Our Country and Her Religion

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Excerpt from Our Country and Her Religion: A Discourse Delivered in Christ's Church on Thanksgiving Day, Gettysburg, Pa., November 20, 1856This act of the State must commend itself to the mind and receive the approval of every virtuous lov er of his country. Individuals praise God, because, they believe He is the author of their existence, the sustainer of - their lives, the Redeemer of their souls, and who will say, they are not right in so doing, nay, who will not brand him, who neglects the duty, as a graceless ingrate. Households kneel around the family altar, and sacred incense rises from the hearth - stone, and ascends from grateful hearts, as a sweet-smelling savor unto God. Then, why not States, composed of numerous citizens, bow around their national altar, and send forth the aspirations of the national heart in pure, unfeigned, united worship? For, as the individual and the family have received their existence from God, so has the State. As He has sustained them, so has He the State. As they must look to God for protection, so must the State. For the powers that be, are ordained of God. If He ordained them, He alone can support and con tinue them. And he will continue them, so long as they subserv'e his righteous purposes, and not a mo ment longer. If then, the State is thus dependent on God for its existence and preservation, how suit able, how necessary, how noble to acknowledge it' If religion is a good thing in the individual, if it is praise-worthy in the family, is it less so in the State?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.