Year: 1865

LIPOLIS-BY REV. r. BREARE
Soldiers Of tie Union Army, Patriots


Heroes, Fell0V citizens, Ladies ana


Gentlemen


There is a passage in the Sacred
word which reads thus. ''This is the
day which the Lord hath made; we
will rejoice and be glad in it." do
not cite this as a text for a sermon.
but because it is so appropriate to
this grand and joyous occasion; and,
because, for every thought 1 permit
to have resting place within my
mind, and for every opinion l allow
my lips to utter, and for every act or
deed which from my free choice, be-
comes part of my life. 1 wish to
have the sanction Of Gods holy book
of inspiration; which 1 receive as the
only, and sufficient rule of faith, and
life, for the human being.


However other nations may ignore
facts, ard truths, and principles; this
nation will for ever acknowledge the
great fact, that, the Supreme Allwise
Ruler of the universe, has held it,
now holds it, and will for ever have
it in his Own care and keeping; and,
that, the prayers, the blood, the sac
rifices of our Revolutionary Fathers,
were not a vain oblation to the God
of nations, Int an offering acceptable
and accepted for ever.


1t is not from spy wish or desire,
that appear before you at this mo-
ment TO occupy 4 position which
ought to be filled by the greatest and
best in the land; but, because, it is
my aim to perform to the best of my
ability. any service i may be called
upon to render to my country, and to
those noble heroes, through whose
instrumentality God has saved our
nation from the ruin, and destruction
which for a time, seemed to be its in
evitable fate.


There is always in my inmost heart,
that, which will form words of ap-
probation, praise, and gratitude to
our noble soldiers; that feeling which,
from the very commencement of the
war, has burst forth so often in the
spontaneous utterance "God bless
our soldiers and now, Chat this
auspicious day has arrived, the graf
itude which swells up in our souls to
the great Giverof all good, for his
care and bounty dispensed to us so
lavishly in our time Of need, not the
least among the blessings to be emu
lnerated, is that multitude of noble
men he raised up for the defense of
the country. -v-s.rs


In all our Thanksgiving to God. for
preservation, for victory over our
foes, for liberty, for free government,
for the restoration of the Unien, for
the return of peace, we always in
clude our noble soldiers. They are
the gift of God, to the nation, to the
age, in which we live; more than this,
the gift of God to all nations, and
to all ages; because the work they
have accomplished belongs to the
universe of humanity, and to all the
ages of the future which belongs to
man.


To build upon q foundation firm
and immovable as the pillare of the
universe, the nation of his choice,
arranged by himself in the counsels
of eternity before time began to be,
in which should be exhibited, and
established, the perfection of human
government; a government, whose
provisions should not be ,inimical to
progress, to the growth, and develop
ment of all that is noble and divine
in man; a government which cannot
be destroyed; which is indestructable,
because it rests upon the intelligent
choice of a free, and noble people.
God, gave his richest treasures, the
accumulation of ages. Not gold and