XVI. THREE SUMMERS OF WAR: THE REVOLUTION AND THE REBELLION. "Whose are the fathers." —Romans ix. 5. ARGUMENT. — Comparing the Revolution and Rebellion at the end of three years. 1. Military. How the Revolution stood; its disasters and depressions. Our position; its superiority. 2. Moral. Attempt to seduce the leaders to return to the British crown. Its failure. Our progress in Liberty and Union. 3. Financial. The downfall of Continental paper. Extravagance of the people. 4. Other troubles. Mutiny. Sectional prejudices. Feuds among the officers. Our superiority in all these respects. The likeness of the causes for which we are contending. XVII. THE CRISIS HOUR. Delivered in Boston, on the National Fast, August 4, 1864, . 421 “Turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"- Ezekiel xxxiii. 11. ARGUMENT. — The length and bloodiness of the war. The same number of combatants as of slaves. The refusal of Congress and the President to confess the national sin. 1. Our perils. We may fail. Because we are false to Christ as a people. The national impiety. Because we are false to our Democratic pretensions, in despising our fellow-men. 2. Our duties. Prayer. Conformity of our acts with our professions. Support the church and nation. 3. Encouragements. Slavery practically dead. The despised slave wonderfully uplifted. Our future success certain. XVIII. THE WORLD WAR: ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOC RACY. Delivered in Boston, on the occasion of the Annual State Fast, 439 "Behold, this One is set for the fall and the rising again of many.” - Luke ii. 34. ARGUMENT. — America at war with Europe from the beginning of her Revolution. Inconsistency in exposting sympathy and aid from England and France. I. Three ideas born into human society with the American nation. 1. A successful revolution in favor of human rights. All other successful revolutions only con- cerned the people that accomplished them. America felt that she was fighting for the world. 2. Formation of colonies into separate and semi-sovereign States. 3. Organizing of States into a Federal Union. II. The effect of this work on Eu- rope. It brought forth the French Revolution, and awakened like spírit every- ARGUMENT. The waning condition of "the Confederacy." Analogy of a like ARGUMENT. ·England's Annus Mirabilis, just two hundred years ago save one. The superiority of America's. I. Our military progress during the year. II. Our extension of slavery its motto then; no existence of it now. 2. It established "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sores, and repented not of their deeds." Revelation xvi. 10, 11. ARGUMENT. — Extreme contrasts in the calls of the government and the war to XXII. JEFFERSON DAVIS AND PHARAOH. Delivered in Boston, April 9, 1865, on the occasion of the Flight of “ In very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee My power; and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.” ARGUMENT. — Historic paralls. Plutarch's: Napoleon and Cæsar. Propriety side of God, that is from the side of the slave. Thus we study the Hebrew eman- cipation; thus will the future this. What stood in the way of emancipation ? 1. The words and construction of the Constitution. 2. Aversion of the North to Abolitionism. 3. The purpose of the South to prevent it. The first two over- come by allowing the last to become strong. This strengthened itself in the char- acter of Jefferson Davis. I. Resemblance between him and Pharaoh. 1. In free- dom of action. No compulsion on either. 2. In character. (1.) Clear perception of the effect of any concession. (2.) Steadiness of purpose. Resistance of begin- nings to submission. (3.) Power to develop like strength in others. 3. In work. (1.) Pharaoh only known from his connection with emancipation, so will Davis only be known. (2.) How each resisted in every step of the conflict. 4. In fate, Delivered in Boston, April 23, 1865, on the occasion of the Death of "Thy gentleness hath made me great."— Ps. xviii. 35. ARGUMENT. -National agony of sorrow. I. The character of Abraham Lincoln. unto their fathers; and there stood not a man of all their enemies before ARGUMENT. The first Fourth of July after the Revolution and this; analogy. XXV. AMERICA'S PAST AND FUTURE. Delivered on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1868, at Medford, . . 603 "To-morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant." ARGUMENT.— The conflict of Chaos and the calm of Creation. I. Antiquity of |