NATIONAL PREACHER 10463 AND VILLAGE PULPIT. Original---Wouthly. FROM LIVING MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES. vol. 37 VOL. VI. NEW SERIES-ENLARGED. CONDUCTED BY REV. W. H. BID WELL. New-York: CONDUCTED AND PUBLISHED BY W. H. BIDWELL, 5 BEEKMAN ST. 1863. BY REV. ALBERT BARNES, PASTOR OR THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE. "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."-PSALM 92: 1. There never has been a time, in our own country, or in other countries, when, if a man had any thing to say that could comfort, animate, or encourage his fellow-citizens, or had any claim, derived from his age, his position, or his experience to impart counsel, it could be more appropriately done than now. Involved in a war such as has existed in no other nation; with numerous enemies to the government in every part of the land; with reverses that tend to humble us in our own eyes and before the world; with comparatively little progress in the great objects of the war; with a demand on the resources of the loyal part of the nation that test to the utmost its ability and its patriotism; when measures are adopted, most extreme in their nature, and that try to the extreme of endurance the loyalty of the people-measures submitted to as a temporary necessity, only because it is believed that there are greater interests that would be imperiled if they were not adopted; with no manifest sympathy among the nations of the earth, and with little real sympathy from any of those nations; with the nations of the old world looking greedily for the entire breaking up of our institutions, and the overthrow of a free A Thanksgiving discourse delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Phila delphia, November 27, 1862. |