Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the TimesThis book contains the author's discourses on secession, the Union, slavery and Christian morality. |
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Page 315 - Lord God of Israel, our Father, for ever and ever. Thine, 0 Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, 0 Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor
Page 182 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." What a corner-stone that is for a government! " This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based
Page 57 - And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thon not that we perish? And he arose and rebuked the wind,
Page 374 - as a wilderness. There is an exquisite pathos in the rest of the narrative. Men who only looked upon the outside of things said, " He is dead," — because he had got well. " But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up, and he arose." Yes, after the spasm, the convulsion, the
Page 428 - its exhortation to every one to come out from such wickedness. " I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Every man that means to stand
Page 372 - And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; aud he arose.
Page 346 - •ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves " — from God. " For he will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God. He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. Therefore he
Page 153 - said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
Page 57 - he arose and rebuked the wind, ami said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.