New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-28
The Long Suffering and forbenrnnce Of
God toward m Ungratcfui and Wicked
Nation.
SERMON PREACHED BY THE REV. HIRAM MAT
TlsON, At ST. JOHNS INDEPENDENT METH
ODlsr CHuRCM. ENTHUSIASTICALLY.

SERMON PREACHED BY THE REV. HIRAM MAT
TYSON, At ST. JOINS INDEPENDENT METH
ODIsT CHURCH, STREET.
TEIrFor Israel hah not been for..sen Dor judah Of be
God u the oRp Of hosts though their land was filed With
sin against the Holy One Of l.rse. jeremiah IL, 8.
After q Lrief introduction the reverend gentleman
proceeded to show how God had given ne, geogruph-
icay, physically, and agriculurally, goody her
ltage lie next referred 10 the miraculous aspect Of
our growth Gs a nation.
Batting the oppressed children Of Africa among u.s.
we have doubtless enjoyed more Of true freedom
and been lees burdened with onerous taxation, than
any other people. Our opportunities for general
education, secular and religious, have been unsur-
passed.
Religion has had free course here. The Bible has
been placed in every hotel, and steamboat, aud
packe, and hospital, and asylnm-nn open volume
before the na,ion-more plenLiSol, by far than the
statutes of tho land. Thirty thousand protested
preachers Of righteousness have stood in as many
pulpits 70 teach the nation Justice humanity, and
the way 90 Heaven. Unnumbered periodicals and
tracts and books have been their auxares In the
eiort To GUIDE the nation TO righteousness ana en-
during renOwn.
Thus hath God dealt with us in the past. And
how have We requited bis goodness and iorbearance
toward lib Alas our land is filed with sin against
the Holy One Of Israel. We are profane nation.
Because Of swearing, the land mourneth. We arc
tho most intemperate nation under the whole
precious fruits Of the earth, given us for food for
man and beast, 10 produce the means OF intoxica-
ton. Gambling, fraud lewdness, theft and murder
cry for vengeance from heaven. Every year we
live seven hundred immortal beings are launched
INTO eternity in this fur land by the hand OF the
sassin alone.
Our treatment of the Indian tribes has been an I'M
broken Of wrongs and frauds and crueltes for
the last sixty years. In all our history We have
been "A nation OF opprcssors. Glorying In freedom,
We have riyited the chains Of lifelong bondage upon
the necks and limbs Of our iellow-men. Processing
TO be Christians, we have bought and sold our
brethren in Chrlst--temples Of enc Holy Ghost
like beasts for the shanbles. Pareats aud children,
wives and husbands. brother, and sisters, have thus
been separated by tens OF thousands, To meet
no more on earth. The single State Of Nir-
gna has for years sent annual procession OF her
own children twenty thousand strong, weeping and
walng 10 the sugar and rice and cotton fields vi the
South, TO return no more. And instead OF lament
ing and seeking TO put away the accursed thing the
chief effort Of the Nation, such, has been TO
strengthen and extend and rerpetuate Slavery
Ii the Bible las been InaGe 10 utter It's voice
against OPPRESSION have been told. either that 1t
iuslIles the owning and buying and selling OF men,
on that there ID no higher law than an act OF Con-
gressi II few OF Gods watchmen, seeing the
sword coming, have warned aud protested III Gods
name, they have been abused and ylllhed by Sena-
tors and statesmen and secular and religious press,
80 called ii not ostraciLcd and put down by the
very churches 10 which they belong Many nave
been driven from their pupits Tor opening their
mouths for the dumb and all have been told that 1t
IA no pari OF then calling 10 denounce sln, especially
il il is popular and strong and profitable and has
taken refuge under tie shield OF "poNico. Thus
have we Alled the prophets. aud stoned those That