Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-07
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The shaking of the Nations.
SERMON BY THE REV. DIR MARSHALL, OF MISSISSIPPI
AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE.

AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE.
A sermon on 'sThe Shaking Of the Ma
tions'' was preached by an ex-rebel chap
lain-Rev. DIR. Marshall, of Mississippi
in the basement hall Of the Cooper Insti-
tute yesterday morning. The audience
was very respectable, both in mum bers and
appearance. After singing and praying,
during which latter exercise the reverend
gentleman besought the Almighty to bless
the President and guard him from the
counsels of cruel and bloodthirsty men,
distinguished prisoners-political prison
ers-were also specially commended to the
care of the Almighty.
For his text DIR. Marshall chose the fol-
lowing passage of Holy Witt will
shake the nations, and the desire of all ma
tions shall come, and will fill this house
with the glory Of the Lord of Hosts."
Time, he said, would fail, were he to at
tempt to show forth the full meaning and
richness of the text, foreshadowiDg 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 his audience
with skeleton which they must cover
with flesh and muscles. As an introduce
ton 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 of the world preparatory
to the coming of Jesus Christ He then
proceeded to explain the reason why ma
lions were shaken, one reason being that
they got too big-not too great, but too
big-by which he meant to say they &C
quired bullying, overbearing disposition,
and went about the world singing "Rule
Britannia" or some other similar dirty of
self laudation. Then they were shaken
by God, and fell to pieces for the good Of
mankind.
1t was not by any means question Of
territory, but it was the absence oil . spirit
of brotherly love and kindness, which
caused nations to be shaken and fall to
pieces. BY the spirit of brotherly love he
meant that spirit which breathed in the
late speech of Lloyd Garrison on the i'm
, prisonment of Jefferson Davis, and for
which he [the speaker had learned TO love
Garrison, as it showed that he had a heart
as big as the universe, and that it was
filled with thoughts of fraternal love and
friendship for all mankind. (Great sensa-
ton among the audience; smothered APP
plause and hisses). The same spirit which
breathed in that speech would do much to
establish feeling of brotberly love and
kindness over the length and breadth Of
the land. He then bitterly denounced all
attempts tending to establish sectional
religious feeling between the North and
South, and predicted that fearful results
would ensue from all such attempted re-
ligious intolerance. lie earnestly desired
that the Northern people could listen to
the teachings and preaching of Southern
cergymen. From their pulpits not word
was spoken on political subjects from years
END to years end. The language of the
Gnufbarp mamie tya nj ffaYpnf frhnn
that Of the bulls and bears OF the Northern
pulpits, who say to the South "For your
sins God has deserted you, and you have
been soundly thrashed;'' but in the South
where they have buried their sons and their
fathers, where their houses are burned and
their fields laid waste, the people still look
mp to God and acknowledge that it was
good for them to be afflicted, and that in
mercy, not in wrath, had they been chas-
tened by the hand Of the Almighty. That
was the spirit in which they wished to be
received by their brethren Of the North.
They believed implicitly that whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth. Why could it
not be understood that if people, after
having fought chivalrously for four years,
could now, on being beaten, submit mag
unanimously? (Great sensation).
He believed that this shaking Of the ma
ton had tended to give each individual Q
clearer and better knowledge Of the char
acter and love of God. But not alone were
nations thus shaken to accom- plish the will
of God in preparing the world for the
coming of the Lord. individuals, farni-
lies and cities were al times shaken. After
mentioning several instances whore an I'M
timely and awful calamity had overtaken
both individuals and cities. he said that
even the great city of New York would be
shaken by God if it stood III the way of
the Lord Jesus, and some individual would
in the remote future look down with q
shudder of disgust at the adders and other
poisonous reptiles gathered around the
ruins of the Croton aqueduct, and, as he
stood there, he would mediate on the
cause of the downfall Of the mighty city.
All these shakings of individuals, families,
cities and nations were, however, but pro
paratory to that time spoken of IN the text
when "this house shall be filed with the
glory of the Lord Of Hosts" Thistle
concluding head Of the discourse-was elo-
quently and briefly discussed, after which
he announced that collection would be
taken up to defray the expense of hiring
the hall, and the surplus would be added
to the fund he was raising for the purpose
of sending to their homes the disabled sol
diers of Lees late command, many Of
whom are now scattered all over the conn
try. He spoke in high terms Of the gen
erosity Of the merchants of New York, for
the liberaIity they had displayed toward
him since his arrival In this city.
The services concluded with the singing
of the Doxology. ~ 4. Httuld.