Dying for Our Country

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Excerpt from Dying for Our Country: A Sermon on the Death of Capt. J. Sewall Reed and Rev. Thomas Starr King, Preached in the First Congregational Church in Milton, March 13, 1864The day after our friend, with many tears and bless ings, was laid in his grave, the news came from San Francisco, that his minister, the Rev. Thomas starr king, had suddenly died that morning. There was but one man in the United States who had greater power than he to draw together vast assemblies of men, enchain them by his generous thoughts, and charge them with his own enthusiasm. When this wicked war was forced upon us by the assault on Fort Sumter, and it was doubtful which side the new State on the Pacific might join, Mr. King gave himself to his country with a purpose as brave and as solemn as if he had thrown himself upon the most desperate battle-field. He traversed the State. He lectured, he preached, he prayed. He electrified great masses of men with his own self-forgetting patriotism. He caused the sentiment of national honor and enthusiasm to thrill through them, and bind them to their country with a warm and unfaltering devotion. There was in.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.