The Word of God a Nation's Life

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Excerpt from The Word of God a Nation's Life: A Sermon Preached Before the Bible Convention of the Confederate States, Augusta, Georgia, March 19th, 1862But the text has a higher meaning. It teaches that not only our being, but our wellfbeing depends upon conformity to the divine word - that life, in its lowest gradation, as predicable of man, is not sustained by the natural law of adaptation of means to ends, and can neither be developed, prolonged nor made happy, outside of the will and word of the Lord - that bread, though ordained as the staff of life, does not nourish by virtue of its chemical properties, but by the blessing of the Lord - that the transgression of the divine law, by ln temperance - excess in the use of what God supplies or allows - poi sons, destroys, entails disease and death that life is to be regarded not as a physiological fact, but a moral endowment, deriving its dig nity and value from its religious use, the moral appropriation of its powers, its spiritual relations, and its possible eternal sequences. The words, man liveth, though a simple form of speech, are nevertheless compound in their signification. Man is a generic term, and stands for? The race, liveth is concrete, and includes man as an individual being, as a member 'of the community, as a citizen of the country and the whole comprehension of the phrase is, that man, considered as an independent personality that human society, in its aggregate, the church, as an ecclesiastical organization, the State, as a body politic, are all under the same general law of dependence, subjection and obedience, as they condition of life, honor, prosperity and per petuity.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.