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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
is kingdom, and to whom he at last gave the most precious gem in his diadem, his eternally begotten and well-beloved Son? Read the fate of that chosen people wherever the winds of heaven sweep, and, innumerable although they be, they are among the nations only chaff on the summer threshing-floor. What became of the Egyptian tyrant after he rejected the counsels of the great Hebrew statesman and set himself up against Moses' proclamation of emancipation? Drowning again. What became of Sodom and Gomorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away w
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvi. (search)
is kingdom, and to whom he at last gave the most precious gem in his diadem, his eternally begotten and well-beloved Son? Read the fate of that chosen people wherever the winds of heaven sweep, and, innumerable although they be, they are among the nations only chaff on the summer threshing-floor. What became of the Egyptian tyrant after he rejected the counsels of the great Hebrew statesman and set himself up against Moses' proclamation of emancipation? Drowning again. What became of Sodom and Gomorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away w