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HALDIMAND SUMNER PUTNAM. 
 
 (CAPT. ENGIXEEES, U. S. A.) 
 Colonel of the Ith Regiment, New - Hampshire Volunteers, 
 
 AND 
 
 ACTING BRIGADIER GENERAL, COMMANDING THE COLUMN 
 OF ASSAULT ON FORT WAGNER, UPON WHOSE 
 RA.MPARTS HE FELL, JULY 18, 1863. 
 
THE FLOWERS COLLECTION 
 
 O OI^IvfllEI^O^l^TI^E CDF 
 
 HALDIMAND SUMNER PUTNAM, 
 
 (GAPT. ENGINEERS, U. S. A.) ' ' 
 
 Colonel of tlie 7tli Regiment, Tfew - Hampsliire Volunteers, 
 
 AND 
 
 ACTING BRIGADIER GENERAL, COMMANDING THE COLUMN 
 OF ASSAULT ON PORT WAGNER, UPON WHOSE 
 RAMPARTS HE PELL, JULY 18, 1863. 
 
 The Tiieinory of the just i.s blessed." 
 
 Preaclifd on the jOtli August, 186], in Trinity Cimrcli, Cornisii, \, H. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 -Ret. MALCOLM DOUGLASS, 
 
 RECTOR OF ST. PAUL's CHURCH, WINDSOR, YT. 
 
 CLAEEMONT, N. H : 
 
 PRESS OF THE CLAREMO^T M A>' UFACTURING COMPANY. 
 
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SERMON. 
 
 PROVERBS, X. 13 : 
 
 " THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED." 
 
 There are few men who are indifferent to the reputation 
 which they leave behind them when they die. They crave 
 some memorial which shall outlive them and preserve the 
 fragrance of their memory, though it be only for a passing 
 day ; something to keep them from being regarded as the 
 beasts of the earth whose memory perishes as soon as they 
 die, and who, when lost to sight, are forgotten as though 
 they had never been. And as the spheres of men's occux)a- 
 tions are various, so their desires vary in this respect. As 
 their own peculiar circle of society is great or small, so vari- 
 ous are their expectations and hopes of a corresponding 
 memorial. The statesman desires to have his memorial 
 preserved in the honorable records of his country. The 
 monarch would be remembered in the history of nations. 
 The Governor would be identified in memory with the inter- 
 ests of his j)rovince or state : the leading men of a town 
 with their own community. The soldier would be remem- 
 bered in his regiment ; the pastor in his parish ; the parent 
 with his children, and the beggar, even, w^ould be gratified 
 to think that his faithful dog would moan and languish over 
 his lonely and neglected grave. 
 
 This feeling, my brethren, as distinguished from mere 
 worldly ambition, is really instinctive with men. We do 
 
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 not pass away from existence when we are summoned by 
 death to leave the communion and converse of men and the 
 association of material and visible things. No ! though we 
 may never more greet our friends upon the earth, though 
 death may seal our brow with the mark of corruption, though 
 the repose of the grave may palsy our hands and our hearts ; 
 yet have we within us the assurance that the immaterial, 
 invisible and spiritual part of us, the soul, still lives ; and 
 that, while the body has descended to death, the immortal 
 spirit has gone to Grod who gave it. 
 
 The soul of man cannot and will not admit the thought^ 
 the repugnant thought, of its utter extinction. The untu- 
 tored heathen has his Spirit Land, his Hades, — his yjlace of 
 happiness or sorrow for the departed soui. And the Christian 
 naturally and eagerly embraces the clear truth of everlasting 
 life, which (together with the truths of the resurrection of 
 the dead through the resurrection of Christ, and the great 
 judgment trial, and the eternal sentence for good or evil at 
 the last day) is fully established by the testimony of God's 
 Holy Word, and is set forth under the Spirit by the Church 
 of Christ. 
 
 Yes, the impression of all these things is so consistent with 
 the common sense of mankind, and so well established by 
 the unequivocal teachings of Holy Writ, that it weighs upon 
 the soul of every man, whether he regards or disregards it ; 
 and therefore he cannot consent to be forgotten as a dead 
 thing out of mind, or as the bubble which floats upon the 
 surface of the water and presently vanishes into air under the 
 pressure of a drop of rain or the breath of a passing breeze. 
 
 It is under the impulse of this sentiment that men seek 
 for so many kinds of memorial. One perhaps is ambitious 
 of high talent, successful and consecrated to the State ; an- 
 other of a useful and public-spirited life ; another of wealth ; 
 another of distinguished social qualities .; another of a 
 
correct deportment ; anotlif r of literary or scientific accjuire- 
 ments : another of bravery or skill upon the field : another 
 of afiection. or of sufiering. or of usefulness in an humble 
 station. But it is a great pity that men should seek (as 
 they too often do) for these things alone : that they should 
 neglect at the same time to secure tor themselves ''the 
 memory of the just.'"'" without which all these things are but 
 worldliness and vanity. It is ''the memory of the just'"' 
 which is blessed. Other memorials men may have of the 
 most honorable kind : other remembrances they may leave 
 loeliind to their friends and posterity, but with it all they 
 must leave at the ?ame time '• the memory of the just'"'' if 
 they desire to inherit a blessing and to live forever in the 
 regard of men. and in the favor of the Almighty God. 
 
 In its highest sense the term just is not to be understood 
 in its partial meaning of only a fair dealer in the business 
 transactions of this world. We here use it in the broad 
 sense in which it is frequently used in the Holy Scriptures 
 to desig-nate the righteous man. who with strict conscien- 
 tiousness yields to both God and man their due : who. under 
 all the circumstances of poverty or riches, honor or humility, 
 temptation or trial, preserves always a conscience void of 
 ofience towards God and towards man. 
 
 The memorial of such a man is truly lilessed. It is writ- 
 ten in characters which shall long outlive the enclosed sep- 
 ulchre and the marble tablet upon which his name and his 
 virtues are inscribed. The chiselled stone may become gray 
 with age : the mosses of years may fill up its carving ; the 
 insensible hand of time may trace deep furrows upon its 
 surface ; and the storms of centuries battle around its 
 mouldings and dissolve the indurated substance of its fiinty 
 material, particle by particle : but still we have the sure word 
 of God to tell us that ■• the memory of the just is blessed/' 
 and blessed forever. 
 
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 For when shall the memory of the just cease ? Shall it 
 be when his name is forgotten ? — when his deeds are ob- 
 scured in the lapse of years ? Shall it be when all the good 
 and great men of his time are no longer known to the suc- 
 ceeding generations ? No ! my brethren^ the memorial of 
 the just is of no such fleeting character. Whatever it may 
 be in the sight of man, it ever lives, it is ever blessed in the 
 eye of God. Whatever it may become in the memory of 
 man, yet in its real and lasting effects upon the human race 
 it accumulates treasure upon treasure in the store-house of 
 Heaven ; for it is a memorial which elevates the practice of 
 the Christian virtues of "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, 
 gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance," not by 
 an occasional experience of them, not by a spasmodic effort 
 at long intervals to realize their action, but by aiming to 
 make them, with the help of the Holy Spirit, the pervading 
 characteristics of his daily walk and conversation. Such 
 memorials as these, I repeat, are not transitory or fleeting in 
 their character. They are the instruments wherewith God 
 stamps upon a family, or a community, or a generation, the 
 indelible impression of the character of the "just" man. 
 The impression is felt ages after the man himself has gone 
 to his rest, for it is engraven upon the table of the hearts of , 
 men, and, perpetuated by the influence of a good example, it 
 lives longer than the everlasting hills. 
 
 Yes, the course of the just is onward. " The path of the 
 just is as the shining light, which shine th more and more 
 unto the perfect day." It proceeds like the first light of 
 dawn in the East, which at first faintly glows ui3on the ho- 
 rizon. But soon a clear thread of light appears and gradually 
 increases in beauty and glory and intensity until the sun 
 rises in full brightness, and his beams ripen and glow, shin- 
 ing more until the noontide, which is " the perfect day." 
 
 So it is with the blessed memory of the just. It ripens 
 
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 more and more until that day and that period, which our 
 Lord calls " the Resurrection of the just/' . It experiences 
 the cheering declaration of the heavenly voice which instruct- 
 ed the beloved Apostle to write : " Blessed are the dead that 
 die in the Lord, — yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest 
 from their labors ; and their works do follow them/' 
 
 The course of these remarks, my brethren, will not, it is 
 believed, be deemed by you inappropriate to the occasion 
 which has called us together at this time. 
 
 This is a sorrowful occasion. There is no funereal hearse 
 or bier now in attendance at the door of this place of worship. 
 There is no newly opened grave waiting in our Churchyard 
 to receive the remains of the departed dead. There is no 
 lifeless body stretched out before this chancel in its last 
 repose. But yet there is a reason for our mourning which 
 you all well understand. For afar off, on the coast of the 
 Atlantic Ocean, within the sound of her heaving billows, 
 within sight of the ancient city of Charleston, — yea, within 
 the slopes of Fort Wagner, and in a hastily made grave, 
 kept from friends by the bayonets of a hostile foe, lie the 
 mortal remains of Colonel Haldimand Sumner Putnam, the 
 noble son of one of the most truly beloved and respected 
 families which we are privileged to have in our midst. 
 
 The common consent of the community, the experience of 
 his well tried friends, and my own acquaintance (though re- 
 cent) with the person and character of the deceased, justify 
 me in regarding him as, beyond a doubt, one who was en- 
 deavoring to live the life of the just man, and one who had 
 made no inconsiderable progress in the study and practice of 
 that most desirable life. 
 
 It pleased God in his wise providence to take him from us 
 at a comparatively early age, — an age when many men are 
 but entering upon the threshold of their professional business 
 experience. But with him the period of his later youth and 
 
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 earlier manhood seems to have been so well and faithfully oc- 
 cupied that^ years since, his career was distinguished by the 
 robust virtues of mature manhood ; and his life which gave 
 so high a promise for the future seems already, at the early 
 age of twenty-seven, to have culminated in a richness of 
 experience and a ripeness of manly judgment and decision 
 which is rather to be expected and is more usually met with 
 in the later and advanced periods of life. 
 
 By common consent of all who knew him, his earlier years, 
 even to the time of his departure from home to study the 
 duties of his chosen profession, were marked by great mod- 
 esty of spirit and kindness and courteousness of manner 
 towards all men, and especially by a dutiful deportment 
 towards those who had the charge over him, and a deep rev- 
 erence and respect for all that was justly to be esteemed 
 sacred and holy. He was baptized at an early age into the 
 membership of the Church of Christ. This very building, if 
 I mistake not, witnessed the vows of his profession as an 
 obedient soldier of Jesus Christ, admitted into His congre- 
 gation and army by the grace of the Gospel, and not 
 ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manful- 
 ly to fight under his banner against sin, the world and the 
 devil, unto his life's end. And the good seed which here and 
 in the circle of the family was sown in his heart and life, was 
 not dormant J we may well believe ; but growing and Sjjring- 
 ing up constantly towards the light of G-od's countenance, 
 and learning to dravf its nourishment and consolations with 
 deeper and steadier and more comprehensive faith from that 
 well-spring of life which is in J esus Christ our Lord, it was 
 ripening his character, his habits, his life, his own self for 
 the great Harvest of the Just. 
 
 In attempting to place before you a sketch of his profes- 
 sional career, I must be permitted to draw in part from those 
 brief but affectionate and touching accounts which have 
 
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 appeared in some of our public prints, and some of which I 
 have had the hajDpiness to peruse. I can say but little, of 
 course, which is not better known to many of you who have 
 been his interested friends from his childhood up. Yet in the 
 present discourse, from one who would fain be his friend and 
 yours, and on the present occasion, you will bear to be 
 reminded again of the leading events of his professional life. 
 
 He chose the life of a soldier of his country and lived and 
 died amongst that true and noble band of brothers-in-arms, 
 who would not forsake their pledged word nor desert for a 
 mere phantom of the imagination their solemn vow recorded 
 before God and man, to remain forever true and loyal to the 
 established constitutional government Vvdiich cherished, sus- 
 tained and educated them for her honorable service. 
 
 He was past sixteen years of age when he entered the 
 U. S. Military Academy at West Point, in 1853. There 
 he conducted himself with marked ability, and was so far 
 successful in the generous rivalry of his class of students 
 that, in 18,57, he graduated the eighth in his class, and was 
 assigned to the second grade of honorable appointments by 
 which deserving scholarship and good conduct is rewarded, 
 viz : by an appointment to a brevet 2d Lieutenantcy in the 
 Corps of Topographical Engineers. Shortly after his grad- 
 uation he was ordered to report for military duty at Troy, 
 where he immediately made his presence felt and useful. 
 Not long after he was engaged in the duties of his profession 
 upon the banks of the great Mississippi Eiver, whose cun-ents 
 he traced and examined from St. Louis down to the city of 
 ISTew Orleans, and embodied the results of his observations 
 in a formal report. While yet in the West, he was ordered 
 to report at Fort Leavenworth to Col. Johnson who was 
 then organizing the expedition into Utah. Through all the 
 trying scenes of that expedition, which was compelled to 
 endure a winter amid the rough blasts and deep snows of the 
 
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 Bocky Mountains J he was the trusted and responsible officer 
 and friend of the Commander^ and acquitted himself always 
 — and especially on one occasion, when late in the year he 
 was detached to survey and mark out a military reservation — 
 he acquitted himself always with courage, activity and 
 ability. 
 
 " When the dark clouds of disunion raised their gloomy 
 I forms in the Southern horizon, Lieut. Putnam was summoned 
 to Washington and entrusted with special messages of the 
 highest importance to carry to Fort Pickens. He travelled 
 by rail through the excited South/' and though detained 
 for a short time on the way by the suspicions and fears of 
 disloyal men, he so wisely and prudently conducted himself 
 that he was permitted to pass on and at last to see the Com- 
 mander at Fort Pickens and to return without further let or 
 hindrance to Washington. On the day after his return he 
 was summoned into the presence of the venerable General 
 Scott and entrusted by him with unwritten despatches of 
 the greatest secrecy and importance to the Commanders of 
 the Military posts in New Orleans and Texas. This duty 
 he discharged with the best success, and in a few weeks was 
 again at his post in Washington, where he was appointed to 
 an important position upon the staff of General McDowell, 
 where he remained through the first battle of Bull Eun, and 
 in the discharge of many arduous and responsible duties un- 
 til Oct. 15, 1861, when he was commissioned Colonel of the 
 7th Regiment, N. K. Y. '^He thought" (says a writer in 
 the New Hampshire Statesman) that his country, which 
 had so generously trained him for her service, had a right to 
 see him in a more perilous and arduous field. He had, under 
 Gen. McDowell^ planned all the fortifications near the 
 Capitol in Virginia ; but when the command of the 7th 
 Regiment w^as tendered to him, he not only accepted the 
 position with alacrity, but remarked that to lead a regiment 
 
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 of New Hampshire men in this straggle to save his country 
 would fill all his aspirations. 
 
 " In a letter to the Secretary of War, consenting to spare 
 him from his staff, Gen. McDowell said that if he had the 
 power, instead of a Eegiment he would give him a Brigade ; 
 and Prof Henry L. Kenrick (a New Hampshire man, from 
 Lebanon above us) of the West Point Academy — himself 
 an accomplished and gallant soldier as well as scholar — said^ 
 in a letter at the same time, that he had not known of a 
 young man from that institution who was better fitted to 
 perform conspicuous service at the head of volunteer troops 
 and shed honor upon himself and his native state, and in 
 this high encomium the whole Board of Instruction fully 
 concurred. In the Kegular Army he was honored and loved 
 by all, while among his intimate friends his simple unpre- 
 tending dignity of manner and genuine goodness, combined 
 with fine intellectual gifts and culture, secured to him little 
 less than idolatry. 
 
 "The career of the 7th Eegiment is well known. Its line 
 of duty has been of the most unwelcome kind, as well to the 
 good soldier as to the aspiring commander. At first in gar- 
 rison duty at Tortugas, then at Hilton Head, afterwards at 
 St. Augustine and now for the first time in the stern work 
 of battle on Morris Island, in which both men and officers 
 bore themselves nobly, and in which their young and beloved 
 commander, at the head of a Brigade, fell as all such true 
 soldiers prefer to fall. Gen. Gilmore knew him well, and 
 this is the reason of the stern and momentous part which 
 was on that bloody day assigned him. The fact that one of 
 the principal fortifications captured on that island was im- 
 mediately named Fort Putnam by order of the Commander- 
 in-Chief shows how well he did his work." 
 
 It will be of interest to you to be informed as fully and 
 as accurately as may be of the circumstances under which he 
 
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 came to his death. Not merely to gratify a morbid curiosity^ 
 but because they are of common interest to us all as brethren 
 interested in whatever befalls any member of our own com- 
 munity. And I have therefore thought it well here to insert 
 and present to you the substance of a letter^ written by 
 Lieut. Col. Abbott (7th H, Y.), which conveyed to our 
 valley the sad news of his death. ♦ 
 
 "On the day of the battle (the 18th July) the 2d Brigade 
 (Putnam's) was put in line at 9, A. M. All day we lay in 
 the sand under a scorching sun, while the fleet and batteries 
 boomed upon Fort Wagner. The Colonel with his Brigade 
 Staff and the Field and Staff of our Eegiment sat together 
 upon a little hillock of sand. He was rather more silent 
 and reflective than usual, but yet cheerful. At about dusk 
 every gun of the fleet and batteries opened to their utmost 
 capacity, and the order was given the Brigades to advance. 
 The 7th Eegiment led his Brigade. He gave me brief di- 
 rections how to advance. He then marched his Brigade in 
 column by companies and moved up. He deployed them 
 into line, then moved them again, and then when beyond 
 our intrenchments deployed again, and so we reached the 
 moat of the Fort in line. The last words I heard him utter 
 distinctly were when he rode near me while there was a ter- 
 rific fire of shot, shell and musketry, and cried out, Forward, 
 boys, we'll be in Fort Wagner in five minutes.' It was 
 uttered in his cheeriest, gayest tones, and the 7th responded 
 with a cheer. Soon after his lines halted, while his men were 
 falling thick all around. He was now some distance in my rear 
 when I heard his voice above the tumult, and knew it to 
 be an order to advance. We reached the ditch ; the men 
 plunged in, and amid a terrible fire the assault commenced. 
 I never saw him again. By-and-by the lines staggered and 
 I attempted to rally them. Falling back some hundred and 
 fifty yards, I intercepted the stragglers and got together 
 
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 about a liunclred and fifty men. Just then an aid rode along 
 saying that CoL Putnam yras upon the parapet calling for 
 reinforcements. I at once adyanced again with what men I 
 had, but soon an aid came and ordered us to about face and 
 march to the rear. On our way back the rumor spread that 
 Col. Putnam was killed. I did not believe it, and drew the 
 shattered remnants of the regiment together and so told 
 them. I had hardly got to my tent when Capt. Eollins 
 arriyed and told me the truth. 
 
 " While standing upon the parapet of Fort Wagner the 
 Colonel was struck by a ball in the head, and fell. Capt. 
 Kollins of Co. F was near him : he stooped, put his hand 
 under his head, raised it and said, ^ Colonel, are you much 
 hurt ?' but there was no answer. He put his hand upon the 
 heart, and it was still. It was impossible for him in the 
 tumult to bear away the body, and it was left. Yesterday 
 (continues Lieut. CoL Abbott), I procured a flag of truce 
 from Gren. Gilmore specially to recoyer the body. I went 
 with it myself. It was responded to, and a body brought to 
 the line. Papers, which I recognized, were handed to me 
 from the pocket of Col. Putnam. I glanced at the body, 
 the head being towards me. The complexion, the hair, the 
 beard, the general contour of the features were liis. There 
 was a terrible wound from a grape-shot in the forehead, yery 
 nearly where Capt. Eollins had told me that Col. Putnana 
 was struck. The officer moi-eoyer remarked that the body 
 had been recognized by a classmate of his in the Confederate 
 army. It did not occur to me that there was any mistake 
 in the identity of the body. I stepped to the stretcher, 
 took the white handkerchief which I had used as a flag, 
 coyered his face and then sadly l)ore the body to camp. It 
 was not until it was commenced to cleanse it, the face being 
 now coyered with sand, that we discoyered that it was 7iot 
 Col. P.'s body, but that of another officer who fl?ll near the 
 
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 same spot, wounded in nearly the same way, and very much 
 resembling him. It was now nearly dark, and I knew that 
 it was useless to ask for another flag of truce, for the first 
 was reluctantly granted. I need not tell you of our deep 
 disappointment." 
 
 Thus it is, brethren, that in the providence of God, whose 
 ways and intentions are unknown to us, we have not now the 
 melancholy satisfaction of depositing the body of our belov- 
 ed friend, with the last Christian rites, in the soil of this his 
 native valley. And thus it is, that the privilege which is 
 denied us, and which had been wholly unlooked for by an- 
 other sorrowing family in our country, has been granted them] 
 and in our disappointment we behold without jealousy, but 
 with Christian sympathy, their solace and comfort. So God 
 tempers and disposes his visitations. 
 
 I will not detain you longer with many words. I call you 
 to observe one strongly developed trait in the life of our 
 departed brother. It was his justness, temjDcred with gen- 
 tleness and firmness towards his superiors and inferiors, in 
 the station of life which he filled. He was a just man, a 
 just soldier, Sijust officer. Do you ask me how I know this.^ 
 I answer, it is the universal testimony of those who had 
 the best opportunity to know and to test him. He enjoyed 
 the work of his profession, and enjoyed it with the conscious- 
 ness of having fairly and honorably performed whatever was 
 given him to do. He had no regrets to liarbor in respect to 
 a single public or professional work with which he had to do ; 
 and his very last act was done with a thoroughness and 
 completeness, that left him no more earthly life to live. 
 That he was a just officer, is the universal testimony of the 
 officers and soldiers of his command. " Though he was a 
 strict disciplinarian (writes a correspondent), the soldiers of 
 his Eegiment knew that in his heart there was love for each 
 and all of them. From the day of his assuming command 
 
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 of the Kegiment, until lie fell upon the field of glory, not a 
 single murmur or complaint came back to New Hampshire 
 from either officers or men." He himself wrote to his father 
 that at St. Augustine he never permitted the respect due 
 to the army and to the flag to be intermitted, yet he had 
 been able so to administer the aftairs of his military command 
 that, whereas St. Augustine was at first bitterly opposed to 
 the Union, he now thought that a majority of votes could be 
 obtained from the citizens in favor of the Union. And Lieut. 
 Col. Abbott writes, "I cannot tell you the deep and oppress- 
 ive sadness which pervades our camp. I read it in the faces 
 of the officers and men, and feel it weighing heavily in my 
 own heart. I did not know until now how much I loved 
 him, nor how undivided had become my devotion to him. 
 I have now been intimately associated with him for more 
 than a year, and I have found him one of the most upright 
 and noble of men. He died, the acknowledged hero of that 
 terrific assault ; and among those who have ever fallen in 
 this present unhappy war, or at other times, none bore a 
 spirit more lofty or a name more unsullied." This is a glori- 
 ous record for a frail child of earth. His body has gone to 
 mingle with the earth, — Earth to earth, aslies to ashes, 
 dust to dust." We commit him, both body and soul, to 
 God, the Almighty Father, who never ceaseth to care for 
 those who trust in him. 
 
 1 appeal to you all here present, and especially to the 
 young men of this congregation, by the example of our de- 
 parted friend, to cultivate in yourselves the love and practice 
 oi" Justice, Mercy and Truth. Justice, Mercy and Truth 
 are the foundations of God's eternal government, and they may 
 well be sought for by all of you with deep and tender earn- 
 estness, with persevering solicitude and with humble devotion. 
 They are qualities and graces which are deeply needed in 
 this stage of our country's trials, for they have been sadly 
 
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 abused with us, if ever in the world's history. If we do no^ 
 learn these, we shall not have learned half the lesson which 
 the Almighty is now teaching our country by the terrible 
 visitation of the sword. Remember, young men, that you 
 must account to the Lord God himself for the character and 
 extent of the service which, according to your opportunities 
 and in your sphere of life, you render to your neighbor, to 
 your country and to your God. Therefore, in the name of 
 God ; in view of every Christian example which has been 
 set you down to this present time ; in view of every noble 
 action of every noble man^ I charge you strive to lay up for 
 your inheritance that memory of the just man, which is 
 blessed. 
 
 How long, 0 Lord, how long ! shall this horrid carnage 
 continue in this, our once favored land. How long shall the 
 grim front of War frown upon our fair borders. Hovf long 
 shall the sword continue to be uplifted, and once happy 
 homes filled with the anguish of bereavement and desolation ! 
 
 Give us grace, 0 God, to live better and holier lives, in 
 deeper reverence for Thyself, for thy holy Name and thy 
 holy Word, for thy holy Day and thy holy Church. And 
 bring near the time when swords shall be beaten into plough- 
 shares and spears into pruning hooks, and nation shall not 
 lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
 more ; when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth 
 as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 And now unto God Almighty, the Father, the Son^ and 
 the Holy Ghost, be ascribed all might, majesty, dominion 
 and glory, forever and ever. Amen. 
 
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