The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-06
d. Marahall.s sermon.

Dr.. C. X. Marshal's late sermon at the
Cooper Institute, New York city. Or.
Marshall offered feryent prayer in
which he implored the Almighty TO bless
the President of the United States ; to
Qtude,and give him strength tosurround
him with wise and upright counseliors
that righteous men alone may be his ad
yisers that universal harmony may be
speedily restored throughout the whole OF
our country that the grace of God may
rect. upon the illustrious political pris
oners, and that their confinement and
trials may be founded in the salvation OF
tber souls. His text was "And l will
shake all nations, and the desire Of all
nations shall come and will fill this
house with glory, saith the Lord OF
Hosts"
DR.. Marshall said that this verse might
be divided IN three parts, each of which
contained great force and prophecy. The
shaking Of all nations the coming OF
their desire, and the glory. These we're
l.the skeleton forms that he would touch
and lay before his hearers but they
would have to fill them up with muscle,
| 90 that they might be fully developed.
| Time. he said, would fail, were he TO at
Tempt to show forth the full meaning
end richness Of the text, foreshadowlng
as it did the coming of the Lord Jesus
| Christ, by whom the nations of the world
! would be shaken, and the utmost he
could hope to accomplish was to furnish
hissaudience with a skeleton which they
| must cover with flesh and muscles. AS
AN introduction to the principal part OF
| his discourse he laid before them what he
understood to be the Divine method IN
the government of the kingdoms off the
world preparatory to the coming of Jesus
Christ. He then proceeded to explain
the reason why nations were shaken, one
reason being that they got too big-not
TOO great, but too big-by which he
meant to say they acquired bullying,
oyerbearing disposition, and went about
the world singing "Rule Britannia" o.
some other similar ditty of selflaudation
Then they were shaken by God, and fell
to pieces for the good of mankind.
He bitterly denounced all attempts
tending to establish sectional religious
feeling between the North and South
and predicted that fearful results woulC
ensue from all such attempted religion
intolerance, He earnestly desired tha
, the Northern people could listen to tn
:. ,teachiugs and preaching OF Southern
clergymen. From their pulpits not =
, word was spoken on political subject
4 from years end to years end.ITThe Ian
guage of the Southern people was YER
: different from that of the bulls an
bears Of the Northern pulpits, who sa
to the South, ''for your sins God has de
!. serted you, and yoR have been soundl
. thrashad - hu in the South where the
d have buried their sons and their 1athers
9 where their houses are burned and thei
, fields laid waste, the people still look u
to God and acknowledge that it was goo
for them to be afflicted, and that in mel
q cy. not in wrath, had they been chaster
cd by the hand of the Almighty. All tn
II shaking Of individuals, families, cite
0 and nations were, however, but prepare
e tory to that time spoken of in the tex
b when "this house shall be filed with tn
glory of the Lord of Hosts" This-th
: concluding head of the discourse-wa
! eloquently and briefly discussed, afte
| ol ho hof
! would be taken up to defray the expens
of hiring the hall, and the surplus Woul
. be added to the fund he was raising fc
. the purpose of sending to their home
: the disabled soldiers of Lees late con
y mand, many of whom are now scattere
= all over the country. He spoke in hig
u terms Of the generosity of the merchan
{ of New York tor the liberality they ha
I displayed toward him since his arrival
c that city. New York, said DR.. Marshal
had shown spirit of friendship for OF
people. At the invitation of some
" her citizens, he had come into their mid
and wounded soldiers of the South VIII
:. still remain there and send them hom
n Some of the merchants have shown the
,f benvolence and Christianity in aiding hi
: in this work. The people of the South 10y
| the North, he concluded. They do NJ
= cherish animosity. Even when the COZ
hct was at its heighth, Southern wome
q. we're to be found nursing and caring Fl
+ba o;cI- apA vyouoded SoldiprS Of II
rs North in the same tender manner
4 their own brothers, husbands, sons ar
:. fathers who were battling against ther
C. The above contains the leading poin
.. of DR.. Marshalls sermon in behalf of Il
,a sick and wounded Southern soldiers.
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