New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-05
slavery Must Die, or the War Cannot
K Cease.
syaMoy BY THx REV. pR. HODGE.


Yesterday morning, in the Mariners Chapel,
>.fors The New.York Port Society. tho Rev Dr. Hodge
Isyersd An eloquent discourse. taking his text frou
ysaiah Tx, ]. .:
~peba the Lords hand 10 not shohsnod, thes II cannot
ave, peitheT bis ear heavy. that Il cannot hear;
Bat your iDSudes have Appraised hetween you ana yorr
God snd your have hid h' face from J'0 ''s' ne VIII
10 ben."
God must help .ls Republic. and without Divine aid
De nation vhioh God has planted on the Western Cen
trent and consecsted to Freedom lie forever lost The
experience OF Gods ancient people Of Israel may be
sineniy instructive 10 ourselves They erfogated to
themselves peculiar virtue and righteousness and yet
tpey yero stepped In wickedness and ell that diStn'
rushed them from Pagan nations that formal 70.
DgiOn which WAS represented BY taberDacss ana
piests. Their wckedness provoked GODS dispIeasuIe
Ind He suote them So now with the great American
nation sins have drawn upon Oh the wrath OF God
snd hidden his face from us. Previous Y the opening
" tbs unholy Rebellion we had been MoneeI Ia
prosperous people the shs Of our commercial naIns
Shitened the surface Of every sea; our sefb
culture, on territory almost without mani LlS
ao SrsS and even scscn Soiscd sso
AND the Golfers u the church were full But ~ ths
abundance vi prosperity Ne became inhde 10 ooy
and false to our traditions Of liberty. The reverend
speaker desired his hearers 10 scquit him OF aay Eo
sa Woes when he said that since the rctreleb o. s
Immortal Washington no puief or more hopsst an any
sellmsaning man than TIE present psu nSS
nsbt Is he tersey said in he 6stoe letter % ihe edi
tof Of THR 9Kw.YoRS IEIbUSEi AID when he Lad
kuud tie truth be stands irDrOyable the adnah
line bills. But even President Lincoln. with all his
Nrnest esie TO close the war; cannot do u. Nor can
Ne brilliant statesman who sits II the chair oil state,
Md whose State papers are masterpieces OF rhetoric
aud diplomacy, end the yer; ner can Caoipe. policy
spd the war; Nothing can bring us TO tie blessed la-
sS S S9a jf .S cd :a owe n0p good s
and in His Inysterfous way. BE VIII not atccate, nor
viii he aid rs until approach BIN as aeaJay Peei
teat and praying people, putting oni uass IN nm 4Oe
Ala of God In the Revolution. one military
leader guided the war aropsh seven weary
and somber years. III crushing tlif arocitds
Rebellion we have already had i've or SIX LADDERS many
q whom, educated 70 war. may have 5eea quite tie
equals OF Washington In that art 70 which he vS not
Seinsd; and ye. we have failed Of success How Is X
II because have not looked up 70 God fhe speaker
vaf once told By distinguished Edinburgh divine
spon whom he bad called that inc American people
wore excessively vain. Admitted. scotchmen. three
thousand mies sway could it. while hoy could net
perceive their weaknesses and sias 30 with "a IN
sae North We loug ago saw fostering shame south
yard OF Mason aod Dix0fs hne bat we washed our
1aods and ed ourselves to sleep IL the belle. sai We
Sad neither part lot IN tdo SIM Ged lid tAis conn
sent until TIE ntOersnf despVtlsns OF tho East had
trivea rear to despar the early Cnr!sntns ana then,
r 1852 10 oponcd the way for the psrsscUted Huguenos
and Dutch Eeforners and they rst saw here refuge
and the radiant dawn OF Hnl0an Freedom. Trusting
trusting in Hin. they erected nation which In It's
childhood successfully resisted the greatest mlhtary
AID naval Power that the word had ever seen. God
Nted 81 that ttose pous refugees should trnDphi and
n We their descendants, put our trust IN Him.
BE wiz lead us through 10 happier dnys Tie
nation must trust In God. We are however.
ron-n.ally sinful snd even our rulers.
in appealing 10 the Ruler Of the Universe fail propo1y
20 heknowedxe the Christians God, tAeLoTd Jesus
Ehrst Our Governor. WHO preteDds tobelopg 10 q
Christian church II he he'd not genius and originality
N hia brain to make Proclamation recognizing God
could have turned to his praYerbook and there found
tns fitting 90 the present occasion; and the Mayor Of
ksw-York, in calling upOa efi1s1s 70 set apart day
bor humJiatien and prayer might have coucled lie
eical appeal In language that might not have been
trsdesnen not whOse Integrity is above
Hoion, indeed like The politicians TO gaiu adv
hge they will digsenble-lie And the Consultation
shsekers-vil they hesitate TO LEI These men who
mover read tic Constitutio to Ds that guarantees
tcothold 10 Slavery. No The COlstitutiOY-as with
Ill 0her ins,IuRoYls and utteranccs Which have come
down from the fathers Of tho Republics the bui
srk aud panopy Of Freedom. aud it lie only base aad
wicked that mjsintspret II 70 make 1t do service
tor sia and bell Tint Nbgaa Charter knows save.
God smiles not upon bondage. And We nay look in
vain to the brave md beloved army, to
the navy. 10 statesmen or 10 bound
tess wealth FOR solution Of this fearful war and
s shall find end unfit wish oontrite hearts peni-
teutly approach the Almighty and humby seek His aid
Ind then In His own way aid His own good time He
vii sweep Slavery from land and give US peace.
The exercises we're closed with
"Auihor Of good! to Thee We turn;
Thine ever wstchful eye
Alore ell warts Discern
49, Thy land alone supply"