Lucretius or Paul

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Excerpt from Lucretius or Paul: Materialism and Theism Tested by the Nature and the Needs of Man, An Address Delivered in the American Chapel, Berlin, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25th, 1875As in the days of Chivalry, he who would be enrolled a knight spent the hours preceding his investiture in acts of devotion in the chapel, so if we would be found worthy to bear aloft the shield of liberty decked with the garlands of the century, we should give ourselves the rather now to studies and acts of devotion, which shall lead us to the source of all gratitude, the theme of all praise.To Americans no sentiment is more normal or more patriotic than the recognition of God in their history. The words with which Washington opened his first address to the first Congress assembled under the Constitution, have but gained in emphasis with succeeding years. No people, said he, can be bound to acknowledge and adore' the Invisible Hand which conducts the a¿'airs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been attended with some token of Providential agency, and he who had won the independence of the nation, had shaped its constitution, and was now to order its administration, called upon Congress and the people to join with him, not in patriotic exultation, but in pious gratitude.Two years ago, I spoke of the reasons we have for National Thanksgiving, as Americans residing in a foreign country, last year, of the Heroic, Age of America and our grateful pride in our fathers. The matter of these addresses was objective - critical and historical, but underneath them both was the religious assumption that from whatever point we view our country we are called to gratitude, and that this gratitude has at once its source and its end in the loving care of a living Father.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.