The Testing of a Nation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Testing of a NationThe origin of this volume is quite simple. Requests have reached me from widely different quarters for a collected record of some of the words spoken at our special Services on anni versary days during the five years' experience, unique in human history, which we have lived to share. We met in vicissitudes of eager strain and effort, of anxiety and hope, of sharp sorrow and thankful pride, to say our prayers together, and to attune our thoughts, if it might be, to the greatness of the hour. Any interest attaching to the simple addresses given depends upon their being a truthful record of what was said on days fraught with sacred recollections. I have accordingly made no effort to re-edit them, or to remove an occasional repetition of thought or language used in different places at considerable intervals of time. The addresses belong, as the title which I have chosen in dicates, to a Nation's testing-time, when facts were of more value than many words. What will endure is the lesson of those facts, and of that lesson the spoken words in their very simplicity may perhaps usefully remind us.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.