The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-15
\ Sermon on the Times Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher on slavery aud its Out
Workings.
From the New York Times 29th.l

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From the New York Times 29th.l
Rev. Henry Ward Bccchcr preached last
night, to about three thousand people. a
sermon suggested 10y the recent proclama-
ton OF the President. We give q sketch,
only of the discourse, of which tue text
was taken from the Chronicles. NNiNth chap
ter, the 10th and 18Th verses inclusive.
After a thorough explanation of the pas.
sage. and we'll grounded foundation for
future argument rs TO the constant working
OF God through natural law. to which new
crthcIcss he is supreme, he proceeded to
demonstrate that the uniform doctrine Of
the Bible is, that all national as we'll as
individual prosperity depended upon the
absolute recognition Of God in man, OF the
rights of manhood and a thorough reliance
upon the wisdom and the love of God.
For period OF fifty years. ON pleas of
National peace, for sake of harmony and
prosperity, the loyal and free States have
declined to maintain the policy OF liberty,
and have permitted Slavery to augment.
" Are not, said our hrbed Statesmen. " the
Union and Compromise better than all the
isms Of retormcrs and commercial pros
ItltlN tIlNu NTNl = INV NllNl W II all
eminent Statesman who has not Gf late ut
tered any such truism spoke of Gods law
rs the Higher Law there was howl
from all the pulpits and forums of the land.
and holy hands. in pious horror Were raised
deprCcatnGly to the Constitution. What's
the result? This war is the result. WHAT'S
the penalty Go to Sharpsburg. go to Nlr-
giuia, in the nciGhborhood of Washington.
ahomiuy, aud the trenches filled with your
sons look at Kentucky and Missouri,
where the land rocks and reels under the
commissions OF the time. and read the as
surauccs of peace. We are roaping what
we have sowu. YOU would have peace.
and you see what has come of it. You
were forow1rued: this was all iorcto'd
you We're cNhorted 80 stand Mp for tru.h.
for liberty, for Cod in man. for the freedom
of your brother. But no YOU dcrided All
Hton, dcridcd disturbance, you secured
your peace, and now you have the normal
results.
beg you now to rake notice of some re-
markahc facts:
/. Virginia has suffered most of all the
States in this desoating war. Virginia.
VINO siuncl against knowledge and with
full light who allowed herself by terror
ism of Slavc-traders -mcn hated alike hv
Cod man and the devil and the schemes
of desperate politicians. to ne dragoorod
into the folly and madness of Secession.
,. Note the strange par, PLAYED bv the
women of the South in this terrible drama.
However violent the men may have been.
the women have been far more furious and
vindictivc. Woman is at once the best
and worst thing God has made. But how
fearful retrbution is coming upon their
homes. | do not hesitate to say. uinc-tcuths
Of the male population betwecu fifteen and
fifty years Of age. will be cXtermiuatcd he
fore the end OF the war. And they. the
women, will be deprived of their natural
protectors. and must alone bear the dcsola-
ton and the sorrow.
3. The North has suffered and must suf-
fer to the extent to which she has wiullcd
at Slavery for the sake OF commerce and
gain. We all Of lis are in the same plight
weak hearted voters, lnoney-loving mer-
chants, manufacturing districts and States
like Connecticut. who have depended on
the South. all who have helped sustain
Slavery i who have worn cotton and eaten
sugar. produced by slave labor, all alike
with even handed justice and retrbution
must suffer. The North has been growing
rich on Slavery. But think that when
you have paid your two thousand millions
ol dollars taxes - God will have got bacl,
pretty much all you have made ont of his
suffering children! Cod, the tax-gathercr
j, out, and he will have good time. t.
Every nation or State tha, has prohted by
Slavery, is suffering to that extent 10y this
war. OF these England is the most guilty
and is suffering most | love and honor
Englund's early history her noble struggles
for freedom and her later sturdy ya}of; hut
her commercial classes have pandcrcd 10
Slavery; whole districts subsist and grow
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