Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-05-29

TO thcm their daily bread; over ruled and cared |
for you aud your battles when shot, and shell
treated you and the fate OF this nation as he did
the Iron Duke aud Europe at the battle OF Water
go 4 wscn vSSt SE s1ops pat
had hand In that battle aud those OF Juden, OF |
Egypt, OF England and all Others of godly |
frequently depend upon little things, aud hold. |
ing your destiny In his own hand. For IL Is nn
established iact that the issue OF Waterloo might
have been different II II hud not been for the |
rain on the previous night, so that Napoleon |
could not move his artillery over the heavy mud |
noon, and those hours ofdelay turned the fate |
OF all Europe. For Blucher did not survive with |
his allies until the forces OF the Iron Duke were
well nigh defeated. And In the same spirit we |
believe that nothing but providence which sent |
the rnin, Immediately interfering In the crisis |
hours Of our struggle could have saved and giy.
en- us the victory. For think how the little |
Monitor came down just In the nick of time |
against that terrible monster. The Mcrrimac |
yoIaS6 Which mi mmSh hnys m RsS. Sns
fought that day a battle which revolutionizcd |
the navics Of the world, while one grcnt nation |
wondered. a. lido do nc not @ say lie over ruled every
battle but every decisive one, the outcome oi
which affected His great plan for our destiny
a war or In an individuals life In which the
drift OF things nrc determined by higher hand
than ours, In which Lroyidence interieres IN
times unexpectedly; critical moments on which
great decisions and issues depend; days and
events which lift themselves like mountain In
and events into everlasting cmincnce. Our day
OF Independence was such day; so was the day
to which we have referred. Napoleon admitted
that the Austrans fought grandly on the field
OF Rivoli, and said they failed because they do
divine aid. Humbolt refers to the discovering
OF America to wonderful coincidence of trivial
circumstances including flight of parrots; the
Allxyigp hninn
ties were determined by Him who rules the
your hands % as iii lie aid into isfael and and the @ Duke
OF Wellington those victories you well deserv.
| cd and the blessings of which we thank you and
tories to-day do not rob God of his part in them
as the father OF our country never did, but con-
slider Him one of the soldiers OF this republic
and her grandcst general who martaled his
| battallions through his minor officers, Sheridan
and Ulysses Grant. who no doubt were iniluenc-
| ed by Him In many decisive moves, rs Wash
ington professed to, who was often upon his
knees consulting Him as our beloved Lincoln
was after the defeat of the wilderness.
Therefore, be II far from your thoughts, my
fellow soldiers to suppose God who brought this
nation into existence, left It to its fate In its
most critical time and permitted an issue In
which II He loves Righteousness He could not
but be deeply interested, and In which he inter.
ferred II He ever did In abolishing the wrong
and bursting the bands which fettered race rs
seriously rs those whom he led out with a high
| hand under General Moses and Lieutenant
Joshua. God is u perpetual refuge and security,
His providence Is not confined to one genera
ton, nation or war. His eye never yet slept,
nor has he suffered the ship of state to be swal.
lowed up though 1t has been tossed upon the
waves of adversely and threatened in the shock
of battle; He has always had compassion to pity
and power to protect. and has made his face ~
shine from behind the clouds OF calamity and
war. He brought up this republic from lnfan.
cy. protecting II when little thing would have
swallowed her up. He lodged Noah, the phG-
nix OF the world, in an ark and kept him alive
n in, ths,t a II nfnrc and
you suppose lie left you to your fate when great.
or things were at stake than the life Of man
any issue IN the worlds history hist, save that Of
time on which the ends of the world, of civil
zntion and of christianity had come: when tn.
ear in the stock of civilization was setting
were threatened. and this land which is to stand
forth MS the final battle ground OF the world
was about to be smitten with a curse OF Egypt
inn birth? which would have defeated the Ions
. sought for results and rendered nbortive the de
signs and accumulated work of ages. No. II II,
was engaged, or any wise concerned. In the is
l sues of ancient wars and the destiny of thos
nations whose worth to the ends sought by maj
and God, were, when compared with ours, a
those crude times contrasted with this 10Th cen
tury, when the stock which was to produce tn
. ear OF civilization was just forming. how mucl
: more must He have been with ours when 1t wa
S nearing the desired goal and destiny OF human
: ity. To suppose he was not is to suppose OH
cause was not righteous one All more di
II lowered toward His throne, at Chattanooga. Q
1 Manassas Junction. at Vicksburg and at Rict
4, mond than you: more was lie concerned 1
). every charge and maneuver; and with create
II concern did he lay seige to Richmond than
II Jericho: TO Vickburg than to Al. md more inte
a ested was He in Burnsides and sherdnns can
paigns than In Joshua and pavids. and wit
J. greater carncstncss did He move in the MI
l. berry lenves of the South than in those OF til
:, East-where he fought for the right and Il
d furtherence OF progression in the wars with ii
Is wicked heather. For lie is the same yestcrda
/ to-day and forever: The same sin and issu
.,I,s. a, Hal ~.
', in behalf of humanity, will call him forth I
Df day; and the view which isolates Him from o,
r affairs and confines Him to the Fast and to oil
=, en- times. to Jericho and the plains of Moab
IL doing our times and our victories the create
!, injustice, and is worse than infdelity.
n- touches us to-day as certainly MS he did in Il
- year one: and fights for us, who nre waging
~ conflict of justice, as certainly as he did
he Israel. And because he does this In difIcrc
tn way, not demolishing the walls which encircl
-. slavery by rams horns, nor turning the rive
r. into blood. Many seem to think lie is renoun
al afar off and Is not rs active aud potent in mo
ms ern affairs as formerally: not concerned in o
Al, matters which affect individual and nation
VI life rs he wns in Israel; not as interested In o
lc Righteousness and sins as in the Hebrews Al
"a Egyptians; not disposed, or rather does II
a, fight for modern Israel and against the wicke
S ness OF modern Egypt. does not lead the Afric
us slaye out with hign h hand, and overthrow tn
~ his master. But such an attitude of mind
hr contrary to all that Is christian, and the ent
n 1t divorces God and the American people n
-, removes them nfar off, which is brought abe
mt partly by dwelling too exclusively upon God
cl- history and not recognizing him In the prese
oa lie performs those things to-day for us as
olden times, but in different manner: whi
H. ought not to make us think He does not, a
ou because the great General of the universe and
,v our modern battles has changed his tactics
"" should not cause us to think he Is absent,
ed has not so prominent part in them. lie
he npts himself rs II wise ruler and leader to
A times and the people, mnniiesting himself
Us. those early days In prophets, tempests n
We small voice, gun powder aud the natural ny
~, cics, each mood being best for the people q
he the furtherancc of HIS ends.
set So that my fellow soldiers, you fought, so
RI MS yo,i were In the right, under the banner
80, supervision OF Jehovah as certainly as any
os those soldiers who passed through the Red !
all and your victories were shared by the God
cw battles and vi nations MS we'll To Him belo
w, no small part Of your glory; 'Ife raiseth up
eat set.eth down and who shall stay his hand"
he was as indispensable to yOur success y
n; grape shot and canister; as vital to your urn
ns to JerebOams and pavids ms necessary
'cd Grants victories as he was TO Joshua's. Th
Oh not then TINT you can ever get along with
YER Him, in peace or war, and remember that III
AZ, well ns His religion proceeds all wars and POI
the cal institutions and viii survive them all
ful cause they rest upon something deeper.
mr.. eternal basis and that he is the ayenger by
, eternal nature Of things OF national as well
ma individual sins; uprooting wrongs whose r.
nto like those Of mighty oaks often tare to pit
he. harmless shrubs and rack the entire natl
e o smPfe wPheh oa hs esr
ore In doing So found II necessary to tare aslir
., the entire structure: and II ever our crimes
60 pioach those of the Romans II will be writ
'sh- upon our fair republic: Meme, meme, 4
was uphdrsin," which will render aborlve all y
~. battles aud victories, which purged this nat
nk- o. one q the foulest and most funi
ere plaques with which people was ever smit
ted A victory the benefits of which extends over
w. w. entire world, and on down the river of II
ms like some refreshing stream. until It emp
was into the great ocean OF infinity; n victory
I'm WIS more than local, which was as broad
comprehensive as this and all other rcpubl
on being u standing rcbuke to this and cy
did nation who should dare to Indulge In any 81
IRIS lnr cliine against God and man, and which
. a grand stride onward and upward, ey
uh' oLe this nation has sought and won; vct
not In which we washed our hands of our colt
ory brothers blood and repented In more than q
~ | cloth and ashes of our national sin; victor
riu, which the South Is to blossom into the pros
re- 10y and thrift Of the North. and whose ben,
ced they ms well we enjoy every day OF their II
~, and which extends It's arms around, not q
On 6.OOO000 of colorcd but 4G,OOO,OO0 OF whi
nd; around the South as well ms the North.
rcd. | which like the sunshine enters every homo
- follows In the foot steps OF every citizen NJ