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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], French steamer in the river. (search)
or the restoration of peace to this bleeding and distracted land. Surely here is a platform and an occasion on which all Christendom could lay aside its internal differences, and send up to the throne of the Eternal Father from the altars of Catholic temples and the pulpits of Protestant churches, one blending volume of solemn, earnest, and faithful prayer that, in the language of the English ritual, God may. "abate the pride, assuage the malice, and confound the devices" of our enemies; that, in the words of Jeremy Taylor, "He may say to the destroying angel, 'It is enough;'" that He may cause this crimson deluge to abate, and anchor our tempest-tost ark upon an Ararat, and span the stormy heavens with the bow of peace. Who can doubt that prayers thus offered would procure for us an intervention more powerful than any we can look for upon earth, and gladden our eyes ere long with the dove bearing the olive branch from the very midst of the seething and seemingly fathomless flood?