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 From a Sermon preached by Bishop Elliott, on the IStaSeptemberi 
 containing a tribute to the Privates of the CoSjj[ederqjteArmy. 
 
 Proykkes. Ch. XXIV, vv. 17-18. " Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let 
 not thiiie hear! be glad when he t^nrnbleih: 
 
 "Lest the Lord see it, and it, displease hi n and he turn away his wrath from him," 
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 We have been gathered together to-day by a proclamation of our 
 President, to return thanks to Almighty God for a series of brilliant victo- 
 ries won by our gallant soldiers over the invaders of our soil. Most 
 fervently do we thank Him for his presence with us upon those fields of 
 terrible conflict, for the skill of our Commanding generals, for the heroism 
 of our officers of every grade, for the valor and self- Sacrifice of our soldiers, 
 for the glorious results which have followed upon the success of our arms. 
 Most devoutly do we praise and bless His holy name, this day, for the 
 deliverance of our country from the polluting tread of the enemy and for 
 the punishment which he has seen fit to inflict upon those who vainly 
 boasted that they would devour us. We give all the glory to Him, while 
 we cannot forget, the living heroes /whoso inspired courage led them trium- 
 phant over fields of desperate carnage, nor the martyred dead who have 
 poured out the gushing tide of theiryoungand noble life-blood for the sacred 
 cause wjiich carried them to the battle-field. But battles, at last, even with 
 all the dazzling halo which surrounds them, are but fields of slaughter, unless 
 made illustrious by the principles fyhich they involved or by the spirit which 
 animated and ruled over them. The meeting of barbaric hordes upon the 
 fields of blood, ofwhich history is? full, where men fought with the instinct 
 and ferocity of beasts, simply for hatred's sake or the love of war, is 
 disgusting to the noble mind, and carries with it no idea save that of 
 brutality. We could not thank God for victories such as those, and there- 
 fore, in keeping this Holy Festival, our thankfulness must rest more upon 
 the cause for which he has cabled us to arms, upon the spirit Which has 
 accompanied it, and upon the guardianship which he has established over 
 us, than upon the mere triumphs of the battle field. 
 
 We do not place our cause upon the highest level until we grasp the idea 
 that God has made us the guardians and champions of a people whom he 
 is preparing for his own purposes, and against whom the whole world is 
 banded. '1 he most solemn relation upon earth is that between parent and 
 child, because in it immortal souls are committed to the training of man 
 not only for time but for eternity. There is no measure to its sublimity, 
 for it stretches upwards to the throne of God and links us with immortality. 
 We tremble when we meditate upon it and cry for Divine help when we 
 weigh its responsibilities. What shall we think, then, of the relation which 
 

 * * subsists between a dominant race, professing to believe in God and to 
 acknowledge Christ, ^nd a subject race, brought from their distant homos 
 and placed under its charge for culture, for elevation, and for salvation, 
 and while so placed contributing by its labor to the welfare and corafortof 
 the world. What a trust from God! What reliance has he placed upon 
 our faithfulness and our integrity ! What a sure confidence does it give us 
 in his protection and favor ! His divine arrangements are placed in our 
 keeping. Will he not preserve them ? His divine purposes seem to be 
 intermingled with our success. W r ill he not be careful to give us that 
 success, and just in the way that he shall see to be best for us? llis 
 purposes are yea and amen in Christ Jesus and cannot be overturned by 
 man. It places our warfare above any estimate which unspiritual minds 
 can make of it. While many other motives are urging us to the battle 
 field, and we rush forward to defend our liberties, our homes, our altars, 
 God is super-adding this other motive — the secret of His own will — is 
 making it to produce within us. unconsciously perhaps to ourselves, a 
 power which is irresistible. Our conscience in this war is thus made right 
 towards God and towards man : our heart is filled with His fear and llis 
 love; our arm is nerved with almost super-human strength, and we have 
 reason to thank him, not only for whatjie has done for us, but for what 
 hi'lias restrained us from doingfor ourwlvcs and others from doing for us* 
 This noble cause has made him our guide and our overruling governor, 
 and we are moving forward, as I firmly believe, as truly under his direction, 
 as did the people of Israel when he led them with a pillar of cloud by day 
 and of fire by night. 
 
 Next to the cause in which we are engaged, we have to thank God for 
 the spirit of bur people and of our armies. Such a contest, as this which 
 we are waging could never have been, carried on successfully without such 
 an entire devotion as pervades the States of this Confederacy. Although 
 shut in from the rest, of the world, and deprived of all our accustomed 
 luxuries, and many, even, of our comforts ; although cut off from inter- 
 course with those we love in foreign lands,' many of whom are near and 
 dear to us; although forbidden even to know what is going on in science 
 or literature, or art : although stripped of all legitimate commerce and trade: 
 although, in Some of the professions, debarred from all business and all 
 means of profit: although left with the ruling product of the country 
 incapable of sale, save when a speculative demand within our own borders 
 may arise for it, there is yet heard no murmuring, no complaint, no dis- 
 affection, but all are willing to bear and to suffer for the cause's sake. 
 God has given us a willing mind, and we cheer each other on in faith and 
 trustfulness. And not only to the sterner sex has God given this enduring 
 temper, but the attitude of woman is sublime. Bearing all the sacrifices 
 of which I have just spoken, she is moreover called upon to suffer in her 
 
affections, to be wounded and smitten where she feels deepest and most 
 enduringly. Man goes to the battle-field, but woman sends him there, even 
 though her heart strings tremble while she gives the farewell kiss and the 
 farewell blessing. Man is supported by the necessity of movement, by the 
 excitement of action, by the hope of honor, by the glory of conquest. 
 "Woman remains at home to suffer, to boar the cruel torture of suspense', 
 to tremble when the battle has been fought and the news of the slaughter 
 is flashing over the electric wire, to know that defeat will cover her with 
 dishonor and her little ones with ruin, to learn that the husband she 
 doted upon, the son whom she cherished in her bos< m and upon whom she- 
 never let the wind blow too rudely, the brother with whom she sported 
 through all her happy days of childhood, the lover to whom her early vows 
 were plighted, has died upon s< d e distant battle-field and lies there a 
 mangled corpse, unknown and uncared for, never to be seen again even in 
 death Oh : those fearful lists of the wounded and the dead ! How care- 
 less we pass them over, unless our own loved ones happened to be linked 
 with them in military association, and yet each name in that roll of slaughter 
 carries a fatal pang to some woman's In-art— some noble, devoted woman's 
 heart. But she bears it all and bows submissive to the stroke. "He died 
 for the cause. He perished for his coifiitry. I would not b^e it other. 
 wifee, but 1 should like to have given the dying boy my blessing, th'e 
 expiring husband my last kiss of affection, the bleeding lover the comfort 
 of knowing that I kneeled beside him." This is the daily language of 
 woman throughout the Confederacy, and whence could such a spirit come 
 but from God, and what is worthy to produce it but some cause which lies 
 beyond any mere human estimate. And when we turn to our armies, truly 
 these victories are the victories of the privates. God forbid that I should 
 take one atom of honor or of praise from those who led our hosts upon 
 those days of glory— from the accomplished and skillful Lee— the admir- 
 able Crichton of our armies — from the God-fearing and indomnitable 
 Jackson, upon whose prayer-bedewed banner victory seems to wait — from 
 the intrepid Stuart, whose cavalry charges imitate those of Murat, from 
 that great host of generals who swarm around our country's flag as 
 Napoleon's Marshals did around the Imperial Eagle, but nevertheless our 
 victories are the victories of the privates, h is the enthusiastic dash of 
 their onsets, the fearless bravery with which they rush even to the cannon's 
 mouth, the utter recklessness of life, if so be that its sacrifice may only 
 lead to victory, the heartfelt impression that the cause is the cause of every 
 man, and that success is a necessity. What intense honor do I feel for 
 the private soldier! The officers may have motives other than the cause, 
 the private soldier can have none. He knows that his valor must pass 
 unnoticed, save in the narrow circle of his company : that his sacrifice can 
 bring no honor to his name, no reputation to his family: that if he sur- 
 
vives he lives only to enter upon new dangers with the same hopelessness 
 of distinction ; that if he dies, he will receive nothing but an unmarked 
 grave, and yet is he proud to do h\s duty and to maintain his part in the 
 destructive conflict. His comrades fall around him thick and fast, but 
 with a sigh and tear he closes his ranks and presses on to a like destiny. 
 Truly the first monument which oar Confederacy rears, when our indepen- 
 dence shall have been won. should be a lofty shaft, pure and spotless, 
 bearing this inscription:' ''To the unknown and onreoqrded dead." 
 
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 O Almighty God, the Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whose 
 hand is power and might, which none is able to withstand ; we bless and 
 magnify Thy great and glorious name for thesof happy victories, the whole 
 glory whereof we do ascribe to Thee, who art the only giver of victory. 
 And we beseech Thee give us grace to improve these great mercies to Thy 
 glory, the advancement of Thy Gospel, the honor of our country, and as 
 much as in us lieth-to the good <£all mankind And we beseech Thee, 
 give us such a sense of these great mercies as may engage us to a true 
 thankfulness, such as may appear in our lives by an humbly, holy and 
 obedient walking before Thee all our days ; through Jesus Christ our Lord ; 
 to whom with Thee and the Holy Spirit, as for all Thy mercies, so in par- 
 ticular for this victory and deliverance, be all glory and honor, world 
 without end — Amen. 
 
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 O, Almighty God, who art a strong tower of defence unto Thy servants 
 against the face of their enemies, we yield Thee praise and thanksgiving 
 for our deliverance from those great apparent dangers wherewith we were 
 compassed. We acknowledge it Thy goodness that we were not delivered 
 over as 'a prey unto them ; beseeching Thee still to continue such Thy mer- 
 cies towards us, that all the world may know that Thou art our Saviour 
 and mighty deliverer 5 through Jesus Christ our Lord — Amen. 
 
 Selections froh) Jfoly Scriptures, qpptopriqie foir ibe 3)a{J. 
 
 psalms, 130, 144, 146. 
 
 2 CHRONICLES, CHAPTER 20 to V. 31. 
 1 TIMOTHY, CHAPTER 6. to V. 17. 
 
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