. SO long he lived he would never
hold his peace until Slavery was abolished. lap,
plausel And his advice TO the people was TO sland
firm and never never, consent To peace WIFI
cut the abolition of Slavery. Applause